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We would switch over to the other ISP

Definitely not doubled

In a way, yes. It gets to a point people cannot appreciate how great they have it.

I think education is a major issue here. I know I used to recycle plastics, but after reading through comments on here, I would rather just throw it in the trash and know it will be at a landfill. This makes me feel better than the alternative, in which it is sent overseas and more likely to be dispersed throughout the environment.

Peer to peer isolation is what your missing

Idk, I used to work IT in schools and in NYS, funding is distributed to schools based on their poverty levels. So that wasn't the case, we were buying chromebooks from reputable vendors and brands. Most all use Dell for regular laptops and desktops.

Apparently not in my area

It is

Yeah UAW just locked in the inflation we have experienced. I do not agree that they are being paid what they are actually worth. Unions are ruining this country.

Tell that to all the factory workers still moving parts around plants in small towns all across the US. Tell that to the healthcare workers at hospitals, assisted living facilities, and medical practices. May even tell that to construction workers, machinists, carpenters, HVAC guys, building controls, and even network engineers. You live in a fantasy world.

“Rust: The Longest War” is a really good book I once read regarding this topic. Highly recommend checking it out for further reading… https://books.google.com/books/about/Rust.html?id=sEHqBgAAQB...

Don’t people go to bars to socialize??

You make less sense the more you comment…

Maybe because it does take a broken mental state to give up on society and go live out on the streets. I understand that is a progression and it is no ones choice, but it doesn’t change the fact that no one of a sound mental state lives like that.

I would even say normal is a stretch, even on average. At least in my area of expertise, a whole host of new jobs are available now than they were five years ago. There are so many more remote/hybrid jobs that were around before, healthcare is still seeing shortages, manufacturing/fabrication jobs are plentiful like I can’t remember, and the effects of “college bad, trade schools good” have left us with less engineers than can be utilized, across man disciplines, as college enrollments continue to fall.

This is just anecdotal data, from m monitoring of various job sites regularly over the years. Of course, it could be that Indeed, Linkedin, etc have gotten more popular over the years, but I see increases everywhere. The local hospitals were laying people off in 2018-19 for example, while now they are seeking doctors, nurses, EVS, Bio-Med, and many other positions.

At work, we make AI recordings of co-workers from Webex meetings. I don’t hear anyone complaining their voice was “stolen and replicated.” This all just seems a little dramatic given the times we live in.

I find so many people in m part of the US that are like completely oblivious to what goes on around the world. Its like Plato’s cave, they only know how bad things can get based on a limited view of the world.

Yeah, I will check back and see how you feel in a few years after all the dev jobs have been farmed out overseas to somewhere like Nigeria.

Sounds a bit dramatic, don’t ya think?

We easily saw way more bees this year.. I have a massive flower garden right behind house. Bumblebees, honeybees, and even the little black bees have been around in numbers I haven't seen since living here. We also have an abundance of yellow jackets, crickets, dragonflies, and aphids. I did notice the frog population is down this year, less of the tadpoles hatched and made it out of the pond of all species.

Saved me 20% the other day

Just for the record, that isn’t true. H.323 is a VoIP protocol and is implemented on a lot of private PBX systems. Most on Prem systems can handle SIP or H.323, likewise for about any standard enterprise IP phone. H.323 works out of the box, pure SIP requires additional infrastructure, mainly SBC or session boarder controller.

Thanks for reminding me to grab the tinfoil hat!

Do you not understand the concept of high frequency trading? Citadel is a market maker, there is nothing sinister or shady about how they make money. It’s all done in accordance with the law and reported quarterly.

Then it’s not based on any fact..

So where does that leave H.323?

Perhaps how you take care of yourself plays a part, like life choices and all..

Of course it has nothing to do with environmental factors, life choices, or just bad luck.

I do use the GUI, but I have to agree in the ebook-covert tool being top notch. I once pulled a massive amount of books and videos from a particular publishers online platform. I can't remember the details but I wanna say the tool I used left me with html files with images stored in various folders or something. Ebook-convert handled thousands of books with very few having some formatting issues or outright failures. Most of the issues were the tables being way oversized and the text inside them not scaling correctly. I suspect I could fix this fairly easy, as I do still have all these books, but I just haven't gotten around to it. My data hoarding tendencies start to come out when scarcity is on the horizon and I will waste much time archiving something I'll never use on occasion.

I think microplastics are a much greater concern than the extra energy used to transport either of these materials.