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Comment The danger of platform dependence... (Score 1) 134

YouTube is a privately company that doesn't have to explain shit. It can do any arbitrary thing it wants, it's their platform. I understand it sucks, but you've hitched your wagon to a horse you don't control and are now bitching the horse has pitched you over a cliff.

Yeah, it would be nice if they explained their actions, but they're under zero obligation to do that.

Comment I love their response... (Score 2) 151

We've carefully considered your needs as a customer and after consulting with our lawyers, our response is "FUCK OFF WANKERS."

I get it's a security issue, but

1. Let the users know you're going to be disabling the interface.
2. Have it be disabled by default and force the user to go through a bunch of loopholes to turn it back on.

The fact they pulled the rug out from under the users feet is hella shitty.

Just imagine you've got a vacation house in another state and you're using this solution to control thermostats and lights, etc.

Comment It's the binary nature of it.. literally (Score 1) 358

With a spinning disk, you'll usually get an indication of a problem with a plethora of S.M.A.R.T errors.

It's been my experience that when an SSD dies... you just suddenly appear to have an empty drive cage. It's a really ugly binary failure.

I've taken to building my boxes with mirrored SSD's combined with taking and validating my backups.

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