Moved from Vancouver, Canada to Bulgaria 6 years ago. Best decision I've ever made. Sooooo much fun here and living in a free country is really relaxing.
I was going to ask the same but I have a guess: In Bulgaria, you don't feel the government, it doesn't feel like there are laws or anybody cares about laws. It's nice in its own way but also the root of all problems when there are bad actors around. I lived in Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria and the UK for prolonged periods and I can say that I feel most free in Bulgaria. The relationship with the government is transactional and you don't have to deal with the governmnet if you don't want something from the government(or upset somebody and get sued).
The thing is, in my opinion that you shouldn't have to set-up PiHole in the first place.
If we do that and don't vote with the feet and wallets we won't see a single DumbTv in a few years.
It is still possible to find a non-Smart device. Don't pay for someone's ad-space!
Ohh NO. Does this mean I won't be able to get a 79 cent LED bike light shipped from Chi na to my seaside Bulgarian Village (or Vancouver, Canada apartment) for free anymore?
Doesn't anyone think that MacOS is pretty much abandonware at this point? I don't want to stir anything up but I don't believe Apple is putting too much effort into the OS at this time. When I boot my MacBook into MacOS (once a year, if that) I feel like I'm 10 years back in time (yes, I have the absolute latest version).
I think they're focusing most of their resources on ARM.
Not just the software, but the hardware is horribly crippled and outdated in the relentless pursuit of making a laptop the thickness of aluminum foil (or outrageously overpriced for a desktop cheese grater).
It makes them tons of money, their problem is that other things make even more money. Sadly their organizational structure is such that walking and gum-chewing is almost impossible for them, so even colossally profitable and beloved products can wither away from neglect.
This is why large companies need to be split at some point -- a $x billion market is enough to sustain a great company, but a $100x billion company will try hard to ignore it.
Of course, nobody can make software for iOS without at lesat interacting with macOS some of the time (even if you can do most things on another workstation OS).
Unsurprising, the last breakdown I looked had Macs only just ahead of iPads (not ipad/iphone, just ipads) - some of that will be the bump from the new mini (which I have and love, it's fantastic) but even so, you can see why it'd be the red-headed stepchild.
Yes but macOS is a large part of the appeal of getting a Mac in the first place and Macs have really healthy margins for the industry, ergo it's making money and isn't free as such. It plus seven years or so of upgrades are built into the price.
They also do not directly sell iOS or its upgrades but we'd hardly say iOS isn't making money.
I got a few mikrotiks at home and friends/family. They are quite nice as they offer about every networking option the Linux kernel has to offer. However they don't expose the Linux userland so they are not as hackable as openwrt. For example getting wireguard to run on one is not practically possible at the moment. That said they offer a really stable solution with a good (though steep learning curve) UI and terminal interface. And even the smallest cheapest models come with everything included (bgp, MPLS, IPsec, openvpn, advances firewalling and queueing, centralised AP management).
If you like to have a Linux router with every knob on a panel this is for you, if you want (and will have to) open the panel to tweak with the wires, not so much.
I've heard of Mikrotik, seemed popular with SysAdmin types, at least until they were widely targeted by some malicious folks looking to compromise SysAdmins to exploit the networks they manage.
I heard something about software limiting the routers, so you had to pay for license upgrades to get full functionality out of their routers. Any truth to that?
The amount of security weaknesses in Mikrotik is low and they get immediately patched. Those guys do excellent software updates and there are tons of resources to get help at.
Regarding the pay for a license to get the full functionality. There is no chance a home or ordinary office user will ever hit any limitations within a stock license. The upgrade might be needed only for the ultimate stuff in realm of BGP tunnels and stuff alike.
My memory isn't perfect, but from the past few years I've had Mikrotiks, I don't remember any effective attacks against properly configured devices. By "proper configuration" I mean disabled telnet, no management access from the internet, and other really basic precautions.
The 200 000 devices mentioned in the article you linked all had management port exposed to the whole world, which is something that should never be done.
