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"Days" is plenty of time, IIRC some tz changes happened hours before they had to come into effect!

As an experiment to prove the idea holds water by making it work today with existing tech, yes.

As what an actual, safe, efficient implementation, of course not.

The point is there could have been a "dynamic HTML" alternate timeline where you could have had interactive pages for 90% of use cases without executing full blown generic computation arbitrary code on the client device.

But worse is better won and now we get insane trackers and cryptominers at every turn because the web can't degrade to exist without JS massaging DOMs.

> the tides being caused by the moon

Mostly because people around the mediterranean sea didn't have to care, tides being so small there. Yet the Greek had fairly advanced models of tide schedules.

Pretty sure peoples that were experiencing bigger tides and depended on it e.g for fishing figured out the relationship with the moon pretty quickly, whatever esoteric reason they may have plastered upon it.

You can have the buttons in iframes and have that POST and refresh.

Not saying that's exactly what should be done, but an example that there may be another way than full-on generic code execution wrapping XHR.

There were quite a few: the Mac Pro before it (which is why you may be confused) til 2012, iMacs and MacBooks til 2014.

And before that, PowerMacs and PowerBooks.

Then Nvidia got into a feud over Samsung, Qualcomm, and indirectly Apple via PowerVR making their own GPUs so Apple ragequit and gave them the finger, culminating in refusing to sign third-party Nvidia drivers.

The Mac Pro 2013 carried an AMD D300/500/700 GPU, not Nvidia.

The lengths they would go to prevent you from snooping at them.

Instinct does not have maps, only breadcrumb. Third party like dwmaps need a phone and coverage. Hence often the move to Enduro and Fenix.

Also it's not e-ink but MIP, and that one being solar can go on basically indefinitely.

Around here large amount of military personnel is wearing Garmin. I see a lot with Fenix 7X, Instinct 2X, and Enduro 3.

But hey if they ever qualify as "smart watch" they're definitely more on the utilitarian side than on the "wrist-sized phone" one.

> It doesn't have any meaningful impact

France has presidential elections coming up next year, and growing civil unrest is happening. Cyber attacks are routine, and several have been officially attributed to Russia.

Anything that can trigger fear can elicit irrational reactions. That has been a known propaganda tool since forever.

> Every society is three meals away from revolution.

So I wouldn't entirely handwave it away.

I'm suspecting some forces at Apple would be perfectly content with ripping most of the BSD core and the assorted CLI out and just have Linux containers spawned in VMs, WSL2-style.