Me? I'm not the subject here... I'm just providing a real-life account of a counter point of view, which I guess you didn't agree with.
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Have you actually witnessed that entire event pan out?
The police that I personally know, visit the caller and talk to them first to understand the complaint and often (but I agree not always) educate the caller that teenagers are just doing what the caller(s) did at their age... usually, there are no more calls and all groups move on with their lives.
Unfortunately, that doesn't make headlines and it's not emotive enough to discuss.
In my personal experience, the older generations trust the media and just believe / expect the worst will happen. Most parents, younger adults, just don't see the problem.
🤔 interesting idea...
(Calls patent office)
I updated a Phillips (I think?) TV - years ago, so this was over-the-air, not internet - and the built-in Program Schedule started showing adverts that were obviously in the update.
Eventually the ads stopped appearing, so at least there was some form of expiry date, but no, I'm very wary of consumer updates.
TVs should remain as display devices. I even keep the tuner equipment as a separate device to upgrade separately - sorry if that doesn't increase their market share.
What next? A toaster with butter spreader built-in?
Documentation & comments... the most underated part of any system
Be brave enough to test my backups
I can recommend pfSense.
It uses a single config file and upgrades are painless.
If you need to restore the system (I had a drive failure once), just boot up the installer, supply your config file (ie on the same stick) and it will re-install everything just as it was.
Maybe it's a regional thing... cal defaults to starting on a Monday for me
I think 90% of the comments here are “write your own notes“ - which is possibly over simplistic.
Everyone's different but IMHO:
The brain is better for imagination than long term storage. So if you're stuck trying to remember some obscure command(s), it's just better to use something else to store that on.
But when the brain understands the core concepts well enough, the details come together as habits (where repetition comes in).
So, if you're unable to recall something, take some time to think / remind yourself about the underlying concepts and why that's the command - next time it'll be easier, eventually it'll be effortless.
I had to learn some strange concepts for work during a deep technical troubleshooting session on a client's system and the commands were like just facemashing the keyboard... I've no idea what those commands are now (written down), but I can recall what / why I was doing them and that was the key... for me.
(Using computers since '80s)
Maybe get that patent sorted out quickly?