Joke’s on her, my mom doesn’t even know my full name (changed it as an adult)

Solid example. I could pay Lyrasis to host an instance of Archivesspace for me. They’d control updates, backups, etc, I’d just use the web interface to manage my archival collections.

OR I could rent a server, install Archivesspace myself (it’s open source), sysadmin it myself, take on all that headache and control.

They’re both in the cloud, but one’s software as a service (SAaS) and the other is just a Linux box on someone else’s machine. The second is cheaper in my experience, but only if you have someone that can sysadmin it. Otherwise you’ve got a learning curve ahead of you.

(it’s late, so feel free to tell me I’ve misread the thread).

In unrelated news: isn’t the USA looking into using AI to assist air traffic controllers in controlling air traffic?

Please explain this article from 2018 .

Wales is to become the first country in the UK to ban smoking in outdoor school spaces, playgrounds and hospital grounds.

Yes, most UK hospitals do ban smoking on their grounds, but not all, and the ban is by the hospital, not at the country level.

No matter how much time passes, my grandmother will never have been born after 2008 [edit: and so will be allowed to buy cigarettes].

I’m not sure about banning smoking outside of hospitals. The hospital near me doesn’t allow smoking by the entrances but has a designated smoking zone.

I’m not a smoker, but I’m thinking of when my grandma was dealing with my grandpa in the intensive care unit. She was already stressed to the gills with family and husband stress. I wouldn’t want her to have to deal with nicotine withdrawal, too (or finding alternative methods of nicotine use).

On the other hand, there was an asshole smoking right at the hospital entrance last time I was there. Screw that guy.

Grandpa was in the hospital for emphysema due to a lifetime of smoking. He left the hospital and quit smoking. I don’t think Grandma ever quit, even with full-on dementia. So, mixed feelings about old folks smoking near hospitals.

I grew up in a poor rural area of the cultural south, scored very well on the ASVAB test (armed services vocational aptitude test), which was administered during school hours to all students. The recruitment drive was heavy. Maybe you grew up somewhere young people had more options.