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Cake day: September 21st, 2023

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  • Well before.

    And “refuse to change their ways” - are you going to underwrite the project to implement a transition and hold all the liability for the risks?

    Its not like changing systems is just a click of a button, this is an extensive project, that you better get right or you’re dealing with records going the wrong way, potentially having serious life and safety implications.

    Plus, you have to maintain this legacy fax system because not everyone else has migrated to something new. So for the remainder of your career, it still doesn’t go away, and you’ll have to continue to pay for its maintenance.

    Companies have systems they’ve built up over years, that works. They’ll move forward as it makes fiscal sense.


  • “embedded in many workflows”

    Key statement right there.

    And once people see what that really means, and what it would take to move past it (including time, cost, and risk), they may start to understand. You’re dealing with it first hand, so you know what’s involved.

    It became the de facto way to send stuff with high confidence it went to the right place. Then tech addressed the paper-to-paper over one phone line issue with modem banks into a fax server. So all the same fundamental comm tech (so fully backwards-compatible), but a better solution for the company with that infrastructure. Such a company has little motivation to completely change to something new, since they’d have to retain this for anyone that hasn’t switched. Chicken-and-egg problem, that’s slowly moving forward.

    It’ll be a long time before it’s gone completely. Perhaps in 20 years, but I suspect fax will still be around as a fallback/compatibility.





  • Samsung, right? If my memory is right, they conform to the Quick Charge standard? So you’ll want a charger that supports QC at 45w.

    Though it seems most chargers support both QC and Power Delivery these days.

    It then comes down to the voltage/current pairs a charger will support (but I think this only applies in QC, not PD?)

    Uggh, yea, this is why finding the right charger is such a challenge! Too damn much stuff to remember!






  • Meh, no one should be on Facebook.

    Too many people say nothing when it’s mentioned, so tacit approval is assumed.

    I’ve blocked sites like Twitter and FB, etc, on all my devices and networks. My friends and family still send me links, after I’ve repeatedly told them my devices can’t go to those websites (I’ve never once in my life been on either one).

    So I think it’s appropriate to point out using FB is as problematic as Reddit (worse actually. It needs to be continually said.

    FB had the Cambridge Analytica scandal that exposed how bad it is, and people still use it 🤦🏼‍♂️. They had tracking pixels for years, and whole I’ve never even visited the FB website, those bastards have a profile on me.

    So no, fuck FB.



  • Everybody in my team gets to own something. What you own depends on your capability.

    This is a point I try to constantly make when people don’t understand why 2 people have the same title but don’t really have the same job, especially in technical fields.

    No two people have the same set of skills, so we all end up taking on the tasks we’re more capable of than the next person.