We had no intention of making/hosting a website with the trademark. The company was in agreement.
After we got it, the bossman comes to me and says "so we can make this email addresses now, right?"
Like, duuude... It's not his expertise, I know, but he thought web pages and email was totally separate systems.
Anyway, that was almost 25 years ago. All water under the bridge.
That's kinda how cybersquatting laws work.
Someone registered an available domain hours after I searched for it when I received our trademark. The domain was immediately put up for sale. I spent almost a year getting my ducks in a row to sue and reclaim the domain (I even had screenshots of the availability. The scammer was watching registration queries) but they let the domain expire for lack of interest. I scooped it up after that.
Nothing wrong if you have the drivers, but if you find yourself in a pinch, they aren't prevalent like Philips or standard screwdrivers. A socket set is part of our emergency kit now.
My SO's car is a Ford (pretty reliable actually) and the first fix-it we did needed torx bits. Ugh, go out and get a set of those... come back and start again. I look around and they are everywhere. It might deter some, but to us it was a waste of time and a F-you to those of us who can fix our piles.
Oh, and a special F-you to whomever designed the absolute useless (not making it up; it's a 4 inch hollow chunk or metal welded to the frame nothing bolts to, hides inside, or protects) protrusion blocking a wrench from the oil drain bolt. A pox on thee!
On one hand, bummer. But on the other, sort of a waste of hardware anyway.
I was a big time pro user. G3 tower with DVD card, G5 dual, Mac Pro 5,1 with dual X5690's and other upgrades. But I had to drag those systems kicking and screaming out of Apple's walled garden to do what is second nature on the PC side of things. Loved the OS back then, but not all users were braindead drones.
"Pro" stopped being a moniker for advanced capability, instead the most expensive, least hobbled version.
I hope whomever replaces Cook (rumor has it) once again remembers what it was like to be a nerd under all that businessman authority.
I lost a beloved cat a few months ago that ran into the road. My security camera caught the whole thing.
"What if?" Is its own torment for us, but analytically, she simply wasn't visible and there was nothing the driver could/should have done to prevent the horrible outcome.
There are in life no-win situations. It hurts, but it's an adult realization. Cats go under cars to hide - to avoid being seen - and can't grasp danger the same as humans.
I trust others math more. Comment removed.
Yahoo! Congrats to the Immich teams and developers!
Bingo. I've used Synology for ages and while they dont last forever, I get a lot of use out of them and re-buy them usually with an upgrade in mind.
But the new hard drive policy broke that cycle. I don't put up with that. I replaced one with a UGreen NAS last month. It's too early to tell how I feel about it. Docker is there and containers spin up pretty easily. Rumor has it there is hardware support for video encoding too, though I haven't gotten around to testing it.
Even though there are some cloud services like remote server management, proxies, and 3rd party integration, I do actually have to run the software myself on my hardware. Hence, self hosted.
Why stop at chrome. Break off Android too. They are shitting all over that now.
Oh no! A struggling utility! I wonder where excess money is flowing? What could possibly fund these upgrades? -[insert generalized doom & gloom] -
https://energyandpolicy.org/as-customers-struggled-utility-ceos-pay-spiked-last-year/