Heliboard is its modern replacement that gets updates.

Install Obtanium.
Install Heliboard.
Install Futo voice typing.

Jettison the Google input stealers.

Communism didn't save the world and is now out of fashion.

Surely this popular belief (with or without factual basis is irrelevant, see "religion") could not be exploited by those with ulterior motives. Humanity are too virtuous for that. Elections prove it.

> Why? Absolutely no idea

This isn't surprising to anybody who's studied the psychology of political science.

Those who identify as 'conservative' value maintenance much higher than those who identify as 'progressive'. You're more likely to see them in their driveway changing their oil and measuring their tire tread depth. It's just different kinds of people with different time-preference mindsets.

Note that with a limited budget maintenance spending is money that cannot be spent on immediate benefits.

You need to allocate some of the benefits money to upgrading the IT systems so there's less to hand out. "How could you possibly cut their benefits?" is the kind of misplaced empathy that undercuts the system that they feel is valuable.

Of course there's usually a Federal bailout in the wings for people who don't plan ahead so the incentive systems are all completely misaligned for good governance. Since the Lockdowns we've seen the weaponization of the Dollar through sanctions and tariffs that have pushed world oil markets to the Yuan and cross-border settlements in sovereign currency exchanges, so the Dollar is in freefall compared to commodities which means those bailouts are going to end very soon.

As this reckoning becomes too real to ignore the populations will move strongly to vote for candidates who seem to understand the value of maintenance.

Yeah, and Healthcare is 20% of GDP.

According to Keynesian economists, if we were all much healthier the economy would be worse off.

I'm not sure how much more evidence you need that the entire economic school is a bunch of self-styled money-priests making excuses for government spending.

Keynes did some really good early work but then he got caught diddling kids and after that the King's spending was all the best thing anybody could do.

An early version of "trust the experts".

So the code was written by people who aren't familiar with the idea of "fail-safe"?

I might have gone to school for software engineering but I never equated it with building a bridge at 4000' over a canyon. Those are different things.

But none of my classmates would have thought about building a stack that fails into random or dangerous conditions. We always built from the ground up and verified states as new functionality was added with test evaluation of the possible error states.

And those classes were in C++89 without the advantages of proper exception handling like Java or Python provide.

I think if I were in the market for a $5000 IoT mattress I'd want to see something like a UL label on it. I guess the hardware guys put in a thermal switch so the heating elements shut off at 110*F? Thank goodness a runaway fire wasn't a failure mode.

I wouldn't personally ever spend that kind of money on something like that but if I were rich and disabled maybe there would be use cases.

The most versatile, repairable, recyclable materials for bridges if one can afford them are steels which can be cut, welded, and easily inspected using proven methods then scrapped and recycled efficiently with many of the standard steel sections easy to cut and resell for less critical reuse.

Cheaper concrete destroys reinforcement bars and mats by corrosion which is a major reason why the US infrastructure repair bills are so expensive. (Small and medium bridges can be replaced by portable metal bridging which can even be rented for use on short-term projects. Some WWII Bailey bridges remain in daily use because there's no reason to install a downgrade that's difficult to remove vs. swapping parts, weld repair or disassembly and replacement with similar.) Portable bridging in military usereliably withstand thousands of heavy wheeled and tracked military vehicles

"Shotcrete" is a handy coating and good for the developers trying this out, but the TCO and averting traffic delays due to repair time also matter.

Automated NDI inspection robots designed for these would be a very good idea to save labor. Bridge inspection robots are not new. Check out these inspection and maintenance robots:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Suits the sort of users who deserve (even more) data mining.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brows...

Doesn't the Nissan Leaf get about 60 miles?

I was looking at a cheap used one that was down to 45 miles, I think.

30 miles gets me to town and back so it would only last a few years at that rate.

Were I that slack I'd have been fired from every job I ever held.

To what single-digit IQ audience is that not instantly obvious so why is it defiling Slashdot?

I'd gleefully volunteer because that would at least make my dying experience useful to others if not myself. I consider that no different than donating my organs and other leftovers to whoever can use them. If we can donate a corpse we can consent to donating ourselves during the normally protracted, miserable decline we call old age and should have the option while we're still compos mentis.

For me an ideal departure path would be a clinical trial followed by body donation to science. Volunteering is an honorable exercise of agency useful to humanity.

I've cared for a demented, bedridden, crippled family member whose mistery I was forbidden to end. My father (WWII combat infantry vet who'd seen plenty of death at Aachen etc) was on board with me assisting his departure but others were too weak to get out of the way so he suffered a couple extra years for nothing. Of course I'd volunteer so others might one day be spared.

Humans treat each other with less respect than they give a beloved hunting dog. Many hunters, farmers and other good stewards understand merciful death is a kindness while clinging to a helpessly suffering animal out of emotional weakness is self-centered sadism.

We're all fucking doomed to feed the worms. Get over it and do something useful or at least don't be a human obstacle to others peaceful departure. Testing therapies on the damned won't make them more damned and if it helps they'll be pleased.

"Waiting" rather than running more than one OS just postpones the learning curve. Absent unusual constraints you don't need a "next machine" to run Linux which there are many convenient ways to do without disturbing your Windows host. The "I will switch when things get a little bit worse" meme is self-defeating vs exploring Linux (or any OS) in any of many very convenient, educational ways while sacrificing nothing.

Rather than following the "switching" meme I simply add any OS I fancy using the most convenient method.
The idea of "switching" intimidates many prospective users who'd benefit from choice. Use is not contribution, only money and code, so what an individual uses is of nil outside consequence. It's not raging against anyone's machine though that might be one motivator for the Terry Davis crowd.

Your current PC runs 11 so should be quite capable of running a Linux virtual machine you can learn from without disrupting your workflow.

If storage is an issue drive space is cheap and Linux boot drives are normally near effortless to swap between PCs. More RAM is always good so I max out all my PCs old or new that they may serve me better for longer. If money is tight used RAM from reputable Ebay sellers has never failed me (I run memtest after install to be sure). If your drive is soldered in place you can offload storage to external drives (NTFS can be accessed by Linux) with both OS on your boot drive as host or guest.

VMs are a convenient way to sample any or many distros without installing to bare metal. You can download free prebuilts from osboxes and other helpful sites or roll your own (recommended for install training). After running Linux in VMs you can replace your Windows host with Linux. You can make a VM of your current Windows install so you lose nothing and have a readily bootable Windows install to use. You can copy VM as very convenient backups or to run on other computers. If a Windows update breaks something you can revert to a clean snapshot.

I'm a basic VM user still on VirtualBox which is simple and works well for my use but defer to VM aficionados re: the latest optimal choices.

You could run Daz Studio in a light Windows VM with few other programs and if you don't need to connect that VM to the internet you can skip Windows updates to save space. Save work to a shared folder and should anything hose your Windows install reboot into the snapshot you took of whatever Windows state you preferred to save. No need for activation unless the minor inconveniences trigger you, but I've used offline activators since the XP days with clean .iso images. If not sure how that works best the My Digital Life forums are highly educational.

VM aren't just for professionals and in general are a drastic improvement over dual booting and shared boot records. I did that twice in back in 1999ish and found separate hard drives in cheap swap rack trays were the path of least hassle as VM were not an option.

I use Linux because Windows irks me and I greatly prefer my many, many more software options but OS are merely tools so I don't see reason to limit my toolkit. Software doesn't cost a dime unless you feel like paying for it.

You can so I did load Windows To Go drives using leftover small SSD, cheap USB adapters and 3D printed cases. I can boot W10 anywhere or W11 if I cared to use for chores needing bare metal installs like reflashing GM LS V8 firmware. I can swap cheap USB hard drive adapters to use any connector I need. I do similarly with Linux drives which are far more "portable" than Windows. Any sufficiently spacious drive can hold any host and VM and if loaded with Ventoy can boot multiple OS including a wide variety of live .iso images and VM.

Iff you're unhappy with MSFT their OS are easily contained offline on Linux hosts which let you use your most performant hardware rather than older gear (on which Linux typically runs well, especially on Thinkpads). Installing FOSS firmware like Libreboot on older Thinkpads for secure comms use is an established hobby with strong community support. If you don't feel like flashing it yourself (though the more you do the more capable you become) some Thinkpad enthusiasts will sell you a flashed Thinkpad or flash one you send them. I suggest learning to do that for yourself lest an adversary intercept and backdoor the firmware. You can also boot live security-focused distros like TAILS and remaster their images as desired. Linux offers so many free tools it's hard to beat. https://libreboot.org/

If you prefer control to helplessness why not jump in and enjoy some free (or nearly so) mind-expanding fun?

When seeking tech info I suggest NOT vomiting your emotions all over the internet because:

Nobody else cares. Paranoia is a delusion of personal importance and agency. Everyone sane who reads such
things doesn't pity you, they sneer as you would at your left-wing mirror images.

Cultivating emotional fragility is self-sabotage thus degenerate.

Emotional vomit is a distracting barrier to efficient communication. It's noise, not signal
no matter how much the vomiter fantasizes otherwise. It has the opposite effect of advocacy.

Emotional vomit convinces no one and makes vomiters instant laughingstocks and ridicule targets.
It's the equivalent of the woke airheads you despise puking their lives onto social media
and impresses no one. Nothing you could ever do, be or say can change that.

Go do fun stuff instead. For the rest, I suggest 4chan where /pol/ will suit you just fine.

They're talking about LineageOS. Think Graphene but it doesn't just run on Google hardware. Over a hundred devices and they just added mainline kernel and qemu support so it potentially runs on thousands of devices.

Sadly with less hardening. I wish Lineage would take some Graphene patches. The crazy thing is Lineage descended from Cyanogenmod which had many of these patches!

Not just for Windows, it works for writing Linux .iso images too.

W10 ESU updates and correct checksums will promptly leak for those who care.

I upgraded to Linux long ago so I'm looking forward to more hardware being sold off.