I regularly fire up my windows XP box to play hearts and muck about in Codewarrior

I loved the idea of navidrome and also briefly ran an instance, and like you use plexamp heavily. I stopped using Navi because one day it broke, and I found the plexamp experience just better.

Maybe it’s time to try again.

Jellyfin is actually open source and free. Totally self hosted. Emby is closed source and has a licensing model similar to Plex’s.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emby
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfin

Because of things like monthly regional passes.

You can have a weekly/monthly/whatever ticket that lets you ride any train inside the area of validity. The seat reservation system doesn’t have a way to ‘check’ those types of tickets.

You can also book a ‘rail and fly’ ticket on DB that lets you take the ICE /anywhere/ in Germany 24h before/after your international flight, but doesn’t check your airline ticket because it can’t - you need to show the ticket inspector your confirmed booking (paper or phone) when they check your ticket.

If you don’t have a valid booking to show, they will charge you a full fare ticket, or call the cops to remove you and fine you.

You can make the reservation independent of the ticket/fare payment. You’re still supposed to have a ticket for the class of service you want.

Paying for a seat reservation doesn’t pay the ‘fare’

I’m sorry. I agree with you that your take is valid. I once had to explain to the assistant to the CFO why it was a bad idea to whitelist a gambling website (“they’re doing a fun play for the world Cup that uses points instead of real money’”) for the team handling customer card payments…and even then she still wanted it done until I told her she had to officially sign a release accepting responsibility for negative outcomes.

My untreated ADHD was a huge asset when I worked customer support for an airline. I had tons of customer complements and I was hailed as an example by area management on how to balance corporate costs with getting customers what they want.

I utterly failed managing a team of 15 people doing the exact same job. The multiple competing priorities on any given day often left me in task paralysis.

Now I work in I.T. and my ADHD is an asset again. I complete most days work in 3-5 hours and play video games the rest of the time.

Yes, I have the where-does-this-thing-go drawer, for food prep items that don’t fit elsewhere, and also the junk drawer which includes things like

• Lighter
• Weird long plyers
• Twine
• Self-fusing rubber tape
• Random rubber bands
• Twist ties that came with electronics
• A random assortment of sharpies in various states of abuse
• A weird scissor thing with a blade at 90° to a flat piece of steel
• Random Lego pieces
• Batteries that are good but not in packaging
• Hearing aid batteries (noone in our house has hearing aids)
• A single 12"x18" piece of Scotch Brite
• Matches
• A pencil with the tip broken off
• A pair of 1/2" Cast iron pipe 90° fittings
• A key for a car that nobody can ID
• The manual for the microwave
• A bunch of pennies
• Coupons for McRibs that are expired gone thanks for this thread
• Our home insurance policy nope, 3y out of date
• A replacement impeller for the fish tank
• An iPod charger (FireWire)
• An iPhone charger (usb)
• 2 sets of analog headphones
• A dishwasher cleaning tablet

So…there you go.

Read the article if you want your question answered.

The other thing is that the monthly investment amount should increase when income does, which at minimum should match inflation.

I had a shitty white Kia Rio that I wrote off in a snowstorm. I borrowed my dad’s car to drive while I looked for a replacement I could afford, and after a few weeks my insurance said ‘we paid you the coverage. If you don’t put a new car on your policy, we’ll cancel it.’ ok, fine. I put my old junker (car before the Rio) on it - wasn’t even road worthy, but I had accident forgiveness on this policy and if I had to start over I’d get higher premiums.

I found a car a week later. Called the broker to switch the policy.

'we can’t remove this car from the policy unless we contact your bank first ’

What.

They claimed because I had bought my Rio with a bank loan that they couldn’t remove my junker without permission from the bank.

I argued with this person politely for 10 minutes, pointing out that I’d paid the car off 2 years prior. They said ‘well I’ll need to check with the underwriter then.’ fine. I get a call back 30m later, same person. ‘no, we need permission from the bank according to the underwriter.’

This pissed me off because I knew I was being lied to. “Now I know you’re lying to me. I have the cheque from the underwriter cashed in my account. They would not have issued it to me if there was any issue with the bank. I am not a customer of that bank, have not been for 2 years.”

‘well sir, I need to confirm that with the bank’

“If you contact the bank in reference to me in any way, shape, or form, I will sue you for breach of privacy and file complaints with every government office that I can. DO NOT CALL THE BANK. SWITCH IN THE NEW CAR.”

They refused. I called back 2 hours later, got someone else. Told them I needed the new car switched in.

They did it, and a week later I filed a written complaint to the broker about the other rep, firmly underscoring the lying.

No idea if it was related or not, but the branch got downsized away less than a year later.

Anyway, fuck insurance companies.

There is slightly more openness to androids layers than the win32 layers as well.

I still remember symlinking to binaries in my windows system folder back in the late 90s to be able to run office 95 under Linux. (The MSFT system files permitted some things to work properly that just didn’t with the wine provided libraries back then)

Isn’t that already a case for the police or FBI or something?

Yes

I do exactly this, and use Keepass2Android on my phone and have nextcloud-KeeWeb installed.

Tangentally related - For anyone looking to take over a project, KeeWeb is looking for a new maintainer!

Tell them that the south has renounced the pope. That’ll do it without further complications.

You can use version numbers, but it’s on you to change them when new point releases drop.

https://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian12.6/

I guess it’s a good thing the Debian releases all have version numbers then.

It’s good for bragging rights, but a u2955 Celeron Chromebook is better value for money.

I duct taped a RPi4 to the back of a Motorola Lapdock and used custom cables to make the combo into the worst laptop ever. If yours counts, mine does too. This is what the Lapdock looks like: