What a fantastic idea, I have about 30 years of writing, mostly chapters and plots for novels that did not coalesce. Love to know how it turns out too.

Always has been as an electronics engineer. I always loved designing and building the circuits, but when the PCB came back from the assembly house with a microprocessor in it, that is usually where the grunt work started. As a contractor I see a lot of different microprocessors and architectures, and just being good at C is not enough as you need to know all the register layouts, idiosyncrasies, and how all the peripherals are configured and work. AI has at least been a godsend here as it can condense 1000's of pages of datasheets and erratas into a working example in a few seconds, so writing my test suites or firmware no longer takes forever and I can get on with the good bits :-)

A shameless trip down memory lane after re-discovering my first Turbo Pascal program

Would you really want to be that first patient to be revived ?

Yes! I wouldn't want to be the last patient to not be revived, but that's just regular death anyway.

I'd let them work the kinks out on your revival and follow several hundred thousand (or more) later. After all, death isn't the only complication to worry about.

Half my spam folder is currently from the same group of people, with similar sales pitches, though one also promised 25 five star Amazon reviews for $200 which is scary if true. The whole blog post just about sums up an indie writers journey, having to become a reluctant marketing person, and fighting the algorithm for recognition; the meme nailed it.

Luckily I came to realise after my first book that writing was not about the sales (though that was the starting goal), but about finally putting all my ideas into a bunch of characters and having them live the life and fantasies I never could in a world I created. I got an email out of the blue this week from somebody who read my free sci-fi novel and liked it, such small things really makes the journey worth it.

Maybe he has Microsoft Copilot Full-Self-Driving installed

Damn, just as I ordered Starlink to replace my ADSL

Only Apple would consider selling millions, but not tens of millions a failure.

Right. We don’t know that Apple didn’t make money. Only that they didn’t make enough money. By whatever definition they used.

Old codger here, happy to rewrite any of your bloated software to run on a twenty year old PC at reasonable rates..

DOS was basically bare-metal programming with a few hardware and software calls thrown in. With 50 cent ARM processors these days having the power of an 80's mainframe Bare-metal on $5 dev-board is still my preferred way to go for simple projects that boot instantly and never need updates. I'm currently listening to music on a DOS MP3 player on a throwaway industrial x86 motherboard I built into an amplifier case 23 years ago.