Posts by depereo

Make Redmond angry by setting up Windows 11 with a local account

Triple backflip through flaming hoops, nail the dismount.

Good of you to provide a decent guide, but whew - this has reached the point that running windows on a computer is an exhausting, miserable endeavour that requires extensive preparation and planning.

Very much a last-ditch effort, once every other *possible* option has been ruled out.

VMware prepping unified SDK for its core hybrid cloud products

They've always had a terrible time migrating functions to new interfaces. I remember looking up tag names in SOAP, then passing string names derived from the SOAP api into REST requests to be able to use metadata to track VMs. VSAN management being half in the flash UI and half in the new html UI. New functions in the 'legacy' SOAP endpoint rather than REST because the devs found it easier. Endlessly swapping from fat client to flash to html5 to soap to rest to vijson and whatever comes next.

They're finally cleaning it up, but only now that they've made themselves irrelevant to everyone's future infrastructure plans.

Google Cloud shows it can break things for lots of customers – not just one at a time

Re: intended to shutdown an unused network control component

Good old scream test. More reliable than a whole datacenter of prometheus...es.

Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall, says HPC leader

Re: The problem is that AI costs a lot of money

Google made a 27% margin on 300B of revenue in the last FY. They're not going to turn a loss any time soon.

'Chemical cat' on the loose in Japanese city

Re: Wait a mo....

they'll probably try to bury the report of the missing employee.

Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

No thanks.

Still haven't decided if the living room PC is going to Fedora or Ubuntu from windows 10, but now that our games run perfectly well via proton it's sure as heck not going to some (even worse) ai/spyware nonsense with 11.