With his wealth, he instead could be helping people.

So many things depend on dates that it would be irresponsible to assume nothing would go wrong until proven otherwise.

Also, GParted itself calls fsck for some operations. It's very likely that at least some file systems' fsck.* tools use or check dates and would prevent a successful fsck under certain postend-of-epoch scenarios.

I could easily be wrong here, but the rational assumption is to assume something could go wonky under certain post-rollover scenarios until someone proves it can't.

Oh wait, we have been.

Do a date-restricted internet search for "post-quantum cryptography" for anything older than, say, 5 years ago to see that the world is taking this seriously.

A 20-year-old rescue disk that "gets the job done" without the network turned on is a perfectly cromulent solution.

Got 32-bit hardware that won't ever get a post-2024-technology upgrade? You'll be able to use the "final" 32-bit-supporting GParted Live distro for years to come without problems, at least until the end of time (if your system predates 64-bit time on 32-bit systems).

I kind of agree with you that "XYZ distro that other distros don't depend on and isn't a top-line distro drops 32 bit support" isn't Slashdot-worthy, but "no one uses" is a bit over the top.

Rescue- and other special-purpose, one-task distros have their place, there is no reason to disparage them because they aren't most people's "every day distro."

I haven't used GParted Live recently but only because I have a similar "rescue" distro handy that has gparted on it.

"This practice of punish-until-proven-innocent also creates fear about buying [del]used games[/del][ins]this company's products[/ins].

There, fixed it for you.

Either you are a real, bona fide company, in which case you need to change your name, OR

You are a satirical company, in which case you shouldn't confuse people by doing things only real companies bother to do, OR

You are on the way to becoming a meme stock, where your "value" compared to your competition is because of your snarkiness.

I wouldn't want to depend on a meme stock company for my electricity. My non-essentials like the bumper sticker on my car or what fast-food place I eat at occasionally, sure, but not for something as essential as electricity.

Oddly, riding a scooter is supposed to be fun. At speed, it will likely need your cooperation, anyway. Gimmick.

We may never know what happened.

I don't trust my GPU with Microsoft, do you?

No one wants data collection on, by default. Even when it is off, it still appears to collect data, as in: look in the folders. Some people don't want AI on their browser, such as myself. I still morn for Scrapbook, the most useful browser extension--ever.

There are already off-the-shelf sensors capable of imaging a wreck, so Purdue University, apparently just wants some publicity. They could be doing science--instead.

If we knew how to deal with nuclear waste we would have done so. As of this moment effectively none of the US commercial nuclear spent fuel has ever been properly disposed of. In 77 years it adds up to a lot.

While China's CO2 output is the highest globally, per capita its output is just over half of the US. That's even without considering that much of China's output is as in this article, manufacturing pollution imported from other countries. The bill for this pollution should fall on the country that consumed the manufacturing output.

If people had a local office application, many could still work.