Armatrons were pretty neat but I can definitely imagine why functional ones are nigh impossible to obtain, I would imagine all the plastic gearing inside either chipped away by careless use and worn down over years
I know that, I was just refuting the claim that "your not going to make that kind of money in a flyover state", it is possible, and you don't have to work the big 5 here either, and the cost of living is way less.
My favorite project was around 6 years ago when my former employer was looking to modernize the customer service automation experience with AI, it started with a round the US tour of going to the HQ's of 4 big tech companies in the space(IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Google at the time) as part of an investigatory team. We were to select what we thought would be the best engine to run conversational AI in our applications, during that time we were also given greenfield to write a modern framework apart from our existing technology to leverage it. Over the course of a year and a half we went from ideation to the creation of an omni-channel conversational framework that netted me and the team a patent, and allowed me to flex architecture skillset that lead me to my current role as a solution architect working with some of the same people at another better company. Definitely the most fun, exciting and rewarding project of mine to date.
Probably an issue on the device, I would try clearing the cache for the application and see if it fixes the issue. Often times weird stuff like this is some web component that cached incorrectly.
I have a friend who has been moderately successful in the game creation space and he is saying he wants to just give up at this point because of this change.
The CenturyLink fiber plan is pretty nice, me and my brother in law are on it and it runs as advertised and I've had maybe 2 outages in the 3 years I've had it, unlike my previous provider where it would be like 1 per quarter
Calling any business must be painful for you I imagine