Maybe even open your final working paint.com file in a text editor and save it as a text file, then upload it as (non-human-readable) text to dpasta to accompany the source you have shown already.

That would be so fast I could tell you how it works when booted to a floppy on bare metal already :)

It had always been unethical since at least the 19th century, before it was ever regulated overwhelmingly, so the regulations were mainly just codifying the common respectability that was already established from the most honest business operators.

Even if tobacco was allowed in ways that are no longer OK.

Well there's a thing called a Hall Effect sensor . . .

This is a very worthwhile effort and does put numbers on the performance declines that have been accumulating for a while.

Actually quite outstanding, thanks and it might be a good idea to re-submit your article at a more fortunate time for it to be noticed.

Plus there is some downplaying of new HN accounts to be overcome too, so hang in there :)

Apparently so they will be one step ahead of you in case you decide to plug it in again sometime.

Graphics cards can do this too, you remove the card and go back to the motherboard's built-in HDMI port, then one day here comes a big update for the non-existent graphics adapter.

I would also say that productised general-purpose software was an undue bonanza taking unfair advantage of copyright, which shouldn't have allowed so many restrictions on code which is necessary to make devices perform their intended tasks.

Fortunately AI has been able to get started accomplishing some of the much-needed workarounds to these annoying copyright issues, like few humans have been able to do.

Regardless of whether programmers are scarce or abundant.

On a tangent, it sounds like a famous canal, but I would figure there are a number of little-known waterways where there might be a high-performance 21st century PC resting underwater along with some poor soul's bitcoin wallet :(

Keep in mind the well-known quote from so many pages of Microsoft documentation over the decades, where the main useful function of a feature is the only one completely crippled in what's obviously got to be a complete engineering snafu:

"This is by design."

  System > About > Advanced System Settings link > Hardware tab > Device installation settings
  Do you want to automatically download manufacturers' apps for your devices?
  set to No

So people have mostly never gotten accustomed to monitor drivers having any consideration at all, while drivers for graphics themselves and other new hardware has often had some associated downloads that people have become familiar dealing with.

Looks like LG finally took this long-standing opportunity to do some deeper enshittification than previously imagined. Simply taking advantage of a domino effect that has been lurking for decades.

A couple other related gpedit options if you don't even want the drivers themselves to change after you have gotten them correctly installed:

  gpedit.msc
  Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Internet Communication Management > Internet Communication settings
  Turn off Windows Update device driver searching
  Set to enabled
  OK
  
  gpedit.msc
  Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Manage updates offered from Windows Update > 
  Do not include drivers with Windows Update
  Set to enabled
  OK

Wouldn't want to be negative at a time like this.

I always figured if you were genuinely interested in what the electronics is capable of more so than what it is already doing, you were more likely to come up with things that electronics has never done before.

Otherwise not so much.

But that which obviously means the most from the standpoint of fulfillment :)

There were different executives getting bonuses from the institutional device sales than there were for the consumer radios and the factories that made the vacuum tubes.

Along with the media (78 rpm records) that was distributed by their record company whether it was recorded by their own artists in their own studios or not, with the tubes themselves you got to "own" them physically when you bought replacements. But like the 78s and the original tubes in the radios, they were only licensed for personal use.

For jukebox use, office music, or if you just wanted to play a retail radio, or records on your own in a place like a restaurant, there was a whole 'nother layer of licensing to be satisfied for both the media and the tubes it was playing through.

Does per-seat licensing ring a bell? Nothing new about that.

Locally referred to as "taxing rooftops" it strikes at the number of homeowners who are construction professionals or who have often free-lanced to put up workshops, additions, or god forbid actual "Florida rooms" on the properties.

The main thing is to levy higher ongoing taxes on unpermitted additions or improvements, plus sometimes seek back taxes for more of a justification windfall. More so than one-time permitting or code violation fees, much less maintaining curb appeal of the homes.

This is just another "angle" to see how ready everybody's "private" property is for their close-up in their first starring role when it comes to motion pictures.

Expect the data to be shared with nosy HOAs, especially with prohibitions for any "work vehicles" to be parked in view other than business hours. Of course that applies to anything with company decals, naturally including plain white vans and pickups having no markings at all :\