I recently went to buy tickets to see a stage play at a local community theater. Turns out last play I saw there was 15 years ago.

Wtf? Why do you have info on an account I haven’t logged into in 15 years?

Until there’s real fines for data loss, these companies won’t change. Hell, for all I know they have friends in the dark web/hacker world and “leak” credentials to them.

What the? I don’t remember that at all, and how totally bizarro as a toy.

Do it!

I imagine it’s about use-case.

I have no concern about desktop performance, and frankly virtual box is such a dog all the time that anything else is faster.

VMware now uses KVM for it’s desktop virtualization, which is definitely better than VirtualBox. Even old VMware Workstation on Windows is far better than VirtualBox.

My reaction was “what the fark?”

I mean the layers of crap on crap. Just wow.

The effort they put in to do all that was surely more than it would’ve taken to just ship, oh, any version of Linux? Or even the open-sourced version of dos? (I kid, I kid!)

Very, very interesting reading. I’m kind of shocked.

Well, virtualizatiin systems tend to run at root level, since they need to emulate things like processors (yea, that’s not the only way, but business-class virtualizatiin is done at the OS level).

The violation they target users for is sharing a video, and that’s usually through a file sharing service like torrenting.

Think of it this way - whatever you watch online via a browser you’re already downloading. Or via an app.

You know, it really tweaks me that torrenting is associates with piracy, when it could’ve become the defacto way to share files between users, if OS devs had just included the protocol in the OS (looking at you Android, but Windows and Apple too).

I’ve often questioned why it wasn’t…

Time to file the divorce papers.

I’ve found using a blow dryer works pretty well, and helps keep the wax liquid until the cloth can absorb it (often it’s linseed mixed with beeswax, the linseed really makes a difference). The extra heat seems to help the fibers remain soft and the liquid flowing, while driving off the excess solvent

This is called tincloth, if OP’s interested.

My experience with it - makes for a heavy material that is rain resistant, not proof.

If you’ve ever tried on a Western Duster coat, you know how heavy that stuff is.

I have a couple tincloth hats, works great for that, but I’ve had to retreat them annually, use a lot of wax when doing it, and they’re still only rain resistant. Water will eventually work it’s way in.

Still, they don’t control it. Which means support is a real problem.

They’re not even paying for a service, which would give you contractual commitments.

I just say “post grezz sequel”. Sorry if it pisses people off, but it’s a stupid name, so I’m gonna say it the way I want.

I look forward to the day when all these lame-ass, insider naming conventions are looked down upon as the stupid things they are.

Wtf does “en jinx” or “engine X” have to do with it’s functionality?

I hate looking for an app on my phone that does a particular thing but hell if I can recall what the idiot developed called it.

Rules of English, the closest I’d come is n-jinx. You don’t pronounce letters individually, unless reciting the alphabet or something.

Unless you pronounce the letter “B” the same way you say it, like the bug that makes honey.

We don’t say “beenefits” or “bee eee an eee eef eye tee ess”

Wtf?

It’s Jason. If they wanted it pronounced that way, they should’ve spelled it differently…

Like GIF

Sorry, no, at least one could argue GIF. JSON is a single freakin’ vowel short of a common male name.

Morons.

Very cool, thanks!

Wait, what??

You can’t just post that without a link!

Frankly the military should re-evaluate.

As good as Signal is for the average non-technical person, organizations with resources would be far better served by hosting their own, using something like XMPP with encryption, with servers only permitting connection from their own compiled clients, run in a container on the phone, which have been available since at least 2010.

No business I’ve worked for would accept Signal as a solution, in part because you have little control over it.

Easily replaceable batteries.

I have a 2017 phone I just put a battery in for $10. They’re replaceable, just not without tools.

Looks like a burned cashew to me!