realbadat

joined 8 months ago
[–] realbadat 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Health insurance...

[–] realbadat 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

With his Peter.

[–] realbadat 8 points 5 months ago

Got it, so more than disingenuous in your case then. Noted.

[–] realbadat 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I see that there is a substantial difference between the two parties, and equating them is, at best, disingenuous.

[–] realbadat 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

... Which is the device they specifically mention regarding /e/os in the article.

[–] realbadat 2 points 5 months ago

I don't know if I can agree on that, I personally find osx frustrating even today with how little control users are provided with, but I've also been a Linux user for far longer than just about anything else.

Still though, I do put OSX above Windows these days - purely based on software, not their hardware/price - for being easier than windows.

With package managers and stable desktop solutions (Debian for example), I think it's easier now than ever to ditch the proprietary and have a better experience.overall as a user.

[–] realbadat 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think you may be misremembering some osx fun with cups in the past, just like with Linux. Honestly most activities for the older folks these days is mobile or web based, the tech support needs for them is about the same regardless of OS imo.

Back when I did solo IT work (a good 20+ years ago now), the questions were pretty much the same no matter what was being used too, though the Linux desktops at the time were usually focused on specialty hardware (so the dot matrix they were connecting to was about as easy as it could get).

At the time though, macs were getting popular again, even among folks like me who appreciated Darwin and thought OSX would lean more heavily into open source rather than the outright thievery they ended up doing, but that part is neither here nor there.

I'd say back then it was maybe 65/25/10 split of windows/osx/linux (usually redhat there, and two machines with slack), but the questions were mostly the same. And no matter what OS it was, it usually became a request for me to just do it for them on my next trip over.

If anything, aside from specific bits of software that may be unique to an industry and someone actively working, which OS has gotten far, far, far less important than it used to be.

[–] realbadat 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Oof, seriously. And /e/os is an odd recommendation over graphene.

[–] realbadat 2 points 5 months ago

If it works for you, great. To me that's a risk of more stuff that could break and cause problems when you could just have a DC barrel and move on.

I can definitely think of some edge cases where it would be handy though.

[–] realbadat 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Considering these are to be used as a router, what are you planning on powering it off of? I can't see much use where you'd put this unit behind a poe switch aside from maybe blocking a problematic device (in a corporate setting to meet security requirements). If it's for a small switch scenario, you'd get the performance out of a (slightly) cheaper dedicated switch.

[–] realbadat 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"Hulking out"?

He made a mistake assumption, I provided info, he responded with nastiness, I blocked. I really don't see what you're hung up on here.

[–] realbadat 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Nah, try reading through his messages in order. He gets nasty right away, as he did to another who pointed out his mistake. I figured I'd provide some supporting context, he again behaved like a dick. So I blocked him.

Doesn't seem problematic to me at all.

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