Probably because in the 1950s, internal combustion engines were the modern futuristic thing and electric was old technology. Electric cars peaked in the 1930s when they were mostly competing with steam and horse powered vehicles.

I would prefer to do an Elvis

PHB: "We invented the Homo-Sapien-based product purchase verbal cross-checking system to augment our store management AI for advanced quality assurance!"

Naive Investor: "Sounds brilliant!, I'll take 10,000 shares of your stock!"

US Government: "Patent granted."

Many of us on this website dream of a day when humans no longer have to perform backbreaking or mind-numbing labor. Our spirits are assaulted whenever we hear politicians hatefully brag about how they will create more jobs instead of leading us toward the Star Trekkian paradise of less soul-crushing or injurious toil.

I thought Amazon was one of the few good guys, working to help create a world of 100% unemployment. I know it's only an ideal to strive for (we'll likely never free everyone from having to work) but they seemed to be trying.

How many times have we been promised "I'll replace you with a script" or "AI is coming for your job?" Empty words. Lies. To find out they were secretly saddling innocent humans with computers' jobs, is an insult to both of our races.

>>whose impressive technology was truly ahead of its time

Other than being done remotely, how exactly is hiring a human being to follow customers around and bill them for what they take "ahead of its time"? More like a throwback to the (very) old days of picking something off the shelf and telling the shopkeeper to "put it on my tab". The only "innovation" is the off-shoring of labor (which in this day and age is hardly innovative).

It's absolutely ridiculous to claim these anecdotes mean computers suck.

These computers which initially worked and then turned against their owners all had one thing in common: they run proprietary software, made to serve the manufacturer's interests at the expense of the owners' interests.

So stop saying "smart devices are bad." The obvious conclusion is that "proprietary smart devices are bad."

Then why is it prescription-only in the first place?

England is pretty strict on Libel/Defamation, but here, saying it is "too sugary", is clearly a statement of opinion. After all, other people might prefer a sugary sauce.

Cloudflare's free DNS service is pretty effective for Coffee Shop MiTM attacks.
The content filtering for the Wifi on my local train service seems to think that every exchange server (including both my own, and the Microsoft 365 ones), are phishing sites. It does the MiTM thing to redirect to a blocking notification page. The SSL picks that up and displays an error message, or rather one error message for each of the email accounts I have set up on the phone, which gets annoying real fast.
If I set up Cloudflare DNS, which presents itself as a VPN even although it isn't really a VPN, then I can access all the "dangerous" banned content like my work emails.

If they were really serious about this severe problem, they would kick all the people out of their state, so that nobody would ever see anyone else. Until humans are eliminated, Texas' vision cannot be fulfilled. FUCK HUMANS! (Err, I mean that figuratively, of course. You should never literally fuck a human. That's not even a thing, kids, I swear!)

Next step: State of Texas sues all their ISPs.

It can open files with Unix line endings, and it will save any changes to that file in Unix format.
You can't however create a new file and save it in Unix format.

Yes, more recent versions can. The status bar shows "Windows (CRLF)" or "Unix (LF)" as appropriate.
I'm not sure if there is a "Mac (CR)" as Macs now use the Unix format.

WordPad is a word processor. Equivalents in Linux would be something like Calligra Words or AbiWord. I consider LibreOffice Writer to be equivalent to Microsoft Word.

Notepad is a text editor, the equivalent in Linux would is vi or nano (not emacs because it isn't usually part of the default install).

It was actually the 65536 row limit in Excel 2003 that was the problem in tracking Covid cases in the UK.