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Just found the email in my SPAM folder..

I'm not surprised, not even a little bit. I've been wondering why it hasn't happened already. I figured it would happen no later than sometime 2027, very start of Q4 makes sense too.

Standard

Free

Advanced

US$7.9/mo, or US$5.9/mo billed annually

"Advanced" currently has three features not in Standard,

Screen Wall

Device Sharing

Same-Device Access Paths (more than one)

I'll be honest, I have no idea what any of those features actually are, but I also don't care enough to look them up.

I will say this.. As long as their products continue to work and get updates without needing "the cloud" I'll continue to be happy with them.

The justnetflix website says 2026-10-29 but that is the only site that seems to have a date for it.

If that was accurate, I would expect more sites to be reporting it.

This is a sad day..

Sometime in the past week (I suspect the 15th based on the effective date), HPE has published notice that they are ending their actual lifetime warranty program on existing products.

Now the warranty period will be End-of-Sales plus 5 years.

This new policy comes into effect January 15, 2027..

Interesting that they can change the warranty term retroactively on products.

Working with a cottage owner (I'm remote) to get setup on Valley Fibre Internet.. Install date was today..

Fibre with SFP is connected to our router.. Getting a RFC6598 IP with DHCP. I have remote access to the router via a Starlink connection..

Can't get internet access. Before the first call couldn't even ping the default gateway. First tech said they needed to activate the connection, once that was done we are able to ping the default gateway.

Opening that IP in a browser loads a status page with data up and down (in the kilobytes range) and a couple timers.

Still can not access anything beyond that though.

How does a Valley Internet connection act when billing is suspended or

This will allow us to view your bank account balances and transactions any time it's necessary for 90 days. We save and use this info exclusively for fraud prevention and risk management, and to make sure there's enough funds for your PayPal payments.

Umm... No! PayPal you do not need access to my bank account balance and transaction history for any purpose. You have been fine up until now without access to my bank account. You don't need it now.

Anybody else get this (semi-recently)?

You agreed with the terms of their User Agreement when Creating the PayPal Account and the terms are Legally Binding.

No, this wasn't part of the terms that I agreed to.

There are an unlimited number of APIs in the world, hoping to find a book that will cover the basics for using any/all of them with cURL and/or wget, primarily for Bash scripts.

I have no problem using a few examples for a given API and tweaking them to do what I need to accomplish but when I get to the next API I need to work with I'm basically starting over because (I feel) I'm missing a few important parts. Some don't have examples just the documentation and I get lost trying to figure out how to put

All of the books I've found are for adding APIs to existing applications which is not what I'm looking for.

"Using APIs" could be an entire course, but what would its text book be?

Is there a chart anywhere that has which Switch models/revisions use PWM brightness control? Perhaps with serial numbers?

I am sensitive to the PWM flicker that is used to save money.. From my searches, some models/revisons are good, others are not..

Is there a list anywhere?

Alright.. I used the Lifecycle controller to try and update the HDD firmware in my Dell R620 (which is in my colo, not close by).

Since then I'm getting the 'famous' iDRAC issues, I don't recall trying to update the iDRAC7 or system BIOS because it was already the latest but it appears to have tried.

This document says there are two recovery methods, https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-ca/000120131/poweredge-idrac-recovery-procedure-with-firmimg-d7

I am hesitant to use the vFlash slot because my OS is somehow still booting from it, however if I need to, I can.. A portion that is missing from the instructions, when does the SD card get inserted? The vFlash is usually considered not ho

Can't find this part for less than multiple times what the entire system cost.. Does anybody have it from a retired system?

Shown here, https://www.dell.com/support/contents/en-ca/videos/videoplayer/how-to-replace-fan-gantry-for-poweredge-t620/6079765019001

I'm looking for a alternatve for 'DirSoft's Proxy Manager' that will work with IMAP accounts.

It provides exactly what I am looking for except it only works with Exchange accounts..

Need to be able to change the From, name and email address, on a per-outgoing-email basis, a saved drop-down list to select from would be very nice to have..

Use-case: Inbox that has a few aliases, need to be able to change the From name and address to match an alias without needing to change or forget to change Account Settings every time.

Does anybody have any suggestions? I've found two but both are for Exchange, both haven't been updated in a long time.