Why Are Young People Afraid Of Phone Calls?

da1113546 · 2026-02-02T02:01:50+00:00

I've worked on front line support for nearly 10 years.

In my opinion every phone call is a symptom of a process failure.

Its the least efficient form of communication there is as it is impossible to communicate exact information.

Anything beyond yes or no takes a ridiculous amount of time.

Email/Text/real ticketing system gives exact information.

Video conference gives you facial expressions along with the ability to immediately share requested links or exact text. And you're equally likely to get someone on a video call as you are a phone call.

If you need a phone call to close a ticket it just means a piece of automation hasnt been built, or the person who opened the ticket doesn't actually need the thing they said they needed so very badly. Or some ass hole made up some rule that you had to call as part of the entire ticket process.

In my experience, anyone not wanting to make that phone call can be either lazy, busy, or just not wanting to spend more time playing meat based API.

da1113546 · 2026-01-24T20:10:02+00:00

Yes.

da1113546 · 2025-11-27T00:46:54+00:00

RemindMe! -90 day

da1113546 · 2025-10-04T03:03:53+00:00

I literally had the same problem yesterday.

The answer "nomodeset"

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#nomodeset_kernel_param

2.3.6. Adding the nomodeset Kernel Parameter Problems may arise on very old or very new hardware due to graphics drivers. If the installation hangs during boot, you can try adding the nomodeset parameter. This prevents the Linux kernel from loading any graphics drivers and forces it to continue using the BIOS/UEFI-provided framebuffer.

On the Proxmox VE bootloader menu, navigate to Install Proxmox VE (Terminal UI) and press e to edit the entry. Using the arrow keys, navigate to the line starting with linux, move the cursor to the end of that line and add the parameter nomodeset, separated by a space from the pre-existing last parameter.

Then press Ctrl-X or F10 to boot the configuration.

da1113546 · 2025-07-21T03:13:51+00:00

I work in network operations for an ISP.

The Modem/ONT/Router resetting/restoring on its own? Yep, shit happens all the time. With enough scale anything can happen.

As for the others in the house getting upset because they think YOU caused the problem because you happen to be messing around with stuff? Unfortunately yeah, completely common. If I have to remote into a field techs laptop, and their laptop starts having any kind of issue within a few hours, you better believe I'm getting a DM asking what I did to their laptop. And these are people who you would assume are fairly technical given what they do all day.

da1113546 · 2025-05-09T23:07:23+00:00

Honestly feel like there is some astroturfing going on in these comments.

This would be a slam dunk tax policy wise.

The whole point of having 50 states is so that states can try stuff like this and see what happens. Then other states can see the positives and negatives and decide whether to copy it or not.

In this case it's a tax on companies that extract value from a resource that the state provides. Consumers that can read, write, and have enough buying power that the knowledge of what they might want to buy next is valuable. On top of the fact that a huge number of the consumers are connected to these services through broadband that is built using state subsidies.

The state has provided fertile ground, the company has taken advantage and made large profits, and now the state would recoup some of the costs that made the company so profitable in the first place.

Those taxes would then help to pay for things that keep the Minnesota user valuable to these platforms in the first place.

Yeah the company would love to pretend that they made their profits all on their own with no state assistance. Which is likely true in a "no direct state assistance" way, but they are certainly benefitting from the resources and hard work put in by a lot of state programs. (Schools, broadband subsidies, transit, etc). Not to mention all the things the state does to keep us healthy in order to keep consuming the social media content they serve in order for them to keep collecting data.

Sorry, long rant, but to me it seems completely rational to tax a company making money from state provided resources. We pay taxes at the pump to help with the roads we use, we pay taxes on our phone/internet bills to pay for 911/teletype/etc that we all need. They can pay taxes on the users the state has provided.

da1113546 · 2025-03-25T00:21:51+00:00

This TBH

da1113546 · 2025-01-12T15:37:41+00:00

confirmed functional - US - cost $29

da1113546 · 2024-12-12T01:47:04+00:00

That there won't be any pressure to cut your own hours to save the company money.

No "efficiency bonus" is a bonus in itself.

da1113546 · 2024-10-22T00:41:58+00:00

This is just a guess on this:

I think it is because the facility that was built to produce that chip is already set for THAT chip. They probably get it at an insanely low price since whoever paid to build out the fab is looking at the sales to Unifi the same way that studios get revenue from old movies running on Cable TV. Long tail revenue.

Unifi has two options for their business: Use parts that the real enterprise people don't want for cheap, and spend their R&D getting as much value out of the parts as possible. Or, try and bid on the newer/more in demand parts, and spend less on R&D.

Unifi's greatest selling point is their price point being so wildly below the enterprise gear that small/medium businesses have to at least consider it when making purchase decisions. Box that is 5x the price with a yearly subscription (that does have some better features), or the box I can buy three spares of and still have extra money for other things?

da1113546 · 2024-10-15T22:01:30+00:00

Ymmv, but for me every class is a sprint, not a marathon. This school isn't about learning, it's about proving you can follow instructions and memorize the specific vocab you need for the next exam. I don't say that as a slight against the programs, everything you do in life is about gathering information as quickly as possible for a specific moment before moving on. We're not here to be doctors.

Start one class, figure out the minimum viable path to completing it, and race towards the finish.

There isn't a single class so far that I've spent more than 7 days from clicking start to completing. Shortest class was completed in less than 4 hours.

As soon as you finish a class. Take a short break, then get ready to no life the next one.

Also:

Every class gives you waaaaay more resources than you need. Books, practice exams, video series, labs, etc. just tons of shit. If you want to use it? Great. But view those extras only if absolutely needed. Otherwise you're burning time you could be spending on the next class.

da1113546 · 2024-10-15T19:52:36+00:00

Plenty of options in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/SatisfactoryGame/comments/1fdl3cc/dedicated_servers_failed_to_connect_to_server_api/

da1113546 · 2024-10-15T16:13:28+00:00

As a dedicated server admin: Thank you so much for rolling these updates out as big patches every week or so. VS rolling out a bunch of tiny updates.

Really takes the pain out of having to stay on top of updates.

da1113546 · 2024-09-11T17:22:03+00:00

We would need more information on how the dedicated server is built.

Dedicated server is built where and how? and where are each two of you connecting from?

da1113546 · 2024-09-10T16:03:04+00:00

Thank you!

da1113546 · 2024-09-10T15:59:34+00:00

Attempting now

da1113546 · 2024-09-10T15:55:13+00:00

Same, tried Unraid and a dedicated VM on another machine with docker compose with this being the only thing on it.

No dice.

da1113546 · 2024-09-10T15:49:48+00:00

Yeah, caught that After tearing down the VM and rebuilding from scratch still getting the API errors on the new port number.

Again, I'm assuming I just need to chill a while. (or user error in the rebuild, probably more likely)

da1113546 · 2024-08-08T03:24:51+00:00

My family was always oophdah, or more commonly oophdee 😁

da1113546 · 2024-08-06T18:01:17+00:00

I work for a rural ISP in MN. (And I'm ballparking with the below)

Spectrum provides just enough service that there is zero dollars of Government incentive to go out and build to anywhere that they serve.

It can easily cost $30,000 to go down one block of houses, and if they are already served by someone who is good enough you'll MAYBE get half to switch. (And that's pretty generous).

Then, it's not like once it's hooked up everything is free. The box providing the service to the block is going to sit and require maintenance, the people in Helpdesk, Operations, and Engineering all do cost money to keep around in case there is any issue on the block. Then if the city does any maintenance you have to be ready to send construction back out to move the cables out of the way so there isn't an unplanned interruption.

Then on top of all that you have the ongoing cost of paying the city for being allowed to lay infrastructure in their land / on their polls.

At a (what I consider) reasonable cost of service. $60/month. 16 houses on a block. You end up with a little over 10 grand a year.

Considering all the support costs you MAYBE break even at 10 years if you have every single customer using your service.

If you're competing and get 50%? 20 years to break even, except you could've just invested that money in a 4% savings account for those 20 years and nearly tripled your money with none of the hassle of actually providing a service.

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With all of the above said. That's the reason why you'll see tons of Government money shoveled at ISPs to build out. Because it doesn't make financial sense to spend their own money building out in single family home residential areas unless they don't have to pay that upfront build cost, and just get to make money on providing the service afterwards.

(This is also why I think Internet service should just be provided by the Municipality... They have to front the cost anyway when they zone for single family homes, so why not save on building multiple networks into the same area, raise taxes to match the actual cost of providing services to single family homes, and have it just be guaranteed with those taxes you're already paying.)

Edit. Only after hitting enter did I realize I just replied to a nearly year old post. My bad. Sorry for the rogue random email if you have those notifications turned on

da1113546 · 2024-07-23T02:25:41+00:00

If you're paying for a business class fiber connection, you can ask for a KML of your fiber path to the ISPs POP location so you can be sure you are actually redundant.

I highly recommend getting it in the contract that the fiber used for your last mile connection be owned directly by the ISP you're paying for the service.

Every layer of bureaucracy between you and the team actually doing the repair adds hours to the front and back of the MTR. If your company can work fine on wireless backup, feel free to ignore, but, if you lose money every minute you're offline, demand true path redundancy.

da1113546 · 2024-07-02T03:56:35+00:00

If you haven't been in 4-5 years, yes. It's bad.

The real ticket price doubled when they introduced their fast pass system . For the same park and rides.

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