It was working months ago, but the satellite kept connecting to someone else's phone before they could get the connection to work.

You have serial ports? We had to sort the electrons by hand and push them down the wire one at a time!

OK. What about "Don't use Telnet"?

Almost, as today, being an idiot is mandatory and fellow idiots will take you down if you don't agree to their idiotic worldviews.

"Politicized science" is the keyword here. We have the smartest people on the planet deliberately and voluntarily goring their brains out to complete today's uni.

And yet all the cool kids love Python and YAML these days, both of which break in fun and interesting ways if you get the indenting wrong.

But that's by design, and is very clearly spelled out. And if you can't deal with Python's formatting rules, maybe you should go back to BASIC. The rest of us are making great stuff with it.

Also, we are currently in the most temperate time of the year. Wait until you can exceed the demand during winter or summer before running your victory lap... or are rolling blackouts no longer a thing in California?

Nobody is laughing about the movie "Idiocracy" now, as it has become the most accurate piece of science fiction that was ever published.

It is almost a documentary now.

And you will find that in the most diverse cities of the West, Spotify will list the simplest possible songs as popular in the area. Imagine Maslow's pyramid. And you're at the bottom, forever.

Production requires people, competence, infrastructure and preconditions from the political, social and economic environment. High-tech production is not feasible anymore outside of East Asia. Your guess about the "why" is as good as mine, but it is not, otherwise companies would have done that. But they aren't.

And you see the lower levels of tech currently collapsing in the West, too, if you look at Boeing in the US and high-speed rail projects in the EU. We cannot do this anymore.

If you want to get a feeling for "why", look at the sheer numbers of college graduates for each disciplines and study fields in the West compared to East Asia. Western college students graduate in totally different fields than their Eastern counterparts. And the fields so many the Western students graduate in are unrelated to technology, but social. Social sciences in the West have consumed and cannibalized everything. And producing nanoscale semiconductors requires ALL the technology, from all technical fields, at their maximum.

Imagine plotting a graph for this, with "N = number of different genders recognized by ivy league graduates" on the X axis and "P = percentage of all chips with best = smallest scale manufactured on US soil" and maybe you'll recognize a trend. The US does marketing and brainwashing really really really well, and probably military, too, but not much else.

It's not just a trend, it's now a law.

When companies repeatedly shaft early adopters, then there will be no early adopters left at some point and the company fails.That's what pre-2010 non-clown-world was.

But our current times have enough idiots to always by the latest and greatest, so companies don't need to try anymore. Marketing has fully superseded engineering.

Look at Boeing, if you doubt that.

You also have an open sewer instead of a forum.

About 13 years ago, as a long-time C++ developer, I was asked to revamp a complex order form written in Excel, using VBA. It was a weird experience because it was like time-travelling back to about 1990, in terms of programming capabilities. Needless to say, after working on that for a few months, I wouldn't trust Excel for my lemonade stand, leave alone anything important. It is crazily unstable.

Jokes on you, because in the West, businesses and government are both under control of the same group. It's about 100 people, maybe 200, who make all the decisions and none of them were ever "elected", their tenures never end and the public barely knows a few names of them.

And they managed to make it illegal to mention one thing they all have in common.

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.

Any company who intentionally breaches trust with even a single product, is a crappy company to begin with.

You see, trust is required when interacting with people, companies etc., because the world, people, companies, technology is so complicated that you cannot check everything all the time. You trust them to not cheat on you. For every instance that you DO find out they cheated, you must assume there's been dozens or more instances where they did, but you didn't find out.

Just like a worker who's fired after the first dainty little workplace theft. You cannot strip search all the workers all the time and it'd be a huge breach of trust to them if you did, and so the few instances that something does come out, it means game over for trust.

If you buy from a company that intentionally cheated on you, you are a fool and a mark to them. Good luck.

But there are people who still buy expensive HP printers with Microsoft Windows Embedded in them and subscribe to HP Instant Ink, and not feel the slightest bit of awkwardness when the thing craps out on them and everyone in the forums laughs about it when you complain.

Hello, fellow 5-digit Slashdotter. I, too, have also not moved on.

I do participate in Reddit a lot, but I think it's an absolute garbage company. However, there are some really good communities to be found if you dig a bit.

I can't imagine how it could possibly be a good investment.