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I wouldn't want Sonos even if they gave their products away for free. They like to stop supporting their devices and turn them into e-waste to force customers to buy their newer products. It's a speaker. It should play music until its hardware fails. It should certainly not stop working because someone decided they want more money.

What about the recent issue with their intention to sell their customers' data? No, Sonos, your business and products are garbage.

They don't want to fix this for Ryzen 3000 desktop CPUs. I guess they're not getting money from me for at least 5 years.

How is a compromised AMD CPU better than Intel's CPUs which get damaged due to oxidation and high voltage?

I'm not part of that industry. My impression has always been that artists from big labels get most of the money. The not so popular ones are probably not getting that much since they likely get worse deals.

Do you sign in with a Microsoft account? If you do, that's probably the reason why you don't see ads in Windows 11. The system settings UI on Windows 11 always shows an ad which says that an account should be used to use office and other apps.

Microsoft has updated apps even on Windows 10 to recommend other apps. The Photos app was recommending a video editor app recently. Windows 11 shows ads, suggestions and installs a lot of garbage apps to upsell people into office 365, Onedrive and other things.

I recently had to reinstall my office that I bought. It signed me into an account without permission and uploaded documents there. I had to sign out of that account to prevent it from uploading documents automatically. Most of the documents I edit contain my PII. I can sue them.

OCLP gives up on security when it modifies the OS to use drivers from an older OS. Machines which use OCLP don't get firmware updates to patch severe security vulnerabilities.

It's fine if you just need to make use of some hardware for a bit longer with macOS. Linux may be better in terms of security. It might not be a good fit for many.

I didn't meant to discuss how this should be done or not done, nor the merits of taking down this emulator's repo. I was mostly making a point that one can maliciously take down Gitlab projects and get the accounts of all the contributors blocked immediately without actual proof of wrongdoing. It's not a platform or company which can be trusted. Imagine you start a successful open source project or a company does that. A competitor or someone who wants to do harm can just instantly take down your project and get everyone banned immediately.

Gitlab has just told the world that they disable the accounts of people who contribute to a repository which receives a DMCA. You just need to send a reasonably complete DMCA takedown request to get the accounts of the contributors blocked and the repository removed. It doesn't have to be legitimate or even mention what content violates someone's intellectual property, who owns it or how it's actually violated.

This is the same company which puts ads all over the OS, can't stop trying to upsell people into using onedrive, forcefully signs you into onedrive, syncs your local files into their cloud without consent, tries really hard to not let you sign in with a local account and most likely does other shady things.

Their hardware is more or less garbage. My Surface had a swollen battery which killed the device. It had other issues before the battery killed it.

Why would people give money to Microsoft for such bad hardware? They treat their customers like garbage.

Do you want to open it up or make it possible to extend? I want to experiment with this, but not having the caching code and SSD handling code for the windows kernel doesn't help. There are no reliable and trustworthy alternatives.

Have you tried to combine RAM and SSD caching already?

What you're doing is charge people as much as possible by not giving the option of perpetual licensing. That's what you're doing.

We've evaluated it and it was the best we could have bought. We've decided not to use it because they didn't provide perpetual licensing.

Oh, wait, Java 7 is no longer the one you need, you've got to use Java 8 because nobody uses 7 now. BAM, not so easy any more.

Didn't receive the update. GWX app is gone now. WU says Windows 10 upgrade is reserved.

This is great. Let's continue: remove pocket, remove hello

I would pay for your software, but only if it's actually open source to even be able to check that it's actually doing what you're claiming it does.

Your solution isn't open source. Why would anyone trust your software? How do I know it's not just a binary nginx with some extra performance tweaks?

I'm sorry, but your product seems to be fake and doesn't seem trustworthy at all.

I'll stick to open source.

>Sorry for the throwaway account, but I needed to be able to ask this question anonymously

Disclosing that you've just closed a large series A is a bad idea. Everyone just needs to look at all companies announcing a series A funding to figure out what company you're talking about.

You are about to become a contractor with the same contract as an employee. You'll make less than everyone else on your team and your contract will put on your shoulders the same responsibility as it would on an employee.

What's happening with search? Is using Cortana mandatory? What's up with always using web search? Why can't I turn this web search off? Do I absolutely must block off bing and all Microsoft services at the network level to stop this?

Cool story. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 have similar problems. Windows 7 becomes slow with huge uptime. Windows 8.1 has countless bugs.

No longer using nginx after plus became a product.

Is there anything open source like this? I don't want another basecamp experience.

No, they're right. Linux systems don't panic because of broken drivers after an update, they keep running properly.

FreeBSD sometimes completely stops booting on your hardware or turns unstable for no good reason. (search on google for posts from people who can't boot FreeBSD 8.x on hardware which was running 6.x or 7.x without the slightest bug)

FreeBSD can crash your system because of an unstable driver after a major upgrade like 9.2 to 9.3.

You can see they're right, "FreeBSD doesn't take your system down like Linux", it's much worse.

I'm most certainly not, miss/mister.

The point holds for 10.1. A bug in 10.1 will only be fixed in 10.2.

8-14 months between any significant update for the particular FreeBSD you're running is too much. Severe bugs get fixed only in a release, not in your patches.

It's ok, we can agree to disagree.

I believe these are the major problems of FreeBSD: no minor releases to give users fixes from STABLE or HEAD, no packages for the base system to make update installation trivial, TCP and networking stacks lag behind those found in modern Linux kernels, many features lag behind those found in Linux, pf lags behind OpenBSD's pf, some tools and problems haven't changed in years, bhyve isn't production ready, CAM target is a toy when compared to what COMSTAR is providing for iSCSI and SRP (no LUN masking, per-port configuration or initiator grouping), jails are no match for Solaris zones.

PC-bsd, pfsense and freenas use patches from STABLE and HEAD to get things done, they can't use unpatched FreeBSD because it's not meeting their needs.

You seem to be working on 8.5, 9.4 or 10.2 and the others don't see a release until you're done with the one you're focusing on.

I'm using 9.3 right now. I had to wait until you were done with 10.1, hoping FreeBSD 9.4 will be next.

There's no way to plan anything around FreeBSD's release or development process. There's no telling if your new FreeBSD version is going to be stable or not, a driver from STABLE might be more stable than the same driver from RELEASE.

Many live systems are lagging behind with FreeBSD updates because updating those systems can lead to extended downtime due to potential bugs in drivers or a potential breakage caused by the merging of conf files.

Perhaps you could also take a quick look at my other reply regarding qlogic.

My system is still crashing consistently with a fully updated 10.0.

It's only a question of time before I find something which crashes 10.1.

nope. only sec patches are applied. Updates are infrequent.

qlogic drivers had bugs in 10.0 which crash the system. Fully updated 10.0 is still affected.

This is why Ubuntu and other Linux distributions are still better. They actually get bugs fixed.

I sometimes have to patch the sources with change sets from HEAD or STABLE to get bug fixes.

Isn't that like a security patch?