Wheeeeee late stage capitalism 🫠

Wow. That’s actually pretty horrendous.

It’s almost as if lemmy itself is a United Federation of Servers 🤔

You clicked a random link from an sms message?

That’s a bold move, Cotton.

Well now, that would spoil the surprise, wouldn’t it?

Fair points.

I’d say they could make three versions:

• a “clean” single-port WiFi-only model but with actually good WiFi hardware (so, 7 if possible; 6e at least)
• the current model, but with 2x2.5
• one with no WiFi and at least 4 ports, including at least 2x2.5

What they could have done is to try to reverse the hollowing out of their engineering divisions, and give them more agency and control in leadership. Finance types trying to min/max the P/E ratio is what got them where they are. Serious tech companies that do REAL engineering can’t really follow the norms that Wall Street loves these days and expect to remain technically cutting-edge.

Engineers are not really plug-and-play. Institutional expertise is a real and meaningful thing. They got here because their leadership has ignored those facts for at least a couple decades now.

What’s wrong with having a switch? And why build in capability that people aren’t necessarily gonna use?

The intent of this is to be a cheap but capable homelab router. Building in more ports / integrating a managed or unmanaged switch / adding PoE is only going to drive up cost. BYO is absolutely the answer to “I want more ports” here.

Literally the ONLY thing they would need to do to make this perfect is to make the LAN port upgradable to 2.5G - anything past that and people are probably going to be looking at more serious enterprise-grade hardware anyways.

Tbh it’s not 100% his fault the engineering competence began to visibly crumble under his leadership, but at the same time he absolutely stayed the course that his predecessors chose, which is what got them here in the first place. So yeah, he deserves to be excoriated for this stuff, but so do his predecessors.

I mean… if we’re optimizing for covert physical presence… you can hide these fuckers in tons of interesting places.

This would be potential impulse buy territory if it was 2x2.5… but a mix of 1 and 2.5 is frankly a tad baffling

Are you me?

You’re 100% right. And I have absolutely done this in the past when some dipshit has the bright idea to tie comp adjustments to SLOC metrics. And it’s more than just comments: you just make EVERYTHING a variable, duplicate as much as possible, and avoid terse syntax at all costs. It makes the codebase nigh unmaintainable… but hey, if you’re gonna hit me in the wallet if I don’t do that, I don’t fucking care about the quality of the codebase under those constraints.

This fundamentally misunderstands the domain of software engineering. Most of the time, with an actually difficult problem, the hardest part is devising the solution itself. Which, you know, often involves a lot of thinking and not that much typing. And that also entirely puts aside how neurodivergent people - who are somewhat over repressed in STEM - often arrive at solutions in very different ways that statistical models like these simply don’t account for.

Microsoft Outlook Outage

Yes.

No.

Tuwu, what’s this?

This’ll be stalled until late January, and then it will go away