I think you accidentally posted this on the wrong thread, but it’s fine because I know exactly the thread you meant, and the word circumvention didn’t help the situation :D

It’s crazy to think this now (since I’m so heavily into free software) but I actively chose a Windows Phone for my first smartphone, and thought it would take over the market from iOS and Android.

To be fair, it did have some cool features: it let you aggregate all the different ways of contacting people into one interface (the dream of many a tech person since the beginning of time!), it had a connection with facebook so you could see status updates/photos from your friends (in the contacts app of all places!), and I thought the live tiles and design language were really cool.

Despite even my hatred of Microsoft, I still have fond memories of that phone.

I also fell for the Nintendo 3DS hype! I was 12 years old at the time, and I really believed the glassless 3D would be a killer feature and the next big thing in gaming, and I spent six months leading up to the launch date washing cars and doing odd jobs to scrape enough money together to buy it on day one.

I did still love the device and kept it for a long time, but the 3D was a gimmick and got switched off fast. I was sad to have spent all that time and effort saving money, only for the price to plummet soon after launch, but it taught me a good lesson :)

Yes! If it’s any consolation, I made almost exactly the same statement about the iPad too:

So it’s just a more expensive iPod touch with a bigger screen? No-one’s going to buy it, that’s pointless!

I believe that some DNS servers are configured to allow zone transfers without any kind of authentication. While properly configured servers will whitelist the IPs of secondaries they trust, for those that don’t, hackers can simply request a zone transfer and get all subdomains at once.

They will use CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Which means it’s not open source, and no-one else can sell replacement cartridges, parts etc.

It might still be a good printer and enjoyed by some, but it really annoys me when companies mix these terms up, almost certainly deliberately.