That skill proved useful in his later career.

I mean back when I was still using Windows, I once tried to get it as small as possible by boot-formating a disk and putting in more and more files until it came up. I think I ended up comfortably getting it onto a normal HD 3,5 inch "floppy". It's not that hard. Though I have never actually looked into Windows 7, but I can't imagine it's so much bigger than Windows 3.1.

Well webhosting used to be one of the standard features of ISPs till about the mid 2000s, just like E-Mail. (at least in Germany)

Some newer ISPs no longer provide public IPv4, some still don't provide IPv6. In many areas of the world, you are now behind several layers of NA(P)T.

I mean back when Windows came out, there was virtually no "power save" on PCs. If you wanted to suspend to disk, your BIOS would do that for you. ACPI came out in 1996, well past the prime of Windows.

That's my opinion too.

Unfortunately, after a certain amount of actual progress we are now regressing again.

Yeah, we have a long history of not practicing what we preach.

Remember when the USA took pride in being a melting pot?

It's simple math. Eyes have a limited resolution so you can calculate that easily.

I now have a decent 4K TV and I have to say that HDR provides way more value than the higher resolution.... at least for normal screen sizes and distances.

It's different for computer displays, as a 4k display at, for example 40 or 50 inch, offers way more space.

Yes, but making your own website seemed so much less effort back then. You got webspace with your ISP or you could easily self-host. Plus there were simple HTML editors.

You need to enable PS/2 emulation in your BIOS settings. USB support is spotty at best on many systems. It's not uncommon for it to not work on boot loaders. Also when Windows came out, USB didn't even exist.

Care sales are no longer on the rise as cars have gone more and more expensive over the years, regardless of the engine inside of them. Financial uncertainty also plays an important role in that. Why spend a lot of money into a device that mostly stands around? It may be more economical just to move closer to your job, or telecommute. The number of people for which cars are a status symbol is going down.

If anything, the electric car could solve that problem, since electric cars can be made a lot cheaper than gasoline powered ones. It's a bit like with LCD TVs, which have replaced CRTs just by virtue of gradually becoming the better product for most, for a lower price.

Of course CRTs didn't have a huge industry behind them, buying up media companies in order to delay that process and spread doubt and confusion.

That easily increases the profit margin by dozens of Euros a piece.

Those cents add up to millions. Plus I mean, why should phone manufacturers care about their users, none of them does.

The practical problem, of course, will now be where subscribers will get the exact type of USB cable from, they'll need for the phone... but one can sell it to them at overinflated prices, even more profits.

Of course there's always a risk that people get their phone, and then don't bother using it, because they can't find a proper cable, effectively lowering the revenue for the company... but that's probably very rare.

I mean Germany got less innovative as the social system got torn down.

I think the main issue is strategic support for companies. While in the US you have a huge military sector which supports companies which then see civil markets for their military goods (think of integrated circuits) the German stategy was always to ask the leading companies what thy think we should support.

That's why, for example, we got things like Teletex. A sort of "end-to-end" e-mail system that works without servers over the circuit switched data network Datex-L. You could send a formated page of text in very few seconds.... reliably and throughout Germany at 2400 bps. For the early 1980s this was quite impressive.... however since companies were involved, this only worked between word processors... no computers allowed... and it required an expensive line to Datex-L. So essentially it was replaced by fax machines.

They can just approve every apps, but they can just hand out the name and address of developers. That way if you have a fascist government, they can get the name and address from Google and "convince" the developer to withdraw their app.

We have seen that Big-"Tech" does not even try to stop fascism.