The admin at my first job did this but with an excel spreadsheet. They were old school and didn’t “trust” DHCP.

That was true for some of the early projects. I doubt that they actually develop any of their tech from scratch now. It’s way easier to just buy it from someone else

The other 5% are less than worthless

Regarding your third paragraph, it’s been shown (anecdotally at least) that blocking access to these kinds of sites and fox news does a lot in bringing older, easily manipulated people out of the q anon rabbit hole. It’s difficult at first, but with nothing feeding the conspiracy, they go back to normal eventually.

“The Libgen sites deprive plaintiffs and their authors of income from their creative works, devalue the textbook market and plaintiffs’ works, and may cause plaintiffs to cease publishing certain works,” the complaint says.

The plaintiffs artificially inflate textbook prices so it all balances out.