Indeed, that's why I still use a 25+ year old printer! I run Linux, and it just works. I have the DDR1 SODIMM expansion, and it does full Postscript, duplex, etc... Home Assistant even grabs the drum count and toner level. I'm not a big printer user, I think it's on maybe it's third toner cartridge...

It worked fine thru Windows 10, and I managed to install a driver on Windows 11, but it seems to have been pulled. I can't add it on her new laptop. I should probably poke at it and get it working again. But my wife is one of those corp accounting types, and she just decided to buy herself a HP color laser. The thing was a major PITA to set up correctly. But she's now happy, and I stick with my fully depreciated dinosaur.

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My 26 year old Brother HL-5370DW isn't on the list! Yay! And it even still works just fine...

Now if I could just find a device driver for my wife's laptop...

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I have Starlink for my RV, which my wife uses for quarterly audit visits to the corporate mothership. She can stream 1080P with some buffering, once the client figures out what it needs, it settles in pretty well. It massively beats RV campground WiFi, and for my purposes... 60ms ping from Texas to the west coast.

I can't complain too much... Except for losing my astro-photography hobby... Been thinking of taking up ham radio again and doing pen-testing. :D

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The problem with organic chemistry... That COH group at the end of cinnamaldehyde is everything. It steers the metabolic decomposition into something the body can tolerate. With Styrene, it ends up forming Oxalic acid, which precipitates as calcium oxalate in the kidneys. So it becomes a rate thing. A few micrograms in your coffee might net you having to pass a kidney stone every decade or two. If you get exposed to it every day via inhalation & skin exposure, your kidneys basically turn into kidney stones and go necrotic.

As I said this was several decades ago, before OSHA really got its game together... OSHA was created in 1971, but didn't really start flexing its authority until '78 or so, and this person was already significantly ill at that point.

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I believe it's one of the lymphoma's, H or non-H, but I don't know which one. And yea the skin cancer rates on transplants are a big deal too.

They're actually one of the original infant dialysis patients, where they installed a shunt, and filled the abdomen with fluid, and then drained it back out. The original root cause was a congenital defect, a blockage that couldn't be imaged at the time. A day or two of dry diapers, and it was too late... I'm under the impression imaging has gotten so much better it would have been caught and a better outcome would likely happen today.

Is there any correlation with family transplants? Someone on my wife's side of the family got a kidney from his Mom, and it was a really good match. He worked in a chemical plant and the stuff he was manufacturing turns out to be one of the worst kidney toxins I've ever researched, styrene. He went back to work and it took the new kidney out too. The settlement on that is apparently still taught in law school... But it led to kidney #2... They died of a heart attack caused by enlargement from cyclosporin dosing unknowns. (this was decades ago...)

Yea, I'm a shoestring relative here on both of them. I think it got conveyed at some point but it skipped my mind.

I appreciate the info, I hope you continue in good health!

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Let me qualify... I have no experience with Type 1, only Type 2. I appreciate the info.

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Most diabetics use a base long acting insulin. Insulin Glargine has a 24 hour action time, Insulin Degludec is 42 hours... So it's a once a day thing, and adjustments play out over days...

I have a relative that's been a kidney transplant patient since early childhood. They're in their 30's now, on their 3rd kidney. The suppressants aren't perfect, the match can be close, even familial, and the immune system slowly kills the organ. But here's the real kicker... They're now battling a blood cancer that arises from being immunosuppressed for decades. Supposedly it's a type of cancer that responds well to treatment, but... The battle must be fought.

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I'm still using my 25 year old Brother laser printer.

Now get off my lawn!

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I've run my own email server for better part of 25 years... Mostly because of past professional experience, I didn't want to lose the skill. A couple thoughts:

- All the links are booby-trapped. Seriously... Just expect it.
- Create and use "burner" email addresses in /etc/aliases. Create hundreds, if not thousands of them. Think in terms of zeroing in on a date, ala "Billy06162025" so you might have a chance of figuring out who sold you. And Gen X... Definitely use a burner account when you sign up for social security. One of my users is a boomer... OMG! The spam that one event unleashed...
- (Major unnamed free email vendor) sends 40+% of my UCE using randomized accounts. They simply don't care, and provide no resources to address it. I bounce it back to them out of spite.

The only time I've ever gotten any satisfaction from an unsubscribe link... I rigged up a script to pull the page using "wget 'link' &" and toss it in /dev/null for a week, using a hosted VM in a well connected data center. But it was a short lived victory.

If they're working in AI, I'd like to see some advanced chemistry. There are whole QA teams trying to test their AI models, and I'm watching them get all excited and file bugs if they can get one to emit a recipe for street meth. I'm thinking to myself... That's nice, now try binary nerve gas...

You'll find the urban dictionary diverges from Miriam Webster as well, offering up several definitions, some involving "side hustles", many others fitting your dictionary definition, and another that's just "hanging out on the beach", which I find a stretch. So there seems to be some variation here that you're insisting not be allowed.

https://www.urbandictionary.co...

Furthermore Jeff has posted elsewhere here and is free to defend himself if he feels the need. But I suspect "the playa is too busy running his game".

And I'm not actually the originator of the post that invoked the original "grift" in this thread. So your pedantry is noted and dismissed with prejudice.

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You two are reading way to much negativity into "grift". Busking on a guitar in the subway for change is a grift too. Both take skill. At the end of it, he's a self-made man, and I respect that.

He makes videos mostly about other people's technology, and sometimes it's contrived stuff just to make a video about the latest tech toys.

But in his defense:

The people that make a lot of the stuff he works with are too busy creating to make their own videos, and are probably not as good at it as he is. He actually does a pretty good job on the production & editing side on complex topics. Go watch some of his peers, there's a lot of bad content in the Open Source / Homelab / self-host arena. He actually works from scripts, stages & edits, and speaks clearly.

As I understand it, he has some significant health issues. The kind that prevent you from commuting to an office and keeping someone else's schedule. So he's carved out a niche for himself, and can take care of himself and his family. That's to be commended, even if YT is a bit grifty. And let's be honest, most of the guys I went to high school that went into construction worked their a**es off and did well for themselves. But they had to be sharks to land the work. There's a bit of that in YT as well.

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I have a Tb of home movies & pics of my kids childhoods. I can turn my server off and toss the drives in a drawer, get them out 5 years from now, and those memories will still be there. I miss a single payment to AWS and my storage goes away without so much as a puff of digital smoke. Same with B2, DO, OCI, etc...

That's just one example. My homelab does quite a bit more than that, Git, Jenkins, Security PVR, DTV PVR via an HD Homerun, etc... All away from Google's prying eyes. If the local PD wants my doorbell footage, they have to get a warrant. Ring will just hand it over without telling me.

And it's fair to judge your poor judgement... You just think you don't get good answers. That's you imposing your standards & values on someone else. Not everyone is a cloud apologist stooge with money to burn. Some of us like to tinker and live frugally, and we don't need your or Google's permission!

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The various "arr" plugins... Ala Sonarr, Radarr, etc... They're quite the collection of misfit toys. Usenet & Torrent scrapers & automation.

I would steer clear of them.