Well they must give the stateside CSRs a different script because whenever I win the lottery and get an American on the phone it's a night and day difference. Notably they seem capable of solving complex problems without lying or smoke and mirrors.
An actual example, I recently had an issue that while straightforward and not that difficult to solve, was likely "off script". After being handed off between 4 different chat agents, and subsequent phone calls with two different Indians (who lied and made promises that weren't kept), my problem was not solved. At my wits end (and nearly 2.5 hours of my time wasted) I called back one more time. Inexplicably, I got a lady with a Southern accent. She solved my problem in under 10 minutes (and that included the approval she had to get from her supervisor).
Everyone is so preoccupied with losing their minds every time Trump trolls the media with some new nonsense on the socials that they're ignoring the completely insane things going on in the UK right now. Like arresting people for using naughty language online.
20 years ago this would have been daily outrage on Slashdot's YRO section but I get the feeling no one cares enough anymore.
I'm in awe at the number of people that will go to bat for things like artificial dyes in food, only because the policy is coming from the present administration. It's just common sense. We don't need to be ingesting this shit. It's cosmetic and not needed for nutrition. Why are you feeding your child Fruit Loops and not Cheerios?
I personally have known people who develop migraines after eating food with artificial dyes. We can sit here and snipe and play semantics and argue over pointless details but why bother? Just get rid of them all.
> We had a few seconds of power loss the other day. Everything in the house, including a Windows machine using NTFS, came back to life without any issues. A Synology DS720+, however, became a useless brick, claiming to have suffered unrecoverable file system damage while the underlying two hard drives and two SSDs are in perfect condition. It’s two mirrored drives using the Btrfs file system
Because every time btrfs is mentioned, 5 more people come out of the woodwork saying that it irreparably lost all their data. Sorry but there's just too many stories for it to be mere coincidences.
Your statement is misleading. No one is using btrfs on servers. Debian and Ubuntu use ext4 by default. RHEL removed support for btrfs long ago, and it's not coming back:
> Red Hat will not be moving Btrfs to a fully supported feature. It was fully removed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
This is DOA not because there is anything wrong with the app, but because iDevices make objectively poor baby monitors.
Babies sleep a lot. A LOT. Any halfway decent baby monitor needs the ability to see in the dark (IR illumination) which iDevices don't have, so unless it's relegated to monitoring play areas during the day, its usefulness is limited. That doesn't mean the software isn't well designed, the hardware is simply not fit for purpose.
AFAIK this is all based on hearsay. I rarely if ever have seen thin plastic bags "in nature", no one is chucking them out a moving car window.
Anyone who litters single-use bags is also littering other trash elsewhere, most people can be trusted to place them in a responsible place for rubbish.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (which is often cited in defense of bag bans) is mostly Chinese trash.
Grocery bag bans are a feel-good distraction that makes no measurable environmental impact.
"Reusable" bags also have some fewer use cases for reuse; for example truck drivers are known to poop in the single use bags. Can't do that in a reusable bag.
Reusable bags are a farce that ignores the use case of reusing singe-use plastic bags as trash can liners, so you're already getting reuse out of them, and the thin bags will likely decompose faster in the landfill.
Meanwhile nearly every feel-good measure that banned plastic bags from municipalities allows paper bags, which require more energy and water to manufacture, and cannot be used to line trash cans.
So I now have to buy plastic trash bags, made out of thicker plastic, so I can throw out the paper ones.
The "replaceable" SSD in the M4 Mac Mini is proprietary and will not accept a standard M.2 module. This was a deliberate choice.
Assuming you locate an exact match, you need a second, working, Mac to provision it.
The entire process is user-hostile from start to finish yet the criticism is few (and I've even read praise of this practice on Mac fan sites).