the cushion beneath the mesh.
Neither my wife's chair nor my chair has a cushion underneath the mesh. It's just plastic underneath the mesh, and you can easily wipe dust off the plastic.
This means more stress is put on the strands than for a full cover upholstery.
While that may be true, I've had more issues with foam chairs than mesh chairs.
There are some foam + upholstery chairs that are very good though, like the Steelcase Gesture (which rivals the Herman Miller Aeron).
Hardware that runs DOS well isn't that hard to find though. There's even new modern-ish motherboards designed for embedded systems (like robots that control production lines) that still have ISA and PCI slots to support legacy hardware, since those embedded systems are designed to last a very long time.
For what it's worth, I know that some places that run old systems like that have virtualized it - they have much newer systems and run the old software in a VM.
Don't get a chair with cheap foam like that. Get one that uses mesh instead. More breathable, and it'll last way longer. Ikea may have some. The Staples Hyken is pretty decent for the price, if you get it on sale (<$150).
The Herman Miller Aeron chair is still the best, but it's very expensive. You might be able to get a good deal at a store that sells ex-office furniture, but a "good deal" for the Aeron is still $500-600. I think there's some Amazon stores that sell them second hand. If you buy one new, they have a 15 year warranty that covers practically everything. My employer had a pretty big discount on new new ones for home use, from the supplier they use for the office.
Get one that uses mesh instead of foam.
In Australia at least, it's common for office jobs to either be 9 to 5 with a half hour lunch break, or 9 to 5:30 with an hour lunch break. Companies I worked at when I lived there (before I moved to the USA) usually did the latter. An hour break was nice because I worked in the center of Melbourne and could walk around the city, get lunch, go to the bank if I needed to, buy stuff from one of the computer stores nearby, etc and still make it back to work on time.
some parts of the US power grid are running on DOS
What's the problem with that, though? Systems like that are pretty much guaranteed to be isolated from the internet.
There's no need to rewrite code just because it's old. Code doesn't expire. If it's still doing what it's supposed to be doing, it's really not as bad as people make it out to be. Windows 11 still has code from NT 3.51 in it, because that code still does its job.
There's a huge amount of risk in rewriting old code. That COBOL or FORTRAN code is likely rock solid and has had 50 years of bug fixes applied to it to cover every possible edge case.
It's hard to justify the expensive of rewriting all of it (which would likely cost tens of millions of dollars) if the result is new code that does exactly the same thing as the old code.
I'm thankful I can do this. My employer measures performance based on what we actually do, not how long we work for.
I'm usually at work 10 AM to 6:30 PM (which helps avoid peak hour traffic), but I can come in and/or leave earlier or later and it'd be fine. I work from home two days a week, too.
You're not the average person though. A lot of people do respond to ads. The average ROI (return on investment) for digital ads is 200-500%, meaning for every $1 the advertiser spends on ads, they make $2 - $5 back. Retargeting ads (the ones that show you products you've viewed before) are even more effective.
The reason ads are so prevalent is because people want stuff for free, and ads work well enough to cover the costs of providing a free service. I'm not saying they're bad or good, just that that's the state of things today.
That's... Not how inflation works, lol. At that rate, they'll eventually be taxed more than 100%.
I have a 10Gbps internet connection. On a system with a 10Gbps Ethernet card, I can get ~8Gbps down and ~6Gbps up:
I'd expect this to easily max out a 2.5Gbps network connection. However, while the upload is maxed (or close to it), I can only ever get ~1.0 to 1.5Gbps down:
Both tests were performed on the same system. The only difference is that the first one uses a TRENDnet 10Gbps PCIe network card (which uses an Aquantia AQC107 chipset) whereas the second one uses the onboard NIC on my motherboard (Intel I225-V chipset).
This is consistent across two devices that have 10Gbps ports and two devices that have 2.5Gbps ports.
I'm using an AdTran 622v ONT provided by my internet provider, a TP-Link ER8411 router, and a MikroTik CRS312-4C+8XG-RM switch. I'm using CAT6 cabling, except for the connection between the router and the switch which uses an SFP+ DAC cable.
I haven't been able to figure it out. The 'slower' speeds are still great, I just don't understand why it can't achieve more than 1.5Gbps down over a 2.5Gbps network connection.
Any ideas?
I couldn't find a "Home Networking" community, so this seemed like the best place to post :)
My house has this small closet in the hallway and thought it'd make a perfect place to put networking equipment. I got an electrician to install power outlets in it, ran some CAT6 myself (through the wall, down into the crawlspace, to several rooms), and now I finally have a proper networking setup that isn't just cables running across the floor.
The rack is a basic StarTech two-post rack (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001U14MO8/) and the shelving unit is an AmazonBasics one that ended up perfectly fitting the space (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09W2X5Y8F/).
In the rack, from top to bottom (prices in US dollars):
Other stuff:
Speed test: https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/3740ce8b-bba5-486f-9aad-beb187bd1cdc
Edit: Sorry, I don't know why the image is rotated :/ The file looks fine on my computer.
The old programmers should document their work and do a proper handoff to a new maintainer. At my work place, other people have to maintain my code, so I write wikis about how it works and do internal tech talks to explain things.