Yes, and I'd rather not have my time wasted by waiting on thousands of small files transfer, rather than just compressing it and the time spent of one file transferring being much smaller.

I'd be willing to at least consider that for other companies, but not Google. As far as I know, they still make more money from advertising than selling hardware. Pretty sure they're just selling the hardware as a vehicle to transport more data.

So there's no real motivation for them to risk compromising the PR on doing something like this - especially after just hearing that they've extended updates for Chromebooks to 10 years.

Those are just my thoughts on it.

That's always been a tough thing for me to define personally. To me, trying to determine whether you're "really smart" (or not) vs average requires context, I'd need a definition of who I'm comparing to, what subject/fields (or "types" of knowledge), etc.

As others have mentioned, I'm generally good at sensing what I don't know and determining that I need to read up on more about a subject rather than just blindly assuming that I do know it and trying to fix the wiring in my house for example (probably an extreme example, because there's no way I'm ever going to try to do that on my own - even with an infinite time of "research").

I'm a software developer, and my friends claim that this makes me really smart - but when I compare myself to other developers it doesn't feel like that. And yet for being "smart" I am terrible at math.

Maybe its not the simple answer you're looking for, but I guess I feel smart at some things, average in others, and not so smart in certain subjects/fields. I couldn't place myself in a "one-size fits all" answer.

And once you do, you can use them in bash by running (or adding to your ~/.bashrc) set -o vi!

To make a very long story (as it is a long, but boring story) short, my health had deteriorated due to a health condition of mine. I waited almost too long to go to the ER (which the "why" is a long rant that I'll save for another day). I'd lost about 70 pounds in the span of maybe two or three(?) months, and was just skin and bones. Ended up needing surgery to repair some major damage that had occurred, and was in the hospital for a month due to all of it.

When I was originally admitted from the ER to the hospital, the doctor had told me that if I had waited any longer I probably would've been dead as the damage would've not been reversible.

I'm certainly no stranger to my condition causing my health to decline a lot, but that was definitely the first (and thankfully only) time that it had gotten that close to killing me.

Ah right, I remember now - that made quite a storm when they did that switch (as is usually the case when companies switch from a well-respected OSS license to something... not so respected).

Would the service not be using software though? I've just woken up so bare with me here (so I could just be seeing/interpreting this all wrong), but I thought the AGPL was somewhat(?) intended to be used for *aaS ("Something"-as-a-Service) types of deals. MongoDB for an example (though they do not use AGPL anymore AFAIK) is a service where they host managed Mongo databases for you - the AGPL part came in to play in regards to making the actual MongoDB server-side software source available.

Or I suppose using OP's post as an example, whatever software they're using to actually facilitate accepting online print jobs and dispatching it (and the various processes in between) to their printers potentially.

Unfortunately it's not really all that great on newer Nvidia GPUs either.

Agreed! One of my favorite quotes has always been the old "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb". We don't get to choose who are family is, but we do get to choose who are friends and those close to us are.

Just like with everyone else in my life, I hold my family to the "Respect is earned, not given" stance - not sure how I feel about the wording of that quote because it sounds like I'm saying that I'm crappy to people by default which isn't the case. Rather, I'm not going to fight to have a relationship with some of my family members if they aren't going to try to put in the effort themselves to meet me halfway.

Nvidia support, unfortunately. Which, while not directly Wayland's fault - at the end of the day, it still means that Wayland is unsuitable for me at the moment.

I'm all for Linux, and would normally be the first person to cheer you on for switching to Linux... if this were your personal computer. For a work device though? All bets are off, and you really shouldn't do that sort of thing without express authorization from whomever manages IT & security policies at your workplace - otherwise you risk losing your job, and potentially even worse things if the data that you're being trusted with gets compromised because of the modifications you made.

If for something regarding work, your end thoughts are:

but due to my reverse engineering...

Then it may be a good idea to re-think what exactly the pros and cons are of what you're doing, because the cons are generally going to outweigh the pros.

This sort of thing also gives Linux a bad reputation at your workplace, when you inevitably get caught. When someone tries to propose going through the proper channels and inquiring about IT actually supporting the usage of Linux at your workplace, all of IT and management are only just going to think back to "that one person who really went against the grain and tried to use that Linux thing". Same concept goes for when you try to push someone into Linux who doesn't have a good use case for making the switch over to Linux (or see the "Linux evangelists / fan people" phenomenon that in of itself is present all over Lemmy).

The things you'd normally use Nextcloud for is not the sort of thing that I would ever trust to be hosted for free, there's bound to be a catch (whether that is the service just disappearing over night, your data being collected and used for some nefarious purpose, etc).

It's definitely worth either self hosting, or if you're not able to, paying for some VPS to host it on.

That all being said, if you really want to go the route of free hosting, Nextcloud apparently do list some providers on their website.