That’s never changing. You can connect a separate storage drive but it’ll be slower than the built in one.

Imagine a scenario where a bunch of these are used as a server and to power cycle all of them need to turned off.

I mean he’s legally obligated to, not really a choice. He can say screw it, but then he opens himself up to legal troubles.

I’ll be downvoted to hell for saying this. But in this event I think it’s better for you to upgrade to Win 11 or maybe even move to MacOS (mac mini is pretty cheap), though I don’t know if you’ll find your replacement apps.

I use Win for work (no choice there) and Ubuntu at home (just browse the net, and only browser applications).

It typically happens during updates. People have reported their grub screwing up. If you’re able I would honestly suggest separate drives

Exactly, Twitter still has over 200 million DAU. Thread has about 30 million, Bluesky has less. Mastodon is worse.

Things like my city’s metro communication is still on Twitter. People aren’t going leave anytime soon.