Well before.

And “refuse to change their ways” - are you going to underwrite the project to implement a transition and hold all the liability for the risks?

Its not like changing systems is just a click of a button, this is an extensive project, that you better get right or you’re dealing with records going the wrong way, potentially having serious life and safety implications.

Plus, you have to maintain this legacy fax system because not everyone else has migrated to something new. So for the remainder of your career, it still doesn’t go away, and you’ll have to continue to pay for its maintenance.

Companies have systems they’ve built up over years, that works. They’ll move forward as it makes fiscal sense.

“embedded in many workflows”

Key statement right there.

And once people see what that really means, and what it would take to move past it (including time, cost, and risk), they may start to understand. You’re dealing with it first hand, so you know what’s involved.

It became the de facto way to send stuff with high confidence it went to the right place. Then tech addressed the paper-to-paper over one phone line issue with modem banks into a fax server. So all the same fundamental comm tech (so fully backwards-compatible), but a better solution for the company with that infrastructure. Such a company has little motivation to completely change to something new, since they’d have to retain this for anyone that hasn’t switched. Chicken-and-egg problem, that’s slowly moving forward.

It’ll be a long time before it’s gone completely. Perhaps in 20 years, but I suspect fax will still be around as a fallback/compatibility.

Right?

Let’s see, Pythagorean theorem, is what, a couple thousand years old, and a single statement, right? And it’s the foundation of geometry and trig. Hell, I regularly say it in my head (a2+b2=c2) when trying to figure out spatial relationships, for dumb stuff no less (will this table fit on my patio with room to walk around it?).

It’s how you ensure anything you’re trying to make square is square. In framing (shed, house, deck, whatever) it’s used to ensure you setup your string in the proper orientation and don’t end up with a parallelogram.

And the Periodic table… The bloody basis of understanding chemical reactions and physics.

I guess if you’re not teaching the Periodic Table, there’d be no hope if understanding evolutionary theory, since it’s predicated on chemical behaviour.

So glad I’ve been de-googling for the last couple years.

Stay out of my data, Google.

Now that I’ve moved to a custom rom, it’s just a few months before I disconnect the final few things from my Google account.

What’s your favorite race?

🤦🏼‍♂️

I guess there really are stupid questions after all.

My experience: most of my apps work fine without Google services. Even more advanced apps - sometimes they just can’t verify licensing, so may complain occasionally. Even now, Macrodroid can’t verify licensing through microG, but the dev has a process for licensing with a serial key based on your Google account.

Graphene is technically more secure than Lineage, because you can re-lock the bootloader.

But wait, the latest versions of Lineage you can re-lock the bootloader on Pixel devices (or is it with DivestOS, a Lineage fork, on Pixels? I forget). Either way, both can be re-locked on Pixel (I know, I’ve done it).

At that point there’s little difference in my opinion, if you aren’t using any kind of Google services.

Once you go to use Google services (either sandboxed on Graphene, or microG on Lineage), it can be argued that Graphene is more secure. Though Lineage and Divest install microG as user apps, so you could install them to a second profile and isolate it there.

But if you’re going to run some form of Google services, you’re kind of negating the advantages of Graphene at that point (though some would argue it’s still more secure, again, depending on your threat model - if a state actor is after you, don’t go putting Google stuff on your phone).

Really it all comes down to your threat model. I’m currently running DivestOS on a Pixel with microG, because there were a few apps I still needed. My next reset (in about 3 months) that will be gone, and I’ll no longer need anything Google. But I’ll probably stick with DivestOS, as there’s no clear advantage for me to switch to Graphene.

While I despise all these hackers these days, I feel like these companies deserve it, for their utterly non-existent data handling protocols.

Yea, I’m calling BS.

Though I’ll say maybe… But I’m real sceptical.

Wow, did a quick search, they did have color at the time, wonder what tech they were using.

I didn’t realize this detail about them, and I’m old enough to have read about them like crazy at launch time.

Good info, I’d wondered how they were powered, but never enough to go look it up (I probably knew in 1978, but that was a few years ago).

Samsung, right? If my memory is right, they conform to the Quick Charge standard? So you’ll want a charger that supports QC at 45w.

Though it seems most chargers support both QC and Power Delivery these days.

It then comes down to the voltage/current pairs a charger will support (but I think this only applies in QC, not PD?)

Uggh, yea, this is why finding the right charger is such a challenge! Too damn much stuff to remember!

Cell tracking is external to the phone. It’s done by the towers - they know signal strength, and by using known tables of that data, cell providers know pretty accurately where your phone is.

To block this you’d need a device that lacks any cellular technology whatsoever. Wifi only.

And that has the same issues, especially with companies like Comcast/Xfiniti using their cable modems to track all the devices around them, even if you don’t connect to them.

Texting uses http over the data channel for MMS.

Config Jellyfin to run as a service when you install.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/installation/windows/

Windows supports this.

I’m pretty sure I read a post years ago about how to run Jellyfin as a service (I think it’s even documented on the website).

It already runs as a headless service that you access via a browser, so you just have to configure an actual Windows Service.

I just checked - installing as a service is part of the installer, right on the Jellyfin website.

Meh, no one should be on Facebook.

Too many people say nothing when it’s mentioned, so tacit approval is assumed.

I’ve blocked sites like Twitter and FB, etc, on all my devices and networks. My friends and family still send me links, after I’ve repeatedly told them my devices can’t go to those websites (I’ve never once in my life been on either one).

So I think it’s appropriate to point out using FB is as problematic as Reddit (worse actually. It needs to be continually said.

FB had the Cambridge Analytica scandal that exposed how bad it is, and people still use it 🤦🏼‍♂️. They had tracking pixels for years, and whole I’ve never even visited the FB website, those bastards have a profile on me.

So no, fuck FB.

You can get the FC11 (clone) for about $10 (about 10€) with a battery - I have a few just as backup lights around the house.

I did buy the better batteries for ones in my 72-hr bag (I live in an area that gets sudden, severe weather emergencies).

It’s been great to have a light that can run continuously for days (lowest output is a few lumen, great for power outages)

My favorite is being provided a solution but with absolutely no context or how the solution addresses the root cause.

Yea, I make my own ice cream, because, well, really it’s something we shouldn’t be eating a lot of in the first place (mostly the sugar, but there’s also this double-whammy to glycemic response when a lot of sugar is consumed with a lot of fat - ice cream).

So I’ll make about a quart at a time, usually for an upcoming event. I got my first ice cream maker at a second hand store for not much, and it was a modern one with the freezable insert.

Yep - overrun.

You see this mostly in cheaper brands.