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Jonny 5: I’m alive dammit!

Noooooo!

I’ve been following Anand and his replacements there at Anandtech since Anand only did early youtube type videos on Yahoo lol. Anand was considered a n00b by Comdex goers and reviewers alike. Back then, competition from the likes of Kyle @ [H]ardOCP, John @ AMDZone, cmdrtaco @ /., TheInquirer (now theregister), Sharky Extreme, Tomshardware and many others I honestly don’t remember off the top of my head that really ruled the roost.

Anand made a name for himself in the company of some very tough competition.

Hats off to the man and his team over the years, they had a really great run.

TL;DR: The answer is an astounding NO.

Storage vendors are rolling their hands in delight while systems administrators, particularly backup admins are cringing at the thought.

I only listed Opera b/c Vivaldi is based on it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)

Vivaldi is absolutely a descent FOSS product, but will agree with the Opera sentiment and have edited my post more accordingly.

I only listed Opera because Vivaldi’s based on it, but that’s about where it ends. Vivaldi and FF are the only two I use tbh.

Opera, Vivaldi and Brave are descent alternatives.

EDIT:

Vivaldi (based on Opera, but FOSS and not Chinese) is still good.

I didn’t realize Brave inserted referral codes, TIL.

As per iFixit and other sites like tvserviceparts, it depends on the Vizio model. Mainstream models you can often replace the screen and even power input board, others you simply cannot without sourcing their brand though.

Example repairable model: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/VIZIO+TV+Screen+Replacement/120241

Vizio makes it 100% impossible to acquire a replacement of: buttons, bezels, control boards and input boards for intellectual property rights reasons.

In short, unlike other brands, they make it far less easy to repair either by IP restriction or by over usage of glues.

Sounds about right: Vizio the throw away brand. Horrible warranty terms, they refuse to repair them even if you offer to pay and completely unrepairable yourself.

What are we going to do tonight Pinky?

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Yeah, we dumped Cisco for Aruba two years ago. Completely replaced the entire company core network infra. No major complaints.

On the Enterprise side of things, I was a huge VCE fan pre-Dell days. Only thing close to that now is Pure Flashstack, which isn’t bad, just pricey. I’m just not a Dell fan, Michael Dell is a fuck-whit.

Comparing my experience with Cisco B and C Class, HPE DL and Dell PE server experience over the past 20 years:

Cisco: Expensive, Good support/service during lifetime of product, excellent management tools w/o buying additional lics, reliable, but eosl/eol is short and poorly supportable after.

DELL: Just retired some 30 of their servers and storage. No regrets. Expensive, horrible support, licensing is a nightmare, but e360 and online tools were better than others. EOL/EOSL support is okay for a max of 2 yrs afterwards.

HPE: Just deployed 20 DL380G10+, Cheaper than other 2, licensing is a pita, support is meh, but InfoSight and support costs are cheap and there’s good support past eol/eosl.

I’ve done the whole white box thing like SuperMicro a number of times and while it is cheaper upfront, it’s a headache over time.

Masturbating…

Then there’s California where NEM 3.0 makes it less than worth while to install or upgrade your existing solar installation.

It’s like people hate ads so much they’re willing to change browsers… gasp

Google had a revelation.

Southpark Scott all growed up. I see his diet bedes issue has gotten worse.

Yubikey ftw

The scary part is that this “treatment” was acceptable for multiple mental disorders up until the 1960s.

Electro Shock Therapy (EST) aka Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) on the other hand was rampant for at least a decade or more.

Only reason I know that is because I had to research it for my family tree. At the age of 14, my Great Grandmother was treated for Depression and Anxiety with EST from 1909 to 1913, then got pregnant and lost the baby from it. She stopped the “therapy”, but it left her borderline schizophrenic the rest of her life.