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In time it may become a trade-off between new (with associated features and speed) Vs tried and tested/secure.
To us now this sounds perverse, but remember that NASA generally use very old hardware because they can be more certain the various bugs & features have been found and documented. In NASA's case this is for reliability. I'll concede 'brute force' does add another dimension when applying this logic to security.

This may also become an AI arms race. Finding exploits is likely something AI could become very good at - but a better AI seeking to obfuscate?

How long until US bans code from developers with ties to CN/RU?

That won't happen because it would effectively mean banning all FOS which isn't remotely practical.

Mobile friendly version:
https://m.xkcd.com/2913/

Edit: I noticed OP put the alt text in the comment after I posted this

A good summary here: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/

My main issue is I'm not shutting down my Pi-Hole, home assistant, NAS etc etc just to plug in something like this in, and then 24h or so later shut them all down again to retrieve it again. That said I basically have a collection of Pis (passively cooled and this silent) and a Synology disk station so the power use is pretty low.

You've got me there, but by logical extension you are now saying the celestial body the ISS orbits is ...the moon?

You seem to be saying that the earth-moon barycente can be logically referred to as just 'the moon' ?

Mobile friendly version: https://m.xkcd.com/2898/

No Mint pretty much just works.
Great thing about Mint (or most Linux distros) is that you can try it by booting from a usb stick - see if you like it that way.

...or Mint depending whether they'd rather move up, or down the hierarchy.

https://xkcd.com/37/
https://m.xkcd.com/37/ (mobile version)