Banzai51
@Banzai51@midwest.social
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 1 week ago:
Part of it is management that can’t handle their duties if they can’t walk over and intimidate workers. The other bit is many companies have cash reserves invested in commercial real estate instruments, and can’t handle the profoilo hit. And many of those company leaders are also personally invested in that same real estate.
- Comment on Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking 1 week ago:
Working from home does help the local economy, just not the right ones for the C-suite.
- Comment on Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement 2 weeks ago:
This is going to be a pyric victory like when they sued Google where they won, but then the traffic and views dropped through the floor.
- Comment on Tales Of The Shire's First Trailer Reveals It Is Middle-Earth Animal Crossing With Hobbits - Game Informer 3 weeks ago:
Looks a lot like Palia. Can’t wait to play it.
- Comment on He revealed the secrets ! 5 weeks ago:
My best comment ever in Reddit was describing Lord of the Rings to programming.
- Comment on He revealed the secrets ! 5 weeks ago:
The job of a programmer is to reintroduce a bug that was fixed in the last patch.
- Comment on We need a permanent solution for universal broadband access 1 month ago:
From my experience, the wireless carriers are trying their best not to laugh in the same areas for home Internet. They’re trying hard to avoid the competition like they do in phone service. Example: I get T-Mobile home Internet, but Verizon doesn’t in my area. Asking friends, I’m finding that to be a common situation where one or the other is offered, but rarely both. Completely anecdotal, so take it with a grain of salt.
- Comment on We need a permanent solution for universal broadband access 1 month ago:
NO TRUE SCOTTSMAN!
- Comment on "Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives 1 month ago:
And you’ll get the same story.
- Comment on "Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives 1 month ago:
Libre office and Linux desktops are not line of business apps. They are platforms to run/supplement line of business apps. There are very few line of business apps that run HR, the finance department, EMR if you’re in a hospital system, etc, etc, etc as open source or run on open source solutions. For decades Open Source advocates kept thinking it was the ability to run Office that shut down “The year of Linux desktops!!!” But that isn’t it at all. It’s those specialized apps that run the businesses that prevented it. I work in a hospital system, our line of business app is Epic or Cerner. Apps that digitize the health records. The requirements to run these apps is Windows Server, because that is what the front ends are built on. And these apps, especially the front ends, are heavy and complex. Any attempt to turn them into web apps has failed miserably because the performance just isn’t there vs running say, the Epic/Cerner front end in a Citrix solution. Client-Server isn’t dead, it just doesn’t get sexy press anymore. Obviously if you work in web development, it is a very different story. But even in those shops, I’ll bet the business support apps (HR, finance, etc) run heavily on Windows.
Lord knows I’ve tried to advocate for open source solutions where I can, but if the apps the business picks to suit their needs only runs in Windows? You’re infrastructure has already been chosen for you. And THAT is what the average wannabe IT person on the internet doesn’t understand in the slightest.
- Comment on We need a permanent solution for universal broadband access 1 month ago:
Because these access companies DO NOT COMPETE with each other. Without that competition we all get the shit end of capitalism. The landlines all have their own fiefdoms. Wireless is balkanizing based on tower placement, and satellite is for rural areas that don’t rate wired connections or cell towers. The politicians can point to all this and say we have options, but really you’re lucky if you have two options.
- Comment on We need a permanent solution for universal broadband access 1 month ago:
We did do something permanent: We let the private sector fuck us all in the ass while the rest of the world passed us by.
- Comment on "Digital sovereignty": German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein ditches Microsoft for Linux and Open Source alternatives 1 month ago:
Then the brutal reality hits: Your app vendor, “We don’t support that.”
- Comment on 3 days 🤯 1 month ago:
It’s ok. 99% of the AI articles are about how AI is going to kill us all with the proof being the movie Terminator.
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 1 month ago:
A TOS isn’t legally binding.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Odd, normally Wall St is all about slave labor.
- Comment on Apex Legends finals got hacked; Star Citizen goes 1.0; Marcus Lehto: nothing positive about EA. 1 month ago:
They are just talking about it. Going to still be years before they go 1.0. They still haven’t delivered Alpha 4.0 yet. In fact, I believe they are talking 1.0 to distract us from the fact they haven’t delivered alpha 4.0. Likely their server meshing tests uncovered complicated bugs that will take time to deal with.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 2 months ago:
So do I. But it is a term from Gen Z to piss off Gen X.
- Comment on What are some good games that have a bad reputation due to unreasonable expectations? 3 months ago:
The launch was a disaster on consoles. But on PC, while still having bugs, wasn’t anywhere near as bad. The game is fantastic.
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 5 months ago:
MTV’s downfall started when they got rid of all the Music freaks in the C suite that liked music and hired TV producers. Then we got Remote Control. We didn’t realize it at the time, but that was the downfall of MTV. Once those TV execs realized they could make non-music content, we got The Real World. It was OVER.
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 5 months ago:
I remember when the criticism of the History channel was it was the “Hitler channel.” I’m old.
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 5 months ago:
You know it is targeted to preteens because EVERYBODY YELLS EVERYTHING!!!
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 5 months ago:
I used to love A&E when it was biographies and Lovejoy.
The major TV networks were so embarrassed by being outproduced in quality by these niche cable networks that they raised the level of their programing to match. LOL, no. They bought out all the niche cable TV channels and turned them into trash. Hurray Capitalism.