Big old fashion corporation had sometime build up their on internal postal system.
Sometimes the try to reinvent the wheel instead of just reading about the estiablished postal system and get the best out of it.
One time I worked in such a big corporation and I have written internal letters to the CEO during business trips to other locations with a big "Thank You Postal Office Operations Team" on the enevlope to increase their visibility.
It's very important to have the base/grounds/fundamentals in a good way to support things building on top.
If you have shitty network your application will be shitty, too.
If you have bad roads you can't have a fast and reliable shipping of goods between companies.
You have to invest in the base to have an enviornment which allow to grow and evolve.
In Germany there was a lot of discussion about fiber Internet build out and if we need it.
At some point the discussion changed to "Yes, we need it as the base" and only discussion about you pays for it.
For me personally I feel more comfortable and safe with a working base (aka Goverment/Community/Society).
And a lot of people working hard to have the base up and running to just let some egiost running their company and proudly saying "It's me who worked hard to build this great company and I'm the greatest man on earth".
But of course he could only do that with the base.
Do you have more information about GPON from AT&T? Here in Germany I have seen only authentication based on the GPON SFP serial number and not with EAP-TLS.
Yeah，AT&T unfortunately tries really hard to make their customers use the provided routers. For customers on the older GPON network (like myself), they provide an ONT and a router. The ONT will not communicate until the router authenticates with EAP-TLS. The ONT has some additional funkiness, like requiring the EAP-TLS ethernet frames be tagged with VLAN ID 0.
Some folks work around this by using a ONT <-> dumb/unmanaged switch <-> router setup. They'll plug in the provided router, wait for it to authenticate, disconnect it, and then plug in their own router. The dumb switch will keep the link alive from the ONT's point of view. Works well, though it is annoying to have to redo the procedure whenever the power goes out. For the lucky folks whose provided routers are easily jailbreakable, we can extract the EAP-TLS certs and configure our own routers to authenticate directly.
On their newer XGS-PON network, some folks found out that the EAP-TLS isn't even enforced by the ISP's network--it's enforced locally by the ONT. So you can buy your own SFP ONT module that doesn't support the OMCI commands for enabling EAP-TLS, spoof the SFP serial number, and get connected.
Waveshare epd7in5_V2 and no case, there's a smallish wood block on the left and right lower corners with a shallow cutout that the display slides into, so it's kinda wedged between the wood blocks. Looks kind of like a post card given its thinness.
Do you use your main workstation with directly connected display or via some remote technology?
My home server is in the basement and I have several low end devices around but haven’t found a way to use GUI applications remotely. Currently I use only TUI ones.
About 15 meters of one USB 2.0, one displayport and one HDMI cable. Of course a 5V power supply for USB at the client end, soldered to the cheapest USB hub I could find.
I never need more than the speed USB 2.0 provides anyway, and those USB 3.0 optical extensions are way too expensive.
