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it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

Policy that prevents terrible outcomes is often deemed unnecessary by some/many because of the absence of any terrible outcome.

People still think Y2K was a hoax because nothing bad happened when really the crisis was averted because of a massive effort to fix it ahead of January 1, 2000 This does not portend well for unix end of time in 2038

Umm the Unix what now?

That's a no bueno for me, dawg

The Y2038 bug will probably be twice as bad as Y2K since every 32-bit Linux embedded system is potentially vulnerable, unless it’s using a fairly new Linux kernel (5.6, released March 2020, or newer), GNU C library (2.34) and all programs that use time are recompiled. wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals...

I used to work with HVAC and embedded controllers in offices and... yeah. Some of those systems are 10-20 years old and still ticking, because they're attached to specialized hardware. Can't wait!