So many of those fax lines are just email servers in a trench coat in the US though
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When it comes to PC OEMs I've observed that right now Dell has really good driver support. They've got increasingly good utilities for keeping drivers up to date and they've been doing a good job of loading drivers and their utilities into Microsoft's relevant repositories where it makes sense, and that driver support tends to actually last multiple years. I can often pull down a new UEFI update for a 5 year old Dell PC, which is not something I can say of most hardware manufacturers.
So at the threat model of an enterprise org, I'd prefer Dell for that reason alone. Lenovo and HP have tried to implement some of that, HP seems to have given up after building the bare minimum and Lenovo has their typical wonky software that will become good after a few years if they keep investing developer time into it, but knowing Lenovo there's about a 60% chance some new executive will come in and change direction, and the software will be made increasingly unusable then later discontinued due to lack of use
However for my personal computers, there's a high chance it won't even be running Windows so I just buy based on hardware & price alone
My very first desk job was an outsourced support role where 99% of calls we simply found the answer in the user manual and provided that to them. The other 1% was usually something isoteric we'd forward on to someone within the company. The amount of callers who'd say "I've read the user manual cover to cover and I just can't figure out how to..." And I'd just try to page 12 on the PDF and read them the instructions word for word
At the scale of HP, I can see the logic. You know that, say 60% of calls are directly covered by the knowledge base because you have those metrics. That's means 60% of their support overhead could be eliminated if they somehow got people to read those documents. Hardware sales usually have very thin margins and a customer contacting support can easily cost more in support than the entire profit margin of the product (and often it's a self-inflicted problem) and of course an RMA for most products basically negates all profit from that sale. It's a real business challenge and the asshole solution is to simply tie people up for 15 minutes in the phone system before connecting to a human to see how many people hang up and how much that reduces support load
I tried that and gave up after a year because it was getting old running to the library every few months to print that one page I needed for something odd that came up. Granted it's been one of those years where so much life insanity happens that you have to work through. But now I'm happy that I can also print coloring pages and anything else I feel like printing on top of insurance documents that the DMV needs me to mail and passport applications and new tax forms for fun new tax challenges I've found myself in, and so on.
I can't tell if there's a pun that's going over my tired head (I just walloped myself with an early spring bike ride while recovering from a cold) but IT like any career is pretty easy to break into. Go to school and get a degree (I found a 2 year networking degree was sufficient to put myself on a very nice career trajectory. I've already hit mid-high level in my career based off only existing less than a decade of work experience, my technical knowledge and my 2 year degree) then start applying to jobs as you get close to graduating. You'll probably start in the help desk, then after a couple of years or so of that you can start applying to more administrative roles, such as maybe an admin role at a MSP or maybe you'll get lucky and snag an internal jr admin role somewhere to get started out, then you can further specialize from there if you wish, but once you get a job that has "admin" in the title and doesn't crush your soul you're already at a good point to coast if you so wish
I'm a strong believer in requiring all office/majority computer using roles to be at least hybrid if for no other reasons than to take cars off the road, but the societal benefits of mass remote work are immense.
I've worked remotely more than not since 2020 (and that's with 5 job changes since 2020 somehow) and if I got to pick, I'd work a hybrid role where I go to the nice office and bullshit with my coworkers about all the little things that weren't worth writing an email or Teams message about a few days a month, then go home and crank out the real work the rest of the time. And with kids, they clearly appreciate me being at home more than at the office even if I do have to shoe them away fairly frequently.
As someone who builds a ton of dashboards for executives they absolutely do! It's also very obvious when an executive finally gets replaced who hasn't been pulling their weight because I'll suddenly learn that 3 of the dashboards we made for them have been broken for multiple years without anyone noticing
I'm on former Centurylink fiber which was similarly sold off to private equity. Other than the name changes and wonkiness with accessing my account in their system, its been...fine actually? The connection is more stable than it ever was under Centurylink for one thing, and my bill hasn't changed at all in the years since
The rx560 is pretty long in the tooth at this point and was a budget card when it released about a decade ago. That build isn't far off from my wife's PC before I rebuilt it last year (4th Gen i5, 12GB of DDR3 and an RX560) and it was pretty well rounded in everything being a bottleneck. Like she played plenty of games at 720p on it, but it wasn't fantastic. Took a lot of settings tuning in every game to get things looking decent and performing well enough
It sounds like you're building a PC for a friend or relative, I would steer them towards either a used console or encourage building a system without a discrete GPU and encourage them to circle back in a few months to a year and see if they can scrape together the budget for an RX4/580 or a used 20/30 series Nvidia card. The fact is, at that price range a bit more money can net you a lot more performance, so waiting and saving a little more is going to be the better option if possible
Farm Simulator has a bunch of tree farming content in the base game
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I had an employee at a touch tank at an aquarium explain to me that stingrays swim around in giant schools constantly touching each other so they really just like being pet and touched, and as we were chatting (it was a really slow day) I could see the stingrays dancing and getting antsy because they weren't getting enough attention and the employee just kept petting them as they kept coming up and bouncing out of the water clearly going "Pet me! Pet me!"
Streamer mode is typically for one of two usecases:
- The streamer plays their own music, so being able to silence all game music simplifies things
- The game might contain copyrighted music by known artists, which can trigger automated enforcement. In most jurisdictions music used in a game is fine to stream/record because it's covered by the developer's/distributor's license, but that doesn't stop overzealous rights holders from placing bogus claims that can muck up your revenue, so it's easier to just not play music that you don't yourself have license to play
A steam outline engine if you will
The price is irrelevant, because they aren’t for you or regular consumers. They’re already reserved and being shipped to AI data centers.
I mean this is the standard operating procedure for all top end data center products, they aren't sold on consumer marketplaces but can be purchased by suppliers with existing contracts and relationships
As they ramp up yields larger capacity drives will slowly trickle into more consumer channels until eventually the 40+TB drives are like the 8-12tb drives are today
we will be left with many living MAGA in our prisons
Conveniently they've been building tons of prisons that could be put to use for this
I rewatched it for the first time as an adult last year and holy crap that film is incredible
Oh I bet he had amazing counter heights
Come to think of it, they are a really nice height! Normal counters an average sized person has to bend a little but these you can comfortable eat at while standing. I imagine they'd be a bit too high for me to comfortable cook at being only 5'8"ish but yeah I never thought about that
Yeah I have a relative who's similarly tall, and he was a gunner in the airforce. I have no clue how he fit into those planes but he apparently saw combat and everything.
He had a house built for him with 8 foot door frames and 10+ foot ceilings so that he wouldn't have to duck at home
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Just to muddy the waters, I worked with a guy who had "system administrator level XII" in his email signature and one of the teammates asked him about it. His response was that he just put that in to see if anyone noticed and occasionally bumps the number up when he feels like it's about time to do so.
So you never know when someone stuck a private joke into their email signature like that. Heck when I was brought back to my role I was never given a clear job title so I just put the most accurate job title I could think of in my signature of "IT Contractor"
There's a NOFX song about exactly this!