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ladfrombrad

@ladfrombrad@lemdro.id

not called Brad but rather a lad, from Bradford in the UK.

Enjoys breaking apps, escooters, spam rings and sometimes bones, but not my own. That sucks.

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ladfrombrad ,
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You know, I'd 99% of the time agree with you but has anyone else tried out the little (travel?) routers from GL-iNet?

https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/4ea49495-52da-436c-b75d-fefeab6b2e04.jpeg

Their default router interface ain't half bad at all, and if you do need to use Luci you can simply do that too

https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/9be3b24b-2e71-402a-b0db-3d1f23fb6a05.jpeg

I bought a couple of them for a family member and they haven't poked me once for help with them.

ladfrombrad ,
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Fraid not.

I recall worrying about MAC address tracking one time and using Chainfire's MAC privacy app, but that's a non factor now since they're randomised by default on Android on the most recent versions.

ladfrombrad ,
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You're absolutely spot on, and it's evidenced by house prices here in the UK where they're next to or near a rail line.

They are noisy fuggers and people do not like living by them.

ladfrombrad ,
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The thing you're not accounting for is that work that primarily involves thought, which is what "office drones" are doing

Found the office drone.

Our office drones are not "thinking" for half the day like you, and input and manipulate data. You could also include half these "managers" too who sit in an office sending emails all day, and never hit the shop floor.

ladfrombrad ,
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I once worked in an office doing what I described above.

I absolutely hated it stuck in a cubicle, and now work outside with lots of other people grafting, instead of listening to gossiping over the cubicles all day long. Think I lasted 2 months.

ladfrombrad ,
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I know exactly what those emails are because I have to deal with them asking me if a wagon that I'm looking at has arrived yet.

So I email them back telling them that it's arrived (they knew that already because goods-in already updated the checking in sheet) and they get to validate their job somehow by asking me, shit.

It's quite amazing how they keep their jobs.

ladfrombrad ,
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The old; how do you know someone is a software developer? Yup, they tell ya!

I think I really touched a nerve with that guy though, and it seems like they want to be an office drone instead of working from home (this is the bit where the "senior software devs + team manager" argue they need to collaborate, in person) with a nice life balance.

ladfrombrad ,
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I have direct experience with the management that only work days since I work continental hours, so get to see how we run during the night without them.

Like I said, half is probably a number we could run with at my place. Sorry state of affairs.

ladfrombrad ,
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Well, maybe your workplace wouldn't put up with these people but I can confirm that besides them not being able to use SAP to check the quantity of a BOM, to like I said - they have access to the other functions / data but prefer to delegate them to others.

So it ends up going down a hierarchy until someone else does what these managers could do themselves in the first instance.

ladfrombrad ,
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Nah, I wouldn't want to become an office drone because I'd go from calling people on the internet liars to then trying to give others career advice when they don't even know 2% of my job.

Hilarious, the self-righteousness must come from being an office drone, right?

ladfrombrad ,
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My immediate manager is fine and like I said above, half of their managers could be given the chopping block but that doesn't mean I need to find new employment as you suggest. I quite like my job since I can walk it there, work outside all day with wonderful views even if the weather does get a bit poop sometimes.

In fact it tells me you're relatively sheltered with experience in workplaces if you think most places don't have lazy ass managers, office drones (I like this term), and good luck asking if they even have them during an interview.

ladfrombrad Mod ,
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AP telling me things are not interesting smells like clickbait.

Why the hell did that happen?

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