Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8

[Shannon]

https://subliminal-talk.com/Thread-Shann...#pid266143

Unfortunately, you have forever missed your opportunity to buy a copy of SARM v2.1-B.  However, at some point in the future, I will publish v3.x.  I did publish an email detailing that SARM v2.1-B was available at the beginning of last month, so you either need to subscribe to our newsletter, or you need to have our emails routed out of the Spam folder. 



I have to do what I say I will do, and I told everyone in the beginning that this was never going to be made available again after it was taken down, so that's what's happening.  But there will be a v3.x published at some point most likely in the latter half of 2025.

https://subliminal-talk.com/Thread-Shann...#pid266907

SARM v2.1-B was originally not going to be released at all.  I released it in a limited release because I thought it was a damned shame for it to not be.  But I have reasons for why it was so restricted that I unfortunately can't get into.

(Question #1)



Maybe just a bit premature to ask since it's only March right now, are we expecting v3.x to be a candidate for one of those 6G "premium" programs by any chance?

Yes.  SARM v3.1 is currently awaiting a chance to test it.

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Further questions should be more about any "premium" programs in general.



(Question #2)



Do we still have to deal with stuff like disabling PayPal temporarily during specific day(s) of each month + re-enabling PayPal afterwards once you've finished testing + building DMSI 5.0 / SARM 3.x / X4A-2000 down the road?

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Probably not.

(Question #3)



DMSI 5.0 / SARM 3.x / X4A-2000 could very well be considered some of the most popular programs for obvious reasons, is it reasonable to expect all of them to be available year-round? (i.e. at the very least we could still mark the calendar while anticipating the availability during the beginning / the end of each month.)

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I have yet to determine how that will work out.  I don't mind doing the beginning or the end of the month, and if the circumstances are right, I don't mind doing all year round.  But there are factors that may get in the way of that and I don't have those variables filled right now.

(Question #4)

Volume 6 was gone since November 2022, are we genuinely supposed to believe that nobody actually performed any backups at all despite the fact that customer services should be provided via specific forum threads so far?

https://subliminal-talk.com/Thread-Shann...#pid257235

Ah so I was trying to delete one post and it seems I selected the wrong option and it deleted the thread, so here it is again. I'm hoping there's a way to bring it back, i've asked Steve.

Somehow we mere mortals couldn't even access Volume 7 linked above, most likely nobody but the staff are allowed to do so if I weren't mistaken.

In other words, is it really necessary for customers to save forum threads manually on our own since an thread could be gone for whatever reasons?

(Don't ask, don't tell as usual?)

We definite should have backups.  I'll see what I can see.

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(Question #5)

Just for the sake of dodging Murphy's Law, wouldn't it be reasonable to dedicate separate sub-forum(s) for all 6G "premium" programs from now on? For instance, doing something similar to BAMM wouldn't be so bad:

https://subliminal-talk.com/Thread-Keith...#pid264664

We definitely understand that would be nothing more than an outlier, though waiting over 5 months for an answer should be somewhat better than witnessing the disappearance of an entire forum thread or something.

That's an interesting idea.  I'll pass it to Steve.

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Since they're expected to cost thousands of dollars a pop rather than 650 bucks, I guess it's only natural to set realistic expectations then?

That would depend on what you mean by "realistic".  Your definition in this case may differ from mine.  Do expound on that, so we can clarify.