IBM is evil (literally making NAZI death camps possible)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
If it wasn’t for IBM the Holocaust couldn’t have happened.
So morally move away from them as soon as you can justify.
The alternatives provide better support anyway
Don’t have any games that require those. So never ran into that problem. But I can imagine there are potential games/apps people would want that can’t run on Linux. Windows VMs might be a solution but I don’t know as I never had to deal with that.
Steam, wine and dosbox with them, you can effectively play any game worth playing. Beyond that I never needed to know.
According to my husband. If one could get the raw data. It would be trivial. One could run it all on a single raspberry pi if one did some engineering.
Is the best place to ask
Guess they never heard of live-bootstrap
It happens, it’ll be fine. Just remember not to stress out too hard about it and it’ll be fine. The solar punk community knows how to survive a server outage in style.
You forgot fighting against fascism
Well we either allow companies to earn a reputation (in which case those companies which helped the Nazis are permanently stained)
Or reputation decays over time (in which companies have to earn our trust every day)
Either way is valid and consistent.