The Apple TV is an excellent streaming box. It’s truly the first device that I have used that I don’t hate the interface on.

Well, I’m a person, not a bot. Sorry you don’t like my take. I don’t know how else to put my foot down, I voted lesser evil for Hillary and Kamala already. I am committed to breaking their strategy of offering status quo candidates that don’t move the needle and have almost no chance of winning.

I’ll take it. If Kamala ends up as our candidate I will purposefully abstain. If blue can’t put up a solid inspiring candidate, they need to feel that with voter turnout.

I actually don’t remember, I was mainly focused on the BGP configurations and data collection for presenting to our leadership. I think unbound allowed you to configure the cache size. Our servers were just cache servers, so if they did not have a record the server would just recurse the request.

In a previous role at an Internet provider, I was the network engineer in charge of the Anycast DNS cache servers. The company made it some sort of point of pride to buy the cheapest hardware possible. I guess that is the beauty of anycast, failure recovery is pretty much automatic.

Anyways, the servers were dead cheap, single power supply, single SSD. They ran BSD, but my system engineer and I wanted to convert them to Linux, so we ran a proof of concept for switching. We ran performance tests against the same server hardware with BSD and with Ubuntu, I think we saw loss on the BSD server at 325k QPS and Ubuntu made it closer to 500k QPS. Oh, we had like 16 of these caches and our peak load network wide across all of them was something like 36k QPS.

It was a pretty cool setup. If I am remembering correctly we used unbound, ExaBGP, IPTables, and a health check script that would trigger the advertisements to our core network. Although we really wanted to switch to Linux (or rather away from BSD), we were primarily driven by the fact that Cisco IOS-XR does not support DNS query IP SLA tests, which we used previously to trigger the route advertisements.

I live in New Hampshire and Maine was so terrible with their amber/safety alerts that I shut them off entirely on my phone. I remember getting woken up at 2 or 3am for an abducted child, they knew it was a parent. Later they sent out an ‘extreme’ (whatever the highest level is) threat to human life after a road rage incident where 1 guy shot another guy at an intersection. I was 150 miles away. That is a heck of a radius to set for one guy with a pistol. They ought to save extreme for when a meteor is headed for us or something.

Unfortunately my work machine has an ARM Snapdragon Elite (it’s way better than it has any business being) and the ARM version of Firefox does not yet seem to play well with Yubikey certificates. I tried every which way of ARM and x86-64 Yubikey certificate drivers but none resolved my issues. I believe FIDO2 works, but some of our applications still require certificate authentication.

Wake me up when Valve has an app store on Android that leverages the FEX translation layer to run my Steam library. Gamehub and Gamenative are not my favorite.

If there was a viable Windows Lite, wouldn’t everyone just use that?

A 5mm Allen wrench was taken from me in Istanbul. The 4mm was ok, he looked at both, but the 5 could be dangerous. They were THE EXACT SAME SIZE. Standard L-shape

Evaporated is ‘used’. It’s arguably more ‘used’ than it is when it goes down the sewer to local wastewater treatment, as that water is often put back into groundwater through infiltration fields. Depleting aquifers is the main concern of data center water usage.

Who are they expecting to sell stuff to if everyone is unemployed and fighting over an ever decreasing piece of the pie?

I already own a lifetime Plex pass, so I have no reason to stop using it. They are high thinking that anyone will pay $750 for lifetime. I paid under $100 but frankly I would have paid more, I use it every day. I’m glad that the devs there were able to get paid and provide for their families while making Plex. Plex works incredibly well for me and my family, I will use it for as long as I am able to.

I struggle to understand why JF users seem to want Plex users to convert so badly. I used JF for a while but things are great on Plex. If I thought JF was better I would switch and my metadata is well prepared for the day I need to.

Microsoft and game devs facing the reality of having to do more with the same hardware rather than speed running hardware obsolescence.

Googled it: Proton operates under a unique hybrid model. Its core services (such as Proton Mail and Proton VPN) are run by a for-profit Swiss corporation, Proton AG, but the primary voting shareholder is the non-profit Proton Foundation.

This structure was designed to permanently put people before profits and protect the company from hostile takeovers or venture capital control. While the foundation ensures the company never deviates from its privacy-first mission, Proton AG must remain profitable to be fully independent and self-sustaining without relying on subsidies.

Yeah I think you said it better. If I boycotted every company that employs one person I disagree with I would be self hosting everything. Proton represents the best in privacy-focused non-Google/Microsoft hosted email and productivity services. There are numerous reasons that we should want to see them succeed if even just to take some market share from Google.

Proton pass has been fine for me. I don’t care that the one Proton guy said the one thing that time, I’m out of energy and it’s good enough.

Same here, JF is on reserve but I’ll be sad if I ever need to switch. Ever since they fixed downloads I have 0 major complaints. Plex just works, and it works very well for my and my family’s needs. I am perfectly happy paying once for software that I use every single day.

Bitlocker is computer drive encryption. On W11 it’s supposed to be tied to the motherboards TPM. End to end encryption is not really applicable in this scenario. That phrase is more applicable to cloud services or storage where a telecom or CSP hosts or transports your data but can’t see what the data is.

Microsoft should not have the keys to decrypt Bitlocker ever.

I feel you on the UI changes, I’ve definitely noticed the extra clicks, and there is also a bit of a weird pattern when navigating between the main content area and the top bar where the selector wants to go to the left navigation pane.

I still feel fortunate every time I open up Plex that it exists, and I’m sure that their devs hear enough criticism on the internet that I try to leave something positive for them to find. So until the day that Plex operates anything close to the miserable experience that is a Roku in 2026, I’ll keep using it. I maintain perfect metadata and file naming for just that day.