[workingpatrick]

Came here to post something similar. Why jump through all these hoops to unfuck some inherently fucked system.

It's a bunch of work and time and effort to reverse engineer it just to get back to the point of still having a piece of shit legacy system.

Honestly this is effectively natural selection at play for businesses. They put themselves in this situation, if it dies and destroys the business ... good fucking riddance, the people who let this situation occur need to fail hard, it's the only way they will ever learn.

Just walk up to the machine and plug in a USB kill for 2 seconds, remove it, and get on with your life.