Wrote excels that controlled building automation and heat exchanger settings, collected water and electricity meter data automatically and created bills ready to print and mail to tenants.
That was about quarter century ago.

Personally I wouldn’t mind having a phone with modern cababilities and Nokia Communicator / E7 type keyboard.

In small scale old truck/semi batteries are pretty good energy storage solution. Not good enough for round the year use in transportation, but quite usefull in small scale energy storage. (I have a set of 10 attached to solar panels at summer cottage. Enough to run 12V lighting, fridge, fans and tv through the (short) night).

Yeah, well, you know, that’s just, like, your opinion, whippersnapper.

Setup.exe /product server ;) Not a magic bullet, but helps in many cases. You have to use older ISO, thou.

I still do monthly service checks to industrial computers that use win3.11, 2000 and unix from early 90’s. When machines that costs even up to million to replace require legacy os, you scrounge up older hardware to run them as long as you can.

Many companies I work with either sell their old workstations for pittance to their employees after we have nuked the drives or donate them to projects that provide laptops to students or refugees who can’t afford them.
But many companies lease their hardware nowadays, so those end up to landfill or to companies that refurb them and sell them for profit.

Nah. Google decides to ban your account for whatever reason, and your files and mails are gone, and you can’t even login to your computer. Linux is just as easy as windows nowadays, and in some cases even better for gaming.

Miniatyrize ultrasound part, make it communicare with those glucose sensors that are placed on shoulder, make it portable enough and Presto! Artificial pancreas.

And they can’t even dig that tit from their shirt properly. They can deliver managed enterprise printers quickly, but getting necessary onboarding info requires kidnapping a product manager and removing few fingers…

“Safe evacuation area” is a funny way to spell “killbox”.

There’s a Elon joke there, but I haven’t had my morning coffee yet.

Old Laserjet III and Jetdirect 500x. Can’t go much dumber than that.

Many operators around the word are ditching 3g but still keeping 2g.
It is main/backup connection in so many iot and older automation devices that it won’t be going away anytime soon.
And yes, both my 2110 and 3310 I alternate in my cars glove compartment can still call emergency services number without sim card.

Scourge of Carpathia? Sorrow of Moldavia? That Vigo?

Most of the operators still keep their 2G networks active. There’s simply too many iot devices that use 2G as a main or fallback comms to end old gsm network with only few years of warning. 3G on the other hand is going the way of the Dodo.

Steamdeck runs what OS… ?

Bureocracy with work permits and citizenship is straight out of Monty Pythons Brazil. At least in Finland. 6 month wait times are not uncommon.

Charging lanes are still a pipe dream as long as inductive charging wastes about 1/3 of energy used.

So, basically what Trillian did two decades ago…