My only annoyance with "Green Ethernet" things is that often they seem to work poorly.
The dedicated machine I still keep around for Windows things has two onboard 2.5GbE ports. It will apparently sometimes, even with all power saving features turned off, randomly negotiate down to 100 mbit if I leave the machine alone for a bit, and then stay at that speed forever unless I manually reset the link after wondering why transferring large amounts of data is bottlenecking severely.
My question would be, I suppose, how well do they work for extended intervals (e.g. 30+ minutes of saturated traffic)?
I've tried buying several USB3 2.5/5/10GbE copper adapters, apparently mostly Aquantia under the hood, and all but one of them would, even with fans actively pointed at them cooling them, rapidly reach a temperature at which they would stop operating entirely, which has turned me off of trying to explore more.
It might be true that that's how most of the money gets made on them now, but famously for many years they refused to try to make such a thing officially, so I doubt that was the nominal reason to start them.
I wonder what makes botting that much more trivial/productive on Classic.
In general, "you are never allowed to use our products again" is a horrible idea in any industry where all the focus is around trying to get _more_ people to try them.
It's part of why a lot of places might ban your account but they won't ban you-the-person if you make a new one, necessarily - even if every ban was accurately assessed, shrinking your potential player base permanently by even 0.5% annually compounds really badly over time.
(The notable exceptions usually include things where they're banning you for exposing them to legal liability in some fashion, because the risk of you doing it again is so large.)
Not just relegated to Apple. That’s just the trade name for the Thunderbolt interface used on any of the “one cable to connect your dock to your laptop” devices. It all uses Thunderbolt 3, 4, or 5 these days and is on USB-C. I’ve got a Dell dock that is specifically a thunderbolt dock.
This seems absurd from a company offering backups as a service.
Especially if they allow them restoring all your data onto a drive and shipping it to you, they pretty clearly should have enough information available to them to test restorations of data, and the number of times I've heard that failure mode ("oh, we didn't track deletions well enough, so we only found out we deleted it when you tried restoring"), plus them saying they have made improvements to avoid this exact failure mode in newer client versions, makes me think they should have enough reports to investigate it.
...which makes me wonder if they did, and decided they would go bankrupt if they told people how much data they lost, so they decided to bet on people not trying restores on a lot of the lost data.
This feels like it's probably a stupid oversight chain like, keyboard layouts are user-specific data, so they're not decrypted before first unlock/set globally because the machine might have multiple users with different keyboard layouts.
Even if it is, why is there no way to change the system-wide settings? All other operating systems that I know either have an explicit button "Apply settings to login screen" or do it automatically (I'm sure 99% of the consumer-level computers sold worldwide never have more than one user on them, moreso with different keyboard layouts).
Evidently you can, though in traditional macOS fashion, you exploit Apple secretly changing the setting for you if you do a magic dance.[1][2]
I've never had a reason to try it, but there's also a remark that 99% of the Macs sold probably don't need to change the system-wide keyboard layout defaults, either...
That seems very unlikely if only because Apple probably has the equivalent of big flashing nuclear stockpile grade warning signs internally around anything that involves the phrase "one off firmware release", since they have every interest in convincing any nation-state or anyone else that it would be quite difficult and something they have no interest in to do if they ever try to compel them to make one.
This fails if they let you keep your password migrating between devices, though, so you probably need a version somewhere in the middle that flags it as an issue and flags it as not allowing migration without changing the passphrase.
You need to not just force the update, but also forbid using pre-updated ones in migration, since someone might conceivably have an off-for-many-years device they wake up and want to migrate.
The long tail of stupid edge cases is very long indeed.
The dedicated machine I still keep around for Windows things has two onboard 2.5GbE ports. It will apparently sometimes, even with all power saving features turned off, randomly negotiate down to 100 mbit if I leave the machine alone for a bit, and then stay at that speed forever unless I manually reset the link after wondering why transferring large amounts of data is bottlenecking severely.
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