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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I use unifi. I have their dream machine (router/firewall/vpn) a POE switch, two access points, 5 cameras and their doorbell. I rarely have any issues.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It isn’t the amount of time it takes to pay off the house. It is the time it takes not to loose money on selling a house. The number was about 5 years when I purchased my home. You take the selling price of your home subtract the mortgage, taxes, and realtor fees. It now takes 13 years before you can sell your house and break even. This just makes investing in homes worse. It also makes buying a home more risky and inflexible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Questions about blade server SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
It could be in the bios or have a separate bios for the RAID system. Sometimes you will see it flash on screen as it boots. Like: F6 for RAID configuration
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Fiber's 20Gbps Internet to Arrive by Year's End for Select Residential Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Probably but you can use a different dns provider. If you are really concerned, a vpn is the best answer to make sure they don’t get any of your information. The problem is that there aren’t very many VPNs that can do anything close to 10Gbs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Except that was the same thing that gave us Reagan. He was an actor. Then governor of California. Then president. We are still paying for all his bullshit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
They are going to have the same problem they had with their original phones. No apps. They could never get enough developers to care about the OS without a user base. You also can’t get a user base without apps. That’s what killed the windows phone.
Amazon tried to use the kindle formula on a cell phone. The problem is that the main reason the kindle was successful was there was no real competition. They also only need to provide books not apps for the kindle. The cellphone market was a lot more mature with a ton of options. They came in with a mediocre phone that had less apps and less configurability. They tried to do the Apple walled garden on an Android phone. Clearly they didn’t understand their market.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
There are a ton of phones in China running Android without google services . If you try to cut off Microsoft you would also be hurting all those Chinese phones. Google also can’t do that without being sued by Microsoft for not allowing competition.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
That is correct. The money is made on the searches. With their own phones, they can push their own search engine and Ads. Google did it so they could force other makers to standardize. Microsoft can do the same thing. You make money the store. Android just makes it easy to port apps to Microsoft’s app store Developers won’t be required to code a new app just for Microsoft.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I think they can still reboot with an Android base. They can just do what they did for edge. Pull a Google. Sell hardware with very polished software. Android would give them full access to all Android apps. Also they already have outlook and office apps made for android.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got an old Cisco enterprise modem/router. Anything fun I can use it for at home?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Not sure if using a network device with no security updates and a firmware that might be found online is worth it. Also, I would never flash a networking device with a firmware that is found on a random website. After all that, most of the features of Cisco devices are still locked behind a license key.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got an old Cisco enterprise modem/router. Anything fun I can use it for at home?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Unfortunately most of the features of their devices are only available through their licensing. Also you won’t be able to get updates to it without a support contract. Even if new it generally isn’t worth using at home.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Apple rarely has a sale. Amazon has Apple products on sale regularly. I bought my airpods for $50 off when Apple was still selling them at MSRP. I don’t understand if someone is paying full retail on Amazon’s site for Apple products.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Phones have to easily repairable before you can blame consumers for upgrading. Cell phones are pretty essential for modern life and most of us don’t want to be without them for long. The upgrade allows for people to not have to worry about what to do when something out of warranty breaks. It is like fixing your car. In warranty, the manufacturer or dealer takes care of things. Out of warranty, you have to find a repair shop. Finding a repair shop is difficult. Trying to get a second or third quote on a broken car is difficult and costly.

The alternative is to make repair shops have transparent prices and make it easy for them to get oem parts. The other option is to force companies to warranty their phones for longer. Until the government does one of those you can’t blame consumers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
They can’t. Workers at Meta were paid well and then they got to work from home. There isn’t any amount of money that will make those workers want to give up their new work life balance. Perks is the only option.

Google had it right back in the day. Free shuttle rides to work. Onsite massages, dry cleaning, free cafeterias, etc. if you make it so people don’t have to do those things when they get home, they will work longer. It still doesn’t compare to wfh but it was close.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is bolstering perks like happy hours and company swag as it pushes staff to return to office, despite its 'year of efficiency'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
How dare you blame our money and resource problems on the monetary system?!? It is clearly the lazy workers fault. A company over reaching in a system the rewards the over reach?? Must be the lazy workers again. You could argue that it isn’t Capitalism but the way we implemented Capitalism. However, it is just strange to act like it isn’t involved.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
I live in Texas and this is unlikely to happen. It was more likely to happen a few years back. I doubt they will build a eletric train between two liberal cities. The only thing that would make it less likely is if you said it was a gay eletric train. Even if they did, Texas cities are sprawled out and require a car. It would only work if you could load your car on the train. It would be useful for students going back and forth to their universities. However, university students are almost as despised as poor people or minorities to most of the voters in Texas.