jonathantf2

Most people using serverless do not use or need autoscaling.

I've read loads of stories where people will click through all these protections , tick the box saying they know it's not a scam and lose all their money. Then they go crying to the media complaining that the bank didn't refund them.

I logged into the SSID and tried to set a password on the interface itself but then apparently it lost connection to their system and needed to be reset. Not sure as to why an electrician can’t just install an Ethernet cable at the same time as the massive battery

My parents have one of these systems installed - the guy that did it took the password off their WiFi since it "doesn't support it". Even with a password on the home WiFi it defaults to broadcasting it's own open SSID that will happily display the wireless key to anybody that connects to it. Apparently these don't support Ethernet either..

Not from what I've seen - I often see people searching Bing for Google then searching on there, not knowing how to change the default.

I find that the domain registrar takes action more often than not (I guess because they're bound to ICANN's regulations), then the moment the domain is stopped Cloudflare sends an automated e-mail saying that they don't host the website because the DNS records stopped resolving.

But then you have millions of endpoints booting without malware protection

Most corporate users are Outlook users - looking at the stats for some of our customers, most of their messages go straight back to Exchange instead of any other e-mail host

I work at an IT provider - we see this daily. Have to whitelist to keep the customer happy, usually the other end is a 1 or 2 person business with an old hosted Yahoo system or similar

Because then the carrier charge about 10x what they'd charge a SIM only customer for the data, and it usually ends up costing more for the handset going through finance than buying it outright

HPE stuff is fine imo, networking stuff is decent and the servers still have some quirks from the HP days but other than that are great.

HP make nice monitors and that's about it, every other product of theirs is utter trash now - I advise everybody I know to steer clear of any of their stuff. They're on my shit-company list, right at the top with GoDaddy.

Which is what 95 percent of computer use is now.

Isn't that what fired means?

Because I've hosted websites where blocking datacentre IPs has caused a massive reduction in spam and malicious activity - and tried to use Google search with Mullvad dialled only to be greeted by a CAPTCHA every other search.

My dad used to complain that he couldn't get on certain websites, got CAPTCHAs a lot more than he used to and often prices came up in US dollars on his computer, turns out he paid for a 3y plan to NordVPN and had it start on start up on his computer.

He can barely work the Sky box never mind stream stuff from the internet, he got duped into thinking it would make him "safer" when in reality it just makes using the internet a lot harder as everyone flags your traffic as malicious based on the datacentre IP.

It's the reason I use both. Spotify's recommendations and social features are much better than Apple's - but the exclusive DJ sets and recordings of concerts etc are a great value add.

There might also be some legal implications by doing this - in the UK we have to log everything at student ever goes on or searches to be compliant with safeguarding regulation.

Usually you can tell if an HP has this crap preloaded if it has an e on the end of the model number, however this one doesn't seem to?

I just avoid anything made by HP, everything from their laptops to printers to servers seem to suck nowadays.

Games with anti-cheat, Adobe apps, a few apps for work that only run on Windows

Never once had that in my life.

The UK's £100 limit only applies for using the actual card, if using a device to pay it's authenticated with your PIN or biometric and you can pay up to £10,000. If you look on the receipt you can see "cardholder device verified"

I remember putting up Minecraft servers under .uk.to, also co.cc

Our Sophos anti-virus at work blocked access to every website this morning because of the leap year, had to disable the web filtering to get us back up and running.

I own two Back-UPS 1400VA units, one monitored with apcupsd and the other with a MikroTik router - so I guess it's just the newer units that have this issue?

Getting a very un-Google like "Error: Server Error" hitting this page... can't imagine HN has overloaded a Google page, especially since I'm looking at this 3 hours after it was posted

That's the worst part (and I know that most people will never buy a license because they get it through their OEM or just crack it) but Microsoft are still happy to charge you £220 for a Windows 11 Pro licence [0] and shove ads in your face.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h...

Fairly sure this is because of their API changes - maybe they don't want people scraping?

Zero - I run a script when I install the OS and it kills all of that. I've never once had a Windows Update break anything on any of the computers I own. I definitely shouldn't have to do set a load of regkeys to make the computer do what I want it to do but it certainly beats the experience of Linux on a desktop.

It's a weird one because they had a decent product line and just seem to be making really weird choices - I assume to market to the home/"pro-sumer" crowd instead of actual businesses? They just came out with a network switch with RGB for damnsake.

A few of my IT clients have UniFi routers and they're quite lackluster for the price - pretty UI but loads of broken features and bugs galore, and you can't manage them centrally like the rest of the UniFi kit.