Not the point.

Good for you?

Updoot for Slackware in the 90s!

I’d argue that this still tracks in Dutch or German.

For fuck’s sake, stop making company/product names that are homophones of normal English words with “creative” spelling.

“I bought a mikroPhone the other day”.

“Oh, I didn’t know you sang?”

“…what?”

TI isn’t in the business of marketing and selling these types of devices to hobbyists etc.

Yeah I’d love to but I already have too many kitchen gadgets and not enough storage space 😂

The Instant Pot is actually great at cooking rice using the pot-in-pot method: put a plain metal bowl with your rice and water (usually 1:1 ratio) in the Instant Pot on a wire rack and add about 1 1/2 cups of water to the Instant Pot. Steam for 10 minutes for white rice. Perfect every time.

I think that site is being slashdotted.

Ah yeah, rubber gaskets! I totally forgot about those. With today’s manufacturing capabilities it should be possible to create super-thin gaskets without affecting product design too much.

Something I don’t understand about the anti-glue sentiment: how do you make a device waterproof without glue or sealant?

This likely originates from the Before Times when universities would have a full time sysadmin who would often write some of the software for the computer system/network at the university. See Bastard Operator From Hell for an example.