he is now disappointed whenever he solves it in less than 30 seconds.

Sounds like it’s time to upgrade him to a professor cube.

I learned how to solve a regular cube but it still takes me a long time. Using the cross method.

A first aid kit and road flares.

One trick big pharma hates: The man who cut out his own appendix

Keep in mind there’s over a thousand ways this goes wrong and only one way that goes well.

Anything on the network. Common in factories that do CNC machining.

It doesn’t matter because I already have 3 points of exhaustion. 🫨

I haven’t played with third party dialers since gingerbread was new.

But, have you disabled any power saving features both from the manufacturer and the OS?

I wonder if something like LineageOS would be suitable for you?

I have a colour laser brother that’s been happily working for over 10 years. They are solid printers.

I’m not super familiar with the subject but it’ll probably be something based on Tesseract.

Maybe try gImageReader.

I’m kinda on the opposite side of the fence. Windows/Dos stuff is pretty easy for me to grasp and understand but I’ve been working away at Linux for decades.

I found this training supplement to be quite helpful.

https://www.cbtnuggets.com/it-training/microsoft-windows-server

Also a useful resource.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/wpf/overview/?view=netdesktop-9.0

Go after what you love.

If you want job security pursue database and Cobol.

Seems like everyone’s solution there is to reinstall Windows first before troubleshooting.

It sounds like you and Grandpa have a bunch to learn before you touch hosting web servers. Just the right misconfiguration and you’re ruined.

Start here: https://www.coursera.org/learn/computer-networking

I’m only aware of people using ham radio for community mesh networks.

Are there more sophisticated community networks? Or do you just mean something like an ISP cooperative group?

I felt so betrayed when they pulled that stunt. Haha

I will uninstall and refuse to use any tool that requires this on the penalty of death.

Big fan of this playlist and similar.

YouTube weeb playlist

Respected the work day ended at 5.

Planned maintenance windows.

Followed through on my advice in a timely manor.

Emergencies were actual emergencies and not caused by poor planning.

I was having trouble providing proof of residence for voting in a local election.

I went to the politician’s office, explained my situation. They scanned what ID I did have and helped me get registered to vote.

If he’s hungry, he’ll find an empty tin of dog food and throw it at you.