on a Mac, it's Option+Shift+-

— (em dash)

Option+- gives you an "en dash": – which is longer than a normal hyphen.

Agreed re: the sci-fi story / trope.

I feel like a lot of this is a problem when someone technical is attempting to communicate a complicated technical subject to a less-technical audience.

I can only dumb a thing down so much before the description is useless (when you zoom out too much you lose the details). Even technical people who could understand it but are lazy / "in a hurry" use the summary, without thinking about what detail they are losing.

Even more infuriating is when they then reply to my email, having only read the AI summary, and ask a question that was already answered by my message.

This is the exact same thing that happened pre-AI, with the added step of wasting energy/resources on the AI summary in the middle.

outside of the US, whatsapp has a huge chunk of the "private" messaging market. Everything that we usually use SMS or iMessage for, happens via whatsapp in much of Europe and South America.

How does it benefit Apple for their customers to enable their wifi? They are fairly explicit about NOT tracking everything you do and selling it.

OTOH, it benefits the phone owner to use wifi, as it's lower power use than cellular the majority of the time.

Its extremely easy to turn on, why is it so complicated to turn it off?

A bunch of the morons out there who turn off wifi out in public because they read some random NYPost article about it "tracking" you, would then be bitching to Apple and/or their cell carriers about why their performance is so bad at home when it doesn't auto-join wifi overnight.

I would agree with you that it should operate like a dumb toggle if they didn't have the notification saying that it would auto re-enable again.

So do you agree with it pestering you to enable iCloud if you dont want to and the fact that one of the options "allows" you to delay being asked again to accept something you never want is ok since it has the notification that it will try again later as implied by Not Now (but we'll try it again ad finitum later and circle back until you consent to Yes)?

Synology actually supports the old (non-encrypted) rsync protocol, too. On a trusted LAN, it runs much quicker that way than with rsync-over-ssh...

I just finished slurping all of my files off an old Synology and onto a TrueNAS server. Unlike the article here, my Syno is 2x1Gb in a LAG, so I was really only getting ~1Gbps at max.

One disappointment with TrueNAS is that it doesn't support SMB-MC unless you put each interface on a separate subnet (which is a strange limitation because Samba itself doesn't seem to suffer from this, since synology handles it fine)

What is the benefit of SMB-LC over managing the link speed at a lower level via link bonding or trunking?

Most methods of link aggregation won't speed up a single TCP connection, and they can be messy-to-impossible to set up on non-Linux machines.

With SMB you just plug in 2 NICs and you automatically get ~double the bandwidth.

If that's the setup, the only way anything would run more than 1Gb is if the Synology is doing SMB-multichannel (which if they setup 4x1Gb LAG, then it's not SMB-MC). [edit] reading the article, they do have the Syno setup for SMB-MC and that's the only reason this wasn't stuck at ~120MB/s

There is also Xbox Series S, around the same time as the Series X...

i have a 3-letter .onl domain that is the first 3 letters of my last name

I have actually needed to use it, because my cell provider (Visible) has absolutely moronic form validation that doesn't recognize a hyphen as a valid character in an email address, even though it very much is. (My main .net domain has a hyphen in it)

and this is why everything needs 32+GB of RAM and an assload of storage.

LLMs don't have human attention to detail, IME