Yes. I have a bike helmet with integrated cameras. The company (Cyclevision) that made it is gone. So no Apple account. So no app for my helmet anymore.
You could check if consumerrights.wiki already has a page on that company and if not create one. It's a great resource that will also be used to justify demands for changes to the DMCA.
This is yet another example of why open bootloaders to allow alternative firmwares for all gadgets must become legally required. Stuff turning into eWaste (or at least losing what some folks would likely call major functionality) because the creators went out of business and the gadget was locked down is a disaster for both the planet and for the concept that you actually own the stuff you buy.
You mean leave them off by default? Because that was what Windows did back in the day when the feature was introduced.
I don't know why they lowered the retention limit from 90 days to 60 days but I'm guessing it has to do with reusing old windows bootloaders to bypass things like secure boot (again). Could also be to prevent issues where you install a new vulnerable bootloader blacklist into your motherboard and do a system restore which tries to load a vulnerable bootloader and leaves your system unbootable.
Either way, in my experience Windows rarely kept over a month of system restore point anyway, as it keeps making new ones every time you install software (updates) or update your system. The default space assigned to the system drive has rarely been big enough to keep more than a week or so of system restore points for me.
Windows Me. Why bring up an operating model from 24 years ago if people got used to a different one now, with SR on by default?
60 days compared to the old 10-90 days doesn't sound too bad for most users, especially if it used to be "mostly 10 days". Probably every installer now creates a restore point quickly reaching the disk quota (used to be 10%).
Not sure why it's not configurable though. After all, it's local storage on my machine and my OS. So based on this alone a decision to enforce any deletion policy that the user can't control is MS being MS again.
Windows used to allow way more than 10 days of restore points. When enabled, it'll fill up the storage quota assigned to restore points and delete the oldest one(s) when making a new one in low space scenarios. It has done that for ages now. I believe Windows will use 10% of the drive (max) for system restore points, though often I've seen that number lower by itself (I think when the disk is running out of free space? I don't know the mechanism that reduces the percentage).
Windows now doesn't let you restore restore points from over two months ago. That used to be longer, but they seem to have restricted the maximum retention time for some reason. I'm curious why, but I doubt they just arbitrarily decided to lower the retention time for shits and giggles.
Yep, my sister makes fun of me that her mere presence makes me more productive. (when I shared an apartment with her in my early thirties) she'd sit in my room just chatting to me and I would tidy and clean without her doing anything, whereas I'd been meaning to do that for months.
I suggested the idea of a responsiblabuddy website today to my wife – if we're both in the same town I'd commit to coming to your house on Saturday and you'd commit to coming to mine on Sunday and I'd finally tidy my shed / weld those batteries / list those items on fb marketplace etc. Then I realised I'd need a responsabilabuddy to get me to start and finish the website!
There was a guy running a co-working space in Dublin (Ireland) who would open it up on the occasional Sunday for "Sideproject Sundays" which I found great for focus.
Edit: there are no search results for "responsiblabuddy", I know I didn't come up with that term
I bought a book on Amazon recently and when it got delivered, I was too lazy to get off the couch to get it and I just downloaded it. Now I have the physical book and a copy that's convenient to open/reference whenever and wherever I am.
Yes this approach is great. Everybody is being paid, and you have the freedom of multiple formats. No one is getting screwed, because no one expects people to buy books in multiple formats (except perhaps audiobooks, which are different because you also have the reader who deserves to be paid). It would be nice to see publishers embrace this sort of flexibility (e.g. with a download code printed in the book?), but the use case might be quite niche for most readers so it feels unlikely.
Composer isn't one file, and doesn't use zip format, or signed hashes as far as I know. The sources could be compromised, for instance. And it couldn't be 'simply installed' by an average joe
* Composer is one file. It's a .phar (as described by @az09mugen)
* I think in typical use, Composer is installing via Packagist.org, which is typically pointed at a GitHub repo, and it is the repo's zip file that is downloaded to your computer. You can look in composer.lock and see `"type": "zip"` throughout
* It definitely has some sort of hash verification in the PostFileDownloadEvent class. I've never used it to know if it would satisfy your need
Similarly, WP CLI is a .phar file which can then install additional packages. It's really just using Composer under the hood.
