I wonder if the black panels increase the urban heat island effect.

It’s a pretty sharp departure from the light coloured buildings.

They’re pervasive in an annoying way, and the boosters are using them for utterly ridiculous things.

They have their very limited uses. For short things they can be useful, within reason. “How do you take these results and transform them into X in Python” then take a very squinty look at it and figure out where it went wrong. Then, try asking a couple follow-ups and the code just scrambles.

For writing I’ve found they’re pretty useless, because I can’t figure out how to prompt them to not sound like they’re in the marketing department and blowing smoke.

But they can be a good starting point for finding information when I’m looking for something that’s really a Reddit question, rather than something I can summarize into keywords for a search engine. Still, too often useless.

I recently had someone send me “is it cheaper to air bnb or get a hotel at $destination” and it was absurdly incorrect, as in off by a factor of two. When it would have taken mere seconds more to get correct information. I have relatives who work in professions which literally define accuracy (accounting and law) and they rely on them for stuff like that, and it’s so provably incorrect

Nothing like training users to punch creds into every box that appears! It is absolutely bad. There’s no need to ask for credentials; the refresh token will be invalidated if passwords change etc.

Plus, it’s expensive. 24 times a day, 30 seconds. 12 min per user per day of wasted productivity.

Sounds like someone just read up on token theft and panicked.

First ask yourself what benefit you gain from isolating services.

Untrustworthy devices like work computers, smart TVs, and IoT sure have good reasons. Possibly a DMZ. But you might do as well to simply block all egress from a few internal IPs instead.

Move things slowly, because you’ll need to see what traffic needs to flow and what doesn’t, and you may find that you need some helper services for cross vlan (for example mDNS).

ETA: guest wifi is good too; force the traffic through firewall and keep it off your internal network