Doesn’t Kasa phone home to China?
Doesn’t Kasa phone home to China?
Based on my experience working in a call center, I wouldn’t call it unnecessary. People are fucked up.
Whole point of the Hyperloop was to stop California from building out high speed rail. And it worked. Musky thought it would cut into his EV sales.
Steve did it with Newegg. Tech Jesus has balls when gamers/enthusiasts are getting screwed.
Use Firefox. The crypto bros running Brave have been caught multiple times gathering and selling user data. You use Chrome as the base when you want to hoover data.
It’s the 90s webguru all over again!
I’ve seen this before in the 90s. The companies that forced out the best, highest paid staff always suffered.
Part of it is management that can’t handle their duties if they can’t walk over and intimidate workers. The other bit is many companies have cash reserves invested in commercial real estate instruments, and can’t handle the profoilo hit. And many of those company leaders are also personally invested in that same real estate.
Working from home does help the local economy, just not the right ones for the C-suite.
This is going to be a pyric victory like when they sued Google where they won, but then the traffic and views dropped through the floor.
My best comment ever in Reddit was describing Lord of the Rings as programming.
The job of a programmer is to reintroduce a bug that was fixed in the last patch.
From my experience, the wireless carriers are trying their best not to launch in the same areas for home Internet. They’re trying hard to avoid the competition like they do in phone service. Example: I get T-Mobile home Internet, but Verizon doesn’t in my area. Asking friends, I’m finding that to be a common situation where one or the other is offered, but rarely both. Completely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.
NO TRUE SCOTTSMAN!
And you’ll get the same story.
Libre office and Linux desktops are not line of business apps. They are platforms to run/supplement line of business apps. There are very few line of business apps that run HR, the finance department, EMR if you’re in a hospital system, etc, etc, etc as open source or run on open source solutions. For decades Open Source advocates kept thinking it was the ability to run Office that shut down “The year of Linux desktops!!!” But that isn’t it at all. It’s those specialized apps that run the businesses that prevented it. I work in a hospital system, our line of business app is Epic or Cerner. Apps that digitize the health records. The requirements to run these apps is Windows Server, because that is what the front ends are built on. And these apps, especially the front ends, are heavy and complex. Any attempt to turn them into web apps has failed miserably because the performance just isn’t there vs running say, the Epic/Cerner front end in a Citrix solution. Client-Server isn’t dead, it just doesn’t get sexy press anymore. Obviously if you work in web development, it is a very different story. But even in those shops, I’ll bet the business support apps (HR, finance, etc) run heavily on Windows.
Lord knows I’ve tried to advocate for open source solutions where I can, but if the apps the business picks to suit their needs only runs in Windows? You’re infrastructure has already been chosen for you. And THAT is what the average wannabe IT person on the internet doesn’t understand in the slightest.
Because these access companies DO NOT COMPETE with each other. Without that competition we all get the shit end of capitalism. The landlines all have their own fiefdoms. Wireless is balkanizing based on tower placement, and satellite is for rural areas that don’t rate wired connections or cell towers. The politicians can point to all this and say we have options, but really you’re lucky if you have two options.
We did do something permanent: We let the private sector fuck us all in the ass while the rest of the world passed us by.
Then the brutal reality hits: Your app vendor, “We don’t support that.”
Switch to Linux. I did it a few months ago and I have zero complaints, even in gaming.