atomicbocks

My parents had a large Catahoula mix who figured out how to step on the Kong toy and squish the treats out…

Probably also worth mentioning that the Sears catalog was huge. Like not quite phone book thick but still a couple hundred pages.

You may be interested in things like AMPRNet or LoRa systems like Meshtastic.

AFAIK Amigas are still in service in a few places, especially music studios.

I was thinking similarly about the amount of medical equipment I have seen where something like this was done because it shipped with a right angle WiFi adapter that covered the upper ports or something like that and changing the port was easier than recertification with a different dongle.

That’s far higher than the $35,500/yr I found in census info, where did you get that number?

In the mean time I have been unemployed for 20 months and I have 15 years of experience. Nobody is getting hired right now. It’s nuts.

And yet it’s still 2 months of median income in the US.

By the time I stopped working there they were using an app that had an E2E encrypted connection to the medical records system so they could actually even get test results and such as texts. The instances I was describing happened in the early days of iMessage right as we were starting the upgrade of the pager system. Most of the problem doctors had recently finished residencies or internships at hospitals that had already upgraded.

I used to work at a hospital and I have experience with doctors who firmly believe that their comfort and convenience tops HIPAA and anything else. I had to file several violations for doctors who wouldn’t stop using SMS instead of their pagers. Every time their excuse was “I don’t like the pager, it’s old.”There is a nonzero chance that this doctor didn’t even continue thinking about the consequences beyond “but I need to have the latest thing”.

Every modem that also has a phone line has a battery in it by law in the US. This is so the phone line will stay up in a power outage. So they’re actually more suburban people than you would think who’ve got the whole package of cable, phone, and Internet who’s WiFi will stay on for several hours after the power goes out.

All the best stuff was wood paneled!