I'll third this.

I was looking for a good replacement for an HP CP2025dn laser printer. I wanted just a color laser with a real manual load tray (not a slot) with no multi-function, for under $500. I was just looking at HP and Canon, didn't even think of Brother (all I knew of Brother were word processing systems from like 30 years ago). Canon seems to mainly have MF at this point, and HP's that looked decent were well above my price range. I ultimately went with a Brother color laser and couldn't be happier with it. I know that at some point I may need to replace the drum (though at my rate of printing it will probably be years), but that isn't too expensive, looks easy to install and that seems to make even the official toner cheaper then HP's.

It doesn't have the best photo printing, even though it's still better then my old HP, but that wasn't an issue as I have a Canon Pro Ink series for photographs.

It looks like a restitution order is only enforceable for 20 years (if I'm reading it correctly). In that case perhaps they will only have to make payments for up to 20 years. Just guessing here with zero knowledge and reading this:

https://www.justice.gov/crimin...

This, I honestly don't know. Doing some quick searching it looks like most of the time it isn't really expected that the full amount will be paid back. Most likely the one ordered to pay will have some minimum payment amount that they will have to make on regular intervals, probably for the rest of their life. If they skip out on payments on purpose, then it could be back to prison for them.

So, Apple is probably not expecting to get anywhere near their $17mil back, nor the IRS the $1.87mil in taxes they are owed.

It's not all to Apple, some goes to the IRS.

FTA:

Prasad has agreed to pay back $19,270,683 in restitutions — $17,398,104 to Apple and $1,872,579 to the IRS for the tax he owes. He has also been ordered to forfeit over $5.4 million worth of assets that the government has already seized and pay an additional $8.1 million in cash.

"CPU Threads"

I believe Power10 can have up to 8 threads per core?

My understanding on this is that the $600 threshold is meant for those using the apps for business payments to avoid skipping out on their taxes.

I keep seeing Zelle show up in these articles, but according them them, they will not be sending out 1099-k's:

https://www.zellepay.com/faq/d...

Also, according to Venmo, it appears only if the transaction is tagged "Goods and Services" (which is by default on business profiles) will it be subject to this:

https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-u...

If you're just selling a sofa or getting rid of some used stuff, simply don't have the buyer tag it as goods and services, and you shouldn't receive a 1099-k for it. And if you are running your business off these apps, you should already have been paying taxes on your sales.

Yep, Oracle can easily just come out with an SE3 and change the terms. Like they did from SE to SE One, and SE One to SE2

However, the SE2 version has an internal cap at 16 threads. The only way as far as I know to "exploit" the high number of cores is to run multiple instances. (In)Conveniently, Oracle also removed support for RAC in 19c SE2, so it doesn't support clustering. So you would have to run a bunch of separate database instances and then load balance at the application level.

Thanks for the note! I actually a heavy user of WSL1, because I've had some random lag issues in games on my desktop whenever I've had Hyper-V / VM Platform enabled, so I've stuck with it. It actually does everything I need, as I don't do much over the net with X.

However, I do manage a vSphere cluster and having the Workstation integration is pretty nice. I run multiple OS's as (Linux and Windows) and having the "native" distribute comes in handy when testing. I do also like to mess around with retro systems and depending on the system, VirtualBox usually runs those best.

When I need to use X11, I have a Linux w/ GUI VM running on the vSphere cluster and connect to that (through Workstation), just in the event the internet connection is interrupted.

I recently got a new ThinkPad X1 Yoga (Gen 7, w/ 12th gen cpu). I was having issues with VMware Workstation and VirtualBox both thinking I was running in a hypervisor. msinfo32 and systeminfo showed that Virtualization Based Security was enabled, and that a hypervisor was detected.

I tried all the usual methods of disabling them. Hyper-V wasn't installed and VBS was disabled through the group policy. Nothing worked and the system kept insisting it was running in a hypervisor.

I then discovered that "Firmware Protection" under "Core Isolation" in Defender Device Security was using a relatively new feature called "Defender System Guard" which seems to also enable Virtualization Based Security, even though it may be disabled via other means. Once I turned this off, VBS was disabled and the system no longer detected a hypervisor. Workstation and VirtualBox then both ran normally.

My pervious system was a C940 w/ 11th gen CPU, but more of a consumer model, and it did not have the same security features. Not sure if this was due to the 12th gen chip, or the system being a more business focused ThinkPad. Either way, I wonder if the Bar exam software is using the same check and if that feature is enabled, simply disabling it would get it to work. Not that I endorse such a check for anti-cheat.

In this case it may look like "private packages" actually refers to publishing packages into the npm repo and sharing with a limited set of users/teams:

https://docs.npmjs.com/about-p...

I have very limited experience with npm, so not sure why anyone would want to do this. Can you not set up a private repo elsewhere and pull the private packages from there? For my company, where we do most of our development in Java with Maven as the package manager, we just set up our own Nexus Repository server and we add that as an additional source in our pom files. (though technically we use it to cache upstream repos as well, so we can pull both public and private packages from a single source that we own/run).

"multiple space websites" was mentioned as being better then Fox Business for "space" related news, and instead of thinking about a real space related site, like https://www.space.com/spacex-c..., you immediately attack CNN and MSNBC? I guess we found the OAN/NewsMax viewer.

I actually gave Home a try, and while it does, annoyingly require you to use a MS account on initial setup, once logged in you can convert it to a local account. Not that that's much better, but at least you can still use a local account on Home.

The automatic updating is garbage. It sucks to hear that they are doing that on Enterprise as well. I only run Windows on a couple servers, where the software requires it, and I'm still on very old versions (2012R2, and I even have a 2008R2 that I'm looking to get rid of). Nothing user/internet facing and I hate managing Windows servers so I just left them be.

Out of curiosity I gave the Home edition a try, and while it does require you to initially use a Microsoft account to complete setup (the option for offline is not available on initial setup on Home), once that's done however, you can convert your account to a local one. (I had missed that option which is also available on Pro, in the event you use the MS account on setup there as well).

And yeah, the edition thing is annoying, especially since the core OS is the same with features disabled/enabled based on version (as you point out). This is an unfortunate commonality in the enterprise world. (not that that makes it any better, it sucks even more there at times)

Not sure why you were scored down on this. You are absolutely right. The part about the Microsoft Account seemed wrong, so I went and did a test. I fresh-installed Windows 11 Pro and was able to, rather easily, install using a local account.

Apparently it's the Home edition that requires an internet connection and a Microsoft account, to at least do the initial setup. On Pro, when it asked about an account I selected "Sign in options" and was able to create an "offline account" which is essentially a local account.

Granted that most home users buying new PC's will just opt for the default Home edition, which will require the account, but if you opt for Pro, you can go fully local. You can even add a local account later, and give it Administrator access and then delete your initial account if you went the Microsoft account method (not sure if this works in Home edition, will have to give it a try).

I'm not saying that this makes up for all the other privacy issues with Windows 11, but the FSF should at least be fair in pointing out that you can opt for an edition of Windows that doesn't require a Microsoft account. It may cost more (you can find legit keys for relatively cheap), but the option is there.

I agree. Though going further, I would hope that those that choose not to get vaccinated (beyond medical reasons), would at least follow proper health guidelines and those from businesses they enter. Wear a mask in public and keep a safe distance from others, especially when requested by a business. Don't harass and beat up the business employees just because you have some false sense of some freedoms violation (and because its a mighty shitty thing to do in general).