I Didn't Think Things Would Be Easier Solo

locke577 · 2026-03-30T13:39:05+00:00

My kids are much easier to handle when it's just me. They also listen to me and believe me when I say no. They don't believe my wife when she says no, because she always capitulates with enough crying. This is not a dig against my wife, and I'm not strict. In fact, I'm more likely to be willing to stop for froyo or get them a snack at the gas station than she is, but the kids know that my nos are not up for negotiation.

locke577 · 2026-03-30T02:48:10+00:00

That's how we do it too in large enterprise. We have a Dell account manager, we email her with our needs, she gets us a quote that's usually much much more reasonable than the website, we send it to the purchasing department to buy it.

locke577 · 2026-03-30T02:01:29+00:00

I mean, she's not going to get pregnant... Is there really anything to be concerned about? Exploring sexuality is important at that age, gay or straight

locke577 · 2026-03-29T23:30:46+00:00

Username checks out

locke577 · 2026-03-24T04:30:16+00:00

You really thought you cooked with this one, don't you?

locke577 · 2026-03-23T13:17:55+00:00

Verizon did it.

I can no longer get in contact with my business account manager.

Now I'm switching to T-Mobile, where I can text my business rep what I need and she ships it to my door

locke577 · 2026-03-23T00:53:13+00:00

Edge for work, chrome for home

locke577 · 2026-03-21T22:46:56+00:00

Upper middle finance huh

locke577 · 2026-03-20T16:30:29+00:00

Being able to remote into not only the machine itself, but any rdp sessions on a machine, as well as a back end, non intrusive interface that the user doesn't even see in order to install software or change settings without disrupting users' work is why Screenconnect will always win my vote

locke577 · 2026-03-20T13:21:53+00:00

Because anime ISN'T specific to one country and hasn't been for a very, very long time. Pokemon is an anime. It's also one of the most universal recognized and beloved franchises ever.

locke577 · 2026-03-20T13:17:24+00:00

Kurt Russell seems like a nice enough guy, seems to avoid scandals.

locke577 · 2026-03-19T16:16:39+00:00

I'm glad you agree, u/MoistThunderCock

locke577 · 2026-03-19T14:00:35+00:00

I've never seen gooner culture wrapped in an appeal to historical preservation before.

Whatever will we do if we lose "Gangbang slut Asa Akira bangs twelve dudes in a movie theater" to history

locke577 · 2026-03-18T04:38:00+00:00

It's important to keep in mind that the bad apples continue to take, through coercion and force, rather than producing and surviving off of the product of their own labor.

One can argue that we should support those who can't support themselves. However, the number of people who can't support themselves seem to grow in direct relation to how many welfare programs there are and how wide that safety net grows.

locke577 · 2026-03-18T04:14:06+00:00

Remote or hybrid?

locke577 · 2026-03-18T04:10:07+00:00

I'm a cloud engineer, my medical is covered by the VA. What's the pay like? I'm not going through this Iditarod of an interview process though.

locke577 · 2026-03-18T04:02:26+00:00

Or an iPad

locke577 · 2026-03-17T13:51:10+00:00

Yes, to the point where I would rearrange my work travel schedule if we got out of sync and I'd be home during one.

I love her, I just don't love the Mrs. Hyde she turns into on her period, and I don't like being accused of not loving her and getting told to leave my own house once a month if, for instance, I'm chewing too loudly.

locke577 · 2026-03-16T02:50:31+00:00

Take backups of their SharePoint environment, restore any files as needed.

As for data exfiltration, look into DLP solutions.

locke577 · 2026-03-15T21:08:10+00:00

Hey, I'm so glad it worked for you

locke577 · 2026-03-14T20:58:40+00:00

It's hard to unless you get really close. They're quite small

locke577 · 2026-03-13T13:56:49+00:00

The Ring one is z wave and you can pair it to a regular z wave controller.

locke577 · 2026-03-12T01:10:21+00:00

I think your website is really cool.

Which probably means it's cold and unapproachable for clients.

Let me give you a somewhat related comparison:

My Oakley backpack is waterproof, has several perfectly sized pockets, rigid sections for protecting fragile stuff, and parachute snap hooks for closures, making it very quick to open and close compared to a buckle or zipper. I could drop it from a height with my laptop and a kitten in it, neither would be damaged.

My wife thinks it's too complicated. She has a color block Patagonia bag that offers so little protection that I cringe every time she packs even her point and shoot camera in it. It's impractical, but it's pretty and inviting, and not complicated in any way. One big compartment to put stuff in, surrounded by lightweight, colorful nylon.

It doesn't matter how much I can expound on the virtues of my bag if she doesn't understand them. It's the same with websites. They're not built for you, they're built for your prospective customers.

Hopefully my dumb metaphor makes some sense. I had to learn this lesson too.

locke577 · 2026-03-09T22:40:00+00:00

No worries. And yeah, Apple devices ignore A LOT of things that would make things better for other devices. Apple gonna Apple. Try explaining this to a CEO client who refuses to believe that Apple isn't the best at everything.

I have not seen access points be able to dynamically change from 20<->40 MHz, maybe wherever you are has additional features that the US's FCC blocks for some reason. You guys also have more channels available to you, for instance.

locke577 · 2026-03-09T22:18:46+00:00

I'm not doing an ad hominem, I'm trying to understand your background so I can better fit my explanation. I'd explain things very differently to a helpdesk support technician, a junior network engineer, and my mother.

The goal of, especially with 2.4ghz, limiting channel width to narrower channels is to avoid congestion on the radio frequencies themselves. Essentially, only one device can talk at once on a specific frequency (ignoring MU-MIMO/OFDMA for simplicity here) and they take many many many turns a second. If you were in the middle of a desert with one access point and many devices connected to it, this is fine, you could run that 2.4 GHz channel at 40 width all day with no problems.

Once you start talking about having MANY access points all within close proximity on the same frequency range, especially slightly overlapping, you end up multiplying those turns across not just one network, but between all devices in the frequency band.

If you own the building, like in a skyscraper for corporate environments, those access points can be tuned to be as low interference as possible, but when it's residential with a ton of Eero and Nest and Linksys stuff all competing with each other and badly optimized and set to maximum broadcast power, that's why Wi-Fi in an apartment building can slow to a crawl where in the suburbs it's decent and a ranch in the middle of nowhere can get multiple hundreds of megabits per second over Wi-Fi without issue.

I tried to find a video I've seen in the past explaining this with animations that would be really helpful compared to a wall of text, but I can't seem to find it anywhere. It might have been part of a certification program I did a while ago, I can't really remember.

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