Maybe it has less to do with (cheap!) hardware and more to do with (invaluable!) engineering hours? Having a real live human engineer show up and work on an AM radio in 2023? Maybe not?

I never buy bricks of heroin or hire hitmen so I have no need for this.

Given my lifestyle, I don't find myself needing to buy bomb parts, hard drugs, sex slaves or hire hit men. Is there really any need for cryptocurrency?

I've been buying my WIN 10 Pro licences from UK eBay vendors, and they've been working fine for a year or so. Less than $5 CAD. I believe our UK friends have different rules about transferring keys from decommissioned PCs-- they can actually resell otherwise unused used licences.

Has this account been seized by a Russian chatbot?

Thank goodness! Now I can get back to using the internet for what it was invented for: pornography.

I use a non-EcoTank Epson, but I have added on a 3rd party Continuous Ink System. It consists of four ink tanks outside of the printer (which you refill with 3rd party ink, cheap), with surgical tubing running to fake ink tanks inside the printer. The fake ink tanks have a little chip with a sneaky-beaky reset button on it, which scrambles the serial number of the ink tanks. This works so well, and is so cheap that I don't take into account ink costs anymore. Cheaper than my laser per page, but I can print out art and sell it.

I use dumpster-found comptuers, networked with cat5 stapled to the walls. Bitorrent everything. Cost is minimal.

I was once a smoker, and would never go back regardless of my superlungs because:

• --It breaks up your attention span into one hour chunks
• --It wastes heaps of money
• --It supports the douchebags who make it and sell it
• --It stinks up everything in your life
• --It signals others that you're not in control of your own person

Hacking the settings on my computer is illegal.

I am definitely in favour of sharing all of my usage data, provided that I get paid for it. I only do surveys for cash. If I had a financial stake in it, I wouldn't dream of asking someone for their opinion without providing compensation.

Sort of. Slashdot allows users to optionally disable advertising if their non-monetary contributions are awesome enough-- which mine are I guess. I assume that there are no ads to block, but I wouldn't know because the ads are blocked anyways. A belt-and-suspenders solution.

I wonder how easy it will be to block ads with Edge, and prevent tracking users. If I can't do that, I can't use Edge. The internet is no place for advertising.

How could our Gods allow such a thing? This doesn't mesh with my personal worldview, and therefore did not happen!

The article refers to a "Commodore 64 games console." There's no such thing. The C64 was a fully user-programmable computer which also played games. The link in the article for "Commodore 64 games console" brings you to an article about a totally unrelated computer, the ZX Spectrum. Nerd rage engaged.