Sure but there is a huge step between not being able to drive the way one wants and where one wants. The cost is also vastly different: human drivers in cars are inherently dangerous and kill 40k people every year in the US. Of course this can be reduced with current technology by incentivizing alternatives to driving.

Microsoft replaced fdisk with diskpart.exe in Windows 2000. I can’t imagine how bad the former must have been to warrant that switch. (Or was it super-early enshittification?)

I didn’t like the last one. Sure, corpos would love to create a society akin to the one described but the way the story is framed, it’s as if driving one’s own car is the main tenet of freedom.

Why can’t you do it yourself?

Probably because it’s hard to compile a kernel on an iPad 😂

They’re asking a senior engineer to spend a week at minimum poking around an unknown device. That’s going to cost way more than an all-new security camera system. Anyway, they might try opening the video files with ffmpeg, or VLC: I have a Dahua camera (also from a dumpster) that produces .dav files - a proprietary container for H264 or H265 but VLC plays it. There may be a FOSS client available for the camera’s IP interface (like Dahua’s weird fork of ONVIF) but likely not for iOS.

Sell it and get something with an existing FOSS firmware. And a laptop (dumpster ones work too). What you’re asking for is $1000 upfront, at minimum, with no satisfaction guarantee.

If you’re willing to do most of the work yourself, I’d suggest finding an official firmware update and running binwalk on it. Also take good photos of the PCB and look for datasheets of every chip. Then you’ll be able to pose specific questions and maybe get decent help.

Still, it’s probably best to set up ONVIF client software or something.

I bet they didn’t register their copy. Probably torrented it, too.

Yes. If it’s empty. But in cases where you need to check, it might as well not be.

The list is not necessarily empty. If you were sure it was, why check?

That woulb be 0.5x. −2x implies negative duration, which makes no sense. Neither does the layout of anything else in the image.

Unlike on R*ddit, you need to add > to empty lines too to make a single multi-paragraph quote

I don’t see why a hub shouldn’t be able to supply power… it will disable PD modes and limit everything to 5V though

Just make sure to use it on 5V-only chargers. You can glue it to one of them.

This is a great time for the engineer to exert leverage.

"Yes, I can fix it in hours. Here are my demands:

• $200,000
• I’ll also push a firmware update to all your devices that allows setting any address for the server and exposes all functionality in a Home Assistant API, and you won’t ever disable this in current or future devices
• You’ll offer a free locally-connected button/knob device to any customer owning an affected product, or a free service to upgrade the products with on-device controls
• In any social media posts, press releases, customer communication or interviews regarding today’s outage, you have to say that plumbing that requires a server connection is a bad idea

They are keeping around so many deprecated features for internal use and whatnot, I would be surprised if they did remove this registry check.

Until Windows 12 is released, you can always use an old ISO and then update to the newest version.

The command (C:\Windows\System32\) OOBE\bypassnro (.cmd) one types into the command prompt (after opening it with Shift+F10) for the bypass is the location of a batch file they will be removing (the parenthesized parts are optional, implied by the command interpreter, and so is any capitalization). You can still do whatever it’s doing (adding a registry key and restarting) by typing the command manually or providing a copy of the file on a USB drive. After a restart, the OS will check for the registry key AND lack of internet connection to provide the local account option.

For the record, the contents of the file are

@echo off
reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0

The first line is optional, and so is the third if you’re OK with restarting manually. If creating the file on Unix-based systems, make sure the newline sequence is CRLF (DOS/Windows standard).

Obligatory shoutout to literally any Linux distro, which does not need this workaround, and is usually easier to install and set up than debloating a fresh Windows 11 install.

Not much work really, but few companies want their spaghetti code seen publicly.

Unless you “bypass technological measures”. Which is a loophole if I’ve ever seen one.

Don’t use C+Trump unless you’re extra careful. On every integer overflow the program goes bankrupt.

Fewer ads. Not zero, though

Way to confuse adblock users