To offer some perspective. The Linux kernel will now stop supporting a CPU from 1989.

Lol. Yes. I'm going to add even more perspective on how ludicrous the difference is.

TL;DR for below: A thing we can't physically do anyway will become less convenient in the next Limux Kernel, but still will not actually be impossible (at least on the software side). It will still be impossible on the proprietary hardware, anyway, so it is a moot point. Which is why the software support is being archived.

Specifically, it will not be possible (from a software perspective) to install a 486 CPU from 1989 into a motherboard built next year, without copying and recompiling the available source code.

So it will still be possible (from a software perspective), but it will be much less convenient.

What's that? Installing a 486 CPU hasn't been physically possible on proprietary motherboard hardware for many years already? Fair enough.

What's that also? Almost no one wants to slot a CPU from 1998, into modern hardware.

But the open source nature of the code does still keep our options open, in case that changes next year.

This Linux billionaire cabal needs to be stopped. My 50MHz 486 CPU works just fine.

a new hobby of mine is finding old PCs and getting some linux distro running on them. I started doing this after getting into some youtube content where people refurbish 90s PCs to either get Linux or community rebuilds of old Windows OS' going on them and seeing what modern or close to modern software they can run. THEN you get into a rabbit hole of finding VERY interesting projects of people still maintaining like ancient versions of firefox for example.

There's a sort of cozy comfort to it. getting a mid to late 90s PC going again, booting it up, and hearing the Windows 95 startup sound just instantly sends me back to my childhood. And the thing is this tech surprisingly holds up after some 30 to 40 years much better than modern tech.

A fun new project I'm working on is hooking an old floppy drive up to a modern PC and using it to start games on steam. I saw a short video of that recently where a guy had all these floppy disks labeled with like Counter Strike 2 or Marvel Rivals which he would pop into a floppy drive hooked up to his PC and when the floppy was inserted it simply started the game. It's nothing complicated at all. It's just putting a very simple like bash script onto a floppy disk to simply tell it to start a specific game via steam when the disk is mounted. Why am I doing this? man I miss putting physical media into a PC to start a game. having one of those old floppy disk containers and flipping through them all to find a game to play.

Anna's Archive is the correct answer for the ebook source - an amazing resource.

Me personally, I ditched Kindle for a PocketBook years ago. Founded in Kiev, moved it's HQ to Switzerland, all their models are based on a Yocto Linux platform with the default file format being epub. Highly recommended!