If I mix some ecoli into your drink mix, I did this on purpose. You just don’t know it until it is too late.

Are you liable for allowing this to happen?

If I could run the Windows 2000 UI on a modern OS I would but any recent clone/theme/etc feels too uncanny valley.

But from my perspective, the added example story was somewhat in your control. You just optimized for the wrong things. Of course this is easier in hindsight too.

Had you not run out of fuel, would you have missed the traffic too?

My fuel tank is always full. I fill it when it gets about 1/2 empty so that I am not caught stranded because I never know what will happen. Sometimes I get fuel even though I can make it, because what if something goes wrong? Habits die hard. I have seen highways close for hours to days after an accident or snow storm. If you're stuck there is no where to go.

Everything takes twice as long to learn because I first have to unlearn the old habits.

People don't usually bring trouble to themselves for no reason. Don't give them a reason.

Swipe down from the top. No, the other top.

Click share, now click "find in page". Wait, that doesn't share at all?

People often seem shocked that I use mostly 4K screens, but I've had one of them for almost 10 years now.

It also seems that 8K has died for now. I think we still have time.

Debian and apt seemed to require less RAM then, but that was a few years ago now.

That scenario is an example. You complete an action on a web page and nothing works. You make no further changes and hours later it works perfectly. Your human wasn't fast enough that day.

It had caused me to look around though. I have found the Pi Zero 2W to be surprisingly capable for Pi sized jobs.

Some of my devices have 1, some 2, and some even more. Takes some precision out, at least.

An "ip address show" is messy with so many addresses.

Those public IPs are randomized on most devices, so one is created and more static but goes mostly unused. The randomly generated IPs aren't useful inbound for long. I don't think you could brute force scan that kind of address space, and the address used to connect to the Internet will be different in a few hours.

Having a public address doesn't worry me. At home I have a firewall at the edge. It is set to block everything incoming. Hosts have firewalls too. They also block everything. Back in the day, my PC got a real public IP too.

NAT really is nice for keeping internal/external separate mentally.

I'm lucky enough my current ISP does not rotate my IPv6 range. This, ironically, means I no longer need dynamic DNS. My IPv4 address changes daily.

A residential account usually gets a /56, what are you talking about? Nowhere near a /48! (I'm just being funny here...)

There are reasons to need direct connectivity that aren't hosting a server. Voice and video calls no longer need TURN/STUN. A bunch of workarounds required for online gaming become unnecessary. Be creative.

The Focus even had a small aftermarket amp and sub in the trunk. Everybody and their things still fit, although the sub did come out for long trips for that extra cargo.

The Golf Wagon that came later still fit us and the dog. About 90lbs of her would fit in the back and she could drool all over the kids.

Sometimes I wonder what I am missing.

Isn't this true for every safety measure?

I don't need a guard on my table saw if I don't stick my thumb in it. Don't need a helmet if I don't fall off of my bike.

Mikrotik makes block diagrams of some of their Routerboards available. This is a hAP AC3, for example

https://i.mt.lv/cdn/product_files/RBD53iG-5HacD2HnD_201031.p...

It runs on a Qualcom IPQ4019 single-chip Wi-Fi system-on-chip (SoC)