ElderWendigo

ElderWendigo , 4 months ago

How the fuck can they not compete with 5G?

According to the article, for the last few decades the cable and telecommunications companies have avoided upgrading infrastructure to increase profit margins, while wireless companies have been building and upgrading towers like mad. Wireless companies have also successfully lobbied to gobble up a bunch of frequency allocation to increase their bandwidth.

ElderWendigo , 4 months ago

Ditto. Seems like everyone uses AutoDesk or Bentley. Although I use them both regularly, they both fail pretty hard in some areas. Now there's talk about BricsCAD. I've got my reasons to hate it that I don't want to get into, but it is platform independent (as every piece of professional software should be). It'll run on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

ElderWendigo , 4 months ago

You're right that you should try to make yourself a less appealing target for thrives, but some of your methods don't really hold up to scrutiny. Beeping motion sensor lights and secure locks and doors are great ideas. They will absolutely deter casual thrives and addicts.

Advertising that you have guns is just advertising that you have something to steal that is valuable, easy to sell, and easy to carry.

Warning signs for dogs aren't much better. If you don't have a dog, that will usually become obvious to anyone close enough to read the sign. If you do have a dog, then the sign is just an invitation to have them murdered the next time you have to interact with police at home. It will also expose you to liability should any trespasser be injured by that dog. Yeah, even the person robbing you, but also children, other pets, and well meaning innocent people just doing their jobs (and not breaking the law by entering your property without permission) like meter readers, mailmen, land surveyors, emergency response, etc. When I see a dog warning sign, to me it just says that a dumb asshole abusing a dog lives here.

Broken furniture sounds clever, but that just says trashy, not poor. Actual poor people take better care of their shit. HOAs would also limit the places you could actually do this without fines in the suburbs. Broken outdoor furniture is as common as weeds in more rural areas.

WiFi Cams just mean that you can afford Internet. EVERYBODY has WiFi cameras. They are ridiculously cheap to buy and easy to install. Cameras (WiFi or not) aren't a great deterent anyway.

ElderWendigo , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

You're confusing opinion and facts. My opinion is not fact (regarding dog warning signs) and I never said it was. Your feelings also are not fact.

ElderWendigo , 6 months ago

I'm not used to seeing this with so many pixels.

ElderWendigo , 6 months ago

And this comment is about as "First World Problems" as it gets.

ElderWendigo , 6 months ago

Do you really want an explanation for why a market might want large signage that they can change without much extra labor? Seems self evident to me.

ElderWendigo , 8 months ago

Piracy doesn't compete on price. Maintaining a server, Internet, and VPN access has a cost beyond the technical knowledge needed to set it all up.

Piracy competes on service. Sick of ads? Sick of your favorite shows disappearing from your services? Tired of the Disney vault (they have the content but won't let you stream it any more) problem? Can't find the thing on any service? Like obscure and rare content? Like fan edits? Like to curate collections and playlists? Like HD on any and every device you own? Like easy offline content syncning for when you're traveling to a spot with spotty Internet? Like sharing your library with friends and family? Tired managing multiple streaming subscriptions and navigating the content to find what you really want to watch? Your friendly neighborhood pirate community has a solution for you. Lower prices aren't even in the top ten reasons lots of people pirate.