What Are You Doing Right Now
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Got into work today, still loads of water about but just drive carefully and its fine.
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Keep hearing about the "Threat" Huawei is, but where is the evidence? See a lot of articles and posts but no proof.
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@hobbit666 There is no proof because if there was you would hear about it nonstop. Even if they are caught doing something , to me, its no worse than what Samsung, apple, and Microsoft, and Google already do. I'll go ahead and say I'm partial to them just so you know. The reason why is that I used Apple and Samsung devices for years but nothing ever last a year hardly without being dropped or anything. I think I had one Samsung last a year and 2 months for the longest. After that they just quit working right or not at all. Maybe I've had bad luck or an anomaly, I don't know. All I know is that my 2 Huawei phones have been the best devices I ever used. I have a Mate 9 and 10 and never a single issue with either. The mate 9 is my work phone and I use all day every day. I can't tell a speed difference and it came with 64 gb storage so still have plenty of room 3 years later. Even after dropping and partly cracking the screen I cant tell a difference in how it works. My Mate 10 has a similar story except it hasnt been dropped and has 128 gb storage.
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Doing updates today, building by building. Using powershell to do it.
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@jmoore Yeah i love all my Huawei phones, i have a P20 Pro and the kids have the Lite.
I've always been a fan and don't think i'll change (unless they stop selling phones
).As you said imo if they are doing something everyone else most probably doing the same
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@jmoore I had horrible luck with Android until my Nexus 6P, that was pretty decent, When it was about 1 year old, I received my first iPhone (iphone 6), which I used until given an iphone 7, which I paid for a replacement with an iphone 11 in January.
I've had really good luck with all apple phones. My wife has been rather happy with her Samsung phones since the S6. I don't know which one she has now.
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@hobbit666 Yeah I just got their smartwatch too. Its the GT. I love it. Just a small computer on your wrist. I was hesitant for a long time but finally I thought what the heck and tried it. I really like this thing. It has like 10 different watch faces you can choose from with different information on them so you can choose what you care about. It has a lot of built in software I havent even explored all of it. The other night I was cooking rice and needed a timer so remembered it had one and when I opened it it had presets for 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 min. I chose one and off I went. Dont have to listen for the timer anymore because it just vibrates on my wrist now. I guess what I'm saying is everything they just seems well thought out.
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@Dashrender Yeah I might have just had bad luck, I can't deny that. The only phone I ever dropped was my Huawei and it still works perfectly so I was just impressed by that.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Keep hearing about the "Threat" Huawei is, but where is the evidence? See a lot of articles and posts but no proof.
I'm more concerned about what Facebook, Google etc are tracking and "listening" to.There is no evidence because there is no proof. It's 100% political. It's absolutely ridiculous. And it's completely for the Americans, no other country even has an interest in this farce, but the actual threat, the US, is threatening everyone.
The suspicion here is that Huawei is refusing to spy for the US gov't and the US is trying to hurt them to pressure all the other suppliers to do exactly the thing that they are accusing Huawei of doing. It's Huawei's security that we believe is likely to actually be what they are threatened by. They've failed to get Five Eyes backdoors into Huawei products, so their goal now is to keep them off of the market so that more easily hacked or already hacked gear is the only option.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 There is no proof because if there was you would hear about it nonstop. Even if they are caught doing something , to me, its no worse than what Samsung, apple, and Microsoft, and Google already do. I'll go ahead and say I'm partial to them just so you know. The reason why is that I used Apple and Samsung devices for years but nothing ever last a year hardly without being dropped or anything. I think I had one Samsung last a year and 2 months for the longest. After that they just quit working right or not at all. Maybe I've had bad luck or an anomaly, I don't know. All I know is that my 2 Huawei phones have been the best devices I ever used. I have a Mate 9 and 10 and never a single issue with either. The mate 9 is my work phone and I use all day every day. I can't tell a speed difference and it came with 64 gb storage so still have plenty of room 3 years later. Even after dropping and partly cracking the screen I cant tell a difference in how it works. My Mate 10 has a similar story except it hasnt been dropped and has 128 gb storage.
Where do you buy yours? I've seriously thought about switching.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 Yeah I just got their smartwatch too. Its the GT. I love it. Just a small computer on your wrist. I was hesitant for a long time but finally I thought what the heck and tried it. I really like this thing. It has like 10 different watch faces you can choose from with different information on them so you can choose what you care about. It has a lot of built in software I havent even explored all of it. The other night I was cooking rice and needed a timer so remembered it had one and when I opened it it had presets for 1, 2, 5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 min. I chose one and off I went. Dont have to listen for the timer anymore because it just vibrates on my wrist now. I guess what I'm saying is everything they just seems well thought out.
I think I'm going to pick up a GT2.
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@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 There is no proof because if there was you would hear about it nonstop. Even if they are caught doing something , to me, its no worse than what Samsung, apple, and Microsoft, and Google already do. I'll go ahead and say I'm partial to them just so you know. The reason why is that I used Apple and Samsung devices for years but nothing ever last a year hardly without being dropped or anything. I think I had one Samsung last a year and 2 months for the longest. After that they just quit working right or not at all. Maybe I've had bad luck or an anomaly, I don't know. All I know is that my 2 Huawei phones have been the best devices I ever used. I have a Mate 9 and 10 and never a single issue with either. The mate 9 is my work phone and I use all day every day. I can't tell a speed difference and it came with 64 gb storage so still have plenty of room 3 years later. Even after dropping and partly cracking the screen I cant tell a difference in how it works. My Mate 10 has a similar story except it hasnt been dropped and has 128 gb storage.
We'll if the devices fail, their governments can't steal your data. So it makes sense I guess.
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Starting to test Bitwarden for password management.
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Watching a YouTuber trying to use Proxmox for the first time. It's scary and frustrating to watch.
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Learning about Tails and online anonymity.
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PSA: If you have to get on a support chat with Amazon, and you get someone named Richelle May | Customer Service, go ahead and close the chat window, count to 30, and restart the chat so you get someone better. She's got quite a shitty attitude for a customer support drone. Hope I get a survey in my email...
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Keep hearing about the "Threat" Huawei is, but where is the evidence? See a lot of articles and posts but no proof.
I'm more concerned about what Facebook, Google etc are tracking and "listening" to.There is no evidence because there is no proof. It's 100% political. It's absolutely ridiculous. And it's completely for the Americans, no other country even has an interest in this farce, but the actual threat, the US, is threatening everyone.
The suspicion here is that Huawei is refusing to spy for the US gov't and the US is trying to hurt them to pressure all the other suppliers to do exactly the thing that they are accusing Huawei of doing. It's Huawei's security that we believe is likely to actually be what they are threatened by. They've failed to get Five Eyes backdoors into Huawei products, so their goal now is to keep them off of the market so that more easily hacked or already hacked gear is the only option.
My understanding of the concern is over Huawei & the communist government for all the obvious reasons you can imagine.
The communist government in china is not something any of us should take lightly. I'm glad our government is taking this Huawei 5G stuff seriously.
Which brings me to the question I was going to ask this morning.
5G, how available is it in the US?
Telcos down here are beginning to brag about how 5G is already available in some areas.
The biggest problem I see with 5G down here is the place is so damn big with so few people, 5G will be too expensive to roll out as you need more infrastructure to carry the signal compared to 4G.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
5G, how available is it in the US?
It is only available as marketing fluff and lies currently.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
5G, how available is it in the US?
It is only available as marketing fluff and lies currently.
That's what I would have thought.
I watched a tech guy on Youtube about 3 months back. He had a 5G phone in a 5G area.
He stood next to a 5G antenna/aerial/repeater thing and the speed was incredible. He then stepped around the corner of the building he was standing out the front of and the signal died.
That demo showed me that this tech has a very long way to go before it's useful on a wide scale.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
5G, how available is it in the US?
It is only available as marketing fluff and lies currently.
That's what I would have thought.
I watched a tech guy on Youtube about 3 months back. He had a 5G phone in a 5G area.
He stood next to a 5G antenna/aerial/repeater thing and the speed was incredible. He then stepped around the corner of the building he was standing out the front of and the signal died.
That demo showed me that this tech has a very long way to go before it's useful on a wide scale.
I don't see 5G as that useful for mobile - Point to point - sure, as an alternative to home based internet - again, sure.
