Miscellaneous Tech News
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@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Plus I just got fiber to my house, so I can download all my stuff from Amazon pretty quick. </BragsAboutFiberToEveryoneHeKnowsEvenPeopleWhoDontCare> (Wife rolls eyes)
Nice! I'm trying, but the only options I have for fiber out here are Kinetic by Windscream... I can't do that unless I have a REALLY, REALLY, REALLY good reason to use Windscream. -
@dafyre So my main ISP (a local provider who has historically been fantastic) is just cable. They are rolling out fiber "soon" but cant give me a date. So, against my gut feeling, I decided to give Frontier fiber a try. They just rolled it out in our neighborhood. $40 for 500/500 with no contract. I figured I'll give it a try and see what happens. I kept my old ISP for now and just lowered my speed I am now paying the same monthly cost as I was before for 2 ISPs, doing failover on my edge router. If Frontier fiber proves to be stable, I'll ditch the old ISP.
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@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If Frontier fiber proves to be stable, I'll ditch the old ISP.
I had Frontier in Dallas and they were fantastic. Second best ISP that I ever dealt with, the best being Optimum Cable in NYC.
However, Frontier is the little ISP from my home town of Rochester and they are a pariah there. They are well known locally for being unethical and dishonest.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If Frontier fiber proves to be stable, I'll ditch the old ISP.
I had Frontier in Dallas and they were fantastic. Second best ISP that I ever dealt with, the best being Optimum Cable in NYC.
However, Frontier is the little ISP from my home town of Rochester and they are a pariah there. They are well known locally for being unethical and dishonest.
So I have heard nothing but nightmare stories about Frontier, but those stories were all about DSL. I heard that Frontier Fiber is a completely different animal. Customer service (actually getting ahold of someone has been less than ideal, but I do eventually get through to them on the phone. To be fair though, I have just had to contact them regarding questions about my installation.
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@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If Frontier fiber proves to be stable, I'll ditch the old ISP.
I had Frontier in Dallas and they were fantastic. Second best ISP that I ever dealt with, the best being Optimum Cable in NYC.
However, Frontier is the little ISP from my home town of Rochester and they are a pariah there. They are well known locally for being unethical and dishonest.
So I have heard nothing but nightmare stories about Frontier, but those stories were all about DSL. I heard that Frontier Fiber is a completely different animal. Customer service (actually getting ahold of someone has been less than ideal, but I do eventually get through to them on the phone. To be fair though, I have just had to contact them regarding questions about my installation.
Oh yeah, their DSL is a trainwreck.
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@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nexcloud Photos 2.0 (https://nextcloud.com/athome/) seems like it got better. But who knows.
Then there is this: https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html But that is just a sync tool.
So I have to say.... So far, I am pleasantly surprised and impressed with this. Photos 2.0 definitely takes some tweaking and customizing via add on preview generators, etc. But so far, I am liking what I am seeing. I might do a write up on my findings/experience so everything it documented for me as well as others.
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Pretty sure that this belongs in the "I Can't Even" thread...
Google scraps Drive limit that was applied by stealth
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/google-drive-cancels-its-surprise-file-cap-promises-to-communicate-better/ -
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pretty sure that this belongs in the "I Can't Even" thread...
Google scraps Drive limit that was applied by stealth
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/google-drive-cancels-its-surprise-file-cap-promises-to-communicate-better/I would agree about the "I Can't Even" thread.
Although, a lot of things don't surprise me like they used to.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pretty sure that this belongs in the "I Can't Even" thread...
Google scraps Drive limit that was applied by stealth
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/google-drive-cancels-its-surprise-file-cap-promises-to-communicate-better/Most Google decisions belong in the i can't even thread.
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Rochester, NY's Frontier Communications, a major fiber carrier in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/frontier-declares-bankruptcy/ar-AA19GDNS
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Rochester, NY's Frontier Communications, a major fiber carrier in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/frontier-declares-bankruptcy/ar-AA19GDNS
lol “expects to continue providing quality service”, might help if you had quality service in the first place.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Rochester, NY's Frontier Communications, a major fiber carrier in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/frontier-declares-bankruptcy/ar-AA19GDNS
I just signed up for Frontier. Sigh. Hopefully this means nothing for me here in PA.
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Ubuntu 23.04 is out today.
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CEO says many of his remote workers didn't open their laptops for a month, and 'only the rarest of full-time caregivers' can be productive employees
These kind of articles bother me. This to me is not a failure on the employee's part, but a total failure on the company's part. If employees and their managers can go a whole month without doing any work, and nobody notices, that's a total failure on the company, their processes, their planning... deliverables, initiatives, projects / tracking, etc.
If one isn't delivering meaningful results, and nobody notices.... so many questions.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
CEO says many of his remote workers didn't open their laptops for a month, and 'only the rarest of full-time caregivers' can be productive employees
These kind of articles bother me. This to me is not a failure on the employee's part, but a total failure on the company's part. If employees and their managers can go a whole month without doing any work, and nobody notices, that's a total failure on the company, their processes, their planning... deliverables, initiatives, projects / tracking, etc.
If one isn't delivering meaningful results, and nobody notices.... so many questions.
The company in question says it's only 800 employees, so it's not like a crazy amount of people or anything, but even if it's 100,000 employees, if you structure correctly, there's no way anyone doing nothing for a month straight should even remotely go unnoticed.
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Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
I often do a clean install for my daily driver laptop.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
I can upgrade right now.. but I want a clean system.
but i was also lazy about organizing my dot files of some applications I want settings saved for..Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.
