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I needed dual sim so I could separate work from private. Ordered a Canadian Samsung s20 because their dirt cheap that had 2g support. Reflashed it with American firmware and now I have no 2g/3g support but do have dual sim (turns out same hardware in the devices they just use rom to change featutes based on where in the world you are as the base chip it worked on supported all of them).

I use the esim for work. Works great transferred a real sim to it via online portal, cost me $120aud for whole year plan, unlimited calls and text.

Hey look I'm poor as I've ever been and have 3 step kids. Gonna send it for another two kids soon regardless of our finances. Why? Well because we want to and we're not getting any younger! Mate childcare, house sizes, money. Eh well make it work. No point worrying about problem that might not even happen.

It is a marketing problem largely. People got too high a expectations these days. They expect everything to be perfect and are largely massively selfish in doing it.

We might be poor, we might be cramped in a tiny house. But the kids are fed, clothed and are in a loving family. It's better than a lot of wealthy fams I know where the kids are depressed because the parents rarely cross the giant house to have a chat or hang out with them. Everybody is hidden behind thousands of dollars of screens.

The middle class has a massive marketing problem re. Having kids and families.

Not sure why your down voted. Your just telling it for how it is. Covid rocked for wfh. Those of us that wanted it but never had it could.

Better get hitched and have some kids then! No point crying about it when the solutions simple!

Well pretty sure we know how to fix that. Go have some kids! Seriously folks need to breed more. You wanna spread your ideals? Have a family. Wanna sway politics in the long run to your ideals? Tell your kids to have big families too. Religions have been doing this for yonks. It's not rocket science. It strikes me as absurd the academic class hasn't worked this out.

No. It isn't more logical. These people spy just as much on themselves as they do on others. You reckon they want another Snowden?

So aus officials have legislation at hand where they can get any app that operates here in aus, backdoored at their request. The company and anyone involved in the process is up for serious jail time if they divulge their part in the backdoor implementation to anyone.

Signal, whilst it's partially open doesn't mean it's not backdoored.

It is the darling of intelligence agencies across the 5 eyes...so probably backdoored, gotta keep those bills payed somehow (actually signals definitely backdoored given the agencies who choose to use it).

Lol signals definitely backdoored. It's a darling of 5 eyes intel agencies. They love it and they wouldn't use it unless it was backdoored lol.

Nah its still vaporware. Yoshino aren't solid state.

https://youtu.be/GTbJVahtCR8

Need to change heading RTO to return to office. RTO has always stood for rostered time off, its an industry standard term. It makes it confusing if you repurpose these terms for incorrect items/uses.

We need to legislate globally against single use disposable electronics.

Lol I just had the pleasure of trying to get a 2012 Mac reset for a client.

Reset device > device blocked from internet because Apple deems its os/software unsafe > Can't access app store to update device to safe/up to date os > have to manual download install for midway update > then update via app store to current distro.

Absolutely nightmare. Zero info from apple that this was the upgrade path/how it had to be done.

Psychotic. Huge reminder why I generally reject all apple work. Company is a nightmare to service machines for.

Also lol the 2012 intel Mac was being repurposed because the 2 year old Mac airs battery was rooted and it worked worse than the 2012 rig. Both lived their lives permanently plugged in like desktops being used for web browsing and email.

I haven't been ghosted much but I generally call companies before I apply for a job. It's a litmus test for me of how shit they are. No number to call or no person to talk to in person about the role then there is no point applying.

Try it sometime. Only apply to jobs you can jump on the blower and speak to someone about. Completely disregard employers and employment firms that don't have a point of contact that results in a person. They aren't worth your time. Also question the person if they will get back to you. Legit put the onus on the company to not ghost you. Call them back after your application has been in for say a week past deadline.

If the company your applying to can't handle all of that. Likelihood you will get ghosted during application is high. Not to mention their work environments probably toxic af if they can't manage to maintain basic manners and respect to their prospective employees.

Apply the same when pushing for contract jobs or work of any form. Set the standards you want.

That's wild. Astounding such behaviour exists in modern times.

I wonder if anyone has made a list of such establishments so that tourists could avoid unfair price gouging/being rorted while on holiday.

It's amazing folks write off treating customers unfairly just because their from a different town and a "tourist". Gross af.

Lol Crowdstrikes legal team is about to learn that legal disclaimers don't let you avoid conditions and standards as set by the ACCC (here in aus atleast). They gonna feel the pain after this one. Negligent practice leading to mass outage.

Thank you for your contribution to open source music production/dj'ing!

There must be an incentive. Because from a security perspective bringing in a 3rd party to a platform (microsoft) to do a job the platform already does is literally just the definition of opening up holes in your security. Completely b@tshit crazy, the salesmen for these products should hang their heads in shame. It's just straight up bad practice. Im astounded it's so widespread.

Most printers in these facilities run standalone on an embedded Linux variant.They actually can host whole folders of.data for reproduction "offline". Actually all scan/print/fax multi function machines can generally do that these days. If the IT onsite is good though the usb ports an storage on devices should be locked down.

Lol if they can't do staging to mitigate balls ups on the high availability infrastructure side (optus in aus earlier this year pushed a router config that took down 000 emergency for a good chunk of the nation) we got bugger all hope of big companies getting it further up the stack in software.

Accounting. Honestly not sure why I get a thousand dollar bill for a user on the other end to click some buttons and auto gen some reports when I could have a ai do it for me.

I mean crikey xero costs me like 650+ a year and it is a glorified semi automated ledger.

There's gotta be enough coin in that to encourage a business to ai automate an accountant for small businesses. Xeros got like >4 million subscribers.

Um generally just get a call on the Blower erry few days with some new opportunity. Spend my days working on backlog.

Might do some advertising this year. But mostly word of mouth goes harder than advertising or tendering for work. Legit have gotten consult for gov work bypassing tender just by word of mouth. Do your job well and the work will come. Also get out of conglomo megacorps. Doesnt matter how bright you shine you will still get lost in the sea of shit that they are. Making future work harder to find.

Remember, do a good enough job and other people will sell your services better than you can. Also register a company. Plenty of work where folks don't want you for the whole season just a game or two. It's easier to get thrown small bits and pieces as a contractor than having a company sign up to your services for a year. Get multiple companies throwing small bits and pieces.

That's pretty interesting. I don't suppose you could do it with some manual physics/electrical engineering wizardry like Dave Rat uses in this video for canceling out audio for a centre speaker?

https://youtu.be/AxZOv0baN2Y?si=fc51MQHRItT6nYKI

Or I could just download virtual dj and run it for free on a computer and just do this locally, right now, with zero fancy hardware and arguably some of the best stems algorithms on the market.

Why? If cost is prohibitive maybe you need less AWS and more Ububtu Server. That is to say, host your own. You'd be surprised how much host you can get out of a few nucs strewn across the country.

AWS isn't actually that great for most users, I mean how many of you are actually going to need overnight scaling to x thousand servers? Probably bugger all. But folks sure do like paying the premium for it!

OK now let's compound this and think about how society would look if every participant followed the "rip and dip" methodology.

Not swe, but one man band systems engineer/msp. Own company for 5 years, currently bailing on IT to do construction/carpentry. IT is on the decline and I don't see many job opportunities in the future (so ripe for AI replacement). The companies put profit before best practice (literally nearly impossible to find IT companies to work for that aren't mortally reprehensible) and its all round just generally horrible to work in.

Ditching it for building comes with a bunch of pros and cons. Pros, works interesting, massive demand, jobs last 20+ weeks instead of a few hours/days making it way less effort to chase a dollar. I've got a six pack again after being sedentary for 5 years, my health is the best its ever been and i dont spend a dollar on a gym.

Cons, wage dropped by about 50% until I get licensed. The whole industry in Aus is plagued with bad actors and shit businesses. It's rife with sexism, racism, bullying and just generally horrible people and companies. There are basically bugger all companies offering apprenticeships. The unnecessary hazing onsite is a pita too. Old fellas get grumpy watching IT workers pump jobs it took them 20 years to learn in less than a week. Turns out youtube builders will teach you more tricks than the grumpy old dogs have learnt in their lifetime. Age and experience do not always correlate in a positive fashion.

I still do IT on the side, it helps me fulfill some inner wants and needs (I really like helping folks get the best our of tech).

I would love to try get into building IT infra like datacenters. Mix the two job realms together.

Don't be afraid to make big changes, you got one life, might aswell "send it".

You just listed the shovels. It's all just vr. That's the shiz, the shovel is the specs. The end use though is the same shiz between them with the same goal, the goal is to provide vr.

No it's not. When tossing up a vr purchase it's Vision pro, quest 3 or big screen beyond. Price points all vary but they are literally all the same shiz just served on a different shovel.

Each have their pros, each have their cons (well the mvp has mostly cons being the worst of the 3 but hey its having a crack).

Eh I see that amongst the IT world. But when I'm onsite at manufacturing businesses or industrial organizations it's all windows. Same with all the non-pro user but professional services I engage with like cafes or hotels.

MacOS is just a nightmare to run the basic infra these companies require. It often times doesn't even run the software that's required.

These industries don't want cloud apps. They want robust standalone systems than run for the better part of a decade with minimal inputs or maintenance. Apple and the cloud and working on vms or remote servers or using some web app is not that. Linux is also usually out of the question as setup and customisation is not something they want to pay for. They want apps they purchase and then install once, setup once and that's it.

Apples not been worth it for pro users for a good decade. The only thing it's been good for is a litmus test of users care for ethics in computing.

The whole iPad will eat MacBook business so let's cuck its capabilities is insanely wasteful. Like should be illegal levels of wasteful given the current climate of consumption and climate change problems facing us.

Apple and their whole culture of product rollout and consumption is a massive part of our wasteful problem as a global society. Terrible company really.