That was a smart move but those days are over. Your existing 15 year certs will continue to be accepted until they expire but then you'll have to get a new cert and be in the same 45-day-churn boat the rest of us are.
The cloudflare 15 year cert is one they issue privately and that they only use to authenticate your origin. Cloudflare manages the certificates for connections coming from the web.
The other CAs with a free tier that I'm aware of (zerossl, ssl.com, actalis, google trust, cloudflare) require you to have an account (which means you're at their mercy), and most of them limit the number of free certs you can get to a very small number and don't offer free wildcard certs at all.
Let's Encrypt could easily refuse to issue a certificate for a certain domain, even if you don't have a registered account. I don't see much difference.
AWS Certificate Manager manages this all for you via DNS validation.
Granted, you're locked into their ecosystem, can't export PK, etc. so it's FAR from a perfect solution here but I've actually been pretty impressed with the product from a "I need to run my personal website and don't want to have to care about certificates" perspective. Granted, you're paying for the cert, just not directly.
Cloudflare refuses to accept most locality based domains as delegated because they aren’t listed in the Public Suffix List[1]. So for example you can’t use Cloudflare DNS or get a TLS cert for it from them.
Fortunately they seem to be one of the few (only?) providers who does that. So use another DNS provider and Letsencrypt and you’re good to go.
Is it economically worthwhile to attempt to repair them? They seem to be generally reliable, and replacements of any kind are cheap. Certainly cheaper than having somebody else figure out the problem and probably cheaper than having you do it too. Especially once you add in any equipment involved, multiplied by the likelihood (low) of having to do this repeatedly.
> Is it economically worthwhile to attempt to repair them?
In a developed economy, maybe barely. Depends on the monitor, and what's wrong with it. If you're good enough at soldering, and it's just a capacitor in the power supply issue, and the case isn't going to fall apart when you open it, sure. But if you have to hire help, or replace a module, probably not.
In places where skilled labor isn't going to billed at $100/hr or more, then there's more you can do ... I don't think it's worth replacing a panel if the panel (or its wiring) go, but you can replacing modules likely makes sense, if you can source them; maybe some light module repair too if it's just cold solder joints need rewetting.
Depends on what's wrong, and how much a person's free time is worth.
The panel? No. The panel was the singular expensive part, and the cheapest and most available way to get a new panel is usually to buy it in a retail box with the rest of the monitor already wrapped around it.
The backlight tubes? Surprisingly enough: Yeah, if a person really wants to do that, and if the display uses fluorescent backlight, then sometimes the tubes are replaceable. (LED backlight is basically ubiquitous on newish displays and is, AFAIK, kind of a non-starter to dig into repairing. But it might be do-able by swapping bits from a broken panel if one were sufficiently motivated.)
Power supply bits? Sure. It's just a power supply, right? Power supplies are often repairable or replaceable. (I've repaired power supplies in LCD screens myself, and I'm pretty lousy at component-level troubleshooting.)
Broken connectors and switches such? Very repairable. (Difficulty depends a lot on how much, if any, of the board also got destroyed, but generally speaking hot air soldering is a lot easier than it looks like it should be.)
Mechanical issues, like a wonky stand or broken housing? Often repairable. (The screen I'm writing this with has a cast zinc base that broke due to metal fatigue. I've fixed it twice: Once with two part epoxy, and a second time by adding CA glue when the epoxy's grip on the zinc failed.)
If you kind of know how to fix the problem and if you are doing it in your spare time as any other house tidying activity, yes, it's worth it. Add to it the value of the fun, if you're that kind of person. If you are spending a day instead of working, probably it's not worth it unless it's a very expensive monitor.
Depends. I'm not sure you could make a business out of just fixing monitors. As another thing the phone repair shops can fix - maybe?
As for why? $ per benefit.
I had a pair of Samsung 204B screens I liked. I didn't see dollar per benefit in upgrading from 1600x1200 4:3 to 1920x1080 16:9.
They went funny, I obtained a capacitor, pop the back off, unsolder and solder new cap, put the shell back on. Job done. 20 minutes per screen because man, am I bad at soldering...
They worked happily for another 5 years each. Until society got well past the 1080p rut and into proper 1440 and 4k etc screens which were actually worth upgrading to.
1920x1200 in 23" or 24" were an OK upgrade from 1600x1200 CRT 21" for me. I did the stuff you did on an 18" 1280x1024 SPVA LCD from Fujitsu-Siemens. Since I hadn't soldered for a long time, I just bought that stuff 2 times, because the parts were a few cents only. Didn't need them 2 times, though :-) Worked for some mainboards in similar ways. Except I've been afraid to completely desolder them on mulitlayer mainboards, for fear of destroying the VIAs/through-holes. Just pulled the capacitor from it's pins still stuck in, cleaned them, and soldered the new one(s) onto the old pins. Looked like sort of a water tower in miniature, but the boards worked flawlessly afterwards. For years :-)
I have an OLED that crapped out and I didn't get around to sending it back to the OEM while in warranty. I suspect the issue is some minor component burned out, as the monitor powers on and the desktop recognizes it.
I have no idea what to do with it though and tossing it feels wrong.
I have a 4K 144 Hz 27-inch monitor I bought in December 2021, and paid nearly $850 for. These monitors still aren't a commodity good, and still end up being pretty expensive.
I gave the iOS app a spin.
1. It requires at least 2 characters to search for a symbol. What about Verizon (V) or AT&T (T)?
2. I entered a holding for a fund that doesn’t have public quotes by choosing not to look up the symbol and entering the price and purchase date, but then I couldn’t find a way to manually add price quotes for later dates to reflect the change in value.
You can search by company name. For manual pricing, click on an added manual holding, then there is a tab "Quotes" in the top right to view and edit the prices.
No. The US kicked NATO member Türkiye out of the F-35 program and denied them F-16 upgrades for a long time[1]. And the EU has denied Türkiye membership supposedly because they're not fully part of Europe (among other issues) while courting Georgia which is farther east. Türkiye is treated as a frenemy by the west. Good on them for making their own way.
Those words are doing some heavy lifting. The EU cares more about their commitment to democracy, and their dubious economic policies. The last thing the EU needs is another Hungary.
My instinct is that there are a lot of a potentially good reasons not to let them into the EU, and maybe even ones for kicking them out of NATO, but "they want to sell their minerals to other countries" doesn't strike me as a reasonable gripe in terms of NATO at least.
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