I think there's an exception to be made in your argument for abandonware. There are classic arcade games that wouldn,'t exist any more but are widely available due to MAME support.
While there is no mention of a “kill switch” that could be accessible by law enforcement in the bill text, the legislation does not define exactly how the technology would limit impaired driving. Rather, the contents of the bill simply define the equipment to be a system that can:
Passively monitor the performance of a driver to accurately identify whether they are impaired.
Prevent or limit operation if impairment is detected.
“Passively” detect whether the BAC of a driver is equal to or higher than the legal limit. In such cases, the system could “prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected.”
For a privacy friendly OS, surprised nobody has mentioned Freedombox
It's designed explicitly for your use case, along with an easy path to other self hosted services. When you're ready for more than it offers through the web interface, it's a full Debian install under the hood - so you can install whatever you need to. Privacy friendly and super stable, with smooth upgrades to new releases and security updates for old versions several years after the new one is available.
As far as hardware, your old computer is probably more powerful than a Pi and can support more drives, but the Pi will be more power efficient. As others have mentioned, if you care about your data long term then backups are a must, so a separate NAS or a Pi with a large drive for backup storage is a good idea as well, whatever OS you choose.
Believe it or not, no. The sales tax holidays are actually targeted on certain categories rather than across the board. Sales taxes (including Florida's) are regressive, but in this case the tourism situation actually makes it slightly less regressive.
So many tourism dollars flow through that with a 6% sales tax they get by with no income tax at all. Groceries are exempt from the sales tax, as are rentals of 6 months or longer - two major expense categories for lower incomes.
Unsurprisingly, the sales tax holiday dates come outside the November-April tourist season - with the exception of one of the back-to-school weeks.
the reason that corporations exist in the first place, to shield people from personal liability
Which is the problem. As parent rightly pointed out, lack of personal liability is exactly why corporations pull this kind of bullshit. The solution is to lower the bar for holding individuals, particularly executives, personally responsible for the actions of the organizations they control.
Not a great example. All recent reporting was that the hospital you're talking about was hit by a Hezbollah rocket, not Hamas. Not surprising that Hamas would assume, after concluding it wasn't them, that it was the IDF, and it not be an outright lie.
As you seem to have discovered: Yes! We're using it right now!