The simple answer is twofold

1. Their attack surface is massive. By getting all this data from millions of devices they are fantastic at detecting and finding solutions for zero day attacks. This is a big selling point for enterprise who care about zero day a whole lot

2. Free tier also used by IT tinkerers means when the question is asked “what X should we use? What have you used before?” CloudFlare is heads and shoulders above the rest. This is why Microsoft allowed a lot of world to pirate their OS.

I’m thinking of turning mine into a media streaming and downloading (arrr?) box

How do I get my hands on ltsc? If you have any tips it would be much appreciated!

Fantastic question.

If anyone has thoughts on OS change as well please comment.

Are they making this open source?

It’s cause NZ’s tech market is the equivalent of a mid sized uni in the US or China.

Stuff is expensive and supplies are much lower with a smaller selection outside US and China - Buy there. The smaller boxes don’t really show up as computers as they don’t look like traditional computers. Call them knockoff Alexa’s or something to avoid the massive amount of tax on tech imports.

Nice!

I read the details. He has a decent reason to ask WP to pay as they got brought by private equity and significantly dropped their contributions to the WordPress which is open source and hence relies on the community to feed back into the product.

Fuuuuck