Disaster

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[–] Disaster 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As an enterprise admin, I concur.

Windows seems to be turning into some kind of weird botnet that exists only to waste wattage and bandwidth on updating itself and looking for security risks. I have weirdly fond memories of NT... but I don't miss updating JRE on 1k+ machines though...

[–] Disaster 32 points 4 days ago (13 children)

Yeah, then they lose all their best and brightest who are disappearing off to work on their own things.

All these idiot C-suite trash will wind up holding is a bag of yesterday's technology, a mass of obsolete infrastructure and a bunch of brands they've helped destroy.

[–] Disaster 5 points 4 days ago

*compared to the 1st World

[–] Disaster 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A lot of people don't like what's happening, don't like the people loudly supporting it and are working as best they can to do something about it. There is international pressure from nations that have experienced parallels (South Africa, for one) and although it looks like nothing is happening, there are things going on which are not reported on and actively minimized, which nevertheless apply pressure to the bad actors in the situation.

It's disappointing how many people, particularly in the west, are displaying bad political judgment...well, it's almost like they aren't thinking about it at all.. but that's just going to have to catch up with them as a consequence later on. This has had the effect of serving to reveal an entire crop of bad actors, which we all know must be removed.

Make no mistake - We Will Never Forget.

[–] Disaster 4 points 4 days ago

Exactly. The IRS can only work within the law, and if the law makes it easy for the wealthy to evade taxes. That needs to be fixed in Congress. So good luck to us all, I guess!

It's a start, but it needs to go much, much further.

[–] Disaster 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The elephant in the room here is that hardly anyone has a disposable income to spend $90 on an AAA game title and potentially thousands in hardware on which to play it.

Shelter, food, healthcare and power costs have increased too much. When the basics can't be met, people stop spending money on these additional things because it makes the difference between eating or not for a week.

[–] Disaster 1 points 1 week ago

The economy didn't respond they way "it should have" by tightening... so corporates had to just resort to good old fashioned collusion to teach the workforce they can't ask for things like hybrid and payraises.

It's kind of blowing up in their face.

[–] Disaster 1 points 1 week ago

OK first off, check out what WiFi band is getting through. You can get some mileage by enforcing the router and clients to connect on a specific band - they are supposed to auto select based off the best/least congested band, but these days nearly everything is squawking away there. You could try relocating your router/AP and testing - if there's a duct or a bunch of pipes in the way they may be interfering or opaque to the radio band, so moving the router might honestly result in better performance. Tape it to the ceiling if you have to (3M command strips work pretty well)

2.4Ghz gets far greater wall penetration than the modern high bandwidth 5Ghz band solutions, but it'll be limited to 54mbps or slower.

Not all WiFi access points are created equal. The antenna on a Linksys Router/AP ($??) vs. the antenna on an Ruckus AP ($500+) is a totally different animal, and it shows.

Effectively trying to coax a good signal out of radio equipment without a proper survey is more akin to dowsing or engaging in a magical ritual than anything really technical though...

[–] Disaster 8 points 3 weeks ago

Easy to be loving to your inner circle when you have millions provided by killing other people's kids.

[–] Disaster 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Generally in English they'd usually be called "A Patsy" or "Strawman" - someone disposable to do the unpleasant work, whom nobody will particularly miss.

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