For time-correlating audio measurements around the office buildings I needed a analog reference signal in sync.

So I drew up a PCB design with a toslink in/out connector, and a connector for a SFP module and just a lvds driver in between. It worked straight away (more luck than skill) I could then re-use network fibers already run around the basement, and convert it to analog in the MDF rooms of each building, and run the analog signal up to the 3rd floor through existing RJ45 cables.

As for "but its free". I think its reasonable to expect the free offering to be promotional. I know I have bough Netgate HW and license for work because I was familiar with their free offering at home. But stuff like the recent move might make me reconsider.

Not sure. My first attempt at phrasing it did not get my feeling across well.

Either if someone wants to run something as an internal service (logging, ect) which should not depend on their desktop being online, or they need beefy HW.

I've since moved away completely, just before the recent moves by Canonicle. Most of if not all of my reasons to move away from LXD relate to Snap or other sides of Canonicle leadership.

Then we could all use ps3 dualshock controllers wireless again on windows. It seems all the links to third party programs to make it work are virus infected.

Don't get me wrong. I hate Snap much more than the next guy, but the idea of keeping a repository so you can go look for, and discover, stuff that is supposedly also vetted by someone is nice.

The issue is, when an app store is a monopoly and not standardized.

APT repositories is, in my eyes, an example of "the good" type of app store.

But I'd think a Give Way sign should suffice in practice even if the intersection has poor visibility. Only if the intersection proves to cheat drivers in to thinking the visibility is not so bad (and hence drivers won't slow down enough) is a Stop sign needed?

It's the old "if it looks safe but isn't".

I can't find a source for it, but they are definitely rarer than most other places, and I feel like they are taken more serious because of it.

I'm reminded of the closure viewers of the YouTuber Bosnian Bill got about his disappearance, by Lock Picking Lawyer doing an explanation video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ASQQboFg98

But I do also understand not all creators have a relationship with another creator which as much overlap of audience that it is possible.

I haven't figured out why they chose to remove it, but your point about licensing cost combined with them not advertising it much as a feature, and most of their competitors not including "proper" video encoding might explain it.

Edit: Found an official explanation here: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/video-collaboration/resources... TLDR, they figure most computers at that point had HW encoders.

I inherited an older Moccamaster, which does not have the timeout, and the newer one went straight to storage. Unfortunately the old button without a timer is not sold as a spare anymore, or I would have "downgraded" the newer machine.

I tried mailinabox and mailcow which didn’t work out, but mailu did.

Final setup is a pfSense vm on vultr, VPN back to my local pfSense box (with snort filtering) and mailu in an LXD container. Mailu guides you through setting up various dns records which helped me a lot.