Bring it on
It might mean I can get a new laptop at a sensible price.
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Maybe...
The waters are becoming so muddied, that the only real way to find out what students know is to revert to one-to-one discussions - something that's been missing for a long time. Also, I can remember group discussions on a given theme where misconceptions quickly surfaced and could be corrected. That never seems to happen any more either.
The project I work with littered with these (apparently offensive) words. None of the devs have commented on their use, nor have any of the more advanced users who compile from source (and often give useful bug reports). There is no reason anyone else would even see the code and all the user text is fully clean, fluffy, and er... white :P
However it was this that started me on the slippery slope (for which there is no cure).
A friend had one that died for no apparent reason, and asked me to fix it as "You know transistor things". It was actually a very simple repair. There's a primitive switch-mode 5V regulator with the drive transistor sweating at the limit of it's rating. It had failed, so I replaced it with a slightly beefier one, and fitted a minimal heatsink for it (not a lot of room in there).
My friend had gone on holiday so I had about two weeks to play with it.
P.S. The first computer I owned was a BBC model B