Probably more than half of the population has no idea what a router even is. They probably just use their ISP provided router as is. I see so many of the local cable company default WiFi names on routers all over the neighborhood. People don't even make the effort to go in and change the WiFi name.

Also in one month's time Trump and Elon will be buddy buddy again cause Trump will need to use Starlink's US based assembly lines to build the Freedom Routers. They'll all be just as configurable as a Starlink router as well. Meaning all you'll be allowed to configure is your WiFi name and password.

Don't worry though, in about 6 months the federal govt is going to be shipping out everyone's Trump approved and mandated Freedom Router with govt provided FreedomOS with all the requisite NSA back doors pre-installed. Freedom routers will MITM all encrypted sessions and report the contents of all traffic to the NSA mother-ship to ensure citizen compliance. TCP/IP protocol will be updated with a new SSN header and every packet will be stamped with the citizen's SSN for tracking purposes. Failure to use Trump's Freedom Router will be punishable by $1M fine and 10 years imprisonment.

Unfortunately not for a vast majority of the population. Just getting them to successfully flash an alternative firmware without bricking the router would be challenge #1, Next challenge is the needing of a basic understanding of how networking works to successfully configure something like OpenWRT.

Companies will do all the can the claw back whatever money they can so hourly pay stays approximately the same. They might have to bite the bullet the 1st couple years, but then wages will just stagnate for several years to get hourly pay back in line.

You probably have less than 5 years till that gets dropped too. It wasn't that long ago they dropped 386 support.

TBH you'll probably still get a more stable connection over the 100mbit ethernet than over even "faster" WiFi. I don't even think 8k streaming needs 100mbit, so you should be fine.

Anyone running linux on a 486 today, probably isn't using it as a desktop, it's probably a bare bones headless setup being used as some kind of embedded controller for some industrial process. Even into the late 90's 486 SBCs (Small Board Computers) usually about 5x8 inch in size were quite popular for embedded applications and likely there are still many out in the wild quietly controlling whatever process they control. This is the kind of shit that if it ain't broke you don't touch it cause it will probably be big $$$ to get something modern and certified put in it's place.

A desktop with only 8 or 16mb ram was also possible with windows in the 90s. That was a common amount of Ram for a Win3.x PC and usually a baseline for a Win95 PC

Like it or not. Microsoft windows and their other products have been a part of NASA space flight forever now. What do you think all those laptops up on the space station are running for their day to day work? Same thing you or I use on our work laptops for our day to day work. Of course this is for their day to day productivity work. Life support systems on space craft are not running on windows. But likely specialized controllers or embedded Linux PCS.

Quite frankly using OWA or ANY web based app in space would probably be a really stupid idea with the latency and intermittent connectivity. At least using real outlook or any other local mail client emails will be cached on the client side for when there is a lack of connectivity. Also saves on bandwidth only having to download it to the client once, rather than OWA having to retrieve the same email over and over each time it's accessed. Bandwidth on the deep space network is a limited resource that also has to be used for other needs.

I do use LibreOffice, but generically call it OpenOffice cause it rolls off the tongue easier. Quite frankly LibreOffice is kinda retarded name.

No but you could probably feed the source code into an AI, ask it to write a specification for what this code does. Then take that specification over to another AI and ask it to crank out code for the specification.

Africans came to america because other Africans sold Africans. When you live in a shit hole and have no other resources you can sell I guess you just start selling your own people.

Or just use open office. I don't get this need to edit docs inside your web browser.