@zzt So I realize that Linus saying "if you don't like AI, you can fork the kernel" was essentially a "go fuck yourself", but part of me wonders:

How much effort would it take to fork the Linux kernel, if you were willing to cut it down to the bare minimum needed to support a reasonable desktop/laptop environment?

eg, strip it back to x86-64 and maybe aarch64 only, one or a handful of the most critical filesystems, yeet half the subsystems and 90% of the drivers for simple maintainability reasons, and so on.

I'm sure the answer is still an unreasonable amount of work, but how unreasonable, is what I'm curious about. Because I'm kind of tempted to try...

@sundogplanets Hang on, does that diagram imply the satellites they want to launch are so big that they'd need custom rockets to launch them?

Somehow I suspect they think that's a flex, which it really, really isn't