{"id":284,"date":"2020-01-24T23:18:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T05:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curli.us\/?p=284"},"modified":"2020-01-24T23:18:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T05:18:59","slug":"so-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"So Complicated!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Why has the world of technology become so complicated? All in the name of &#8220;we can do it&#8221;, right? But this is almost unfathomable. It really makes my head hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In VMware, you have a choice of UEFI or BIOS mode. Good luck figuring out which one is the better choice, because there isn&#8217;t.<\/li><li>Ubiquiti has twenty UniFi products to choose from, not counting the new UniFi Dream Machine. This has become almost impossible for even a VAR to make the best decision of which product to recommend.<\/li><li>Ad blocking has become a huge nightmare battle as the content providers have become even smarter in their detection of ad blockers. Yet what is a privacy-conscious consumer to do? The choices are not clear at all.<\/li><li>Everything has a microphone and camera built-in and even the super-liberal Engadget and I agree that consumers have no privacy left.<\/li><li>The efforts to keep hackers at bay seem trivial compared to the massive horde of bad people growing every day. It&#8217;s like endless wave of zombies attacking your stronghold. Why does convenience come at the price of security?<\/li><li>Google Assistant is broken badly on my Android phone. I asked it &#8220;remind me when I get home to wash my car&#8221; but even using my most clear voice it just wouldn&#8217;t understand me. This is supposed to make my life easier but all it did for about 2 minutes was make my blood pressure spike into unhealthy levels.<\/li><li>My Dell PowerConnect broke a few months ago, so I &#8220;upgraded&#8221; to an HP ProCurve. It has frequent issues that require me to restart devices. So I am waiting for a Juniper EX2200 to arrive from eBay.<\/li><li>I need a new Android phone but there is definitely no clear decision. Instead I&#8217;m just going one day at a time wondering if something new will be released that will be the right decision.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish life was simpler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why has the world of technology become so complicated? All in the name of &#8220;we can do it&#8221;, right? But this is almost unfathomable. It really makes my head hurt. In VMware, you have a choice of UEFI or BIOS mode. Good luck figuring out which one is the better choice, because there isn&#8217;t. Ubiquiti &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/?p=284\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So Complicated!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,10,13,3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-smart-home","category-smartphones","category-technology","category-vmware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BMx4-4A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curli.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}