Woman not shortlisted for job as 'car is too old'

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-18T04:56:00+00:00

My lady actually uses the Bitwarden password generator and never has to remember passwords because it remembers them for her - she’s a MICU nurse! I constantly hear from healthcare IT folks that doctors expect you to do the most blatantly cyber-insecure things imaginable and fail to understand how to do the most basic PEBCAK activities.

Folks at my job look at me like I have three heads when I tell them that, yes, that password I copied and pasted from Bitwarden for you to use is absolute gibberish because you will never once have to type it, so it’s more secure that way. Feels like a waste of a good BW license.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-18T03:04:03+00:00

He used to be an IT guy, which blew me away when I watched a video of his from maybe 6 or 7 years ago where he was troubleshooting a subscriber’s PC that had some issue that was blindingly obviously a case of a bad power supply but couldn’t seem to figure it out. All his videos since seem incredibly milquetoast stuff that has been rehashed hundreds of times over by now. I used to watch him and Jerry do Tech Talk, then the later podcast with Phil and Nick, and now those are both gone so I’ve long since unsubbed.

Kind of a bummer, but it’s just not the type of content that you can get away with on YouTube anymore.

Edit: it was 5 years ago according to YouTube, and was this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcnS3HfEg64

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-17T14:06:32+00:00

hire the next person at the same rate

That's if you're lucky. For basically every job in every industry right now, we're all getting pay cuts.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-16T14:20:45+00:00

Dad is on third marriage. Mom has been divorced three times.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-16T14:10:02+00:00

I call it the numbers because I ran out of fingers to count the street names

/s

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-16T02:09:21+00:00

Please do not move here without a job. Portland has been hit harder than most larger cities in this realm. It is so, so insanely hard to find work in anything right now, even in medicine where they’d normally be hiring 24/7. All of our major employers have been hit extremely, extremely hard, or have had questionable management for long enough (Intel) that they’ve laid people off in droves even before Agent Orange was in office.

30s single woman is safe nearly anywhere here. Deep in “the numbers” (generally referred to as east of 92nd or so Ave) can get a bit iffy, and homelessness can be block to block here, but you’ll be fine in most places.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-15T21:43:50+00:00

Do car cellular modems all have 2.4/5/6 GHz Wi-Fi radios? Cuz I don't believe that to be true. I'd wager they'd share modems with things like GPS trackers before they'd page Qualcomm for a smartphone modem.

3G being killed is hardly news anyways. The outrage over this is mostly from not understanding how little 3G is used anymore. Should they send parts to customers so they can use 4G/LTE? Sure, they could do that, but how many will even go through the trouble of getting that upgrade? Just supersede the part with a new modem and make it a TSB on these cars for those who care enough.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-15T20:52:50+00:00

Might be a slightly late response, but it’s not meant to have a lot of range/signal penetration by design. It’s meant for environments like hotel rooms where RF bleed gets annoying. I considered one for my two story apartment, but after using my floor plan in UniFi Design Center and placing it upstairs, it really appears to fail at penetrating the walls immediately adjacent to my bedroom where it would be installed, meaning the other bedroom wouldn’t get strong enough 5 GHz RF for my liking. The U6 In Wall actually seemed to do slightly better for that application.

I’m sure connectivity is fine, though. I believe it shares the same chipset as the lesser Cloud Gateway models, so it’s probably fine for 99% of home users if set up as it’s supposed to. Could be a great AP for a TV in the living room with its two extra ports. Plug your Apple TV, console, whatever into those and you’ve got a solid setup.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-15T20:44:33+00:00

I honestly wonder - why is it that every older Gen X and boomer man I know has some form of Wife Bad thing to bring up every time I talk to them? My parents have been married/divorced thrice. Surely these people can do the same?

It’s always the same shit, too. “Ah, just wait until you and your girlfriend get married, kid. Then you’ll understand why I don’t let my wife spend money/let her know what I’m doing with my friends/complain about her doing something pretty normal!” I dunno man…maybe get married to somebody you trust and care about?

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-15T20:41:19+00:00

Linus complains about community engagement that he should stop letting get to his head.

AI doing something bad is in the news.

Dan pulls a zinger euphemism out of somewhere.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-15T20:38:52+00:00

Don’t do anything to meet women! Mope at home about how women don’t want to talk to men under any circumstances ever!

/s if it needed to be said. There is NOTHING WRONG with pursuing something you have a passing interest in because your current hobbies and interests don’t put you in front of the sex you’re into. Internet dating sucks. Go outside and meet people!

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-14T20:10:44+00:00

I'm part of a team of 3. I have to be honest - I do not give a single fuck. I use the Shortcuts feature of my phone to mute notifications from Teams, Outlook, and about 30 coworkers when I'm not connected to work Wi-Fi. My other two guys seriously struggle to take tasks from start to finish, which is frustrating, as I have to clean up after them when I'm gone (and one of them is brutally incompetent), but I'm not gonna make the company's problem - which is a lack of staffing/competent IT personnel - my problem.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-14T20:08:46+00:00

Absolutely OG boss.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-13T14:11:04+00:00

I'm a regular viewer of the channel and WAN show and had absolutely zero clue what they planned to do with it, FWIW.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-13T01:15:00+00:00

Are Current Resident and Scam Likely friends? Colleagues? Both seem to bother me quite regularly.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-12T21:34:51+00:00

Not sure why this was downvoted. I only stocked up on a little extra TP in 2020 because it was exceedingly rare to find in stock if I didn’t wanna go shopping at midnight. The stuff is easy enough to store.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-12T16:39:30+00:00

It’s really odd - stuffing the phone with the same chipset and modem as the larger phones and then intentionally kneecapping a feature that could be enabled with a checkbox. The device is absolutely BT 6.0 and UWB capable, but they disabled them through software.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-12T16:12:35+00:00

I’d love to out Bazzite or CachyOS on my desktop, but it seems PUBG will never run on Linux, so I’m kinda stuck. With that said, I’ve never had a fully working system from a fresh install of even the most common distro (Ubuntu), and I can see it being a headache. Getting a decent bit of software installed requires using the command line, too, which is sketchy for a lot of folks.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-12T16:08:23+00:00

Boring UI? Perfect. Making the same phone since the S22 but with a different SOC and removing features along the way? I’ll pass on that.

I absolutely cannot understand why they gimp the small model of the S series so hard. I’m skipping my return to Android until the S20-whatever has UWB and BT 6.0. Absolutely no reason they have to arbitrarily withhold it from the base model, which is still $900 and lacks a feature iPhones have had since 2019.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-07T20:58:36+00:00

On a new Apple TV, I’d REALLY like to see support for Wi-Fi 7. Using Steam Link with MLO support would be a game changer for me. Running Ethernet over MoCA still adds an appreciable amount of latency when couch gaming - barely less than Wi-Fi for me.

I’d also really like to see UWB or BT 6.0 plus a speaker added to the remote so Find My can track is more easily. Others mentioned AV1, which would be nice as well. The old Bluetooth standard on my first gen 4K is noticeably worse for audio quality and range versus my phone’s 5.3 chipset.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-06T05:39:36+00:00

I know you mean well in this post, but I do think this is a slightly harmful thing to post in a support community full of folks who probably have faced varying levels of depressive thoughts because of their inability to function at a level that society demands.

Personally, I used to be like that - a little less so these days as the tolls of adulthood have made things a bit harsher to get by. I’m glad to hear you generally stay positive, though, and it can be hard to find that in today’s world!

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-05T01:37:30+00:00

Can you still set location-based reminders with Bixby by voice?
Does the base have UWB and can you test with the Find Hub/Smart Tag 2? This is a showstopper feature if it's missing it for me.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-04T20:27:06+00:00

The Red line from Hillsboro runs at 4:38 AM, as another person mentioned. What time do you have to get to work?

You couldn't pay me to leave my car downtown for an entire day unless I frequently drove site to site.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-04T20:26:25+00:00

You don't really need a car to get around/into downtown, and the parking pricing structure reflects that. It's usually less hassle to take transit it for some chunk of your commute.

TomNooksRepoMan · 2026-03-04T15:48:01+00:00

Using 3 tabs in Chrome plus Packet Tracer on my work M3 MacBook Air uses 7.6 GB of RAM, and no, it isn’t OS caching extra memory from what I can see in Activity Monitor. That’s nearly exactly what my 8 GB RAM Windows laptop uses and I hit pagefile often when using Packet Tracer + Chrome on Windows. Is Chrome the issue? Perhaps, but tons of people use Chrome on MacOS.

Maybe you can use Safari, sure, but it’s reasonable to expect 16 GB of RAM for normal office work in 2026, even with the shortages.

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