That is gold. Although in fairness even they need a day off now and again.

This could be the end of the World.....of Warcraft.

I was responding to a comment that did NOT invoke 'that pedo shit?'

So you don't even read these?

Yes, they should spawn a RISC-V chip and do it better. Really. ARM is looking over its shoulder for a reason.

But I'm impressed you refused to unleash the TDS and spew. Good on you.

For small business it doesn't really make sense. I see what you're saying for larger operations. My comparison at the time was DLT III vs bare drive. More space less cost in that scenario. Before that QIC-80 was pretty popular, but more than once I went to recover and ran into a bad tape. I ran into that recovering from DLT too. Just my personal experience. LTO may offer better cost per TB in tape, but when you start talking about the hardware to use the tape... $13k buys a lot of hard drives.

"VERY few builders, even of new houses, use the best materials and processes"

We'll, at least you trust that minimizing cost isn't just a flipper phenomenon. Same thing in corporate management. Worldwide.

Let me continue. If the market supports it, you can take a high-value home, do good work in it with quality and care, and sell it for a profit. If the market doesn't support it, you don't actually buy the house to start with. You let somebody else get suckered into trying to do it cheap. Yes, lowball flippers exist, but they're not the only part of the market.

Having been in the house-flipping business, I can tell you your observations are not always true. If the

I quit using tapes when I could chuck an 8T bare sata drive into a caddy and use veeam to back up multiple systems til full, swap and repeat. It's way less expensive than tape. I get for enterprise environments needing immutability but as a defense against ransomware it doesn't seem very effective. The good ones (bad ones?) wait to present themselves until long after your backups have been recycled.

If you think the PE is intended to strip SUSE clean, pick the bones, and leave it a memory, cling to that. But I suspect that's not the motivation. Likewise, these layoffs can serve more than one purpose.

I doubt you understand 'private equity'. You have seen examples of how it can operate, that is obvious. Other examples include successfully infesting, managing, and improving businesses that were in trouble.

If you do not know of any, you've just not read the reporting. Reading only one side of the argument is beneath a 7-digit.

Local access can be very tough to beat from a security standpoint. Air gapping solves your network access problem, but we're talking about an edge case for sitting down at the console and doing bad things. Mostly we're concerned about network access because that's where the action is, unless you have a special case in which case you're working hard.

"The only defense is secure software engineering"

There is no 'only' defense. Indeed, programming skill and attention to detail will, by itself, fail. The reality of Internet, computer, and software security is that it requires significant and continuous research and testing, not just programming skill and code quality. And it starts at the hardware level.

And, in closing, I predict we will never achieve mostly total security. Too many risks, too many bad actors. We will, perhaps, raise the bar so that the bad actors will require resources beyond the reach of even dedicated individuals. What's that saying, there's always someone faster than you on the road...

Think back to 2+ years ago. January 2024. What sort of government did we have? What Administration was in office?

From the Wikipedia:

" and the Bureau of Land Management extended the auction to January 25, 2024 to allow for increased bids.[14] In 2024 the remaining reserve was sold to the highest bidder, Messer Group.[15] "

And, perhaps, you begin the effort by 0) migrating the documents, all of them, even archival docs, to earlier and earlier versions - reducing dependency on features perhaps not supported in your POA platform, and 1) testing against the POA and refining.

Drop-in replacements for Office do not exist. Nothing out there. So downgrade and find a POD that can be supported.\

Seems pretty basic, just costs in the preparation.