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  • “they just forget they were children once” said every generation of kids.

    Myself included.

    We saw what was coming in the 90’s, and discussed the inevitable shitshow that social media was going to be (we didn’t know Facebook itself was coming, but we had MySpace, etc, which was also something we studiously avoided using because it was clearly problematic).

    I highly recommend reading about Las Vegas and the research the gambling companies have done to get people addicted to slots, etc.

    Vegas is designed to entrap you. Social media companies are using the same research to the same ends.



  • Parallel won’t show current load of a device. Even a clamp type can be thought of as serial, it’s just picking up the EM field instead of actually carrying the current load across the device.

    Something in parallel will be powered by the same source, with it’s current load independent of the other device.

    (And yes, I had to think about it for a second, it’s not always immediately intuitive for me either.)


  • 12-18 mo?

    Can you imagine a datacenter replacing them that often?

    Don’t get me wrong, it’s very good advice to remind folks these batteries are a wear item, and to be be prepared to replace them, but if you’re having to replace them at 18 months, I’d be looking for a different, not junk, brand.

    Maybe 2 years, if I have bad power so it’s being used, a lot.

    I can only imagine batteries wearing this fast because the UPS is cheap and doesn’t have pass-through design, and instead uses the batteries constantly to provide power conditioning.





  • It’s not a reversal, it’s a minor adjustment to keep companies from leaving, so they can jack the prices again next year.

    They see the writing - Enterprises are adjusting by moving to solutions like Proxmox (or vendors who provide the full package support), which will drive a need for the Linux KVM skillset. This will in turn expand that skillset, enabling more SMBs to run KVM.

    Note that KVM is more performant than VMware, and that VMware has already switched VMware Workstation to KVM. Yep, their own desktop app is no longer their own code, but a shell on KVM.

    Die in a fire CEO. VMware was the go-to since about 2006. It will now get supplanted by versions of KVM.






  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.worldIt’s called exploitation
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    Monday doesn’t bother me. I like what I do, if I didn’t, I’d be looking for something else.

    Everywhere you go will have it’s share of shit to deal with, because people.

    Early in my career a boss said “If I have 3 people working for me, I have 9 problems to deal with”.

    Society is the challenge with work, which is why big companies focus on team building. Us technical types tend to be rather oblivious to it (or downright adversarial), so his leadership made a big impact for me. I’m grateful to that.

    I honestly have no idea what point OP is trying to make.




  • Some people like to suffer.

    I’ll go a long way to reduce my data exposure, but ffs, Windows and Office are the standard worldwide, for a reason. It’s just naive and foolish to fight this battle while you have enough pressure and time limits as it is.

    And I run multiple Linux-based systems in my home lab, but my laptop is windows, because “ain’t nobody got time for that”, as Sweet Brown would say.