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If one needs something more "pro" for LTE routers there's Peplink (https://www.peplink.com/) and Cradlepoint (https://cradlepoint.com/)

The Technician level license (Essentially it's all amateur frequencies above ~50Mhz, you do get some morse-code on a few lower bands, but they're hardly used by Techs) is very simple to get; there's a lot of "Ham Cram" classes, this is how I got mine. Essentially you study all morning interspersed with a quick primer on Ohms law, common-sense rules and regulations, etc...

There has been a proposed enhancement to the Tech level to give them some lower frequency privileges that's causing a rift in the hobby since the new comers welcome it and the old-timers think it'll kill the hobby* and turn everything into CB radio.

* Common amongst the old timers is that EVERYTHING that isn't morse code (CW) is killing the hobby.

Biggest loser will be the domestic Japanese Camembert industry[1], as according to a Reddit poster[2] Japan only has 4 cheeses (Sandwich cheese, cheese that melts (とろけるチーズ), parmesan cheese (for pasta) and camembert).

But that could turn around as consumers discover new cheeses and then incorporate cheese into their diet more.

One thing I recall about Japan, specifically Tokyo, was how many French patisseries there were, so it would seem to me there's a huge untapped market for French Cheese and Wine to accompany.

[1] https://whatjapanthinks.com/2017/10/05/camembert-is-japans-f...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/1xwk51/is_it_true_th...

They are incredible useful for historical insights that would otherwise be lost like what was the supply chain even like [1]?

[1] http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/arti...

Planet Money podcast a covered this topic a few months ago:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/10/14/448718171/epis...

This is the idea that’s been stuck in my head about G but I didn’t have the right words to express it.

I had been thinking of them as “the kid that did everything right on paper: hires the best tutors, got a 4.0 GPA, perfect SAT scores, yet didn’t understand why they weren’t the most popular and liked student”

Affordable for whom? [1] Rent is extremely high and so is buying [2]

[1] https://www.zillow.com/homes/for_rent/san-jose,ca_rb/ [2] https://www.zillow.com/homes/San-Jose-CA_rb/

Yeah that's pretty much it, for me at least. I'd consider myself very technically inclined (replaced screens on my iPhone 5's, build dozens of PCs...), but as I've learned from experience I'd rather just pay slightly more and expect it to work for my personal stuff.

I guess one can view it as buying the cheapest new car with a long warranty versus a reliable as-is used car just so I never have to worry about it not working.

What I'd like to see in addition to raw stats is stacking up service and warranty.

What's kept me an Apple user for high-end laptops and phones is being able to go to a brick and mortar store and walk-out with a replacement device.

I stopped drinking coffee, the acidity was ruining my GI.

Switched to Mate or PG Tips tea as my morning drink, typically with loose leaf mate in a French press.

South American (Cruz de Malta , Taragui) are readily available on Amazon prime and much cheaper than the American brand Guayaki

Profile manager / MDM on MacOS Server is a goddamn nightmare.

It's amazing when it works, but when it breaks you're SOL. Case in point is I inherited a semi-broken system when I started my job 3 years ago. ~40 enrolled laptops but couldn't add any more. Peeking into the logs the SQL server built into the .app bundle broke/corrupted.

Many others in the Apple forums had the same issue but no resolution and the solution ended up being "flatten and reinstall".

For a small business, sure Profile Manager might work, but scale beyond 10-20 users Jamf Pro is the way to go.

There’s been rumblings in the BUD (big ugly dish) community that 5G will start to ruin C-Band for TRO (TV Recieve Only). Most birds are going mostly Ku but C-Band is used for backhaul & feeds on a lot of soon to be retired: Galaxy & AMC series.

For Amatuer Dx’ing C-Band offers way more unencrypted and English channels than Ku. There’s way more weird channels too. I just pickuped an old 8ft Dish for free off Craigslist simply to watch North Korean TV.

From what I gather one will need a much larger dish for C-Band in the US to overcome spectral interference or that it will pretty much put an end to C-band in the US.

https://www.multichannel.com/news/fcc-votes-to-open-c-band-f...

https://spacenews.com/fcc-votes-to-open-c-band-for-5g/

I've also heard that it's even more competitive than human medical schools.

The server use case for Mac Mini is a huge compromise. Sonnet Tech [1] makes a 1U rack enclosure with a PCIe riser connected internally to the Mini's Thunderbolt port.

Internally we had one used for our company's OSX Server running profile manager before going to Jamf Pro.

[1] https://www.sonnettech.com/product/xmacminiserver.html

There's also MicroG wrapped in LineageOS so you can avoid G altogether

https://lineage.microg.org/

Semi-related tid-bit: You'd be shocked how many theatrical lighting designers over the age of 45 are color blind. Never used to be a workplace issue since there was only a limited number of gels to place over lights and even then they were all numbered / catalog.

With LEDs being able to project (nearly) any color the old-guard are facing some challenges.

USB sticks are rife. I had an AV project this past week; needed 40+ media players for TVs around a convention space that needed a USB stick to hold a small MP4 file.

Ordered several sets of '5-Pack' PNY USB sticks over several days, first sets the write time was 1 minute, but the second/third orders the write times were abysmal taking 5-7 minutes.

Think of all the grandparents that have Win Vista / XP machines with IE defaulted to Yahoo.

Also, all the spyware/malware/adware seems to be wrappers around a Yahoo search for some reason.

In a similar boat; I got a CD-I with the add-on MPEG-1 module (picked up for $20 for a floor-model clearance table in the late-90s), but in my eyes the big failure of VCD as a format was needing two discs per movie.

VCD's aren't that terrible though (a 4head Hifi VCR though would look better), here's a recording of the opening of the Matrix with some trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRElGEgHzEE

VCD's never really made it into piracy. If I recall at the time the Warez scene was using Vivo Active [1] (H.263 video and G.723 ADPCM audio) splitting videos at 650Mb, which gave greater fidelity than MPEG-1 in a smaller package. I think that only lasted a year or so until DiVX/Xvid came along.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivo_Software

Could have just been a laser disc replaying rendered footage, or a Sega with a custom made cartridge playing back a demo "video"

Ditto here, however unlike some other commenters, we're an ad agency.

They work for our satellite offices in Denver (one designer) and London (two account people).

There’s been a half-dozen LVFS / System76 drama threads[1] in the past week alone. Despite whatever your feelings are on BIOS, the general consensuous from S76 owners are the laptops aren’t that great.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17037845

My company does in two locations: Denver & London. We're an ad agency with a handful of employees in both locations that relocated for business.

We have other locations in Europe, LA, NY but for a single employee or two it makes sense.

From what I've noticed here in Los Angeles, Turo is exploiting the greymarket of wildcat car dealers. There are lots of people here that own 10+ late model economy cars at any one time and there are areas where you'll see 5-6 cars on the street with For Sale signs.

A friend of mine who's car was totaled used Turo for a month or so until she bought the car from the guy.

I found out about File Stream by accident, they haven't really pushed it.

Hey! Are you me?

We have a similar situation for a company of ~100 across 4 offices (2 in NA, and 2 in EU)

So after reading this and trying to enable on my own GSuite and getting nothing but errors I see this: "Chat will be made available over the next 7 days. "

So I expect over the next 7 days I'll have at least 20 emails from GSuite power users of why I haven't enabled it yet.

Google offers 'Google Drive Stream' that apes the killer Dropbox features: offline files that smart-sync as needed. Unfortunatly, it's only for GSuite accounts.

I used to work for https://www.interpolls.com/ in 2007 so tech may has changed quite a bit but here's how the business worked then:

We were allowed 30kb of JS file to load which could (depending on the ad network) serve ~300kb of a Flash SWF file. We ran Cold Fusion hooks in the SWF to radio home to our JS file to trigger 1x1 pixels for 3rd party trackers. We scraped our raw Akamai HTTP request logs after the fact on a CRON job to create our reporting system. There was a small cluster of FreeBSD servers that crunched the HTTP request logs. Every mouse-over / click was registered via these pixel HTTP GETs. We had timers too that would trigger every few seconds. The reporting system probably had a 2-3 hour delay due to the immense amount of traffic we received.

We specialized in "polls" which were plain old HTML radio buttons overtop of the SWFs which after you answered gave you a quick answer and sometimes had digital takeaways in the popup answer window (Icons, Wallpapers, etc..)

At the time all of our ads were handmade, we had a design team and a programming team that would create these together and code them specifically to the clients request. By the time I left we had started to automate it into a drag+drop system for clients.

Sidenote: Biggest job screw up that I've ever done was not putting in the correct 3rd party tracking pixel into an 300x250 that ran for 1 day on AOL.com homepage. It ended up being fine since we got the results back for the typo from the raw logs, but it could have been a $200k mistake!

There was an article when it launched [1] that speculates that the reason it's so pricey, larger SSDs, and ridiculously spec'd is because Google has it sights set on enterprise and VM containerization.

[1] https://chromeunboxed.com/googles-pixelbook-the-target-is-bi...