I've been running Mattermost for a couple of years now and I'm content with it. It does feel a little bit clunky sometimes, but it's been stable and performant so I can't really complain. It can also feel a bit much sometimes. A bit too complex. A bit too feature-rich. But if I just ignore most of it, then it's good. I will say that Chatto looks nicer, appears to be simpler to setup and also has simpler licensing. Can it auto-update itself? That's something that's bad with Mattermost.
- 3rd party devices are often unreliable. Not directly Apple's fault, but the lack of certification process hurts
- SMB extensions: In order for an SMB server to support Time Machine, it must support Apple's AAPL extensions to SMB (my understand of this my be a bit uncorrect)
- Network device connecting is separate from Time Machine device connecting. This causes an inconsistent UX.
- Not possible to browse a backup. You can only view file or folder's backup over time. In other words, you can scroll through time but you can't browse a single backup (point in time). This requires using 3rd party tools like BackupLoupe
Unfortunately many people now strongly dislike receiving unexpected phone calls. You may (i have) genuinely upset some people by calling them. Yes, I’m rolling my eyes too, but that’s how they feel
This is an IS statment, not an OUGHT statement: Artists are very high-status / high-prestige. As such, their work and livelihoods are more important and more deserving of protectionism.
I love the idea. It's bold. But, I hate it from an information architecture perspective.
This is something that is, of course, super relevant given context management for agentic AI. So there's great appeal in doing this.
And today, it might even be the best decision. But this really feels like an alpha version of something that will have much better tooling in the near-future. JSON and
Markdown are beautiful simple information containers, but they aren't friendly for humans as compared with something like Notion or Excel. Again I'll say, I'm confident that in the near-future we'll start to see solutions emerge that structure documentation that is friendly to both AIs and humans.
Unfortunately, at the moment, for normal people, the legal system is our only option.
I am not a lawyer, but I have done this multiple times:
Read the T&C and search for "dispute" or "dispute resolution". Look for what you're supposed to do when you have a dispute. Follow the steps as outlined. Corporate lawyers generally take things seriously.