pay a lot of money to keep the grid stable at 50 or 60Hz or your electronics would fry

Absolutely not. Please don't make things up.

Look how well the world was prepared for a pandemic disease!

If it happened in 1940 maybe.

Tell him he's technically not wrong, but mindet surgery does not exists and it takes endless effort, time and help to change.

What matters is the important stuff like deciding what package format to use, how to handle the biggest bugs, default filesystem, systemd or not, and who gets to decide all this stuff and so on. Some distros follow the company decision and some do not. Get it?

They'll be all replaced by simple AIs

You wish

And most microsoft products surely can run 50 years with no glitches.

"we do need"? Because everyboby is murican oh the whole Internet

the USA is just an nightmare hellscape

No, you update strictly only security patches.

It's worse: they don't want anything next to their homes that might be associated with working class because it would lower the price of houses.