Surely one could use the same exploit to restore the original boot code as the malware used to corrupt it

They need an enclosure

That says you cannot replace individual broken cells in a Tesla pack. That doesn’t say you can’t replace the pack

Aren’t all the cells worn in a ten year old battery?

My car wouldn’t have done that. Had I fallen unconscious it would either follow the road or stop

But that’s also not because it’s electric.

Fine for me too

That sounds more racist than true

“republic” is opposite to “monarchy”. It is unrelated to democracy or authoritarianism. Nazi Germany was a republic. France is a republic.

Your republic is flawed by design. Your founders didn’t trust democracy so they weakened it, the country hasn’t managed to improve the democracy since.

Australia is also a Federation, but a monarchy not a republic. Australia is quite a bit more democratic than America

Luckily we don’t build clocks for n-dimensional time

My grandfather clock is correct* about once a week when I wind and correct it

*It must be correct as it’s very slightly fast (less so than can be fixed with a quarter turn off the pendulum screw) and I set it slightly in the past

In Rome they tell you the fountain water is fine. Though I suspect some is fed through lead pipes

Adelaide water is fine now

Australian here, yes. Our tap water is pretty good

Ctrl+shift+k and u? I’m pretty sure it’s Ctrl+k and +u

Admin or physical access.

It’s also a new way to compromise a machine you have physical access to

I care, I don’t like him and like the chance to cheer for the cancer

Ubuntu, if I need to reset it, it’ll be Debian/gnome

Yeah, last time I used Usenet the client was the email client, your ISP hosted a server, and the internet occupied the phone line

Linux from scratch was my third Linux, after RedHat, and Debian. That seemed a reasonable point in an interested person’s Linux journey to try a difficult “learning” system

If your budget stretches to a new laptop, framework make laptops (light weight or serious game machines) that come with Linux installed.

If you have no budget some second hand high end Chromebooks can be converted to mainstream Linux (video)

The other comments suggesting old ThinkPads are fine, but they’re heavier than I like to carry