Of course not. What are you even talking about.

They should be. An avenue next to my place has a kebab sandwich shop (or fried chicken, as the other random cheap junk) every twenty metres. While I’m fine with having a few of those here and there, this is just ridiculous.

D’accord, mais au moins c’est une belle langue!

Mine was a 486DX50. I used that beast for quite some time. It ran great.

Knock knock

“Madam, are you the person that (checks notes) buys a four pound power tool online? Yes? And lets her kid play with it? Uh hm?”

How the fuck is that interaction supposed to end?

It’s like: “I’d like 5 snow to go, please”
“How much? Ill have you know that in my days, snow just fell from the sky, for free!”
“Stop laughing, it’s true! People even hated it.”

What? Looks clean to me.

Right. These days, in most of Europe you have to order your snow online and hope it doesn’t melt in transit.

It’s more than famous, it’s infamous!

Buy one RAM and you get two GPUs thrown in for free!

It’s also unused, as far as I know.

print “error \n”

There, handled.

If you just have that one gadget, I agree it makes little to no difference.

It’s mostly network segregation and decluttering. Those things shouldn’t be on a data network where you then have to filter them all off from the rest. A dedicated network that’s designed for this kind of thing makes much more sense. Also Watts add up. One of them maybe just 5 (which seems a bit high), but when you’ve got sensors, lights, switches, etc., it can end up being significant.

Those things should be zwave or matter or something sensible, not WiFi anyway.

Interesting, thanks for digging that up. Looks like it didn’t pan out. At least in France, they arrived just as the local market was building itself, and it seems they didn’t manage to get a foot in the door. Maybe they got more lucky in other markets.

Doesn’t ring a bell… not to say it didn’t exist, but it probably wasn’t very large at the time.

And they have spent a lot of effort for litterally decades to make sure most machines are as difficult as possible to use with anything but Windows.

It does voices too?

In the old days, we would ls /usr/bin/ (sic, there are several locations defined for apps) and either look at the man page (if it existed) for the items we saw, or just run the commands with a --help option to figure out what they did

I confirm, that’s exactly what I did in the 90s.