I wonder if the archive.org cases had any bearing on the decision.

When did WhatsApp start allowing signups without a phone number?

Mint offers 32bit support, unless you’ve got a really old cpu.

Interesting. This could be a decent secondary use for my VPS

Ok so what is pangolin? I’m only familiar with the animal and its role in the pandemic.

Edit: someone doesn’t like jokes I guess?

It happens regularly. The most notable ‘tidy’ example I can think of would be when the Governments of US and Canada ‘bailed out’ General Motors. They did exactly what I’m talking about; they created a new legal entity called NGMCO Inc. which purchased almost all the Assets of the ‘old’ GM, including trademarks, names, websites, etc.

The key here is that the selling company was bankrupt. In such a case, the creditors want to try to get money back out of their ‘investment’ so the asset sale is done to cover debts. Selling liabilities generally doesn’t raise money for those creditors, so often after the money is all sucked out, whatever remaining liabilities exist are functionally void. Legally they remain until the corporation is dissolved, but with no ability to act on the liabilities (ie., no money to pay) this doesn’t functionally matter.

The ‘old’ GM changed it’s name to ‘Motors Liquidation Company’ and retained the liabilities. Shareholders of the ‘old’ GM were left holding the bag, so to speak. Technically, it was further split into trusts to ‘handle’ liabilities, but realistically ‘old’ GM sputtered out holding liabilities while ‘new’ GM carried on with minimal penalty.

You can have less ‘tidy’ cases as well, where substantial parts of a company are sold in an asset sale/purchase but leave behind a working company. In those cases the liabilities are not functionally abandoned. Disney purchasing FOX, for example.

Further reading:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asset-sales.asp

https://www.reuters.com/article/oldgm-exit-idUSN3121109620110331/?feedType=RSS&feedName=cyclicalConsumerGoodsSector&rpc=43

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_Chapter_11_reorganization

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fox_by_Disney

This is the exact reason GM still exists.

If the new owners purchased the assets, name, and technology and not the company itself, then it’s beholden on the remains of the old company to honour the deal… Good luck with that.

No it’s not. Look at the court level in which it was shown.

Agreed… although I would go a step further and say distributing the LLM model or the results of use (even if done without cost) is not fair use, as the training materials weren’t licensed.

Because only rich Ukranians could afford them, and the rich ones fled Ukraine when the war kicked up.

I loved the idea of navidrome and also briefly ran an instance, and like you use plexamp heavily. I stopped using Navi because one day it broke, and I found the plexamp experience just better.

Maybe it’s time to try again.

Jellyfin is actually open source and free. Totally self hosted. Emby is closed source and has a licensing model similar to Plex’s.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emby
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfin

And MIPS too. NT 3.1, 3.5, 4.0 all saw MIPS, Alpha, and x86 releases.

Not quite. Graphene provides ‘legacy extended support’ which means they’ll patch any vulnerabilities they become aware of for the OS, but because they don’t have baseband source they won’t be able to address any vulnerabilities in the baseband unless Google releases an update.

The most recent release of grapheneos for 4a is less than a week old.

Subnets…do you mean VLANs?

Tell that to my pixel

I got a new laptop last month for $2200US, it has 24 cores. i9-14900HX

I have a T430 that still sees use as an occasional web browsing & Arduino coding machine. I bought it used in 2016 without HDD for $150, and I don’t think I’ve gotten better value for money with any of my other computer purchases to-date.

Do you mean 4th gen core i? If that’s the case, I only recently upgraded from it as well. If you actually mean 4th gen Intel…how’s that 286 doing for you?