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MystikIncarnate

@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca

Some IT guy, IDK.

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MystikIncarnate ,

The thing I like the most about my neighbors is that they leave me the fuck alone. I got lucky.

Considering how much turnover there has been in the area, I expect a few people who bought at less than 200k in the area are going to be looking to sell, and the landlord's who are going to be buying property are going to rent it out to some crackheads, I'm sure of it... When they do, that bliss I have of being left the hell alone will go right out the damn window.

If I had the choice, of this place, or another just like it, but away from any neighbors, I would have pushed to be away from neighbors.

Anyone who I want around, can drive here. Everyone else can go away.

MystikIncarnate ,

We should destroy it to make room for an intergalactic expressway.

MystikIncarnate ,

Well hello there. I'm closer to Niagara but in the same general area.

We had some clouds, but otherwise it was a good experience. Nice picture.

MystikIncarnate ,

I'm so sorry about that.

MystikIncarnate ,

Aren't we all?

MystikIncarnate ,

Hey now. Correlation does not indicate causation.

But yes. That's the reason because of course it is.

MystikIncarnate ,

It's almost like, you stare at the sun, and it hurts your eyes regardless of whether the moon is in front of it or not.

MystikIncarnate ,

It's not all Amazon's fault. Sometimes people buy a thing, then return it "unopened" because reasons, when, what they actually did, was remove the MacBook from the package and replaced it with a brick, then shipped it back to Amazon for a refund. Free MacBook.

Amazon restocks it because it was "unopened" and ships a fucking brick in a MacBook box to someone for thousands of dollars.

But yes, many, many, MANY, expensive products on Amazon are fake. Even not expensive ones too.

MystikIncarnate ,

Well, you could put the glasses over the eclipse thingers.... But that would just focus the light right into the eclipse lenses and probably would make them not work so well. IDK.

I'm just some guy. Not like I work with optics for a living.

My only complaint was that, during totality (I was in the path), we couldn't see anything through the eclipse thingers. That's the part I wanted to see, and.... Nothing. Do I need two sets of these? One for totality, and one for the rest of the damn time?

MystikIncarnate ,

The scale is yes.

MystikIncarnate ,

There was still a wear layer below the data layer which could be resurfaced. So the services worked.

Commonly it worked by removing some material from the bottom wear layer to remove the damaged bits, so it didn't work forever. You would eventually run out of material to remove and trying to repair it would result in a catastrophic failure of the media.

Writable disks however, not so good.

MystikIncarnate ,

I suspect a few people bought this legitimately. When the CD/DVD revolution happened, a lot of the quattrogenarians spent their entire home video experience inundated with "be kind, rewind" slogans from rental shops. Being fairly frugal and not wanting to pay the extra to have the shop rewind the video for them, they would be obsessed with rewinding a video before returning it. I imagine that some used this unironically to appease their elders into thinking that it was "rewound" before returning rentals. It's useless, sure, but it would have completed the "rewind" step, preventing the unnecessary (and non-existent) rewind fees for mildly dementia ridden elders during the early DVD era. Just having that extra step would appease their need to do it, and prevent complaints and re-explanations that DVDs don't need it.

Just put it on the thing, make it spin backwards for a minute, then package it up. It's useless to explain that you don't have to do that because they won't remember it, and the next time they play a DVD, they'll just be looking for a way to rewind it again.

MystikIncarnate ,

There is merit to it, mainly in high speed applications. When you got up to 48x and 52x speeds, an imbalance could result in a catastrophic failure of the material and the disk could lose structural integrity... aka it can explode.

For audio... Not so much. Since audio always ran at 1x speed. Any disk imbalances would be trivial to the ability for the player to read the disk.

I remember when I converted a bunch of CDs to mp3, the "ripping" program would give errors if it was trying to read too quickly, it would result in those slips and cirps you could hear on some mp3 files. Those were literally read errors from when the data was extracted from the original media... though, it could also be imperfections in the disk, or scratches. I ran mine at... IIRC 4x to ensure there were few, if any, read errors. Sure, it took between 10 and 20 minutes to extract all the tracks from a CD, but I didn't get any audio issues that were so common in early mp3 files.

I imagine that if I had this and used it on the disks for a minute before ripping them to mp3, I could have run it at 8-16x or more with no loss in quality.

For data applications, there's read checking (CRC) to ensure data integrity. If there's a read error, the drive will just retry, slowing down as required to ensure the data is consistent. This is why your CD/DVD drive spins up and down while reading data during something like a file copy off of a disk. Eliminating the need to re-read the data can significantly increase the speed of a copy operation.

The disk shaver did work, it was just marketed poorly. For 1x CD reads, it was generally useless.

MystikIncarnate ,

This was a struggle for me at first too.

Until I realized that trying not to think of anything so I can sleep, is thinking about something.

The paradox of "trying" to sleep. The harder you try, the less you sleep.

MystikIncarnate ,

My only argument is in the idea of finding which device has a particular IP address.

Guess you're running laps around the campus staring at pegs for a while to figure out which one it is.

MystikIncarnate ,

I'm a bit confused. What are you trying to get the yubikey to do?

MystikIncarnate ,

I can try:

You see, a lot of really smart people worked very hard to make standardized multifactor authentication so different companies can make products that work with the MFA on different sites and services.

The standardized versions are very cross compatible and very very secure.

Some dumb dumbs want to be different and make you install some application on your smartphone so that you can do the exact same thing but only for their site/service. This is widely considered a bad idea, and it makes people sad. Having to install yet another app, just so you can do something that could, and should be possible with the very good existing technology that's been created by those very smart people I mentioned before, is stupid, inconvenient, and frustrating for anyone who understands how these things work, and how secure they actually are.

Since the app that the dumb dumbs made was created by them, for them, and they don't share how that app functions, it can very justly cause concern with those that enjoy their privacy, since the app could be doing any number of potentially nefarious things. When you compare that with the known and trusted methods of authentication created by the smart people, it's understandable that people would not appreciate having to use some proprietary application to do something that's already able to be done in a safe and predictable way.

.... I think I may have used too many big words. You did ask me to eli5....

MystikIncarnate ,

Yeah, I've seen that prompt at least 50 times by now. There's almost always a button to use a different authenticator app, which shifts the code to be TOTP compliant.

I don't think I've ever seen that button not be there.

To be fair, the MS authenticator app is also useful as a totp app, so it's not all bad. I mean, I don't use it, but it's not all bad.

If your company (assuming this is for ms365) can also enable FIDO2, so yubikeys are also possible, but they're not enabled by default, so your 365 admin needs to go press a button to allow that for you. MS even supports passkey for passwordless login. But again, not enabled by default. Fun fact: Windows 10/11 also support all of this but if you're on an active directory domain.... You guessed it, it's not enabled by default.

To their credit, Microsoft has made some pretty significant strides in account security in recent years. It's pretty impressive; though requiring a TPM for desktop Windows (especially the "home" versions) still makes me raise an eyebrow. Overall it should help with security.... But a hard requirement? Okay Microsoft. If you say so.

MystikIncarnate ,

Sync shouldn't really matter, unless you're using a hotp code as opposed to a certificate or TOTP code.

TOTP being temporal, is based on UNIX time, and a seed key. A certificate will be challenged, which will require a challenge and reply all cryptographically encrypted. It's not something that's necessarily stored in some kind of sync, or rolling codes.

I'm not familiar enough with keepass to say what it's supposed to use with the yubikey in order to work. There's a few other methods that I'm sure that keepass could leverage to perform the authentication, so I'm not entirely sure what could be the problem.

MystikIncarnate ,

I picked up an iPhone several years ago, I think a 6 or 6s? Anyways, I tried to use it for a while, because I work in IT and sometimes need to support people on their iPhone, and being an Android person, I had no idea what I was doing.

I could not stand it. Everything took so much more effort. I never got rid of my android, I just tried to use the iPhone whenever possible to familiarize myself with the apple way of doing things. I hated some of the layouts, I missed the back button... Even something as simple as copy/paste just seemed a lot more cumbersome for no good reason.

I learned a lot about it and where options and such were located (which is what I primarily needed) then I simply used it a bit less and less all the time until I finally stopped using it entirely. I have no idea where it is at this point, but I'm sure it still works and I'm sure I would still hate it. I've wanted to retry the experiment with a newer device like the X or 11 or something, but anytime I consider it, I just think back on my experience and unless I can pick up a relatively modern iPhone for next to nothing, I'm pretty uninterested in trying again. I know iOS has had a lot of updates in the past few years since I used one and maybe it sucks less? But I'm not willing to sacrifice my sanity to figure it out.

I don't mean to hate on iOS or iPhones. I certainly don't like them, but if that's what works for you, then go ham. I find it cumbersome and restrictive, and you're free to disagree and use whatever you like; don't let me stop you.

MystikIncarnate ,

I was going to mention this. You can move them around; but you can't move them anywhere you want. The icons will always be, as you say, in a dense grid of rows with no "blank" spaces between the icons.

I don't know if the OP is true or satire or some kind of April fools thing, but it's still accurate.

MystikIncarnate ,

I read this has: " I have an irrational need to be in the same room as you, here is a plausible excuse to justify it"

Then you replied with: "here is a reasonable solution to the excuse you gave me so that we can all work better"

And then it went down hill.

MystikIncarnate , (edited )

Here's my theory: bad bosses want you to be there in person because they think you're lazy.

My old job: there was a constant cloud of mistrust I got when I worked there, just a feeling of unease. I can't really describe it. Like everyone was just a little bit unhappy with their job. It wasn't related to the work we were doing, it was the working conditions. Everyone seemed unhappy with some policy. I consistently heard bickering about management and idiotic decisions, plus the usual customer complaints about clients making bad decisions or doing ridiculous things, but that's normal and nobody seemed miffed about it, just discussing it.

They had a "hybrid" work setup, each person was "allowed" to work remotely one day of the week, each week. The selection of which day was up to each worker and their team/manager to schedule. The expectation was that someone would be in office at all times on every team. Most teams were 3-4 people, so it generally meant that only one person was working remotely at a time.

So let me compound this, and I'll note, there's no exaggeration here, this is what happened. While working, we were obligated to be in a teams meeting all day long, 9 times out of 10 it was expected that we were on cam the entire day. Frequently these teams meetings were only the team in question, but the justification was that we were in there in case a manager/team leader/whatever, could pop in and talk to the team if they needed to, and/or if the manager was working remotely. It was pretty rare that happened. The other excuse was so that the team could chat about challenges and discuss any client issues they needed to collaborate on, which most teams just used text chat to do, so the meeting was unnecessary.
During my time there, I made several suggestions for improvements and they all fell on deaf ears. Nothing changed. The excuses were poor, and I don't recall them very clearly because they were largely nonsense. Needless to say, the situation sucked.

I had to drive into the office for about 1h+ each day, and at least the same coming home, so around 2.5h of my day was my commute. I pleaded for more work from home/remote, but it was denied at every turn. Add this to the fact that there was no company provided parking, and parking in that area started at about $70/mo, and went up from there. The nearest parking areas were the most costly at $130+ and they were in high demand, some had wait lists for monthly passes because they simply did not have enough parking spots for everyone that wanted them.

There were probably dozens of other frustrations I could list, I'll limit myself to one more: my job is IT support, and we largely use remote access software for everything, so it literally does not matter where I work from. As long as I have an internet connection, I can do my job.

I didn't last 2 years under those conditions. I barely made it to 1 year.... There's a whole story as to why I don't work there anymore, but it's not relevant to the point. My point is, I was untrusted, and treated as though I should just shut up and create value for the shareholders, and be happy about it. By the way, the shareholders were the managers.

Contrast with the place I'm working now: I'm provided with $1000 of home office set up funds up front. I have a home office already set up, but I found some nice-to-have things that I was able to get with that money. I was shipped a brand new laptop and dock, which the old place gave me a used, old, crappy, end of life/end of support system. They also provided me with a UPS, keyboard, mouse, and three monitors, webcam, headset, etc. Before I even worked my first shift, all shipped to me directly. This job is 100% work from home, and this workplace doesn't even have an official office space. The only exception is when hands-on is required, or there's a team event, and we take over a client's board room for a day, so we can work from there, which has been less than once a month. I've met my team in person exactly twice in the three+ months I've worked at this place.

Any suggestions I have are discussed and considered. I feel heard. Some suggestions have already been implemented, others are still under consideration or have been denied with good reasons (usually a technical limitation regarding the systems we use). I don't need to sit in on useless meetings all day that accomplish nothing, I can listen to music while I get things done without being distracted by my co-workers eating their lunch and forgetting to hit mute. I "see" my team once a day for a stand up to check in on progress and workload. I feel supported, trusted, and I'm free to work in whatever conditions I find are most condusive to getting things done.

As a matter of fact: both jobs require time tracking, the old job I struggled to account for (approx) 5 hrs of my 8 hour shift, at the new job, I frequently can account for (approx) 7 hours of my day without issue.

My boss is good, trusting, and friendly. Compared to the cloud of discontent my old boss would inspire, and the work shows through on that. I'm happier, and I enjoy work again.

I recently heard that the old job nixed hybrid and went full RTO.

QED: Good bosses trust that you'll do your job and let you do that from wherever you can. Bad bosses want to control you into doing it "their way or the highway".

MystikIncarnate ,

In that case, the management was basically the founders. They grew the business without any employees, and when it came time to bring on employees, instead of stepping back and letting the employees figure out the best way to get their job done, they've rigidly enforced their work methodology on their employees. When you deviate, they get unhappy.

That specific company was a bit of an outlier, the majority shareholder "brags" that he has fired more people than.... I don't remember, I couldn't have given less of a shit when he said that. I was busy trying to keep my eyes from rolling out of my head. But that's literally something he said to me in person, with nobody else in the room. Needless to say, that company is shit for more reasons than controlling management.

Needless to say I was already starting to look for the exit after being there for less than a year.

I can't really talk about why I am no longer employed there, but I can confirm that I did not, at any point, provide two weeks notice as required by law when quitting. Beyond that, my lawyer advises me not to discuss it.

Needless to say, I'm thankful that I'm not working there anymore.

MystikIncarnate ,

I will add that the best manager I ever reported to, always took on things that impeded my ability to do work. If a client was being rude or unreasonable, I would shoot him a note about it and he would usually tell me to drop it and move on, that he would deal with the problem.... And he did.

I'd take a job under him again in a heartbeat.

Thanks Jeff, you're awesome.

MystikIncarnate ,

The time entries on my tickets would disagree with this logic.

MystikIncarnate ,

We made it up.

We made all of it up.

While I still identify as a man, with the same generals genetalia, I think I more identify as a Vulkan. Limiting my experience based on whether I have a penis or I don't have a penis is illogical. All persons regardless of their physical or mental gender identity should be treated as equal. While there's some biological/physical differences between the sexes, through training, hard work and preparation, either can perform any role except in regards to procreation. So if the matter has no bearing on creating progeny, I don't see what difference it makes.

Furthermore, if you choose to engage in activities where procreation is not the intent, I further see no point in the differentiation. It only serves two main purposes: biological reproduction and providing a sense of comfort to oneself. While there is no fault in wanting to be comforted by identifying as a man/woman/or other gender you wish to identify as, it is purely for that purpose. Others, whether they agree with your decisions or not, should respect your decision; if for no other reason than to allow you to be comfortable. That is logical.

For me, it would be illogical to be angered or otherwise discontented by being misgendered, as such things are of no importance to me. On the same note, I should have enough respect for my fellow persons to adhere to whatever they wish to use as their pronouns, and how they have chosen to identify themselves. I am always trying to ensure I respect the people I interact with, and use whatever language they prefer when referring to them. You are a person deserving of respect, to do less would be unacceptable.

Further, I can not comprehend why anyone would care whether another individual prefers a specific gender identity relative to their genetalia. It seems like an irrational issue that only exists in the mind of those that would complain about it. Those people should take some time in mediation, perhaps with the assistance of a professional therapist, to get to the root of their prejudice. They will have a more satisfying and fulfilling existence if they stop spending so much time concerned about matters which do not involve them, and have no bearing on their life.

I wish you all the best. Live long, and proper.

MystikIncarnate ,

I see musk as more of a doctor robotnik.

MystikIncarnate ,

As someone who has worked in IT communications, nobody deploying 5G is doing anything differently than for 4G/LTE/3G/2G or even coax/DSL/fiber/whatever. The only functional difference is that it's faster. It may operate with newer tech, faster chips, different frequency bands, different modulation techniques, etc.... But at the end of the day, it's just a means to get data from here to there. Nothing more.

Also, the government (or "the man" or "them" or whatever), already have an almost universal method to track every living person in the country. You willingly carry this tracker with you at all times; to work, to the park, to friends and family locations, etc..... If you haven't guessed yet, it's a cellphone.

A big part of increasing the network speed on commercial wireless networks (cellular provider networks) is reducing cell size, aka, the amount of space each radio covers, and just increasing the number of cells (radios) serving an area. They know exactly which cell(s) your phone is connected to, where those cells are, which direction the antennas are facing and how far you are away from it (by signal strength, or rssi). This can be triangulated with other antennas that can "hear" the same signal, and all of their metrics (location, direction, distance), and that information can be quickly collected and cross referenced into a very accurate location.

This can be done without any software on your device, and very likely without having a valid service plan. As long as you're in range and the cellular radio is on, "they" already know where you are. And you carry your phone with the radio online at all times, willingly. Pretty much once you get to have your own phone as a teenager, they know where you are and "they" have been able to track you since.

Having apps like Facebook and whatever that get your location information from the network and the app relays it to Facebook (or whatever corporate entity), is the equivalent for the corporate overlords. You just need to invite them in by having the application installed, and it can report that data to them.

Most do this entirely willingly and could not give any fewer shits about it.

This is not speculation, this is part of the technical capabilities of the systems. Whether or not the government or any legal entity is using the information for this purpose is up for debate, but the fact that it can be done isn't in question. There are entire companies dedicated to building solutions which correlate connection data to geolocate connected devices with a high degree of accuracy.

A nontrivial part of the reason these systems exist is for e911, which can relay GPS information to emergency services. A system which does not work very well for most counties because their 911 systems are too old and underfunded. If it works correctly, your precise location and altitude (to determine if you're on the ground floor or not), can be accessed by emergency services in the event that it is required. Usually those features are only accessible or activated if you actually dial 911 (or your country's equivalent emergency number), but they're built out and exist regardless of if you need/use it. This was made a requirement by the government since your physical address bound to the number you are calling from, is not necessarily where you are when you make the call. In the olden days of landlines, every phone number would come up with the service address when you called 911. Since the service address was the only location you could use that line from, that worked. Now that we're almost entirely mobile, it's not useful anymore, so this system was devised. Then the government promptly denied sufficient funding to 911 systems to implement their end of the system, while mandating that carriers set it up.

It's stupid. But I digress.

The fact is, you are being tracked. It's being done for your own good (re: emergency services), but it's very easily abused by those who can access it. People like government agencies.

Whether they're abusing it or not, that's a question you'll have to figure out for yourself.

MystikIncarnate ,

The anti semetics might be right, but only if the rich people who are doing the bad thing are also Jewish.

Bluntly, I don't think they're doing it because they're Jewish, it's because they're rich and entitled. But not all rich people are Jewish and not all Jewish people are rich, so it's likely that they're wrong.

Still a fucked up thing to say/think.

MystikIncarnate ,

All of this just makes me want an open source printer. Anyone know of a color laser printer which uses open source firmware?

MystikIncarnate ,

I would clarify, but I don't give enough of a shit to bother.

Anti semites can eat all the dicks.

MystikIncarnate ,

It's a well known scientific fact that higher frequency waves carry more energy. For larger mammals, such as humans, these differences are trivial for the most part. Unless you're standing in a location which is exposed to high amplitude and high frequency EM waves, the danger is generally nil. By high frequency, I'm talking about pretty much anything over ~10Mhz, and for high amplitude, I'm talking about power levels at or above 100W. Putting 100+W of power through an antenna is extremely rare, and due to things like attenuation, free space path loss, reflections, refractions, etc, unless you're basically standing directly next to an antenna, in its transmission path, you're fine. Bluntly, this is why cellular towers are set up the way they are. Usually an antenna mast will have a relatively small support pillar of some sort, usually a cylindrical "pipe" shape, or a set of support beams in an overlapping "x" shape, which narrows as it goes up. At the top it usually flares out for where the antennas are mounted, so if you climb up the mast, you end up behind the "business end" of the antennas; aka, they're pointed away from you. This means that the vast majority of energy being produced is directed away from where you are.
For everyone else, being on the ground or even in a nearby building, you're too far away to be exposed to significant signal amplitude. We can it EIRP in the industry, or "estimated isotopically radiated power". The EIRP drops off quickly in the first few meters after the antenna, as the signal expands outwards towards the service area; so even being within 15m is generally safe.

EM waves can be dangerous, specifically in the extremely high bands; IMO, this is what scares people. Extreme high band EM is dangerous at most power levels. These extreme high bands are capable of causing damage at the cellular level, possibly causing your DNA to break down. These are referred to as "ionising". The bands that people most commonly know that are ionising, includes UV and X-ray. High band UV 2 and UV 3 are in this range, and x-rays are too. They're all EM waves and they are extremely dangerous. These are all emitted by our sun, and mostly blocked by ozone. Some small levels of UV 3 might get through (hello skin cancer). What I want to point out is that these are all at, or above hundreds of terahertz in frequency. UV bands start around 800Thz. 80,000 times higher than 10Ghz. It goes up from there.

Light, which is also an EM wave is between 400-800Thz, and it's widely considered harmless. Yet, common folks tend to start to freak out about EM above ~6 GHz because of a lack of understanding. 8Ghz is more than 100,000 times lower than the low band of UV (which is non-ionising). Any EM wave with sufficiently high transmission power is strong enough to cause damage, for most frequencies below 400Thz (aka, below visible light) would need to be significantly higher than what we normally use. For context, transmission power at the antenna for broadcast radio (eg FM radio stations), is usually around 100kW maximum per antenna system. These transmitters can be legally and safely placed in urban areas provided adequate separation between the antenna and the public, usually 30-40 meters. To contrast this, the broadcast power of WiFi at 2.4Ghz is usually set at or around 100mW (0.1W), with a maximum output of around 1W (legally at least). To further this example, microwave ovens use 2.45Ghz frequency EM to heat your food. This is usually combined with a very well insulated cage to prevent that energy from escaping, which both protects you and your home from being cooked, and also directs the energy towards the item being heated, improving efficiency. Most modern microwaves can emit around 1000W (or 1kW) of power. 2.45Ghz is, however, special, in the way that it directly interacts with water. This specific frequency can excite water on a molecular level to create heat. I won't go much further into it than that. So it's unique in the interaction it has. Something something resonant frequencies something something.... Look into it if you're curious. The point is that your 2.4 GHz WiFi is 1000-10000 times less powerful than your microwave. Other frequencies do not have the same effect on water or other molecules. If your microwave ended up emitting 3Ghz instead of 2.45ghz, you would have a microwave that consumes a lot of power, which doesn't do anything useful.

I mention this to point out that the amount of power needed to affect something in favorable conditions is generally at or above ~800W of transmission power, in the equivalent of an EM "mirror" box. Consumer goods generally will never transmit above 1W. Even at 0.1W you can usually saturate your house, your yard, and your neighbors yard.... At least enough to "see" the signal.

"5G" and "6G" mobile/cellular technologies operate in the gigantic band between 900MHz and 400THz (often on the lower side of that very broad range), well below the level of ionizing EM, and at power levels well below what would be dangerous. The largest 5G arrays run with power levels around 120W. Which is less than 1/8th the power of your microwave, and at a maximum of 40Ghz, well below ionising.

Scientifically speaking, 5G mobile carrier antennas are less dangerous than walking under a 1000W flood light, which people do without hesitation, or even a thought given to any possible danger from the exposure to the ~600Thz EM being emitted by the floodlight.

Bluntly speaking, it's a stupid argument to be afraid of 5G for the transmissions themselves. You will not be harmed by them.

MystikIncarnate ,

That.... Is definitely not recommended.

I only have a fairly basic grasp of physics and biology, and from what I know, the microwaves will heat up the water inside your cells.... Specifically the 2.45Ghz emitted by the magnetron in a microwave "oven". It will easily penetrate your flesh and heat you up from the inside out.... Like, on a cellular level. The water inside your cells can very easily and quickly boil, causing the cell to explode.... Especially when exposed to ~1000W of 2.45GHz EM energy. It's non-ionising so the effects will be limited by the amount of exposure, and limited exposure won't cause much damage. Your body will very easily heal, since you lose cells all the time. Prolonged exposure will kill you.

Also, activating a nearly 1kW magnetron in an open environment will have devistating effects on anything operating in the same frequency band, and likely anything on resonant frequencies, which will likely get you in trouble with the FCC (or local regulatory body), which can include aircraft, military operations, emergency services.... It's a long list. If they use radios as part of their normal operation, a powerful and unregulated transmission like this can basically jam their system making any legitimate broadcasts unintelligible. This can obviously put lives at risk.

With that said: do not do this.

I'm licensed to operate radio equipment in amateur radio bands up to 190W EIRP (if I recall correctly), and I don't think I've ever used anything more powerful than 50W, I don't own anything more powerful than 25W, and anything with the antenna attached to the radio (like a handheld radio) that I own doesn't exceed 10W, most are 5W. For me, if I was using anything over 50W, I'd want a band pass filter on my antenna feed line to eliminate spurious emissions on resonant frequencies just to be extra careful.

That all being said, since the damage from this guy has already been done, I wouldn't expect any further issues for him. I'm sure his biological systems have fully recovered from the exposure, and I don't expect it to resurface again. If it was higher frequency (ionising radiation) then he would probably already have died, and even if he didn't, he would be in for a lifetime of hurt, but yeah, 2.45Ghz is relatively safe by comparison.

Just to note, above x-rays are all the radioactive emissions that come from stuff like nuclear materials. Which is why they're called "radioactive" .... They're actively emitting radio (EM) waves. Usually well into the petahertz and exahertz, while ionising radiation starts in the very high terahertz range.

1Ehz = 1,000Phz = 1,000,000 Thz = 1,000,000,000 GHz
(For clarity)

MystikIncarnate ,

Same.

MystikIncarnate ,

I like DVI. I prefer it most of the time.

I like the screw in connector because I don't have to worry about it falling out of the PC or monitor, and it is more robust, less likely to be pulled/bent/broken.

Unfortunately, even monitor vendors don't seem to agree that DVI was/is good, and I've seen a lot of displays shipping without it recently. GPU makers have entirely gone to displayport/HDMI. It's the end of an era, as far as I'm concerned.

I've switched almost entirely to DP, since I can't get DVI anything anymore. I don't hate DP. I like it more than the friction fit HDMI which is prone to pulling itself out of the port for no good reason just as your opponent is about to come around the corner and all you can do is stare at yourself in the black mirror that your monitor has become and listen in horror as fartmaster69420 frags you again, bragging about it and telling you that you suck, and how he does unspeakable things to your mother over VC in his prepubescent voice.

Anyways. I miss DVI.

MystikIncarnate ,

Now there's an idea.

MystikIncarnate ,

Sad but true.

MystikIncarnate ,

You obviously don't use HDMI the same way I've seen it used by some people.

I do IT support for a living and I've had a non-zero number of tickets where I literally have to go over and plug in someone's display because they managed to disconnect it.

MystikIncarnate ,

Someone gets me.

DP is great until you actually want to unplug it.

I'd rather the little latch than nothing at all.

MystikIncarnate ,

You're entitled to that opinion. I don't hate you for it. I would be lying to say I understood.

DVI could operate in three modes, either DVI-A, which was basically just VGA adapted to the DVI connector, DVI-D, which is the primary digital mode, then there was dual link which doubled the bandwidth for the DVI digital mode, allowing higher resolutions and higher refresh rates.

By comparison HDMI can only do a single digital link.

DVI is great IMO.

MystikIncarnate ,

I'm not judging. I just wanted to detail a couple of my favorite things about it.

I'm not foolish enough to think I'm going to change your mind about it. Your criticisms are valid, and you are free to like or dislike anything you wish.

Have a good day.

MystikIncarnate ,

I was mostly being fatecious for effect/comedy.

But working IT support, I've had users complain that their computer doesn't work, then travel to their location and find the HDMI connection fell out.

I've wasted countless hours troubleshooting a plug. It's a big reason I like the latch on DP and I prefer DVI when possible. No user error with things just getting unplugged.

I use DP for my computer, HDMI for all my TVs, and it works fine. I don't make it a habit to mess with the cables, for laptops I tend to try to use docks so I'm only plugging in one cable while I'm stationary, and my displays are always connected to the dock.

The example rant I provided had no basis in reality. Just something I came up with because I thought it would be funny. The only point that had any actual real world relevance is the fact that HDMI can become unplugged if not properly seated, or if it's pulled at all, or if the friction fit is generally loose from wear&tear. That's all. I'm just trying to be funny beyond that.

Either way, I'm not going to tell you how to live your life; so if you prefer HDMI, that's fine. You use what you want to use. I'm not about to tell you that your choices are invalid because I don't prefer it. Your decision doesn't affect me, so you can do as you wish. I won't try to change your mind.

Have a good day.

MystikIncarnate ,

All good. Working in IT support has its set of challenges. I'm not sure what users are doing with their equipment, but they keep getting in dumb situations where a complaint of "my computer doesn't work" has about a 50% chance of the problem being an HDMI cable that's either damaged or unplugged. Every once in a while it's a powered off PC, and the user just thinks that the power button on the display "turns off [their] PC". Those are fun.

For people who make a living working in some computer program, some people are so willfully ignorant of how a computer functions... Usually they simply state that they're "not very techy" and think that's an acceptable excuse for why they haven't learned the basics of operating a PC in the past two decades.

My point is, I have no idea how it keeps happening, all I can say is that since DP became the default standard for workstations, those calls have all but completely stopped happening. Calls like that on VGA/DVI were rare, usually because the install tech was too lazy to actually screw in the connector, then it was the HDMI hellscape, now it's displayport bliss. Hard to be a lazy installer when you only need to push in the connector to have it properly latched into the system.

It still happens, usually when someone breaks the DP connector, but like I said, that's pretty rare.

Oh, in case you thought I worked with complete idiots, most of the people I support are professional white collar workers. Office drones in lawyers offices, accounting offices... Even dental practices. These are people with certificates and diplomas representing 4+ years of education per person, and yeah, they still can't figure out that the button on the screen doesn't power off the computer.

MystikIncarnate ,

I'm a fan of harm reduction. There might still be harm, but it's more limited than it was previously.

It's not the whole solution and always needs further actions at the end of the day, but it's movement in the right direction.

Far better than just coasting along waiting for things to get worse.

MystikIncarnate ,

Yeah, to other people.

.... Like the owners son, who hasn't really done anything, ever, and we all keep having to do his work for him.

MystikIncarnate ,

The thing I have a hard time wrapping my brain around is my worth. I've mostly gotten over my imposter syndrome, but getting paid like $30-40 an hour or more, seems like a lot more than I deserve?

IDK. I'm still struggling to find my worth.

I recently was picked up as a tier II support technician (IT), and I'm the only T2 on the team. Technically, everyone who was hired before me was a "T1" (though, they didn't really use that title, since there wasn't a T2).

I finished my probation today, and I still ask my co-workers questions about the stuff we support.
Feels weird to ask someone who is "lower" than I am in title, to help me with something.

MystikIncarnate ,

If you think I'm navigating that mess of cross linked posts, well, you're in for a surprise.

You're really late to this thread.

She didn't reference any math textbooks because she made the video for commoners, aka not math majors. Her explanations make sense even if they're technically wrong from the perspective of pure mathematics.

Unfortunately, I don't think many people are going to see your reply, and fewer still will deal with the format you've chosen to present it in; an even smaller subset will likely understand the concepts you're trying to explain.

Unfortunately, posting this, so long after the thread was active, linking to your own social media as a reference, seems a lot more like attention seeking behavior. The kind of thing I would expect from a bot or phishing attack, especially since you seem to have copy/pasted the reply on several comments. It's like you searched for the YouTube link and just vomitted the same reply on every reference to it. That's bot behavior.

I'm not saying you're actually a bot, or that anything you've posted is incorrect at all. It just seems suspect.

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