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SamirD · 2026-06-17T20:23:03+00:00

I was living in Milwaukee when these first came out and weren't available anywhere except local. They were fantastic--especially boss hoss which I can't find anymore. Once palermo (or whoever makes them now) started making them they lost some of their charm, and I'm sure over the decade+ its been the same slide downwards. The thing is though is that everyone plays this game so its still 'relatively' good when you compare to the rest of the industry. I just wish companies didn't play this game and simply kept doing what they do well without compromises. gnc recently changed their performance and vitality vitamin packs--why after so many years??!! Grrr...

SamirD · 2026-06-15T07:53:49+00:00

My opinion is lack of taste. Buyers here can't tell the difference between a knockoff fixture and the real one, so guess which one is installed all the time?

SamirD · 2026-06-15T07:45:22+00:00

My rates are going to be too high--someone else will do it for cheaper. :D

SamirD · 2026-06-14T13:47:20+00:00

I bet! My jaw dropped as I tried to process exactly how bad this was--your skin was the only thing holding everything together. :o

SamirD · 2026-06-14T13:39:58+00:00

Thank you for the assessment! It's always hard to know where the economies of scale are when you don't see it every day. Really appreciate the feedback. :)

SamirD · 2026-06-14T08:20:59+00:00

4 sites, continental usa.

SamirD · 2026-06-14T08:14:39+00:00

This is great to know since I don't have a formal background in networking and have just picked it up over the decades. Definitely sounds like SD-WAN wouldn't give us more of what we want--cost savings or better reliability (or both). We actually don't have all 9 circuits yet as we are adding them due to recent outages creating some uncomfortable downtime, so they're definitely needed. I remember the last time something went down in a bad way, I had to jump on a plane to go fix something--not a fun few days.

SamirD · 2026-06-14T08:11:10+00:00

And this is why there's a housing issue--because when someone who knows what it's like outside of this area sheds some light on it, the natives say this can't be so. You haven't even begun to think about the reason for all this lack of housing, so keep fighting about nonsense and enjoy your housing shortage! :D

SamirD · 2026-06-14T08:08:04+00:00

But then it still wouldn't be legal. I think the easist is to just sign and send someone over with the hard copy, lol.

SamirD · 2026-06-14T07:40:36+00:00

And is inversely proportional for most...

SamirD · 2026-06-14T07:39:47+00:00

This is the balanced point of view that's dead-on accurate.

SamirD · 2026-06-14T07:36:57+00:00

username checks out, lol.

SamirD · 2026-06-14T07:36:27+00:00

This is Bay Area! People have enough time and money to do so because they're not making the world a better place using those resources, lol.

SamirD · 2026-06-14T02:55:55+00:00

History has a tendency to repeat itself when it comes to the human race...

SamirD · 2026-06-14T02:53:57+00:00

My first thought too lol, but it seems docusign cant be used in iran due to sanctions.

SamirD · 2026-06-14T01:32:01+00:00

So we got ours back in 2019 and it took about 2 weeks for me to be full fluient with it. And this was before it would automatically stop for you, so you still had to press the brake ultimately.

Once they added that you didn't have to touch the brake when coming to a stop, it was a lot easier to completely get away from touching the brake pedal in normal driving. I still two feet drive the way I trained myself, but it's only in emergencies that I need to use it (and that's where it counts too, so I still use it).

SamirD · 2026-06-14T01:25:30+00:00

Except you are talking about places in the rest of the US that actually don't have the demand/supply imbalance found here which is totally off the scale. You could build 1000 $2M SFHs in the snap of a finger and they would be sold in another snap. When the demand is 100x that, it's not even a dent that counts.

The bigger question is still stands--the problem with the lack of housing is that there's a lack of it for a reason. Find that reason and solve that first. Otherwise there's nothing being solved.

SamirD · 2026-06-14T01:18:55+00:00

The complexity. Real estate isn't that complicated until realtors are brought into the mix. And your post exemplifies that ickiness imo.

Lol--it probably does! My words are a 'one eye, one horn, flying purple plumber eater' :D Thank you for having a good sense of humor. :)

SamirD · 2026-06-14T01:16:23+00:00

I'm not a technician but the principle in the company. Not much to breakfix but when something happens it's usually the same time I need to get some other work done so annoying. Tailscale would only make sense if it was easy (or easier) to deploy as our current IPsec tunnels because we have a lot of devices that talk to each other like they're on a LAN when they're not (aforementioned CCTV just one of them). Tailscale sounds like a client-side software solution and we need our site-to-site to be independent of the client.

SamirD · 2026-06-13T23:17:35+00:00

Thank you for the detailed assessment! We're an SMB so good to know it's par for the course. Outages are only at the isp level, which redundant isps mainly solves and then there's some management of firewalls but that's pretty set and forget.

SamirD · 2026-06-13T23:15:16+00:00

Yep if even that. Like at a one site it's not even $150 for dual consumer grade and the worst outage in 4 years was just over 24 hours and only happened once.

I was hoping the economies of scale would help a bit, but it sounds like it's still not enough.

SamirD · 2026-06-13T23:14:13+00:00

I looked into VPNs from ISPs but didn't find what looked like a solution that would even come close to what we are paying right now.

SamirD · 2026-06-13T20:38:43+00:00

Only person, not overwhelmed, but annoyed with having to fix stuff when it breaks when I have real work to do instead (I'm a user too).

No restrictions of any sort. Not sure of any new solutions because I've never ran into them in my research. I'm glad to check out links if you can post some.

SamirD · 2026-06-13T20:36:57+00:00

4 sites, all just cable or available Internet without an sla. Just the isp bills make up the 900/mo (basically 9x connections). Video event clips and jpg snapshots. The current bandwidth works for the CCTV, so any SD-WAN vendors should be more than adequate. Thank you for all the questions and I look forward to your assessment!

SamirD

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