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DoD already started this with their Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA).

And I agree, the government should use its power to force interoperable and open standards wherever possible and relevant.

I think the real question is, what do you want to repurpose it for?

Because the answer to your question is yes, it is usable, but whether or not it's capable of what you want to use it for, we can't say without more information.

Linux installation appears to be possible. This is a wiki to an Arch on ARM distro, but you might want to look for something a bit more user friendly if you're not comfortable with Arch.

https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/rockchip/hisense-chromebook-c11#installation

Just remember, it's a fairly low spec machine. Think of it like a Raspberry Pi with a keyboard and monitor built in, in terms of what you can hope to run on it.

Oh yes, the renowned Marxist revolutionary.... Gavin Newsom.

Newsom has no credibility with, or loyalty to, anyone, except his donor class and California oligarchs.

Is this local mayor a shitheel? Maybe, probably, who knows.

I just know Gavin Newsom is a grade-A POS, and view any of his moves, especially ones he yells loudly about, with a great skepticism.

I mean, yeah, but I think that's placing the US military on a pedestal, with the unsaid implication that they're somehow unique in that regard.

I don't imagine there's many, if any, military forces on earth, who would both be used to invade and occupy foreign lands, and not make similar decisions.

I will admit that I also use Shizuku, but I only enable it for short bursts when I need access for a very select number of precise use cases. Immediately afterwards, I reboot.

I also assume that if I spent any amount of time digging into it, I would realize it's a bad idea, but nothing's perfect.

And don't assume that all apps allowing Shizuku access were developed securely, or that there all developers have good intentions. Really I only use it for Swift, or if I'm really behind on my updates, I'll briefly allow Droidify access for hands off updating.

No, I'm living in this thread. I'm talking about very specific issues related to LLMs, that I've highlighted ad nauseam.

Reread if you're confused.

If anything, it shows that you believe in the concept of "AI" way more than I do, as you're conflating LLM and FSD.

I don't believe in AI, it doesn't exist. Just specific advanced machine learning algorithms, some better than others, and some all smoke and mirrors. But here, now, I'm talking about LLMs.

Who's talking about investing...? I've exclusively been talking about what LLMs can do now, today, for free (aside from energy costs).

None of what your throwing out there has anything to do with what's being discussed here. It's a red herring.

Pale Moon feels like it forked during the peak of Windows Vista, and hasn't updated its UI, or extension library since.

LibreWolf, Mullvad Browser, and Waterfox feel the most up to date, while being FOSS.

No... It risks either not going boom, or some other catastrophic failure like we saw in the early days of the Ukraine war with the S300 and S400 missiles that would U-turn after launch and hit their own launcher, most likely from being improperly stored, not maintained, and/or outside of their rated service life.

I can't speak to Trump's rationale, but know of at least one instance where a MOAB was substituted for the normal ordinance in theatre because it was approaching it service rated shelf life.

Explosive ordinance has a shelf life, and once they're expired, they either need to be taken out of supply for servicing, or dismantled and disposed of.

Please read the many write-ups by developers of well regarded privacy and security ROMs, such as grapheneOS and divestOS.

Who detail in great length why root access is a bad idea, and why many apps that require root access, are just poorly developed security nightmares.

That said, I agree that it should be an option, or at least a standardized means of enabling it. As well as all bootloaders should be unlockable. But phones are more personal devices than the PC ever was, and there are good reasons NOT to push for the proliferation of standardized root access.