F these, even in urban England - Lemmy.World
In London, England, where the roads are narrow, the parking spaces are limited
and we have plenty of availability of vans that can actually fit things in, we
still get these aholes with their unnecessary large pick up trucks made for a
road system completely different to ours… These spaces are wider than usual and
long enough to fit them but they still have to park like wnkers blocking the
only footpath around! I mean, I have a 5 door hatchback and know that my car
overhangs the back wheels, as does any primary school kid drawing a car…
Upgrading to 3G broadband - Lemmy.World
I’ve really landed on my feet here. Background Our road recently got upgraded to
full fibre so I switched my ADSL supplier from 300MB to 1G (is it still
ADSL?!?). I also have cable broadband at 600MB so last year bought an omada
router with dual wan, then bought two EAPs and been quite happy with the speeds.
My equipment includes a desktop PC as home server, and a mini PC with pihole and
home assistant. Cable broadband (virgin media) just came up to renewal so they
offered me 1G at same price (£35 a month) to compete with the new speeds on my
street. The new 1G ADSL provider had incorrect info on their website so ended up
on CGNAT instead of Dynamic IP. It said they have dynamic IP for 1G and 3G
lines, so part of the reason I went for 1G was this, which I made clear to them.
They took a while to try and fix it and were pretty poor so just for offered a
3G upgrade for £39pm and 6 months free !!! They’re coming on Monday to replace
the modem \router for a 3G one. I can keep the old router (brand new 1G wifi 6
router) as a mesh. Advice needed Please help me figure out what I need to change
to make the most of it?! I purposefully didn’t go beyond 1G as was not expecting
this much speed for many, many years! If anybody knows good resources on
upgrading speeds past 1G please let me know. For my home network, do I just sell
everything I have and start again? Do I just use their modem and WiFi? Do I need
to check all my wires and potentially upgrade them? How do you check the speeds
if they don’t have them printed? On my home server, do I need to upgrade the
network card to get the most out of it? Will it be fine if the connection to the
pihole DNS is still 1G if it’s only requesting addresses? I am sorry for anyone
on lower speeds seeing this with envy. I do appreciate how lucky I am. TLDR:
broadband provider messed up so got ridiculously cheap upgrade to 3G ADSL and
also upgraded to 1G Cable (dual wan 4G). How do I make the most of this given my
equipment is all 1G?!?
Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems
https://lemmy.world/post/13142927
Appreciation / shock at workplace IT systems - Lemmy.World
After self hosting several services for a few users, with SSO, backups, hardware
issues etc, I really appreciate how good the IT was in my old company.
Everything was connected, smooth, slick and you could tell it was secure. I had
very few issues and when I did, they were quickly solved. Doing this all at
scale for thousands of employees spread across the world, it is a wonderful
sight to see. Now at my current company, it’s at the opposite end of the scale
where I almost believe that I could do a better job by myself! They’ve trying to
do everything you would expect but somehow doing it wrong. They are so heavy on
security I have a Citrix environment that takes me 3 logins to get to, fails
constantly and means I can’t work without internet (like on a long train journey
for work purposes recently), and on the other hand they’ve only just turned off
admin rights for users so we could’ve installed anything we wanted!!! All our
attachments (incoming and outgoing) are saved to a secure website (like
OneDrive) and replaced with a link. It doesn’t save the file names on the email
so it’s really tricky to find old emails if it’s a document you’re looking for.
I could go on but just venting at this point as it’s so frustrating!!! Thank you
to the good IT people out there. Your roles are so important but not appreciated
enough!
Recommendation for children's photos sharing
https://lemmy.world/post/12603276
Recommendation for children's photos sharing - Lemmy.World
I had a child and both of our parents were in another country so wanted to keep
them updated with photos and videos but refused to use social media. I have been
using Back Then which, to be fair, has worked pretty well. I pay a subscription
and can give access to anybody I want through their email. They then have to
download an app and sign in to see. It updates them if there’s new photos and
shows them in a nice chronological order by age. There are other features (likes
and comments) but tbh, no-one really uses them and I don’t care about that. For
me, it’s just the privacy and access control I’m after Now I have built my home
server and got to the point where it’s reliable (enough), plus I’m happy with my
security/SSO setup, does anybody recommend a self hosted photo sharing tool?
