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Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

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Re: Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

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post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to scroll all the way through the page to activate all the gimmicks. Then it never stops, and loads 2.5 cores permanently to 100%, which makes CPU fan spin to the max.

Oh my god, that's hilarious. I was wondering why my lap was warm all of a sudden. Htop said firefox was the culprit so I closed out all my tabs except this one. Then I read your comment, opened the page, and scrolled all the way to the bottom—my cpu temp just steadily rose till it throttled. All the animations are smooth, though. Note: I'm typing this from a 9 year old thin-and-light, so that's probably part of the p…

Fixing it should be as easy as disabling the animation that's outside the viewport, I guess.

Re: Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

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This looks interesting (although I'm not in the target market, too small)... But if I were looking at this, judging from the quality of people they've amassed in their engineering team, is there any chance they won't be acquired in 6 months? To anyone looking to take a bet on this, what is the answer to "what's your plan for when your stellar team gets acquired?" And what answer will satisfy that buyer? Update: Addin…

Private companies can't just get bought out. They have to agree to be acquired. There is not some roaming force of Big Corp M&A people who forcefully acquihire companies. I don't understand this concern at all.

When enough money is at stake, it may become near impossible to deny a buyer, no matter what the founders initially thought.
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