As an user that paid for windows home server, why windows home server 2(011) was a complete failure

1. Updating to whs2 required a full wipe - unacceptable by everyone
2. Updating to whs2 required to pay full price and not upgrade price - lol
3. The system drive wasn’t covered by redundancy and you would lose all the settings if the drive died
4. The data drives also couldn’t get any kind of redundancy as they REMOVED the feature from the server and moved it to clients! What the fuck? It was the main selling point! Easy raid for everyone. What’s the purpose of the “home server” if it couldn’t pool drives, while the clients with Windows 8 home instead could set a massive, redundant, pool of 10 drives???
5. They removed the useful feature that backed up automatically all the windows computers in the network
6. They removed the basic features like the media gallery and such, to see that you would need windows media center… but 6 years after they killed windows media center

They had the right product at the right time. No other free or paid alternative was that user friendly in allowing laymen in mixing and matching multiple disks and having redundancy

Doing that with pure Linux command line at the time it was inconceivable for 99% of users (at most a raid1 with mdadm over two drives could be easily attained) and windows home server initially was an alternative but Microsoft was completely misguided and “improvements” in Windows home server 2 completely killed it

Then they added docker support and it was even easier to self host everything.

But if they tried to launch today, with how mature are free alternatives, they would never reach critical mass adoption to be sustainable.

For example, I don’t think that the paid fork of truenas that LTT has economically backed is going to be successful

That sticker “pressure tested” on the camera housing is not lying

The chip is on the cartridge, so they can retrieve it constantly as you buy new ones

They seem to not care, some methods are even server side, they could have patched hwidgen a decade ago

Yes the stores are filled to the brim with low effort mobile games ad viewers

Even in China, where you’re basically forced to login with mobile (+ otp verification) for almost every service, there’s no such requirement for downloading apps from app stores

Here’s is how to get 3 extra years for free: https://massgrave.dev/ without Microsoft account login

It’s the same Asus that doesn’t allow bootloader unlock anymore for “stability concerns”?

but they need to show the shareholders that they can also have the “move fast and break things” style of updates like tesla that pushes ota updates automatically without user consent

It might be the same situation of me. I’m not a fascist and I use hyprland, I just was unaware until now.

And can only use that 15% off in their boutique store where stuff is more expensive than other outlets

9.5 years is ancient for smartphones, not for something that is supposed to work indefinitely like a switch

Also, that time is the best case scenario. When they stopped selling those switches? 3 years ago? Unless they discontinued them almost immediately after launch, there are customers with a much shorter timeframe

I read the title as "Logitech will bring new smart home buttons on October 15” and I thought “hmm new proprietary iot shit, I wonder when they’re going to brick them”

with the new system, you must go online to check if the license for that app is still valid or revoked. But the current system works almost the same: if there’s an internet connection play protect checks the signature against an online malware db and prevents installation.

From a couple years ago, google has the power to remotely install/uninstall any apk on your phone without your consent

yes, of course malware is distributed via apk.

But what’s the difference between:

1. malware that is signed anonymously and then, when its signature is identified, it’s removed via play protect
2. malware that is signed with a stolen identity and then, when its signature is identified, it’s removed via play protect

?

Isn’t exactly the same stuff? Or there’s someone that is actually thinking that criminals will use their real ID card for the verification?

Does not change anything for malware distribution, except bother them for a dozen minutes meanwhile they “verify” their stolen ID

the way they originally phrased it, it was seemingly because of authoritarian governments like singapore wanting to exert more control (hey google, can you revoke the certificate or doxx this dev for us?) and then they realized that they could make more money if they extended this block worldwide

if scammers can open a bank account with stolen identities, i’d assume google, which is entirely run by bots without any human oversight, wouldn’t have a better detection

Can someone “redpilled by corporate” explain me how this policy actually increase security?

It’s trivial for a malware developer to pay $25 with a stolen card and a stolen id

Look at the “verified” bots on xitter, they didn’t solve the bots problem, rather just monetized it

Found the 91 Google employees