I'm currently traveling for months at a time and my homelab has become unreachable to me over VPN due to a unknown complication after a power outage....
Man, I don't even run my desktops without a UPS. Maybe I'm jaded from too much tech support, but I feel like not having a UPS is like not using a condom for a random hookup: it's fine until it dramatically and seriously isn't.
Almost every desk at my workplace has its own lead-acid battery. That's well over 1000. We haven't had any fires or explosions.
Hello friends. Work email is crushing me. The ticketing systems, plural, email me on everyone's tucket. (Because some people only work tickets via email and others through the web interface.)...
Outlook has "rules" you can configure to route incoming mail into different folders and mark as read (if you have access to their web client, configure the rules there so they run even when the desktop client is closed).
I know Google's web interface has similar features. If it's not built into Thunderbird then I'd be shocked if there wasn't an extension for it.
I find that they don't "un-tint" when going inside fast enough for my liking, personally.
Creates kind of the opposite effect of going from a dim room into a bright space. Instead of evrything seeming extra bright, it just dimmed everything and made it more difficult to see.
Unfortunately all you can do is try to thicken your skin and attempt to "manage upwards".
"I appreciate the feedback and I'll bear that in mind in the future, but there's nothing I can do about this months later. Next time let me know when I still have an opportunity to correct the issue and I'll gladly course-correct."
And refuse to sign the review. Be specific that you don't accept being penalized for mistakes you made months before you were told the rule.
You can push back while being polite and professional in some places, so it's worth a shot if you're already being shit on or are on the way out.
If you've tried it and gotten nowhere though, just disengage and try to stop caring so much.
Your manager's failure to communicate is their problem, not yours.
The key is that you are working from home, where you have the freedom to use the down time productively, or at least in whatever way you desire. You also have complete control over the space you work in.
Most jobs with downtime don't have that kind of freedom. You're still in the office, in the lobby, at the cash register. You have to be at your post, maintaining appearances for whoever happens to walk by. You might be able to do some light web browsing, but you have to watch out for anyone coming within view of your screen. The suits, or customers if you're any sort of customer facing, feel slighted when they see people appearing to not care about their work.
I lost a job for playing a computer game at my desk while things were slow so I could be available whenever something came up, while multiple co-workers were literally out playing basketball in the gymnasium for our customers, not even at the front desk able to work when a rush hit. A rush did hit, someone got handsy with the one other coworker there (of the six clocked in and supposed to be there), they pulled the tapes, saw what I was doing during the literal hour of nothing, and I was fired. I had previously been told that while they preferred I didn't, I could do what I was doing during downtime so I would always immediately be available to assist customers. No one else even got in trouble, not even the handsy fucking customer.
At another place, our primary duty was answering phones, but an exec made us work a ticket queue as well. Whenever we weren't audibly talking into our headsets he would make shitty comments about us not being busy, despite all our numbers showing otherwise. One magical day we managed to have literally nothing in the ticket queue and no calls coming in. I got in trouble for browsing a work related subreddit trying to find ways to improve my skills.
I've had other jobs where I was told that I could do my schoolwork during my downtime, then been told to stop because it didn't maintain an appearance of company values. To the empty fucking entry hallway of an outdoor pool. It's going to rain today, we aren't going to get many/any customers. I had great rapport with the customers and other staff too, wasn't like I was known as an idiot or a slacker. I'd get calls from the more senior workers at the inside desk when they couldn't figure out basic shit they had been trained on.
My current job is much like yours, work from home tech, and I enjoy being able to take 30 minutes and clear my mind fucking about in a videogame when I get a mental block with some code, being able to do my laundry, clean shit up around the house, read, do hobbies in between meeting calls or when muted on one.
That is so so far from the norm though. Only possible with WFH and if your employer isn't a privacy invading psycho recording what programs you have open and when, mouse movements, etc.
There's more in person hurry up and do nothing jobs than work from home positions, and I would imagine most people complaining are not working from home, or have to maintain availability showing in a chat program, or are just busy enough to not be able to get into what they want to be doing.
This is the norm. They have settings in Group Policy for a lot of this (sans the teams opening in edge, that is absolutely utter horseshit).
The regedit you did (and most regedits to “fix” stupid default settings) is a manual version of the GP setting to just disable web search in the start menu.
If you don’t use Windows with a Pro license, and you stay with Windows, next time buy a Pro license from a bulk OEM Pro License seller for cheap (or look up the latest way to spoof licensing and get it for free), and get access to Group Policy. It’s effectively Control Panel/Settings menu on steroids for corporate sysadmins.
I swear that 80% of peoples complaints with Windows can be handled with Group Policy. Shit that it’s locked away from the average user, but the average user literally can’t tell the difference between web browsers if you make the shortcuts have the same icon.
This was one of my biggest issues with math myself. Sin, cos, tan, and logarithms still confuse me. Meanwhile, derivatives (a calculus concept) are pretty straightforward conceptually with the physics examples of distance, speed, and acceleration.
Derivatives are the change in something. So if you have a graph of something’s distance over time, the derivative is a graph of the change in distance at any given moment, or the speed of the object. Likewise, the derivative of the object’s speed is a graph of the object’s acceleration, or the change in the object’s speed at any given moment.
Anyway, this is also something that I used to rant about with my programming courses in college. You need an understanding of both the concept and the execution of it in order to program with a consistent amount of success, but most courses (and learning material) focus on one or the other.
I do systems admin/engineering, and I’m the team code monkey, but my co-workers want to learn. It’s still the core hurdle I see my them make when they try to script. They either have the concept down with no clue how to script it, or they’re flailing script snippets around without actually understanding what those parts actually do.
I've noticed that a lot of people on the #fediverse aren't particularly welcoming to those who don't initially get it or have trouble with it. You'd think that if multiple people say they have trouble picking an instance, it might be a genuine barrier to entry that we need to consider when introducing them to the fediverse. But no, instead of suggesting an instance to get rid of that barrier everyone gives unhelpful advice like "just pick one" or "it's not that hard." We'd have a much easier time getting people on the fediverse if there weren't so many people with this attitude of "the fediverse is simple, and the people who don't get it are lazy and should try harder."
The issue is that there isn’t really anything more to choosing an instance than just picking one though, and we don’t want to funnel every new user to a single instance lest this end up becoming just reddit with extra steps. Or the reccomended instance gets flooded with more traffic than it can handle.
At most, a new user may want to look at what instances have defederated from the one they want to sign up on, but that’s a concept that isn’t going to make sense to someone who is already having trouble understanding “sign up somewhere, interact with everywhere” setup.
Numerous guides to all of this have been created. Rather than tilting at windmills (you will never stop people from being rude online, best to just accept it) your effort would be better spent being the friendly guiding hand. That’s far more effective than trying to call out people who probably don’t care whether we’re attracting more users or not.
Regardless of housing being a human right, the space used has to exist, materials have to be used to make or upkeep the structure, and it has to be prevented from decaying to the point it can no longer be habitable.
Building and upkeeping these spaces requires expenditure of resources (building materials, time, work effort). Where is that supposed to come from? Whatever source for these resources exists has to get them from somewhere, and if you don’t expect to have to help upkeep their ability to provide these resources over time, someone else would have to.
There’s no way to magic these resources out of thin air. Even without the grim specter of Capitalism, the wood and nails have to come from somewhere, and someone has to put it together. Someone has to keep it from falling apart.
Any further discussion boils down to: Do you accept the responsibility of contributing your fair share, or do you expect someone else to subsidize your fair share in some way to make up for what you can’t or won’t contribute?
I’m not making any judgement one way or the other, just saying that there is no social/political system in which you can make something out of nothing. Some people are going to over simplify that, but it’s a valid question. Where are these things supposed to come from when someone can’t provide it for themselves? Who should be made responsible?
I don’t have the answers, but calling the expectation that others provide it for you “stealing or slavery” isn’t an absolutely absurd leap.
One of the worst parts about house searching is when you look up how much you can get for relatively little if you’re willing to live in impovershed areas in the middle of nowhere. The kind of places defined by the main industry that left the area at least a decade ago.
Then compare it to where you actually have to live die to life and career situations.
That statistic regarding available housing ignores a lot of things. Where do the resources come from to keep this available housing in livable conditions? What is considered the minimum livable condition for these spaces? Who is responsible for keeping these spaces livable? What guarantee is there that any of this available housing is within reasonable travel distance of other necessities (not even speaking of employment, there’s urban food deserts to consider)?
At some point there is a required expenditure of resources, even if enough physical homes exist.
“Newfangled”? Shinies have existed since Gen 2. Granted, they’ve been made absurdly more common in recent gens. I think originally they were like a 1/1024 chance.
Microsoft’s documentation for revoking user access from Azure AD currently references cmdlets from the AzureAD PowerShell module, which will be deprecated on June 30th....
Away from home for months; homelab unreachable; now looking for UPS
I'm currently traveling for months at a time and my homelab has become unreachable to me over VPN due to a unknown complication after a power outage....
Req.Incoming Email NOT my Focus? Client/Server
Hello friends. Work email is crushing me. The ticketing systems, plural, email me on everyone's tucket. (Because some people only work tickets via email and others through the web interface.)...
xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas ( imgs.xkcd.com )
https://xkcd.com/2929...
What kind of institutional gaslighting is this? ( i.redd.it )
to those of you who get bored at work if there's lots of downtime, why?
cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/767456...
New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser ( www.bleepingcomputer.com )
William Shatner: ‘Good science fiction is humanity, moved into a different milieu’ ( www.theguardian.com )
xkcd #2904: Physics vs. Magic ( imgs.xkcd.com )
xkcd.com/2904...
NIST Releases Version 2.0 of Landmark Cybersecurity Framework ( www.nist.gov )
NIST is a US government org that releases industry guidlines on best practices for cybersecurity....
Landlords should have to pay income tax on their rental properties regardless of whether they're rented out or not. ( gothamist.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.crimedad.work/post/12162...
It’s rare you find your soulmate ( i.imgur.com )
Assistance with access revocation using MSGraph
Microsoft’s documentation for revoking user access from Azure AD currently references cmdlets from the AzureAD PowerShell module, which will be deprecated on June 30th....