There’s a possible option to engrave instructions on the back, but I get what you mean

You’d probably want to put it somewhere it isn’t going to get moved a lot. There are concrete additives you can mix in to help with the strength of the finished material as well.

Here’s a link to a genuinely fascinating dive into concrete: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTZM4MrZKfW90PdaBFt70BLTbz1bTF6Mn

I also figured that if you made your QR code so that the black sections were slightly raised, making it a working QR code could be as easy as dipping it in white paint, letting it dry, then painting the tops of the raised sections black.

I thought about this a little bit, and there’s an interesting possibility here. If you make a mold, you may be able to cast a QR code in concrete. If poured well and stored in a place that isn’t completely hostile, it should last as long as you need it.

I actually think there’s two facets at play here. There’s the first dimension, the durability of the medium itself against the environment, which is what you’re asking about. The second dimension is redundancy. It’s all well and good if you invest in aluminum but something heavy gets dropped on your plate and the singular copy is damaged beyond recovery. Worth considering that if this information is important enough to etch in metal, you should make several copies across a few different storage mediums in a handful of physical locations. A safe deposit box may not be a bad idea, for example.

Depends what their level of technical comfort is. A friend of mine just got switched over to Kubuntu because it was Windows flavored enough for him to make the jump. He’s more comfortable with tech but wasn’t a Linux daily driver prior to that though.

For others, yeah, Mint is probably what I’d aim for. It kinda depends on the target demographic.

One of the things that made our prison system make sense as a machine for me was the explicit carve out in the 13th Amendment:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Emphasis mine. If you’re on the outside looking in, and you don’t understand why the US prison/LE system is the way that it is, it’s because we never actually abolished slavery. We just gave it justification and some window dressing.

And to be clear, I don’t agree with any of it. But it is a thing that bears mentioning in the context of law and justice in the US.