The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
@Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Chatting with a FCK’N AT&T BOT named Sara. I’m trying to reset a failed internet connection at a distant location and she(it) keeps asking me to check for steady or blinking lights and press a reset button. FIVE times I told here I’m not there and can’t do it. Then she hangs up.
cuntI am convinced that if you pass on and St Peter rejects you, at the end of the down escalator you will hear “welcome to AT&T”. Total shithole company.
It may be a toss-up between AT&T and Verizon . . .
Verizon is a bit of the throwback. They offer some very good products, which, as long as you do not need support, can be excellent.
But when you need support in the field, the techs are in a strong union and they do get a lot of overtime. The “bosses” of the field techs are non-union salaried foremen and managers. The foreman are titularly in charge, but they can only make suggestions as to what the field people should do. If the foremen or supervisors cannot manage the people who don’t actually answer to them, they can be fired or replaced. The field guys pretty much have jobs for life.
Moral of the story here is to be very courteous, respectful and grateful to the field guys and if you have to vent, ask to speak to an officer of the corporation who actually does practically nothing . . . and tell them to fuck off!
I have not needed support from Verizon and the guy that installed my internet was probably the best telco tech I have had in my life. He even showed me how to rewire the thing in case I wanted to change the outlet my router was attached to. I am guessing there are plenty of horror stories out there though, but AT&T isn’t just shitty for customer service, their products and infrastructure suck ass as well. My dad had an old email account tied to his AT&T service and they eventually outsourced it to yahoo mail and then wanted to “encourage” people to get off it so they wouldn’t have to pay, so they downgraded the spam protection and he got spammed all to hell. And their website was the worst corporate site I have seen with significant lag, and getting lost all the time. Their customer support made me want to learn curse words in Indian.
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Jesus; that’s bad.
Verizon outsourced to AOL mail, so there’s that sort of parity afoot.
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Jesus; that’s bad.
Verizon outsourced to AOL mail, so there’s that sort of parity afoot.
Yeah, I wanted to get my dad off that shit and onto a reasonable tech stack, but they wouldn’t listen. Came back to fuck me in the end when they moved quickly and their email disappeared and all their account verifications were tied to their fucking landline phone. I still can’t get access to some accounts because of the verification paranoia going on these days.
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CENSORSHIP!!!
So why is Google erasing the aircraft from satellite imagery of commercial airports? This is Dulles and there is literally no time, day or night, when all the gates are empty. Yet this shows only one aircraft on the field.
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I was with Verizon for cell service but AT&T for internet because Fios isn’t available here.
I had a Verizon credit card too which offered a 4% rewards at all gas stations towards the bill, 16 cents a gallon when prices were high helped.
AT&T finally came through with their latest fiber network so I switched cell service to get the further discounts.
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I kinda did the reverse.
I had AT&T cellular for many years and didn’t have too much of an issue with it bu I did have Verizon FiOS at work and in Nassau County.
I found that, by switching my phone and that of the wife and son to Verizon. With the discounts the monthly billing on the three wireless phones was lower than for just my phone on a business plan. The business plans are cheaper when you have half a dozen or more phones on the same account, but the reverse is true when you only have a couple. Our employees use their own phones as they’d rather not carry two and I cover $80 a month on them, which is a damn good deal for them and I’m OK with it.
I get another $30 a month off for the three Verizon phones by letting them take the $$ from a separate account I set up for Autopay. The three personal phones with unlimited data are down to about $120 a month, total.
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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Our employees use their own phones as they’d rather not carry two and I cover $80 a month on them, which is a damn good deal for them and I’m OK with it.
Every phone I’ve bought here (easily more than 6 for myself, plus more for other people) has been dual sim. I dunno about iPhones but the Android ones seem to all have that feature. That it’s not in every phone in the US and Australia etc makes me suspicious that there’s some sort of collusion going on between carriers and manufacturers to prevent it.
Edit: later model iPhones all have dual sim apparently via eSIMs.
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I have a pixel 5 and I also have a work and personal sim in it… Work one being an esim.
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Someone has used diamonds and a high-end Nvidia GPU to build perhaps the world's fastest graphics card ever — but you won't be able to buy it yet
Diamond Foundry used heteroepitaxy to create single-crystal diamonds on scalable substrates
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Why can’t I buy my diamond encrusted GPU now?!?!?! I want my elite FPS!!!
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Doesn’t lob have one of these? Some of the carbon soot in the oven could have baked itself into a diamond on his GPU…
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Has anybody tried backing ketchup into their GPU? That could be the secret sauce!
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Lithu has a Zircon encrusted card with matching tweezers.
Sry Zappa
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Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices to Crush Competition * TorrentFreak
Two men who allegedly bombarded Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs are being sued by Google.
Google goes on to highlight its position as a major intermediary that processes DMCA notices targeting 600 million URLs every year, and the requirement under the DMCA to remove or disable content notified as allegedly infringing. If the company fails to act expeditiously once in receipt of a DMCA notice that complies with the statutory requirements, the company risks losing its safe harbor protection, Google notes.
That last line explains why DMCA enforcement on YouTube is such a criminally unfair mess. Not surprised it’s the legislators fault.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Google Sues Men Who Weaponized DMCA Notices to Crush Competition * TorrentFreak
Two men who allegedly bombarded Google with fraudulent DMCA takedown notices targeting up to 620,000 URLs are being sued by Google.
Google goes on to highlight its position as a major intermediary that processes DMCA notices targeting 600 million URLs every year, and the requirement under the DMCA to remove or disable content notified as allegedly infringing. If the company fails to act expeditiously once in receipt of a DMCA notice that complies with the statutory requirements, the company risks losing its safe harbor protection, Google notes.
That last line explains why DMCA enforcement on YouTube is such a criminally unfair mess. Not surprised it’s the legislators fault.
Most of the legislators are almost Tazz’s age and would be better at regulating wagon wheel builders than internet companies. Also why can’t those Viet Cong assholes just stop abusing the system?
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TikTok doesn’t care about anything anyone posts
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Ransomware gang files SEC complaint over victim’s undisclosed breach
The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operation has taken extortion to a new level by filing a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission complaint against one of their alleged victims for not complying with the four-day rule to disclose a cyberattack.
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Omegle is dead before I ever had a chance to try it.
Also this dude can shred.
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