Miscellaneous Tech News
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@dafyre So my main ISP (a local provider who has historically been fantastic) is just cable. They are rolling out fiber "soon" but cant give me a date. So, against my gut feeling, I decided to give Frontier fiber a try. They just rolled it out in our neighborhood. $40 for 500/500 with no contract. I figured I'll give it a try and see what happens. I kept my old ISP for now and just lowered my speed I am now paying the same monthly cost as I was before for 2 ISPs, doing failover on my edge router. If Frontier fiber proves to be stable, I'll ditch the old ISP.
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@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If Frontier fiber proves to be stable, I'll ditch the old ISP.
I had Frontier in Dallas and they were fantastic. Second best ISP that I ever dealt with, the best being Optimum Cable in NYC.
However, Frontier is the little ISP from my home town of Rochester and they are a pariah there. They are well known locally for being unethical and dishonest.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If Frontier fiber proves to be stable, I'll ditch the old ISP.
I had Frontier in Dallas and they were fantastic. Second best ISP that I ever dealt with, the best being Optimum Cable in NYC.
However, Frontier is the little ISP from my home town of Rochester and they are a pariah there. They are well known locally for being unethical and dishonest.
So I have heard nothing but nightmare stories about Frontier, but those stories were all about DSL. I heard that Frontier Fiber is a completely different animal. Customer service (actually getting ahold of someone has been less than ideal, but I do eventually get through to them on the phone. To be fair though, I have just had to contact them regarding questions about my installation.
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@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
If Frontier fiber proves to be stable, I'll ditch the old ISP.
I had Frontier in Dallas and they were fantastic. Second best ISP that I ever dealt with, the best being Optimum Cable in NYC.
However, Frontier is the little ISP from my home town of Rochester and they are a pariah there. They are well known locally for being unethical and dishonest.
So I have heard nothing but nightmare stories about Frontier, but those stories were all about DSL. I heard that Frontier Fiber is a completely different animal. Customer service (actually getting ahold of someone has been less than ideal, but I do eventually get through to them on the phone. To be fair though, I have just had to contact them regarding questions about my installation.
Oh yeah, their DSL is a trainwreck.
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@AdamF said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Nexcloud Photos 2.0 (https://nextcloud.com/athome/) seems like it got better. But who knows.
Then there is this: https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html But that is just a sync tool.
So I have to say.... So far, I am pleasantly surprised and impressed with this. Photos 2.0 definitely takes some tweaking and customizing via add on preview generators, etc. But so far, I am liking what I am seeing. I might do a write up on my findings/experience so everything it documented for me as well as others.
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Pretty sure that this belongs in the "I Can't Even" thread...
Google scraps Drive limit that was applied by stealth
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/google-drive-cancels-its-surprise-file-cap-promises-to-communicate-better/ -
@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pretty sure that this belongs in the "I Can't Even" thread...
Google scraps Drive limit that was applied by stealth
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/google-drive-cancels-its-surprise-file-cap-promises-to-communicate-better/I would agree about the "I Can't Even" thread.
Although, a lot of things don't surprise me like they used to.
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@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Pretty sure that this belongs in the "I Can't Even" thread...
Google scraps Drive limit that was applied by stealth
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/04/google-drive-cancels-its-surprise-file-cap-promises-to-communicate-better/Most Google decisions belong in the i can't even thread.
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Rochester, NY's Frontier Communications, a major fiber carrier in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/frontier-declares-bankruptcy/ar-AA19GDNS
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Rochester, NY's Frontier Communications, a major fiber carrier in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/frontier-declares-bankruptcy/ar-AA19GDNS
lol “expects to continue providing quality service”, might help if you had quality service in the first place.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Rochester, NY's Frontier Communications, a major fiber carrier in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/frontier-declares-bankruptcy/ar-AA19GDNS
I just signed up for Frontier. Sigh. Hopefully this means nothing for me here in PA.
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Ubuntu 23.04 is out today.
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CEO says many of his remote workers didn't open their laptops for a month, and 'only the rarest of full-time caregivers' can be productive employees
These kind of articles bother me. This to me is not a failure on the employee's part, but a total failure on the company's part. If employees and their managers can go a whole month without doing any work, and nobody notices, that's a total failure on the company, their processes, their planning... deliverables, initiatives, projects / tracking, etc.
If one isn't delivering meaningful results, and nobody notices.... so many questions.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
CEO says many of his remote workers didn't open their laptops for a month, and 'only the rarest of full-time caregivers' can be productive employees
These kind of articles bother me. This to me is not a failure on the employee's part, but a total failure on the company's part. If employees and their managers can go a whole month without doing any work, and nobody notices, that's a total failure on the company, their processes, their planning... deliverables, initiatives, projects / tracking, etc.
If one isn't delivering meaningful results, and nobody notices.... so many questions.
The company in question says it's only 800 employees, so it's not like a crazy amount of people or anything, but even if it's 100,000 employees, if you structure correctly, there's no way anyone doing nothing for a month straight should even remotely go unnoticed.
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Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
I often do a clean install for my daily driver laptop.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
I can upgrade right now.. but I want a clean system.
but i was also lazy about organizing my dot files of some applications I want settings saved for..Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
I can upgrade right now.. but I want a clean system.
but i was also lazy about organizing my dot files of some applications I want settings saved for..Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.
If you have the space available, what I do as a middle ground is carve out some space amd install it side by side, dual boot. Boot to the new one and you can still access the old and migrate over in your own time. Once finished, kill the old, then expand the partition and it's like new fresh.
