I don’t understand ‘beyond repair’?

The hardware is damaged by a kernel upgrade?

It’s not impossible, merely unheard of.

This is stupid, businesses just use busybox and move on.

Nobody is freaking out that their smart toaster doesn’t have the full version of troff.

Just built a dual socket rome (only populated 1 right now), with a 7c13 off ebay.

The leap from my dual skylake is insane, skylake cores weren’t that impressive at all.

Yes, but by very little.

You’re saving on GPU processing, but that’s unlikely to be that much for browsing.