Comment Re:Better than Apple treats musicians. (Score 1) 68
Have you considered the possibility that the devs of Kontakt and Ableton are using undocumented or non-public APIs, which is often a cause of such a scenario?
Have you considered the possibility that the devs of Kontakt and Ableton are using undocumented or non-public APIs, which is often a cause of such a scenario?
TIL. Thanks for that tip.
Yes, exactly. I don't know how many times each day I try to edit markdown and it either reverts to regular text or seems to think I want the entire message written as a code block. Oh, and let's not forget the oh-so-Windows-y preservation of text formatting and color when you paste something in from a different source and it looks incredibly fugly inside Teams as a result. Using this app beyond pecking out simple messages feels like you're wrestling with an oiled mongoose that really wants to maim you in any way possible.
After having worked at a company that used Mattermost, I thought that things couldn't get much worse until my next place of employment used Teams. At first, I thought the issues were because of the Mac client, but the Windows one fared no better. The bugs were one thing - grossly delayed notifications, markdown that never reliably works, terrible UI lag, and random things such as files being shared in chat suddenly being rejected or not visible to anyone else. Then there are just the design issues - it's plainly attrotious. The modes of use are so stilted and awkward that it seems like someone's first-year experiment than any kind of polished app meant for wide consumption. And don't get me started on the whole OneDrive vs. Sharepoint schizophrenia.
A dream would be "Discord but for business". I mean that in terms of a client that works and performs pretty well with features that are consistent, clear, and reliable. People seem to quickly dismiss that becuase dIsCoRd iS fOr kIDs aNd gAmErS
I have to agree... Jodie Whittaker seemed to get a rather raw deal in this. I really liked her in Broadchurch, but I can't help but feel the scripts she's been given, overall, for Doctor Who, have been mediocre at best, with all the brow-beating most of them seem to embrace. Somewhat like while I loved both the Moffatt and Chibnall scripts when they *weren't* showrunners, I pretty much hated their seasons *as* showrunners, maybe aside from Capaldi's run. I'm cautiously optimistic that any more NuWho under Davies will compare favorably with Tennant's tenure, which has been my favorite newer incarnation. Allonns-y!
Job security for me, I guess. And a continued customer for $alcoholvendorofchoice...
It's 2021, and we still have to remind people that RAID is not a backup?!
Every time someone tells me tape is obsolete, and I should just use disks or The Cloud! to do backups, I ask how they intend to make offline backups of up to 3PB of data (it's about 1/3 that used currently, but increasing year on year, and I expect we'll top out in a few) that is currently air-gapped, with an off-site requirement. In terms of rack space, power, and cooling, we can't expand anymore. Tape (mix of LTO-5/6/7/8, currently) is about the only way we can meet our requirements.
In just terms of physical *weight*, disk is impossible. Imagine how much, say, 64 16TB HDDs weigh vs 87 LTO-8 tapes weigh (roughly 1PB each, ignoring the compression factor of 2.5x, which I never actually see), let alone physical volume... Add in the additional mechanical complexities of needing all the control hardware on-board with disk, and things like vibration during transport becomes a major thing.
Let's not forget that, many times in the past, HW RAID has been shown to be... less than ideal, shall we say. So much so, that I wouldn't trust HW RAID further than I can spit, and would rather rely on Linux SW RAID in terms of reliability. Tapes, I can pull as they fill up, and ship offsite. Drives in a RAID array have to all be pulled in tandem, or you break the array (and have to rebuild later, with its own plethora of problems), so it's still significantly less convenient. Space, as well... I can fit 80 12TB tapes in 4U, in an easy to access fashion, but putting 80 HDDs in the same amount of space (maybe outside a Petabox) isn't really doable, especially with power and cooling.
All in all, tape isn't going away anytime soon. Anyone who says otherwise is either deluded, inexperienced, or trying to up-sell something unfit to task...
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Yeah, I used KeePassX then moved to KeePassXC on my Linux systems. Android, I use Keepass2Android Offline and/or KeePassDroid, depending on my mood. Moving to sync them via my own infastructure, ever so slowly. Using a free account on a certain popular cloud sync currently, but with the changes they've made over the years, I'd rather be ahead of, than behind, any new major change they make.
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