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Of course it is. Open source nerds created lemmy and operate the instances. They are the primary audience that would care to abandon reddit over the API change and now the privacy policy change.

This is like going to a gun club and campaigning for better gun control. You might find a couple supporters but for the most part you'll just be pissing everyone off.

GOG actually changed that policy to some degree. I don't think it's a guarantee that all GOG games are DRM free.

Yes I am aware of that solution. I should have clarified the goal of the exercise. I’m trying to work out if I can make an easily interoperable system where a singlemode fiber wall jack fed from a 40G switch can act as a both a 10G or 40G port as needed depending on what ethernet card the client is using. I am using singlemode as I want to avoid using MTP multimode cable seeing how much more expensive it is than simple lc-lc singlemode.

Yes. There is also an adapter that would allow me to use a SFP+ in a QSFP+ port. But I'm trying to work out if I can make an easily interoperable system where a wall jack fed from a 40G switch can act as a both a 10G or 40G port as needed. Hence the question.

QSFP+ to SFP+: MTP/MPO-LC Breakout Cable

This is almost the setup I'm looking for. Except example is using MMF. I want to know is this setup can be done to one SFP over SMF.

Pretty sure a profit cap goes against the entire concept of the stock market. It would probably collapse it.

Cool. Where do I sign up?

Sorry about that but it really boils me when people defend poor software development practices when making the point of supporting hardware for a long time is difficult.

I'm playing around with OS development only as a hobby currently. I don't know much about black box insides of macOS however I have used third party drivers as well as looked into how the kext system is structured and it really seems like a master class of software engineering. Having the drivers structured hierarchically under categories/subsystems and with multiple kernel API revisions supported means the kexts work over a wider lifespan.

Also comparing Apple to the rest of industry is not completely unreasonable for one reason. Modern register level documentation is hidden under shitty NDA's and aren't even complete half the time, with the usually poorly written SDK being used as documentation instead. Even better is when parts of the SDK are fucking binaries with no hopes of figuring out where the bug lies. The top dog of course is no SDK whatsoever and instead opting to release a fixed, factory compiled linux kernel release for Android only. I believe this is what Qualcomm mostly do and why those Android releases have a fixed lifespan of 3-5 years. When this is how over half the Android phone SoC market operates, I wonder how half of them make it to market working as well as they do.

Linux on the other hand is just a mess (In more ways than one. I have low opinions of it). That is not a good example of modular driver support. The unwillingness of the Linux community from both userspace applications / libraries and kernelspace to maintain a versioned API system with rigorous testing for compliance and to instead create a moving target is nothing short of a fucking joke. It's no wonder Android can't easily maintain cross-generation support. Then there is the lack of support for running different versions of libraries side by side as necessary.

I run a Linux server for home use as it's still king in this regard and have sometime attempted to use Linux as a desktop. However I eventually come to the same conclusion that it's just too unstable and "patched together". My daily driver is still a mac, no matter how much I want to move away due to Apple's worsening business practices.

Sorry for getting heated. It just really boils me when people defend poor software development practices because it the "industry standard". I disdain manufactured e-waste stemming from rubbish software development practices.

It's probably enforced through an unnoticed firmware update. However if you have never connected them to the internet, they might have not received the broken update.

You're either a troll or an uninformed idiot who has never done operating system development. A properly modularised OS can allow for minimal upkeep for older hardware. A leading example is Apple's .kext system allowing for near 10 years of OS support both on macOS and iOS. Not that I think Apple is a great company but they do have some really good software development practices.

Also regardless of the technical explanination above, accepting a constant flow of e-waste for the sake of a new shiny year is just unethical regardless of the supposed reason.

Today l learned that some people get motion sickness from playing flatscreen games. How do you even survive a car? Let alone an airplane?

I'm holding out for the PineNote from Pine64.

I have seen you thinking similarly on other posts. Are you actually a business owner or just a troll? Based on that second paragraph I have to believe you're just a troll.