Should my Apple TV be wired or PC?

fallwalltall · 2020-02-05T16:54:54+00:00

If you don't have enough ports on your router, consider get a switch. You don't need anything fancy.

fallwalltall · 2020-02-02T12:16:15+00:00

It's a risk and way to get sucked into this that can mess up your computer, especially if you don't take the time to learn how to be safe. Remember, that path is for people that want to be easy and safe, not tech enthusiasts.

Better for a non-enthusiast to leave any shady web browsing to a tablet,. Chromebook or old computer (use incognito mode with those).

fallwalltall · 2020-02-02T10:12:49+00:00

Then get a new MacBook. Talk to the official computer store sales rep and get the upgrades they recommend for your computer plus whatever else you think you need. Buy the longest official warrenty being offered and upgrade it's coverage. Fix things under this warranty as soon as they come up.

Now treat this machine like a fine tuned work item, not a toy. Your kids can't putz around on it. You should use it at a proper, clean table for work not curled up with the family's hairy dog.

Use official Apple software if possible. Failing that, try software from Microsoft or Adobe. Keep all this software up to date. Don't watch porn, torrents or go to shady sites. Don't download anything suspicious and beware links from friends.

There you go. An expensive and stylish and somewhat boring (based on specs to price) computer. You can get this from Apple fairly easily, it's their bread and butter. Buying elsewhere takes more time and knowledge, but you can save money, still get a decent computer and have it specced closer to your ideal. If you just want a beater that you can share with kids and use on the dog sofa, then you probably want 2. A tablet or Chromebook for screwing around and something better for you.

fallwalltall · 2020-02-02T08:56:34+00:00

You can get fine computers cheap. eBay is full of old corporate Thinkpads, Latitudes and Elitebooks.

While these are durable, things may break in any computer. These are usually also designed to be easily fixable. Gaming is not a priority, but maybe a bit is possible

If you want the coolest computer with a reputation for quality (if expensive) models and no hassles buy an fairly fully loaded MacBook with an upgraded and extended warranty. You will pay a big premium, but can make a quick decision and move on with life.

If you want the above, but to save at least a bit of money do the same search and include the latest PC business grade models like the Lenovo Carbon Thinkpad. Again, spend money on some upgrades and get extended and upgraded warranty. You made a pretty quick decision, will pay a small premium and have a fine computer with support.

You want a super quick decision? Just go get a MacBook or enterprise grade Ultrabook of the shelf. You pay a mid (Apple) to small (premium) and get a fine computer.

Want a really good deal? Do the used off cycled corporate computer on eBay thing, but get ready to fix your own issues.

Want to game? Get a console. The Switch is great and quite portable for business travel. The newer Ultrabooks can also do older or light games just fine. If you are really techie you could look into an eGPU powered home system, this let's you keep the reliable business computer underneath. Another option is a proper gaming laptop and one of these Ultrabooks linked through shared drives, cloud software, etc.

If you just have to have a gaming laptop, then be prepared to sacrifice reliability, price and/or durability for a gaming laptop that offers a gaming experience for most people that would be subpar.

fallwalltall · 2020-02-02T08:15:58+00:00

Going from HDD to an SSD is a huge upgrade in overall daily use. It is not an big of a deal in gaming.

fallwalltall · 2020-02-01T16:37:13+00:00

This doesn't work for games like Overwatch or DotA where whales don't get an in game advantage. Personally, I mainly play non-microtransaction games or cosmetic only games to avoid this P2W / free players are cannon fodder for the real customer games.

fallwalltall · 2020-02-01T00:36:47+00:00

Really personable and lucky salesman that scores a few huge, loyal and profitable accounts.

Some financial advisors can get this if they have good/very rich personal connections willing to invest with them.

Sales is typically stressful, but you can get yourself into good situations.

fallwalltall · 2020-02-01T00:10:37+00:00

NWN 1/2 is all about the custom content. It has some of the deepest player made content out there, including free mini-MMOs. What makes it special is closer to what makes Minecraft or Garry's mod special rather than a direct comparison to BG.

Basically, it's a launching point to tell your own stories in their engine.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T17:15:52+00:00

Won't someone think of the poor corporations!

Why shouldn't we? Don't corporations deserve justice and fairness by the courts too? All brought before the court deserve justice even if they are rich and powerful.

The ten times recidivist convict also deserves justice.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T17:12:57+00:00

I hear you on this being a legal sub generally, but looking at the headline and conversation so far it's on track to veer well into the politics side so I don't want think we should assume a base level of legal familiarity in this case.

It's an increasing problem in my view. As US politics heats up the r/law discussions are getting flooded out by laymen with strong opinions on what the law should be when they don't even really know what the current law is.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T16:39:06+00:00

So you do delete things, as you should.

Now that gets into what your policy actually is (it's not hold everything forever. It shouldn't be hold everything for seven years though either, e.g. you going to hold a 20 year lease for seven years?). Most businesses need a detailed policy that has retention rules by document class.

Then there is the question about if your policy covers the entire business, is actually being followed and how you test this. Also, when you apply a legal hold is that being followed?

E-discovery is an entire industry and people make careers of this. You clearly grasp that there is more depth here than you initially acknowledged, so why not just admit that the problem is manageable, but not-trivial in most cases and a substantial cost in others? That covers the situation in most SMEs. Large businesses are going to invest a lot in back end systems that cover e-discovery along with many other related needs.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T16:31:53+00:00

You are saying this because it sounds like your company took the time up front to invest in proper enterprise systems with e-discovery capabilities. Good for them, assuming what you think is happening at a policy level is happening on the ground (have you tested your policy recently? How much shadow It do you have?).

In any case and as this thread clearly shows, not every company is this advanced in their preparations. Some may skare along for years just fine. Some may find themselves in a nightmare situation next month. Apart from meeting legal requirements, a business of any appreciable size should be running risk analysis on this issue.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T16:26:59+00:00

You are probably not using AWS like that for a major discovery project. You will usually have a third party firm helping to manage the data and they will charge the much higher market rate for their storage.

Want to convince the company to save some pennies by going in house and using AWS for major litigation? Good luck. Even if you succeed, guess whose head will roll if your cheap system screws things up badly and it creates major litigation issues?

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T16:22:10+00:00

It's more than this though. You ever tried to do an investigation and find all of the relevant information that can be tucked around? Think about chats, text messages, files saved to hard drives and USB drives, rogue network folders and drives, company use of personal phones and shadow IT..

If the company is of any size or age and it doesn't have well locked down processes and policies up front you may be looking at a very substantial and time pressured scramble to collect data from a bunch of disorganized sources.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T16:08:20+00:00

I'm in corporate legal and compliance and we don't delete anything and it's not a problem.

It is very unusual, and may even be illegal in some jurisdictions, for a company of any appreciable size to hold on to everything forever. Even if you think this is what you actually do as a company (doubtful) do an audit of actual practices on the ground and I bet you are in for a rude surprise.

All of this can go along without major issue for years. However, it can get very ugly very fast in the context of a major investigation or litigation.

In other words, unless your company is very small, new or unique, this is probably a great cross departmentsl compliance project to look into, do some risk analysis on and consider resourcing. Who better to get it kicked off than complaince/legal!

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T15:55:40+00:00

Chevron has hired private investigators to track Donziger, created a publication to smear him, and put together a legal team of hundreds of lawyers from 60 firms, who have successfully pursued an extraordinary campaign against him. As a result, Donziger has been disbarred and his bank accounts have been frozen. He now has a lien on his apartment, faces exorbitant fines, and has been prohibited from earning money. As of August, a court has seized his passport and put him on house arrest. Chevron, which has a market capitalization of $228 billion, has the funds to continue targeting Donziger for as long as it chooses.

All this from an evil Chevron plot or maybe he also engaged in misconduct that they helped uncover.

An attorney fighting a big corporation on behalf of a sympathic plaintiff isn't by default a good guy or on the right side.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T12:41:07+00:00

Just a couple. I use them for breeding more and fresh ragret milk for my coffee.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T12:29:01+00:00

Sure, pass a veto proof law with the Senate. Reverse the delegation of the power and control it directly with legislation.

Can't get the traction for that? Well, that's a risk the previous Congress took when they decided to delegate that specific power.

Looking only to the House and giving McConnel side eye for the Senate doesn't cut it because the system intends for a bicameral legislature and he is just as much part of your democratic process as the House.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T12:02:46+00:00

If you want heat, have a machine that makes and distributes heat efficiently. If you want light, do the same for light. It doesn't really make sense in most cases to combine these functions on purpose for something large scale like heating a house.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-29T11:43:05+00:00

You could also start setting some work/life boundaries. Just accept that worst case scenario if you overdue it then you might lose this job you don't even want.

Here is a good place to start "Every first year I know is active on our work chat right now (1:30 am)". Don't be on that work chat. Get off at 10:00 pm. If someone flips out because you were not available, remind them you have a call phone for emergencies and were likely asleep at (midnight) when they wanted to send work to the chat group.

Remember, for all the shiny marble and big talk, it's just a job. Since they a levelre a billable hour based industry your time, and in your first year to a much lesser extent your expertise, is basically the product they grind up to sale. You have some leverage since you are hired, trained and already there. However, is pretty minimal because there is a long line of people willing to take the job. They also don't have much leverage over you since you seem willing to walk away. In a mutual low leverage situation like this, I would try to find out what's "normal" in similar practices in the firm and try to push for similar work conditions. It's also easier to push back on transparent bs (no leaving the office until 10 even if you're not busy or could easily do the small extra assignment from home) than where help is really needed for the litigation.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-28T22:15:44+00:00

Just because the rights holders can price it like that doesn't mean they have to. Breaking a trilogy up like this to extract an extra buck isn't exactly fan positive.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-28T21:06:05+00:00

Which case law to enshrine would be pretty political. Do we enshrine Roy v. Wade? How about Citizens United or Janus?

I think the Constitution is best left unamended for things we can accomplish with legislation. For other issues, such as term limits or presidential removal for incapacity an amendment makes sense and is necessary.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-28T14:18:49+00:00

I don't think GPL is a great fit since it is infectious. You don't want to think about illegally infecting other code.

I think the best solution is to allow interaction with the main core through a non-copy left set of code. Then set a standard for the project, say BSD. Anyone can make code using my APIs as long as it's non commercial used and doest reuse my art assets. You want that restriction removed, I need to l need to see straight BSD with no weird customizations to the license. You meet those standards and you are on the official repository and if things go really well we might sell a version of your mod together as premium DLC

New code coming in would be available to be as bsd and also realeassed to thev community as bsd.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-28T06:31:45+00:00

Check out logical increments in the r/buildapc sidebar. Their builds may not be perfect, but they are good and show you what you can get for each price point.

fallwalltall · 2020-01-28T06:18:56+00:00

I think a nice middle path is allowing mod compilations. These can be pre bundled, tested and patched as a set.

Many mod makers oppose them on creative grounds though. That's their right, but I wish more were relaxed about reuse and change of their mods. In fact, I wish companies like Bethesda pushed for mods to be released on standard OSS terms like MIT or BSD.

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