AM radio and shortwave could go far beyond line-of-sight by skipping off the ionosphere, which was primarily a nighttime thing, but that wasn't really a thing with vhf (or higher) - unless it was just because there was less interference than during the day...
Those are still in common use, though I wouldn't be surprised if it's mostly old people that use them... I can count on one hand the number of times I have to physically go to anything resembling a bank per year...
You could probably fit the entire game library of your favorite console back in the day on a thumb drive nowadays.
No probably about it- my wife just bought one of these handheld systems, it runs on Linux and has a bunch of emulators, and it has literally thousands of games for everything from the Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Gameboy, PSP, PS1, various Sega systems (including Dreamcast), several arcade systems, and a bunch of other stuff I've never heard of, all on a 64g micro SD card.
Lol I had one like that - I made a copy for a friend, but it wasn't just one code word, it could be any one of about a hundred - but he was dedicated, he figured it out somehow over the course of a few weeks.
I remember playing a port of centipede that used text mode graphics - on the original 8086 it was playable, but on my dad's 386, you'd start the game and immediately lose because the centipede had already reached the bottom in like 1/10th second.
"Text mode graphics" would probably confuse a lot of the younger folks all by itself...
For my desktop, I have a monitor with built-in speakers and the audio is carried by HDMI - but its speakers are such junk that I have powered speakers connected to it via a headphone cable. I haven't noticed any weird noises before texts or phone calls, but I do get a faint buzz that changes with the contents of my screen... Oddly enough, bright white makes most noise, dark is quiet. That would make sense for analog video, but for HDMI it baffles me.
If it was a once or twice or even occasional thing, you have a point - but if she keeps going back and doing it constantly, rather than alerting the owner/management of the issue, and ends up making off with $20k+ that's when it crosses the line into theft.
This. I forget the court ruling, but there was one, that found you are legally allowed to defend yourself against a police officer who is not acting lawfully, up to and including killing the cop... But good luck surviving that long.
AM radio and shortwave could go far beyond line-of-sight by skipping off the ionosphere, which was primarily a nighttime thing, but that wasn't really a thing with vhf (or higher) - unless it was just because there was less interference than during the day...