What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
2024 is a "big" year for me in my career...
35 years working in IT and software engineering
25 years at NTG specificallyWow that makes you feel old. 2024 is the year that I will have had more time working in my career than my dad did in his before retirement! He retired at 34 years in his field (but 38 years total working.) I'll be 35 years in my field (but just 35 years total working.)
First job at 14 in a garage.
First job in electronics, early 80s.
First job in IT in 89.
Ha, that's 35 years as well. Bugger me. I've blasted past My father so have my siblings and with the cost of living on steroids, we all may work into our 70s?
It's a great time to be alive.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.
Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?
Oh, I'll never buy one of those.
Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.
Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?
Oh, I'll never buy one of those.
Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.
Why is that my good man?
20 years ago it was because they were Chinese and nothing good ever comes out of China, well 20 years ago that was general mood.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.
Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?
Oh, I'll never buy one of those.
Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.
Why is that my good man?
20 years ago it was because they were Chinese and nothing good ever comes out of China, well 20 years ago that was general mood.
They're still loading spyware via drivers. I'll grant that it's been around a year since I was forced to do a factory install to see it for myself, but at this point they've been so bad for so long they can't be trusted.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.
Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?
Oh, I'll never buy one of those.
Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.
Why is that my good man?
20 years ago it was because they were Chinese and nothing good ever comes out of China, well 20 years ago that was general mood.
They're still loading spyware via drivers. I'll grant that it's been around a year since I was forced to do a factory install to see it for myself, but at this point they've been so bad for so long they can't be trusted.
I've yet to use any hardware from them that I'm truly happy with. Some have been okay, some have been awful. None have made me want to buy more.
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We've been using Acer and Asus for a few years now and are SO much happier. Hardware costs a fraction as much and just works. Just bought another laptop this week, $299. Can't beat that. And staff is super happy with that gear.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.
Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?
Oh, I'll never buy one of those.
Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.
Why is that my good man?
20 years ago it was because they were Chinese and nothing good ever comes out of China, well 20 years ago that was general mood.
They're still loading spyware via drivers. I'll grant that it's been around a year since I was forced to do a factory install to see it for myself, but at this point they've been so bad for so long they can't be trusted.
How do 'we' they're loading spyware in their drivers?
Do we know what the spyware does?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We've been using Acer and Asus for a few years now and are SO much happier. Hardware costs a fraction as much and just works. Just bought another laptop this week, $299. Can't beat that. And staff is super happy with that gear.
We use alot of Acer gear in the schools I look after. The only problem we have with it physical. Cases come apart, screws fall out, keyboard keys pop off.
But that's with kids & staff using them who really don't give a rat's ass what happens to them.
They are pretty reliable and loaded with hardware.
I love the Lenovo keyboards though.
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Here's something that me be of interest.
Found out that folks down here who use Star Link are assigned US based IP addresses.
Found this out coz when teachers go to log into their Department based authentication thing, they get rejected coz the IP address is not assigned to Australia / APAC etc etc.
Don't know if that is still going on?
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@siringo that's pretty funny.
Going to cause all sorts of fun and games for them.Over here, all the public schools have a fibre connectionstandard. Not sure about the speed these days but they were all pretty well the same across the entire state.
No room for interesting alternative options like star link.I would expect that some of them or at least the private schools out in the sticksbare now on NBN Skymuster.
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo that's pretty funny.
Going to cause all sorts of fun and games for them.Over here, all the public schools have a fibre connectionstandard. Not sure about the speed these days but they were all pretty well the same across the entire state.
No room for interesting alternative options like star link.I would expect that some of them or at least the private schools out in the sticksbare now on NBN Skymuster.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. It's home accounts with Star Link, all schools have fibre straight into Telstra corporate connection or whatever it's called now.
I'm thinking of getting Star Link, just wondering if it causes a problem accessing ABC iVew and SBS On Demand etc???? I wouldn't think it does, or if it did, I reckon it'd be fixed by now.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.
Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?
Oh, I'll never buy one of those.
Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.
Why is that my good man?
20 years ago it was because they were Chinese and nothing good ever comes out of China, well 20 years ago that was general mood.
They're still loading spyware via drivers. I'll grant that it's been around a year since I was forced to do a factory install to see it for myself, but at this point they've been so bad for so long they can't be trusted.
How do 'we' they're loading spyware in their drivers?
Do we know what the spyware does?
Superfish is still a thing.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/14538/lenovo-if-it-s-on-your-network-you-are-breached
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo that's pretty funny.
Going to cause all sorts of fun and games for them.Over here, all the public schools have a fibre connectionstandard. Not sure about the speed these days but they were all pretty well the same across the entire state.
No room for interesting alternative options like star link.I would expect that some of them or at least the private schools out in the sticksbare now on NBN Skymuster.
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. It's home accounts with Star Link, all schools have fibre straight into Telstra corporate connection or whatever it's called now.
I'm thinking of getting Star Link, just wondering if it causes a problem accessing ABC iVew and SBS On Demand etc???? I wouldn't think it does, or if it did, I reckon it'd be fixed by now.
Sounds like the normal fun and games with GeoIP databases. I'm in Ohio, but my GeoIP resolutions regularly show up in Canada and Mexico. I've even had a couple notable instances where it was showing up in India or China.
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Fighting a cold.... and nothing seems to be really helping...
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Making sure that I don't break anything before the holidays start in a few hours. Out from this afternoon until the kiddos are back in school on Jan 8.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
We've been using Acer and Asus for a few years now and are SO much happier. Hardware costs a fraction as much and just works. Just bought another laptop this week, $299. Can't beat that. And staff is super happy with that gear.
Curious on which hardware you're comparing? What are all of the specs of the $299 Acer/Asus hardware? What did you compare it against on the Lenovo side?
I've been looking at the ASUS Zenbook S 13 Flip OLED UP5302 (I'm an Asus fan), but that is over $1k. I looked at some Lenovo contenders, similarly priced to those specs. The Asus isn't exactly a fraction of the cost, but nonetheless I'd still go with the Asus.
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Merry Christmas!
Hope you have a great time. Stay safe. -
Merry Christmas
Happy holidays
Bah humbug.
Does that cover everyone?
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Oh the horror..
Installing Windows on the Custom Built Gaming PC for myself. This is the first new PC for me in a long time, and the first custom build I have done, and first GAMING PC I've built..
GAH - what have I done.
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@gjacobse sounds like fun
I always build my own PC's as I have to slowly upgrade as budget permits.
Franken PCs are the thing for me.
