I’ve worked for very large organizations (30k+ employees) that didn’t use crappy paper.

All depends on the company.

So I know whether to waste my time

Sadly I think we’ll have to take the water to them.

My current approach is building a media center for me, as a model for one I’ll send to my siblings/friends.

Besides being a media center, it’ll enable replication between them, with some backup services for laptops and phones. And some replacements for things like facebook/photo sharing, etc (and have a chat mechanism, most likely via XMPP).

And…it’ll have something like PiHole that I’ll manage centrally.

“raw dogging the Internet”… I chuckled out loud

One day, after I am done with -insert reason here-, I will have a bad ass, well thought out backup solution.

For some reason you’re “insert reason here” was dropped by lemmy. I guess a sequential less-than/greater-than messes with it.

It’s the difficulty, Plain and simple.

I knew in the late 90’s what was coming, and have tried to minimize my own exposure, but family and friends just want the convenience.

I have a friend who specializes in network and data security and he uses all the privacy-invading garbage like Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, etc, because “it’s convenient”. 🤦🏼

We need a simple, seamless solution to provide the features people want.

We have some of these things in Freedombox, CasaOS, and some OSS solutions, etc, but these are all beyond the skills of the average user. They’re even a big challenge for me, because I’m busy.

Though I’m working on a single-box solution for my family, and which provides backup to each other, media server, phone backup (mostly photos and videos), etc.

It’s pretty hard to do when phones are resistant to third party solutions.

Right?

$450 and a toaster to use something like the external batteries I’ve used for a decade.

Nope.

Just watched them all a few weeks ago, still very funny, see nothing wrong with any of it. The movies are all about absurdity.

Have you seen the books?

I know someone in a place like this, and to move there they essentially sell any property they have to buy their space in the facility.

It’s not cheap, but these places also provide on-site medical facilities with trained staff so someone 65 having a stroke has a decent chance of being OK.

62 is first year of social security eligibility.

Exactly.

Someone older than a teen understands we have a responsibility to bring people together, create a trusting environment, focused on the job at hand.

So even when someone brings up politics, I simply don’t respond, or just ask a work question. Because I know most people doing this want to have their viewpoint validated, and I probably don’t agree in some way. This situation helps no one, and just promotes divisiveness.

Work is for work, not for political bullshit.

Political bullshit is alway divisive, and we all work too damn hard to build cohesive teams.

I’ve seen it many times - if you’re one of those that is compelled to bring outside bullshit to work, where we have enough actual related issues to contend with, you’ll be left behind. People won’t want to work with you, I because you’re not a team player and more interested in discussing political crap (or reality TV crap, or whatever) than discussing the very real issues in front of us.

We already don’t have enough time for the tasks at hand, last thing we need is such juvenile nonsense.

You want to talk politics, do it on your break, away from me.

And your freedom of speech bullshit argument is nothing more than a sophistry tactic known as a strawman. This reveals you to be a sophist, not interested in discovering truth, but rather in winning an argument.

You even led with castigating me, and continued on with denigrating.

You should probably revisit your intentions and ethics.

Though odds are highest for carbon-based, simple from it’s abundance.

Thanks for this - a reasoned, easy-to-grasp explanation of missions, without a lot of technical jargon.

It’s this kind of writing that’s needed (from any technical field) for those not in that field to understand it. I’m in IT, and work diligently to provide this kind of explanation to decision-makers. It’s not easy, when in your head you see all the “but this” at the technical level. We have to sacrifice high-resolution detail to provide a “good enough” image for people to comprehend. Sometimes that means being “technically inaccurate” - which then gets unnecessarily criticised.

I wish magazines like Scientific American (which has seriously gone down hill) wrote like this more.

Water

Wait, no, electricity to run my fridge, convection oven and stove. 😁

Are the links you added from the article or some others you found?

What kind of douchebag do you have to be to behave like this?

How many languages do you speak perfectly?

OP’s English is pretty damn good.

will depend more on whether Ryobi kills off the USB Lithium line like they did the Tek4 line.

This is where learning how to rebuild your own batteries cones in. Nearly all of them use multiple 18650 batteries, which cost about $2 each online.

I’ve rebuilt a few for my power tools. Larger ones cost about $10-$15 to rebuild. And newer batteries have greater capacity too.

Very good point about Agile.

As an end-user (that is, the IT staff that will be deploying/managing things), I prefer less-frequent releases. I’d love to see 1 or 2 releases a year for all software (pipe dream, I know). Once you have a handful of packages, you end up with constant change to manage.

I suspect what we end up with is early adopters embracing the frequent releases, and providing feedback/error reporting, while people like me benefit from them while choosing to upgrade less frequently.

There are about 3 apps that I’m a beta tester for, so even I’m part of that early-adopter group.

Agreed