John George and Paul are common and "normal" names.... WTF is up wtih Ringo though?

I would say it would depend on what the certification is. I could see things like being able to produce front ends/UIs that are ADA compliant both "in general" and with specific frameworks/tools/platforms. I can see the use of security awareness every-few-years training just to keep up with the latest greatest. I could see certifications related to doing 3rd party integrations via specific APIs whether it is payment processing, a LTI to extend a learning management system, MS Graph API stuff (heck just the various authentication options alone much less doing something once you've authenticated), any other authentication service or big api provider (governments, payment services, aws stuff, etc)

The problem is "who is certifying these people as being aware/semi skilled/capable/experts in these fields/technologies/whatevers, and what gives them the right to bestow that status on someone" and "do the people that have these certifications have actual real world skills to use them" (but that is what side projects, F/OSS work, portfolio work as you did the courses, etc is all for)

$30/mo for my '93 Ranger, same policy as my wife's DD (2021 Mazda) and my kids, so high medical coverage, etc. and $500 deductible.

"This, a thousand times. We have a whole generation or more of people for whom the hardware is a black box which, except occasionally in a crude modular sense, can't even be repaired, much less modified."

This is more due to desire than lack of opportunity. I mean sure we no longer have well stocked Radio Shacks in every mall selling breadboards and capacitors and such.... But I grew up with them like that and I never cared about the circuits, etc. Well, I did care enough to start wondering "how computers work" which then got me more on to the "how to program computers".... which has held my attention for 40+ years now.

I realize the past 25 years of my life could/would have been very different.....

But I wonder just what the internet would be like today if we still had AOL and CompuServe gateway'd off into their own little areas?

I have never had a "office" grade Dell laptop or desktop not run Linux well, and I've been using 'em at work for 25 years. In fact, I'm using one of our old out-of-warranty machines here at the house nice Dell Precision workstation of some type... running pure Debian

Depends on which state and if you filed your 5320.20 in time and got it approved...

"Yet, it should have been caught by a good security review before Cisco slapped their name on it. Clearly that process is broken."

Always will be as long as marketing, accounting, etc. departments and types are the ones that control when stuff is released.

Not sure if amazing or not... the price certainly is.

I'd be interested in how it does with longer term light use - ie, as storage for a remote camera taking pics on motion activation, maybe for mp3 storage after gutting an old radio and rebuilding internally with a Pi or similar small minimal machine to act as your player, maybe as a base-os storage for a thin client, etc.

But then... it is also kinda hard to beat a plain old USB flash drive type thing for a lot of that as well....

Think the Cold War and Space Race did more for advancements than WW1 and WW2.

There is a reason nitrogen narcosis is dangerous for divers (can start kicking in about 110-120 feet down), and other-than-nice-open-water-in-day environments - wreck diving, night diving, cave diving, etc - can compound the danger quickly.

Nothing about cost (straight fee or other) for said tools/software to do the remarrying. "Sure, we'll give a license to anyone who can post a 100 million bond to ensure....". Even a fraction of that amount will keep just about any small business from being able to get them.

I guess it is like the 2nd Amendment. Sure I have the right to own a machine gun, a buddy of mine has several. But due to the artificial scarcity imposed by the '86 ban on new registry entries I can buy an AR15 for $500, drill a extra set of holes, and go to FPMITAP for 10 years, or I can pay $25k-30k for a legal one. Even what used to be a $200 MAC plus a $200 tax stamp is now $10k.

Sure.... Wanna sign up with GoDaddy?

Yup, fresh install of Mint or whatever with a desktop environment that kinda looks like windows (I like the way Mint sets up the MATE desktop). Install Chrome and such, configure the mail client for them unless they use a webmail interface, set it to automatically update on a regular basis, and turn 'em loose with a non-admin type account.

Know anyone who goes hunting for wild hogs at night using dogs, a roll of duct tape, and a big knife?