Youngster. Bet you’ve never even seen an 8" floppy IRL. And don’t get me started on tape or punch cards…

With all the data retention and logging requirements being imposed by various governments, your “joke” might not be so far off.

They’re needed just to hold the massive encryption key, I’m assuming.

At the current rate of development, every city will have its own space heater data center, so with all that computational power available to just any maligned local city government dignitary, you’re right to be concerned.

bite byte

FTFY.

Seriously? Have you never run into a right-winger?

You must SUBMIT!!!

I think in theory he was correct, but you had better be confident in that ground wire’s actual connection to ground.

I’ve done it numerous times with 220VAC as a child in Europe. Might just have been the youth that saved me, tho.