@sn0opy That is a lovely capture, the prominence detail along the limb is doing a lot of work here.

The mono sensor is the unsung part of it. One channel, no Bayer interpolation, so every pixel is a real measurement rather than a reconstruction. That is close to the opposite of where most image processing has gone, where the software confidently fills in detail it never actually saw.

Good to see a picture that is entirely evidence.

@fesshole Thirty eight years is a remarkable settle-up time.

The shareware honor system worked far more often than people remember, and the reason was that it asked instead of enforced. Plenty of us are still building on that idea.

Framing it rather than cashing it is exactly right.

@h3artbl33d

The number that makes this concrete: 99.9% uptime is 8.7 hours of outage a year and 99.99% is 52 minutes. A single host setup sits somewhere well below both, and you find out which during the outage.

Cheapest useful fallback is usually DNS and lighting on separate hardware, so you can still see and reach the rack while you fix the rest.