Without a secondary internet connection this isn’t possible.

The router is the connection - its the gateway (a term we don’t hear much these days).

You could setup an independent connection via a cell modem - becoming a secondary connection. This is common for remote locations or even small businesses that need a failover just for management.

You could even have it on a single machine and have a vpn there. Then you could RDP/VNC to that one machine and manage things from there. I’ve done the VPN this way with Tailscale. One machine has it (I’ve even done it with a Raspberry Pi), then you can RDP/VNC to other machines from there.

But there’s not much I could see you doing if the gateway is down anyway.

This woman in the original series wanted to be captain, so forcibly traded bodies with Jim.

30 20 years later the same actress was ship’s doctor on TNG.

I just thought it was a great bit of irony.

Oh, ffs

Looks delish!

Its not “targeted at old school”, it’s an open, extensible protocol.

If devs focused on extending the protocol instead of building an app to handle things like this, it could do it, everywhere.

There are currently over 100 extensions.

It needs to be more of threat to the other person:

“I will talk to you for two hours straight - you’ll be trapped and get no work done”.

I never once heard “an old person” (whatever that means) mis-pronounce “meme”.

And I’ve been around long enough as an adult to pre-date common usage of the term as its known today.

Haha, beat me to it!

I’ve seen them go outside in shorts and t-shirts when it breaks 0, and washing their cars when it breaks 32.

She tried to steal Jim’s body and failed.

So they promote her to ship’s doctor 30 years later?

Still staggering to me that XMPP isn’t the default, since it was used in many chat apps in the late 90’s.

Thanks for the links - interesting stuff

Shit happens in manufacturing.

Some day you should tour both a really modern facility and a very old one (I’ve done work in both).

Sometimes damaged stuff slips through, nothing more.

Contact them via the info on the tube. I’ve never had anything but a good response when doing so, the QA Dept and maintenance want to know when the system drops the ball so they can improve it.

About 40 years

*Soviet Union

Wow, never knew gunsel meant homosexual, and just rewatched The Maltese Falcon the other day!

Edit - just checked the etymology and look at that!:

gunsel(n.) by 1910, American English underworld slang, from hobo slang, “naive young boy,” but especially “a catamite;” specifically “a young male kept as a sexual companion, especially by an older tramp,” from Yiddish genzel, from German Gänslein “gosling, young goose” (see goose (n.)). The secondary, non-sexual meaning “young hoodlum” seems to be entirely traceable to Dashiell Hammett, who sneaked it into “The Maltese Falcon” (1929) while warring with his editor over the book’s racy language:

“Another thing,” Spade repeated, glaring at the boy: “Keep that gunsel away from me while you’re making up your mind. I’ll kill him.”

The context implies some connection with gun and a sense of “gunman,” and evidently that is what the editor believed it to mean. The word was retained in the script of the 1941 movie made from the book, so evidently the Motion Picture Production Code censors didn’t know it either.

The relationship between Kasper Gutman (Sidney Greenstreet) and his young hit-man companion, Wilmer Cook (Elisha Cook, Jr.), is made fairly clear in the movie, but the overt mention of sexual perversion would have been deleted if the censors hadn’t made the same mistaken assumption as Hammett’s editor. [Hugh Rawson, “Wicked Words,” 1989, p.184] also from 1910

Edit: Do you suppose he used “gunsel” like we use “your bitch” today, as both a dig at Kasper and an insult to Wilmer?

What LibertyLizard said, plus there are many other ways of gathering the same data.

One and the same.

I can’t remember the name of an excel spreadsheet I created years ago, which has continually matured with lots of changes. I often have to search for it of the many I have for different purposes.

Trusting your memory is a naive, amateur approach.

Never knew Hammet was a Pinkerton!

I agree, the line works for the cliché.

Really?

And how do you know this without access to that data currently?

“Professional liars” have been with us from the beginning, there’s nothing new about that.

Having access to all sorts of surveillance data wouldn’t help - you’d still have no way of knowing what’s meaningful, what isn’t. It’s why analysts have a job.

Even with AI tools the scale of data is staggering.