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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?

100%: anyone complaining that the mods are mean are not old enough to remember when the people in the moderator positions had actual real power.

If you pissed off a BBS sysop, they had the power to ban your ass, block your phone number, and tell you to fuck off and never come back. And if you really pissed them off, they'd call/netmail all their local BBS friends and you'd be tossed out of everywhere.

Shitposting on Usenet? You'd find your usenet provider would tell you to stop it, and if you didn't, they would revoke your account and that was that.

Doing abusive things on someone's FTP server with your actual email address? Your email provider would delete your shit and tell you to go fuck yourself.

Doing an abusive thing with your connection? (Winnuke, any sort of hacking, whatever) Your ISP would yank your connection and tell you to go fuck yourself.

And, of course, in a LOT of cases these were things provided by your work and/or school, which means you could have even more actual consequences for being a fuckstain.

There's no longer any painful enforcement of any norms (oh no, i have to spend 8 seconds making a new account!) because there's no longer any real gatekeepers with actual enforcement power.

Or, if they have it, they're too scared to use it, because they're too fussed with what someone might angry-tweet if they do.

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.

So vinyl I get. I even get cassette tape nostalgia to some degree.

But who, might I ask, has nostalgia for horrible quality video and audio and could actually want this?

The same reason people who drive 20 miles a day have worries about range on an EV that'll do 300, or why people espouse the freedom of Android but then use the default Google apps.

People like the option of choice, even if they're not necessarily ever going to engage in making a different one.

If there are two options for a computer, one is "will run everything" and the other is "will only run Windows" a good portion of people are still going to pick the first, even though very few of them will ever do anything else, simply because people really really like having the option of choice.

I'm now even MORE disappointed we never got this.

Yep, it is.

Looks like I typoed a 'they' in my post that would have probably clarified that a little better, so oops, my bad.

“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.

I am now sad that we never got a TNG mirror universe episode.

Would mirror Riker be goatee-Riker or fullbeard-Riker

As someone who has one: buy an Microsoft Surface with the Pen and keyboard and shit.

I'm using a... 3? 4? (6th gen intel, so it's old AF) and it works perfectly. Touch, pen, removable keyboard, sleep, etc.

You have to install some specific drivers from the Suface Linux project to get some of that working, but it's like a whole 10 minute deal.

Also, they're cheap as shit at this point, so bonus?

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.

how many books GRRM’s former assistants have smashed out in the time it’s taken him not to write one

Dance of Dragons: 2011

Leviathan Wakes: also 2011.

So uh, they wrote the whole damn Expanse, and made a TV show out of it before GRRM has done one book.

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.

At least a decade old, if not more than.

If you wanted to swap your vendor EFI image to something else, at this point it's all going to be via a SPI programmer, and if you own one of the two boards that it supports, coreboot/openboot.

But, essentially, you can't swap because there's very little supported hardware, and thus are stuck with your vendor proprietary EFI.

What's hilarious, I guess? is that the EFI setup is more or less it's own OS that can then chainboot an OS which is how the mid90s workstations (Sun, SGI, HP, etc.) worked.

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?