Note, if you're going to use the EGA 8x14 or VGA 9x16 fonts for rendering, your best bet is to also render each pixel 3 pixels wide and 4 pixels tall, then scale to your desired size... I do this, then the 50% of the scaled render looks pretty good, this corrects for the original 4:3 non-square aspect ratio of EGA and VGA level text.

I did this for my canvas renderer for BBS Ansi... Though, I need to get the next step(s) so I can start testing against a websocket based door server I'm also working on.

https://bbs-land.github.io/webterm-dos-ansi/

And all the latency of classic ASP.Net Webforms. Click a button and see the page change in the length of a short yawn. Or, switch to client side wasm and load a payload that makes the typical react dev jealous.

For the office apps, the cloud versions work well enough... I think even Visio (additional fees) cloud/web version actually works okay now, I haven't used it recently. At least well enough for the occasional interaction if Libre/Only Office don't work well enough for you.

I setup cloud sync on my nas to sync my dropbox, google and onedrive accounts... I only have dropbox actually installed anymore as it's just what I mostly use.

I mostly tend to keep some important information synced to the others, for multi-access in case of emergency. I also have a bitwarden account for secrets.

I have a grandfathered outlook.com custom account that I still use for MS stuff on occasion, but I switched off windows for my personal use a few years ago now, when they put ads in the start menu search on insiders.

I tend to make a concerted effort to often make sure anything settable via cli is settable via environment variable... though, I often have a search-upward option for a .env file as well. Mostly so that it's easier to containerize/deploy an application in a predictable/reusable way.

Also worth mentioning are VeloxDB and RavenDB, both written in C#. TBF, I haven't used any of them... but aware they exist.

C# is pretty powerful and capable of lower level usage, such as in the examples given... not to mention a pretty nice interop with C-style libraries. It looks like the intent here might be a custom database engine for service integrations... not necessarily a full rdbms in and of itself.

Proxmox can do LXC and has some experimental support for converting Docker based images... that said, it's not the same as Docker/Podman support, which are more feature rich.

I would suggest at least a minimal Linux Server VM if you're running containers, underneath ProxMox or on a bare metal install if you don't need other virtualization on said server.

And Saturday morning cartoons from 5am-1pm... then they started rolling back the non-toons earlier until no more Saturday morning cartoons.

Phoenix, AZ had a local variety kids morning show, "Wallace and Ladmo" that anyone from the area born before 1985 or so probably remembers.

Dallas had the Mr Peppermint Show that was syndicated to a few places around the country.

By the time the Saturday morning cartoons were gone, there were 24/7 channels for cartoons and kid's entertainment.

True... but it was never really the same... IMO Saturday Mornings were kind of a special event before there were 24/7 cartoon network etc. Even if 2/3 of it was of dubious quality.

I remember as a kid, mostly having access to HBO/Showtime etc during their "free" week/month that came along about once a year or so. I think my dad subbed for a couple months once, but that was it. Otherwise it was just basic cable and nothing else.

Even then, 90% of the time was watching local/broadcast networks via cable.

> Even then, 90% of the time was watching local/broadcast networks via cable

that was pretty much the point of cable being invented. the other networks just jumped on the bandwagon in a "if you build it" situation

Wouldn't necessarily bet on it... would likely need to use puppeteer or playwright and change the user agent to match the desktop browser. And even then, the various services likely change pretty regularly.

That said... could maybe setup a mitm service that does this for even $5/yr to manage various services... where that service takes care of updating their signon/cancel scripts. Maybe even a semi-trusted mechanical turk as necessary.

Also I have to assume that some of those services have some sort of catchall where they stop letting you resubscribe after the fifth or sixth time you cancel in a year.