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by retired 9mo ago
Thanks. I have an ISP provided media converter with my own router behind that, using the correct VLAN was enough to get it working. I thought those media converters were pretty dumb devices but it seems they are not.
512.
by retired 9mo ago
Is it possible to use a media converter from glass fiber to RJ45/Ethernet? Those are commonly available and then you can use whatever modem/router you like.
513.
by retired 9mo ago
Sounds a bit grim, if you get laid off you lose your house?
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by retired 9mo ago
Could even be Turkey west of the Bosphorus. They can fabricate the product in Bursa and do final assembly in West-Istanbul.
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by retired 9mo ago
In addition, in one room I ran two CAT5E cables as there was conduit along the entire way. So I took a CAT5E cable double the length of the conduit, stripped the outer sheath in the middle, folded the cable to get a loop and then attached t
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by retired 9mo ago
Agreed. I tugged on each phone wire a to see if they were free. And I got lucky on all of them. One of the problems I had was a kinked conduit where concrete was poured on top, or at least that is what I assumed. Was a bit difficult to get
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by retired 9mo ago
I had a similar issue but instead I opted to replace all the wiring with CAT5E. I used the old phone wiring as a pull-wire to get the CAT5E through the walls very, very slowly. CAT5E was used as I needed all the flexibility I could get and
518.
by retired 9mo ago
Back in the day of when cordless phones started to have displays with integrated address books, about once a year while visiting my grandmother I would help her remove all the dead people from her phone.
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by retired 9mo ago
It has been edited to "average educated European". If going by tertiary education, that is about 30% to 35% of the European population. I wouldn't be surprised if that group speaks three languages. In Spain it is typical to s
520.
by retired 9mo ago
Technically they reconnected 31 years ago with the tunnel.
521.
by retired 9mo ago
It has been around 300 million years since the UK drifted away from continental Europe but it is still very much part of it!
522.
by retired 9mo ago
I like it. No fake smiles, no tip required. They can be a bit grumpy but French food is amazing which makes up for it.
523.
by retired 9mo ago
Is there a European alternative for this website?
524.
by retired 9mo ago
Not sure if it is a bug, but not being able to uninstall Developer Tools or Rosetta when you are done with it.
525.
by retired 9mo ago
I gave up congratulation people with their birthday years ago because I don't trust the birthday calendar anymore.
526.
by retired 9mo ago
Interesting that they are using legacy USB. I switched about ten years ago and haven't looked back. I have not had any legacy USB in my house for a couple of years now.
527.
by retired 9mo ago
Technically correct but Holland has long been used as a strong branding name for the entire country. It wasn't until recent that they started to make a better distinction between the two. Philips, ASML, Inventum and many other companie
528.
by retired 9mo ago
Dutch wages are high though. Especially at scale it could make sense to bundle all broken phones in one big box, ship it off to a low-wage country and then ship the phones back after refurbishment. 7500 employees, 7500 phones. If they all n
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by retired 9mo ago
Made in Suzhou, China. As far as I know only Gigaset and HMD manufacture in Europe. And even those two only do final assembly in Europe, the components are still made in China. Technically Fairphone could ship you a box of parts and have yo
530.
by retired 9mo ago
I quit my job over AI. Just felt like my job was approving pull requests where both the PR and the code itself was just slop. In all fairness, it was mainly CRUD applications so not a big deal but in the end I didn't feel like I had an