At work, a CTO for a firm we were designing a solution for got upset because hardware was in customs, and tariffs needed to be paid.

He didn’t understand why the manufacturer wasn’t paying, and it had to be pointed out (by someone from the other company bringing this hardware) that tariffs are a tax on importing, not exporting, and for every single contract they have ever had, tariffs are paid by the client.

This was not a small company, either. We’re talking about a fairly large firm in finance. And the CTO didn’t understand how tariffs work.

We’re fucked.

Yup, was getting an uber (I can’t drive for very long or the pain starts), he was chatty and excited about Trump.

Asked what he thought about the anti-immigrant talk (oh obviously thats the bad ones!), and the fact that there was a pandemic and prices skyrocketed (Biden’s fault even though that all started before he was in office), etc. Paraphrased obviously.

I don’t know what can possibly be said to these folks to have them understand, but as a result, we have… Well all this current nonsense.

8 months ago:

Literally in a car with an immigrant right now who voted Trump because things were cheaper before covid.
FFS.

I’m curious what that guy thinks today. Or if he’s still in the US.

The 1yr old and 2 yr old were left alone in a car, for 90 150 minutes.

This was negligience long before a child died.

Edit - misread the times, its so much worse.

Thats what I thought.

Ive seen the “We have salt beads!” one recently, but none with the plastic microbeads.

Assuming you want to replace it all, not just home lab use…

1. Drop their router/modem combo if you can, get your own modem and router. Options are pretty wide here, but what I prefer is a wired router and separate WAPs. I’d lean toward opnsense for the router OS, and I’d use something with as little as two to four ports - one for the modem, one to hit a switch, two more gives you a second modem option (cellular as mentioned) and a second switch to hit if needed. Ideally with 10gbps for future proofing. Dont make your router/FW do lift of a switch, IMO.
2. Get a switch sized to your network. Since you’re going with a 10" rack, a small 8 port with a couple 10gbit uplinks would fit the bill. Managed only here. You dont need the latest and greatest - I have a stack of Aruba 2920s, 48+4 PoE+ (stacking cables) that I got for free that were being replaced. They came out in 2013 and went end of sale in 2017, and have been in my home lab since. So - any thing managed that handles what you have and a bit more.
3. In terms of WAP, TP-Link, ASUS, and Zyxel all have decent hardware that works well.

Just a language shift for corporations, definitely.

Subscriptions aren’t buying, thats the problem.

Yeah I just dont have a need with no devices to handle it natively, while the rest of my library can be. Building a new htpc media player for the living room next, new server after that.

New because I’m using a lenovo tiny as the server, which means either I build a new box completely, or I find the right used workststion tiny/mini/micro that can handle av1. Complete build will do a lot more (well, the t/m/m does too, but not to the extent my big box builds are set up for).

About the same here, minus the music videos (only a few dozen there for the kids), plus a fitness library, so I’d say it evens out to roughly equal.

Mostly HEVC but I still have some h.264 floating around that I have no interest in reencoding.

No AV1 at all until I get a new Intel GPU or newer Intel CPU to handle transcoding it nicely.

Thats the problem…

Right now I’m not even served by one of the big companies, and they haven’t improved service in… Years.

Even their fiber lines max at 500 symmetric, and they won’t drop to a residence. No other options either.

Comcast is now in the area, and as much as I hate them… It would be cheaper and faster by a lot (on both counts). Half the price, 25 times the upstream.

Its a sad state of affairs IMO.

Thats what I’m on currently, and soon I’ll be able to get 1.2gbit symmetric!

Still a far cry from 2-3gbps. I dont know of anyone with home internet service capable of that, but maybe elsewhere there are better options.

I dont think I said “random”, but a randomized routine that meets criteria absolutely works, and you dont need AI for that. I dont think anyone said “AI” at all until you just now either.

Detecting plateau isn’t too hard either, which is when you would get a suggestion to change an exercise or set of exercises in a routine, or a new routine. Which is where change of angle comes in - its about the exercise being performed.

Can someone do it themselves? Sure, it just takes more work. Which is kind of the point here - you can make a list of exercises that hit a muscle or muscle group just fine without software, which is what this software does. The next logical step is a system that handles routine options, too.

Even with consistent goals you need to change your routine around.

Edit: and if you’re injured, you should be meeting with a doctor/pt for any workout information. No system is going to know how to deal with that sensibly.

Yup…

Uptime is fine, CPU/men is fine. I’d even be fine with grabbing a few ssd’s for the task…

But 2-3gbps is a non-starter, not to mention 2 contacts.

It shouldn’t be slanted, I’m going to go with “not to code”, or your local building code didn’t adopt IRC for stairs.

(At least for the slant I’m picturing in my head it would not be to code)

3/4" min to 1-1/4" max is code, with a 9/16" nosing. No nose is doable, but with a min step depth of 11", generally youre not seeing that outside of commercial spaces (and typically concrete).

Not sure where you are (or if your stairs are even up to code), but that’s what they are referring to.

built during

When was your home built?

I believe I can sum it up:

Don’t

(This message brought to you in conjunction with my most recent experience of 200ish lines of useless generated code a coworker excitedly sent to me to review, and the letters L & M.)

I’d say too narrow, goals vary between people greatly, and the routine you’d use for general fitness will be different than the one you’d focus on as a runner or cyclist, and different than someone focusing on support muscles for back or knee pain, or to lose weight.

Its also good to change the routine over time, to change the angle and movement patterns, etc.

Yup, with some common breakouts would be a great add…

• PPL
• Upper/lower
• Standard split

And maybe a recommended calendar for rotation?