The joke is electricity and Linux.

The real answer is the free hardware.

My main reliable is from 2008? It cannot do modern virtualization due to not having the CPU instruction sets.

New insult (feel free to workshop below): You suck so much, your AI friend won’t talk to you.

Are the competent or incompetent agents working on this?

That is … bleak.

I suspect you are correct.

RemindMe in 5 years
#I know that doesn’t work here

Surely no competitors will grow in the small and medium business market to eventually be a competitor…

Depending on the subject, it may have to be a memory test regardless. Some subjects are mostly memorization.

This is great! I can build one, and have it build the next. Then I can have an army to protect from the robot uprising.

Apt-cacher-ng doesn’t tend to expire automatically. It can be configured to keep the last version regardless. https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/html/maint.html#extrakeep

One can also use a cache to hold deb and rpm files requested by the machines. (Works great when running hundreds of systems.)

I like “apt-cacher-ng”. It will do deb and rpm. https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/

Edit: better link

Offline repository caches for Linux have been a thing for decades. People absolutely pass binaries to friends.

Flatpac may not be suitable, but that is only one way to get software on Linux.

Pretty much every Windows machine I’ve ever owned after a certain year requires you to type in your Bitlocker key, including my first-gen Surface Go from 2018.

This is interesting. I had a work computer require this ~4 years ago, but not one of the three since have (personal and different employers.)

His only friends care about money. Everyone else walked away.

They are correct, but those that care about what IEEE has to say already know.

Money

Sounds like a tax dodge.

I bet they would drop something on us on the way out too. An asteroid or similar.

These things are never by mistake. Due Process limits mistakes. Refusing to do Due Process is intentional.

We have been deporting citizens for years.

https://immigrationimpact.com/2021/07/30/ice-deport-us-citizens/

Other options are LUKS with Tang and Clevis, or LUKS with SSH and Dropbear.

Sorry, I have no details.

Edit: Tang/Clevis are local software and a network server that provide keys. If stolen, won’t boot.

SSH and Dropbear make it so you can login to provide keys.

A person does not need to point out all problems when pointing out one problem.