There were a lot of clues in the image text that indicated it was a farcical product. The "7in extension cord" 900W/4A rating The obviously excessive number of outlet and USB ports ...and the statement, "Power outlet for Home, Office, Dorm, Gaming Room, and Fire." <-- As for being off-topic, this mailing list caters to a LOT of VCF Workshop discussions. Those who regularly go to the workshops to repair stuff all weekend, every month, already understand that outlet availability is rather limited. Not that we are upset by that issue, because we understand the circumstances. But we also understand the inside joke that this obviously fake product implies... and probably had a good chuckle over it. As they say... "The struggle is real!" And we deal with that reality sometimes with levity. Scroll past the joke if you don't like it. Nobody can really infer that something is "off-topic" if they don't know the full context. And in this case, the context was provided in the OP. As for blowing up capacitors. If someone blew up capacitors for fun that they bought for themselves, it's not an action for anyone else to complain about. On Wed, Feb 1, 2023, 2:48 PM Herbert Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Thanks to Dave Shevett for clarifying that this supposed product is a work of fiction and Photoshop. Without going on about it, I do not care for a class of post which amounts to a joke that people keep extending in reply.
I don't care for this joke in particular. I went to the suggested home-page. The first thing I saw, was a supposed Macintosh on a supposed desktop - entirely fake. Vintage Mac models can be hard to identify sometimes, so it's an annoying poke-in-the-eye about that.
Discussing the art of this artist, would be off-topic. As is, disinformation, however amusing it appears to be.
And blowing up capacitors deliberately, is not fun to me, someone who does repair work.
So, all in all, I was unhappy with this particular thread. While I could simply ignore it, it seems to me that if threads are either ignored or appreciated, that becomes approval. But "yes" is not the absence of "no". So I vote "no" on this thread.
regards, Herb Johnson