| Plenty – as I recall, the Glock was invented (in the garage, no less) by a guy whose passion for shooting things was on par with the iron-fisted cleverness of Woz and Jobs. Things are pretty hackable, in a very different way from computers. It is amazing how far hobbyists can take their passion for the various technologies and physics – few of which ever have any need for electricity, and many of which evolved from the more gruesome acts in the annals of human history. But like – you know how you can get rid of KDE and go Gnome? Similarly, you can also get a milled lower receiver for your AK-47 (exotic, as it was designed from stamped metal components), and if you do it right you can still use your favorite wooden furniture. To extend the metaphor•, that's like being able to reuse all of your conf files and compiled binaries on a new processor architecture based on a different distro – as long as you're extra careful about `rm -rf` and you understand that mishandling powerful tools will kill you and your friends. I don't have any interest in killing people, but I find guns fascinating in the same geeky way that compels me to like having opinions about various other dramatically complex systems whose histories are steeped in the bizarre slow-brewed lore that forms around the sort of stories geeks occasionally offhandedly tell in their few and far-between hours of not being furvorous (like e.g. when github is down). • - quite beyond its utility, I am afraid, my apologies |