Somewhat related is Kintsugi

> Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

The article mentions it -

>> But Ju ci is more than a technique; like its close cousin, Kintsugi (the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics using lacquer and gold), Ju ci embraces a profound philosophy: that of celebrating “beauty of the imperfect.”

And that philosophy is called "wabi-sabi" (which is a hella fun word to say):

"Japanese aesthetic philosophy finding beauty in imperfection, transience, and incompleteness. Rooted in Zen Buddhism, it appreciates the natural cycle of growth and decay, valuing authenticity, rustic simplicity, and the patina of age over modern perfection. It encourages accepting flaws, such as cracks in pottery or weathered surfaces, as part of an object’s unique story.

It used to be a lot of them roaming in the residential area, out of necessity since household items were precious. Related is also the profession of a tinker to mend woks and pots and the scissor sharpener https://donwagner.dk/tinkers/tinkers-Zhongwen.html

Used to hear their shout in the street but largely disappeared in the 90s.

> "...and the PC will shut down every hour"

Likely to be as close to a production Windows environment as possible.

> If the evaluation period expires, the desktop background will turn black, you will see a persistent desktop notification indicating that the system is not genuine, and the PC will shut down every hour.

Otherwise you have an approx 1 month trial period. Which is pretty short - 2 months would be better.

The main issue is that the duration is variable depending on when the VM was released. When I checked earlier (not sure if this is still the case) the license was valid for 90 days after release.

With slmgr /rearm you can extend the license period. IIRC a couple of times but not unlimited, but I definitely got more than 2 months out of it.

How does the 1 month compare to the 0 month trial period offered by of MacOS?

I think one month is decent. But I'm pretty sure if it would be 2 months, you'd say 2 months is pretty short (why?), 3 would better (sure, more is better).

Please see The Thirty Million Line Problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZRE7HIO3vk

If you are interested, the write up on the cached software renderer used in Lite is written up here: https://rxi.github.io/cached_software_rendering.html

If you are into Coursera / video lectures this lecture series fits the bill for "exceedingly gentle introduction to writing proofs": https://www.coursera.org/learn/mathematical-thinking

Good luck!

If you are interested in building programs with proofs of correctness, one of the authors of A Tensor Language (ATL), Adam Chlipala, has a book called "Certified Programming with Dependent Types" that can be read at http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/

RemedyBG, a from-scratch Windows debugger. https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg

I'm sure this has been said before but this reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJQU22Ttpwc