Exactly. I was running VMWare workstation pro at home for free, under Win11, for a VM.

2 weeks ago, i installed Proxmox. It not only runs HAOS but also my pfSense router. I have installed several containers as well. It is not easy to setup - definitely not point and click. But far more powerful. And I/O an order of magnitude faster.
There are some rough edges and bugs, though. Like, attaching any USB drive to a VM instantly kills it. But my z-wave stick works fine. ZFS is great. Moving VMs live is pretty cool.

There is this thint called reverse engineering. I have found AI to be surprisingly helpful at it with binary payloads from various devices. I'm sure it could reverse engineer compiled binaries, too. Whether that's legal is another issue. But when has the law ever stopped AI companies?

But why would you ?

Please.

They do say that, if you RTFA. They also question the legality of the actions taken by the publisher with regard to this license.

It's up 6%. That's no coincidence. Investors tend to like reduction in expenses. They might not like what follows, if Oracle's AI bets don't pan out.

No audio option ? I have completely given up on visual captchas.

Are you kidding ? Killing products is rather shitty, and they have done tons of that.

For something they haven't killed, Maps seems to always give priority to paid placement. So, when i want to Home depot, the first choice is 40 miles away. I wish i was kidding. But this is a pattern.

Netgate also sells pfSense+, which has some closed source enhancements. It was free for a short time, during which i grabbed a license. I have been running it for years.

License is unfortunately tied to the NIC and other hardware properties. I have been wanting to switch it to a VM. I would have to downgrade to pfSense minus. I might do so.

I tried Opnsense, but it had many of problems on my hardware, and I ended up giving up.

For simple bugs, it's often able to do that. But you have to find those bugs first, and be able to express and report them.

They won't fix subtle bugs by themselves, for sure. But I have found the agentic AI to be a great assist during device reverse engineering sessions. It's fun to work on an open source project with many bits marked "unknown", and then have the AI figure out the meaning based on packet captures from known various device states. It does all the data analysis, finds the bit patterns, etc. And, yes, writes the code to use the findings. It still requires a very significant amount of human testing, and understanding of the code. But this is a task I just would not have undertaken by myself without the tool. I also don't need to know the exact intricacies of the project's language, like being forced to check for != 0 value in Go, which is not needed in C. It is readable, though, just not writable by me, because I didn't spend enough time writing Go by hand.

TLDR, the LLMs are greatly helpful tools.

Nevertheless, it is a good poiint. The farther you are from a grocery store, the more useful the drone is. And usuay, the density of population is inversely correlated with proximity to businesses.

I happen to live in San Jose proper, near the county line. Nearest Costco is 5 miles which is 20 min drive one way, at off peak hours. Walmart is also 5 miles, but 25 mins. Those times can be a lot longer at peak hours. I also can't drive when it's dark anymore. So, I welcome our drone overlords.

Unfortunately, Wing shows that my address is excluded from the service area. Same as Waymo. The free market at work, once again.

There are certainly laws in California if you get charged a higher price than the sticker. I have used it many times. Helps only if you remember the sticker prices, though. If it happens a lot, the state will go after the company and fine them.

Not to mention resizing it. A taskbar sith a max of 6 tasks is not very helpful. Fortunately, there is Retrobar.

Even if it's not a resounding success. Trust them ! Pinky swear

Or not. And buy from a manufacturer that promises 5-7 years of security updates, with a track record of doing so. Don't buy the Fire phone and let it become ewaste due to lack of updates.