Would a surge protector be enough? I’ve never owned one, but I’ve considered putting my PC, router and (in the future) NAS behind both a surge protector and a UPS.

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Oh definitely

You’re right, I believe the only thing Switzerland mandated (or wants to mandate?) is for projects built FOR the government to be open sourced - and even then, there are exemptions.

Of course, unlike you, I don’t live in Switzerland, so I’m probably not as informed.

More limited, but also less enshittified than Windows.

If you want a good, well-polished experience for certain creative workloads, or even programming, MacOS is great and their Apple Silicon CPUs are excellent.

If you want to do ANY gaming besides WoW (which surprisingly enough has always had great MacOS support) or you can’t stand the lack of configurability, Linux is immediately the superior choice by far.

Just never go outside without leather gloves and a ski mask

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We just see incremental performance improvements for enthusiasts/professionals and little more than power draw improvements for everyone else.

For several years we didn’t even see those. When AMD wasn’t competitive, Intel didn’t do shit to improve their performance. Between like Sandy Bridge (2011) and Kaby Lake (2016) you’d get so little performance uplift, there wasn’t any point in upgrading, really. Coffee Lake for desktop (2017) and Whiskey Lake for laptops (2018) is when they actually started doing… anything, really.

Now we at least get said incremental performance improvements again, but they’re not worth upgrading CPUs for any more often than like 5 or more years on desktop IMO. You get way more from a graphics card upgrade and if you’re not pushing 1080p at max fps, the improvements from a new CPU will be pretty hard to feel.

You’re on track for early retirement. You’re likely well-disciplined.

Take this windfall, or at least some part of it, for something to enjoy. A holiday, a reasonable new vehicle if you drive (I.e not a luxury car of course), or maybe home improvements. Hell, make it a classic car that appreciates in value and only drive it on the weekends in the summer.

You can’t take your money to the grave with you and none of us truly knows if we’ll even make it to retirement. It’s great that you’re disciplined financially, but you should also enjoy life while you’re still young.

OR throw it all into whatever you’re currently investing in, and retire a year or 2 earlier. Idk.

It’s been deleted and I’m VERY intrigued. Do you still remember what it was all about?

A horde of developers, so to speak

Did you get a kernel binary from them? If not, I don’t think they’re bound to you by GPL.

I was just making a joke about your username being a distro tbh

It’s Puppy Linux, isn’t it?

Ah might be right. I believe the one side hinge replacement netted you a new display cable, not a new antenna now that I think of it.

Not just an uninitiated person. I had done thousands and still occasionally severed them.

I believe in this model the antenna is replacable though?

Hmm maybe what you call a mall in Australia is what Americans call a strip mall?

Might be true for people buying their own WiFi routers.

Which already isn’t most consumers, because most people use what their ISP gives them.

I don’t think Windows uses a microkernel. Hybrid kernel is the term I’ve heard used.

Wouldn’t that be UPS?

It still worked - you could use the software with occasional hiccups, it’s not like there was data loss or anything. It just didn’t work WELL.