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I mean it definitely was offered as an ISO just not to the general public. Official ISO's definitely exist and I imagine are likely still perfectly accessible most likely through either an old enterprise support portal (they generally don't shut this old private infra down for a LONG time) or by contacting Microsoft directly through enterprise support channels. So it's not like there's no legal way to get a Windows 7 ISO, it's just not available on the public internet.

ngl this is just a major skill issue. I am sympathetic though, it's a really easy mistake to make and I've seen it made a lot even by very smart people. But redundancy is not redundancy if you use the same provider for both connections and never will be. Even just taking a step back from the technical aspects (which is crucial for decision making like this) what would happen if that company was ransomed and their infra stopped working? What if they went bankrupt overnight? What if there's a significant terrorist event near their only office? What if severe weather events broke down their supply chain and they weren't able to procure replacement hardware to prevent an outage? These are the questions you need to ask for redundancy and your company clearly missed the mark by A LOT here. Different providers is like step 0. Similarly when you insure things you need to make sure the insurance company will be able to pay you out and not get insurance from the same place for significantly different things. Especially with natural disasters it can flood insurance companies with multiple claims at once and if their insurance doesn't cover enough it can be pretty rough for you as a business. A lot of the protections for consumer insurance don't apply for businesses and it can lead to some pretty rough scenarios. Back to the point, don't go to on premise AD for redundancy (there are other reasons to switch but they're often niche). It's solving the complete wrong problem and you only create further tech debt and open up multiple other avenues for issues to arise. It's far better to solve the internet problem as that almost definitely effects other areas of the business as well. There are niche situations where you would want to fix both but in those situations you should have never used AAD in the first place and that's the skill issue at play. But most businesses aren't like this and using pure AAD is normally the better option. I wouldn't have said this 6 years ago however, AAD has come a very long way since then. Also you need to realise that sometimes outages will happen to lots of people and you won't be the exception most of the time. And that's just part of doing business in the modern world. The worlds payment infra can go down at a moments notice and there's nothing you can do about it other than making sure you have the cashflow needed to operate with a freak 3 week long outage. There's nothing you as a company can realistically do to prevent these types of outages and it's just part of the cost of doing business. Sometimes your internet will be apart of this. Sometimes whole countries just lose internet even with the crazy amounts of redundancy today and you probably just aren't running your business that day. But that's okay and you need to structure your business in a way that can cope with these outages. The best solution to these outages is just having the cashflow needed to survive, technical solutions are never going to save you from the craziness that is the bullshit life will throw at you on a Friday afternoon. Even when the ISP is procured through an MSP with a discount you just bite the bullet and pay for whatever backup connection you need to stay operating. At least if redundancy is a significant concern like you clearly think it is for your company. Any good MSP will also recommend this for you as well and should have a second provider they have a contract with even if it's not at the same discount (sometimes they'll even have 3 or more choices available for backup connections). Plus if you don't actually need all the bandwidth you normally get in an emergency (very common situation) you can get a lower throughput backup connection and just limit which devices have access to the backup connection using VLAN's. This is good to have as an option in general for when things go wrong. Also you need to test these systems. Any redundancy or backup capabilities should be regularly tested (anywhere from once a quarter to once every 2 years depending on context normally) and if it's not regularly tested then it's a hail marry not a backup/redundancy. Oh also last thing on redundancy in situations like this. Don't put the physical connections in close proximity. If you can you should put 1 connection on 1 side of the property and 1 on the other side, on different roads if possible. This just means if some idiot with a digger rips up your connection accidentally only 1 of them is effected. This can also happen multiple times in short proximity if there's say road works for months at a time outside the property... and legal threats won't stop a digger from taking out your internet for a third time in the past 2 months... diggers as a rule generally don't care about the legal system, or anything really because they're machines and the only laws they need to obey are the laws of physics and there's nothing in physics that'll save your internet connection when a digger goes to town in the wrong place. Edit: I forgot to add but it's also often good practice where the stakes are high to have a last ditch option that's using a completely different technology all together. This could be a 4G connection, fixed wireless, Starlink or any other similar solution. If you have a crucial need for an internet connection at all times (say in healthcare) this step isn't optional. Although for healthcare it's potentially also worth going with 2 connections from your main ISP, 1 from a third party and 1 with a different technology. Also this connection will almost always have lower throughput so it makes setting up VLAN's for this type of emergency situation very useful and if you set it up for this connection you can do the same for your third party connection letting you lower the throughput for the connection saving on monthly costs. Although I'd always keep 1 full bandwidth backup connection in the chain if redundancy is important.

I'm not defending the latter. Or buying a secret lab chair in the first place. Not only is it known that their company is awful but their chairs are overpriced and bad. But that doesn't make it okay that secret lab have such terrible and misleading documentation. Again, not defending OP. They did do something pretty stupid and their claims that it's to sell more accessories are founded in nothing. But secret lab did also give them a really easy path towards making this mistake and imo that makes this issue fall on secret lab. Especially when issues like this do financially benefit secret lab.

Their size guide specifically says to size up if you're in between... that should be so much more clear in this case. Their guide is awful. Also asking customer to pay for returns might be standard procedure at trash companies but that doesn't make it not a trash procedure. In fact here in NZ and in Aus where we have actual consumer protections it's straight up illegal. The fact that anyone accepts this policy as "standard" is ridiculous. Also not everyone has the ability to even try secret labs chairs in person... Edit: To anyone that thinks it's the consumers fault for following the sizing diagram if they instead ignored the sizing diagram saying to go up if in between sizes and the chair was too small would you still blame the consumer?

Both nvidia and Steam solved this both on the hardware and software side. Hardware side never worked out for both of them. I believe you can still buy the nvidia tv shield pro but the steam link is long gone and the hardware was never great to start with. I also don't think official software support for the nvidia tv shield is still there for what you want. But simply using remote play on steam should achieve pretty damn low latency. Unless you're playing competitive games I don't see how the latency would be big enough to actually matter. If the quest 3 latency is fine then steam remote play latency will also be fine. The TV's display latency is much worse than the network and processing latency... Most likely you're taking the low display latency from the quest 3 and thinking it's to do with some networking or processing but it's really got nothing to do with that. While oculus likely has lower latency for processing and networking it won't be easily perceivable, we're talking microseconds at this point not milliseconds. If you want it to work well use steam remote play on a laptop with a decent monitor. Or a desktop connected to a decent display.

Their cheap motherboards are better than asus's mid tier motherboards lol. You get more features, better cs, more reliability and less qc issues buying a cheap asrock motherboard compared to paying 50% more to buy a not even as good asus motherboard.

swtor lived and is living its best life f2p

Fucking hell finally dbrand gave the twitter account to someone who's not an edgelord. This is actually a pretty okay apology. Probably not quite enough, far too late and only after Marques Brownlee directly came out against them but at least they eventually did something that looks vaguely like the right thing. If only Linus had the emotional maturity to respond in a similar fashion. Maybe then dbrand would have actually made a proper apology sooner. Also I'm not saying anyone should forgive dbrand either or saying it's an adequate apology but at least this time they made an actual attempt at an apology. Also pretty funny how dbrand literally proved Marques' prediction exactly right in the reply Now that dbrand have actually addressed and apologised (or at least attempted to in good faith) for their actions the biggest clown left seems to be LMG. Somehow Linus managed to take a situation where someone else had a controversy and ended up looking like the biggest asshole. He really does have a terminal skill issue when it comes to social media. Edit: So does this mean Linus is mad now or...? Because even after everything including the second apology and money he's clearly still not happy. Or did he not actually mean what he said and it's just performative to make him sound empathetic?

I literally grew up alongside Indian friends getting called shitstain's and similar because of their skin colour and because of the Indian hygiene stereotype. There's so many variants on shit/poo/kaka used to insult Indians because of race. So fuck off with that shit I've seen how the word's been used throughout my life to belittle Indian friends of mine and it's not okay. Just because you're ignorant doesn't make you right. Far more respectable response on twitter from Marques Brownlee... at least there's an actual adult in the tech youtuber space

Linus either missing the point entirely or being gaslit by dbrand. Either way it's a horrible look... Linus really needs to just stop engaging on social media when it involves controversy. It's just a straight up skill issue he can't involve himself without stepping in it. For someone who talks so much about the weight of ~100 people relying on him for their livelihood he sure does love to do incredibly stupid shit for no reason. Maybe he should get to know Elon, they have that in common. If you wanted a more comparable situation it'd be like someone making fun of a black person with the name kunerash and saying it sounds like coon rash. Doesn't sound so good when you put it that way does it? Maybe if Linus reads this he can realise how idiotic his comparison is.

They didn't even mention the fact that they used a very specific racist stereotype used against Indians lol. They apologised for "we made fun of a guys name" which just makes it seem like people are mad that they made fun of a random persons name. That's not the point at all and it shows dbrand really can't hit the mark at all. All that's happened is dbrand saw how much backlash it was getting and decided to pay their way out of the situation and to make an absolutely awful apology that's effectively trying to gaslight people and control the narrative. Absolutely atrocious apology from dbrand here that doesn't address anything that actually matters and is trying to steer people away from the fact that the tweet was seemingly incredibly racist. Fuck this company they're really not showing any good faith here at all. Bonus tweet for people reading this thread: Making a joke immediately after doing something controversial is so stupid but at least that's something LMG can whole heartedly support given their own track record.

I mean clearly the original intent wasn't racist but they also clearly don't care about looking like racists. What an actual reasonable adult would have done is say sorry and quickly clarify that they weren't trying to be racist. They've said something that appears incredibly racist (calling Indian's shit in reference to their skin colour is a pretty classic racist insult around the world) and instead of being upset that they accidentally made themselves look racist they just tripled down. If they have no problem looking like racists tbh maybe they just are. Idk about you but if I accidentally said something that looked racist I wouldn't flame people on twitter I'd try and make sure people know I'm not racist first before doing anything else.

I found something else that also shows dbrand in a horrible light. This is the response to themselves that they're referencing: If you don't get an apology when going through non twitter support channels then it's no longer an edgy gimmick it's just called being complete assholes.

If dbrand wants to be edgy then whatever but making fun of an Indian last name in this way just seems so utterly stupid. While it's probably not racially motivated by any means it does come across and look as incredibly racist. And the fact that they know it looks racist and choose to still double triple down does make it actually kinda racist. At the very least they don't care if people see them as racist. Honestly if dbrand don't care that their brand is seen as racist that should be a giant red flag. Is this the response to allegations of racism that LMG expects of its brand partners? I know if LMG don't take action in response to this I'll be letting LMG sponsors know what LMG stands for when it comes to these topics. I imagine brands won't be happy being advertised alongside a company that has no problem associating their brand with racism.

If it fails within the reasonable amount of time for any reason that isn't user error then it was faulty at the start it just hadn't made itself known yet.