

OOTL and someone who only uses a vm once every several years for shits & grins: What happened to vmware?
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OOTL and someone who only uses a vm once every several years for shits & grins: What happened to vmware?
40 years old. Haven’t been satisfied with a phone-slam since before my first cordless phone in 2001.
Honestly the only thing HP has ever made that I haven’t been horribly, horribly disappointed with is their monitors. Just through circumstance of ‘whatever-the-fuck-was-cheapest-but-not-total-ass-when-I-went-to-buy-them’ I’ve ended up with 4 different HP monitors over the years, including a 20ish year old 4:3 one which still goes strong to this day.
Every other product was pure unadulterated ass.
In fairness, they would have been absolutely stupid to have not done a 100% prewritten, teleprompted PR riddled pre-written response given the situation. Linus sitting down in front of a camera and just letting his mind do Linus things isn’t gonna help anyone lol.
Hell I remember when it was called Read It Later, long before the Pocket days. Back when it was good lol.
Every piddle-ass job I’ve ever had was something that didn’t need to exist if people didn’t forget the rule: “Don’t be stupid, stupid.”
I gave up on Netflix so many years ago now with zero regrets. The second they started their rumblings (nearly a decade ago now) about wanting to stop people from accessing other countries media selection I said fuck it, spun up a Plex install and never looked back.
I used the hell out of mine back when I had it, loved this thing.
Ah, I see you’ve taken part in Bullshit Corporate Meetings™ before!
Gave up on Netflix a good 10 years ago when they first started quiet rumours about stopping people from accessing other countries catalogues. Immediately spun up an install of Plex and today am sitting on 30+TB of everything-I-ever-wanna-have and won’t be going back. Only access to any paid streaming service I have is D+ via a friends account, and I’ve used it 4x in 2 years lol.
Sync for years, then when the dev had done one of his up-and-disappear-for-half-a-year’s I switched to Boost. Now I just won’t use Reddit.
Dooooo ittttt!
Edit: Forgot to add the useful comment.
Honestly if you’re just starting out, straight up use your existing computer, plug that HDD in, load her up and just follow the instructions or a guide to set it up. Wait to see how much you use it before spending cash.
A recommendation however: Due to how Pokemon is and how Plex’s two available metadata sources (TVDB and TMDB) categorize and lay the show out differently, make sure when you are getting the episodes in Plex that you have the TV show matched to TMDB (TheMovieDataBase), not TVDB (TheTVDataBase). Both have the show, but TVDB lumps a lot of the later seasons/series together, whereas TMDB will keep them separate as the correct seasons.
Have been using RSS feeds almost 20 years now, since Google Reader and with Feedly since Reader was deprecated.
I don’t think I’ve seen a single piece of news come across Reddit in any of the interests I follow that I haven’t also seen via rss feeds +/- an hour of it’s posting.
Whelp…boo-urns. :(