Oh, I’m not trying to talk you out of it, I’m just making sure that you see all sides of the scenario.

I looked at some of the Y2K patches, I don’t strictly know cobol either , but it’s not that hard to read.

You’d think that code lying around would be refined as they had limits on space and everything was so mature. It’s still pretty trashy :)

I host searXNG this way

I use my own SSL keys, some amount of tracking is done by cloudflare but it’s not Google or Bing mining my search traffic at least

You could most likely find some damn spicy contracts. The real question is, is it worth it?

You’re going to retrofit some old code to fix an upcoming date bug, or try to make some changes wrapped around security vulnerabilities. But these systems we’re relying on, they’re in banks, air traffic control, and in hospitals, we’re not just depending on these boxes but critically depending on these boxes. There’s almost nobody sitting around to give you a second set of eyes on the code, probably almost nobody capable of doing proper QA on the systems you’re working on.

What all they said about the reset, also Amber light on a Dell could be anything out of the ordinary. Only have one out of two power supplies plugged in? Messed up network config, bad fan, missing discs, bad disc. You name it, it’ll throw amber.

If you really don’t want to reset it, throw it on a switch with another device and run Wireshark, You’ll see it’s a source IP while it’s looking for its long lost network. Course that’s still not likely to help you if you don’t have logins

I went from Fitbit to Withings, that Fitbit scale was nothing but pain. Every time my battery started getting low it would disconnect from Wi-Fi and I have to re pair it. It was inconsistent, If you pick it up and move it a foot to the left you get a completely different reading than if you just leave it where it sits. Because of the messed up fluctuations, It constantly identified the wrong person in the house.

Had the Withings scale for 4 years now and it’s just been fine.

My YouTube music app is able to see my Roku. Might be able to work something out there with a Roku stick.

Interesting, I have two identicals at home and tend to use them equally.

Where do you put the split, to one side or directly in front of you?

On my desk at work I have an ultra wide, a single external laptop screen to my right and a TV on the far wall on my left.

Snapping two apps right and left on the uw is fantastic on the ultra wide. Price aside, it’s as good or better than having two monitors.

The TV obviously doesn’t count cuz it’s only there for other people or if I want to have server graphs running for show.

But the secondary monitor works really well is a semi important parking space. I usually slide slack and signal over there. That way I can see what was sent and only worry about going over to it if it’s something I need to respond to. I find it kind of nice to have that logical division over there. I can hot key stuff over that monitor.

I’d say if someone has the money the UW is fantastic, But it’s super useful to have a secondary monitor from a mental standpoint for me at least.

I agree, two is probably the productive limit as long as you only have one mouse cursor. But I just got a dual screen laptop with touch on both. I can easily slip between a soure document, destination document and have a web page or other tool open for research it’s kind of classy.

Not OP, I’ve installed a little bit of all of them for work, every form factor and version seem to be stellar.

I installed a bunch of Enterprise 7s at work and they’re super fast, but approaching chonky in size. Honestly, I really like the in-wall HDs They cover most of my house

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/04/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-mountain-view-prison/

Path to the right is not mutually exclusive from the left.

I hope not?

Nah, they’ll drill a couple of holes in it to invalidate it and send it back to you. That’s what they did to all mine anyway.

The US passport service wants to drill its own holes through it.

Now that I realize I’ve never seen an ice cream spoon before, I’m kind of sad

Also to OP’s credit they could just eat the price of that one shipment the name of providing a stable end reasonably priced service. The cost of all shipments would cover the cost of the average shipment plus a profit margin.

It’s kind of absurd to consider that there are hundreds of planes making that trip everyday, many thousands of passengers, and the best option we have is sending a letter via cargo plane.

It’s made exceptionally worse because it’s heading toward Christmas. Most likely the plane on the 17th was already sold and filled, they’re now sending a second plane which is not full and there’s a premium to put stuff on it because it costs them more to fly it than your sheet of paper accounts for.

They can’t allow that. That’s called leaving money on the table. They will not be satisfied until they have every penny we earn, then, once that food source dries up, they’ll go after each other.

Hell its not even per county, each courthouse can do their own thing.

I paid for Evernote for years, got a double helping of enshitification.

I pay for Google Workspace. They will Play eventually sunset keep even though I pay for their services because that’s just what they do.

If you don’t host it yourself, they can and will take it away from you.

Maybe you could use Epson connect, have it automatically scan to a registered email, then use a script to check that email and dump the files in a folder.