@computerchip said in Crypto Predictions:

@r3dpand4 I sent my prediction to a peer who has also been in crypto for several years, he agrees with me. Now it's been peer reviewed.

Looks like you nailed it......

@momurda "India? They cant even provide reliable water and electricity for the majority of their population. I am sure accepting bitcoin is high on their list of todos. Oh wait, no it isnt, it is officially banned."

India has not banned Cryptocurrency: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sindhujabalaji/2018/02/06/india-is-not-banning-cryptocurrency-heres-what-it-is-doing-instead/#673cea5f7c6f

Everything you have posted is categorically false, you honestly don't deserve any further responses. Stating outlandish things and making character claims about a large portion of the world's population without citation doesn't deserve attention.

@computerchip "No one really knows if it will rain tomorrow or not, but they speculate across the world every day.

You can look at a previous post here, where I speculated that BTC will be consistently above the 10k mark in 30 days. Looks like I am on track for that prediction."

This is an inaccurate representation of yourself and every layman speculating on Cryptocurrency prices. Weather predictions are made by professionals based on scientific modeling stemming from peer reviewed research. Making random guesses spread over forums is in no way comparable.

No one really knows so I don't understand the point in speculating. It's literally plastered over every forum regarding Cryptocurrency that you should only invest what you're willing to lose 100% of and that holding long term, 5+ years, outweighs day trading gains for the average person. Sure it could go up today, it could also go down. Speculating day to day is pointless, and if you're in the Cryptocurrency space to make money just do your research, buy in, and wait 5 years. Watching Delta or coinlib every day is just going to stress you out.

FortiGate and WatchGuard are the two I have the most experience with and both are pretty solid.

https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-047-released

Just out of curiosity....why are you going with a separate VPN product? The SSL Client VPN from WatchGuard is free and works fine.

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-linux

Good news...

I had never seen this thread before, but since it jumped to the top of my unread I took a peak. The group I'm with currently has pretty close ties to one of the largest Practice Management Software developers in the country, and it's architecture is exactly the same. This is also why Ransomware is such an issue, considering everyone on the LAN normally has Read/Write access to the DB files. Terrible development is sadly far too common.

@scottalanmiller Agreed, especially since you're to a greater degree surrounded by people who have absolutely no idea what it is that you do. Even management structures in SMB IT are rarely staffed by technical individuals or technically competent I should probably say. At least in my experience, the fewer people around me who think what I do is comparable to black magic the better.

Set as default browser for a week so I can actually form a real opinion.

I've found that a lot. SMBs tend to actually be way less flexible compared to enterprises. Enterprises tend to be much more focused on their employee's, their quality of life, and running the business well. SMBs tend to be focused on the emotional needs of the owners to the exclusion of all else, including value of life and profits.

Well said, almost like you've been doing this a while.

@scottalanmiller I could see that, one thing I will say is a lot of the issues I had with the employer I'm leaving are being addressed by my new one. There are also some special arrangements that are available to me that I'm interested in utilizing that's laid out on paper with HR, and I couldn't get anything to budge from the SMB where you might think there'd be more flexibility.

@scottalanmiller Geez well disregard that portion I suppose.

Coming from someone who is making this very move I'll just drop my two cents. You're not going to be there forever, especially in this industry it's not often you'll find someone in the same spot for 3+ years at least in my experience. I'm looking at it from the perspective of exponential growth. There are some financial factors to consider as well, but even if you hated it and wanted to go back to the SMB, or start up your own support team, a years worth of experience will give you so much exposure and open so many doors I think it's worth the move. You also see how things are done successfully on a large scale, and will see the inefficiencies you could possibly avoid.

@scottalanmiller I'm a little suspicious as to whether this was actually obtained by legal means, but seems like a really good deal https://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/sys/d/asus-zenbook-ux305c/6376827888.html

@scottalanmiller Perfect. Thank you.

@scottalanmiller Yeah just hard to narrow down which one I want at this point, I struggle with a lot of options I don't even like restaurants with pages of menus.

@scottalanmiller My pc at home is Windows 10, I've used worst but I certainly don't have as strong of an opinion on it as some. That's unfortunate to hear about the hardware. The only mobile hardware I've ever owned was Sony, because I have a buddy who works for Sony and he is normally just giving stuff away. First had a laptop, it lasted me for about 4 years without issue and I only ever upgraded the RAM amount. I have a VAIO Tap now and once you get all of the bloatware out of the way it seems to be decent.

@scottalanmiller Yep haha