The Belt being largely corporate-owned is my logic, true that the UN and Mars did little to help the situation but the Belt specifically at least is royally screwed over by private interests and presumably billionaires.

That was the Australian release

Ahh right, I'm getting about 4ish hours on my quite healthy battery on Mint, which felt short. I just fiddled about with TLP and dropped the discharge rate by half-ish. Otherwise it's a great little low-cost device!

aka The Expanse

Probably not the ideal method, but I've used a virtual machine with the disk connected via USB and then mounted to the VM to achieve something like this. It doesn't interfere with the existing disks or UEFI of any actual hardware then.

Out of interest, what kind of battery life do you get out of it?

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