> the root cause is actually a serious flaw in the design of hundreds of thousands of one vendor's low-cost Internet products targeted for residential use.
Don't worry, I'm sure we can teach a slop generator how to emulate this style. LLMs already know how to use rrttool and mrtg! Coming soon to an Internet near you, faux-historical slop writeups.
I feel the vindication in my bones.
The old-fashioned aesthetic almost feels like a cue what I'm looking at won't be slop.
https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/
rrdtool is still used widely today by projects like Munin, LibreNMS and Collectd.