What do you mean by this (genuinely curious).

i'm scared to explain it, you could be north korean

Yep and they did not have insulation obligations and what not. A house was much simpler back then too (i think). European here so i could be biased.

About the drawing: i draw like this on everything too. Agendas, todo lists. Its not like i want to do this. Its to keep my fingers busy. I can attest that some people’s paper is filled with drawings ugly and nice. I cant speak about the authenticity of this document.

Yeah the drawing thing is a compulsion. It’s hard for others to understand but that’s okay. I used to draw all the time but now I miss it.

I used to be compulsive about making things. Way back when they still issued business cards I had to make geometric constructions with them.

I agree. Put a modal in it, the trial period is over, contact x for renewall.

That would probably be seen as an attempt to ransomware though

I call these problems ticking time bombs. This way business has a catchy name to use for the thing they dont understand, its also very clear this needs to be looked at.

This sentence does not make sense and still I understood it perfectly. It's the reason I love PHP over JS.

Before internet times I had a girlfiend that i often called. That was our main connection. After our breakup(dont remember how that happened) I lost her number and forgot her last name. She could be dead and I wouldn’t know.

It's sad, but a fate every human has to deal with. Our modern communication allows us to keep in touch much easier. In the not too distant past, it was very easy to lose all contact with friends and family and go decades before reconnecting.

Only mildly related but just as annoying; old cars would have a dimmer button to reduce the backlight in the dashboard.

With all the screens in midern cars, even the minimum brightness is too bright for me driving in the night.it wont let your eyes adapt to the dark.

My last Hyundai had a moon button to turn off screen but that was an exception ithink.

I have driven hours with a cloth over the screen of my skoda octavia in the night.

Please let me turn off the screen for dark night driving, thank you.

Hardly an old thing. My 2017 model supports that just fine, and it's not just a button but a circular slider that goes all the way down to the dash lights being practically off.

I had a 97 Saab 900 turbo with an “airplane mode” button that turned off all the dash lights except for the speedometer. It was actually pretty damn useful.

That night-mode option in Saabs is pretty incredible. It simplifies the driving experience to an impressive degree.

I wonder if that might be the result of ((mis-)interpreting) some regulation that mandates the instruments must always be visible.

Roman aquaducts come to mind

Paris still gets about 15% of its water through an “aqueduct” 100km away:

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqueduc_de_l%27Avre

(Can’t find an English copy so you’ll have to machine translate)