Separate devices provide reliability and supportability.
If your all-in-one device has issues, you can’t remote in to maintain it.
Take a look at what enterprises do: redundant external interfaces, redundant services internally. You don’t necessarily need all this, but it’s worth considering "how do I ensure uptime and enable supportability and reliability? ".
Also, we always ask “what happens if the lone SME (Subject Matter Expert) is hit by a bus?” (You are that Lone SME).
To be fair, the pro plan is for the non-local stuff, which is at least understandable as domains and resolution services are non-free.
Also ongoing development takes resources. Seems like a reasonable approach.
I say this as someone who absolutely despises subscriptions.
Not on “my” smart fridge… Cause, you know, well fuck that.
Depending on the vinegar, a touch of sugar is acceptable.
Mustard is just an emulsifier (though I prefer mayo have a bit for the flavor).
Also you’re so wrong: Mayonnaise - Etymology, Origin Meaning https://www.etymonline.com/word/mayonnaise
American cheese is fine, don’t conflate the real cheese (which is just Swiss without aging or bacteria) with Kraft American Cheese Food product.
I’ve had American cheese that wasn’t the processed thing most people think of, just a cheese made from dairy, like any other cheese.
The problem is in labeling - since American cheese can be anything from real cheese to the processed stuff, people don’t know what they’re getting unless they know the producer.
Cheese freezes pretty well, depending on how you intend to use it later (most cheese get a little dry/crumbly).
They must be defrosted gently, unless you intend it to be melted.
Tomatoes are sweet?
I grew up gardening, tomatoes aren’t sweet… Unless you specifically get a sweet variety.
As for ketchup, stop buying shitty brands of ketchup. If you think ketchup is crap, I suggest you read some history of the stuff, and maybe make your own.
Sadly most people only know mayo from a jar, and then it’s all the crappy brands.
There are like 3 or 4 brands of mayo that have any flavor (Hellmann’s, Best Brands, there’s one from the southeast that I can’t recall, etc).
Once you make your own in 5 minutes (for about 75¢), you realize how weak store-bought stuff is (for $5).
Google has always been evil. Why else was their byline “Don’t be evil”?
If you have to make such a disclaimer…
Oh fuck me, Robbing the Cradle was spooky as fuck.
And I was old enough that it shouldn’t have bothered me, but they sucked you right into it.
So much this.
Why is Signal hosted in one location on AWS, for example? That’s the sort of thing that should be in multiple places around the world with automatic fail over.
Depends on who we’re talking about. Companies like finance orgs are all about legal contracts and would be able to hold their feet to the fire.
You don’t want to go to court against a finance company or any very large org where contract law is their bread and butter (basically any large/multinational corp).
Amazon’s not hosting just small operations.
Much of this stuff is automatic - I’ve worked with such contracted services where uptime is guaranteed. The contracts dictate the terms and conditions for refunds, we see them on a monthly basis when uptime is missed and it’s not done by a person.
I imagine many companies have already seen refunds for outage time, and Amazon scrambled to stop the automation around this.
They’ll have little to stand on in court for something this visible and extensive, and could easily lose their shirt with fines and penalties when a big company sues over breech when they choose to not renew.
Just cause they’re big doesn’t mean all their clients are small or don’t have legal teams of their own.
I just added a 30mm case fan to my SFF. I went with a compressor style given the space constraints and restrictions (they tend to draw more current because of the load).
It increased draw by <1 watt - it barely registers on the meter.
I don’t think fans really make much difference. My 120mm compressor is 4w on the label (which is peak load, like startup). It probably drops back to 1/2 W after startup. And that’s a huge fan in a compressor style, equivalent to a 200mm+ in a conventional fan.
Yea, it’s the end of the world with Signal.
Having such a dependcy just exposes yet another way their story doesn’t add up, like dropping SMS support because of engineering costs. Apparently, SMS is so hard to do there are free SMS apps.
I can’t trust them at this point.
And how does E2E require a middleman?
More like it’s their store-and-forward servers. Why that’s on AWS, or more importantly not distributed with auto fail over is a major fail, as in “get fired” failure.
Really tells us all we need to know about Stephen King.
I read his crap as an older teen, and frankly it sucked.
Who came up with this graphic design?
What a terrible way to show this data, and only shows a small amount of info.
Could’ve been 6 lines if text and imparted as much.
Exactly, keeping components separated, especially the router.
Hardware routers “cost money because they save money” (Sorry, couldn’t resist that movie quote). A purpose-built router will just run and run. I have 20 year old consumer routers that still “just work”. Granted, they don’t have much in the way of capability, but they do provide a stable gateway.
I then use two separate mesh network tools, on multiple systems. The likelihood of both of those failing simultaneously is low. But I still have a single failure point in the router, which I accept - I’ve only had a couple outright fail over 25 years, so I figure it’s a low risk.