I remember Street Fighter II asked for page x, paragraph y word z. Once it even pointed to the German section of the manual where the word “mitten” was used. I found that clever. You can’t just copy the English part.
Also, Leisure Suit Larry did something similar, and they sold more copies of the manual than they sold of the game.
The troubleshooting section of the manual is almost always useless because it only ever covers user error.
My washer threw a drainage error and the manual suggested I blocked the outlet or had done something daft. I looked up the error code online and 90% of the time it was a failed water pump.
I had to replace the water pump. It was an easy job that required less documentation than a lego set for a 5 year old. You just had to know which screws to loosen to get to the pump. Was it documented? Of course not.
Tech hasn’t improved that much in the last in the last decade. All that’s happened is that more cores have been added. The single-thread speed of a CPU is stagnant.
My home PC consumes more power than my Pentium 3 consumed 25 years ago. All efficiency gains are lost to scaling for more processing power. All improvements in processing power are lost to shitty, bloated code.
We don’t have the tech for AI. We’re just scaling up to the electrical senand demand of a small country and pretending we have the tech for AI.
I did this a few months back.
Some things aren’t as great, but you get full control and your server idles way better on JellyFin.
RMS is the Woz of the Linux world.
It costs money.
Having money is better than not having money.
I hate when they say paying the premium is a “solution”. It’s worse. That’s why nobody is doing it.
That’s no BIOS. That’s systemd.
People won’t plug their phone into a USB socket in an airport lounge, but they will install software that sends 100% of their web traffic to a third party and has unfettered device permissions.