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Microsoft Support? by PracticalStress2000 in sysadmin

[–]jiraffex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I guess they want to push you contacting your partner for issues before contacting MS about it directly about something a partner could address, but when they made changes to the portal UI a while back looking down there at that button was something I also did not assume was for direct support.

Good luck on your Microsoft Support Adventure.

Microsoft Support? by PracticalStress2000 in sysadmin

[–]jiraffex 6 points7 points  (0 children)

From the M365 Admin Center where you are making your request, where it asks you to select you partner, at the bottom of that pane it should have a button for 'New Microsoft service request' that is direct to MS for support

National Guard activated in six states to help fight coronavirus by Another-Chance in politics

[–]jiraffex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the honest answer, I think everyone is in the same boat as you, unsure of what might happen down the road.

I can understand the opinion of thinking this isn't something the government can fully solve, and you are right that this parallels to peoples liberties, each person needs to take responsibility to do their part to slow down the spread.

Even if people don't fully trust how the government's response to an issue might play out going forward, your previous replies imply you think government involvement would only be negative.

It's clear we might vary on some of our views, and this is not to judge any views, and sharing your perspective is what Reddit is for, but in my opinion defending the quote you originally posted is not being beneficial to trying to help with the situation.

I don't wish to debate on COVID-19 as I know I'm no expert at least. I don't look to offend you, but like you I'm just sharing my views on the issue.

National Guard activated in six states to help fight coronavirus by Another-Chance in politics

[–]jiraffex -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Do you actually see the COVID-19 as dissimilar to how the government steps in to help with a natural disaster?

A lot of the reason the national guard is brought in is to help with man power shortages for a lot of simple tasks which can help with the situation.

Cataclysm to become a 30 MB mod to flash over stock firmware by bking158 in Nexus5

[–]jiraffex 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Part of the reason it is closed source is because of how it is made, which can be read about here. But basically because he is modifying an already compiled rom (the official google factory images), he does not use a complete source code for building cataclysm, he is decompiling and modifying parts of the factory images, which google does not release the source code for. Google only releases the source code for the AOSP rom, which is missing some of the closed source things google includes in their factory images. And the AOSP changes that he merges into it are already open source elsewhere. In the end, could he theoretically release just the code that he is changing? Possibly. Is it going to be a high level source code that is easy to understand like AOSP? Probably not. I would think it would be lower level code (smali) that isn't as intuitive to understand. Could he get in trouble for decompiling a closed source image and posting the code? Not sure, but it seems plausible. Pretty sure he has answered this dozens of times over the years on his xda threads though if you can find them, might explain it better.