It’s a lot faster to stick an existing web ui into an electron app than make a true native app.

No, that’s too rational. What leverage does he have on all of these distro maintainers? Someone needs to get to the bottom of this! /s

Hopefully by then Poettering will have retired and stopped inflicting his software in people.

How did he get so much influence over most mainstream distros? Asking for a friend…

This is gold.

None of my mobile devices are “necessary,” though. Honestly, I could live just fine without an internet connection. Not that I’d enjoy it, but that’s not necessary.

They need to know how they were hacked so they can fix the vulnerability. NSO broke the law when they hacked whatsapp, it seems reasonable that they’re forced to share details to prevent others from using the same method.

I’m wondering on what grounds is NSO allowed to keep the names of their co-conspirators (AKA clients) secret?

“Necessary” is a little ambiguous. You could argue that wifi is unnecessary for a normal home network.

Security and efficiency make up 2 corners of an iron triangle. You generally have to sacrifice one of them to get the other (or increase the project cost/schedule).

Here’s my use-case, I’m pretty sure the first 2 are pretty common (common enough to be supported by most OEM firmware):

• main LAN
• guest LAN (isolated from “main” but can access internet)
• IoT LAN (isolated from internet, can be accessed from “main”; prevents devices from phoning home)

Openwrt works great for gigabit networks with simple firewall rules and no IPS. But used 10-56gbps enterprise equipment is getting pretty cheap, and more complicated firewall configurations need more powerful hardware than the typical openwrt router.

And 56gbps on a home LAN might be overkill, but that’s not important.

Their contacts are most likely protected by NDAs, but they’re also written by lawyers who know how to close loopholes. There’s no way a SIG like the HDMI forum would allow members to release compatible products without following the rules.

Even if it isn’t covered by the contract, the other members could hold a vote to remove AMD from the forum.

No, they can’t. AMD is a member of the HDMI forum, which means they’re contractually obligated to follow the forum’s rules. In exchange, they get voting rights on decisions like this one, the right to propose changes to the HDMI standards, technical details that are protected by NDAs, etc. They wouldn’t throw that all away and open themselves up to a lawsuit just for their OSS drivers.

You can’t remove drives from a zpool though. So if you start with a small drive and keep adding drives as you fill them up, you’ll eventually run out of SATA ports and want to replace the smallest drive. The only way to do that is to create a new zpool and copy all of your data to it, which means you need a second set of drives that’s at least as big as the first.

Or you could add a pci-e SATA card, if you have an extra pci-e port. Used cards like the Dell PERC H310 are cheap and reliable and support 8 drive on their own, or >256 with cheap expander cards that can be daisy-chained (and only need power, so they don’t use up pci-e slots).

Edit: looks like they added support for removing drives about 5 years ago.

We’re pretty much at the point where 2.5" SSDs are old…

DVI-D uses TMDS, which is a serial protocol. So if you want to be really pedantic you could call it a serial port even though it’s not RS232.

DVI-A also transmits metadata over a serial connection, but the video signal is parallel analog.

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Are you speaking from experience?

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted, since you gave clear instructions that anyone can follow to verify what you said.

In this case, we’re talking about the OPs example of someone implementing a complex message passing architecture in Java instead of using an off the shelf solution. There are devs with 20+ years at the same company who don’t know the basics of networking/cloud, because they haven’t improved their technical skills much in those 20 years and instead focused on corporate politics. Those are the people who tend to gets asked for advice from upper management.

These kinds of issues are common on any large software project.