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I think enterprise is the least affected.

Win11 installs are done with Autopilot. Users log in with their company MS accounts and if admins need access they log in with the LAPS account.

Enterprise moved away from local accounts even before COVID.

The UI regressed to Windows Aero from Vista. Took 20 years, but they made it full circle.

If you're running Cosmos as a docker container instead of as the base operating system, then it just acts as a container management UI and reverse proxy. There's some other stuff built in with their Constellation VPN (similar to wireguard/tail scale) and the app store for 1-click installs. But you don't get any of the storage management tools from the OS version.

You can still manage and install docker containers like normal or with compose files and have them show up in Cosmos.

From what I've seen in BlueBeam, I don't think most PDF editors are going to include any tools to compete with it. Its in a different category for construction markups.

Tony hawk games were the only other skating games, but they had button-press controls and goofy physics. Skate came out with much more realistic physics and the thumbstick flicking controls that made tricks feel purposeful. I think people who do skate (or wanted to) got pulled in for the realistic skating lines and tricks. There was also still enough over-the-top jumps and tricks to keep younger kids entertained.

They're not actually getting rid of the XPS line, they're just changing the naming convention.

Any of the new Dell models with 'Premium' in the name are going to be the same as the Dell XPS line.

Yes. If you don't have hardware that supports AV1 decode, it gets sent to the CPU instead.

For homelab stuff, the responsibility falls on the server to transcode the media to whichever format the client device requests. That usually means being able to have ~2 simultaneous AV1 streams and maxing out the CPU.

With hardware decode, you could have 10+ streams.

Super oversimplified, but take an imaginary 1GB video file and it will compress roughly to the size below with minimal visual degradation.

H.264 -> H.265 -> AV1

1GB -> 600MB -> 350MB

Once Intel ARC cards are supported natively in UnRaid, I'll be transcoding everything to AV1.

Hardware encoding for AV1 is really all that has been missing for it to be widely used for homelab setups.

Nifty thing is you absolutely can do that if you're using SharePoint shortcuts in OneDrive instead of SharePoint library syncing.

You can't use both syncing and shortcuts at the same time though. Syncing libraries came first, so it's typically what is already setup and is kind of a pain to transfer a whole org away from.

Pretty sure most hosting platforms have egress costs on their cheaper VM instances.

I know Google cloud charges for bandwidth to AUS, and Oracle is 10TB of egress per month before charging (which I think is the most generous of free/cheap hosting platforms).

Pretty sure Rockstar allows community servers to disable the anti-cheat as well, just like single player.

The GTA RP community at this point is a considerable part of why people are still playing GTA.