More than that, it’s the cloud services from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft that worry me. Many IT shops are dependent on these services, so if the US regime decides to f- around with that, many companies outside will be screwed.

Diplomacy Is Not An Option, maybe?

Yah! I had one too. I miss that toy.

Thanks! I corrected the title. Good to know it’s also on Steam.

Neither is their CEO.

Those are some pretty old soldiers in the picture.

Dance Dance Revolution.

(Do you feel old now?)

You can’t “flood the channels”, not if there’s someone who controls what you can say and hear. That’s the whole point of the dictatorship analogy.

Will stock up for next time. Thanks for the idea!

That’s an idea. Next time…

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Her ex-boyfriends.

Anecdotally, I am writing this comment from a 7-year-old Chromebook. Owing to software updates, it’s not as snappy as it used to be (therein lies the irony), but it’s still usable up to its Linux container. The battery is dead but I don’t want to get rid of it because the screen is still nice and bright and the hardware build is otherwise fine.

I just wish, though, I could boot proper Linux off of it and I could upgrade memory and storage.

Time heals all wounds. Make sure you don’t keep reopening them.

I played so much X-Com, Civ 2, and Final Fantasy Tactics back in the day.

In this day and age they would be TikTok stars.

Start using it more frequently and favor it over GUI apps. For instance, use cd and ls over the file manager. Launch applications I using the command line. Figure out ways to do in the CLI what you used to do using GUI. Over time you should get more comfortable with the environment.

Project Gutenberg has a pretty good science fiction selection, quite extensive in fact that I think it’s better to go by author than by individual works.

For the “classics” there’s H.G. Wells and Edgar Rice Burroughs, aside from Verne and Shelley whom you’ve already mentioned.

There are some surprising names, too, like Jack London, E.M. Forster, and Rudyard Kipling.

For golden age scifi: Frederic Brown, E.E. “Doc” Smith, CM Kornbluth, Jack Williamson, Frederic Pohl, Olaf Stapledon, and Andre Norton. Also, Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft.

For your criteria, though, I would recommend looking for the works of Philip K. Dick and H. Beam Piper.