I'm about at that point. I had to set up a Windows VM last year to do some testing. It was more of a struggle to install than I expected.
davad
I have one. I love it.
If you look at the mechanisms of poisons, they all mess up some process in the animal or plant.
For example, Glyphosate is a very effective herbicide. It prevents plants from producing some amino aids. It "starves" the plant.
I'm not surprised. I have no idea what their specific situation was, but I've known a couple people going through the green card process. And each was its own brand of long, painful, and expensive.
Shocked Pikachu face.
Shocked Pikachu face.
This.
It definitely is possible, but if you have to ask, you probably don't have the background to do it.
If you want to do it anyways, great! You'll be learning some new skills. I suggest taking it slow. Use a bunch of dummy boards to practice on. When you're ready to try for real, try it on a machine you don't care about first. Something cheap enough that you don't care if you mess it up.
I don't know how dead it is, but it's pretty straightforward to set up your own gateway (public or private). Even if you don't have a tech background, there's the "IPFS Desktop" app that stands up the IPFS service locally.
Do you mind telling roughly how much it cost?
This only works if there is enough supply from those other companies. This also assumes that the other companies have a supply chain that isn't affected by tariffs. Which means each step on the chain needs to produce enough to be a reasonable alternative to tariffed imports.
It's powerful, lightweight, and ubiquitous. If you do sysadmin work, remote into a random machine, and need to update a config file, it probably has vi installed already. It's also extensible enough to use as a full IDE.
Personally, I like it because of how fast it feels and because I can do everything while keeping my hands on the home row of the keyboard.