They’re also trustworthy, reliable technology. Why change what isn’t broken?

There’s nothing that hardware-level anti-cheat can do against the monitor having a feature that highlights other people in a game, for example. The computer wouldn’t be able to tell.

The only thing that this might stop is someone using something like Cheat Engine to give themselves infinite health or something like that, but I would be a little surprised if that was the common means of cheating these days, compared to something just looking at the screen and putting a helpful overlay on top.

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The trick is to not care, and to confidently do it like it was the most natural thing in the world, and it clearly was.

The world of the wealthy runs on appearances. The worst thing you can do there is to be ashamed. Arguably better is to look at them with confident disdain for using a knife and fork to eat a pizza, in much the same way that they might for someone using a soup spoon for dessert.

For the pizza, it’s arguably more regional than wealth related. In a few countries, like parts of Italy and Sweden, it’s more common to eat pizza using cutlery rather than using your hands.

Whereas for other places, like other parts of Italy, it may be more common to use your hands for it instead. It very much depends on where, and the local culture more than anything else. But using your hands is as valid as using a knife and fork.

“This computer will never go out of date” indeed.

Bridge market must be having a boom.

Not copyright, as much as if the book isn’t precious, it’s easier to do that, feed the loose pages into the scanner, and then get an intact one if you want it, compared to the additional expense of having to build and program a machine to carefully turn the pages and photograph what’s inside, or the time it would need by comparison.

Fairly certain that they’re not supposed to be green.

Especially if they update and the entire computer is then broken, like with the recent bug where it would break particular SSDs.

It’s also simple enough for someone to change their agent’s prompts to include that attitude.

You can just say API K*y, it’s okay.

I am a little curious about how effective a traditional chain mail would be on it.

Would it not be better to ask them directly?

They know their own preferences, and could mention if they have policies in the clinic that prevent them from accepting gifts from patients and the like.

Sometimes they grow eyes.

They don’t just randomly sprout eyes, you have to give them the hormone that makes eyes develop to have them start.

Does that mean that it is basically impossible to replace the hardware in an ARM Computer because of the mismatches?

Or “if only the city would open a new lane, it won’t be as congested”. Sometimes followed by “why dId the city shut the road, that’s just going to make traffic worse” when the council shuts the road for expansion works.

Though the initial learning curve can seem a bit intimidating if you’re used to something like word, which does everything for you with a single button.

Especially for things like picking which packages to use, or how to make a functional document from it.

Now, I suppose if you only need 32GB RAM and a CPU that’s pathetic by modern standards, then this is a viable path. But that’s going to be a very small group of people.

It’s not that bad. For the most part, it would still be a viable machine these days, though weaker than it used to be. Computers haven’t changed quite as much as they used to, compared to the period leading into the 2010s.

My desktop is still a 4th gen intel. You’re not going to get bleeding-edge performance or efficiency out of it, but it’s hardly a slug. If anything, I’d argue it to more likely be the majority of computers. People don’t upgrade that often, especially if the computer works fine and doesn’t lag horribly.

Especially when calling it an obelisk does no favours for the ominousness.

You say that, but analogue computers are quite good at what they do. Issue tends to be that they’re specialised, so aren’t very good at general tasks.

Brains are a rare exception.