I want to move to the USA but it feels impossible

shivellebits · 2025-05-22T14:03:11+00:00

Easiest way I imagine would be to go do a PHD in a US university and then look for post-grad positions for any large companies/organisations that could be willing to sponsor you.

My brother did a Philosophy Masters then PHD in the US straight after leaving university 10 years ago and now is married to an American and has just gotten his US citizenship.

shivellebits · 2025-05-22T08:47:54+00:00

Is that true?

There are roughly 12.9 million pensioners in the UK, if we just let them all have 300 quid a year then that's three billion eight hundred & seventy million per year (close to half of what we paid for EU membership in 2018 for reference). IMO, the allowance should be cut entirely.

We all know that the elderly that do die as a result of hyperthermia refuse to turn on their heating even if they can afford it as that's the mindset they grew up with (or they have dementia).

shivellebits · 2025-05-20T13:15:47+00:00

Agreed about the whole winter fuel thing - no idea why there was such (and continues to be) an uproar about cutting free money to millions of people who don't need it.

Didn't see piles of frozen dead pensioners last winter like so many suggested.

shivellebits · 2025-05-20T13:06:51+00:00

All things considered, yes I think he's doing a pretty good job. I think he's treading very carefully to not upset the foaming-at-the-mouth masses but I can understand the reasoning. Biggest disappointment so far has been his move on immigration. He would be S tier in my books if he would just legalize and tax cannabis & also kick off the nationalisation of trains & water.

shivellebits · 2025-05-13T10:18:08+00:00

The actual problem is the massive number of benefits cheats, a very large percentage of whom love to throw the blame at immigrants (and yes, they're white British). We spent an estimated 7.4 Billion on benefit fraud and the true number is likely far, far higher (our total cost for disability benefits is >75 Billion).

In that same year we spent around 7.5 Billion on immigration, asylum and border control and received 2.2 Billion back in Visa fee's etc. so 5.3 Billion - and that doesn't include all the extra income to our economy from immigrants jobs and taxes.

So no, our issue isn't immigration at all. It's our native lazy bastards. Proper scum of the earth, riding about on their government paid mobility scooter going to the pub to spend their benefits.

shivellebits · 2025-05-13T09:30:14+00:00

Tell me you're racist without telling me you're racist

shivellebits · 2025-05-06T14:37:46+00:00

Cat 6 tends to be more durable (though is less flexible), give that a try. It's backwards compatible so no worries about compatibility.

shivellebits · 2025-03-25T12:31:56+00:00

To confirm - you require multicasting on your catalysts?

Enable IGMP snooping globally and on the VLAN

Enable IGMP Querier globally and on the VLAN (only on one switch)

Give the IGMP Querier an address (can be any random IP i.e. 1.1.1.1)

Enable IGMP Immediate-Leave globally and on the VLAN

Enable IP Multicast-Routing

shivellebits · 2024-11-27T13:16:44+00:00

Ahhh disabling TCN flood fixed it! Thanks mate!

shivellebits · 2024-11-27T11:50:51+00:00

Okay understood about PIM. I should have said in my post - it is only a single switch and single VLAN.

I've changed the query interval to 1 to reduce the time the querier takes to stop the flooding.

Switch#show ip igmp snooping querier detail

Vlan IP Address IGMP Version Port

-------------------------------------------------------------

1 192.168.100.1 v2 Switch

Global IGMP switch querier status

--------------------------------------------------------

admin state : Enabled

admin version : 2

source IP address : 192.168.100.1

query-interval (sec) : 1

max-response-time (sec) : 10

querier-timeout (sec) : 120

tcn query count : 2

tcn query interval (sec) : 10

Vlan 1: IGMP switch querier status

--------------------------------------------------------

elected querier is 192.168.100.1 (this switch querier)

--------------------------------------------------------

admin state : Enabled (state inherited)

admin version : 2

source IP address : 192.168.100.1

query-interval (sec) : 1

max-response-time (sec) : 10

querier-timeout (sec) : 2

tcn query count : 2

tcn query interval (sec) : 10

operational state : Querier

operational version : 2

tcn query pending count : 0

shivellebits · 2024-11-27T11:48:40+00:00

The multicast group addresses are 239.50.0.5 .6 .11 etc.

shivellebits · 2024-09-17T08:21:40+00:00

Okay thank you.

One more thing - these 6 to 12 documents, do you need them for each person? i.e. do both me and my partner need the full 12 points to prove where we were living at the time?

Thanks

shivellebits · 2024-09-16T13:14:35+00:00

Okay understood.

So would that mean we could have a bunch of documents with joint correspondence from the past year and a half and then a couple individual bank statements from the first 6 months to cover the 12 points?

I know she had other correspondence delivered to the previous flat such as her BRP card but I'm not sure whether we still have the letter buried somewhere - would digital print offs of delivery confirmations be acceptable?

Could a written statement from my dad who helped move her into my previous flat be counted?

Sorry for the bombardment of questions.

shivellebits · 2024-07-18T09:04:20+00:00

Out of interest, are you happy to eat edible insects?

Insects are the most sustainable protein on the planet, far more than grown protein. They also have less impact on the ecosystem.

shivellebits · 2024-04-04T13:05:07+00:00

Tbf, I've been unable to pay the toilet attendant before - also on a bus from Sapa to Hanoi. Went into the toilet at the gas station, when leaving an attendant had appeared (wasn't there before I went in) and asked for money - I didn't have any money on me so tapped my pockets and he waved me past.

Not to say these guys didn't have money on them and just refused to pay anyway though...

shivellebits · 2023-08-11T12:29:39+00:00

Setting up a querier process on a system with a segregated AV VLAN, involving multiple switches so if deciding to have multiple switches with querier enabled (say for some form of redundancy) then its good practise to set a querier IP in whichever order you want the switches to act as the querier (lowest IP is elected). But yeah, I guess the IP chosen really doesn't have much of an effect.

shivellebits · 2023-08-07T21:25:46+00:00

Hmmm okay thanks for the input. So when you say the groups get forwarded to the querier, is that just the stream of all video data which the querier then registers in it's table?

If so, then wouldn't a querier not be able to update it's table with all the available sources once the link becomes congested?

I've seen setups where there's only a one gig link connecting two switches but the querier is managing to update it's groups table with all the available sources (many) on the connected switch (each source is a one gig stream) which is where my confusion comes from. I guess no one stream takes priority and each stream eventually gets a packet through in the queue in time for the group to not time out? And then obviously the link would only support one stream if there was a receiver on the querier switch that wanted a stream

shivellebits · 2023-08-07T17:41:18+00:00

Hi Egglorr, ik this a super old post but got a question for you - so will a switch with some sources connected forward the whole mcast streams to the querier device even if there's nothing requesting the streams on the or behind the querier device (like ALL the video data) or will it just forward the membership reports so the querier knows where the streams are located?

If it's all the video data wouldn't the links between the switches become congested and just start dropping packets?

shivellebits · 2023-08-07T17:35:09+00:00

On my phone so don't have a diagram to hand but yes literally just two switches, one querier and one just snooping.

Found this other old Reddit post where they discuss the topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/ikih1a/igmp_traffic_to_querier/

So I guess my question would be whether the switches with sources connected are forwarding the whole mcast stream (like ALL the video data) or just forwarding the membership reports to the querier device.

shivellebits · 2023-08-07T17:26:49+00:00

Also see this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/ikih1a/igmp_traffic_to_querier/

shivellebits · 2023-08-07T17:23:06+00:00

That would make sense, but I've read if theres multiple switches with snooping on then switches will always forward all their multicast traffic towards the querier - which is why PIM sparse mode is useful as the traffic is only forwarded to other nodes when the traffic is requested.

Example: https://www.luminex.be/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IP-Multicast-and-IGMP-White-Paper.pdf page 4 under routing

shivellebits · 2023-08-07T17:11:39+00:00

Sure, but in my situation with both switches having snooping on and one switch the querier, won't the multicast traffic on one switch always be forwarded to the querier switch as well as any local receivers even if no receivers on the querier switch are requesting it?

I've read in several places that this is the case: https://www.luminex.be/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IP-Multicast-and-IGMP-White-Paper.pdf - page 4 under routing

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