merlyn

How many other root certificates are going to be expiring in the next 3 years that older Android won't have updates for as well? Probably more than 1.

I wouldn't say popular, but many of my internal network or SAN management items are flash based. Many are EOL'd, and can't be upgraded.

The only option is throw out working hardware just because we can no longer manage it...

Or another example, older VMware setups that may not be fully upgraded yet (again perhaps with older hardware preventing upgrades). All flash managed.

Because it is bundled in with most OSs now. You have it without even realizing it. ... For now ...

I don't buy it. If its all shifted away from the industry supply, why are all the industrial supply stores devoid of industrial TP as well?

Just like all the baking supplies are gone from the stores, AND from the restaurant supply houses as well. There's not a 50# bag of flour to be found anywhere of those that that will actually sell to the normal consumer.

Although that industry is very closed in on itself, around my area if you go in person, you have to show your corporate paperwork to get setup as a buyer, and you can't just drop into willcall to buy restaurant quantities of what they have without an account. I know other areas are different.

So does the base iMac. The rust based drive is incredibly slow. For some generations of imac's, we had a 100% failure rate over long period of time of spinning disks. When I was buying iMacs for my company, all the SSD models were special order, wait a few weeks to build.

The 3b2 didn't have a built-in screen. You'd typically use a serial terminal with them, of which there were a near infinite many to choose from in the era.

One combination that was popular would be to pair up a DMD-5620 bitblit serial terminal with the 3B2.

There's already an emulator for the DMD-5620, written by the same guy that has written an emulator for the WE2000/3b2 setup.

https://loomcom.com/3b2/dmd5620_emulator.html

FWIW: A 3b1 (a tiny 68010 based Unix PC) is very different than a 3b2 (custom WE32000 processor Unix box).

I have paid full price for items, and received counterfeits. The listing claimed it was the vendor, it was fulfilled by Amazon.

Easily detectable fakes, typos, misspellings, etc. that aren't on genuine items.

Amazon returns are not always free. Oftentimes you have to pay shipping to return it.

The word should be pronounced the way the contraction actually is would (ha)ve.

But people are lazy. And words like caramel get blurred over. Or the one that bugs me the most of saying ‘ta’ instead of to.

My favorite is the Futurama universe where the word ask is official changed to ax instead.

Ditto. I just did a project upgrading hosted websites to the latest PHP from PHP 5.6. These are already sites that vetted past the obvious issues of the mysql and mcrypt APIs going away, and these sites were all maintained in at least the last 4 years (I host sites that haven't been touched for over a decade, they aren't getting upgrades).

Even with these "cherry picked sites", we had about a 30% failure rate dealing with the new PHP. Ranging from total non-function of some random CMS, to mostly errors printing all over every page due to some deprecated or change of code behavior in the site templates.

> a steady rise in embedded systems using BSD

Perhaps it is more visible now, but BSD embedded systems have been very widely deployed for quite some time.

That is new pricing, you can get great discounts on used, although when companies rip out their cubicles, they figure they'll get good money for them, but they typically sell for pennies, much like most office equipment.

Anyway, I've only heard of companies typically ripping out their cubicles to switch to open flooxplan, or starting out on the cheap, line-em-up, see who fits your culture, ostracize the others.