"No, though you'd need native osanwë to do it the Elf way and you'd need a Dwarf to teach you the Dwarf way - I'm not free to share it."

"So... you can't open-source it because the operating system has Dwarf IP going on."

"- I don't think I know exactly what you mean but it is true that magic artifact-making is broadly not available to humans. Since it takes years or decades they don't usually mind, but I'm sorry."

"An operating system is... okay, I have to back up a few steps for that one... IP stands for intellectual property and means laws about the use of concepts, people's words and ideas and art and stuff. Operating systems are a computer thing, computers are machines that... do a lot of math and build up layers and layers of abstraction on top of that, plus you add hardware so they can show you pictures and play you sounds and take input of various kinds, and I think not the lowest but one of the somewhat lower levels of abstraction is called the operating system."

"Hmmm. I think it's more -- the instructions are in public but it falls to everyone individually to acquire the tools, some of which are not for sale cheaply."

"The tool is something you aren't allowed to teach me, though, not... a particle accelerator I need to reserve time on or something."

"I'm not allowed to teach you but lots of people are, if this is an ambition of yours."

"Might be. Though if it takes decades to learn I will probably have to deprioritize it."

"We've made attempts at extending human lifespan but it seems very complicated since so many things go wrong for humans."

"So many! I assume our medicine is better than yours but the gains in average lifespan are mostly just reflections of reduced child mortality, we haven't gotten that much more out of the upper end."

"Do you know any more than us about what happens to humans when they die?"

"What, in terms of some kind of afterlife?"

"Yes."

"Opinions differ. My opinion is 'nothing' though."

"It's not, like, a cheerful opinion."

"There's a Vala who collects dead Elves, if you'll go to him, and reembodies them once he's corrected the flaws in their souls. The Dwarves don't know but their creator says he arranged a perfectly nice setup and I - think I believe him. Humans, we don't know."

"Corrected the flaws in their souls?"

"Very few people had been reembodied before I left Valinor, I don't have much data here."

"Okay, but... corrected the flaws in their souls????"

"I mean, I think I'd be a lot happier if there were less wrong with me, and it's supposed to be - a process you agree to and cooperate with."

"...or else you be dead."

"Yes."

"I assume Mandos is doing his best."