RTFA much?

"In one crucial respect, though, these simulations are nothing like reality: Unlike simulitis, covid-19 can kill. [...] 'If you want this to be more realistic,' Harris said after seeing a preview of this story, 'some of the dots should disappear.'"

Indeed they do, and on page 2 of it they say:

Warning: When fire is involved, consider the entire vehicle energized and DO NOT TOUCH any part of the vehicle.

No, but a moose once bit my sister...

Hey, this means we'll probably be FINALLY rid of those endlessly forwarded mails (often even including the stupid "you shall not distribute yadda yadda yadda..." disclaimers), at least in a corporate environment...

Until now, the lawyers could only demand silly disclaimers, but think of the peace and quiet in your inbox if the lawyers had the possibility to outright *prevent* forwarding or cut-n-pasting!

Yes, it is easy to restore. But when you do, make sure you restore the right pieces of it, or e.g. your LVM will get *very* confused if your disk configuration changed between the point of ODM corruption and the moment of you noticing that corruption and restoring. Suddenly you need to know which pieces of the ODM you want to restore, and which pieces you want to leave alone, and it's not so simple anymore.

And the fact that the ODM is easy to restore or not, doesn't determine whether it is a good idea.

Oh please. Consistency and stability? About AIX: remember the introduction of jfs2? It took a *long* time to become usable in a production environment. And have you ever seen the underlying scripts of NIM?

Yes, AIX is consistent and stable *if* you only use features introduced preferably >=2 years ago *and* don't do anything that could be seen as deviating from the average.

Once you're doing that, any half-decent "enterprise class" Linux distro is just as stable and consistent.

You didn't even mention the ODM. For those who don't know what the AIX ODM is: think Windows Registry, but now on Unix. Yes. Really.

Once you know your way around the pitfalls, it's OK-ish to run, administer and use. But, given the cost of the OS and the hardware, why bother?