Famously, the most litigious and generally obnoxious to deal with enterprise software company on the planet. Or ale doesn’t have customers, they have hostages.
I find that Oracle has tremendous generosity on individual level. That's how people become familiar with their products and services.
It's when you're in production and particularly as a billion+ dollar company that screws get properly tightened!
But from the time I was a student in 90s to occasional dabbler now, I find their free / personal / individual / non-prod offerings to in fact be extremely generous.
I met Steve, Bob and Todd at Camber Sands 2001 very briefly, really nice people who didn't act like rockstars at all. Q&A sessions, banter with hecklers, Todd talked about his dog (an Italian Greyhound) a bit.
Friends band recorded at EA, only possible due to charging a low flat fee and no royalties based on who they were - incredible work ethic that has influenced me greatly.
Listening to "Terraform" tonight, and maybe Spiderland by Slint after.
Parental controls too. My kids wandered into some explicit user generated content, but any controls are now only available to the most expensive family plan. Deleted the account and moved to Apple Music which offers parental controls in iOS settings as part of the normal plan.
I have a more expensive family plan, it just went up to £20 a month. Spotify is still forcing adverts down my throat though and we're planning how to migrate back to self-hosted.
wouldn't it be easier to download whatever your kids like to listen to and have them listen to it offline?
i know i'm not the target for those services that i wouldn't use in a million years, but i just wonder sometimes if Spotify or Apple Music actually provide any convenience or value at all
?? apple gave computers to schools because children are the easiest targets for eventual customers, even from an evil corporation mindset you shouldn't be creating a barrier to children's access
I associate PPPoE with dial up modems. What is the use case of this today? Also, PPPoE has been around for a quarter century: why hasn't FreeBSD delivered on it? And how is a single thread not enough to fill a broadband pipe?
So many questions.
So DSL and maybe Fiber services. Ok, but ISPs provide or endorse some device to deal with the wire. At that point you're free to firewall your ordinary ethernet traffic with whatever you wish, no PPPoE involved, no?
Despite another comment claiming this was "common" in the US, I've been on a number of ISPs in the US and never seen PPPoE used at all. Had no idea this was still going on. On fiber even!
Seems like I'd get some kind of efficient PPPoE box and put that between the ISP and whatever software router/firewall (PfSense, et al.) or "non specialized" hardware router. I suppose fragmentation could be avoided by limiting packet size a little to make room for the 8 byte PPPoE bits.
