Compiling on the first try always makes me feel suspicious. It happens, of course, but oh boy did I ever see weird runtime errors when it does 😅.

They DON'T have the product, but they do have secured the parts and manufacture, so it gets slowly built, after which small batches are dispached around the world, before getting assigned to someone in the queue to be bought (if he still wish to).

For the waitlist, they don't have secured enough parts to buy a chunk of manufacturing time to assemble them. From the look of it they decided to buy additional manufacturing time chunks in 2028, but don't know yet when they will be, so wait & see.

Read again. The distinction is very clearly stated.

Reservation queue : There is a product for you in the current batch, just wait for it to be available before purchasing it.

Waitlist : There wasn't enough products in this batch to put you in the queue, but if someone in the queue decide not to buy, his product will be assigned to someone else, and a spot will be freed in the reservation queue, allowing someone (probably randomly chosen in the waitlist) to join the queue.

Depending where you live in France.

You got some places that uses numbers like "nonante", which is basically the same system as English.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonante

Em-dashes may simply be explained by the use of lexical correction tools, which also loves weird typographic like thoses.

Same for weird phrasing, may be the result of anti-repetition rules.

I personally uses Grammalecte, which is specifically tailored for the French language, and when I ask it to review a text, he often does those corrections if I do not first disable those rules.

And that tools do not uses IA, it is 100% programmatic.

We got them in France too.

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

Seem like yours is hasty conclusion and nasty personality, but whom am I to judge?

Add France to the list ("Boudin Noir", which is a blood based sausage).

Good question.

I suppose there is a reason, maybe to avoid the earlier plastic clips which tended to break (my FP5, now owned by my father, had 2 broken in about 2 yeard of use).

Moreover it could improve the water resistance reliability, by making sure it doesn't open in case of a shock (my FP5 tended to open, with the battery flying away, every time it fell).

And maybe, just as a skill check. If you cannot open the rear plate, you cannot remove anything inside (the battery is screwed too). So you need your torx screwdriver anyway 😆.

Up until the FP5. The FP6 needs a torx screwdriver to remove the battery (which is still better that 99% of smartphones which are simply glued).

Chad is more a Russian vassal state, which explains that decision.

French Press. It was my grandmother's, kept it after she died.

The brand, Melior, was bought by Bodum in 1991, and all French Press production went under the Bodum brand (the old Melior model became what is now known as the "Chambord" line), so it is at least 35 years old, possibly older.

I contacted Bodum to know if they could give me an approximate age, but they couldn't (or didn't want to bother searching). All I know it is a version with Pyrex glass, which may help a knowledgeable person to more precisely date it, but I kinda put my curiosity on pause for the time being.

Other than that, some of my grandfather's vinyls are quite old too (at least one of them is from the 80's), and I got some 20+ yo cassettes, some old mixtapes (back when mixtapes where actual tapes 😆).

I have an old Caban which is probably at least 40 years old (was my grandfather's, once again).

Oh, and some kitchen tools made in West Germany 😆.