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As i managed to get a better job leaving my minimum wage programming job things will eventually look up as i spent more than a year on minimum wage. When i first came in before covid-19, the salary was low but not minimum and i got bad comments instead so never considered increasing my salary… Read More »Never work for minimum wage in IT
Malaysia, despite being known globally is typically still referred to or remembered as a place where people live on trees or that is poor in the west. Well they aren’t wrong on the 2nd bit. Despite gaining independence more than half a century ago, the country still fails to perform well to bring itself to… Read More »The mindset that makes Malaysia still a 3rd world country
Do you long for mesh wifi or already have them? Well look further as most mesh wifi products out there are rebadged wifi extenders. Recently where I work upgraded their ISP and got 2 different types of mesh WiFi APs in pairs. The problem of mesh WiFi has been something I mentioned long ago on… Read More »When your mesh WiFi isn’t mesh
Whenever you want to buy a powerbank for your phone, or battery, how do you know the capacity is falsified? After all dealing with fake products and returns can be a pain and at times costly as marketplaces only follow laws if exist. For example in eBay UK, I had to pay to return a… Read More »How to verify manufacturer battery capacity claims
In the tech industry or world, things always move and change but quite often you will find people who will not allow things to be updated or changed because it still works. They’ll say “if it aint broke don’t fix it” to avoid going through the pains and issues if say you wanted to update… Read More »Why the “if it ain’t broke dont fix it” attitude is fatal in IT
Someone once introduced a new practice in india and wrote the book “Employees first” which mentioned to prioritise your employees who will prioritise your customers and business. When he went to china to give his speech, they did not believe him and instead he asked “how would you like to double your profits”. Im guessing… Read More »Reduce your work hours, Double your productivity
(Warning, lots of personal experience and rant, all images came from wikimedia/wikipedia except for ubuntu which as usual relies on the individual websites for resources – seeklogo) Here i’ll discuss my experience of years of using different linux distros specifically for newbs who want to start using linux and which one to pick. My main… Read More »My experience with 4 free mainstream linux distros for newbs
The lack of frequency for content has been due to limited free time which i have used to improve this site but havent finished doing so. In mid march you should be seeing content more often as i would have a lot more free time, and i have a lot of content already written but… Read More »More Content Coming Soon