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  • Unless "to some degree" is doing an extreme amount of heavy lifting here, I don't expect so.

    In general, it's a lot easier to build complex systems when error doesn't propagate through the system, and that happens with analog systems.

    With a digital system, a given component has precisely-defined behavior. 1+1=2. And if you manufacture many instances of that component, they all can have the same, precisely-defined behavior.

    With an analog system, there are tiny errors that accumulate. 1+1=2.0001, say. Then that tiny error gets passed on to the next component, and maybe the error there magnifies this error.

    That doesn't matter much for some simple systems, but it becomes really problematic for complex ones.

    Most complex systems we make are made out of simpler parts. Being able to cut that error out of the picture when specifying the behavior of a component or reasoning about it in the context of a larger system is helpful.

    And in general, we want to be able to build complex systems.

    Digital systems do force quantitization, and that is a limitation on precision. There will probably always be limited use of the occasional analog component, like, oh, a lens, say. Situations where you don't have a chain of many analog components.

    But I don't think that we will return to a point where people made simple devices with few components, because the ability to make complex systems is very powerful. And complexity and analog systems don't play well together.

  • Blonde

    While I do kind of suspect that the next Press Secretary is going to be a blonde with long hair...

    Grisham has dark hair, and she was Press Secretary for part of Trump's first term, Sanders has brown hair, and there was Sean Spicer back at the very beginning.

    • Sean Spicer: Trump 1, January 20, 2017 – July 21, 2017

  • I assume that your browser computer is set up to use mDNS, and that's how it's resolving it.

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

    Multicast DNS (mDNS) is a computer networking protocol that resolves hostnames to IP addresses within small networks that do not include a local name server. It is a zero-configuration service, using essentially the same programming interfaces, packet formats and operating semantics as unicast Domain Name System (DNS). It was designed to work as either a stand-alone protocol or compatible with standard DNS servers.[1]

    mDNS uses IP multicast and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets and is implemented by Apple, Microsoft and most Linux distributions.

    mDNS can work in conjunction with DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD), a companion zero-configuration networking technique specified separately in RFC 6763.[2]

    By default, mDNS exclusively resolves hostnames ending with the .local top-level domain.

    Your browser tries to resolve it, browser computer sends out a multicast query to the local network, target "openmediavault" machine responds.