Brewchin

Sophos. During their "edge protection is ALL the malware security you need or should have [and just happens to be what we sell now]" phase ~20 years ago.

Had a stand-up argument with one of their clowns when I worked as a security consultant. Ensured I would never do business with them. The guy was a mindless cultist before it became popular.

I have a 2015 Shield. Best device I've ever had, and haven't ever had to factory reset it.

My main recommendation - in case it applies to you - is to not run any server software on it (eg. Plex). It's a solid client device, but has never had what it takes to run server services.

I think it has plenty of life left in it, so a factory reset might be worthwhile. Also note that the drive in yours may be well past its best.

Agree with you. That last paragraph reeks of Reddit-like monetisation of community goodwill.

The US$75 Lifetime price has traditionally been their Black Friday deal, regardless of the usual price.

Anyone's guess if that deal will still be a thing, given their recent behaviour, though.

Nice. :)

But next you'll be saying you don't know how to use the 3 seashells...

This is what FAFO in public looks like. Gold!

RES for Lemmy when? 😄

They're designed to deliver the maximum amount of flavour in ~20 seconds.

So: bag first, then just-boiled water. Wait/steep for 20-60 seconds, fish out the bag with a teaspoon and squeeze against the cup, and then milk.

I don't mind it with companies that produce multiple products, as nesting them does make sense.

But for one-hit-wonders it's a bit... 😬

The most American post I've seen on Lemmy to date. 😬

I was thinking more of one product companies using a $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Boop Snoot Partners, Inc/<Software Name You Remember Installing>/ convention, which seems to be the norm inside %APPDATA%.

But I take your point. 😊

So much this. It's like these clowns don't read the XDG directory spec and think $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_DATA_HOME are interchangeable, and even that cache files can be in either or both. No, one directory you need to backup for when things go sideways, and the other can go to /nev/dull.

I'm not a fan of ~/.local/share/ being the data directory (two directories deep seems stupid), but it's definitely where regular data belongs.

Never mind developers who, in 2025, still think their project is special enough for a $HOME dotfile/dotdir or - somehow worse - those who put $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/<weird-name>/subdir/[subdir/]. The latter strikes me as well-meaning Windows developers trying to follow best-practice-like-Microsoft-does, but it makes my teeth itch.

Rant over. :)