I remember Windows XP reporting all sizes in thousands of KiB (effectively - it gave you file size in KiB, displayed in a way such as 720,000 KB). I think Win 9x did the same. Best to deal with floppies surely but it made for some "fun" when burning CDs.

Sure but European Court of Human Rights is not related to the EU. This ought to be known, and this makes leaving the convention related to it not a part of a mandate given by brexit referendum.

No, they're not. A brain is a neural network as much as a tree (plant) is a tree (data structure)

I say that with a bit of rhetorical fun, but neural networks aren't actually made from neurons. They don't get drunk and have sex (in no particular order). They don't have a chemical nature and unknown features not the computer "neurons" have DNA.

I hope you're being confused by the situation (well I don't wish confusion for you)
As far as I know Debian drops support for older 32bit x86 CPU, but does not drop support for 32bit x86 CPU.
CPU compliant with i486 and i586 will be dropped, while CPU compliant with i686 will work.

This should mean an AMD K6/2 won't run, but a Pentium Pro will run (due to some missing or broken instruction or feature in the K6). An Athlon (original and XP) will run but might be unable to run certain software that requires SSE2, such as Firefox 52 and linux versions of evil software.
AMD Geode won't run, or maybe might, I don't know.
Cyrix won't run.

Pentium, Pentium MMX and 80486 definitely won't run. Although I imagine some people might make an unofficial, unsupported i486 version (no idea how hard it'll be but in the same way you still can find some Ubuntu for PowerPC Macs)

I think that by the way, Pentium Pro or Pentium II 233 machines are more likely to have survived to this day than K6/2 450 and such.
Unless you have uncommon specialty hardware we shouldn't have to fear anything about the old desktops with 512MB and 1GB RAM.

New hardware generations still are coming up. Just like they likely can't run NT 4.0 on their current PC, they'll eventually be unable to run Win 7 on what will come out (or can't be arsed to hack in Win 7 drivers into the installation media, or what about when low end NVMe storage becomes available, if it eventually does)

Yes if some shit from the mid 90s runs on Win 7 and runs on Win 10 it will likely keep on running for a good while. Even Wine supports win16. This is not exactly advanced technology. You might as well complain that a crappy old program like vi still runs under linux/unix/other, and that it should be remade as a gnome 3 application.

Wow your username is the name of yet another chat or video service (I don't know) that only runs on some limited platform and will likely be shuttered in a couple years by the company that makes it (Google)

And did you know that Firefox Hello solves the problem of getting your WebRTC session to work between two browsers?

Oh wait...

Yet ISPs typically provide their users a home router / modem / access point combo, with a web GUI that includes a section for port forwarding.

I think it's a bit nuts to expect people to have a home server though. (and maintain it for a decade, if you want to buffer messages this long)

It's about Xbox One performance you dumb smug nut. Don't you remember graphics cards like Ati Rage Pro, Matrox and whatever could do 1600x1200 back when you were in your diapers.

The applications using a small fraction of the GPU power would be : HTML, PDF, desktop publishing, terminal emulators, picture editing, and also some 3D shit like Google Earth requires very little GPU power.

Fuck, if Intel graphics from 2007 were more than enough for Vista/7 "Aero" in 1680x1050 don't you think something at least 10x faster will do the job in 3840x2160? What about piece of shit phones that have 1920x1080 or more? Do you know what's GDDR5 or DDR4 memory?

Now, Apple is a scam, but the 21.5" iMac is not terribly bad. It's not an Apple laptop at least. It would be feasible to get one, then wait for the warranty to be over, crack it open, replace the 8GB memory with 32GB and the hard drive with a better one. Though by all means, get a linux desktop if you prefer it.

There's nothing insidious about raping your wife, because we have condoms these days.

If that's the problem, you can wipe the OS and install a linux distro, then the 5400 rpm HDD will be fast enough. Even with things bloating up (GTK3 instead of GTK2, etc.) it's stayed reasonable and this kind of hard drive does above 100 MB/s.

It makes me think of the Atari ST. (I don't know about original and black and white Macs as those were more of a rarity)

The primary or even only way to interact with it was the file system, which was very simple : icon for the A drive on the desktop, double-click it, a window opens with an icon for each file. Only other way to do things was the top menu bar, "stolen" from Macintosh.
But as the entire OS and GUI are in ROM, the file manager only dealt with user files and external programs stored on floppies. I'm sure you might do something stupid like deleting the programs on your floppies but floppies had the physical write protect tab to make them a bit fool proof.
Anyway, I'm sure the iPad would be similar in displaying only user files and no system files at all. Just like my dumbphone does by the way!

But how many weird scripts are there in the region?
How many languages are there in India and immediate neighbors that we've never heard of?

For an example there's Tamil script and language, which makes me think of Thai script - only because Thai script is different from other scripts (Thailand is far off, but so is Tamil area itself compared to other India's regions). Both are obviously different from what I will call the Sanskrit-like script : this one is the one where letters are jointed at the top - now I am 99% sure there must be several ones like that, but this description should do the job ; I am talking about what I think is the well known "Indian" script.

There will forever be an unknowable to me number of cultures, languages, regionalisms in India (e.g., in other countries : I will never know about every Chinese language, or about every German dialect) though this is balanced by nation building. (e.g., there must be a number of Chinese who learned Mandarin as a second or first language and are able to understand what's said in the news or in some official texts)

In other areas of the Earth you have similar things going : Georgian script, Armenian script. Europe has pretty mild variations of Latin script (such as Danish, French, Norwegian, other languages where "ij" might be a letter) and this makes a QWERTY US keyboard a bit of a problem already. Albeit you might use one line on the bottom of a touchscreen as a "touch bar" for accented and other letters.

I hate to be the guy that defends touch keyboards :) as I would otherwise advocate for real keyboards.
On laptops, you might standardize the keyboard a little bit (as in be able to buy a replacement keyboard and stick it on a laptop) and then have different printed letters - you might even have room for both Latin labels and non Latin labels. Even there we could make do with better standardization of keyboards i.e. imagine you can use a keyboard meant for an Acer laptop on a Dell laptop.
On phones it's harder. Or maybe we could go back to having a 12-key numpad, on which arbitrary input methods may be implemented.

By 2025 the market for Itanium servers will total 22 trillions a year (* according to low end figures of the current projections), 7 trillions in Itanium for cars will come in addition to that. This points out to Itanium overtaking China as the world's first economy in about 8 years.