@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Until those things stop working, there's nobody available to fix them, and they haven't even the foggiest idea of what the problem might potentially be or even if there's any workaround.

I dunno, man. That just feels completely wrong. How can anyone being okay with going through life like that?

Not to mention, getting back to my original point, that because companies understand that the vast majority are perfectly happy to go through life like that, it's becoming harder and harder for us curious tinkerers (the ones responsible for actually BUILDING the stuff that the majority use while having zero respect for how they work) to satisfy our curiosity, by hiding all those technical details, by burying those settings deep deep down and having them arbitrarily being reset to defaults, by "protecting the user from themselves," as one of my programming mentors used to say.

And it's not just IT. It's technology of all kinds. Just sit down for a while and listen to a bearded, grizzled mechanic with 40 years experience complain about how difficult it is to actually get at an engine of a modern vehicle. All the important technical bits, all the really interesting bits, are hidden behind covers and plates so that regular users don't have to see them, thereby making it infinitely harder for geeks to get at them.

Meanwhile, I still believe that the world would be a much better place if regular users still got to see them, and felt the need to -- at least a little bit -- educate themselves about how they actually functioned.

P.S. That video sounds really interesting, by the way! :-)