Posts by darkknight

Attacker snags account details from streaming service Plex

Re: Password reset - but what about people using 3rd party signon

I use SSO/Google primarily - I did not get the plex email to that address. I did get it to an old address that did not use any SSO.

TomTom bill bomb: Why am I being charged for infotainment? I sold my car last year, rages Reg reader

Hang on, a PR person called Fudge?

Bose shouts down claims that it borked noise cancellation firmware to sell more headphones

Well, my wifes Plantronics v8200 don't need location on my phone, nor do my kids JVC headphones.

(Edit) I just checked with my Plantronics v5200 also. The Plantronics Hub doesn't need location services either.

Maybe Google are leading this location thing, but vendors do seem to be free to not mandate it if they wish.

Well, they've certainly encouraged me to replace my little over 2 year old pair of QC35 II. Not with something made by BOSE of course. €349 for two years of listening?

It's a pity as the noise cancellation was excellent, but now they disconnect and reconnect every 15 minutes or so. Tech support is literally "Have you tried turning it off and on again" - IE, reset the headphones to factory. Battery life is terrible now, yes, I know batteries degrade over time, but why make it so hard to replace them?

I also never liked the Android applications insistence that location is on and enabled for it to work.

Intel Atom chips have been dying for at least 18 months – only now is truth coming to light

and to confirm that Synology are now on my personal "do-not-buy-from-again" list:

"Thank you for your reply.

Due to there is no issue on such model recently, please must let us know if you face any problem. We will always adjust our product and protect the interests of customers.

However, thank you for bringing this issue to our attention again.

Please feel free to contact us again if you have further questions or suggestions."

No sir, you are not alone.

I bought my DS1815+ *as* a backup data store.

To reply to my own post, the current case progress I have with Synology

Boilerplate rubbish...!

"Sorry to disturb.

Intel has recently notified Synology regarding the issue of the processor’s increased degradation chance of a specific component after heavy, prolonged usage.

Synology has not currently seen any indication that this issue has caused an increase in failure rates for DiskStation or RackStation models equipped with Intel Atom C2000 series processors compared to other models manufactured in the same time frame not equipped with the affected processors.

It is safe to continue to use your device, however should you encounter any issues, our support teams will do everything they can to expedite your ticket. Technical Support can be reached via www.synology.com/ticket. Synology will post a follow-up on this topic once additional information is available.

Please feel free to contact us again if you have further questions or suggestions."

I'm not so sure Synology are winning anything at the moment. This is the reply to a support ticket I opened with them:

"Thank you for contacting Synology support.

Regarding this issue, our related team are working on such issue and I will give you the reply ASAP if there is any update.

However, thank you for bringing this issue to our attention.

Please feel free to contact us again if you have further questions or suggestions."

Intel's Atom C2000 chips are bricking products – and it's not just Cisco hit

Great...

...so my 15 day old Synology DS1815+, bought as a local backup destination (in addition to a remote one) will fail in about 18 months. Great.

Synology give a 3 year warranty, but will the device need to faill first? I've a ticket open with their support, I wonder what their answer will be.

Too bad I am one day over the cooling off period for internet purchases

Re: @ pfSense, SuperMicro, Synology & others

Thank you JP.

Any idea of the likely backlog in tickets?