Re: sysadmin ... become a developer
Crikey, even at home I configure the DHCP server in the router to always give the printer the same local IP address and then use DNS to allow me to reference it by name. Makes life easier.
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Yep. I use Bing, Edge, Windows 11, Microsoft 365 & a Surface Pro.
Oddly enough it all just works, doesn't crash and with hot patch, doesn't even need a reboot every month.
Over the last 4 decades I've used most OS's from VAX VMS, NetWare, BeOS, most Apple OS's, various flavours of Unix, most Linux distributions, DR Dos, OS2 & Windows from 2.1.
Currently I've got a mixture of Raspberry PI's running Linux, Android, Remarkable and Apple tablets, Android and Apple phones, a Surface Pro and a MacBook Pro.
Everything has it's place, Raspberry Pi's are the glue holding my home together doing everything from DHCP, DNS, automation, displaying calendars and working as an SBC, I prefer to use an Android phone over an Apple phone, however I'll use an iPad in preference to an Android tablet and for note taking, nothing beats a Remarkable. But if I want to drop a computer on a desk to use a browser or email client, I'm more likely to pick the Surface Pro, and I also prefer Edge to Chrome, and the results from Bing to Google.
6310i's were fantastic, but the removable battery was a necessity. They only had a phenomenal battery life if you didn't use them. It was entirely a different time, when we still talked on the phone *a lot*. With a 3 or 4 hour talk time, you needed a couple of batteries in your briefcase to get through the day.
300/45Mb connection, plus landline, anytime "calls and mobile for about £75/month. I think the guarantee is 150Mbps down.
Is that what Corbyn will be giving everyone?"
I believe the promise was a gold standard connection so I'd expect 2x 10G FTTP following diverse physical and network paths. A generous IPv4 and Ipv6 allocations and uncontend.