I thought this was really cool so I decided to write a windows version :)

https://github.com/grantshandy/WinpISSStream

You cannot invest money you don't have?

This is what happens when you leave decisions with social consequences to engineers... they end up optimizing to strange anti-social characteristics at the cost of any sort of social reality.

We could save even more space if we hooked up seating arrangements to TSA body scanners. Using body outlines, seating could be dynamically adjusted before boarding to ensure each passenger can optimally interlock legs with their neighbors. Lap sizes can determine the ideal vertical stacking, with overhead bins removed to save space now that the top passenger can hold all the carryon.

This approach might take a bit of getting used to, but just imagine the carbon savings.

Oh, that's just standing passengers except they sit. May be acceptable in an intra-urban plane, but not on the long distance.

Typical engineers, tipping into eugenics to treat society as an optimization problem...

Is there a relation to GNU? I see lots of wildebeests & penguins in the artwork and the art/writing is reminiscent :)

The art is from David Revoy https://www.davidrevoy.com he does lots of art for OSS.

If there's nothing readily available online, my first idea would be to skim over the source for a few different already existing filesystem drivers.

https://github.com/gotoco/dummyfs

Maybe this will help?

this is what people always suggest. read the code that is already there.

my experience has been that you quickly need to then learn how several other major parts of the kernel work which is non trivial and something i struggle with.

there is also no comments in the code which makes it even harder.

and the books that are there are not up to date with recent kernels AFAIK.

Reminds me of this:

https://youtu.be/-trd_f6j3eI?si=WH3RivFdTRDBwiW8

Omg we went through the exact same phase...

I installed a fresh copy of windows straight from the official ISO a month or two ago and was bombarded with candy crush, tiktok, CNN, instagram, LinkedIn, etc. It took me a few solid hours to get it out of my way as much as possible.

After that, even on my brand new Ryzen 9, it took 15 seconds to open a web browser. I decided to quit my windows-only games and delete windows in favor of Linux (like usual).

It's not just OEM installs, perhaps you got windows a few versions back and updated it avoiding the new bloatware crap.