Well Microsoft has been working on am ARM version of Windows for at least 10 years that I know of, probably longer.

But every time ARM seems so much better than x86, x86 improves to close the gap.

Power consumption has always been a big driver - laptops today now run all day on battery, or at least half a day, which competes with the ARM battery life advantage.

Just as bad, we have Johnson on tape selling it to Kennedy as a way to get past the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Kennedy didn’t believe in it at all.

Johnson wanted the pork for his constituents.

In Johnson’s defense a little, many of his constituents were quite poor and this did bring a lot of development to the area.

It also put the Soviet Union in a tough position of having to try to keep up (though they did have a stellar space program already, but going to the moon was a waste of resources).

Hell, IIRC, they had the first lander on the moon. They were well ahead of the US in many ways.

Kudos to the folks who created it. Ita really good.

Arguing with a fool is like wrestling a pig - all that happens is you both get dirty and the pig likes it.

I’d never heard JB Weld called steel stick, so I had to click!

PC-7 is another brand that’s identical to JB.

Probably. Why wouldn’t it?

Burn it to a disc or put it on a bootable thumbdrive with Yumi and find out.

It isn’t clear what question you’re asking.

I’ve never seen machine that won’t boot to a WinPE disk, that’s the point of WinPE.

And this has been the case since the early 70’s

Same thing that happened to them before - when they were Service Stations.

Everything.

Others have addressed a lot of this - I think your best approach is to to use a structured learning process, like 30 Days of Linux. I’ll drop a link when I can find it again.

I think the biggest risk for a new user is running commands as root that you don’t fully understand.

Fortunately distros today default to creating a user account during setup so the average user doesn’t run as root by default.

Edit: Link to Linux Upskill Challenge

You could do this in a VM before switching.

All of them?

The dialog also indicated class - this is straight pulp fiction/noir stuff.

Tarantino understood how to re-imagine noir for a 90’s audience.

I haven’t seen it mentioned, but the title alone tells us so much about what to expect.

“Pulp Fiction” is a type of novel published on the cheapest paper available, marginally better than newsprint - pulp paper.

These were novels that were published cheaply and quickly - so we’re not talking about the novel of the century, but simple entertainment - fast paced, stylized, sensational.

All that also connects to the Noir genre of novels - gritty, dirty, dangerous, hard characters for whom killing is easy. The heyday of Noir is about 1920-1950 and includes authors like Dashiel Hammet (Maltese Falcon) and HP Lovecraft.

I’m sure Tarantino read many of these kinds of novels growing up - you can see the influence: Pulp Fiction is a 90’s take on the Noir genre.

All that said, I haven’t seen it in years. I don’t find it compelling enough to watch again. That’s not a criticism in any way - I saw it in the theatre when it came out and laughed my ass off at parts. We talked about it for days afterward, trying to understand it.

Mayhem

Even without a VPS Tailscale will work fine after the router resets.

The more open ports, the larger the attack surface.

That’s all.

And today with the script kiddies out there, port scans happen all the time.

I’ve had a consumer router become almost useless from all the attempted connections on an open port someone found that I had up for a week.

Months later I’d still get hits on that port though it had been closed.

Yea, Tailscale would work even if the router was fully reset.

And durability.

Without a secondary internet connection this isn’t possible.

The router is the connection - its the gateway (a term we don’t hear much these days).

You could setup an independent connection via a cell modem - becoming a secondary connection. This is common for remote locations or even small businesses that need a failover just for management.

You could even have it on a single machine and have a vpn there. Then you could RDP/VNC to that one machine and manage things from there. I’ve done the VPN this way with Tailscale. One machine has it (I’ve even done it with a Raspberry Pi), then you can RDP/VNC to other machines from there.

But there’s not much I could see you doing if the gateway is down anyway.