Most businesses would be fine with either Nutanix or XCP-ng.

There's also Microsoft and Citrix. I am reluctant to even mention them in a post about escaping miserable corporate behavior, in spite of their long-established footprint in this market. Still, they are better than Broadcom.

While the changes to their app store seem excessive, this is in response to a deliberate attempt to ignore or circumvent the previous sanctions.

They need to be taught a lesson. Corporations rarely learn anything unless it affects their bottom line. And this contempt ruling hit it hard.

It appears that the outdated monitoring system is limiting capacity and reducing efficiency.

If an upgrade (and periodic tech refreshes) are necessary to meet transit demands, then what else can they do? This is far cheaper than digging new tunnels, assuming new tunnels are even possible.

If they implement a protocol that depends only on basic sensors and simple communication protocols, they could configure replacements cheaply as equipment reaches its end-of-sales or end-of-life age.

Tape was designed for archival use, and there is even a special long-term archival variant. The LTO format is backward-compatible at least two generations according to the spec, and often more than that in practice.

Instead of dealing with a slightly slow yet highly reliable technology, they chose something quick and cheap. Anyone with archival experience could have told them it was a bad idea, and I strongly suspect they were told repeatedly.

Corporate execs aren't that brilliant. They deserve neither unchecked authority nor massive paychecks.

Note that they "waived [their] right" to arbitration in this case.

Disney still believes they have the right to force arbitration due to their Disney+ TOS, and their language deliberately maintains that right. They are simply letting it go this time due to the backlash.

If they screw you over next time, you'll have to fight their lawyers over the arbitration clause before a court will ever hear your actual case. Unless you can provoke a public backlash.

They're not interested in playing fair with their customers. They're just stepping away from a PR disaster---this time.

I used to work for a mejor telco. Don't give them an inch.

If they can't bargain with city and county officials, let those areas remain underserved.

They will abuse every last phrase, word, or letter in the law to get what they want. And they only care about profit. If anything, they're downright resentful of the fact that they should be providing quality service to earn that profit.

This is the one industry that I am categorically against empowering. We do want good internet service, but telco monopolies are not the way we get it.

Imagine having a network so pooorly segmented that some random dunce can download malware that spreads to your billing, inventory, and records systems.

I know "zero trust" is almost a management buzzword at this point, but we have the technology to prevent these kind of attacks from hitting critical infrastructure.

Sure, a bunch of workstations within a broadcast domain may infect each other, but anything beyond that is negligence---in my opinion, we should demand better in health, safety, and finance sectors at a minimum.

Now we get to hear middle managers and finance bros go crazy for crypto.

I am mentally preparing for some of the dumbest "hot takes" I'll ever hear.

As long as the demand pushes the price up, I suppose I'll survive.

This scenario is mostly fearmongering and nonsense.

Why would you ever trust a CA operating out of an authoritative state?

Every modern OS or browser--even Windows--allows you to choose which CAs you'll trust. If you are vulnerable in this situation, it is because your system is misconfigured.

If you want to be very careful, you can prune your trusted certificate store to the bare minimum or configure pinning for critical certificates. Or both.

Oh look, it's the same stupid questions every time renewable energy comes up.

And it's the same answers:

1. Storage is getting better and feasible in more scenarios, but everyone understands it is a limitation.
2. Solar isn't the only form of renewable energy; it's just the easiest to deploy in developed residential/commercial areas.
3. Replacement of fossil fuels is a long-term goal. Reduction is the immediate goal.
4. If batteries are recycled properly, their environmental impact is low.

On a cloudy day, those "10 nuclear reactors" may only provide the energy of 2-8 reactors, depending on the severity of the cloud cover, but it is still a much better than 0.

Also, if your panels are spread enough and connected to a distribution grid, then it doesn't matter. It can't be cloudy everywhere. Distribution may be the real-world answer to the "storage" problem.

He gave them a choice between the physical and NFT versions when he sold it, and he even gave them a year to decide which they wanted.

And he's keeping his promise.

I have no interest in owning any existing NFTs, but at least this guy is playing it straight.

It's a professional/hobbyist media creation device.

The display supports two popular colorspaces, neither of which is particular important to gamers, streamers, etc. The screen is high-res, wide gamut, and high color accuracy---and it supports multitouch and stylus with degrees of pressure.

This thing is basically one of the biggest digital art tablets that you can get, which happens to include a decent PC. Comparing it to a regular PC is, quite frankly, ignorant.

If you're not doing graphics work, this wasn't designed for you.

I don't know if you're a troll or if you're genuinely ignorant.

Laptops have been outselling desktops by roughly 2:1 for years.

In my house, we have two desktops and 4-5 laptops (one is retired/spare... count that as you will). One is a gaming laptop, one is a mobile workstation, and two (plus spare) are ultraportables.

At work, all users are provisioned with laptops or VDI seats unless they specifically request something else. Very few do.

Imagine being so terrified of unions that you're willing to do other "good" things to undermine the union movement.

Every time I read about a company spending millions to campaign against unions, it makes me like unions more. Double the effect when they put effort into improving the workplace.

They could have been not-terrible all along, but it's only "in the company's interest" when they're opposing unionization.

He had years of chat logs and emails on his computer where he was running Silk Road.

Those logs included the murder conspiracies.

A judge can consider all available evidence.

That sentence saved us the expense of a second trial for the murder charges. I'm fine with that. Dude is scum and belongs in prison.