HTH0037: East from Weast

Pre-Boot

Tiff and Steve's desktop computers, Macs
Audio setups
Tiff's RTX 3070
Ethereum RTX GPUs
Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake
Solarwinds hacks + version number madness
HAXXORS
Get them on the payroll!
Remember LulzSec? / LulzSec Leader 'Sabu' Flips on Friends for FBI
Orion web console tells you one thing in the web console, Database Manager tells you something different
Version number schemes don't line up…Product Upgrade Advisor uses YYYY.MM based versions while the database still uses legacy 12.x version schemes
What the heck is Bonjour?
Bonjour chat
Barrier uses Bonjour to find other Barrier nodes
Windows 11 phone integration
Android apps
Gripes about macOS Catalyst/"Project Marzipan" apps being half-baked
macOS uses Home/End keys wrong
More Windows 11 thoughts
System Requirements
Windows 11 will require TPM 2.0, UEFI, and Secure Boot
Apps that already use TPM
Surface Studio 2 can't run Windows 11
WhyNotWin11
People is Removed
Can we just install Linux Mint instead?
Brief tangent on disconnecting from social media/cloud services/Windows
Using pre-release versions of Windows

Announcing Performance Improvements for Multi Geo Premium Capacities
Configure Multi-Geo support for Power BI Premium
Originally you could only pick one region, but more options expanded over time
Egress costs are expensive - On-prem datacenters wouldn't see these OpEx costs
It's a headache when moving regions
Put in a ticket with Microsoft + pray because you can't do anything else about it?
MS can sometimes even lose your data during a regional migration?
You have to disable a bunch of stuff before migrating? I thought this was the cloud where things just worked!
When the cloud goes down, the C-levels still breathe down YOUR neck, except now you have no control.
That time Exchange Online junk'd a lot of legit mail
East? I thought you said Weast!
Further reading: Article about the pitfalls of the cloud