And the concept of infinite growth.

Financially, if your company is not expanding an increasing amount quarter on quarter on quarter, it’s considered to be failing.

And yet, nothing can grow forever. At some point, all things must come to an end. It’s an unrealistic pipe dream.

Say that the Instant Pot is so good that everyone has ten of them. Where would they grow from there?

You can also get rechargeable AA batteries. It might be better, since there isn’t a cable, and you can charge one set of batteries, while using the other in the mouse.

Aren’t basically all fans BiFL? They’re very simple devices, without much to go wrong. I’ve never had a fan, even base-budget home-brand department store ones, ever break, unless they fell over, or got hit enough to snap parts, but even BiFL things will break if you abuse them.

At most, the pedestal fans I’ve used wilt slightly, and that’s easily fixed by tightening the screw in the neck.

Yes, since most modern chargers and cables have internal chips to communicate capabilities with for things like fast-charging. It is not difficult to have the chip identify itself as something else, and execute a payload.

A common attack method is to have it show up as a keyboard, and execute a series of key-sequences when connected to a computer (like opening and executing things through a command prompt).

It is also why you should try and avoid plugging random USB cables/chargers into your phone/computer when out and about, since you don’t exactly know if the other end is what it appears to be.

It’s also a lot easier to do it in software, since you don’t need to splice wires and leave physical traces like you would have had to do in the day.

A well-configured charger or Flash drive can do that job for you, and can spread itself.