• bedrooms@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    Btw is it only my country in which people call the internet wifi these days? As an IT worker I feel my brain deteriorate every time even a company doesn’t use these terminologies properly in their ads.

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      11 months ago

      i was there when they started calling every type of program an “app”.

      makes tech more opaque to normies, easier to control the narrative this way.

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      11 months ago

      It hurt a bit when the contractor I am dealing with at work kept on mixing up disk with memory. It wasn’t so much that I am being pedantic it is that he is making claims off his mixup.

      I asked him politely to please search up the differences.

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      11 months ago

      My ISP doesn’t even tell you if your WAN is down when you check your service status on their app. It just tells you to “check your Wi-Fi router and reset if necessary”.

      If you use your own router, it won’t even tell you that, it just says “issue finding wifi 360 information”.

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        11 months ago

        Oh no, this is what I’m talking about. But in our case, those stupid people don’t distinguish between Wifi and LAN anymore anywhere in their anything.

        Edit: one day, a dubious network worker came to my flat saying they are testing the Wifi provided by the apartment. I told him I don’t need it because I set up my Wifi on my own.

        Then he told that’s impossible because if I’m using Wifi I must be using the hardware of the apartment.

        Turned out, he can’t distinguish between the fiber port and a Wifi router…

        I wanted to know if he was sent by the house maintenance or just another salesman. But how can you talk with a person on IT, when he continues mixing up technological terms!?

        Eventually I got upset and closed the intercom.