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I’ve seen a VHDL implementation of the Z80 on the net. It is so old, it’s last fixes were from 19 years ago…

“Thanks for the tax breaks, but now we are off to the next tax breaks”

A few years ago, I saw a cheap GSM adapter for a PC for e.g. emergency messages of the server. It was cheap, as it only supported 3G. Luckily, I checked availability of 3G before I bought it, as it would have been a doorstopper here.

OK, that is USA. They have been a bit backwards for a long time, so this is not a surprise.

Been there, seen that, on an Arena browser on a black-and-white X terminal.

Do you have to break your fingers, too, to switch them off?

2G? That is a word I have not heard in a long time.

Good. Lock them up and throw the key in the gutter.

Apart from 3., I’m in full agreement.

Yes, of course they have complained to the courts. That’s not the point. This simply will go nowhere, or do you expect that the court will somehow separate Activision out of Microsofts hands again to fix this? Or punish the managers at Microsoft and make them withdraw the execution plan to remove redundant jobs?

At the end of it, Microsoft will eventually pay a small, symbolic sum which they consider “cost of conducting business”. Nothing more.

As if they would care. What is the FTC going to do about it? Most likely do nothing, or issue a stern warning.

Until the router needs to be reset, or something else happens to it.

That’s what “configuration backups” are for. You’ve got some, don’t you?

If only AI was smart enough to bring us this breakthrough…

Not everybody has the money for an extra router.

No need for an extra router. I just put those device into the “has no internet access” group. It is one of those “Parental Control” things. Every device inside the net can see and talk to it, but itself cannot talk to anything outside.

This is not just about the amount of data. I’m well aware that the measured amounts were totally off. Nonetheless, it is about being allowed to send any kind of data to the outside at all. And while it is probably quite convenient that you can get a message when a device has done a job, it is sufficient that you as the owner gets it, not anyone outside.

Luckily, most embedded devices lack the smart to attach to two networks at the same time. So you keep it locked into a network where it can only do your bidding, and it won’t listen to anyone else. Unless they built in some very crazy and nefarious code and drive around with network enabled cars in the owners neighborhood.

Just put the device on a separate wifi without internet access, or look at the “child protection” features of your router. Ours can put devices based on their MAC into “access groups” which range from “full access” over "internet from \ to " to “no internet at all”.

Easy: Just use the right browser and adblocker, and you basically have premium, but without the ads they still throw at you.

I don’t know the exact numbers but: I frequently used a VAX11/780. Its main components were two enclosures (CPU and Memory), each about a square meter in footprint and somewhere in the range of 1.6m high (IIRC). Both had their power delivered as 3x380V (i.e. European three-phase power) into the power supply part (the lower half to 2/3rds of those blocks) which turned it into rock solid 5V - and a LOAD of heat, which meant the room also needed some extra strong AC.

That thing was an 8MHz cpu with 8MB of RAM.

I’m still waiting to see something real being computed in a quantum computing device instead of just useless “quantum computing benchmarks”.

So far, they have only produced the worlds most expensive not-even-hello-world devices.