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Could the Pico code be posted for posterity? Maybe someday it could be useful to someone.

I have stopped my floatplane subscription for now. The testing inaccuracies I can live with as I watch mostly for entertainment anyway, but the way the Billet Labs situation was handled is disgusting. Not being responsive in communicating and having a messed up logistics process where something accidentally gets sold is one thing and something that can happen at scale even if it's not ideal. But to then release a statement where you CLEARLY try and manipulate the reader into thinking that the situation had been resolved before the Video dropped in order to make yourself look better is completely unacceptable.
  
It's mindblowing to me that after so many PR nightmares Linus still refuses to use some kind of professional to help him write and word his responses. This could have been a nothing burger with no lost community trust but Linus turns around and just refuses to read the room and releases a statement like that. They need to figure out how to act in a professional manner ASAP because with that kind of size you cannot continue operating like a 5 man shop.

I have stopped my floatplane subscription for now. The testing inaccuracies I can live with as I watch mostly for entertainment anyway, but the way the Billet Labs situation was handled is disgusting. Not being responsive in communicating and having a messed up logistics process where something accidentally gets sold is one thing and something that can happen at scale even if it's not ideal. But to then release a statement where you CLEARLY try and manipulate the reader into thinking that the situation had been resolved before the Video dropped in order to make yourself look better is completely unacceptable.
  
It's mindblowing to me that after so many PR nightmares Linus still refuses to use some kind of professional to help him write and word his responses. This could have been a nothing burger with no lost community trust but Linus turns around and just refuses to read the room and releases a statement like that. They need to figure out how to act in a professional manner ASAP because with that kind of size you cannot continue operating like a 5 man shop.

I have stopped my floatplane subscription for now. The testing inaccuracies I can live with as I watch mostly for entertainment anyway, but the way the Billet Labs situation was handled is disgusting. Not being responsive in communicating and having a messed up logistics process where something accidentally gets sold is one thing and something that can happen at scale even if it's not ideal. But to then release a statement where you CLEARLY try and manipulate the reader into thinking that the situation had been resolved before the Video dropped in order to make yourself look better is completely unacceptable.
  
It's mindblowing to me that after so many PR nightmares Linus still refuses to use some kind of professional to help him write and word his responses. This could have been a nothing burger with no lost community trust but Linus turns around and just refuses to read the room and releases a statement like that. They need to figure out how to act in a professional manner ASAP because with that kind of size you cannot continue operating like a 5 man shop.

I have stopped my floatplane subscription for now. The testing inaccuracies I can live with as I watch mostly for entertainment anyway, but the way the Billet Labs situation was handled is disgusting. Not being responsive in communicating and having a messed up logistics process where something accidentally gets sold is one thing and something that can happen at scale even if it's not ideal. But to then release a statement where you CLEARLY try and manipulate the reader into thinking that the situation had been resolved before the Video dropped in order to make yourself look better is completely unacceptable.
  
It's mindblowing to me that after so many PR nightmares Linus still refuses to use some kind of professional to help him write and word his responses. This could have been a nothing burger with no lost community trust but Linus turns around and just refuses to read the room and releases a statement like that. They need to figure out how to act in a professional manner ASAP because with that kind of size you cannot continue operating like a 5 man shop.

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To be fair that is never a good argument with hosting providers. They provide more value than just the hardware costs, e.g: Secure facility with likely 24/7 on staff security, Backup battery and Generators, Electricity, Dedicated fiber links to other locations and they have to have staff to run everything which is very expensive. 
 
And with cloud storage especially you are also paying for the flexibility and API access you get with it. But I agree that in this case the prices are ridiculous especially since you can get cheaper offers from reputable companies. 
 
 
That's only for residential ISP traffic. It's only "unlimited" because the ISPs know that most people aren't gonna use multiple terabytes of traffic a month and they can balance out the heavy users with your average grandma who pays way too much. I have never seen a bigger server provider that offers truly unlimited traffic or if they do it's limited to 100Mbit/s. Traffic does legitimately cost money so charging for it is fine if it's reasonable and not the ludicrous prices they are charging. 

I would recommend starting with client side (HTML/CSS/Javascript/Typescript) web development. It's very engaging since you can directly see our results and it will allow you to write a large range of applications ranging from websites, back-end servers, command line applications to desktop and even mobile apps. The community is huge and you can use everything you create on pretty much all modern operating systems. 

I would recommend starting with client side (HTML/CSS/Javascript/Typescript) web development. It's very engaging since you can directly see our results and it will allow you to write a large range of applications ranging from websites, back-end servers, command line applications to desktop and even mobile apps. The community is huge and you can use everything you create on pretty much all modern operating systems. 

To be fair that is never a good argument with hosting providers. They provide more value than just the hardware costs, e.g: Secure facility with likely 24/7 on staff security, Backup battery and Generators, Electricity, Dedicated fiber links to other locations and they have to have staff to run everything which is very expensive. 
 
And with cloud storage especially you are also paying for the flexibility and API access you get with it. But I agree that in this case the prices are ridiculous especially since you can get cheaper offers from reputable companies. 
 
 
That's only for residential ISP traffic. It's only "unlimited" because the ISPs know that most people aren't gonna use multiple terabytes of traffic a month and they can balance out the heavy users with your average grandma who pays way too much. I have never seen a bigger server provider that offers truly unlimited traffic or if they do it's limited to 100Mbit/s. Traffic does legitimately cost money so charging for it is fine if it's reasonable and not the ludicrous prices they are charging. 

[Copied from Reddit, did NOT see a post on here] [https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/srhalz/linus_tech_tips_pirating_occt_answer_from_the_dev/]
Context :
I'm making this a dedicated post since things blew up in the post about the Newegg controversy, following this comment :
https://old.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/srb92k/holy_sht_people/hwrbhts/
TL;DR : Linus tech tips use OCCT in their videos ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJnrMNCahxc&t=270s
) and they didn't pay for a Pro license, which raised controversy in my Discord at that time, and mixed feelings. Aeryn brings that up, and it blew up, with mentions to their "adblock = piracy" stuff among others.
Seems my answer isn't publicly readable in that thread for some reason, and as it's far in the comments section, I thought it was a good idea to put it here. I jnust hope i'm not wrong. Sorry if I am !
My original answer :
OCCT dev here. I read the whole comment thread (wow, that blew up), and felt like I had to give my personal view of this.
Let me draw the whole picture quickly : i'm the sole dev behind the project (and I always have been a solo dev), and it's currently downloaded 20k+ times per day. I made that my main job due to COVID events since early 2021, and currently, i'm not making ends meet with the project, and if things continue that way, i'll have to put OCCT as a side job again, despite its huge success.
OCCT has been around for 18 years now, and has been free for personal use only for like 10+ years, at least. It's not new it's forbidden for professional / commercial use. Don't ask me when exactly, but it's been 10 years+ at least. I think it was since OCCT 2.0.
I'll say how I felt about this, without filtering anything.
First reaction was "OMFG I finally am featured on a popular youtube channel !". I was on JayZ's channel already (he used a very old version), and now on LTT, I was thoroughly REALLY happy.
Then, after a few minutes, it starts to hit you.
Did they contact you ? No. Did they pay for a license ? No. Are they out of bounds ? yeah.
Now, should I care about that ? That's the tough part. They have tremendous power. They make a video saying OCCT sucks ? I'm dead. No matter how 18 years of being "useful" are, i'm as good as dead. They can pronounce a death sentence instantly. GamerNexus, Jayz, and a lot of others can.
I never go the fight route with anyone, but here, even less so, like a David/Goliath stuff.
They also give me visibility, and that's a good thing already 🙂
Would I have offered them a free license with an email ? HELL YES. Why wouldn't I ? I mean, it's free ads for OCCT, and it can only benefit us both. So in the end, it was just boiling down to not being "nice".
I let the matter be, as I enjoyed +15% visits for a few days following this, and tried to forget about it.
Then, developing OCCT further, I tried to reach out to youtubers, as they started making content about software. Remember the CTR/Hydra craze a few months ago ? Yeah, around that time. I was introducing my benchmarks, with a new take, and tried to get attention. I emailed the 3 top youtube channels I knew : JayZ, LTT, and GamersNexus. I got a response from GamerNexus, which led to nowhere (I was still very happy about getting answered though, thanks !), and none from the two others.
Don't get me wrong - i'm not a special snowflake. I don't deserve answers. They are so big they can view me as an insect, easily, we just don't compare. But then, you realize the sole one that replied you was the one that wasn't using your work to make some of their content. I don't know if they do use OCCT regularly, I just know they did for sure, but still, it was a bitter taste.
So here I was, having no attention from major youtube channels dedicated to hardware/review, despite them using my work, and seeing them advertise CTR like crazy while the dev of CTR was being rude to his own community.
It all boils down to this : i'm not a marketer. I'm not a youtuber ( my videos are crappy). I'm not an entertainer. i'm a dev. People are so used to have OCCT around that they forget there's someone working behind it. I mean, 85% of my traffic comes from people googling OCCT, so it is a tad known 🙂
It's a lingering feeling. I read the twitter stuff about adblocking being piracy. Well, it's even more blatant in my case. I am down 10k€ of personal funds since I switched full time on OCCT since I need more money to support my family (and we aren't living the crazy life, I have 3 kids, my wife's working part time at minimum wage, so well...).
I felt like answering to their adblock is piracy tweet. It's like a big company complaining aboput not making even more money when I can't make ends meet, and it felt... unfair. Especially since they publicly "pirated" OCCT (i'm not sure you can say that since I would have given them a free license on the spot tbh).
I did not, being afraid of the consequences. I'm better off shutting my big mouth, and trying to increase slowly my income to support my family, rather than starting fires here and there, and put my "starting" business at a jeopardy.
Here's the whole picture, the situation. I'm not letting OCCT drop, i've been working on OCCT V11 like crazy (i'm at like 60 hours+ per week on it), hoping it'll be the version that makes me not worry about money anymore, and, that's a dream, being able to afford buying test hardware rather than constantly bug people I find here and there to let me access their computer to debug.
Am I mad ? no. It's just a lingering feeling of unfairness, and while you're experiencing it, you're always wondering if it's justified or not, if you're just being a special snowflake or a princess to whom everything is due. It's a complex feeling.
The times are to entertainers, not engineers, that's a fact 🙂
As a closing note, most companies are like that. Some are really nice. I'm not afraid to cite them : Asetek, NZXT, Cooler master, Videocardz,... they're all really, really nice people. They use OCCT, support me, and I even got an AIO for free from Asetek since I made a function they had the idea of (Steady mode) (I was beyond thrilled). But lots of others aren't. I did fight for 3 months with a popular graphic card manufacturer to make them pay for a Pro license when they were using it in their after-sale services (I had proof sent by a user).
It's a pretty common thing out there. So again, this is not isolated behavior, and also, I can understand it's tough to play nice with everyone and not make a mistake. On my end, it's just often... depressing 🙂

You should really put a disclaimer on that video that people should check their local laws before installing a cell repeater. Any cell repeaters unless they are sold and installed by your mobile service provider are very much illegal in my and several other countries and you could pay huge fines when they catch you since only the cell companies that purchased the mobile frequencies have licences to broadcast on them.
 
You can purchase those devices pretty much everywhere but using them is a whole different story. If you do want to do this please check your local laws first or you could get into a lot of trouble.

You should really put a disclaimer on that video that people should check their local laws before installing a cell repeater. Any cell repeaters unless they are sold and installed by your mobile service provider are very much illegal in my and several other countries and you could pay huge fines when they catch you since only the cell companies that purchased the mobile frequencies have licences to broadcast on them.
 
You can purchase those devices pretty much everywhere but using them is a whole different story. If you do want to do this please check your local laws first or you could get into a lot of trouble.

You should really put a disclaimer on that video that people should check their local laws before installing a cell repeater. Any cell repeaters unless they are sold and installed by your mobile service provider are very much illegal in my and several other countries and you could pay huge fines when they catch you since only the cell companies that purchased the mobile frequencies have licences to broadcast on them.
 
You can purchase those devices pretty much everywhere but using them is a whole different story. If you do want to do this please check your local laws first or you could get into a lot of trouble.

You should really put a disclaimer on that video that people should check their local laws before installing a cell repeater. Any cell repeaters unless they are sold and installed by your mobile service provider are very much illegal in my and several other countries and you could pay huge fines when they catch you since only the cell companies that purchased the mobile frequencies have licences to broadcast on them.
 
You can purchase those devices pretty much everywhere but using them is a whole different story. If you do want to do this please check your local laws first or you could get into a lot of trouble.

God backups?
 
What filesystem/
 
If its important, Id send it off to datarecovery and let the pros deal with it, otherwise Id make a image of the drive and try photorec. 

I dont think linus particularly cares for teamviewer.

Jessa Jones figured out the speaker IC issue. NOT driversavers. Jessa told Drivesavers about it. Linus then credits DriveSavers, not Jessa Jones, with figuring this out. On one hand, a nearly impossible fact to figure out beforehand without going through all of Jessa's videos. That also assumes you even know to check Jessa's videos. On the other hand...they know Louis. They can ask him questions. /discuss

If you have multiple HTML files that share common content among each other (e.g. header, footer, menu, ...) you'll want to use a templating engine.
You can do this server side if you have access to something like php, java, nodeJS, ruby, etc. or if you need static HTML you can also use something like pug:
https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html
Combined with Grunt or Gulp to "compile" the templates on your local machine and then upload the final pages.
 
If you want to have shared Javascript files you don't need to take any extra steps.
You can reference the JS file from each page with a script tag without any issues.
 
But again if you plan on making multiple pages with shared content a templating engine makes a lot of sense, so you don't have to manually carry over changes to shared content to each page by hand.

If you have multiple HTML files that share common content among each other (e.g. header, footer, menu, ...) you'll want to use a templating engine.
You can do this server side if you have access to something like php, java, nodeJS, ruby, etc. or if you need static HTML you can also use something like pug:
https://pugjs.org/api/getting-started.html
Combined with Grunt or Gulp to "compile" the templates on your local machine and then upload the final pages.
 
If you want to have shared Javascript files you don't need to take any extra steps.
You can reference the JS file from each page with a script tag without any issues.
 
But again if you plan on making multiple pages with shared content a templating engine makes a lot of sense, so you don't have to manually carry over changes to shared content to each page by hand.

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