I used to be a gate keeping manual bike snob, but within a matter of weeks of getting an electric cargo bike I was converted to an eBike evangelist. They are just great sub-type of bike making cycling more accessible and easier to replace a car (at least in Northern Europe). Big fan… but of course I do still love getting silly on an all carbon racer!
I think this touches on why I sometimes am reticent to recommend Bank’s’ sci-fi as it is not for everyone. Often I will try to lure people in with his fiction in particular “The crow road” and then convert them from there if they are digging his style.
Despite loving his sci-fi I think the crow road might be one of my favourite books of his all round.
Also I’m not sure this is factoring the appetite of tourists for the mosquitoes that define much of the summer months in the Nordics
Hey just took a look at the GitHub and I see one main.cpp so far are, you set on c++ or have you considered other languages such as rust?
Whether or not they are US based entities I think is moot since several developers have already been booted from kernel development due to their affiliations largely at the behest of the US.
Also if they try prevent downloads it would have the interesting side affect that: all the folks out there seeding and torrenting Linux ISOs might have to now also claim they only share the un-embargoed ones, wink.