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This isn’t adding up to me. Unless you’re paying out the ass for an analog line, you need more that just a fax machine and a jack. You either have a VoIP system with fax support, or you’ve moved to a FoIP service that probably handles everything through email anyway (or both).

Unless you already do a ton of business through your phone system and can justify a robust solution, there’s no way you’re ready to just turn up some old All-In-Ones and you’re just better off eating the cost of this outage and going after Microsoft for whatever your SLA gets you.

“Analog” is expensive as hell today and there’s no way it’s a justifiable expense outside of extremely remote areas.

I’m off this week, but we just switched from Cisco Jabber to MS Teams this year. My team wanted to go to WebEx but the execs told us no. I’m interested to see what the fallout was when I get back on Monday

…I think that’s an excellent point to take away from this article. Tech companies WANT this future. They want agent to agent interactions that you are too busy or lazy to keep track of.

We should all be aware of what we could potentially be subjecting others to by handing our affairs over to these half baked bots.

Can’t wait for the first harassment case filed against someone’s personal agent.

My problem is that it’s hard to stay in good standing with private trackers while using the *arr suite. I leave everything seeded for weeks, but I never get close to 1.00 ratio on any of the files. It’s not a connectivity issue AFAICT because I do have SOME people connected and downloading from me, but by the time the torrent reaches that point where there’s hundreds/thousands of seeders, I’m still running at a big deficit.

Depends entirely on the site. Amazon? Sure.

Many other sites will put query information in this part of the URL, so all you’re doing is removing the information you put in the previous page and probably invalidating your search results

Yeah, Putin thought that too…

I had my Tesla slam on its brakes from 55 mph because it was convinced the car sitting at a stop sign at a crossroad was about to turn into my lane. Last time I trusted Autopilot in anything other than stop-and-go traffic. Not really in a hurry to find out if the Ioniq I have now does it any better.

Give me fully autonomous vehicles on roads where human drivers aren’t allowed, or let me keep control, thank you very much.

Unlike the camera person…

I feel bad for the studios that are facing uncertainty in this situation, but I’m selfishly relieved. This is the only way I’m going to get to play State of Decay 3 and the new Senua game, if they can secure a publisher and complete development. There is zero chance I will buy another Xbox unless there’s a colossal restructure of the market in the next generation, and there’s no way I’m going back to Windows.

Protip: Don’t fucking do this

Imagine paying for ads…

This is one of those headlines for a problem I had no idea existed

Here is a 486 taking over three minutes to boot.

The person you replied to countered a broad generalization with an anecdote which probably matches the lived experience of most of us oldies who lived through the time. Your comment did not contribute to the conversation.

Well… you should stop. Use that noggin and write some home grown anti-boss fanfic if you really want to keep down that road

No, it’s upper management. I don’t give a fuck what you’re doing all day as long as it doesn’t create security vulnerabilities in the environment

Where I am, I can pay for gigabit duplex or 500Mbps cable. The issue is that the upload speed on the cable circuit is only 30Mbps and I have multiple people streaming from my Plex server, playing games on servers I run, or I might be checking my security cameras while I’m out and about. The only time 300Mbps isn’t enough for me is on big files from beefy CDNs like Steam, but 30Mbps gets constraining pretty quick.

I remember being out of work from my helpdesk job a couple decades ago and responding to a post on reddit asking for someone to help fix their PC. I went over and talked to the guy. He’d gone through three motherboards and was at his wits end because he couldn’t get anything to turn on.

I looked over his setup, pulled out my pocket knife, stuck it in, and his PC booted right up. His PC case power button was broken, so I jumped the pins to make sure it was just a mechanical issue. Then I wired his reset button up to it instead. He gave me his old Dreamcast on top of the agreed upon six pack because he was so relieved. It was great for my self-confidence while I was out of work.

I’m sure Waymo’s lawyers would argue that a simple software update would make the “driver” an entirely new entity, and thus free from the fines and incarceration. You’re raising some interesting legal questions that we’d have to figure out

Range anxiety is real, but I haven’t had too many issues with the time spent at a charger. My car gives me a target charge to get me to the next charger instead of expecting me to charge to full. This pairs well with the charger that only charges at max speed until the battery gets to 60% or so.

If I’m on a long enough trip to need multiple stops, I’m generally more than happy to spend the 15-20 minutes stretching my legs, going to the rest room, and picking up coffee or a snack from the store. That said, if I was taking an emergency long trip and felt like every minute counted, I would take my gas truck.