You will notice when said [small] SSD gets swapped to death and you have to send the computer to the landfill because SSD is soldered to the mainboard and BIOS equivalent is sitting on the SSD. Once that 255GB basic size wears out it is over. Paperweight.

You see, part of the problem with the original TSG case against IBM was that TSG never did actually point to any line or lines of code and claim infringement.

They did organize a press conference at the beginning, showing journalists pieces of code from "their" system and from Linux kernel side-by-side. Formatted in a Windings font.
Of course, somebody took photos of the pieces of code and within 24 hours the community organized at Groklaw converted and identified all the code. Some of it was, if I remember correctly, a piece of code from "The C Programming Language" textbook by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, and it was OK to use that code in Linux kernel and even in SCO Unix. It was similar with all other examples.
After that incident they refused to show any code.

Yes, but ... The publishers have been working VERY hard for the last 100 years or so to persuade the public that the print and the quality of materials does matter in pricing.
See ... when a high profile author comes out with a new book that is expected to sell well and is highly anticipated by the public, the publisher comes out with a hardback. It sells for high price. Only when everyone that just can't wait to get his hands on it and is willing to pay this highly inflated price gets one and the sales slow down they publish it again as a trade paperback. The binding and the paper quality is lower, and it sells for something like 2/3 of the price of the hardback. But publisher never tells the public: "... now that we sold the book to everybody that was willing to pay $50 we are publishing a version that is 50 cents cheaper to print and we are charging maximum of what the remaining market is willing to bear".
After the trade paperback sales slow down to a trickle they publish mass market paperback that sells to the rest of population that wasn't willing to pay $30 for the better quality trade paperback. Mass market paperbacks sell in the newsstands, airport kiosks and other places to the impulse buyers for even lower price.
Now comes the e-book and the public sees that it uses even less paper and lousier binding than the lowest quality mass market paperback, so it is clear that the price should be even lower ... right?

How much sugar are they adding?

More than 10% of the weight of dry flour.

I have to correct myself. The show-off happened after Vim 6.0 came out.

At the end of the 1990s I have organized a Vim - Emacs showdown with a group of developers at our company. I was showing off Emacs and a power-user, very gifted programmer, was demonstrating Vim. The demonstration was for development in C (on QNX) and for processing text files with emphasis on Regular Expressions Search and Replace and suchlike.
At that time I have been trying to tame the Emacs beast for a few years. I have collected hundreds of lines of dotEmacs files to configure basic features such as Ctrl-V Ctrl-C and use of numpad for writing numbers (GASP!). I think, version 5.0 came out shortly before that, and that helped Vim very much, it gained very important functionality in version 5.

After the showdown I have installed Gvim, and after a couple of weeks of learning and discovering I was more productive in Vim than I ever was in Emacs. I never looked back. I did keep XEmacs on my computer for a long time - to use math module and for other niche tasks. I also used other editors that supported Regular expressions visual blocks and other advanced features such as Editeur, TextPad, Notepad++ and quite a few others. Recently I have installed Microsoft Visual Studio Code on my Linux machine at home, for when I need to help my daughter with Python homework (she programs in IDLE, because this is what she has to use at school and during tests [at school]). So, I am pretty open-minded when it comes to Editors.

TL;DR - Yes, for me personally Vim was more powerful than [X]Emacs [for advanced text manipulation involving Regular Expressions]

Quite a few SCADA/HMI systems in a factory I work for (as an employee of a contractor) had problems and a few of them would have failed if we did not patch them.

SCADA/HMI are "those monitors/keyboards/pointing devices that operators of various manufacturing / processing facilities use to actually control the factory." Long time ago it was walls with blinking lights, buttons and paper graphing machines. The screens display temperature, pressure, flow, position and state of equipment, ... and let operators change values or stop/start processes. That is HMI - Human Machine Interface. The SCADA is Supervisory Control And Data Aquisition - it writes data to servers so we can analyze what went wrong.

We spent good part of 1999 testing, patching, preparing and a few of my colleagues actually spent new yeas eve of 1999 at factory. Nothing major happened, thanks to thorough preparations.

Problem is there is no enough optical cables connecting Iceland to world, so the data centers focus on computationally demanding tasks, such as simulations, bitcoin mining.
There might be not enough electricity if the industry grows too fast. Iceland sells a lot of "green" energy, so the surrounding countries can claim they are ecologically friendly.

Single node can have more than 3 interconnections and each of those do not need distinct color. Just different from said node and its neighbors.

It was proven, after 125 years that that is the case. And in those 125 years nobody found a map that would need more than 4. Just nobody could prove that such map doesn't exist. So, your "very simple exercise in logic" is wrong.

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

Yes the area is radioactive. You see, everything is slightly radioactive, it is called "background radiation". But this area is more radioactive than a typical background, because Americans exploded some 95 nuclear weapons there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
One of explosions was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which poisoned wide area with large amount of fallout.
So, the area is already more radioactive than normal background. The situation is even more complicated by the fact that water is a very good sielding material, so even if there was a lump of plutonium lying on the bottom your Geiger counter wouldn't show.

That is not the [main] reason. The reason is that when you call somebody in Germany, *you* pay for the call. In USA, you pay for the cost of call in your network and the receiver pays for the routing in his network. And callers have very cheap arrangements in their originating networks.
It is also much more difficult in Germany and other civilized countries to spoof a phone number. In USA telecos claim that they can't prevent spoofing. It is interesting that Deutsche Telekom has no problem with that ;-)

A bathroom is a fucking luxury. I mean, who has time to take a bath at work?

When you have to visit factory floor from tine to time, or go on-site to inspect or supervise something, a shower might be highly welcome when you want to change from your dirty work clothes.

It takes place on Earth.
Some of it during the Cultural revolution.
Some of it takes place in an advanced computer simulation / virtual world.

It is ... different.
Very different from a typical "western world" SciFi. I have tried to read it three times. Every time I got further in and then I abandoned the book. I will try again. Soon ;-)

AutoCAD and other AutoDesk products can not even be purchased anymore. You have to rent them. Just like Adobe stuff. I still have a purchased license installed, that you can upgrade through a subscription service, but if anything happens to this PC, or disk, or whatever I will need to reinstall and it will have to connect to the internet for activation. So still not ideal condition.
Nowadays a recent version of [rented] AutoCAD (and other AutoDesk products) will check licensing server periodically and will cease to run when it can't reach it for something like 30 days. So, you grab your notebook with AutoCAD and head to Puerto Rico to work as a contractor and soon you are without access to your own drawings.

In the "Good Old Days" (TM) you had your hardlock dongle and you did not have to beg for permission to run software for which you have purchased license. You wanted to take a laptop to a job site, you installed AutoCAD on it, unplugged the hardlock from your workstation, plugged it to your laptop and you were golden. Nowadays you have to piss against a wind every time you need to [re]install something.

Recently I have started to use DraftSight at home and at work as a replacement for AutoCAD. But DraftSight has to be reactivated periodically and it is starting to be huge PITA. You have to jump through the hoops to get it activated, because in more than 50% cases it doesn't work and you have to google for solution, update the software, disable this or that in the network settings ... At home my DraftSight installed on Linux refuses to run even when I reinstall and activate it.

Gee I have no clue why SCO Unix faded away.

This is different SCO - SCO Group.
This SCO Group was originally called Caldera. Caldera purchased *some* intellectual property for SCO Unix from the original Santa Cruz Operation. Santa Cruz Operation then renamed itself to Tarantela and the new SCO proceeded with their racketeering scam against IBM and Linux users in general.