Looking at the details page, here is a limitation depending on how you handle client accounts, or your own accounts.

What are the Lightsail service limits?
You can currently create up to 20 Lightsail instances, 5 static IPs, and 3 DNS domain zones in a Lightsail account.

But this is pretty cool. Ability to manage traffic before it hits your VPS:

Can I manage firewall settings for my instance?
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You can control the data traffic for your instances by using the Lightsail firewall. From the Lightsail console, you can set rules about which ports of your instance are publicly accessible for different types of traffic.

My mom has atleast 5 bags of photos from my childhood and am gonna teach her to do the scan when i go next time-connect to google photos-share that with my account! I get the full library and she gets something to do on her free time 🙂 Win-Win

@Dashrender said in Amazon Echo vs Amazon Dot vs Google Home:

Considering the complete and utter lack of security in almost anything that actually allows remote control (i.e. JB and his cameras that demand UPNP open ports for the world - thank you NO) I currently refuse to use any of that stuff.

That said, I do have an Amazon Echo - after hearing Scott say how cool they are - and now I just sit back and wonder why. Sure I have it play Amazon music on it's crappy speaker (ok a dot could fix that) 1 time a month on average, I ask it the weather about 2 times a month on average... Otherwise I'm constantly annoyed, almost nightly by it saying "I'm sorry Dave I didn't understand the question I heard" while watching a show where no one said Alexia.

I guess my wife and I have asked it a question here or there, but it fails to know 9 out of 10 times and we fall back to google to get the answer.

That is the other thing I do like about the Google Home vs the Amazon equipment. Google seems to be much better at answering general questions, and you can ask it follow-up questions, something the Amazon Echo/Dot is lacking. Also, even if Google hasn't fully integrated all their services with it yet, I have zero doubts they will in the future. I'm leaning more towards the Home at this point, tbh.

@scottalanmiller I thought that might be the case 😉

@iinterval said in Google Pixel Phone:

Android phone is Market leader no anyone to compete them Google try to make different type specs but I think that not compete

Giving you the benefit of the doubt, but that is gibberish, has nothing to do with this thread, and you posted a spam link. Any more posts like that and your account will be removed without further warning. If you have something to contribute or ask, do so without promotional links please.

@SamieWalters said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:

@coliver said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:

@IRJ said in Google renames Google Apps to G Suite:

The name change makes sense, but the name G Suite is just terrible. I can understand Google not wanting people to confuse Google Apps with Android type Apps. Because they really aren't just apps they are an office suite.

Even Google Suite would have been better. Or just Google Office (unless that is trademarked).

The irony is that I am sure they spent thousands testing the performance of this name change. It makes you wonder what the other options were...

Probably a sickening amount was tested on focus groups. They must have only focus tested on the hip millennials who think saying Google is too much work. I'm sure they are now saying G it instead of Google it.

@Dashrender said in Morgan Freeman Now Voices Google Waze GPS Navigation System:

@scottalanmiller said in Morgan Freeman Now Voices Google Waze GPS Navigation System:

@Dashrender said in Morgan Freeman Now Voices Google Waze GPS Navigation System:

I have had a few of the bad experiences that Scott talks about with Google Maps. I don't have an Apple anything, so I have no idea if it's better.

What I've found is that...

Google errs on the side of having roads, bridges and things that don't exist. Apple errs on the side of lacking really obvious roads that clearly have long existed.

Waze, at least used to be, is more like Apple in your statement.

I never find out, it's so hard to use that I give up. It might give great directions, but I can't stand the interface to the point of avoiding it. I assumed, probably incorrectly, that it data shared with Google.

@dafyre said in Chrome Remote Desktop:

@scottalanmiller -- I heard it was bad, but that was a while ago. I'll give it a go tonight or something and see what smokes.

THey have instructions for Ubuntu 12.04... and nothing else.

@scottalanmiller said in First Look at the NVidia Shield TV:

@IRJ said in First Look at the NVidia Shield TV:

It seems like that is just a list of android games.

There are a handful of Android TV only titles, but nearly everything that runs on Android TV also runs on Android, but not the other way around.

Well not all Android apps run on Adroid TV, but actually most of them do work if you sideload them. Sometimes the controls can get lost if the apps only work for touch screen devices. I have sideloaded alot of apps and most android apps do work on Android TV.

@Dashrender said in Why You Need to Fear the Oracle vs Google Case:

@DustinB3403 said in Why You Need to Fear the Oracle vs Google Case:

@Dashrender But the lawyers who are bringing this case, will do everything in their power to not allow programmers into the jury. They'll say "Thank you, you're free to go"

They wouldn't allow an educated in the subject matter person be on the jury as it ruins their chances of winning the suit.

I understand that's how it works today - but I can't imagine, and Scott's already comment that it (I think) wasn't intended that way, that it was intended that way by our forefathers.

Right, the terminology of "peers" has been misused. It's not juries of our peers in nearly any cases.

@Dashrender said:

Have you done any reading on Carousel? Something about ads being faster - though some are saying that it reduces choice...

Nope, and a quick search I cannot even turn up what you are referring to.

@Dashrender said:

@JaredBusch said:

Debit is significantly cheaper to the merchant. If you want to do your part to lower prices, use debit always.

I completely know where this is coming from - but do you think enough people are doing this to make the vendor lower their prices? and even if enough people were doing it, would the vendor lower prices or instead just keep the extra profit?

Around here about 2 years after gas prices started to sky rocket, delivery companies added hefty fuel surcharges. Now that fuel has gone down have they dropped them, or even reduced them? uh nope.

Evil Corp Inc. around here actually did

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-ferries-eliminates-fuel-surcharge-as-oil-prices-fall-1.2873739

I have tested a few times, and it works great. This is a huge help and I don't have to worry about limits or trials. It's completely free.

@DustinB3403 said:

@dafyre said:

@DustinB3403 said:

The cat is both dead and alive, but you won't know unless you open the box and check...

I guess that makes it an Undead cat... Better go bury it in Pet Cemetary again.

But then it'll come back even more Satan cat like

Retreat to safe distance and throw catnip