tychosmoose

From an article about the painting, it seems that the alabaster jar and faint halo over her head are references to Mary Magdelene? If the 19th century repaint was to make it a pretty picture for sellability then I could see why they wouldn't want such a heavy subject matter.

Honestly even most Excel users would be fine transitioning to LibreOffice Calc. I was very impressed with how most of my spreadsheets just worked on recent Calc versions. Formulas and charts were mostly all fine. Even pivot tables worked. I had one formula that had to be changed (it was specific to Excel, but there was an equivalent option in Calc), and one external data pull that I had to figure out. That was across 4 pretty involved spreadsheets.

The main problem will be users who are so ingrained with the specifics of navigation that they can't easily adapt to a new menu system. The same happened when Microsoft changed from the old toolbars to the ribbon. And that will be an issue across all the apps.

For DIY consider a setup that supports ECC RAM to help prevent corruption. Any good server motherboard should do.

Unraid is pretty easy to get going on. That's probably the direction I would take in your situation.

Also, if you're not doing 3-2-1 backup now might be a good time to consider an off-site backup plan. That 4-bay Synology at a friend's house with a VPN path would be an option for critical data. You could give them some partitioned space on there and on your new NAS to compensate for the power usage. Setup Borg or Restic and it'll be encrypted on the remote NAS, and benefit from incremental and dedupe to minimize bandwidth usage.

Two of the things that I think are new vs the current system are:

Wallet: anonymous holding of currency without a custodian. You can't hold fiat currency digitally today without a bank or other entity providing that service.

Transfer: moving fiat currency anonymously and under your own direction without intermediaries. You can't make a digital payment or transfer in pure fiat currency today without that custodian providing the service (often through fee-based payment network). As a result, your identity is known when that transaction happens.

I do the same as you after most uses. Scrub with dawn, rinse, dry. Done.

It depends. If you need to season/reseason then smoke is good. Heat to just above the smoke point and hold it there for a few minutes.

The point of seasoning is to polymerize the fat, which only happens above the smoke point. You get a dry brownish polymer coating on the metal. It shouldn't be wet or tacky. If it's either then there was either too much oil or too little heat.

If you already have a good season on the pan and scrubbed it clean, it's fine to lightly coat with oil for storage if you want. I generally use detergent and a very stiff brush, and wooden spatula for burnt on bits. Then towel dry and that's it. But if it's very humid or if I won't use the pan for a while, then I do heat it a bit to ensure dryness and then coat with a tiny bit of oil.

Cool!

Where did they get the coconut? That's a temperate zone.

A good problem to have, right?

The switch between two routers wouldn't be my choice. Even if the ISP router supports link aggregation you are spending more money and not getting full bandwidth on any single device connection.

RB5009 series would be my pick for this. Same price as RB4011, but it has a 2.5Gbps uplink and a 10Gbps SFP+ to connect a switch behind it. You could start out with the RB3011 as a switch and link aggregate if you want.

I don't have a source to offer, but remember reading that the primary purpose for building, maintaining and expanding the canal network, all the way back to its origins in the 4th or 5th century BC was to deliver grain to the capital. So when the capital moved to Beijing, new sections were built for the same purpose.

So I would guess that these are general purpose cargo barges that could transport grain to the capital, and other commodities & goods (and political power) inland.

David Tennant has fantastic hair the whole time so I had no complaints.

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Nice! It's on my list to watch. How was it?