I use a $20 salton rice maker on warm (not cook) setting into which I put a 2 litre glass jar of ingredients brought to 90 degrees F beforehand. No sterilizing. Takes about 10 hours
We still have a multi user desktop application that uses the Borland database engine and dbf files over a windows file server. The BDE is no longer supported but it still works
Glamorous? How is fishing in the toilet bowl for your wallet glamorous? I don't think he portrayed as anything but squalid.
He was certainly unapologetic about it.