@theangryseal beat me to it… kudos! : ^ )

TheAngreSeal beat me too it… : ^ )

We’d be like villagers in a single-player Minecraft world. When Steve leaves the game, we freeze in mid-clock tick, and when Steve returns, we are back too, not even aware of the event.

Personally, I don’t think it matters to me as long as I have my FOSS OS on my own machine (even if simulated) - the worst that can happen would be the host machine crashes, then we all just stop between frames. We’d stop existing in plank time.

Oh, sorry I guess I was not detailed enough @[email protected] - I have a working desktop Linux system and an unused i7 laptop (whose battery does not charge, btw) 2 machines - I can use the desktop to prepare the thumb drive and the do the work on the laptop.

What about Busybox init do you find attractive?

A choice for every person who finds the existing choices lacking for whatever reason.

One day, an alien race will meet the ‘Children of Munroe’, who communicate with each other in simple numeric sequences.

:^)

Lenovo… I have a Lenovo laptop that requires you to insert a paper clip into a tiny hole to access the boot menu or the BIOS settings. That, combined with a keyboard faux pas, puts Lenovo off the list.

Is choice a bad thing? Each one gets the features and workflow that suits that one. You put the wheels on your Linux that you like the best, I choose mine too. They all work on the same roads.

What hardware was too locked down, and what did you do about that? (And if you bought new hardware what did you get?)

You buy a game. Every time you start the game it phones home for permission. The company decides to shut down the server that gives permission. You can’t play the game anymore. If this is like other initiatives in the same vein it won’t stop the game maker from shutting down the server, but it will mandate that they either open source the server so you can run your own, or build the game in such a way that you can still play it (maybe single player only) after the server is gone.

Help a non-European understand… So, if you get enough signatures, it becomes law? Direct democracy?