As far as I’m aware, all the MacBook Pros with 4 USB C ports, both the 13 and 15/16inch from 2016 until the Apple Silicon ones arrived, were all Thunderbolt certified. I also remember in a few of the teardowns from iFixit that those devices also has one Thunderbolt controller per side.

As a Québécois, one piece of software I really like is called Antidote, which does pretty much the same as Grammarly, without the online components, unless you pay for the subscription. It also works in both French and English.

As far as I’m aware, you can change the battery, the ram and the storage. If you don’t have a 1080p display, that can be swapped as well. The wireless chipset can be changed, but note however that you need to get one that is whitelisted by the BIOS of the computer. The CPU is soldered to the logic board, so what you have is what you get.

I’m on iOS, so I don’t have access to Connect. I do however have access to Memmy and Voyager, and those apps get updated daily, especially with TestFlight.

And to that I’d like to add instance blocking on a user level

Yep, I got the same issue with blocking communities. It would be so much simpler to simply block pornlemmy and lemmynsfw than to block the myriad of communities that pop up

I know it’s not the Play Store, but it’s still shown as being 4.7 stars on the iOS App Store

It’s my main app on my phone, but I go back and forth with Memmy and Voyager (formerly wefwef) on my iPad

Honestly, I have no idea. Also, I am in Canada, so I don’t necessarily want to meddle in American more than I would like.