My parents had me setup on an old MacBook when I was about 1, It was an application called "babysmash" or something. It would pop up shapes and noises as you hit the keyboard. I have no memory of this, there's just a picture of me at a laptop in a high-chair.
This is a good article with good historical context, my only issue with it is where does this UBI come from? It sure as hell isn't gonna be taxes from large corporations given how things are going.
But yeah, once the buying power dries up, who is left keeping the lights on?
Now this is WHY I love UNIX and UNIX-likes, the fact you can chop and change core components like the Kernel, Userspace, Init, etc. and (within compatibility limits i.e. MUSL/GLIBC) run a hybrid system like Chimera.
Would I run Chimera as a daily-drive? Probably not. Is it cool that someone can? Absolutely!
Aside from enrolling a token with the TPM to unlock the LUKS volume, this is actually a pretty novel idea. Perfect for older hardware without TPM. I guess it depends on your use-case.
At first, was horrified... But, goes into using eBPF and IO_URING to collect system stats instead of all the huge overhead of userspace calls (ontop of dbus, ontop of Gnome).. This is pretty good.
Not the parent poster, but I also still use telnet. For me it's "Ancient", I have a few retired SPARC and PA-RISC boxes that run their period appropriate OSes as a hobby. Telnet/rlogin is the more reliable method to get into them remotely (just over the LAN).
They're on a LAN behind a NAT Router/Firewall, and I don't always keep them powered up (I'm not that insane) so I really don't have a concern for them.
Some of the more modern/high-performance examples I have run NetBSD with modern sshd and modern ciphers, but you can tell it's a bit of a workout for them.
I think this is really neat. Been wanting to create an ESP32-based environment monitoring system for outside to replace the cheap 915 MHz weather station I have. CAN might not be a bad technology to do this with since I don't really want to have yet more things emitting around 2.4/5 GHz