Perhaps you’re looking for the “appeal to money” logical fallacy, otherwise known as “argumentum ad crumenam” or “argument to the purse”. Not a single word, but it seems to fit the concept.

Apparently it is an incorrect quotation. See: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html

I’ve used the Logitech F710. Can recommend it, good stuff!

/dev/disk/by-id/xxx works for me. Never made a mistake.

Note that this file hasn’t been updated in years and it’s not meant as a “stop every exploit” solution. It helps, though.

I routinely skip arstechnica articles. Too much sensationalism (for example the notorious ZFS article). It also collects way too much data about its visitors.

Advertising should be illegal. A good case can be made for this. A short documentary: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=McsqJnRF_XQ

Pinchflat looks good indeed! Self-contained, no dependencies, unlike Tube Archivist which depends on Elastic which has a shitty licensing model (not in the spirit of OSI open source).