20230607-it_sucks.txt
Metronet sucks. They had a huge outage last night that affected me as
well. It was far from the first time and caused me to go outside and
check the line. The dumbasses still haven't buried the line yet. The
thing that frustrates me to no end is they have normal technicians and
"bury teams" that are sent out separately. Why can't you have one guy
install the thing and bury it? The first bury team that didn't even
bury the entire line, took like a fucking month to get to us. It was
supposed to take 2 weeks max. Fiber optic is not good unless it's
buried and sheltered from most critters and tangling factors.
Ring (Amazon) sucks. The feds filed a complaint about how insecure
their system was and how hackers and contractors could access the
videos of any customer any time regardless of when or whether they
needed access. Big thumbs up to the geniuses who thought that
installing a camera connected to the Internet in your bedroom or
bathroom was a good idea. But honestly, the lack of accountability is
pretty despicable from a company as large as Amazon. This is basic
cybersecurity stuff. Also evidently they had the same issue as Icloud
had with the ability to try thousands of passwords without a timeout.
What a joke.
Finally, the housing/price of living crisis sucks. I live at home with
my mother, which 20 years ago would probably be seen as a failure,
while within the past 5-10 years or so it's become what I'd consider
just much more sensible or even remotely affordable. Fuck the
landowners/homeowners that are just being greedy dickheads making
things just impossible for the 99% to afford. It's gotten so bad that
"normal" people are actually considering not updating their stupid
phones every 2 years. Capitalism sucks so much nowadays.
