Because having multiple applications continuously running in the background polling multiple servers for notifications in real time is a good way to run down your battery very quickly
From the article:
If Caitlin did want to try to get the original amount back, she’d have to email and send the death certificate to a specific email address
Did she try - you know - doing that?
It was cheaper for Cisco to buy the company than a license, presumably
There is absolutely nothing to say that the author didn’t have it backed up. He still lost 3TB of files from a new drive which was a replacement sent by the company, with a known fault supposedly fixed.
“Herp derp he should have backed up” is not the takeaway here”
Someone didn’t read the story. This is about a known firmware fault that the company is doing its best not to keep quiet. Don’t help them in that work
You can't force this stuff though. No-one wants a ton of vapid, low-effort comments put there just for the sake of it.
It'll be fun when Tuvalu decides to take back .tv
Looking forward to them getting a bunch of people who immediately take it NSFW again
low-effort junk TV like dating, survival, cooking and other shows like it.
... in other words, exactly the shows that don't use actors or writers
I’m going to have a guess and suggest that the website is probably integrated with some much older mainframe system and a batch process or several batch processes run daily overnight to shuttle data between the two systems to keep them updated and in sync.
Syncing the two sets of data while the database is live and changing is a pain the the bum, so they freeze it while the data transfers are taking place.
There was a post on Lemmy yesterday that said something like “Lemmy will upvote anything this is just a photo of a tin of beans”. .. and the shitposting started. :)
I’m sticking with ‘subscribed’ for a while
No. That’s like saying the UK has too much wind power because our prices occasionally go negative. What Germany might not have enough of is battery and other storage