Don't get me wrong: they were NEVER cheap. But I don't even think the most expensive base model (the X2) was more than $8K. And I believe the general-purpose one, the i2, went for around $6.5K, plus accessories. Honestly, they were over-engineered: they were under pressure to release, like, yesterday, and so never did enough iterations. Too much steel, dual batteries was probably overkill (and blew the price up $800), double- and triple-redundancy, etc.

As a former employee, I gotta say, I agree with you. Too damn much money. And way not enough wow.
But Dean has always been best at self-promotion, anyway.

Just called somewhere.

Alan Smithed?! I didn't know you were an obnoxious jerk out in the real world, too...

RasPis, phones, cameras... I don't have an exact count, but well over 16, of that, I am sure.

I've used Big Blue Button starting a decade ago, and it's good! Largely centered around a classroom, or at least presenter paradigm, it had solid clients and worked well. Alas, the clients were Flash/Java based. I know a transition to HTML5 clients was underway, but around that time I changed companies to one that had a commercial application. I am still on the BBB mailing list, and it's still actively developed and supported. I should probably check it out again.

Over the years, I have come to decide that esr has gone from a bet win (open-sourcing of Netscape, Cathedral and the Bazaar) to a net-negative: rambling screeds about being rich, about being poor (and how his fall was the government's fault), homosexuality, guns, etc., etc. I find I no longer much care what the self-important blowhard has to say about much of anything.

The Apple IIgs was, IMHO, an abomination meant to keep other, less-expensive 68K-based systems (Atari ST, Amiga) from encroaching on Mac turf. But the IIgs was essentially an amped-up 6502, NOT a 68K-class chip.

This satellite is not in low Earth orbit; it's in geosynchronous orbit -- vastly further away. They said what they would do -- push it some hundreds of km outside of the Clarke belt, and leave it there.

But as a former Segway employee, I do agree. I am familiar with far too many brain trauma cases due to lack of helmets. I totally think electric anything should be allowed, but for all that's holy, get helmets on users. Heck: my childhood buddy would likely still be alive had he been wearing one on his bike. And I have stories from Segway that have done nothing to make me consider changing my mind.

Pssst: genius, that's essentially what STIR/SHAKEN *is*. Are you paying attention?

Presumably not, but that's where STIR/SHAKEN comes in. As far as I can see, it's a way to, basically, both validate and give reputation to carriers for SIP calls, which is where most of these come from.

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Agreed that OpenVPN is niche, but disagree as to why: it's had perfectly acceptable Windows support for ~20 years. Just not sure where it lost its momentum, or why, as it was so superior to other options -- commercial and free -- for quite some time.

I mean it works, and well, but I wish there were better logging (unless maybe I'm missing something), and I really liked both the docs and HOWTOs that came with OpenVPN. Hopefully now that it's being merged, docs will pick up some. Sadly for the prior poster, there will be no speed bump -- loading a module compiled out-of-tree is identical in performance to having it in-tree.