In what ways? The only area that Linux has not taken over is the desktop, and that's because of Microsoft's entrenchment, not anything to do with language used for the Linux kernel.

At any rate, staying at Daylight Saving all year round would be far better than the current biannual nonsense.

I will then use similar tools in my nefarious scripts to pretend that they are human.

Samsung has been a company on fire for a while now, always coming up with the most explosive products.

You are either a troll or else utterly delusional.

I remain to be convinced that QCs will be able to do anything of practical use that digital computers cannot do far more simply, cheaply and at least as efficiently, any time soon, or even ever. What the QC computing community has produced in the last twenty years is 5% progress and 95% hype.

MS is a for-profit organization. The fiduciary duty of those in charge of running it is to maximize profits for its shareholders, regardless of any ethical or moral considerations: if it is legal, they will do it. If it is legal and it violates principles of ethical behavior, or just basic notions of human decency, they will do it. That's the way modern capitalism works.

Bearing in mind the laser-focused determination of the current US administration to quash any and all renewable sources of energy.

It is good for speculating, money laundering, extortion, and maybe other criminal activities.

Crucially, too far away in space and/or time. Because of this we might never be able to detect any alien advanced civilizations before becoming extinct.

Precious little, and never the really impressive bits: faster-than-light travel and transporters still remain firmly in the sci-fi realm.

That does not change the fact that there isn't a shred of objective evidence that such has been the case. Even more: taking into account the vastness of space and time, the speed-of-light limitation, and the comparatively short life span of individual biological species, the most likely scenario is one in which humans will go extinct without ever finding out whether any other advanced civilizations exist, or have ever existed, out there.

Those items that he's avoiding can be very obnoxious, but also very useful. Use them smartly. Is he also going to avoid modern medicine, because it can be obnoxious, not to mention outrageously expensive?

It is not. The days in which very expensive, proprietary hardware could run rings around off-the-shelf hardware are over, and as of 2026 it still remains to be seen whether QCs will ever amount to anything beyond lab curiosities.

That's the kind of thing that is bound to happen with a commodity that is good for speculation, criminal purposes, and precious little else.