I think Moto’s are a pretty good budget friendly phone. Sure their update policy is lacking, but the Moto G Power or Moto G Stylus phones come decently equipped. Plus you can still get expandable storage and headphone jacks.

I was pretty good with T9 back in the day, then the keyboard on the BB Pearl changed everything. I loved the keyboard on the BB Curve the best, banged out tons of messages with friends with BB messenger.

Correct, if that machine goes down you won’t have any notification. I was thinking along the lines of you are hosting services on one machine while the computer itself is acting as the host or hypervisor.

Quite a lot of work went into your program, I bet you learned some good code while writing it. I’ve used a simple Windows program called Easy Net Monitor. You can specify IP address or hostname connectivity tracking with email alerts.

https://easynetmonitor.en.lo4d.com/windows

Motorola has it too.

What if you have your ID on you?

You can prevent this. Click remind later then go to your notifications in the settings app. Uncheck “Suggest ways I can finish setting up” and anything else you don’t want to see.