From that Wikipedia article:

when pub owners in Bamber Bridge were told to segregate their facilities by the US military, they installed signs that read “Black Troops Only”

🤣

I still have a cool laptop (with Mandrake and kde) with 192 megs of memory somewhere.

Which rulebook is that?

How about US consumers?

My menus need to be dynamically reloaded!

It’s still Javascript.

But why?

I’m not sure that a phone can repeat wifi beyond a few metres. There’s a reason that there’s some dedicated hardware for this.

Preposterous. When’s the last time you saw anyone do that?

Ok, I see how it could be useful in some edge cases. Hadn’t thought of those. Well done.

But if the phone gets wifi… then why doesn’t the other gadget?

Edit: someone described a few plausible edge cases lower in the thread. I guess it’s not common, but it could come in handy sometimes.

You don’t, it’s just more convenient. And according to the windows people, it’s the same thing there (except fewer people know how to use the terminal because it’s so arcane).

A step up from sheriff law? I’m not familiar with US legalese.

You can’t go shooting at people that also have guns, they might shoot back!

Ok, but all your dialogue will be spoken backwards.

The problem is that apart from a handful of geeks (a lot of which tend to gather on sites like this one), nobody is interested in computers. Which admittedly has consequences since computers are definitely interested in them. But then getting people interested in anything nowadays isn’t very easy.

They also did that stuff with DR-DOS, they’ve been pulling dirty tricks with all their competition since the beginning with little or no consequences.

And people whine because their laptops sometimes don’t work with Linux when it’s actually a fucking miracle that almost all machines currently work flawlessly despite all the hardware having been specifically designed to be hostile to anything that isn’t Windows.

I know, back then people knew what files and directories were. Good times.

All those wondrous IDEs were nowhere to be found 20 years ago, especially if you didn’t run windows. While Emacs did it all and more.

So yes, you had to read the documentation. That’s what we did back then. We still do it when someone can be arsed to write one.

So, you’ve never actually used Emacs?

And possibly also never used vi either?