That would defeat the entire purpose of keeping that machine alive.

You are welcome to continue development on support for the 486 if you need continued support for it. The kernel is open source and you can easily clone yourself a local repo and continue 486 support maintenance while merging in new features as time goes on.

My very first linux box, which I still have and is still running today, is still on RedHat 3.0.3 that I got on a CD in a book from the Media Play in Poughkeepsie NY in 1996. Granted it is completely useless except as a samba server sharing the 1.6GB hard disk that is still in it (and still works). But, I keep it for posterity, and because I like having a monitor with xearth on it.

I could probably put a newer distribution on it but with only 24MB of RAM, the newer stuff would choke out on it.

It's not injecting any wealth into rural communities. It's injecting wealth into a single or a small group of large landowners, who upon receiving said wealth will immediately pack up and move to a large city somewhere and live the high life until they go bankrupt a year later.

They are just trying to coerce you into using the Hotmail web client in Edge instead of the classic Outlook app, which they no longer want to spend the money to maintain.

"likely to push printing toward cloud-locked, subscription-based systems"

And there we have the real reason for passing this law.

Yeah, it must be a falling birth rate. It couldn't possibly be decades of assault on education and progress on equal rights by the far right and the current administration. Not at all.

Because they have to get everyone to click through a waiver that prohibits them suing Verizon for anything that has happened or may ever happen.

It takes a large amount of pesticide to grow cotton, and the Boll Weevil has become resistant to most modern pesticides, which means you have to use really nasty ones to grow clothing-quality cotton. Those pesticides are not removed that thoroughly because, why bother when profits are on the line?

Damn, I am glad to learn this. I just consider myself lucky that my washing machine dumps into the sewer rather than into my tomato garden. I feel sorry for all those people that are using washing machine discharge to irrigate their agricultural soil.

I really like my OnePlus.. I started with an 8T, drove that for 3 years, and then upgraded to the 12T last year. The 8T still worked great but the battery was starting to wear out so I retired it. I still have it in a drawer as a backup.

The 12T is great and I've been very happy with it.

Any licensed CPA would know to reduce the amount of the claimed deduction by the value of whatever was received as a result of the donation.

Back in the 20-aughts, someone tried to make cassettes happen again. It was so Fetch. You couldn't get cassette tapes to save your life except for exorbitant prices on ebay. Any machine that would record or play one shot up in price as the mouth-breathing automatons jumped on the bandwagon.

Let's be clear here - cassette tapes have precisely zero redeeming qualities other than portability (compared to their predecessor - the 8-track). They were a bad compromise to get portability. To think you could put 4 tracks on a 1/8th inch tape running at a very unregulated 1 7/8 inches per second and retain some semblance of audio quality was ludicrous, but it was portable, and that's what people wanted. It turned out that audio quality didn't matter, because of car noise, crowds of people noise, commuter train noise, wind noise, exercise noise, the inherent noise created by the format, and most of the other use cases for portable audio, made audio quality obsolete.

Many efforts were made to deal with the high frequency noise that was a characteristic of the format. "High bias" tapes treated with a chrome additive allowed recording of high frequencies at much greater amplitude, which it was hoped would increase the S/N in the higher frequencies and allow for flat playback. It worked, sort of, but not really.

But seriously, if you want to "take risks" then you have to stick to album tapes. Making mix tapes eliminates risk just like creating your own playlists on Spotify. If you want to "be a rebel" and "take risks," then listen to the playlists that Spotify curates for you, without skipping. Don't dig up half-century old technology and call yourself erudite.