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I feel like I should know this, but what’s the VAB?
I want to say all the pixel 7s came with mmwave, which was different that generations prior. That said, it’s reeeeaaaally hit-or-miss on Verizon. It’s cool to pull a crazy speed in a major city high -density area like a huge airport, but the tech/saturation isn’t there yet for it to be much more than a party trick at this point.
Kind of a roundabout answer to your question, but I got into tech bc of my love for gaming and specifically LAN parties. My buddies and I would get together and knew that hubs were needed (this was ~20 years ago) but didn’t know much else, so I ended up figuring out your to build super basic networks. That led to being a quasi TA to the IT teacher in high school and then to a very basic tech support call center job out of HS.
I’ve been in the industry for over 20 years now, and while not every job has been great there’s always more to learn and ways to grow, and I still love what I do. I even came full-circle and for a while got to work for the game developer of one of the games my buddies and I used to play at those LAN parties back in the day!
I burned through pretty much all my upgrades to get 3 of the 4 caches and managed to get Jean on the 3rd. It feels super carrot-on-a-stick, but at the same time it’s not the only way to get her as you can use collectors tokens. Of course, I don’t have anywhere near enough of those so these caches seemed like the only remotely possible way I’d land her anywhere in the near future.
What is their cited reasoning for bailing? A unified effort to prevent voter fraud sounds great - why in the world would any of the states want out of it? Makes you wonder about how serious those states are about eliminating fraud in the first place…