I've been using a pi print server for a few years now. Runs my shipping label printer, an excellent HP color printer from the early 2000s, and a few other oddball printers
I was a manager of engineers and manager of managers. I've never heard the word fun used in conjunction with reviews.
It's a system and process put together by others, with forms and criteria that were flawed. It required real effort to do it even half successfully. It's not clear it ever had much impact on future behavior. and it had to be done on a timeline that interfered with doing the regular job.
If someone had a real performance issue, there were better approaches to the problem.
Yet every company I worked from from tiny startup to large Silicon Valley company insisted on it every year.
Several years ago I bought a product that aimed to solve this problem. It was a set of rails, a door, and a controller/motor that would raise and lower the door, via a string.
The door itself has a spring loaded catch at the bottom, which is retracted when the door is lifted, via a little mechanism built into the door. Pull up on the peg, the latch retracts, and you can slide the door open
The controller was the weakest part of this whole assembly. It worked, but was crude and often would lock hens out, like when summer thunderstorms would darken the sky. It just used a light sensor
Last year I replaced the controller with an Esphome device I built, and it's been going strong all summer and winter
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