Regardless of what streaming device you pick, there is some vendor lock in and features not available.

FireTV sucks with google integrations. There are hacks, but it sucks. Chromecast doesn't play nice with apple stuff. Roku pulls this stuff.

Apple TV is buggy and has to get rebooted a lot with third party streaming apps, apple steams content back after you bought it, etc. On the upside, an apple TV can use peacock, hbo max, and if you use the youtube app, you can get to any paid content from google play in terms of video, but the UI is horrible. There's also an amazon prime video app.

So even though apple sucks in many ways now, it's oddly one of the few platforms you can run apple, google, amazon, vudu, emby, and various other streaming products on without roadblocks. I'm sure they're screw that up eventually.

Don't use the word monopoly and i think a lot of people would agree with you.

Mail and Calendar do support integrations with Google apps though. So you can use a google calendar and GMAIL for instance and it will integrate with macOS. You just can't go the other direction easily.

Similarly, Chrome or Firefox are available on all these platforms and can do page sharing and bookmark sync across devices.

You're right. In fairness, they did add apps to some tv brands to stream on smart tvs. My samsung got the update awhile back. It sucks compared to an apple TV. They also let you stream apple music on the amazon echo now. You can also use apple music on android.

I wish you could stream video from the web. As far as I know, they don't have a service for that yet. There is a beta site for music though.

I get more frustrated by the services limiting streaming to certain browsers or operating systems. If I'm paying for a streaming service, I should be able to use it on any of my devices. Who cares if it's firefox on windows vs linux or bsd? It's still firefox.

Really the worst part of hackers is the gibson with that crazy 3d interface. The social engineering aspect is spot on.

Not everyone can use their own equipment with Comcast. If you are using residential division service, then you can. If you are using comcast business service at a residence, you must rent their gateway, particularly if you have static IP addresses.

Well they have 4+ year refresh cycles so it will be OK for awhile.

Adobe may abandon the platform. No guarantee they will bother porting yet again.

Some people have reported problems with hardware raid with these drives too. So be careful what you say. It works with LINUX soft raid.

That's just not accurate. There are a lot of people using FreeNAS or similar products at home. While I don't have 4TB drives anymore, I did for many years and replaced some recently with 6TB WD Red drives. I've also used some IronWolf drives as well.

Just because you won't do it doesn't mean it's true for everyone.

The primary reason one buys NAS drives is because they're supposed to be RAID friendly. Not everyone has the budget for enterprise drives and even then they have very different drives within the same family. Seagate for instance has exos that are for archive as well as other models that are raid friendly for read/write workloads.

The bigger issue here is the marketing for the drives, not the features. They should be clear that these are beater drives that can't handle writes.

It's up to amazon, microsoft, google, ovh, linode, and other cloud providers. Everything should be IPv6 first at this point.

Comcast still won't offer static allocations of IPv6 space in many markets for business customers.

You're forgetting the complexity of changing all the firewalls they must have, upgrading apps to support IPv6, etc. It's not just flipping a switch or setting up a dhcpv6 server.

Wait 3 months and buy it for $20.

One man's problem is another man's feature. NVIDIA binary blobs are available for linux and freebsd. AMD won't even support freebsd.

AMD GPUs do have better defaults in UEFI systems if you're stuck on the frame buffer though.

Funny have Microsoft and Sun/Oracle have managed to keep C# and Java mostly backward compatible all these years... it can be done better.