Anything in that soil has died decades ago.

I think a literate person would have checked a dictionary before complaining ;)

And technically the proper word to describe trump would be aliterate not illiterate.

Whether it’s true or not there’s a lot of supposition that he is afflicted with dyslexia and most likely hyperactive disorder since childhood and without diagnostic, let alone treatment he was left unable to acquire information from reading, most likely making him hate written text and spending his whole life “making shit up” to compensate for his lack of knowledge, borderline illiterateness and inability to focus long enough to retain information.

True or not, it’s coherent with his behaviour.

OTOH 20 years ago half of the sites on the internet were not yet made of copy-pasta SEO optimized copies or stolen content designed to get search engine clicks. Maybe the enshitification of the web itself has something to do with it.

I think that underestimates the difference between handling tech that need to keep people alive and restoring a computer that sits in a basement and is not expected to do anything more than provide cool entertainment.

Going through testing, certification, documentation and training for a USB adapter would cost millions, even if the piece was available off the shelf for 50 bucks.

The floppy is just the funny visible part of the issue, the core issue is that their whole stack has seen the dinosaurs roam free.