This year’s lesson in technology is plastered all over the Stazione wall, kindly translated for the foreigners among us to read right along with the natives:

Much the same lesson, reportedly, is stamped on the walls of Apple stores, all the way from our little Umbrian town here to the great job’s kingdom come:

We inform our customers that, following the deployment of our new operating system, you likely will experience erratic connections with Wi-Fi devices everywhere. We deny any inconvenience whatsoever.