Until the tree dies and the carbon goes back into the atmosphere.

Lol, open source isn’t even the start of it. Paying thousands of dollars to wear 1kg goggles around your head all day so you can clumsily tap at virtual buttons while getting a headache isn’t an easy sell for the average person.

They can’t eliminate busywork, otherwise 90% of the company would be fired.

I’ve tried to plug my cords into the Communist outlet types but none of them fit. That’s how I know the American outlets are the best.

Do you happen to have any My Little Pony figurines to put in the jar?

In a distant post-apocalyptic future, the survivors will use hard drive platters as a currency.

If you want to be very secure, host a VPN and don’t open any ports besides the VPN port. Then access anything as though you’re on LAN.

Use it to make a webcam server. You could probably afford to plug in multiple webcams since it has USB 3. Great for checking on the home when you’re away.

Make it into a router and access point. Connect your phone to the AP and use tcpdump to capture packets from your phone for a few minutes. Look through the lackets with Wireshark and see how much data is being leaked.

./self_destruct.sh

Assuming you have a script that triggers explosives to destroy your computer.

The LUKS headers. If those are corrupted you can’t decrypt the drive. The good news is that you can back up the headers to prevent that from happening.

Nah, reboot the computer and everything should be in working order again.

What is their reasoning?

Millennials are so lazy they can’t even commit acts of violence… Smh

Future civilizations will find all our sequestered carbon and use it as a convenient fuel source.

It matters because American culture currently prefers everyone to have a college degree as opposed to any other type of education. Loans exist to allow the poor to “keep up with the Joneses” for a few years and then yoke them into debt for the rest of their lives. If this avenue was cut off then the attitude of the public would change to allow other means of education.

That’s a good point, research would be affected. However it’s worth mentioning that the US government already subsidises research, which might cushion the impact.

I agree with you that we could do this gradually. I’m just creating a what-if scenario in this thread.

Not exactly. I’m saying that banning loans would lower the price of education, either through cost cutting by universities or by a new education system taking its place.

Yes, I acknowledge that this would be a shock to society in the short term. But do we really want to maintain the current status quo?

When I wrote Internet, I don’t necessarily mean people will have to teach everything to themselves. I mean services like online classes which offer similar curriculums to a university course.