The US default, that I never left Europe. What an achievement for the USA!

Oh come on, are you really that boneheaded not to understand that you’re not the norm?

I literally had not a single power surge in my entire life. The only power outages I had were for a few minutes maybe three times in the last 15 years.

The larping refers to you. Either you are truly an outlier who actually runs a small DC, or you just like the feeling you can get pretending to do so.

Your attitude is roughly the “only gold plated cables made from solid silver” equivalent in audiophiles. Technically maybe correct, practically a self-important waste of money.

But not for us.

That’s what I meant by larping. The vast vast majority of us here would probably not even notice if their systems went down for an hour. Yes, battery backup has its purpose. In a datacenter.

I mean, what’s on the line here in the worst case? 15min without jellyfin and home assistant? Does that warrant taking risks with old batteries or investing in new ones?

That equation might change if you’re in a place with truly unreliable electricity, but I guess those places have solutions in place already.

That’s typically a feature for servers or business desktops. Maybe your laptop has it, just look into the BIOS.

As I wrote in my other comment: try to be realistic about your needs. Chances are, pressing the power button every few months (if at all) is perfectly fine for your use case (and most others here).

And how much need is there for a UPS in this scenario - realistically.

Some of the people here take their admin-LARPing a tad too seriously. Most households have reliable enough electricity, and even if there’s an outage once every quarter, would a dead battery even help?

I advocate for being realistic with one’s own needs. Don’t build a five-nines datacenter for a glorified weather station or VCR.

https://youtu.be/sSiVYgot9SI

Not even two weeks ago.

In case you didn’t already do that: remove the battery. It’s probably dead anyway, you don’t need it and it poses a potential (albeit low) risk.

That’s not the argument. The argument is rather that good employees can easily find new and better jobs. So the remaining people are on average worse.

It’s also called Dead Sea Effect. The good ones evaporate, only salt remains.

Especially in sales and finance: every call is potentially on the record, and that’s a problem.

A lot of internal communication in these departments is, to put it mildly, legally not without interest. A quick chat after a meeting is completely off the record, an email is not.

First of all the nitpicky stuff: Mac OS never used anything FreeBSD in the kernel. The kernel is XNU/mach, FreeBSD only supplies the user land. Pedantic, but we have a cliche to defend.

Anyway, I think you got the update part backwards. Apple doesn’t update its side of the deal. MacOS ships with old bsd apps, simply because apple doesn’t care all that much about it.

No. Large organizations suck at managing IT, simply because it’s not crucial for them to keep it managed and they usually have enough institutional insulation to mitigate the impacts. Whether that insulation is money or disregard of the public doesn’t matter all that much.

Facebook is huge and has very diverse teams/departments. It’s absolutely possible the guys who know what security is, and the guys who build app xyz are in different departments, countries, continents.

The capitalists want us to believe otherwise, but large corporations are just as convoluted and inefficient as a planned economy.

Try teaching it German compounds. I’m a big fan of artisanal compounds, but getting spell check or the swipe-o-matic to accept them is an unwinnable battle.

Public private partnership ♥️♥️♥️

Yeah, but with our cutting edge AI model we can disrupt the wet market by leveraging hydrofoil effects on molecular clusters to provide pervasive distribution of fluids. All powered by AI blockchains in the cloud.

We take VC, 100million minimum per investor.

Linux filled a gap. There was hardly any way to get something unixy running on commodity hardware.

What gap does Redox fill? What’s its USP? Just being written in rust can’t be it.

But why?

Which company can justify the expense for an esoteric OS with probably just philosophical benefits?

Google maybe, they have Fuchsia, but that’s also completely in their control.

Linux is not perfect, but for most companies and products, absolutely fine.

That might very well be the case, however, why are all of these apps so incredibly bad?

Jira especially seems like the definition of feature creep. It’s more bloated than a lactose intolerant child after a tub of ice cream.

None of this drama affects those people who could reasonably be expected to support any OS.

Maybe a handful disgruntled devs will look into Redox, but ultimately, it’s a toy project without any real use case. Not that that’s bad, but it’s not exactly the best motivation to invest your free time into.

Don’t let scammers hear that. They’ll sell 16TB “SSDs” for cheap and defraud thousands of people.