This is mostly a reference to the horse from Ren and Stimpy

No sir, I don’t like it

You can do something similar with damaged metal threads, instead of toothpicks using copper wire strands. Project Farm has a video on the technique comparing it to other fixes: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jknMrFOGMOQ

Sweet dreams

What would be the point of a router not connected to any network?

Who said only internet-facing assets need to be patched?

If you can find an original Model M locally and confirm it’s functional (and not too many plastic rivets are broken), it’s a fine keyboard. That’s as long as you can live without Windows keys. I mapped capslock to winkey and was happy with that.

A compatible USB controller is easy enough to find.

In the coming decade, China will dominate technology because it has focused intensively on the important partnership between the public and private sectors with stunning results.

It’s the “partnership between the public and private sectors” in particular that lost consumer and foreign government trust in technology originating from China.

How is China going to “dominate” anything when it’s spent the last 20+ years shamelessly ripping off R&D through reverse-engineering and corporate espionage? What can it even claim of its own as true innovation?