I was pretty good with T9 back in the day, then the keyboard on the BB Pearl changed everything. I loved the keyboard on the BB Curve the best, banged out tons of messages with friends with BB messenger.

Correct, if that machine goes down you won’t have any notification. I was thinking along the lines of you are hosting services on one machine while the computer itself is acting as the host or hypervisor.

Quite a lot of work went into your program, I bet you learned some good code while writing it. I’ve used a simple Windows program called Easy Net Monitor. You can specify IP address or hostname connectivity tracking with email alerts.

https://easynetmonitor.en.lo4d.com/windows

You can prevent this. Click remind later then go to your notifications in the settings app. Uncheck “Suggest ways I can finish setting up” and anything else you don’t want to see.

I agree. I take my brother laser printer off the shelf, plug in power, plug in USB and push print. I get my jobs with no fuss. I’d never go back to ink jets and their constantly needing expensive ink or clogging.