…that sounds amazing. Perhaps I should go investigate Bluesky, heh.

As a counterpoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp.

Truly the hardest and most weird buy-in of crypto that happened.

So the story is ‘if they have to be unlocked, we can’t offer discounts on the phones’.

Okay fine but uh, the last time I used a post-paid subsidized phone, I signed a contract. That stipulated how much I’d pay for however many months, and what the early cancellation fee was, as well as what the required buy-out for the phone was if I left early.

In what way is that insufficient to ensure that a customer spends the money to justify the subsidy?

Yeah it was NAS -> DAC -> Switch -> endpoints and for whatever reason, for some use cases, it would just randomly hiccup and break shit.

I could never figure out what the problem was and as far as I could tell there was nothing in the network path that stopped working or flapped or whatever unless it did it so fast it didn’t trigger any monitoring stuff, yet somehow still broke NFS (and only NFS).

Figured after a bit that since everything else seemed fine, and the data was being exported via like 6 other methods, that meh, I’ll just use something else.

I’m going to have to cut up my nerd card here, but I had similar issues with NFS exports from my roll-your-own build.

After a month of troubleshooting I decided that working is better than purity so I just mounted the SMB shares instead and everything just worked going forward.

Best I can tell, NFS is just very very finnicky when it comes to hardware accessibility (drive spun down, etc.), network reliability, and is just a lot less robust than other options. I never was able to trace why NFS was the one and only thing that never seemed to work right, but at least there’s other options as a workaround?

So I came across something that might be a partial solution: https://github.com/LumePart/Explo

Figured I should update the thread in case it helps you/someone else.

Don’t forget option 3: someone writes a vaultwarden client independent of the closed-source crap.

If you can write a server that fully supports the client via the documented API, then you know everything you’d need to do to make a client as well.

“up sell to premium” ride

You know Microsoft is giving you “free” logs, but it’ll be a 12 hour retention or someshit unless you pay more.

Ain’t no free in cloud.

Depends who you’re trying to avoid.

Some downvote brigade on Lemmy? sure.

One of the major databrokers? Probably not.

Google and Meta and such don’t even need you to have an account to build accurate profiles and track you everywhere, so making a new Google account will almost certainly not buy you any real privacy: Google will just add your new account to your profile and keep right on selling your shit.

We probably need more details as to what exactly you’re attempting to accomplish and how you’re attempting to accomplish it.

The main issue is that each rule you add to a firewall has a performance penalty: each packet is checked against each rule before it’s passed.

Ten rules require 10x more cpu than 1 rule, 100 rules need 10x more than 10 rules, and so on.

Depending on how much traffic and how many rules we’re talking about and what kind of expectation you have for performance as well as anything else (eg. vpn endpoint), “small and cheap” may not be fast enough, and you might have to lean into higher performance hardware.

Thankfully there’s not: you’d expect someone at a pharmacy to provide reasonable medical advice, or your mechanic to tell you the right thing to do with your car. Once you walk outside the field where a reasonable person would reasonably expect what they’re being told to be uh, reasonable, then there’s usually no real case for liabilities.

Buuuuuut, in the US at least, this is entirely civil law, and that means the law is mostly whatever you can convince a jury of, so you can end up with some wacky shit happening.

I mean after decades and decades of “modern” cyberpunk fiction, who are the people left that think anything other than the worst possible thing is going to happen once we start stuffing things in our brains?

politics

100% politics. They’re mad that the US government backed the cash dump truck up to Intel’s HQ and dropped off a few billion.

I also suspect they’re mad that the general response to the Chinese x86 CPUs has been ‘awww, that’s so cuuute! look at them try!’ whenever they’re mentioned anywhere outside of Chinese media.

…don’t disagree that Intel screwed up with the 13/14th gen failure-o-rama, though.

This game is amazing. This is the one and ONLY game that’s had me spending real money on it after getting it on GamePass.

Also I in no way have like 200 hours into it or anything, nope.

That’s on the list of yes-but-i-wish-i-didnt.

I’m still confused why ANYONE watches the big streamers since they’re all pretty much, at least in so far as I’ve noticed, kind of a group of weird-ass idiots.

When WoW streamers with… what now?

I seem to have missed something at some point.

basic needs of the average office and home user

I mean, ARM chips have been at that level of performance for at least a decade by now. Normal people’s most strenuous activity is watching Youtube, which every cellphone since what? 2005? could do.

power consumption in relation to computational power

The thing is that’s very much not the actual situation for most people.

Only Apple really has high performance, very low power ARM chips you can’t really outclass.

Qualcomm’s stuff is within single-digit percentage points of the current-gen AMD and Intel chips both in power usage, performance, and battery life.

I mean, that’s a FANTASTIC achievement for a 1st gen product, but like, it’s not nearly as good as it should be.

The problem is that the current tradeoff is that huge amounts of the software you’ve been using just does not work, and a huge portion of it might NEVER work, because nobody is going to invest time in making it behave.

(Edit: assuming the software you need doesn’t work in the emulation layer, of course.) You might get Photoshop, but you won’t get that version of CS3 you actually own updated. You might get new games, but you probably won’t get that 10 year old one you like playing twice a year. And so on.

The future might be ARM, but only Apple has a real hat in the ring, still.

(Please someone make better ARM chips than Apple, thanks.)___

I changed company names before posting and broke the clarity, sorry.

Imagine I wasn’t a idiot and had said Walmart pharmacy, which is somewhere you’d expect that kind of advice.

I suspect that it’s going to go the same route as the ‘acting on behalf of a company’ bit.

If I call Walmart, and the guy on the phone tells me that to deal with my COVID infection I want to drink half a gallon of bleach, and I then drink half a gallon of bleach, they’re going to absolutely be found liable.

If I chat with a bot on Walmart, and it tells me the same thing, I’d find it shockingly hard to believe that the decisions from a jury would in any way be different.

It’s probably even more complicated in that while a human has free will (such as it is), the bot is only going craft it’s response from the data it’s trained on, so if it goes off the rails and starts spouting dangerous nonsense, it’s probably an even EASIER case, because that means someone trained the bot that drinking bleach is a cure for COVID.

I’m pretty sure our legal frameworks will survive stupid AI, because it’s already designed to deal with stupid humans.

I’d also bet against not hardware failure.

Traditional RAID5 (and others) is subject to data loss in the middle of a write that can break entire arrays if it happens.

Seen it on various LSI controllers, mdraid in Linux, and even a Windows implementation in Storage Spaces. I mean it’s rare and mostly won’t, but if you get unlucky and lose just enough data from just the right places, well…

Wouldn’t imagine that any particular NAS appliance is using some magic sauce that prevents it from happening if you get unlucky as to a crash/power outage.