Not OP but they are almost certainly referring to the BIOS POST self-health and status messages.

Often because (as in this case as well) they are not regular LCD or calculator-like segmented displays, but rather Vacuum Florissant Displays. VERY satisfying hue they emit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_fluorescent_display

Old gas-plasma displays are awesome there’s something so retrofuturistic about them, they’re a cross-breed between CRTs and LCDs.

Some laptops specially those for mil applications came equipped with them they also were (and there are some still running) common on industrial machines due to their ruggedness.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TUPQlAsnOI8

It does not (unless you install XCode developer tools)

It's much more insidious than you let on. It's plain lying about the cost of the service (food in this case) so they get you in the door, then bait-and-switch you when you get the bill.

Just a hunch, but I'm guessing you live in Seattle. I've been noticing the same thing all over, and honestly it should be highly illegal.

More likely that they've laid-off or reassigned the person(s) responsible for Googlecache, and want to sunset the feature as fast as possible.

Cached webpages have pretty much been dead since the pandemic, at least from my usage in the last few years. There used to be a prominent cache link under the search results, then it moved to a weird overflow menu thing, and then finally about a year or more ago, Google exposed no cache version for most websites. This just seems like confirmation.

Still really shitty. I used it constantly. I hate new Google.

Ah, yes, thanks for the confirmation, now I think that was one of the reasons why my use of Google Search went from infrequent to negligible in the last years - it wasn't just about DuckDuckGo adding a targeted time search feature longer than a year.

I would be surprised if this was actual Google hardware.

Most likely this is one of their pagerank (?) servers that Google sold to business customers way back in the day.

* Edit: It seems these we called the Google Search Appliance. GSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMbvt1iARJ8

Yeah, it's a Google Search Appliance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance

Commodity Dell server painted yellow.

e: oops, didn't refresh

buy it and enforce the gpl on google to get their source. /s

Cached webpages have pretty much been dead since the pandemic, at least from my usage in the last few years.

There used to be a prominent cache link under the search results, then it moved to a weird overflow menu thing, and then finally about a year or more ago, Google exposed no cache version for most websites. This just seems like confirmation.

Still really shitty. I used it constantly. I hate new Google.

Native Brit here from the South of the UK (midlands and London). Never had I ever heard the phrase "take-out" until I moved to the U.S.

Not to be a pedant, but just for your info, Ham is not an acronym :)

I always saw it written as either "HAM" or "ham", and I assumed the latter is the "young generation doesn't give a damn about spelling or punctuation" spelling, and therefore that the former is the correct one.