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In the narrow distributed-systems sense? Yes, however those requirements are self-imposed. AWS chose strong global consistency for IAM and billing... they could loosen it at enormous expense.

The control plane must know the truth about your account and that truth must be globally consistent. That’s where the trouble starts I guess.

I think my old-school system admin ethos is just different than theirs. It's not a who's wrong or right, just a difference in opinions on how it should be done I guess.

The ISP I work for requires us to design in a way that no single DC will cause a point of failure, just difference in design methods and I have to remember the DC I work in is completely differently used than AWS.

In the end however, I know solutions for this exist (federated ledgers, CRDT-based control planes, regional autonomy but they’re just expensive and they don’t look good on quarterly slides), it just takes the almighty dollar to implement and that goes against big business, if it "works" it works, I guess.

AWS’s model scales to millions of accounts because it hides complexity, sure but the same philosophy that enables that scale prevents true decentralization. That is shit. I guess people can architect as if us-east-1 can disappear so that things can continue on, but then thats AWS causing complexity in your code. They are just shifting who is shouldering that little known issue.

If AWS fully decentralized its control planes, they’d essentially be duplicating the cost structure of running multiple independent clouds and I understand that is why they don't however as long as AWS is reliant upon us-east-1 to function, they have not achieved what they claim to me. A single point of failure for IAM? Nah, no thanks.

Every AWS “global” service be it IAM, STS, CloudFormation, CloudFront, Route 53, Organizations, they all have deep ties to control systems originally built only in us-east-1/n. va.

That's poor design, after all these years. They've had time to fix this.

Until AWS fully decouples the control plane from us-east-1, the entire platform has a global dependency. Even if your data plane is fine, you still rely on IAM and STS for authentication and maybe Route 53 for DNS or failover CloudFormation or ECS for orchestration...

If any of those choke because us-east-1’s internal control systems are degraded, you’re fucked. That’s not true regional independence.

Major us-east-1 outages happened in 2011, 2015, 2017, 2020, 2021, 2023, and now again. I understand that us-east-1, N. VA, was the first DC but for fucks sake they've had HOW LONG to finish AWS and make us-east-1 not be tied to keeping AWS up.

HID (be it my mouse or trackpad, on either my Mac mini or MacBook) input works excellent on my Mac's. Nothing wrong here.

Not working how you prefer it doesn't make something unusable or broken...

BTW your supposed Mac mini has serious hardware problems, get that thing RMA'd ASAP! And man, why did you not RMA your MacBook Pro you bought a few years ago?? It was also just as broke!

'xcode-select --install' literally just installs the developer command line utilities, not an IDE.

Xcode, the IDE, is a separate download on the App Store.

Meanwhile I use both a 1080p display and a 1440p display (Both Dell displays) with zero issues on macOS Big Sur.

I get no odd behavior, both monitors are always detected nor do I see artifacting or anything other issue. There was some minor pink lines on the boot up screen that have since been fixed in the latest release. (M1 Mac mini)

I can't really say I noticed a difference personally since they removed text aliasing on 1440p or lower, however it's a single toggle to turn back on.

I get zero mouse lag with differing resolutions and I use both a Magic Mouse 2 and a Magic Touchpad 2.

anecdotes are always going to differ.

I'm watching a YouTube video in Safari right now being served via VP9 (Verified under "Stats for nerds").

Heck, even the M1 supports VP9 in hardware up to 8K60.

I'm not sure where you got that macOS has no VP9 support, it works quite well.

Wow! I never saw that site but it is FULL of misinformation and purposely claiming misleading "facts". I like how there is absolutely no contact info, as this tool knows he's full of crap.

True enough. Upvoted.

macOS also has native Docker and native Terminal.app with a Unix tool chain just like Linux. So those two aren't great examples on their own IMO.

I do however agree that it's 100% totally opinion based on ones preferred OS.

Just to clarify, xhyve is just bhyve ported to macOS and RUNS ON Hypervisor.framework which is not based on any other Hypervisor.

Parallels for ARM, UTM (many QEMU frontends), xhyve and others are decent frontends for Hypervisor.framework on macOS.

I'm quite pleased with my 1gb up/down for $165 from TruVista. Stable, cheap, IPv6 and a static IPv4 IP.

Not sure I agree with this guys opinion, but I might just be lucky? Everyone in my area uses a similar fiber plan. Again though maybe my small town of 10k~ people might be an outlier?

I still use a NUC5i3RYH every day. It has been remarkably stable, haven't had to replace a single part or have any issues since building it in 2015, and makes an outstanding Hackintosh to boot.

Either I got lucky with the two I own, or your environment was to harsh for them?

So I could just screenshot the tweet and would have more physical gain for my $100,000.00 than the purchaser?

I guess I don't understand the value of purchasing this or I'm missing something obvious.

The Linux kernel doesn't rely on the filesystem for swap files insuring no more overheard than swap partitions. It bypasses the filesystem and is told what blocks it can use, that's why some filesystems do not support swapfiles as there is additional plumbing to be done.

Playing a game of chance works the same way mentally as other games, you get enjoyment from them both. The addiction of gambling is a whole different discussion and I agree with you re: the addiction and becoming just addicted instead of playing or enjoyment but that doesn't change the fact they are still playing a game, even if a game of chance.

Just my opinion and all. Everyone thinks differently. :)

My Kobalt cordless blower is very much entry level and has swappable batteries that also swap with my other Kobalt tools.

It's not the worlds greatest blower (480 CFM and 110 MPH) but it gets the job done on my modest yard (40mins of runtime).

It's still a win pollution wise. Those 4 stroke generators are far better re: emissions than a 2 stroke engine on ICE lawn tools.

Can you cite this actually happening?

If you are asked to leave and do not leave I can see you possibly being arrested for trespassing, but I fail to see what you would be arrested for by bringing in food from outside the theatre. Sure, they could ban you from coming back to property (and this could lead to trespassing arrests, if you did return) but thats about it.

Yes, of course gambling is a game of chance. I don't get what you're getting at?

I also am for regulating loot boxes, I still do not see how that changes the fact a game is a game.

I've never seen this myself on a XR, but I will take your word for it (As it does make sense), thanks for the info.

I was more thinking lack of light not being a issue, I didn't take into account that mass amounts of light can blow out the image for the sensors.

FaceID uses infrared, lighting conditions do not matter.

You can disable the requiring of looking at the phone and unlocking via FaceID in settings, I regularly unlock my phone without holding it so I am "dead on looking at it".

That said, I also prefer TouchID.

Playing a game is gaming. Just because you personally do not like a genre doesn't instantly make it not a game...

Even people playing board games are still gamers. People playing sports are gamers. They just play different game genres than you.

A game is a game.

This does not exist in Home versions of Windows 10 unless there is no active network connection.

I personally think if you cannot run that simple command and don't know what Terminal.app is then the defaults are correct for you. For power users you can make macOS as open as you want is all I was getting at.

Again, just my personal opinion.

That is only applicable to the Home version. Pro and above still lets you create an offline account during setup. That said I find it disgusting you have to disable your internet connection on the Home version to create an offline account.

Not true in the slightest. You can disable (the sane IMO) defaults and run anything on macOS to your hearts desire.

macOS is nothing like iOS WRT apps you can install and run.

Turning off Gatekeeper is literally a single terminal command. (sudo spctl --master-disable)

Of course.

To even go further `sudo spctl --master-disable` to disable Gatekeeper, and `csrutil disable` in Recovery Mode to disable System Integrity Protection and you have a Mac that is just as open (including the loss of security, which may or may not just be theatre, I am not going into that one) as any old OS X/Windows/*nix machine of yore.

I personally just tend to use cheap-o machines myself these days, I just use web terminals for the most part personally.

Good info, had no clue that was a configurable option. Thanks for the knowledge!

macOS does indeed show the scrollbar at all times when a input device other than a touchpad is attached.

My desktop Mac never hides the scrollbar, as it uses a normal mouse, however when I was using a Magic Trackpad the scrollbar would indeed hide unless I was actively scrolling.

Odd behavior.