Closer to Jobs in the UK scene was--and I know this is maybe a funny claim--Alan Sugar. The key similarity being the mid-1980s intuition that computers needed to be simple all-in-one consumer products. Jobs was tuned to the needs of the creative and professional classes, whereas Sugar was aiming for working class families, so the machines were very different.

But the reality is there aren't easy matches. The UK didn't produce people who were good at computers, good at business, and had access to enough capital to achieve escape velocity in the 1980s. Even when ARM bore fruit it was sold off, same as everything else there.

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"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by an other information content provider."

It's perfectly boring HTML with automatic price checks. There's no ads, no cookies, no signups, no writing for machines. The idea is to strike a balance between completeness and simplicity, so people can pick a decent deal without ado whenever they need one. The latest prices are fetched from Amazon, and links to the Wayback Machine are included so users can check for deceptive "yo-yo" deals.

Another minimalist project of mine, txt.fyi, benefited hugely from feedback here way back when.

I suppose the obvious shortcomings are:

• further refinement might inevitably drag it toward more content (risk competing with news media) or more automation (risk becoming a junk aggregator)

• It's limited to stuff in my interests (gadgets!) that I feel confident making snap judgments on whether the brand is good and the deal is worth it.

• Reviewing all the deals every day could become gruelling work. Detecting good deals automatically really seems called for, but ingesting inappropriate or low-quality ones would only create the same problems of trust and frustration that inspired the project in the first place.

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e.g. https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-thinkcentre-m920x-tiny-r...

Some models can be powered over USB-C, allowing them to run off compact GaN chargers, monitors, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/MINISFORUM-7940HS-Radeon-USB3-2-PCIe4...

As fun as it is, this article exemplifies the trend of people writing snarkily about subjects they know little about. This sentence alone has at least four factual errors in it!

- The monitor was not "tellingly" basic and it isn't remarkable that it was a "pixel VDU". The author is perhaps mangling a remark from Chris Hall in an old Register article making clear for modern readers that it was just a CRT in a box.

- The monitor (!) did not run Basic.

- The Amstrad's Basic was Locomotive Basic, a relatively advanced and powerful dialect, not "Basic 1.0"

- Basic was created in 1963. It was published in 1964.

You've pointed on out one thing (Core CPI month over month) in that respect.

More egregious, though, is when media pose the annualized rate AS the month-over-month rate. This happens far too often. The problem is not usually the stories, but the people writing the headlines: innumerate editors who are interested mostly in sensational brevity.

Compare to Amstrad CPC Sonic, for a similar 8-bit machine—but only the final and most expensive models.