Re: Can see how this will go
Probably the same twat who thinks the "callouts" in Office which you cannot disable are a good thing
(yes, I have a list of a number to add to the registry, but they keep adding new ones)
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Used to have that with keyboards - a lot. The caller was always surprised with the question "did it have sugar in it ?" before telling them to go and rinse it while we got a spare out.
most spares had been through the rinse and dry many times.
Wyse terminals were also quite prone as they were small so often buried under crap on the desks and often in the line of fire from liquids. Not quite so well built as keyboards
"Employers who don't want an office filled with miserable drudges should involve everyone affected by new technologies in the implementation process, and ensure they have access to information needed to help them understand the role such technology will play in their work"
Employer: Here is a watch for you to wear
Employee: I stopped wearing a watch during Covid, why would I want a watch ?
Employer: some babble about health or using it instead of simply getting the phone out of your pocket: (It is to track you)
Employee: So what you really mean is that you don't trust me. Right I'm off.
Employer: Can you install Office on your phone so we can contact you 24x7
Employee: Nope
Employer: Here is a phone so we can contact you 24x7
Employee: Here is my desk drawer where this phone will live until you want it back
Employer: what if we need to contact you outside of the office or office hours
Employee: you can't and you won't
I like that it is torrent based, so where I have some files scatted across multiple machines, they all pull from each other.
I dont like that it is torrent based as if I go to a client, I can often get a visit from IT asking why I am torrenting on their network
Not checked for a while, but there was not a client for IOS or Android and is why I use OneDrive for backing those devices up (mainly pictures)
I have 2 issues which will keep me tied for now.
First, we have a multi user subscription of M365 and the 1TB of OneDrive, that we all use to auto backup phones (mainly images) and then download to our laptops to have a local copy (other copies take place too). One of said users LIKES going onto their laptop and looking at the images locally as they are constantly clearing space on their phone and well, photo looking is good fun and on a decent size screen is better than the phone..
So no OneDrive is a bit of a pain - and it just needs to work - I have seen options for rSync and other options, but the potential to go wrong is not good - IMHO
2nd, the above user is remote, and even now requires quite a bit of hand holding. Some of that comes from the SWMBO, so needs familiarty with the OS, and then I often get involved. SWMBO is not a real techy and it is often the blind leading the blind when I hear the "support conversation", so that is not an area I want to get into - let alone try to do remote support with an OS that I am not 100% familiar with.
W11 is making me WANT to move over (probably to Mint), but OneDrive is the biggest hurdle
I also recall I was looking at WINE, but seems there are many potential packages and a couple of sites warned about not getting the wrong one as undoing what may have been installed can be painful and sometimes quicker to reinstall.
Now that is funny, but also a damn lie.
Better than Bing etal, but still crap if you want to filter out words, etc, or tell it to ignore specific sites as they seem to appear at the top of the list for no good reason at all (reddit, quora)
when the were replacing the old slam door trains on Connex, they were a test bed for a lot of the more modern trains you see now. I used to sit at the front due to where the exit was for my station, and they used old Toshiba Satellte laptops for their serial port in them days (about 15/16 yrs ago) which was a surprise then as the laptops I had used for a number of years were serial port lacking. I did joke about trying to sell them my old stock of Satellite pro's. (480/490 CDT IIRC)
Often the techie was "rebooting" the train and doing some code work in those days
When it was good, it was very good, but that down to the developers and understanding of the system.
Used to for numerous good things at various points, but at one company I worked at, we had Notes installed for a text index search routine, and the company that wrote this was terrible, cost a bomb and was, I'm afraid, the solution that started to kill Notes for that company. The same routine was rewritten in a quick 'n' dirty vb 4 front end and was so much more efficient.
Though from an ex global admin, I do find Notes was dead easy for user admin, replication, recovery of files and so on, especially when trying to restore someones mailbox vs Exchange.
My final view of Notes was when I was tuped over to IBM. I thought, lets see what they have done with the mail template. We got it and it was OOB, not customisation at all. I soon passed around the "company" standard template so we could get that back. And IBM's own "techie" team were dire. A few people had problems post migration and we knew the errors and how to fix. A good few weeks spent with users not working in Notes, IBM saying "no it is not that, you do not know what you are talking about", to only then finally go "OK, so it was <whatever>"
I have a number of SSD's that I wanted to sort the over provisioning on, so to do that you need to allow said app do a strink (or manually). A new fresh install and for whatever reason, Windoze had put a file or two at the end of said partition. Shrink did not work as there was that file. Optimise does nothing as it is an SSD.
I at least had an old defrag that would move files on an SSD and was able to fix
(moral of the story for me, always create a far smaller windoze partition that you need and then extend once done)
Used to see this on the old gaming consoles. Early games were great to play, but when the model was going to be replaced with the 2/x/one/3, etc, the quality of the games being developed on the older console were so far superiors as the developers had learnt the secrets and tweaks. Took them ages, but they get ther. Apple has that straight away.
As for Windoze. I guess the devs write on the biggest/fastest they can get and then TEST (if they do any) on the same kit.
Years ago at one company we developed on the fastest kit we had, but our test rigs were the slowest out of date piles of crap we had. We got the functionality going and then set about optimising, rewriting - I don't see that happening these days
I have prime for fast delivery, occasionaly prime prices and maybe the prime day or two.
Only thing I have watched via prime video is the football, and got to say, on the laptop is is great as I can have 4/5 games streaming and quickly flick between them. However, they are going to have less football from next season.
The streaming services need to rethink their strategy as there are so many that paying for them all for the odd series/film here and there is too expensive, even more with increases in prices or you'll get adverts otherwise..
I know a few of my sons friends who are now either streaming from dogey sites / IPTV, on usenet (which is fun to watch) or trying to find decent torrent sites.
Speed is fine, but if you cannot get it through to where you need it, it is a pain.
the MiL has reinforced concrete in her flat and a signal kind of gets through to one of the rooms, but more luck than anything else - wish it was stronger
in my house, for whatever reason, a couple of rooms suffer with poor signal and the garden is nearly non existent. Only looking at standard walls and flooring - nothing like reinforced concrete or walls made of stone with high metal content (as one of previous houses had)* combination of a Deco and Ethernet over mains help, but MORE kit that needs to be maintained
Leave the keyboards alone you retards.
If you insist on doing it, do it as an FN function above another key, so I can happily ignore it knowing I will never press the key combo
I wonder how long it will before the likes of Logi come out with a range with the copilot key realise it is not selling as everyone buys the no copilot version and drops it.
the MiL, their car park for 50 flats, has parking for around 20 cars, no lights and no way to get charging down to it.
The flats where I lived, 42 flats in each block (8 blocks and numerous masionettes), parking was fine when I was a kid (70's), but a joke when I left (early 90's). There are some lights, not enough.
I also see it now the local supermarkets and even hospital parking. There are a few spaces for EV cars. Often see an EV car parked - not plugged in, just parked
O2 wont tell you when your contract has expired and let you stay paying whatever.
If you do say anything, their new price is complete crap (about £10 less)
Had it recently where someone here (MiL's other half) had a 5/6 year old phone and was still paying £40 odd quid for it. He eventially spoke to them and got a "good deal" of £25 after he bought a Galaxy tab. No idea why, he has no broadband and being ripped off again (but he does this a lot).
We have been telling him for years to get a new phone or contract or move to one of the SIM only deals - he never bothers. Any to make it worse, he has 2 contacts. One for him and one for the MiL !
(they have now upgraded to the latest iphone and Galaxy, so not quite so bad - but he was still ripped off for years)
Having just upgaded my laptops at home from older Lenovo's with the square plug to ones with USB chargers, I can see that being an issue. My main laptop is more often or not docked (old ones a nice sturdy docking unit), but even when docked (to a hefty usb-c box), I look at that USB cable and the angle it wants to lean at with trepidation - not because its taut or anything, just because the size of them and a bit of gravity (currently propped up with a pack of post-it page markers)
have had to defrag a disk recently as I wanted to add over provisioning and even though the disk had plenty of space, windows had decided to write at the end of the partiton so the inevetiable shrink command would not run.
Thank fully I had an old version of o&o defrag and license I could use.
Other than that, let trim and windows optimise do its job
On our kit here, we are all pleb users. There is an admin account and I will install software as needed.
Going back a few years, the little shite here found a vpn that would install and run via his %appdata% account.
I must check, where does Opera's inbuilt VPN have its endpoints ?
Indeed for those that do not have other options (Driving license, passport), but you can guarantee that some of those will look at this type of photo ID and determine if it only means they can vote in an election, then they will not bother - which is the point I was making.
After all, we are not like Australia where you can get fined, and most the elections the turn out is not great
Open Banking - if you knew the tech that a lot of banks have, you would not go down this route. I am staggered that there are not more bank breaches. Any look at how many outages there are these days.
MNO - nope, phones I know fhat under 18s have do not have this as parents have bought and do not bother with it
Photo ID - a lot do not have this yet as seen by the drive to get photo ID for up coming elections, and some won't care about that and not bother at all
Credit Cards - I know a number of people who have never had, or have for one reason or another, got rid of credit cards Also not hard for a kid to get a CC and get the number quickly
Digital Wallets - seeing how often crypto ones are cracked - no thanks
Face ID - sure there is a disability issue here with some illnesses, and how would Tom Cruise or Michael J Fox use this ?
Kind of started this modular era with the NC range - same chassis, 3 bikes (well, 2 bikes and 1 large scooter), and basically half a Honda jazz engine. - just like cars do with a chassis and across all their brands / ranges.
Like the concept of getting the bits you want to build your bike, but connectivity. The last thing I really want on a bike. I rarely use a tomtom/garmin unless I am not sure where I am going. The headset in my helmet is only on when the sat nav is on - no calls, no radio, no music.
I am already exposed, so want all my senses operating as well as they can be to hear the vehicle near me doing something wrong - or to hear a honda triple engine
Oh, connectivity back to Honda so not even the remotely useful kind - err why, go and shove it up your exhaust - which my first electric bike won't have, so they;ll have plenty to choose from