Proprietary service drops support for proprietary protocol..

And, yet, you also use their products daily but want to have no personal responsibility for that.

do any of your three new members understand percentages?

We have "free college" in Tennessee and I believe in Kentucky as well. Most kids still opt for the "big university" experience, but you can become a nurse or teacher in Tennessee without having to pay anything.

Nope. That's why I changed all my players to BlueOS.

If they cared about "high-quality" they would have ditched Yelp years ago.

I replaced all my SONOS connects with BlueSound node Nano devices. A pricey replacement, but worth it.

As a bonus I was now able to turn off SMB1 on my home Samba server !

That itty-bitty asterisk is carrying a lot of weight.

I wonder if any betting sites have set up a pool for this project?

FYI, it would be wonderful if true. I just do not believe it, being of the generation that knew "fusion is only 30 years away and always will be".

> Every large NAS vendor (Synology, QNAP, etc) has their own SMB server they wrote themserlves

That's untrue. Both Synology and QNAP use Samba. QNAP contributes code and bugfixes back to samba.org (Hi Jones !).

In his younger days, he tied his "philanthropic" giving to other countries to their use of Microsoft products.

I'm 56, and I'm really one of those freaks who just doesn't age. No gray hair, in great shape, finally noticing that my hands have a couple of wrinkles. But there are people my age who could pass for my grandparents, the last of whom died in 1994.

Microkernels are a great idea, but they need better hardware support (literally different architectural decisions) to work optimally. They can be made to work on modern CPUs, but they're never going to be great there. This presents a chicken/egg problem because nobody is going to invest a billion dollars making a new kind of CPU for an OS that doesn't yet exist.

To be fair, people in the gig economy don't tend to be good with math.