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8gb on a apple is not enough and its not surprising at all.

Source: dealing with dozens of Mac devices with 8gb memory that clients had which all can't handle their workloads. I've switched whole companies from Mac back to pcs. And I've watched companies try switch to Apple and go from reasonably problem free operations to a nightmare of broken systems. Want to use apples data transfer to migrate from windows to Mac? Good luck it just plain doesn't work.

Device management on macs is an absolute nightmare along with the hell hole that is apple ID and the app store. Not to mention their absolutely abysmal performance with rmm. You can literally configure a machines permissions to allow remote access apps to work then a week later they just break the software and your access to manage the device is broken too.

Apple products are absolutely terrible for business from phones to laptops to their entire office suite.

Adhering to robots.txt is merely a courtesy.

Much like a trolley drop off at your local shopping center car park. Some users will adhere to it and drop their trolleys in after their done. Others will not and will leave it wherever.

Your machine might access a page via a browser that is human readable. My machine might read it via software and present the content to me in some other form of my choosing. Neither is wrong. Just different.

Don't like it? Then don't post your website on the internet...

Also signals spam folder isn't open source on server side. They literally have code that reads your messages and checks if spam or not and you cant see what it does or how it's written.

Couple this with signal being the preferred messaging app for 5 eyes countries as advised by their 3 letter agencies and well if you think those agencies are going to be advising a comms form they can't track, trace or read you obviously don't understand what they do.

Lol your no different as a coder to any other employee in any role on any jobsite. If a business owner can replace you with tech for less, they will. Unionizing won't save you from being made redundant.

Can't unionize against being outskilled by a machine. Much like in construction, why hire a hundred men to shovel when I can hire one bloke and a excavator? Why use a hammer when I've got a nailgun?

That's because most of the engineers or coders in this thread are in fear their job won't exist in a few years and they will have to go learn a completely different skill to make a wage. It's hard to admit you may not have a job in x years time because a computer took it.

But let's be real here, 90% of software and coding is taking x performing an action on it so the user can consume y. It's basic stuff. Much like how we don't write machine code these days and we use a compiler, your bonkers if you think your going to be writing python or c in the future and not just saying give me x and y from z.

You will still get folks writing code in some obscure areas, but most of us will switch to describing system and app flows and have the code written by ai and in areas utilize ai's to get tasks done. The theory of software construction from a high level will become more important than actual language mastery on the low level.

The folks saying it won't are much like the horse riders of yesteryear who said cars would never replace horses.

Use Firefox on pc and on Android phone. Install ublock, live life ad free.

Oh don't get me wrong. UniFi and central management can be great if your on actively managed IT infrastructure. That is to say, you pay someone a monthly fee to keep your stuff configured, monitored and working. But where I live, most of these installs are at rural businesses or properties where IT only gets called when things go wrong. These are exactly the wrong place to put managed infrastructure. It can be years between problems and rarely are the same techs even in the area when the next call comes around. Which is exactly why I was able to crack the DB in the first place, it was an out of date V6 install of the controller using a unsecured mongodb. Took me about 20 minutes of googling to find out how to do it when I used the right key words/after I'd figured out what was wrong (someone plugged in a router with DHCP enabled upstream of all the p2p wifi nodes but downstream from the unifi security gateway, the router got flagged as trying to provide/hijack dhcp and unifi blocked that port it seems, killing all the p2p wifi with it, honestly not a bad response from unifi hardware but a nightmare for your joe blog tech who doesnt really have much experience with network problem solving).

I advocate certain clients towards centrally managed systems, but for most of these clients who aren't interested in a regular checkup or business agreement with an IT provider I generally put them on un-managed setups with at least 2x USB devices with copies of config on-site and a printout of what the setup and network layout is. This is in-case I'm not here the next time they need work done or in case I do come back and don't want to spend a day deciphering their setup again. All cloud services are disable, no external log-in from outside of the site allowed. I leave the main modem/ISP connected router ideally up to the ISP they are getting internet services from and build everything downstream from that. Auto-update set to on. I've got multiple p2p and p2mp wireless networks at properties all around the region that haven't had a tech on-site for 4+ years and they won't until something breaks or the protocol their operating on gets too slow for user requirements which I would expect is another 4+ years at least because mikrotik wifi is rock solid when its setup manually and correctly.

Security is less of a worry. I mean honestly if your willing to drive out to the middle of nowhere to war-drive and crack the passwords and get into their network...hell you probably deserve to get some internet and check ya emails for the effort you've put in. They'll probably see your vehicle while your doing it and invite you in for a cuppa and give you the password anyways.

This in itself is a nightmare. I recently hacked for a client their Unifi controller db on a network. It had been setup 5 years ago and the company that did the setup didn't hand over any admin passwords. 5 companies and 4 years of problems later they almost turned their accommodation business into a wifi free off grid experience because they couldn't get the system working correctly without admin access. Nightmare stuff.

Any system so heavily reliant on a single point of failure with such difficulty to replace is a no go for me. Never in half a decade have I seen such a problem whilst rolling out mikrotik hardware.

I was a spicy meatball before social media even existed.

It's why it took me 7 years to complete the last 30% of my two degrees. I got bored and went and worked full time in heavy industry. Pretty sure I had adhd well before I even started uni. Fairly sure I was born with it rather than it being a learned condition.

Also Im not sure if the shortest path through school is the goal either. I'm in my late 30s now and I still learn new things every day and still regularly consume education materials every week. I don't ever plan to stop. How arrogant must you be to think you should stop learning once school is over? Hell I've learnt stuff post school that other students learnt in school. I studied business they studied science.

I've done a huge amount of learning in trades and honestly 60 second videos have taught me over a few cumulative hours as many tricks as a decade in construction has.

On the job you only learn what your exposed to and what the people around you know. 60 second videos from anyone anywhere can literally teach me anything because it's not limited to just who I am able to be exposed to now in this minute today.

Hell I've learnt skills from shorts fellas who have spent decades in industries haven't learnt. Stuff that's valuable and saves time. It's all about exposure. Expose yourself to more, learn more. Lectures are slow and exposure is limited when it's just you and whoever the education source deemed suitable to be your teacher.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Honestly can't wait. Feed me info in dopamine adjusted methods. My spicy meatball brain finds old methods boring af and an absolute chore. Can learn at 10x with the new ways. Much like the meme watch a 4hr movie in one go? Meh. Feed me a 10 hour movie in 14 40ish min episodes? Hell yeah!

Education needs to strap itself in and get with the times. No point holding onto the old ways just because it's what we did as kids. Wanna feed em a 60 min lecture? Give em 30 to 60 small clips of high interest action!

Lol you talk the talk but don't walk the walk. You said it yourself, you might tell people they aren't green but you still mostly use their products. This is what most folks do. They say their all for the green movement, but they don't actually live up to it and try and brush the action side off to someone else. It's like nimbyism but for tech.

What's more important? Your perceived personal privacy benefits or the future of the planet? At the moment your living for you and not for the future.

A good way to temp check your traditional Woodfire pizza oven is when the black soot on the inside of the dome turns white. Which is at temps around 420c aka 800f. You should be able to cook a pizza in about 40 to 50 seconds tops :)

Currently looking at moving overseas. Live in aus and the place is politically an authoritarian corprotocracy with unaffordable living even on a decent wage. Looking to get out.

We don't need much and are both fairly handy (in all forms of life) so we are considering a run down property in Europe. We could literally buy a dump,do it up and go off grid with solar and still come out ahead for 50% of the price for a avg crappy property in aus. It's absurd. I just want somewhere to live and grow some food. It's near impossible to do in aus without working like a slave and being massively in debt.

Eh it's not actually you that needs to change all that much but more industrial processes need to be change. E.g. I worked on a exploration drill rig that hunted gold core. We burnt well over 400,000 litres of diesel a year keeping that thing running. Closer to 500,000 after you count all the fuel burnt to keep the operator alive, fed and transported. 1 rig. It looked for gold that mostly didn't end up in electronics.

Arguably it provided bugger all actual physical good for society in return for its consumption. It got some fat cats rich and employed a half dozen humans. It consumed insane amounts of resources.

Your consumption is nothing compared to these ends of industry, they just try and make you think it does. Industrial industries worldwide need drastic changes.

Rip America. China and russia are gonna love this.

Astounding they have elected a literal criminal as a president. Bonkers even.

Either way the inbuilt update system had zero way of updating itself or the OS to something that worked and it resulted in a painful few hours of stepping the system up through various OS versions downloaded on other devices until it got to the end of the downloadable versions, and from there on it was inbuilt app for updates only. No downloadable OS. Which would indicate since you can no longer download the latest OS iso's eventually they will block the last available Iso's one from working on their app store and the devices will be bricks.

This is shite design. Let's not kid ourselves here. This is one of the wealthiest companies on earth and thy control their entire hardware and software stack from the ground up. If they can't keep stuff sorted so when an old system plugs in it atleast limp mode upgrades it to the latest offering that system was supported with, this isn't because it's something that's impossible, it's because they don't want to.

If community non profit managed linux distros can get installed on 15 year old machines and just you know, sort out the drivers for the ancient ass tech in them without the user doing any more than running the update manager to hell apple couldn't have worked out the same.

It's a load of crap sold under the guise of security. Some nefarious actor wants to dl updates from their servers for ancient tech? Why in the world should they not be able to? Their update servers shouldn't have any services attached other than being a glorified dl directory.it shouldn't even be something they care about because there is zero risk attached.

Well given it was both the update app and the web browser, not just the web browser. It's definitely built in. Unless their app updater/software updater is just safari with an overlay.

Because the client is >55 in age and isn't a fan of change. They want what they are used to. Other clients who are more open to learning definitely and have in the past gotten linux. Huge fan of using it for bringing life back to old hardware. Some clients are however very abrasive towards the idea of a different OS/Interface/Change.

GaN has been getting HUGE in the audio realm, less so in western companies but in Asia in the PA realm its been the go-to for a few years now. Admarks AD442(4x4200w @8ohm) and AD60(2x6000w @ 8ohm) are a great example.

1U, Compact and more power than you can poke a stick at and fairly reliable. Also their pricing dumps on the offerings in the west (Both well under $2000 AUD). Just be warned you want MINIMUM 240v 15A or 32A single phase power circuits for these and probably run them at 1/4 or 1/8th rated output for ultra low THD.

I factory reset a 2012 Mac book pro that was needed for a client to use to check emails and use the web browser. Device was instantly blocked by Apple from accessing most websites because the factory version of the OS was deemed insecure by Apple. This included blocking the updater from being able to update the device via the web to a safe version of the OS that was available. What was supposed to be a 1 hour service became about 4 hours of me reading online trying to work out wtf was going on. Then I had to spend time navigating my way around the nightmare of distro hopping it up OS updates manually til it got to the most recent "safe" supported os version.

Device works completely fine and lives behind a well secured network (battery was stuffed but it lives plugged in). Apple took it upon themselves to dictate to the user that it was no longer fit for operation. Apples solution was "replace the device and send the old one to landfil.

Apple literally greenwash their entire business model. But they are one of the most wasteful companies around.

Meanwhile I'm still reformatting 8, 12 and 15 year old windows pcs with Linux and putting them back into service for email checking and basic web browsing without a single hiccup. Saving more and more from landfil, they get used once in a blue moon but it's literally all the owners want. They don't mind waiting a bit for stuff to turn on, hell plenty of them are over 60, they've spend their life being patient and a few mins to make a cuppa while something turns on is a blessing to them.

15gb on the free tier...empty your emails folks. This madness of keeping every email is insane. I had a user with 60000 unopened emails on one account just 2 weeks ago. It's like some folks refuse to do basic data/comms house keeping.

Apples constant push for subscription icloud data storage is predatory at best. The amount of users/clients I come across with devices way out of date re software/security patches because their iphones not got enough space on it to download its own update and it doesn't provide a easy way to transfer large chunks of data off it like photos/videos is ridiculous. Something like 50% of users easily. Sample size probably upwards of 50. They get constantly harassed by crap asking them to buy icloud storage.

Lol I've never seen any of that and I've been pushing 11 to clients since it got out of the dev previews.

I find 11 way more stable than 10 ever was. Less bsods and all.

I'll probably start offering Linux to business clients. 90% of mine just need an os with a web browser these days. The 10% that don't I'll push to migrate to cloud offerings of whatever software is keeping them on windows and migrate to Linux after that. It's been some serious consideration for me to go down this path but it's what I forsee happening. It'll be framework laptops and Linux. Gonna have to bite the bullet tho and do a whole host of work settling on a disrtro/rollout and support plan. I'm lucky tho and many of my clients are heavy on ethics, right to repair and so on, so apple won't get a look in at all.

Man printing is broken on macs I've had a handful of callouts for exactly that lately on a ramge of different macs.

Same with print from iphones. Broken, and when it breaks you get zero ways to chase whats going wrong. Meanwhile every other device on site have zero problems.

I literally spend a large portion of my days dealing with these problems for a variety of clients on a variety of sites. It's at a point with Apple where I just flat out refuse the work unless their a really special client. Atleast if I have a problem on a Microsoft device for business I can call support and get a phone back from a tech usually within 24 hours. Can't get that from apple.

Last absolute head scratcher was syncing multiple Gmail accounts with a variety of passwords and passkeys to a single iCalendar. Turns out passkeys overwrite more than one Gmails settings in ios back to just its email and nerf all the others. Hot tip for anyone doing this don't ever use passkeys for that setup if doing multiple accounts. Not sure if it was Googles end on how their passkey is set out or apples end on how it interprets it but it was a 2.5 hour nightmare.

Yeah that's been easy for a few years now. Kdeconnect works great/it's been available on Linux since well before windows got it.

Linux on desktop has been ready for years now, it absolutely shreds apple and microsofts offerings, ubuntu desktop is about as schmick as it gets regardless of your views of the parent company.

Mac on the other hand is an absolute nightmare to administer for clients. Same with their phones. Printing from web browser on a Mac? Completely broken. Have to save everything to desktop and open it from there. It's an absolute joke. Wanna use your 7 year old Mac to browse the web? Oh wait you can't because the os blocks it. Legit joke of a product.

This is gonna be a hard move for some of the IT companies I've seen who have based their entire business around WordPress websites. They literally don't have the skill to use anything else as WP is all they know. Rip.

^^^ much like the terpenes in weed different mushrooms have different chemical compositions that alter the way your body interprets the psilocybin. Cubensis make me laugh/most folks I know get the giggles on them. Blue meanies make you see things (super visual). Or atleast this has been mine and others experience over eh, probably around 20 to 30 trips over the years.

Lsd is good but definitely not as good or as easy on the brain as mushrooms. Dmt is wild, dmt with a maoi I'm too scared to try.

I've tripped a lot. It's my preferred way to party, but these days I party rarely. Mdma,ket,coke,heroin,speed all leave me feeling gross and the risk factors for addiction are far too high for my liking.

I just spent the last 4 days recovering payroll systems and data from machines that have no backup. Turns out they were storing all the payroll data on an external hdd in a folder called "dead hdd recovery" that was from the last time I recovered a dead system for them about 4 years ago. They weren't ment to keep using that external hdd or folder but they did. They also weren't interested in other forms of redundancy the last time the payroll machine died.

This time however the building had a fire go through the main office and took out a quarter of the facility. I finally convinced them to atleast get the data on one drive for a start.

First fire they'd had in 40 years of operating. I still can't convince them to switch to a cloud based payroll/book keeping system but hey atleast it's now backed up across two terminals, one that's kept offsite and a 3rd location of onedrive in the cloud. It's been a fun few days to say the least.

Astounded the drives survived whilst their chassis melted around them (samsung ssds and asus pn51-e1 mini pcs). They got insanely lucky.