aosmond · HackerTrans

3 lata temudiscuss

I bought a Netgear WAX202 and been pretty happy with it. At the time I bought it, I found it difficult to find many other 802.11ax models supported by OpenWRT here in Canada. I was also happy that it supported 802.11ax on both 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz bands, the latter of which is often missing. I'm not sure how valuable it will be, but that is the first major upgrade to the 2.4 GHz band since 802.11n (2009!) and I tend to keep my routers for a long time.

aosmond

3 lata temudiscuss

How about ceramic pans?

aosmond

4 lata temudiscuss

Oh for sure, I figured it was a very likely outcome that I would end up laid off. I just didn't know when/how. By that point, I had whittled down spending to ~30% of my net income prior to layoffs, without any tangible sacrifice (to me).

aosmond

4 lata temudiscuss

I lost my job at BlackBerry in spring 2014. I'm not sure how many rounds happened before that. At least a dozen. The company shed thousands and thousands of us as it entered decline.

Thankfully I had no children, no mortgage and lived well below my means. As such, it was quite possibly one of the happiest moments of my life, instead of the worst. I could only imagine how I would have felt if I just bought a house, or had a child.

I was so eager to sign the papers to move on. In retrospect, I was foolish to have stayed as long as I did. It was an amazing place to work in the early days, lots of talented colleagues I had learned much from, about work, about life, but by the end, it was a shambling zombie, decomposing before our very eyes.

We were summoned into an office with a cheerful HR person, armed with a PowerPoint presentation. A box was passed around to toss our many years worth of phones into. I'll never forget being asked, "Does everyone know why we are here?" at the very start. We did.

I wish good fortune to anyone who has lost their job in the recent layoff rounds. There is light at the end of the tunnel. Given some time and luck, you might even land in a better place (I feel blessed in that respect).

aosmond

5 lat temudiscuss

I'm not sure battery life is going to be worse just because it has a smaller battery. At a constant DPI, the CPU/GPU doesn't have as much work to do to paint with a smaller screen, not to mention the screen itself consuming less power. Even if the battery life were worse, I'd want a smaller phone.

I'm still using a Z3C with LineageOS. At some point it will kick the bucket. I barely use it save for phone calls, and minor conveniences (e.g. vaccination proof, tickets and such). Part of me thinks I should just bite the bullet, accept a larger screen, get a PinePhone, and find a way to start contributing. At least I'd get more software support 1 year out than from the Android manufacturers ;).

aosmond

5 lat temudiscuss

No consequences. I think my opinion truly hit the gutter when I got that boss from hell :).

aosmond

5 lat temudiscuss

As I once told a boss who tried to cancel my already approved vacation in a former job/company, you can't stop me from going. You can only stop me from coming back. Let me know which you prefer. (I really needed that vacation and I was done with bullshit.)

aosmond

5 lat temudiscuss

I am always amazed at the level of denial among the people. I speak of the comments to this article, not the young people in question.

The IPCC reports are quite conservative. The reason the 2021 reports were so dire is because they began including some of the feedback loop modeling the scientists preparing the report have become more confident in. More is in the pipeline.

Somewhere along the line, it got political. Maybe it was always political. Hard to say that society needs to fundamentally change without people feeling it encroaches upon their world view.

You don't have to look very far to see our supply chain impacted by nature. Pandemics such as COVID were and are predicted to become more frequent. My local supermarket doesn't just have higher prices, the selection has gone down in many categories as the droughts and wildfires have impacted production. We are getting a taste of what has been long predicted. Deny all you want. I'm not saying the world will end this year, or next decade, but little by little, all the evidence I'm seeing is pointing towards the science being right. And it ain't pretty.

The level of ambition among our governments is quite low. The people are selfish, more concerned with their property values and if their neighbour mows their bylaw required lawn, than if the next generation will be able to have a similar quality of life. Why wouldn't you be cynical if you were young?

If you are a believer in conspiracies, what seems more likely to you? The climate scientists of the world conspiring to destroy the world economy? Or the powers that already be in this world desperately trying to hold onto their positions? I don't know about you, but I think the latter is far more likely.