Prior art unfortunately doesn't necessarily means what common sense would dictate. If prior art hasn't applied for (and been granted) a patent, it frequently will be ignored by the patent examiner.

I have no idea what that site is, and since nobody bothered to give any context, I can't be bothered to research it...

OpenVPN and IPsec are both equally bad. They are insanely complex protocols that are difficult to deploy safely and that have a huge amorphous attack surface.

I'd much rather deploy a lean solution such as WireGuard. It was designed by people who actually understand security as opposed to just piling yet another abstraction on top of already unwieldy protocols

Both channels are strongly correlated though. There is generally a lot you can do to squeeze here

I am very puzzled too. The Livewire bike has been out for a couple of months, I think. I test road it about four weeks ago. And I have to agree with all the online reviews that I have found. It's the most fun I have had on the road in a long time. Really awesome bike. If you ever try one, you'll not want to go back to a gas powered bike.

Unfortunately, it has two major issues right now. It's rather pricey at around $30k, and range is very limited. In real-life usage, you might only get as little as 80 miles per charge. And unless you can find the right type of charge station (not necessarily easy for this particular model), you might have to wait 12h for a full charge at 110V.

This makes for a great commuter bike, but doesn't make for a good touring bike. And $30k is a bit hefty for a commuter.

Most of the cities that have large Google offices (e.g. Mountain View, San Francisco, New York, ...) already announced that they don't have any immediate plans to reopen their schools. While all of the school district are responsive to changing conditions, the current expectation is that schools will remain closed for a good while; and when they open, there are likely going to be restrictions in place.

The story is plain old click bait. It runs every few months, when there is nothing else to report. I guess, this time they got it wrong. There is plenty of worthwhile news all around. But they still had to rehash the old meme.

I have had the same experience that you had. USB-C works and it works well. Most of the devices that I have bought in the last couple of years have switched to USB-C. And they work well with each other. Definitely better than older proprietary USB extensions ever managed to do (remember all the different quick charging "standards"; and MHL; and OTG; and DisplayLink; and all the other short-lived experiments)?

And I am sure this meme will be posted again and again. If you look for it, it's easy to find failed implementations; so, it's easy to perpetuate the meme. But the availability of low-quality products is true for everything. I only need 5min on EBay or AliExpress, and I am sure I could find you something that fails to implement mains power correctly; but that doesn't mean we'll start abandoning 110V outlets.

Slashdot has been doing the same thing for years. My firewall complains about port scans each time I post on Slashdot...

It's also in the process of being shut down. Google has a long-standing tradition of building messaging products, stopping work once the product is 80% complete and then discontinuing before a replacement is fully developed. Rinse and repeat. They've been doing this for more than a decade.

Zoom has all sorts of different ways to access it. On my Chromebook, I can use the Chrome app (crashes after a few minutes, though), the Android app (works fine, but is extraordinarily difficult to start, because of some stupidity by Zoom), and the HTML5 web site (slightly easier to start, works fine, but has limited features).

From what Google has said, the first two options are no longer allowed. That't no big loss. They were buggy anyway. The third option still works and is allowed to be used.

On Mac and Windows, there also are options for native applications. Again, these would not be allowed by Google for security reasons. That's a bit more disappointing for users, as these apps have more features than the browser interface.

In an ideal world, Zoom would put resources into properly implementing the HTML5 version of its service and abandon all the broken and insecure other clients. It's bizzare that they would have spent so much effort in writing per-platform solutions, when they already have a cross-platform solution that is more stable, but needs a couple of extra features.

Spend $400 and buy a used Pixelbook i7 on EBay. Your mind will be blown. Native support for Linux containers is amazing. This device is literally better for my productivity than any other computer that I have ever owned. If you have a Linux-focused workflow, as most developers do these days, it's really hard to beat

The article is click bait. The author clearly hasn't seriously uses ChromeOS in a long time. All the comments on the article disagree with the author

I have been in this industry since the mid 1990s. I can't recall the last time I *didn't* have a Linux desktop. These days, that's a pretty standard configuration for software engineers, and it has been that way for more than two decades.

On the other hand, using a VM isn't necessarily wrong. Depends on how it is set up. For most of my day-to-day work, I actually use a Pixelbook. And all of the Linux applications run inside of a container (which lives inside of a VM). This implementation detail is mostly invisible to me. But it does come in handy every once in a while, if I want to quickly switch operating systems or if I want to take a snapshot of my container and then try out things that stand a chance of breaking my configuration.

Also, there is only so much that happens on the local machine. Quite frequently, I end up working somewhere in the cloud, but I can't really tell the difference as Linux and ChromeOS both do a really good job of integrating the cloud into the local workflow.

I have a Linux desktop environment running in the cloud. I don't need it very often, as my Pixelbook has great local Linux support. But it's there when I want to. And I can access it with Chrome Remote Desktop just fine. It's quite useful for special situations.

Apple is just bitter that they didn't notice this trend, whereas Google executed beautifully on it. Chromebooks have come a long way and these days can do 95% percent of what users need. A bought a Pixelbook, when they first came out, and haven't had to touch any other computer. A lot of things are on the web these days, and everyday it's more. Most companies are moving all their workflows to the web.

But Chromebooks aren't limited to that. They also run Android and Linux apps. In fact, my Pixelbook is the nicest Linux laptop I have ever owned. Everything just works out of the box. No more tweaking drivers all the time.

And that's really the big news. All other computers, Mac included, require constant maintenance and you always have to be worried about malware. ChromeOS nicely eliminates all this hassle. Things just work!

I recently bought another i7 Pixelbook off of EBay. At less than $400, it is hard to pass up on. Took me five minutes to be up an running, and another 15min to copy my Linux environment from my old computer. That's so much better than anything Apple can claim to do. They'll never have me buy another one of their products. Also, they keep adding gimmicks like a touchbar for function keys, but then they miss out on useful features such as being able to convert my laptop to a tent or tablet configuration when I want to share a presentation with others.

My Pixelbook is not only cheaper by a factor of almost 15, it's simply a better more useful device for most people. The only exception is things like heavy video editing. But that's a niche market. If you need it, then of course, get a powerful expensive machine. Most of us don't need it though.