I don’t know where you live, but i will find you and lick all your dirty fingers in a way you will find uncomfortable before you desecrate any more precious paperbacks

I share the same gut feeling, maybe I have just grown cynical after everything that happened since Covid times.

I have an alt proposition: why not look into projects like FOSSi or FSi? It’s trying to address the hardware side of computers (chip production) but HW design goes all the way up to programmers and SW optimizations.

Side note: making silicon wafers requires metallurgy, so you can always become a modern day “blacksmith” (or graysmith, in this case;)

I will trade 1 cask of beer and 10 potatoes for pelts from a billionaire

The Windows must withstand Micro soft-impact meteors