Lol.

May be those fees are annual licensing fees. And who knows what else is tied to that (support contracts, etc)?

I once enabled my company to forgo a license renewal of $10k…after 3 months of heavy work. Not really a big savings. But it also then eliminated an annual $1 mil in servicing fees that they would’ve had to pay for 10 years, by contract (so saved $10 mil). That we didn’t know when I started.

Find a new company? 😆

The mall was dying by the 80’s, there was a sharp decline by then (I recall seeing numerous malls going vacant in the 90’s, around the country).

The things that drove mall popularity (especially things like large, enclosed, air-conditioned space), were no longer novel. Most cars were air-conditioned by then.

I’m sure there are many other factors, like the growth of free-standing single-vendor buildings (so construction and management costs must’ve changed).

Amazon really had nothing to do with it.

So, what’s the utility of labeling yourself a “bad person”?

Everyone, everyone is imperfect, it’s the nature of being human. And we’re all imperfect in our own way, though we may share categories or degree of imperfection with others.

What’s more useful is to acknowledge when a poor choice is made, and striving to make better choices.

Negative self-talk doesn’t help.

My Lexmark laser, from 1996, just quit last summer.

Though I think I can fix it - seems a paper jam sensor is stuck.

If you’ve owned more than 2, those are on you! 🤣

But yea, consumer printers suck.

Most lotions contain dimethicone, a silicone relative.

They both work by being moisture barriers, preventing moisture loss (for hand lotion).

As someone who struggles with skin issues, I don’t even bother with lotions that don’t have dimethicone, they’re practically useless for me.

Yes, no, sort of.

I mean shampoo is definitely not the same as laundry soap.

And even between shampoos, there are differences (as anyone with skin conditions can attest).

Are products in any one category largely the same? Yes. But there are differences.

Or any business, not even corporate.

You see the same crap in SMB.

Static IP address and Dynamic DNS can expose your network to attackers on the internet. With Holesail, you expose only the port you choose.

Er, wut? If you’re exposing a port, then your public IP is being used, as a port is a subset of an IP interface. So even Holesail uses the public IP in some way…thats how the internet works. Unless they’re only making outbound connections, which isn’t a new idea at all - Hamachi was doing it 20 years ago.

This sounds like FUD to me - of course your public IP is used, whether static or dynamic. How do they supposedly mitigate this risk?

There’s nothing on the home page saying how it works, or how it’s different than current solutions.

I’m intrigued to see a new tool in this space, but this one is starting off leaving a bad taste. Even Tailscale admits they use Wireguard, and even have a comparison between Wireguard and Tailscale that’s pretty honest (though they focus on what Tailscale adds).

Being open and transparent is a minimum today - anything less and it’s not worth the time for a second look.

Blame your company for not configuring that shit, or choosing to let MS handle it all.

Personally, no company should be using Office 365 and external mail. Bring that shit back in house.

No Know (wtf autoincorrect?) why bringing it in house costs more? Because it’s worth it, for the control.

Except I don’t want it in a OneDrive folder, I want it in My Docs. Which you now have to browse for every fucking time.

Well, I don’t, because I reconfigured that shit.

Hahahaha, sorry to hear (but I empathize). I can be a cheap bastard, so I have some shitty thumb drives around. I figure they eventually die anyway, so this stuff isn’t permanent.

I keep a folder on my server with the tools and noted to rebuild each one. Sometimes I even make an image with the tools, and only leave the ISOs out.

Ventoy kicks ass for a multi-boot drive. Just drop the ISO on the drive and Ventoy sees it. Slick

I’ve found some thumb drives don’t like to boot.

Ventoy has worked for almost everything. Proxmox doesn’t like it.

Or, hear me out… Don’t use Twitter?

NT (and therefore all Windows versions today) always had multi-user security. It’s essentially a ported version of DEC Alpha.

On install, the first user is admin, just like the first Linux account is root, or else you wouldn’t be able configure the machine.

Windows architecture built on DOS (3.x, 95,etc) lacked any such security, and was developed as a single-user OS (goes back to DOS86).

Great idea with the UPS, but dammit if they aren’t crazy expensive for the battery capacity/runtime you get.

I can build a full solar setup with way more battery capacity for the cost of a typical UPS (yes, they are different animals, so not exactly a fair comparison).

Well, the price reflects the performance and durability.

Its the old quality triangle:

Quality, Cost, Performance… Pick 2

Well it sounds like that laptop was problematic, not laptops in general.

I have a 26 year old laptop that still boots. A 15 year old one (Lenovo) that still runs fine (just replaced a fan in it last month, for $15).

I’ve carried many laptops over the years, and the better brands (Dell, Lenovo) have held up well, and I traveled for work a lot every Friday/Monday for years) .

But… The consumer lines of these brands don’t do so well. I think that’s a key difference. I’d never buy the consumer line of Dell hardware for example (Vostro), as it’s known to not be very good.