Honestly, it’s very likely just Salesforce since that cantankerous, janky beast is so easy to use poorly.

CRM is “customer relationship management” i.e. a system to manage interactions with customers such as tracking calls, marketing emails and collateral, meetings, quoting, support tickets, and more. It tracks the lifecycle/pipeline of a sale from prospecting, lead qualification and solution mapping, demos and meetings, proposals, negotiations and commitment, opportunity win/loss, license generation, onboarding, renewals, and a ridiculously huge number of other things.

It’s not just tracking the numbers but giving you a centralised system that all other business operations can hook into so you’ve a single source of truth about customer state so that various other operations can be triggered.

When you’ve hundreds of sales people, numerous systems, marketing people, support teams, and more all reading and writing to the same CRM system, if that “system” was a spreadsheet, you’d be constantly deadlocking and race conditioning the hell out of it, not to mention how absurdly huge that file would become with all that historical data (since a big part of CRM is also projections and other analyses across all the data you have).

And Ubuntu, no? Wasn’t that the big selling point of Ubuntu back in the day?

Not to say cannibalize but perhaps one night just test their parts on your board or vice versa to figure out what component in yours has bitten the dust so you can understand what you need to replace and budget/save accordingly.

Hope you get it sorted soon, friend. I couldn’t live without my Plex server.

Exactly, if forced scarcity was regulated, we’d be in an entirely different situation. For instance diamonds would be practically worthless.

Have you got a buddy with a computer you can test components with? Might help you speed up the troubleshooting process?

Haha thank you for pointing that out! I’m European and clearly awful at American slang. I won’t edit my post as that’s too funny a mistake to remove.

I had a Mac G4 just before the transition from PPC and while that was painful (since x86 emulation sucked) this is a whole different kettle of fish.

These days I’m running all sorts of VMs for research and UTM or QEMU on macOS ARM just doesn’t cut the cheese. On a laptop, sure, ARM is fine. Heck, even in a data centre it’s fine, but on workstations, ARM is too sluggish for virtualisation or anything except ARM. Not to mention the shocking state of Windows 11 on ARM and how loads of Windows components don’t actually function properly or even run. Defenders GUI doesn’t even open!

Having used an ARM Mac, and the pains of countless utilities and apps that are x86/x64 only, as well as the pains of virtualising x86/x64 operating systems, I’m not a fan. I can virtualise ARM just fine on x64 but not the other way around.

(Edit: I’m not referring to OS utilities and apps - Apple have done a fine job with porting the OS to ARM, but the same can’t be said for the wider ecosystem - especially FOSS and niche developer toolchains).

Both DLSS and FSR are software leveraging the GPU to do the heavy lifting.

FSR is using HLSL shaders to do its thing whilst DLSS is using nvidia’s tensor cores to run an ML model.

Both solutions are great in different ways but I wouldn’t call FSR limited. If anything, Nvidias is the more limiting given it only works on specific hardware, is proprietary, and requires a lot more from developers to implement it vs FSR which is hardware agnostic and MIT licensed.

The term “push notification” comes from how it enables developers to “push” users, even when they’re not active.

An app developer can (potentially) vibrate a device, make it emit noise, flash a light, appear on the screen, and exist in a set of notifications pinned to the tops of the screens.

Check out Three Minute Games’ mobile game series Lifeline. I think that it beautifully illustrates “pushing”. How the game pushes you to help someone survive in real time, through messages that appear alongside your real notifications.

The game tells you when you’re playing, not the other way round. Buzz buzz, come and play with me.

The general design is a single system component wakes up the device when it’s sleeping (such as during screen off) and checks in with Apple/Google servers to see if there are any notifications.

Why?

Imagine if every app needed to wake up your device and make network requests to check for notifications etc. The more apps, the faster your battery drain as a queue of apps grows, constantly waking up your device to call home and check for notifications.

Hence Push Notification Services. Instead, developers send a notification to Apple/Google who then pool those notifications with notifications from other apps/developers. Then the single notification service on your device periodically wakes up the device and checks for notifications.

Additionally, push notification systems by OSs are designed with efficiency and minimal networks requests and bandwidth utilisation so an app can’t chew up user’s data quotas due to being poorly written.

TL;DR: It saves battery and network data, enabling users to use more apps.

I’m still using my 2014 MBP as a daily driver. They’re surprisingly long lasting. Only thing I’m rolling with still that’s older is a Lenovo X220 that I use to play a starship bridge simulator with haha.

In Europe, it’s very normal to use multiple chat apps (WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Threema, etc).

iMessage isn’t even that good a chat app! It’s really hard to understand this clearly social issue affecting North America from a non-NA perspective.

Yeah I don’t get why anyone would want this. Just use Signal or something cross platform? It’s like complaining about not being able to message your friend’s Xbox from your PlayStation. Sure, it’d be nice, but I sure as hell wouldn’t provide a random third party with my PlayStation account credentials to achieve it!

This sub is full of masters of finding glorious screen grabs!

That’s not a cricket bat, it’s a basketball!

I like to highlight to fellow parents that unrestricted access to the internet is like letting your child pop off to the big city for the night on their own. You have no idea who they’ll meet and the dangers they might face.

Monitoring, guiding, and having regular open discussions about the internet with your child is essential and required. You have to teach them the dangers they face, go on journeys with them so they know how to safely travel on their own, and you need to check the journeys they made on their own and look for risks you need to discuss with them.

The internet isn’t going anywhere. You can’t ban your child from it forever. Restricting means they’ll go behind your back. You have to face reality and have a few awkward discussions around pornography, violence, abuse material, stalkers, grooming, viruses, privacy, and more. But making it okay to discuss these things and to keep internet use as something to be discussed openly and honestly is the only way you’ll help prepare your children to surf safely and to come to you if they’re concerned about something.

I’ve read the specification. Google’s implementation is the only real implementation (raw RCS is basically a dead project) as Google have added a load of custom extensions to RCS that means, to be interoperable, you’d need to use Google’s (which I imagine requires licensing since it doesn’t appear to be open source).

Bingo. This whole case is designed to make Apple look like the bad guy whilst Google hides their real agenda of forcing Apple to use a protocol Google controls and thus stamp out Google’s competition.