What’s the trick you had to learn for chicken? I used to bbq whole chickens “standing up” (ie beer can chicken) but moved toward oven roasting instead a while ago.

Honest question: why would you need an air conditioner if the outside air is already 18C? Why not just bring in the outdoor air directly? How cool do you want the room? Any special purpose?

Is there no early voting in Mississippi?

My favourite is the barely in range radio station. Besides that, who in the blue fuck tried to play music through an audio channel that is severely bandwidth restricted and filtered for voice, music over the phone has never ever worked well.

Same here. iPhone 13 mini and I’m a bigger dude too. Can’t stand these gigantic phablets, and the form factor of this foldable is dumb.

Not in this form factor, no. It’s too wide and… square to be convenient in either mode. The BlackBerry passport was a bad form factor for similar reasons.

Random back off is an ancient and very well understood algorithm. This is not exactly rocket science.

Up front cost and maintenance time is the one that really gets you as things age and software packages get retired or require systemic updates that break other things in the system. Containerization helps a lot but isn’t perfect.

I used to run opnsense on a Xeon blade in my old C6100. It worked well enough but was a waste. Now it’s just a stock ER605 without the Omada controller.

I’ve been running mine for over 20 years. It’s certainly got more difficult, especially to be able to reliably communicate with Gmail-hosted servers and outlook.com addresses, but SPF, DMARC, and DKIM are all pretty straightforward to set up. Tightening the encryption/hash algorithms you accept and “anonymizing” your server greetings takes some finesse as well, but I definitely prefer it this way.

I avoid the entire webmail and spam filtering aspects, smtp(s) and imap(s) only.

I find that is very rare. It was kind of popular for a few years but thankfully that’s gone away for the most part.