Intel has been making GPUs since the early 1980s, starting with the 82720, or the 82716 if you want to be picky and require a pure-Intel design. They announce a new GPU effort every few years, at about the time it's clear that the previous one has failed.

Again being picky, in theory their integrated graphics are a "success" in that they sell well, but that's because vendors get them for free with the CPU and so don't have to go through the expense of adding a discrete one.

I mean, they're a success in that even a weak discrete GPU is extremely overkill for the majority of people who just want to browse. You can only integrate that kind of card into another chip because the overhead of adding IO and another PCB is just too high for such a weak GPU.

Pick it up and drop it on the road outside a local politician's house, there'll be a repair crew there fixing it the next day.

Or the Parks and Rec procedure, which is "Call Ron Swanson and have some Lagavulin ready".

Not necessarily. I've got a sidebar taking up otherwise unused space on this way-too-wide screen that shows memory usage, CPU usage, network traffic, top processes, hardware temps, and a pile of other useful stuff. It's incredibly useful to be able to glance over and see what's going on under the hood if something appears slow, or hung, or other odd things are happening.

Well I dunno, if you need to attach a car to the roof of your garage to work on the transmission and you've run out of duct tape this seems like the perfect solution.

I have some generic Sharp calculator with an apparently-immortal battery and a nice multiline display. It has all sorts of fancy functions that I never use. Apart from that, everything the OP said.

For me the acronym clash was "DSL". Presumably a language for sucking information off web pages.

Domain Specific Language - It's a fairly common acronym I feel like. SQL is a DSL, so is CSS, Rust macros lets you create DSLs, for example. The opposite is General Purpose, like Python, JavaScript

>slightly awkward phrasing (“Hi good morning”)

That's a dead giveaway that you're talking to an ESOL European, "hello good morning" or "hello good evening".

I found the opposite, I removed a pile of unnecessary bloatware from a couple of systems and snap kept reinstalling it on every OS update. I just couldn't get rid of them, snap decided it knew better than me what I wanted.

Come to think of it, that's a lot like Windows so maybe they are getting closer to the Windows experience after all.

"Are you saying that because you think it's true or because you really, really wish it were true?"