And durability.

Without a secondary internet connection this isn’t possible.

The router is the connection - its the gateway (a term we don’t hear much these days).

You could setup an independent connection via a cell modem - becoming a secondary connection. This is common for remote locations or even small businesses that need a failover just for management.

You could even have it on a single machine and have a vpn there. Then you could RDP/VNC to that one machine and manage things from there. I’ve done the VPN this way with Tailscale. One machine has it (I’ve even done it with a Raspberry Pi), then you can RDP/VNC to other machines from there.

But there’s not much I could see you doing if the gateway is down anyway.

Its not “targeted at old school”, it’s an open, extensible protocol.

If devs focused on extending the protocol instead of building an app to handle things like this, it could do it, everywhere.

There are currently over 100 extensions.

Haha, beat me to it!

I’ve seen them go outside in shorts and t-shirts when it breaks 0, and washing their cars when it breaks 32.

Why would they?

Oswald never shot anyone - he couldn’t have.

Still staggering to me that XMPP isn’t the default, since it was used in many chat apps in the late 90’s.

Shit happens in manufacturing.

Some day you should tour both a really modern facility and a very old one (I’ve done work in both).

Sometimes damaged stuff slips through, nothing more.

Contact them via the info on the tube. I’ve never had anything but a good response when doing so, the QA Dept and maintenance want to know when the system drops the ball so they can improve it.

About 40 years

What LibertyLizard said, plus there are many other ways of gathering the same data.

Exactly.

Doctors can be some of the most unscientific people you meet.

They repeatedly apply population level statistics for positive benefits of medications, but don’t do the same for the risks.

Which is wrong from the word go.

One and the same.

It only goes in your canal a small amount. The instructions are really good.

And like you I tested it first.

Thanks for the correction - bunch of numbers in my head and I grabbed the first one, haha.

I have pages of notes about how to convert different types of videos with accompanying scripts for ffmpeg, so I don’t really have to think about it anymore.

When you go to reconvert it has noticeable impact in how you encode.

I have movies with letterboxing that’s 20% of the screen. You’re going to say losing 20% of your pixels to baked-in, forced letterboxing has no impact?

I can’t remember the name of an excel spreadsheet I created years ago, which has continually matured with lots of changes. I often have to search for it of the many I have for different purposes.

Trusting your memory is a naive, amateur approach.

Really?

And how do you know this without access to that data currently?

If you or I can see them, so can our enemies.

Neolithic ectoplasm

Alright, I’m stealin’ that!

It depends on how you intend to view, and the source.

DVD source? No reason to go past 720 480 as that’s all they do.

Blu-ray can do a lot more.

Interestingly on a 65" 4k TV, I find most 720 sources to be fine. I did just watch Blithe Spirit from DVD and it was awful. Lots of blurriness. Someone really screwed up the encoding on that one.

As others have said, test your encoding. I’ve generally found with handbrake that movies converted with a Quality level 19 (H264 MKV container), reduce about 70%+. So a 4 GB video often reduces to 1 GB, and you can’t see the difference on the screen.

Some you can, but those are movies with a 16:9 aspect ratio and letterboxing built into the video so DVD players show them correctly. Since that loses some pixels up front, they require using higher quality levels to prevent visual lossiness.

They sell kits to make your own custom-fit silicone plugs. They’re like $10 on Amazon.

Work great. Push the goo into your ear, wait a few minutes and it’s cured enough to take out. Wait another hour or so and it’s fully cured.