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OConnell I.T.

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OConnell I.T. delivers fast I.T. fixes in Bohemia, Ronkonkoma and surrounding areas. We deliver managed web hosting and managed backup for small businesses.

Ronkonkoma, New York Katılım Temmuz 2023
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OConnell I.T.@OconnellIT·
Kid learned to read on her iPod touch from 2. Was reading books to her class at 4. Has always been top 1%. Just got into a great college honors program. Teachers vary hugely. Jill is privileged.
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic

It gets a lot harder to judge parents who send their kids to private school when public schools are introducing kindergartners to AI "teachers." I suspect that one of the biggest future divides will be kids who were taught to think and those who weren't. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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Michael Moreno
Michael Moreno@HealthcareREguy·
Restaurant owner: My costs and are going up, I’m sorry I have to increase my prices. Customer: I understand Contractor: Materials and labor went up, I’m sorry I have to increase my prices. Customer: I understand Grocery store: Eggs, beef, and produce went up, I’m sorry I have to increase my prices. Customer: I understand Landlord: Utilities, materials, and my debt service went up, I’m sorry I have to increase rent. Tenant: You’re a slumlord POS how dare you!!!🤬
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OConnell I.T.@OconnellIT·
Yeah he paid 250m to crush the US Government but you got Wi-Fi so all good.
Rob Hallam@robj3d3

Story time: Elon deserves less hate than he gets. Last month I flew Cyprus to Bangkok on Emirates with a layover in Dubai. About halfway through the first flight (5 hours) I realised I could connect to wifi for free. Logged in and saw it was because the plane was on Starlink. First time I'd seen this on a plane, I was excited. Checked the speed: 200+ Mbps download. Holy. I spent the rest of the flight working at insane speeds at 35,000 feet. Landed in Dubai, switched to my connection (another Emirates, 6 hours to Bangkok). First thing I did was check the wifi because I wanted to keep working. It was there, but charging $20 through OnAir (SITA). Not Starlink nice, but fine. So I connected and again checked the speed: 8 Mbps. Over 30x slower than Starlink. Still, the package said multi-device, so I figured I'd just use my phone hotspotted to my laptop. Then I accidentally signed in with my boarding pass instead of my email. Looked for a log out. There was none. I tried clearing cache and cookies. Flushed DNS on the MacBook. Nothing worked. I was stuck on the wrong account on my laptop with no way to switch. Spent the next hour debugging while messaging Grok and Claude on my phone, waiting minutes between replies because the connection was that bad. Eventually flagged down a flight attendant. She went to the lead, came back and said they couldn't escalate to OnAir mid-flight and the only path was emailing for a refund after landing. Fine. Not life or death, but the service didn't work as advertised on the device I actually wanted to work on. Half refund felt fair. 6-8 emails back and forth with OnAir and they refused. Their reasoning: because I'd consumed data on my phone (which I only did to debug the laptop issue) my usage was above the threshold, so no refund. The debugging itself was the disqualifier. The money wasn't the point. I wanted them to know the service was broken, and I wanted to be treated fairly when it was. Neither happened. So to recap: wifi 30x slower than Starlink, charges $20 for it, then when it breaks they refuse the refund because you tried to fix it. Closing line of their final email: "The internet service on board an aircraft flying at 900 km/hour relies on complex solutions, and the same experience as at the airport can therefore not always be provided." You can decide, reading this today, whether you want to be @elonmusk or make excuses. Rant over.

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OConnell I.T.@OconnellIT·
Amazon on the other hand inserted ads in prime video mid year and wanted to charge me for no ads. I haven't opened prime video since and cancelled Prime.
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BertramCapt
BertramCapt@BertramDays80·
@JamesSurowiecki Yes actually, you swear to obey the order of those appointed over you. The Commader and Chief is the very top of that chain of command genuis. I recited that oath many times.
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James Surowiecki@JamesSurowiecki·
No officer in the U.S. military takes an oath to serve the Commander-in-Chief.
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OConnell I.T.@OconnellIT·
QuickBooks as free is too expensive.
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Alex Cole
Alex Cole@acnewsitics·
Fact: Every Democratic president for the last 35 years had to rescue the economy from a Republican recession.
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OConnell I.T.@OconnellIT·
Once again, what sentient person hasn't lived a deep state of concern everyday since he entered public life in 2015? Why now is going... Oh but this dollar on gas, nope, that's it for me.
Brad@BraddrofliT

The Strait of Hormuz is still closed and tensions are rising globally, yet Trump shows up in China with Eric Trump, Lara Trump, and Stephen Miller. No seasoned China experts. No serious diplomatic heavyweights. Just loyalists and family members. That should concern everyone.

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OConnell I.T.@OconnellIT·
So, just to be clear, you're notifying me to pay a bill I've already scheduled a payment for in your system, and your solution is to turn off all notifications instead of you checking to see if a payment is scheduled before sending a reminder?
PSEG Long Island@PSEGLI

Hello, you can change your alert settings, including disabling certain alerts by logging into MyAccount at the link below. Once you log in, hover over "My Account" on the top bar, and click "MyAlerts" to access your notification settings and disable payment reminders. - NL spr.ly/6016BBaXLK

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