I wonder why they didn't go with something more supported, like a Realtek chip. They're not the best (I'd prefer Intel or Aquantia), but they're cheap and widely supported. The Framework's Ethernet expansion card uses a RTL8156 which is supported practically everywhere.
So its not being charged for everyone, only those not running on Azure (which is a huge number of folks). However, Microsoft giving preferential terms to MS software running in Azure
They probably bundle it into the cost for Azure customers. That's really not Azure-specific; any server provider could offer complementary hotpatching if they bundle it into their Windows licensing cost.
Did you read the article? It's specifically about hotpatching (patching the kernel without rebooting). You usually need to pay for hotpatching on Linux too, for example using a provider like ksplice or KernelCare, etc.
I've got a Framework 16 and all components work on both Fedora and Debian without installing custom drivers, so I'm surprised it's still an issue for some laptops.
Haven't watched the video yet, but in theory you can do anything in Excel on Windows since it can load COM/ActiveX components written in C / C++ / whatever language you want.
I hope that goes well for them. It's hard and extremely expensive, which is why there's so few good search engines and half of them just use Bing's API.
Do you have a source for that? I think it's nowhere near 95% of sites given there's several major providers that aren't AWS or Cloudflare (eg Hetzner, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Wordpress.com, and a bunch more)
Google was best in the 2000s, but things were different back then. They were still a young company trying to improve the world, SEO spam wasn't really a thing yet, there were far fewer websites, and most online discussions were archived and searchable (compared to today where there's platforms like Discord that aren't indexable in search engines at all).
I use it for document summarization and it works well. I use Paperless-ngx to manage documents, and have paperless-ai configured to instantly set the title and tags using Gemini as soon as a new document is added.
I chose Gemini over OpenAI since Google's privacy policy is better. I'm using the paid version, and Google says data from paid users will never be used to train the model. Unfortunately I don't have good enough hardware to run a local model.
It's been common ever since magnet links were created, since you can post a magnet link anywhere (even in a plain text file) rather than having to upload a .torrent file somewhere like in the old days.
Even if the report is inaccurate, Backblaze has never been profitable, which isn't great. Investors want to see a return on their investment. They'll keep pushing Backblaze to become profitable, likely eventually resulting in enshittification of some sort. We'll see if things have changed when they publish their Q1 2025 results on May 7.
One of the harsh realities in Silicon Valley is there's a lot of companies that produce great products but end up failing after going public, either because they couldn't find a good product market fit, or because they couldn't figure out how to make their idea profitable.
At least I live in an area where the most likely disaster is an earthquake that destroys the entire area, and I'm not sure how useful weather alerts would be in that case.
My emergency kit has a radio with AM / FM / NOAA (emergency weather broadcasts in the USA) and a hand crank to charge its battery for exactly this reason.
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I wonder why they didn't go with something more supported, like a Realtek chip. They're not the best (I'd prefer Intel or Aquantia), but they're cheap and widely supported. The Framework's Ethernet expansion card uses a RTL8156 which is supported practically everywhere.