It would probably help to define the terms you’re using, as there are many ways to interpret “big place”, “small place”, “many people”, etc.

I don’t even know if your starting point is accurate.

Ok, Dr. Evil!

Scans for open ports run continuously these days.

Ten years ago I opened a port for something for a couple days - for months after that I was getting regular scans against that port (and others).

At one point the scans were so constant it was killing my internet performance (poor little consumer router had no defense capability).

I don’t think the scans ever fully stopped until I moved. Whoever has that IP now probably gets specifically scanned on occasion.

And just because you don’t run a business doesn’t mean you have nothing to lose.

DMZ should be enough… But routers have known flaws, so I’d be sure to verify whatever I’m using.

Wouldn’t it be Normasota or Averagesota then? 😁

I suspect we can thank Daniel Webster for trying to simplify spellings. I’m still not sure how I feel about it - I find some words make better sense spelled in the British way, like “behaviour”, but I also appreciate the vice homonym spellings.

At least the vice / vise spellings make sense etymologically - they have separate Latin origins (see links). I can’t explain why British English doesn’t make this distinction, especially since they were different in Old French and Anglo-French.

Why wouldn’t it be possible?

The phone is providing the client app connection, you just need an interface from the client to the POTS system, or just the hardware you’re using as a phone.

Years ago I had a cordless phone that connected to the Skype client on a pc - you could call a phone number, or a Skype contact with it.

This is no different - you just need to establish the interface between the hardware and software.

might need to respawn

Haha, dammit I snorted. Fine, enjoy the upvote

First, talk to your doctor.

That’s a short-acting medication. I forget the half-life, but I know it’s not very long.

I’m surprised your doc prescribed a single dose per day - there’s practically no way for it to last that long (without side effects or having a high spike and then low later - just what you’re experiencing). A short/fast acting med is typically split into 2 doses to even it out during the day.

Perhaps a different med would be more useful, something slower-acting.

But, again, talk to your doc. They’ll know what way to go.

Ah hell, I don’t know anything about it, but figured I’d go ahead and download it to watch later.

Check out the apps Hermit and Native Alpha. They make web pages run like an app. I’ve only run into a couple sites where they don’t work right.

I vaguely recall a recent-ish article that an average web page is 30mb. That’s right, thirty megabytes.

It’s amazing how much faster web browsing becomes when I run PiHole and block most of it.

Suddenly the TV is pretty snappy, and all browsers feel so much smoother.

I’m tech savvy, been in IT for nearly 40 years. Wrote my first program in Fortran on punched cards.

Linux is no easy switchover. It’s problematic, regardless of the distro (I’ve tried many over the years).

My latest difficulty - went to install Debian and it hung multiple times trying to install wifi drivers.

Mint can’t use my Logitech mouse until I researched it and discovered someone wrote an app to enable it. The most popular mouse on the planet doesn’t work out of the box.

Typical user would be stumped by these problems.

I can go on for days about “Year of the Linux Desktop” (which I first heard in 2000). Can Linux work as a desktop? Definitely. And it can be pretty damn good, too, if your use-case aligns with it’s capabilities. But if you’re an end-user type, what do you do a year in and realize you need a specific app that just doesn’t exist in Linux?

Is it a direct replacement for Windows? No. Because Windows has always been about general use - it trades performance for the ability to do a lot of varied things, it includes capabilities that not everyone needs.

Linux is the opposite, it’s about performance for specific things. If you want a specific capability, it has to be added. This is the challenge these different distros attempt to meet: the question for all of them is which capabilities to include “out of the box” (see my mouse example - Debian handles it just fine).

This is also the power of Linux, and why it’s so great for specific use-cases. Things like Proxmox, TrueNAS, etc, really benefit from this minimalism. No wasted cycles on a BITS service or all the other components Windows runs “just in case”.

Nice solution!

That would be dual homing using both cell and wifi networking.

I don’t think iOS can do this - and I’d be hard-pressed to make it happen on Android (honestly I don’t think it can be done, maybe with root, even then, I’m not sure).

I’d drill a hole in that plate, then use raceway on top of the plate, to the corner, and on from there as needed.

If you can, get a flatter plate. Otherwise you may want to trim the raceway to match the height of the plate for a neater finish.

My reaction was “what the fark?”

I mean the layers of crap on crap. Just wow.

The effort they put in to do all that was surely more than it would’ve taken to just ship, oh, any version of Linux? Or even the open-sourced version of dos? (I kid, I kid!)

Very, very interesting reading. I’m kind of shocked.

The violation they target users for is sharing a video, and that’s usually through a file sharing service like torrenting.

Think of it this way - whatever you watch online via a browser you’re already downloading. Or via an app.

You know, it really tweaks me that torrenting is associates with piracy, when it could’ve become the defacto way to share files between users, if OS devs had just included the protocol in the OS (looking at you Android, but Windows and Apple too).

I’ve often questioned why it wasn’t…

I just say “post grezz sequel”. Sorry if it pisses people off, but it’s a stupid name, so I’m gonna say it the way I want.

I look forward to the day when all these lame-ass, insider naming conventions are looked down upon as the stupid things they are.

Wtf does “en jinx” or “engine X” have to do with it’s functionality?

I hate looking for an app on my phone that does a particular thing but hell if I can recall what the idiot developed called it.

Rules of English, the closest I’d come is n-jinx. You don’t pronounce letters individually, unless reciting the alphabet or something.

Unless you pronounce the letter “B” the same way you say it, like the bug that makes honey.

We don’t say “beenefits” or “bee eee an eee eef eye tee ess”