Food consumption numbers while driving seem pretty high, but as we're not actually spending rl hours in them maybe the %'s are so high so they have a noticible impact? We'll have to see.
In that vein (and plz don't hate me for posting this): wouldn't the Auger be a natural target for increased food consumption?
Maybe it is already, but I've never noticed it if so.
Having run a 90lb jack hammer a few times I can tell you that _that_ will drain you, far more than four wheeling will, and I envision the Auger as something like a jack hammer, so...
Speaking of four wheeling; breakage & maintenance are a non-trivial thing in rl.
In-game 'wear' is so slight I can't even say with certainty if we use Repair Kits to repair vehicles in A18, as I haven't even had to think about repairing one.
While I like the general shift to using Repair Kits for most things (still think Leather Armor should use just leather), for vehicles maybe needing RKs + Electrical/Mechanical Parts + Iron & Steel Ingots to repair from serious degradation could add in more of a "oh oh, I broke down in the middle of nowhere, now what do I do??" feel to things.
Maybe 'top off' repairs with RKs, but if you let it get damaged to <75%, chances of not being able to get it running again without more than RKs increases.
As 'late/end game' mechanic. Not suggesting a freshly crafted 4x4 should get to <75% in it's first run, unless you drive it off a cliff of course.
And if repairing found vehicles ever becomes a thing, that could add to gameplay, "hmm, I like this bigger truck, but it's been hammered and will take a lot of rare-ish mats to fix up, while that minivan over there is in decent shape.."
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"Linux" was primarily 'just' a re-write of generic "Unix" (done by a crazy guy named Linus) so it was open source, thus 'free'. Once free it went nuts & folks all over added/tweaked/created new things, because they could. Not just 'programs' that had to run on top of the OS but significant changes to the OS itself.
When Apples OS went to version 10 it was (and is) running Linux
(Edit: correction) instead of their own proprietary OS. That they'd been developing since Apple was started.
iPhones
(Edit: correction) & Androids & Chromebooks are all running Linux. Google runs on Linux.
Not just the net-box you use to connect to the Internet, but your TV, fridge, BR/DVD player, all are almost certainly running Linux.
Edit: correction; Apple OS & iPhone iOS are not "Linux" per say. From wikipedia;
"Darwin is an open-source Unix-like operating system first released by Apple Inc. in 2000. It is composed of code developed by Apple, as well as code derived from NeXTSTEP, BSD, Mach, and other free software projects.
Darwin forms the core set of components upon which macOS (previously OS X and Mac OS X), iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and iPadOS are based. It is mostly POSIX-compatible, but has never, by itself, been certified as compatible with any version of POSIX. Starting with Leopard, macOS has been certified as compatible with the Single UNIX Specification version 3 (SUSv3)"
Vast majority of finance & pretty much anything considered "critical" is handled by *nix (either Linux or Unixs' like HP-UX/Solaris/AIX).
The concept of "Virtual Machines" started way back when in Unix since way back when (1970s) there weren't 'desktop computers', users used 'dumb terminals' to connect into large computers (which could support hundreds of users at the same time) to get their work done. Necessitating seperation of access/rights/privileges/resources, eventually leading to the idea for entire VMs.
So the basis, and underlying tech, for Cloud Computing.
Consider Info-Sec at any significant scale. I think there was one firewall vendor that offered their product to run on Windows Server? And I'd assume it was for a niche market of the very rare (& likely only small) Windows only IT shop. Everything else I know of used to protect the internet & data runs *nix.
While Gates/Microsoft did leverage hobbiests simple brilliance of cobbling together non-propritary off the shelf hardware to create home or desktop computers. By selling a, mostly, hardware agnostic Disk Operating System for the masses, it was both a marvel and a complete mess. And to this day Windows is still playing catch-up to *nix for stability, freedom & speed.
For perspective I've worked at a company where we had Unix based firewall clusters that were handling hundreds of thousands of connections per day that had uptimes of multiple -years-. Imagine that. Huge rule sets, lots of dynamic changes, gigabytes of daily logs, and the dam things were so solid, from filesystem/IO code to zero memory leaks they could be up for that long running at high utilization.
