One thing to consider is that most of the blue-collar workers who would have an easier commute into a city center due to WFH will have their job negatively affected by office workers not also traveling to the city center.
If you do facilities work in a downtown area, people not working from the office means you have less work to do and your job is potentially affected. Same goes for restaurant workers, sanitation workers, etc.
One thing I didn't see brought up in the sibling comments about vapor is that the real hazard of using leaded solder is small particles which can end up on clothing or your hands and later ingested. It is definitely a hazard to be aware of, you want to wash your hands after working with it and keep your workspace cleanliness in mind.
For hobby work, I've switched to lead-free simply because that's what 99% of the boards I work on we're originally soldered with, but I still have some leaded solder around. That being said, it can be used safely, I cast my own bullets which generates a far larger amount of lead particulate and my blood lead levels were not at all elevated when I had them checked 2 years ago. But since it bioacumulates, you do want to keep exposure in mind.
Good point, I totally forgot that because cleaning my workbench and hand washing after work is just second nature to me now.
Metallic lead is dangerous if inhaled or ingested, but not a big concern for momentary contact with your skin as metal, especially given most modern solder is only 40% lead.
Your body will remove a small amount of lead, so hobby soldering is unlikely to cause long term problems.
My main concern is, if an attacker has the ability to nmap against my private IP range, they're already in the network and I'm already pwned. Am I missing something here? Plus, with this tool running I would lose the ability to run nmap scans, which are a super useful diagnostic tool.
I do have a honeypot machine setup, but that's mainly as a last line of intrusion detection than an active defense (plus, it was a fun way to spend a Friday afternoon). I've seen proposals for similar systems before and while the idea is interesting I just don't think it accomplishes anything useful. My honeypot also doesn't accomplish anything truly useful, but it also doesn't negatively affect the network by not allowing me to run scans.
I think an honeypot is always a good idea and it sure helps to know that you're being targeted but...
> My main concern is, if an attacker has the ability to nmap against my private IP range
For a start I consider that chinese IoT shits and SmartTVs are attackers. So the attackers are already in my network. And if they're not, they've got very easy targets: these IoT (Internet-of-(Insecure-and-Shitty-)Things) devices.
Note that you can run several LANs too. I've got 192.168.x. and 10.x.x.x. One is way more secure than the other (no WiFi device on the more secure one, a very strict firewall in between the two LANs, etc.).
Heck, even my ISP by default hands a router that separates the home LAN and the "guests" LAN.
A nmap from 192.168.x.x shall not give any result for stuff on 10.x.x.x and vice-versa.
You can do it by configuring trunking / VLANs or physically. Mine is just physical: unmanaged switches, a few of them on one LAN, another one dedicated to the more secure LAN.
The box that does the routing between the two LANs only does two things: firewalling and routing traffic. Nothing else. No SSH port open. No ports open whatsoever. No nothing. Firewalling and routing and that's it.
> ... they're already in the network and I'm already pwned.
Not really though. You should be able to work properly and securely if your main computer isn't compromised.
It should really be no different than using a laptop from a public place.
I could do a undergrad essay on how the dealership model is bad for the manufacturers, which would boil down to how Indian motorcycles failed (which was also due to mismanagement). However, the VW scouts are an absolute abomination that should be cleansed from the earth.
They aren't going to be any good as an off-road vehicle, the approach/departure angles are horrible. They will also be way too heavy, just as a function of being an EV. Plus, the styling is absolute garbage. I've owned a scout 80 for 18 years, it was my first vehicle. I owned an OH scout for longer than they have been collectible. This new scout doesn't have any styling cues to any prior vehicle, it just looks like if you asked an AI to generate an off-road truck. And they even had a better example, the new broncos absolutely hit it out of the park. Line I E if those up next to a mid 60s bronco and you can see the resemblance, which is why Ford did that in their marketing. These new VW scouts, if you park them next to either an 800 or a scout 2, don't even look like the same lineage. They are just an abomination, and the only car company I'd trust less with shepherding the scout brand would be stellantis2. We've seen how poor of a job they've done with the jeep.
And the stupid part is,most people don't and have never understood why the original scout was good. They were an overly heavy, underpowered, and expensive vehicle. But, they were a tremendously capable off-road vehicle, my stock scout 80 has gone places a modern Rubicon with lockers couldn't go. It's down to a very fortunate suspension design and stupidly low gearing.
Simple and rugged will beat "sophisticated" every day of the week. Underpowered is an asset because you don't break shit. Simple is an asset because you can keep it running. Steering box NLA? No problem fit one from a different vehicle. Axles? NBD just need some U-bolts, maybe some custom linkages, and any other solid axle of similar dimensions will do. Trying to make cars into some kind of disposable appliance is incredibly short sighted.
They're never going to make enthusiasts like you happy because the vehicle needs to sell to a mass market, not the kind of person who has owned a Scout 80 for 18 years.
I think you're not in a marketing mindset if you think that any significant amount of people are to buy a new Scout for off-roading. Premium-priced vehicles are more about image than the implied capabilities of that image.
Porsche sells more four door vehicles than two door sports cars. You might say that's not a real Porsche in the spirit of a Porsche, but it is what it is. It sells, and the average person doesn't need a two door car with no trunk or an off-road truck that is painful on the road. They usually need a family vehicle for mundane domestic life.
What tesla salespeople? They're pretty well known for flaunting the dealer model. I've never bought a tesla, but from the friends that have bought one one of the big plusses is you don't talk to a salesperson at all, you buy the car at a fixed retail price online. Has this changed recently?
Tesla has lots of showrooms with cars, test drives, and sales people. If you're there and want to buy a car, they direct you to a computer with an Internet connection.
They have a couple people to manage test drives and they will ask if you have any questions and make sure your aware of the current interest rate or other sales incentives but they aren’t sales people in the sense that you would typically be used to.
I mean, the adult life you describe doesn't sound different from my brother, and growing up we moved once.
Edit: my brother grew up into a child abusing POS by neglecting his kids, but let's looks at statistics VS anecdotes since individuals from all backgrounds can be garbage people.
It's presumptuous to claim child abuse, since we fundamentally know very little about the situation.
I wouldn't say it's abuse, but it's certainly depriving the kids from learning how to develop socially. They aren't learning how to maintain friendships, and are being implicitly taught that such connections are disposable.
I've had the misfortune to see actual child abuse, from the story presented in the OP it doesn't rise even close to that level. Let's please reserve words/phrases like that for situations that warrant it.
It may not be an ideal parenting strategy, but claiming it's abuse cheapens the word. Are the children being fed properly? Are they being physically/sexually harmed? I've unfortunately had to intervene in a situation with my niece that involved the above 3.
The parenting method in the OP may not be ideal, but plenty of people have had childhoods like that
My mom grew up moving every 5-8 months, her dad was a contractor for the TVA. There are still people who follow around contracting work. Please don't minimize that actual harm caused by child abuse by cheapening the term.
While one is undoubtedly worse than the other, I don’t think it’s a good idea to say it’s not abuse because it’s not as bad as the worst possible variety.
I happen to agree this probably doesn’t rise to the level of child abuse, but there’s a large range between there and unfed/physically/sexually harmed.
We shouldn’t cheapen it, but we shouldn’t make it too expensive either.
You’re right. But this is decidedly not abuse; it’s a parenting style that many are unaccustomed to, and perhaps doesn’t work as well in the US, I have no idea.
But it’s not abuse.
You’re correct that physical/sexual harm and malnutrition are not the only things that constitute abuse either, though.
I mean, 'military brat' is definitely a stereotype. I'm not a sociologist so not familiar with relevant research, but I would be shocked if it hadn't been studied.
One thing I would point out is that military kids are in a far different scenario than the OP's cousins kids. Military kids will grow up moving from base to base, but the schools around bases are fundamentally different. Those are schools where teachers are used to student turnover, and the students are as well. OP talked about kids that were in a more nomadic situation, where they could only form brief <1mo friendships. The local culture of these communities is also used to and adapted somewhat to this.
That sounds like childhood trauma to me, the closest analog might not be military children but the foster care system. Not a 100% analog, since presumably the OP's cousins kids didn't have the pre-existing trauma that entry into that system necessitates, but that is the closest conventional analog I can think of. Moving around constantly into communities that aren't necessarily set up to deal with that is rough.
My mom was a navy brat in the 60's and 70's and she didn't like moving all the time, but has said that having a bunch of other families right next door all with little kids and stay at home moms actually made for a pretty great childhood.
I wasn't aware that EA was owned by VW, I thought it was a separate business. Suddenly all the complaints from friends with EVs make tons more sense.
From wikipedia:
(Electrify America) is a subsidiary of Volkswagen Group of America, established in late 2016 by the automaker as part of its efforts to offset emissions in the wake of the Volkswagen emissions scandal. Volkswagen, as part of its settlement following the "Dieselgate" emissions scandal, invested $2 billion in creating Electrify America.
Umm, I think you are just in a bit of a bubble with regards to a lot of jobs, there are tons of people who do useful work that just use a browser. Off the top of my head, just in my company the customer service and shipping staff are entirely browser based.
Finance is mostly browser based in many orgs, and for people who are all-in on Google docs it's 100% browser based. Service companies such as contractors seem to have transitioned to cloud platforms accessed off of a browser or Android app that is essentially just a webview.
Ironically, tech companies are behind the curve in regards to having a higher proportion of users like devs and designers that need applications that aren't browser based.
My comment was a bit inflammatory, of course it isn't useless work, but that stems from consultants that often naively suggest we should move to the cloud. But that isn't really sound advice and just far from reality. As I said, this is producing industry, so perhaps an edge case for better of worse.
Our R&D and production probably cannot ever move completely to the browser. Security restrictions of browsers are focused on being safe on the net, so interactivity is limited and overall it is often impractical.
And since we have at least hybrid environments, we often compare desktop usage with purely cloud approaches and the desktop seem to mostly win for productivity. And I bet this would be the case for many other companies too.
Sure, if you are purely service based, it can work. But even our customer service has a workshops with numerous devices measuring materials in all kinds of way. You cannot really connect them to a browser. Or you could, but then it is extreme impractical again.
Or logistics. Scanning pallets, registering wares, nothing here is browser based. It really seems to be the word, excel crowd that can do it and maybe your erp is a cloud solution.
I do software development. Theoretically I could develop in the cloud too for the most part but I would also severely hate it. And even if I restrict myself to the Microsoft part, it also is a bit unreliable.
I use desktop apps for certain things--mostly multimedia and dev. But I spend the majority of my time in a browser. I mostly don't even use my office because the 10-year old laptop in my kitchen works fine for web-based work, don't need a second monitor for many tasks, and the room is lighter and airier.
If you do facilities work in a downtown area, people not working from the office means you have less work to do and your job is potentially affected. Same goes for restaurant workers, sanitation workers, etc.