Back in 2001, me and my girlfriend (now wife) had an old 486-100MHz with 32 MB RAM, running SuSE Linux. I was using it on purpose so that I could not rely on CPU raw power (and VGA) to make my code run decently. It worked. When my code ran on the then modern Pentium II, it had lightning speed. Eventually the 486 died a few years later. We still remember it fondly.
I still do the same trick. My ACER laptop is from 2011 with 3GB of RAM and it is running Mint Mate, 2022 version.

Even if it isn't spying, it is far easier to do something that you have proof than it can be done, and that it is cost effective, than develop it from scratch when everyone says that it is impossible.
It is still insanely difficult, as Musk says, so kudos to the Chinese.

Apple is as an american corporation as microsoft is.

Where I live in Europe it is illegal even to suggest a 60 hour week.

Linux at work, linux at home, linux at laptop. No windoze (except a VM on uni server, which I use to convert .dwg to .dxf).
Ubuntu mate specifically.

And I imagine after 7 years it will start to not work properly, because security.
Meanwhile my not-smart TV is more than 15 years old and it still works flawlessly.

Exactly. TFA provides no details. Omitting the source of oxygen is fishy, it is the majority of mass in water. Maybe import the 50 kilos of oxygen needed for 55 kilos of water from earth?

For me the year of Linux on the desktop was 2005, with SuSE Linux 10.1
Truly 64-bit (winxp64 was a joke), it installed in half an hour with all software from a single dvd, and it had everything. I never looked back.
My first encounter with Linux GUI, was with KDE (pre v1.0) back in 1998. It was already better looking than than win95.

It is really expensive if you consider that you will not reach space.

Assuming constant power during the charge, and 100% efficiency, the power needed is 327 kW, or one third of a MW.
For one car.
Good luck.

I half expected Poettering to say: won't fix, user should know better

It is a general purpose language. I made a program to minimize the earthworks in highway design. Not bad at all.

It is compiled language. It has some data structures builtin similar to Python. It has (very fast) garbage collection. And it has very good parallel support built in.

C# runs nowhere, not even in windoze.
I used to participate in a project which provided a library to unify the access to certain applications (structural analysis), some of which are free and some of which are commercial. The library was developed in C#. Then, we would use the library to make (structural) optimization code, which would be structural application agnostic.
One of our partners who developed an structural analysis application in C++, insisted on using VStudio 2010 because they said newer versions were not compatible. Indeed when we tried to use VStudio 2017 our library code would not run and had to make changes to the code. The same when we used VStudio 2019 (since then I left the project).
At home, I tried to run the library in Linux with mono. It would not compile. Also, many moons ago, a colleague told me that mikro$oft had made an "free" compiler in Linux. It didn't compile the library - it didn't even run an example of the documentation.
And, please, VStudio is NOT free software. You have to make a mikro$oft account to use it after some time.

Java has the problem of Oracle, a but at least it runs anywhere. I participated in a project 10 years ago, where I worked in Linux, and the other developers in windoze, and I never had any problems.

Then use Python. It does far better protection.