Yeah, the whole "(hyper)converged" network gear experience has been... let's say less than overwhelming. I'm happy that this person managed to get an experience they're happy with, but keep in mind that:
-The SN2010 retailed for about 10K (Euro/Dollars)
-It has never been truly available, as in: you could go somewhere, order it, and expect it to turn up in 2-3 days
-Even though small, these units tend to be loud, with at least 2 tiny fans making a lot of high-pitched noise
But the most salient point is that, even with "Linux on a router/switch", there's no guarantee that you'll get decent performance, as that entirely depends on how well the kernel understands the (proprietary) onboard chipset, which usually means that you're squarely in "well, here's this blob that works on certain kernel versions, and good luck with that!" territory.
The reason given on the show was that the celebrity-chef judge did not appreciate the taste.
That didn't (and doesn't) make an awful lot of sense though, since they used the same spice in very similar quantities in another dish the week before, and were praised for that by the same judge.
So, everyone's best guess is that the "reality show" script writers decided it was time for them to go, to give more screen time to more interesting contestants...
I love saffron! Not because of its taste (which I kind-of hate) or other properties (like staining, which I definitely hate, or security-theatre-triggering, but more about that below), but mostly due to the rituals around it, and because a friend of mine once got booted off a TV cooking show as a result of using it.
So, visiting the famous (and horrible, but thank you!) Spice Market in Istanbul recently, I just could not resist learning everything I could about saffron (mostly: how to spot the fake stuff -- spoiler: the paint sinks in hot water), plus, of course, taking home some of the real stuff for said friend.
This, on an unplanned detour through Germany on my way back, got me into a bit of trouble. Apparently, the post-9/11 scanners that determine whether your hand-luggage contains anything troublesome, have some of their own issues with saffron...
Where can I get this 'full fat' ARM build of VS? I'll settle for a Win64-ARM release, but I'll personally provision a botnet to upvote you to Mars in case you point me to an Apple-Silicon-on-MacOS DMG...
This is pretty cool: basically, recent ARM extensions make emulation of just about anything a lot easier.
Which got me to wonder: what if Apple were able to introduce a "MacOS subsystem for Windows", which could run most x64 binaries for the latter platform?
The only app that keeps me from switching to my M3 MacBook full-time is Visual Studio (and Mikrotik WinBox, to some extent, but that runs just fine under Wine).
If I could run VS without tanking battery life, that would be sort-of huge...
The cost of egress traffic is a very good reason for many organizations to not fully migrate to a cloud provider anytime soon. And since, unlike with storage costs, there doesn't seem to be an actual reason (other than: it makes migrating to competitors cost-prohibitive in a subset of cases), that seems kind of... weird?
Small example: an actual company I do some work for is in the business of delivering creative assets to distributors. This results in an egress of around 180TB per month, which is, on average just, around 500Mb/s.
So, this company currently operates 2 racks in commercial data centers, linked via 10Gb/s Ethernet-over-DWDM, with 2x512Mb/s and 1x1Gb/s Internet uplinks per DC. Each rack has 2 generic-OEM servers with ~64 AMD Zen cores, 1/2TB RAM, ~8TB NVMe and ~100TB SAS RAID6 storage per node.
Just the cost-savings over egress on AWS is enough to justify that setup, including the cost of an engineer to keep it all up and running (even though the effort required for that turns out to be minimal).
So, are cloud providers ignoring a significant market here, or is the markup on their current customers lucrative enough?
-The SN2010 retailed for about 10K (Euro/Dollars)
-It has never been truly available, as in: you could go somewhere, order it, and expect it to turn up in 2-3 days
-Even though small, these units tend to be loud, with at least 2 tiny fans making a lot of high-pitched noise
But the most salient point is that, even with "Linux on a router/switch", there's no guarantee that you'll get decent performance, as that entirely depends on how well the kernel understands the (proprietary) onboard chipset, which usually means that you're squarely in "well, here's this blob that works on certain kernel versions, and good luck with that!" territory.