Another question for you: You’re asking for an app to be created to catalog these sites that would support 802.11b. Are you proposing a smartphone app?

Proactively unticking the 802.11b box requires more maintenance overhead AFAICT.

I think your “As Far As I Can Tell” is really the key part here. It sounds like you do not have a background in enterprise IT as a number of your points are missing the knowledge that would come with that and lead you to an incorrect conclusion.

A public resource should obviously have inclusivety as a goal.

100% inclusivity isn’t realistic. Its just not possible to design as system with infinite requirements. Sure, YOU are asking for only 802.11b, but if the requirement is 100% inclusivity then someone else can next come along and require IR or some other non-standard or deprecated technology.

Marginalising some people because some other ppl have the false perception of better performance is both absurd and elitist.

Its not elitist if the entire solution is slowed to an unusable speed because the impacts of a single 802.11b user has on the entire network. It becomes useless to everyone.

It’s wrong to put chronic upgraders with new tech in the “tight budget” category. The tight budget category is for those with old devices.

I’m not. I’m talking about the IT budgets. There isn’t an infinite amount of money for IT.

That’s not how it works. Different radios get different SSIDs.

Okay so now you’ve just increased the cost of every access point because it has to accommodate a separate radio which didn’t before. This goes back to IT budgets. There are much better uses for that money such as installing more access points in other areas for even greater access for more folks.

It’s also really grasping at straws to claim all those people on cordless non-GSM phones are having notable intereference issues. Bluetooth is only used in a <10 meter range (usually much less in practice), so also grasping at straws there.

No, you’re not understanding because you’re missing an IT background. Problems with service generate support calls. Support calls mean staff have to service this calls. This means you either have to grow your support staff, or burden your engineers with more work preventing them from performing more upgrades or improvements elsewhere. Further, these service calls would be something like “my wifi is horribly slow, or drops all the time”, when those are problems of congested spectrum that there’s nothing that can be done about that. You can’t tell your neighbors to get a better shielded microwave. You can’t limit the number of users in a specific area so the spectrum doesn’t get overloaded. So you’d have unhappy users, unhappy engineers, and a whole bunch of money spent that doesn’t accomplish the goal of getting the most people online with the finite budget available to IT.

Citation needed that there is a credible server-side vuln relevant to a public access point.

I didn’t say server side. I meant client side. If you had created this app where it would be known that users with old out-of-date client hardware would be congregating, a malicious actor would have a field day exploiting them.

Copious access points are deployed by naïve admins who are oblivious to the fact that not everyone runs the latest gear.

They aren’t usually naïve. Their goal isn’t to support the oldest random gear. Its to provide a specific good experience for the majority of their users, usually on a tight budget, and with low maintenance overhead. Accommodating 802.11b is almost never part of the defined requirements.

When an 802.11b device cannot see a signal, it’s because some asshat proactively disabled 802.11b.

The good reason to disabled 802.11b on your access point is that if a device starts talking in 802.11b, most equipment will have the entire SSID slow down to accommodate it. Most folks aren’t keen on having their fast wifi session slow to an 11Mbs crawl. 802.11b also rides exclusively on 2.4GHz, a frequency band that is very full these days with things like bluetooth, cordless landline telephones, and even microwave ovens. It can make for a miserable experience that the only cure for is to NOT use the 2.4GHz band, meaning also no 802.11b.

🔧the fix💾 An app that records SSIDs, their location, and all the detectable exclusivity characteristics.

That sounds like a fantastic way to build a database of known vulnerable users to exploit because of use of security vulnerability riddled older devices/OSes.

That video of the question was taken at the Williams Fan Event space right on the Las Vegas strip in front of the New York New York casino. It was cool to see live, but would have been a bit nicer if it hadn’t been raining.

Here’s my picture from it:

Do you want to attract wasps? Thats how you attract wasps.

My intention is to complete the IT Management degree and then evaluate whether I want to go on to an MBA or pursue more education in a different direction.

I thought about a graduate degree too, however my career really took off (partially because of jobs I was able to get that had a Bachelors requirement). A graduate degree at this point in my life would not advance my career further and actually probably reduce my success because of the time commitment and what it would mean I couldn’t do with that same time and energy. Maybe I’ll chase one after I retire just for fun!

My biggest worry with jumping into something entirely new is burnout.

I had this same worry for myself, and it is certainly a balancing act. Too much course load, and you won’t succeed on learning/passing then get burned out even if you do. Too little, and you might get “comfortable” again getting your time and schedule back to what you had before you started.

For me I found success by starting with one course per term for the first term, then two courses per term for two more terms, then three per term (finding out that was too much), then dropping back down to two per term. Additionally, I never took a term off. I was worried I wouldn’t go back, so I did the low-and-slow path or the entirety of my Associates degree to completion. Then when I got the new job (with tuition reimbursement), I did the same, low-and-slow until completing the Bachelors degree.

So, a plan is coming together. Thanks again for all your advice, this is good stuff and will absolutely help me on my path.

Right now you might be thinking “how am I going to find the time to do this along with everything else?!” After the 2nd week of this new responsibility you will have it worked into your schedule. You will then ask yourself “What was I doing before with all this time I found for school commitments?!”, and finally after you graduate a month or two later you’ll loop back and say “Where the heck did I find all that time for the school commitments!?”

You’ve got this! The hardest part is just starting. You are so close. Just. Start.

This is the first time I’d heard about the “trump accounts”. This looks like just another trump tantrum copying something Obama did. Obama created the “myRA” program in his last term in office which served the same purpose as these “trump accounts”, except myRA could be used by low income adults too which received government subsidies to encourage personal contributions. Also the investments were in government bonds, not stocks.

trump took office in 2016 and canceled myRA 6 months after.

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Timeless love. Even death does not part them. If anything it draws them closer together. He’s a bit eccentric and she loves him for it. She a bit aloof but she is his universe and he adores her. They are both excellent parents that communicate with each other and their children. They are fully supportive of whatever interests their children are perusing.

Sure, but is he willing to go down by himself when he’s just been thrown under the bus?

Lets see if the Admiral is willing to keep hold of the live grenade that Hegseth pulled the pin on before he walked away, or the Admiral starts talking about the orders he received from Hegseth.

Well, your gatekeeping is consistent, I’ll grant you that.

You’re welcome to put your own effort into learning useless archaic skills, but I hope you can see why your opinion that other should (as determined by public policy on driving privileges) is in the minority on this. There was absolutely a time when spending time learning these things was necessary. That day has long since passed into history.

For people who’ve had a genuine opportunity to learn and couldn’t figure it out then I would kind of support this. If someone can’t figure out a basic coordination exercise then I don’t really trust them to handle the controls of a couple of tons of moving vehicle.

I assume, to maintain consistency of your judgment, you also regularly turn off ABS, traction control, cover up the backup camera screen only turning around and looking out your back window when reversing? An electric starter also is a bit of a luxury too, right? Do you usually push your car forward with your feet and pop the clutch to start the car, or are you a true purist that uses an old school handcrank mated to the engine’s crankshaft? Wouldn’t these all be, matching the theme of your definition, basic coordination exercises that someone must be able to handle to control them to control a couple of tons of moving vehicle?

Niche IT project work actually, but lots of overlap with DevOps type skills/situations.

If there’s backlash, the corporate worker could simply blame an AI LLM. “Boss, you told us to use AI more, so I did. This is what it created, so I posted it. Should I stop using AI now?”

“Oh? How many of the 45 product recalls on your Charger did you fix yourself instead of taking it to the dealer?”

Current evidence shows Ferrari would have been better with their 2024 driver lineup.

Why would that be bad?

Its not “bad”, but the goal proposal of the OP post was that our friends gain understanding by observing us do our jobs. The jargon means even with direct observation, our friends cannot gain understanding of the jobs we do.

so we can actually see what our friends do all day

Friend: “So you get paid to spend the day periodically typing on your computers, surrounded by lots of large monitors, and several times a day you have video calls with people where you use so much jargon that the conversation is almost entirely divorced from the English language? You just finished an hour long meeting where I overheard every word from both sides of the conversation, and I have no idea what the hell either of you were talking about.”

Me: “yes, that about sums it up”