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Couldn't post this yesterday, because, well, WOW internet services were down yesterday for all of SE MI because some construction jackass killed their fiber. My house was down, work, favorite restaurants couldn't process credit cards... Big oopsies there.
https://twitter.com/WOWCare/status/1007314013569642496
For some reason my Verizon internet sucked yesterday too, could hardly load anything during the outage.
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@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Couldn't post this yesterday, because, well, WOW internet services were down yesterday for all of SE MI because some construction jackass killed their fiber. My house was down, work, favorite restaurants couldn't process credit cards... Big oopsies there.
OOOF!
For some reason my Verizon internet sucked yesterday too, could hardly load anything during the outage.
LIkely because everybody was on their hot spots.
Thanks!
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@bnrstnr how are you supposed to check your email, without internet service?
Carrier pigeon?
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@dustinb3403 Normally cell phone, but god damn was it slow yesterday. We were back in the dark ages yesterday :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:
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@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 Normally cell phone, but god damn was it slow yesterday. We were back in the dark ages yesterday :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:
wails openly: I had to use a....a....land line!
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Yeah, I bet the wireless network was completely inundated with traffic.
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@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr how are you supposed to check your email, without internet service?
Carrier pigeon?
This is where ham radio comes in handy.
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@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr how are you supposed to check your email, without internet service?
Carrier pigeon?
This is where ham radio comes in handy.
I personally plan on getting a CB radio again -- now that I can hear and all.
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@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr how are you supposed to check your email, without internet service?
Carrier pigeon?
This is where ham radio comes in handy.
Grampa was on the airwaves for most of his life and all my life... https://hamcall.net/call/W4BKK
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr how are you supposed to check your email, without internet service?
Carrier pigeon?
This is where ham radio comes in handy.
I personally plan on getting a CB radio again -- now that I can hear and all.
There is a digital mode to connect a computer to a ham radio and an operator would be able to send an email to another radio that was designed for such traffic. There is a little bit of setup to take care of ahead of time but could work in a pinch if necessary. However, you have to have a general class license to be able to do that.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/kde-plasma-5-13-release-video
Youtube VideoLiteral decades ahead of GNOME in usability and aesthetics.
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@momurda said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/06/kde-plasma-5-13-release-video
Youtube VideoLiteral decades ahead of GNOME in usability and aesthetics.
As much as I like using GNOME, KDE Plasma 5.13 looks awesome. I've been using KDE Neon and OpenSUSE to try out Plasma 5.13 and it works pretty well.
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@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Let’s Encrypt Acmev2 for HAProxy
https://www.haproxy.com/blog/lets-encrypt-acme2-for-haproxy/
This is convoluted, but awesome progress. looking forward to the next iteration.
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@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr how are you supposed to check your email, without internet service?
Carrier pigeon?
This is where ham radio comes in handy.
I personally plan on getting a CB radio again -- now that I can hear and all.
There is a digital mode to connect a computer to a ham radio and an operator would be able to send an email to another radio that was designed for such traffic. There is a little bit of setup to take care of ahead of time but could work in a pinch if necessary. However, you have to have a general class license to be able to do that.
I've considered getting my ham license and apply to get Grampa's call sign back from a local club that the family gave it to.
I'd heard about the digital mode, but didn't realize it had become useful. Last time I heard about it, it ran at like 4800 or maybe 9600 baud.
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr how are you supposed to check your email, without internet service?
Carrier pigeon?
This is where ham radio comes in handy.
I personally plan on getting a CB radio again -- now that I can hear and all.
There is a digital mode to connect a computer to a ham radio and an operator would be able to send an email to another radio that was designed for such traffic. There is a little bit of setup to take care of ahead of time but could work in a pinch if necessary. However, you have to have a general class license to be able to do that.
I've considered getting my ham license and apply to get Grampa's call sign back from a local club that the family gave it to.
I'd heard about the digital mode, but didn't realize it had become useful. Last time I heard about it, it ran at like 4800 or maybe 9600 baud.
Yeah, for us, its mind-numbingly slow. But if you just have to get a message out that may be a few bytes, 9600 baud is crazy fast.
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@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@bnrstnr how are you supposed to check your email, without internet service?
Carrier pigeon?
This is where ham radio comes in handy.
I personally plan on getting a CB radio again -- now that I can hear and all.
There is a digital mode to connect a computer to a ham radio and an operator would be able to send an email to another radio that was designed for such traffic. There is a little bit of setup to take care of ahead of time but could work in a pinch if necessary. However, you have to have a general class license to be able to do that.
I've considered getting my ham license and apply to get Grampa's call sign back from a local club that the family gave it to.
I'd heard about the digital mode, but didn't realize it had become useful. Last time I heard about it, it ran at like 4800 or maybe 9600 baud.
Yeah, for us, its mind-numbingly slow. But if you just have to get a message out that may be a few bytes, 9600 baud is crazy fast.
Plenty fast for an emergency text type notification.
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Windows 10 1803 declared fully available, throwing Windows Update for Business under the bus...
How can they be this out of touch?
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@zachary715 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Windows 10 1803 declared fully available, throwing Windows Update for Business under the bus...
How can they be this out of touch?
Are they out of touch? Or are people deploying Windows where it isn't appropriate and upset that they deployed something that views its use cases one way and its users another? Who is out of touch? The tool maker who makes and defines the intended use of a tool - or the people who use it other than intended?
Microsoft has a technical role here to make and define their product. They have done so. They have another to make money. They aren't failing in either of those cases.
It's their user base that is often out of touch, expecting unrealistic things from an OS primarily designed around consumers, video gaming, and entertainment and trying to shoehorn that base into a different set of use cases that is allowed, but not the target audience.
