Thinking of any of the early Pis as microcontrollers ignores a huge amount of the ways in which actual end users interacted with the thing, and even the way it was sold and marketed. Upton was trying to replace early hacker-friendly home computers like the BBC Micro/Apple II, for a new generation.

The Pi project was never originally a microcontroller - it was always a full-blown SBC you could program any way you want with some GPIO pins attached. People literally used them as (slow) home computers.

The company didn't sell its first microcontroller until years later in 2021 with the Pico, by which point we already had Pi 4. I do though think its a real shame prices for the SBCs have risen as they have.

Council tax is difficult to compare to a percentage based property tax - the band based system means people in super valuable homes pay virtually nothing, at least relative to the value of the property, and each of the ~8 bands pays a fixed fee - once in the max band the tax stays the same no matter how valuable the home.

This is especially acute in places like Scotland, where the top band kicks in at anything over 212,000 and hasn't been adjusted since 1991... Essentially any new build starter home in many places will automatically be in the top band and taxed the same as some dude who bought a castle for millions.

Personally I've never thought of council tax as a property tax, even if the bands superficially are linked to it- the link to underlying property values is so broken now.

My first rented flat outta college was taxed at the highest band, and I sure wasn't rich then. It's widely argued to be a very regressive form of taxation - its opponents indeed argue it should be replaced with an actual property tax.

I had to solve a similar issue for some crap IoT lights that would join the incorrect AP after a power cut every time.

> https://community.ui.com/questions/Lock-Client-to-Specific-A...

A lot of Smalltalk-style syntax was absolutely massive for a decade or so you could argue, at least under the guise of the gazillions of iPhone apps that were written in Objective-C. This random blog post probably does a better job than me:

> https://richardeng.medium.com/apple-has-been-using-smalltalk...

> https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/05/26/ferraris-550000-ele...

> https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/business/ferraris-new-640k-ele...

> https://www.barrons.com/articles/ferrari-stock-price-luce-ev...

> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/05/26/ferraris-475...

etc

> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-09/ferrari-s...

> https://archive.is/ilT3d

> Will other users of tuxlerVPN be able to connect using my IP address?

"When you use our free residential VPN, you automatically agree to add your IP address into the community pool. This means that you are trading your own IP address in return for the ability to connect via the IP addresses of other users. You can opt out of this by purchasing our premium subscription; once you upgrade to the premium version, your IP address will be removed from our community pool."

Moore's law, even if it has had the occasional slow down or hiccup, always wins over time. 128gb or more of local memory will likely be in many cellphones within a decade.

The first iPhone had only 128mb of RAM. Today I can buy one with 12gb - in just under 20 years we got a ~9275% increase in RAM. I can get 24GB in flagship Android handsets.

Even if we only get 3000% storage space growth in the next 10 years, that still grants us all an iPhone with ~370gb of RAM. Gosh knows what high end desktops and laptops will be packing...

Of course a lot of AI processing is going to push out to the edge.

I'd also throw the wayback when machine and the internet archive into this bucket.

Even the GPU passthrough is simple these days in Docker. For 99 percent of people its one extra line in a Docker compose file or one extra arg passed to docker run... etc.

> https://support.plex.tv/articles/200430283-network/

"Tip!: This feature requires an active Plex Pass subscription for the Plex Media Server admin Plex account. Addresses can be specified either as an individual IP address or a range (using IP/netmasks). Do not include spaces or tabs."

> https://support.plex.tv/articles/200430283-network/

Scroll to "LAN Networks"

"Very few people will need to set or change this preference. It simply lets you specify which IP addresses or networks will be considered to be “local” to you..."

"Tip!: This feature requires an active Plex Pass subscription for the Plex Media Server admin Plex account. Addresses can be specified either as an individual IP address or a range (using IP/netmasks). Do not include spaces or tabs."

I'm not reconfiguring my LAN because Plex can't identify remote traffic accurately.

In California, isn't this just a normal person buying a new car? If bought from a dealership lot, a new car will run on temporary paper plates for several weeks until the permanent registration and new plate is processed. You see this all the time in CA, because CA buys a lot of new cars. There are even circumstances a used car will roll of the dealer lot with paper plates pending processing.

It's supported by the relatively old HDMI 2.1/DisplayPort 1.4 standards - it shouldn't be that hard to find a KVM that can do this.