Pretty much why everyone just uses json or, heaven forbid, plain text for trivial data.

Aaah, SOAP.

Yo dawg, I heard you like XML over HTTP so I put XML over HTTP in your XML over HTTP.

I meant extreme for this very specific case. If every other features of the product is satisfactory for OP then dumping the whole product is extreme.

No product is perfect in every way for every customer. Modifying a product that you’ve already bought is an entirely reasonable thing to do.

Returning it seems extreme to me… But I’m happy modding things like that.

Stick a piece of paper or card over the button/LED such that you can still depress it… Iterate/repeat until you’re satisfied.

Apostrophe catastrophe.

Oh, there are forks: #2.

Gnome makes absolutely no promises of version compatibility for extensions.

You’re stuck waiting for an extension dev to update to support the new gnome version.

That server’s root access is now vulnerable to a compromise of the systems that have the private key.

On the context of a node package,

It’s probably a package with one five line function, and a poor implementation at that.

An alternative, if you have console access, to doing that root password dance, is:

1. Drop to rescue/emergency/single-user mode.
2. Do your changes to the user account
3. Drop back to multiuser mode.

That’s one of the NPC’s at the paleontology sites!

They my go to to quickly triage a problem being caused by SEL or not.

Not quite. But sorta, yeah.

Learning to “not fuck with it” or ways to do so and rollback are valid lessons themselves.

Being able to segregate “production” and “development” environments is very valuable.

100%

The alternative being variations on:

Hi my name is [redacted], I have [X] years experience.

Please run sfc /scannow.

You can find more help at [Irrelevant KB URL].

Please rank me 5 stars.

Ticket closed

Theoretically one could also prohibit rebooting.

IIRC kexec is pivot_root but for the kernel.

Anything you need to buy is more expensive than anything you already have.

Especially if youre worried about power costs.

Reuse wha you have, replace when you need to.

They are introduced in NZ and have destroyed the native bird populations.

We trap and hunt them here.

I forget that possums aren’t pests in some parts of the world.

Doing the Dark Lord’s work!

Mine are all named for the colour of the case, or case accent when ambiguous, though network infrastructure items are named for their models, being the typical default.

I sometimes use A records or mDNS-SD for the actual services provided and use a *.home.arpa. domain.

Another theme at another site is native fauna and flora names.

No cringe, no pop culture.

Same as it takes on the ISS right now :-)