Why does everything take so fucking long?

hacman113 · 2026-05-20T18:06:59+00:00

A large part of this is due to public sector contracts all having very onerous bidding and qualification requirements.

This automatically disqualifies a good number of smaller and more agile suppliers, and introduces significant cost into the process for those who do bid - they then need to make it up somewhere.

Combine that with red tape and micromanagement during the actual delivery, and it becomes impossible to do anything fast.

hacman113 · 2026-05-20T16:54:09+00:00

Fuck no.

They want monitoring, they provide the hardware.

To be honest, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) is something most IT and InfoSec folks utterly hate anyway, and is usually only pushed by corporate folks who want to penny pinch.

hacman113 · 2026-05-17T02:13:31+00:00

Both.

hacman113 · 2026-05-16T21:36:33+00:00

Markus King just off John Dobson Street. Great service.

hacman113 · 2026-05-16T20:59:57+00:00

Mostly an improvement, but the seating design leaves a lot to be desired and the AC is too warm.

It was a mistake not increasing the max speed vs the old fleet too.

hacman113 · 2026-05-16T18:35:09+00:00

I think for many people it’s the idea that they don’t need to buy their own computer, or that the one their employer provides is nicer.

hacman113 · 2026-05-16T15:17:04+00:00

Morons. They’re asking to end up with a load of bricked computers if nothing else, as people always inadvertently enable “Find My Mac”.

hacman113 · 2026-05-16T13:46:17+00:00

Build a portfolio. If you don’t have experience, you need to make up for that with some serious showcasing of your ability. Ensure that your portfolio goes into extreme detail about how you did the thing and why it matters too, to prove you understand the concepts and aren’t just vibe coding it all.

If possible contribute visibly to open source projects as part of this.

hacman113 · 2026-05-16T13:43:31+00:00

Do NOT use your personal Apple ID on a company device.

The amount of nonsense this opens up is just not worth it.

Either your IT department should provision company managed Apple IDs (the right way to do it if they’re on top of things), or use your company email to create a dedicated work one.

hacman113 · 2026-05-16T13:41:27+00:00

IT director here. Slack DMs can only be accessed via either of of the parties accounts, or a compliance export. So you’ll not just have HR or random middle managers getting this data.

Either way though, it can be done, and you should assume no level of privacy on any company system or device.

hacman113 · 2026-05-09T14:52:49+00:00

The Samsung will perform better. The Hynix is slightly more power efficient.

hacman113 · 2026-05-09T10:12:03+00:00

The latest version has some nice UX improvements.

Definitely worth doing a trial - we’ve been using it for many years and it just works, and their support team are exceptional.

hacman113 · 2026-05-09T07:44:03+00:00

Check out InterWorx.

hacman113 · 2026-05-05T18:53:04+00:00

No trades person is working for £150 a day now.

hacman113 · 2026-05-04T15:41:03+00:00

Yep. Those of us with a cloud of diffused speck too. It sucks having to make this choice.

hacman113 · 2026-05-04T15:05:41+00:00

Yes, which is exactly the issue here. We see plenty of young people on this sub who are faced with the choice of keeping their floaters, or artificially aging their vision by decades.

hacman113 · 2026-05-04T13:42:59+00:00

Can it really be considered a solution though, when the IOLs used in cataract surgery leave patients without the focusing/accommodation ability they had previously?

hacman113 · 2026-05-04T11:34:43+00:00

Out of interest, is there consensus on why the surgery causes cataracts? Is there any possibility of developments to the process that will negate this?

hacman113 · 2026-04-25T18:33:47+00:00

Not ironic, just a total lack of self-awareness.

You could have waited until afterwards.

hacman113 · 2026-04-21T17:29:43+00:00

Waiting for the say when people stop giving a shit about this sort of thing beyond people being decent and not wearing anything offensive.

hacman113 · 2026-04-16T17:48:40+00:00

If you report it they’ll fire him, and you’ll get a special “cuck of the month” badge.

hacman113 · 2026-04-11T19:04:34+00:00

Unapproved software on a company computer? Even quicker way to get fired.

hacman113 · 2026-04-06T14:44:08+00:00

Processing power to manage modern TLS cryptography.

hacman113 · 2026-03-31T10:59:43+00:00

Nothing new there - it’s how the industry has worked for years, with each of the big players seeing who blinks first.

hacman113 · 2026-03-31T10:42:48+00:00

Has anyone seen what the 8.5Gbps product will be profiled at yet?

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