Well since my actual job is designing resilient networks, I can say with certainty I know of some diversity employees that I wouldn't trust their networks to stay up given certain failure conditions--conditions that if engineered correctly they should be able to. They are put in jobs they are not qualified to do. You can't/shouldn't be turned loose with this type job without experience. Not because I give a shit about whatever title I have versus them, but because I've been through dozens of failures over the years and know what to look for.
Corporations have the same mindset, they try saving money by hiring the guy from India who barely knows how to code, and their systems soon become held together by shit code that barely functions and completely collapses from a gentle breeze. Then the corporations double down and hire more unskilled coders from India because upper management and retarded management consultants think that more people automatically means better products.
Yeah I'm so glad I'm not on the IT side of things. I'd die having to deal with that incompetence. So much of the crap they come up with from their mostly offshore staff is horrible.
The local staff I've seen here are awful as well, particularly when you're looking at small and medium sized businesses. They can barely use or set up a computer or complete basic tasks, and constantly just upsell services to boomers.
I did some of that work when I was in college, actually tried to apply at Best Buy once after losing one job due to a drug addict boss (I mean literal drug addict, meaning he got caught). You'd think they would want someone who had just spent the last three years doing on-site IT for small businesses and a few larger ones. Funny enough, apparently I didn't have the qualifications they were looking for. I guess because I actually fixed things.
It worked out though, a bunch of my repeat businesses ended up calling me and hiring me directly as a self-contractor after aforementioned drug addict left them hanging. Cut out the middle man and made it into a good raise for me.
Yeah, that outage pretty much fucked our streaming in the living room last night, where we use our XBone for tv viewing. All of the apps we regularly use for streaming on the XBL ecosystem are tied to your account. Can't log into the account? Can't stream jack shit. The Roku units we have in the other rooms worked perfectly fine, though. Just further illustrates why putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea.
It's always a good idea to stay away from walled gardens. Android, ios, playstation, xbox, etc. If you don't control what you pay for, you don't own it and it can be taken away at any moment.
Exactly why I buy physical media whenever possible for the stuff I want to make sure I have control over, and download archival copies of any digital-only content I've purchased. One of these days I need to get around to building a Jellyfin server, as a third backup, so I can rip my movie collection and not have to worry about digging through binders of discs if I want to watch something that's off the wall or that's been bowdlerized by streaming services' censors.
I gave up on physical media except for the occasional old TV series on DVD. Takes up more space than external harddrives and for games the physical discs are just dummies with an online code anyway.
At least on PC I still control the computer and can run cracks/emulators to backup Steam games, or buy a DRM-free versions on GOG.
I'm more of a DIY nut when it comes to ripping content, because I'd rather not have to hunt through a bajillion torrents to try and find a clean copy that doesn't have some kind of funky subtitles or jacked audio, but I get what you're saying. I'm lucky enough to have the storage space to keep my physical discs for stuff like movies and TV, but I haven't bought a boxed copy of a PC game in years. If possible I try to buy from GoG, although keeping ones downloaded backups up to date in this age of perpetual patches is a bit of a pain in the ass.
I always hated ripping stuff myself because I could never decide on a good ratio between file size and quality. So I just stuck with what scene groups released. Rips from final blurays/dvds were usually good enough. Although I haven't bothered torrenting anything in many years. There just isn't enough worth keeping these days.
keeping ones downloaded backups up to date in this age of perpetual patches is a bit of a pain in the ass.
Yea that's fucking annoying. IIRC GoG displays a green dot on games in your library that had an update after you downloaded it. On steam the only way I found to see which of your games got updated is going through the "recently updated" page. At least they now go back more than a couple of weeks.
Well since my actual job is designing resilient networks, I can say with certainty I know of some diversity employees that I wouldn't trust their networks to stay up given certain failure conditions--conditions that if engineered correctly they should be able to. They are put in jobs they are not qualified to do. You can't/shouldn't be turned loose with this type job without experience. Not because I give a shit about whatever title I have versus them, but because I've been through dozens of failures over the years and know what to look for.
Corporations have the same mindset, they try saving money by hiring the guy from India who barely knows how to code, and their systems soon become held together by shit code that barely functions and completely collapses from a gentle breeze. Then the corporations double down and hire more unskilled coders from India because upper management and retarded management consultants think that more people automatically means better products.
Yeah I'm so glad I'm not on the IT side of things. I'd die having to deal with that incompetence. So much of the crap they come up with from their mostly offshore staff is horrible.
The local staff I've seen here are awful as well, particularly when you're looking at small and medium sized businesses. They can barely use or set up a computer or complete basic tasks, and constantly just upsell services to boomers.
I did some of that work when I was in college, actually tried to apply at Best Buy once after losing one job due to a drug addict boss (I mean literal drug addict, meaning he got caught). You'd think they would want someone who had just spent the last three years doing on-site IT for small businesses and a few larger ones. Funny enough, apparently I didn't have the qualifications they were looking for. I guess because I actually fixed things.
It worked out though, a bunch of my repeat businesses ended up calling me and hiring me directly as a self-contractor after aforementioned drug addict left them hanging. Cut out the middle man and made it into a good raise for me.
That is so true. I've also noticed is extremely hard to communicate with but management showcases them as native English speakers.
Yeah, that outage pretty much fucked our streaming in the living room last night, where we use our XBone for tv viewing. All of the apps we regularly use for streaming on the XBL ecosystem are tied to your account. Can't log into the account? Can't stream jack shit. The Roku units we have in the other rooms worked perfectly fine, though. Just further illustrates why putting all your eggs in one basket is a bad idea.
It's always a good idea to stay away from walled gardens. Android, ios, playstation, xbox, etc. If you don't control what you pay for, you don't own it and it can be taken away at any moment.
Exactly why I buy physical media whenever possible for the stuff I want to make sure I have control over, and download archival copies of any digital-only content I've purchased. One of these days I need to get around to building a Jellyfin server, as a third backup, so I can rip my movie collection and not have to worry about digging through binders of discs if I want to watch something that's off the wall or that's been bowdlerized by streaming services' censors.
I gave up on physical media except for the occasional old TV series on DVD. Takes up more space than external harddrives and for games the physical discs are just dummies with an online code anyway.
At least on PC I still control the computer and can run cracks/emulators to backup Steam games, or buy a DRM-free versions on GOG.
I'm more of a DIY nut when it comes to ripping content, because I'd rather not have to hunt through a bajillion torrents to try and find a clean copy that doesn't have some kind of funky subtitles or jacked audio, but I get what you're saying. I'm lucky enough to have the storage space to keep my physical discs for stuff like movies and TV, but I haven't bought a boxed copy of a PC game in years. If possible I try to buy from GoG, although keeping ones downloaded backups up to date in this age of perpetual patches is a bit of a pain in the ass.
I always hated ripping stuff myself because I could never decide on a good ratio between file size and quality. So I just stuck with what scene groups released. Rips from final blurays/dvds were usually good enough. Although I haven't bothered torrenting anything in many years. There just isn't enough worth keeping these days.
Yea that's fucking annoying. IIRC GoG displays a green dot on games in your library that had an update after you downloaded it. On steam the only way I found to see which of your games got updated is going through the "recently updated" page. At least they now go back more than a couple of weeks.