Where?

Yeah, KolibriOS is an open fork of MenuetOS. It was forked when Menuet was still open source. Although Kolibri hasn't been updated for almost a year.

Not sure why they want to keep the genie in the bottle. Open source would be perfect for this kind of hobby project.

PDF allows accurate rendering so it's the best choice. It will be a hot mess if you use anything else. Conversion of such complex formats is very error-prone for layout problems.

Are those lyrics for a Steely Dan song?

I have had somewhat better luck during the last couple of years. It seems that the snipers are not that much on watch anymore.

Remember that merely turning it on is not enough. You have to keep it on long enough to give time for the SSD's internal refresh cycle to walk through all of the cells.

Generally storage devices are filled with zeroes. But if it also uses inverse logic (charge means 0, no charge means 1) then some bit could indeed be flipped. This is just speculation though. In either case, when you format the disk, those rubbish bits are ignored anyway. They will eventually be refreshed as well.

That is my suspicion as well. This is sooo often the issue with all sorts of firmware. Linux tries to implement cutting edge features by spec, but in practice the hardware makers just write everything against Windows spec. The hardware might announce ACPI 5.0 support or queued TRIM support, but the actual codepaths are stubs that don't work properly. When such hardware is used under Linux, unexpected error states can be encountered. Sad trombone.