Quoting: The_Aquabatliterally I have tons of pasta for months , I'm going to die because of pasta intoxication lol.

You can actually die of too much water, so I wouldn't bet pasta intoxication isn't a thing as well... ;-)

But... Why did you buy so much?

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Rest In Peace, Rick May.

Fuck you, Corona.

Something to lighten hearts:

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Quoting: elgatilCould this be the first title coming to Steam for Linux thanks to a port to Stadia?

Metro Exodus smelled like it.
(While Grid smells more like Feral to me.)

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Quoting: drlambThere are a lot of variables that contribute to one's experiences. 1000Mbps Up/Down Fiber here for context.

That's all the context I need to not bother reading about your experience! That's... not normal.

You're missing the important point. The question is not if it works with your line today, but if it works out in general (and with your line "tomorrow").

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It's a bit short on information what actually happens in the game, beyond simulating arms...

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Quoting: KimyrielleIt doesn't change my opinion, or the rest of my posting you chose not to react to. If your company would NOT be dinosaurs, "tens of thousands" of intranet users would mean exactly nothing. It's just a matter of putting up the needed infrastructure.

I'm not a network guy, and I cannot judge how hard it actually is. My wild guess is you can't, either. But what I know for sure that things change with size. A matter of quantity does become a matter of quality sooner or later. And I know that there's a lack of supplies at the moment, not only in life support but also in computing and network power. Azure is scaling down non-vital businesses, YouTube, Netflix, you name it. So even if it would be easy under normal circumstances - we don't have those.

Quoting: KimyrielleTens of thousands of concurrent users are actually laughable in 2020. If your company (big German tech company with tens of thousands of employees - let me take a wild guess? SAP?) isn't a collection of dinosaurs, you have to admit you were at least woefully unprepared to work in a modern fashion. You know, without wasting everybody's valuable lifetime and needlessly poisoning the environment by making everyone commute for two hours each way to an office to do the exact same things they can do at home.

If I don't remember completely wrong on your politcal posts here, one thing you should easily agree with is that modern isn't always better or even good. Being in an office has it's pros and cons, I'm usually meeting both on a daily basis. Calling home office "modern" sure isn't an argument. I gave some pro office in an other post. I absolutely agree an your valuable lifetime (*sigh *) and environemnt arguments, though.

Quoting: KimyriellePS: I am not sure if I like being associated with people who generally don't like to communicate. If I would be anti-social, why oh why would I even post here?

Well, there's communication and communication. I'm introvert myself and online communication is easier for me.

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Quoting: EikeYou must be joking. I'm working in a big software development department and it is just... hard. The infrastructure is fine for 5% working from home. It is overwhelmed with 90% working from home.

Not too surprised by that. If I remember that right, you are in Germany?
Came from there.

Digital stone age, decades behind the modern world. Especially in work culture, home office is practically an offensive word. Not surprised in the slightest switching to home office has overwhelmed a software company there for more than a week or two.

I don't know how many people are connected to the intranet I'm using, but it might easyily be tens of thousands. If you're able to bring up a net to cope with this in one or two weeks in a time where all those other companies are doing the same, drop us a note. I guess it's like buying lung supporting machines at the moment...

As said, home office is a custom practice in my company, but not as often. There's lots of reasons to it, one of which might be work culture, but others... We're also producing hardware in a multi 100 million Euros project secret for years, so you couldn't just take the software home, let alone the hardware. Many colleagues are using test hardware (not produced by us) costing tens of thousands of bucks you couldn't just take away either.

And there's reasons that are obvious to me, but doesn't seem obvious to others. You can tell things by looking at people, if they're moving their legs, where they are looking at, etc. pp. This gets lost at least with audio only conferences, some also in video. Every online communication has lag to it, which makes it the more uncomfortable to talk the more people attend. People unwillingly intercept each other due to that. And there's this "social" thing every social creature needs, not only after work.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThat's the stuff you usually hear from dinosaur managers who are mentally unable...

Sorry, but honestly: If that's your custom way of communicating I understand if you tend to avoid to.

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Quoting: KimyrielleThat's the first time I hear a company claiming that remote-work would somehow be less efficient than working in an office. lol!

You must be joking. I'm working in a big software development department and it is just... hard. The infrastructure is fine for 5% working from home. It is overwhelmed with 90% working from home. I took two weeks off because I couldn't bare it.

Also, it is helpful to look people in the eyes.

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Quoting: EhvisNetflix then denied it and said it was only reducing bandwidth, but not quality. As if that is actually possible. And even with that reduction, AMS-IX broke a record 8 Tbit/s last night.

"In Europe, for the next 30 days, within each category we’ve simply removed the highest bandwidth streams. If you are particularly tuned into video quality you may notice a very slight decrease in quality within each resolution." [External Link]

Guess they should keep it this way then? ;)

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