Never use SMR drives for a RAID setup. But outside of RAID, they’re probably fine.

The linked essay is quite long and (at least for me) hard to read. One of the first links in the article is to this patreon blog post, that summarizes the issue well.

As we first announced last year, Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024.

This has two major consequences for creators:

1. Apple will be applying their 30% App Store fee to all new memberships purchased in the Patreon iOS app, in addition to anything bought in your Patreon shop.
2. Any creator currently on first-of-the-month or per-creation billing plans will have to switch over to subscription billing to continue earning in the iOS app, because that’s the only billing type Apple’s in-app purchase system supports.

Before we go any further, we want to be crystal clear about one thing: Apple’s fee will not impact your existing members. It will only affect new memberships purchased in the iOS app from November onward.

Is your question about the task for the end user? If all works well, it might take as long as installing a new operating system on any other device. Maybe half an hour give or take.

The 100mb/sec are becoming a bottleneck for some use cases, but the capacity is awesome.

It’s lile 5 years and I still have not seen one good use case for blockchain except cryptocurrencies.

Ryzen 2000 and 3000 are still fairly recent and were announced 5-6 years ago.

Absolutely true from a technical perspective. But if you’re shopping for used devices, the price difference can be quite relevant. I’ve seen 7th gen PCs at ~100€, while 8th gen PCs are sold for littpe under 200€.

I bought such an old computer. 6th gen i3 Intel CPU, upgraded the memory to 16G and added more storage. For me, it works well.

However, I recommend checking the power usage of the system. Some older PCs might be very piwer hungry, which makes them expensive in the long run.

Edit: 6th gen and 7th gen Intel CPUs are not compatible with windows 11. The market is full of these old PCs and they are cheam. I personally would not buy anything older.

That’s true for AMD/Intel comparisons. It doesn’t really matter when comparing one vendor.

But you’re right, it is not really trustworthy

I’d rather have a great documentation than five different blog posts, where some of them might be outdated, wrong or insecure (and you only find out later).

But yes, they are helpful and easily available for popular software.

With FSR getting better each year, I think the time is ready for full hd on the deck. Also, 2560x1600 would be a nice option, offering both high DPI and flawless scaling from the original resolution.

That’s a truely unusual way. Why not set it up on a raspberry pi?

This seems like a huge win for Microsoft

I absolutely expect vendors to push out new patterns automatically and as fast as possible.

But in this case, a new system driver was rolled out. And when updating system software, I absolutely expect security vendors to use a staged rollout like everyone else.

Ok, makes sense

Why not? There are some popular examples, like mysql --> mariadb or elasticsearch --> opensearch

Sure. But you could also just not turn off the mail server for a start ;)

I just hope they don’t destroy this beautiful product.

For me, the license stuff is odd. They offer a license model with two tiers (user / server), yet the license seems to do nothing (except showing a little badge). Also, it is a one time payment which will likely not be substantial in the future.

Why not create a “supporter” tier for maybe $2 per month or so, this would bring some recurring income without the fears of paywalling the product.

Correct. But at least for me, even the low risk of some e-mails getting lost is pretty substantial.