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People used to tell me that I reminded them of Sheldon from tbbt as though that was a compliment.

That seems rather shitty. Can I not blame Samsung for making and selling a phone my carrier can push unwanted software on without my consent?

Who makes it so the carrier can do this? Samsung, or Android (Google)?

Not cool, Samsung.

This one doesn’t surprise me. I remember a recording of a guy in India doing a job interview over the phone. He had a friend on a other phone giving him the answers to the test questions. The person giving the interview heard enough in the background to figure this out, and gave the cheater tips on how to be less obvious next time.

My impression is that being an MSP is a turn-key solution. A bigger company sells you the tools, training and support staff so you can cosplay as an IT company. The companies providing the tools, training and staff are making you dependent on them too, as well as making bank referring you to their partner solution providers.

The ISP here does exactly that.

My boss paid for contacts from a lead generation company. Said company provided us with a bunch of names and phone numbers, and said they had called to make sure the clients were interested before providing us the list.

When I called, I would get told off and the prospective clients would tell me they had never heard of us and didn’t get any calls prior. I reported this to my boss. He went back to the leads company with this and they told him “oh, we definitely called these people” and that was good enough for my boss.

Thank God he scrapped that lead generation plan. I don’t know how much he paid the lead generation company, but I’d wager they wrote a web scraper for school and ISP contacts and just sent him that list.

I worked for a company that was also a small ISP. If the internet service for our clients went down we were not allowed to tell them the truth. We either had to blame the upstream provider, or act like we had just heard about it and were looking into it.

I thought the whole point of open source is that if you don’t like what one party is doing, you fork the work and make your own version.

I can’t ignore that Red Hat has also historically made a lot of contributions to Linux.

Here’s my hypothesis so far.

People have to drive. That’s the way cities in North America are made, and I suspect the same applies in a lot of other countries.

There are people that enjoy driving, but when it becomes something you have to do in order to get chores done, it’s understandable if it’s not fun anymore.

These two points above make some kind of case for why I would say most people driving don’t actually want to be driving most of the time.

Now, we also have annoyances while driving. There is a street light I often have to wait at which will give me an eternal red light even when there is no traffic. There are a lot of cyclists here that want to be treated like cars, but don’t want to show the same considerations to cars. Basically, driving can be aggravating, and people may form bad habits in response: such as driving very close to cyclists to pass them without going into oncoming traffic, or racing to beat a red light at all costs.

In conclusion, I think a lot of people don’t really want to be driving, don’t stay mentally engaged while driving, and will act like assholes while driving because they expect other people to do the same to them and the driving experience is frustrating.

I’m frustrated that wired networking equipment faster than one gigabit is still expensive. My employer at the time upgraded to Gigabit equipment in 2016. Since then we have been on Gigabit. It’s sad to me that even today 2.5 Gbps network equipment is uncommon.

Thunderbolt can create a network link between computers. A co-worker and I tried it out and we are excited to test what transfer speeds we can get with it.