What’s up with the string tension in that stock photo? I haven’t seen recurve limbs point that much forward when stringed before.

Woof, woof, woof! That’s my other dog imitation

That’s such a positive wave, maybe they can’t lose…

That’s with the mindset that I wouldn’t want to stay long at a job like that

Oh I concur, but elsewhere OP mentioned that the job pays a rather unskilled (OP mentioned having an A+) 20 year old 55k USD, and OP is getting certs as well. In that case I’d seriously be working on my STFU-skills, instead of meddling in something that my boss really wants me to stop meddling in. Maybe do a bit of CMA - but not to the extent of emailing my boss to get a paper trail.

When you’ve been in an organization for only three months, and it’s your first job in the industry, maybe just absorb what’s happening instead of trying to change stuff. Make up your own opinions, sure, but keep them to yourself. Maybe evaluate on how you perceived situations, and how they played out, and modify your views based on that.

It’s your first IT job and you’ve been there for a few months? While your safety concerns definitely can be relevant my advice is this

You should

1. Don’t rock the boat as a new hire. Figure out what is going on first. Maybe there’s a reason to some of the madness you see.
2. Do NOT contact the owners. Doing so will likely be seen as disloyalty by your boss and possibly the owners as well. Only go through your immediate superior.
3. Don’t bring it up again with your boss. It’s not your responsibility.
4. Leverage the user. Let the user be the one to push for a system switch.

You could

1. Figure out if you can get the system on a separate VLAN and get it locked down in firewall rules.
2. Research the system. Why don’t your boss want it replaced? Does it run some ancient software? We’ve got some machinery that is running windows 7 at work. When I got hired, in the days if windows 8, the controller was running windows XP. The setting up of drivers and archaic proprietary software, involved in upgrading, is immense. When we switched to 7 this €60k equipment was down for days, and it was a week before it operated properly.

There’s a limit for file size on the Usenet

No, there is no limit on the file size on usenet. There’s a limit on the individual article size, but larger files just require more articles.

The reason why files were split on usenet was completion and corruption, and probably also media size originally. Say you need to post a 700MB file to alt.binaries.erotica.grannies.diapers, then you could just split those 700MB into 477867 articles of 1.5kB each, but if a single article is then corrupted or dropped, then nobody can get the file. If you split the 700MB into 35 files of 20MB each, and each 20MB file into 13654 articles, then a dropped article only corrupts a single file. Add to that, that completion issues often occured (or is it occurs? it’s been a long while since I got my Linux iso files from usenet) close to each other. So there might be a bunch of corruption in a single file, but everything else is fine. This is useful if your main provider was your ISPs complimentary usenet server, and you only got the rest from a pay by download service.

About the media comment earlier, I can’t be sure. I wasn’t around in the early days, but I know that the 700MB file size for movies came from the limitations of CDs. Splitting files can quite possibly stem from some similar restrictions on a removable media.

You can thank WinRar for powering the entire sharing scene for decades

And the saints behind winrar for only bugging you to pay. TBH first time installing 7z on a new windows install, instead of winrar, felt a bit sad.

And that’s when you learned about parity files…

When par2 came out that was huge for me. Didn’t use floppies anymore, but the ability to only download the required amount of parity blocks was great.

7? to goddamn 5? I’m not in at 7, and out way before 5, and if the boss don’t like it, then that’s not a me problem. 10 hours each day as in a 50 hour work week? That would be illegal in the EU, where you can’t work more than 48hours on average per week over a period of 4 months https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/human-resources/working-hours-holiday-leave/working-hours/indexamp_en.htm

I think I understand now. I’ve taught intro to electronics for years, and I’d recommend you start out experimenting with resistor networks and measurement techniques. In that case you really don’t need to spend much. All you need is:

• breadboards, plural
• a resistor kit
• some battery holders or clips
• jumper wire, just get the cheap bundles with only plugs and no sockets.
• pliers and sidecutters. Spend more than 3usd on the sidecutters, and do not use them for anything but thin wire and component leads.
• a decent entry level multimeter, a unitrend ut33a can be had for about 20usd plus shipping on ebay, and is fine for starting out.

Try designing networks of resistors with pen and paper, calculate voltages across the individual resistors to get familiar with Ohm’s law and Kirchhoff’s circuit laws (BTW don’t attempt to understand Kirchoff using Wikipedia, someone wanted to flex their brain when writing that article). Build more and more advanced circuits, start out with series, then parallel, and finally mix series and parallel resistors. Try to work out the power draw of each resistor, and just once try to blow one up… On purpose, that is :)

When you’ve sorta got the hang of it, you can progress on to adding capacitance and inductance in you circuits, or digital logics, or what ever you like. But getting the hang on basic circuit theory? well, that can take some time.

I don’t understand the list, the first don’t have a question mark, but then they do. Does that mean that the first items are already in your possession and you imagine needing the rest?

If you have all the stuff on your list, I get a book. Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz is a terrific resource. With that in hand you can start dreaming up projects and realizing them.

If the question mark is the stuff you expect to need, I’d say that a lab power supply is almost a must have. Nothing fancy, something that’ll do 20 or 30V and a few amps, if you’re looking for something a bit more, then same specs but with current limiting. Something like this https://www.reichelt.de/de/en/laboratory-power-supply-0-30-v-0-3-a-risu-compliant-mcp-lbn-303-p324544.html but see if there’s a second hand market for this stuff in your area.

Some basic components kits like a resistor and a capacitor kit. Maybe assorted diodes and transistors. Maybe get some voltage regulators, 7805 7809 and 7812, they can come in handy, when you’ve only got a single output on the psu and need different voltages.

That should be enough for a few months of fun. Next you’ll maybe play with timing and triggers. So a pc scope opamps and some 555s.

Original Finnish management has split off to a new independent company with the same name last year

Best business move EVER! Now people have to wonder with whom they’re doing business. Sorta keeps people on their toes. Way better than coming up with a new brand, making it easier for their five customers. /s

I feel kinda dirty that my last iso is en-us_windows_server_version_23h2_updated_may_2024_x64_dvd_[8 char identifier, that I don’t really know what does, but removed to avoid accidentally doxxing myself].iso

At least I got it from ms directly.

Guessing that you don’t want to see the dead rat I got the other night with my airgun, I present you with this instead.

I was wondering what a washing machine needed a TPM for. Better title: “machine fails to boot after power failure”

The messages weren’t pushed to you? You got a notification and then had to request the actual message? That would be even more stupid, as it’s using twice the bandwidth.

You had to pay to receive? wtf.gif

So some rando could ruin you by sending a bazillion SMS messages?

Yeah, I drop the equivalent of 16€ and I get 60GB data and unlimited calls and SMS with my Danish provider. Having to pay for SMS is purely corporate greed.

Best guess is standard MS buggery.

I had teams running on my phone, but removed it on account trying to improve my mental health. The other day I needed to use teams on the go, and I tried using firefox on android. No dice, browser not supported, why don’t you try our client? So I tried desktop mode, found out that I still had chrome installed, then tried opera and at last I even installed edge, and tried all in desktop mode as well.

I get that some functions may not work in rando mobile browsers, but teams noped out of every try. So guess who still isn’t accessible on teams.

I guess that the technology shouldn’t be deployed indiscriminately. But it could also mean a better hit ratio, since distance and speed is more accurately recorded with radar, than by naked eye.

We as in the people who don’t want to get fucked by Putin next. Check out the name, not an American.

The cheap kamikaze drones present a new strategy which we don’t have a viable long term counter for. As well do the swarms of drones. Relatively inexpensive autonomous defense systems, using inexpensive ammunition, seems like something we could use around important infrastructure elsewhere in Europe, as well as in Ukraine.

Agreed, but seeing as the Ukrainian defense forces are already doing this manually, why not optimize it?