I believe doing time somewhere in retail or hospitality should be a prerequisite to adulthood. People who are or have been retail workers make far more reasonable customers. Society would do better if customers knew and understood what it was like to deal with customers.
While I don't have an official static IP with iiNet NBN, I don't remember the last time it changed. It's been at least 18 months on the same IP. They also allow you to open up remote access ports on your link (they block all the common ports by default) via their toolbox interface.
Having been on the other end of this situation before, I'm going to disagree with this take. On a normal network, yes - you have a firewall to block traffic except to specific IPs/ports. Once you are in the Millions of nodes realm though (and I only ever got into the hundreds of thousands), a firewall is too unwieldy. You can never keep it up to date with all your customers comings and goings. Imagine you have 10 million customer devices and 0.01% of them come or go on any given day. That's 10,000 firewall updates per day. You're spending a lot of tech time maintaining and updating that firewall, and you introduce a small risk of an incident with every firewall update. And for what? For the most annoying of your customers.
Sorry to be blunt, but it's true. The tiny proportion of customers who want to be able to remotely connect to their home networks are the first to complain about any sort of network congestion (particularly uploads, which regular users don't even notice). They make a lot of noise about every $5/month price increase. They are the most likely to be doing sketchy stuff on the network. And six months down the line when there's some new exploit, they're the most likely vector into the network of the latest worm as they didn't maintain their security updates diligently. It is far easier to simply not cater to them and let them be someone else's problem. As customers, they aren't profitable.
You handle this by putting your static IP customers on a special VLAN and charge them for the service. And then yes: you have a manageable firewall sample.
All the noise that happened recently with the 3G shutdown tells us just how many old phones there out there on the cell networks. Running old iOS/Android versions with a gazillion exploits. I think it's a good thing that telcos NAT their customers. The last thing we want is for the Internet to be able to easily connect to those devices.
ipv6 does also reduce network congestion and improve routing efficiency.
Unless you are moving gigabits of data, you won't notice the difference the smaller header payload of ipv6 offers. That's some serious ePenis bragging bullshit I see all the time among nerds who want to say they're on the latest and fastest technology without understanding that while they are correct (uploading/downloading a gigabyte over ipv6 will probably complete a few seconds faster over ipv6 instead of ipv4), they're also making a big deal about nothing.
Your issue is you want to be able to access your home network over mobile infrastructure, while you are paying for a basic phone plan. Optus does offer what you want, but to business customers. Telstra will also permit you to apply a static IP to some of their plans, I managed to do this for a client about 10 years ago. It was just an add-on that Telstra offered. They were on a business plan, but I don't remember whether a business plan was a requirement.
30-60 minutes with a new phone, and it looks identical to my old phone.
If I took a screenshot of my phone from 10 years ago, it'd be close enough to my present phone as to be indistinguishable.
Where they differ is the quality of the photos I take. I still took my DSLR around most of the time 10 years ago. I rarely bother these days. It still takes better photos, but the difference is not worth the effort unless I'm specifically going some place to take photos.
Can confirm, have received these at Chinese(ish) weddings.
The time I was Best Man at such a wedding, I probably broke even - which is saying something as I spent a fair bit on that wedding (good friends).
[Chinese(ish) because not all the couples were actually Chinese. The Best Man one was Malaysian; another wedding was Singaporean]
Yes.
It is their plan for everywhere. The world is moving away from Coal. So, unlike other resources, they have a limited window when they can offload the stuff. The more coal they can burn/sell today, the less they "waste" later when Coal is no longer viable.
They're still recovering from the loss of the asbestos industry. We still have so much of that stuff that they can't exploit! What a waste!
As a kid who who was into computers in the 80's - a period where that was social suicide, my music tastes were the least of my problems! 😆
The 80's meant I was late to the party, but my music was mostly what my older siblings played and my sister loved The Carpenters.
Android
Boost: works fine.
Jerboa: wouldn't load in the app, but I could save it and watch it locally.
Connect: Buggy with media in general. Even some jpeg files. Didn't work.
Sync: works fine.
Voyager: Seems to work, but muted. Probably a setting to enable sound that I didn't find.
Firefox: works fine.
Wait, what? I guess that explains why Baku messaged me out of the blue last night. It must have been just before he deleted his account.
I've been too busy at work; I missed everything. Nobody reported anything though - I would have seen that.
Hrm, he's nuked his account entirely this time, not simply marked it as deleted. That means that all the posts/messages he's created over 18 months are deleted from the database. Which will include many daily threads.
Not sure what I think about that. I think I'll go for a run and ponder stuff.
It depends on the business. At the sorts of places I work, $3k for a reliable laptop is well worth it. The business loses more money in lost productivity by having its employees unable to work than saving a little money in the short-term.
We use HP Elitedesk micro PCs, they're pretty great. We don't use HP laptops - so whoever is making hardware decisions at work clearly agrees with you on the laptops.
My wife has an HP Elitebook from her work. No idea if it's any good, but she hasn't complained excessively about it.
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Safeway! There's a name I haven't heard in about 10 years. Are there still any Safeways that haven't turned into Woolies out there?