SpikesOtherDog
@SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
- Comment on Almost a quarter of UK GPs are seeing obese children aged four and under 9 hours ago:
Shared fault for not creating public spaces and for nimbys chasing away kids.
- Comment on Real and True 1 day ago:
I only have 2 monitors, and when I play Minecraft I have the game stretched between the two in a wide angle about 30% to the right.
- Comment on Real and True 1 day ago:
Gaming
- Comment on Anon listens to music 3 days ago:
Bittersweet
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 days ago:
SSD is absolutely a life-altering upgrade for old machines. Tell me how win 11 runs perfectly fine on a Dell Optiplex 9010 from 2012 with 8 GB DDR3 and a SSD.
It beats the pants off a HP EliteDesk 800 G4 running off a brand new HDD. The G4 was from 2018, actually passes the specification check, has 8 GB of DDR4. The only bottleneck is the SSD.
Sitting in front of any of these machines or the latest DDR5 AI+whatever with the same amount of memory and doing office work all day, I might be able to tell the difference.
In all fairness, I’m not putting Symantec or any enterprise management software on the Dell, so I can’t compare directly. I’d rather not try to do so because I don’t want to answer questions about WHY I joined personal equipment to the domain.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 days ago:
The minimum required to run Windows.
Nobody said anything about running other applications.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 days ago:
POST FAILURE
PLEASE COMPLETE A NETWORK CONNECTION AND TRY AGAIN
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 4 days ago:
Personally, I would gladly activate friends and family using mass grave.
Professionally, while I have never seen an audit in decades, I would not bypass Microsoft activation in a professional setting. It’s the company’s hardware, and if they insist on using it they will need to pony up for a licence. I’m not liable for the device if I advise it is not able to be updated and they insist on using it. I will be liable if I use the activation script.
- Comment on Retail stores still selling the same overpriced junk since at least 2019 and even pretending it's on sale 4 days ago:
I guess as long as the laptop isn’t connecting to anything else and you are transferring data via USB, there is no issue. The fact that it is using special software makes me think it is directly connected to your database, making that a loose cannon if there is any kind of compromise.
W10 IOT dropped support last year, so it will not receive security patches UNLESS you are using W10 IOT Enterprise LTSC. I doubt it because the license is twice the cost of the laptop. It’s available from CDW, but I think there are stipulations.
Your boss would have been better off buying a used enterprise laptop from Amazon.
- Comment on I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair) 5 days ago:
It’s a desktop tower. People are sad when I offer monitor KB and mouse for $20 more.
I’m thinking of bumping up to $50 so people can feel better about talking me down to $35. I don’t like to play games, but people seem to care more about getting a deal than a fair price.
- Comment on I Can’t Sell You Laptops Anymore (video) (enshittification of computer repair) 5 days ago:
Yes, I have a basement full of computers with no storage. The plan was to put 120 GB SSDs in there and sell them for $40 each. 1: That’s no longer possible. 2: nobody wants to buy them for that price.
- Comment on Snitches get switches 3 weeks ago:
Guess it’s lost in translation.
Conservation land is a protected wild area. Sometimes it’s what we refer to as “the woods,” and not properly marked from a local standpoint.
In my region, there are many county and state (vs federal in US) parks, with recreational areas and rules about how to interact with the wildlife. Greatparks.org.
There are also private nature preserves, and those appear to us as hiking trails. www.cardinallandconservancy.org is an example.
There are also smaller conversation areas. I know of a little bog about the size of a football field with a little sign saying it is maintained by the local college.
- Comment on Florence Nightingale's Kink 3 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/stay_night
Stay/Night is the original.
- Comment on Florence Nightingale's Kink 3 weeks ago:
Gacha mobile game based on the Fate/Stay Night franchise, which comprises an Anime about different paths one could take within a 2004 Windows game.
The franchise is massive. I watched one and moved on. There are fans ranging from devoted to deranged.
The original game had sex scenes in it, and the people thirst for more.
- Comment on Misspelled learning center, no children inside: Emmer presses Walz over Minnesota daycare tied to $4M 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure I would stop answering the door if Internet celebrities were attempting to use me for attention.
- Comment on Chilis 🌶 1 month ago:
In that case, you can use red chili peppers, but feel free to substitute any chili pepper to your taste.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 month ago:
Huh, guess you are right
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 1 month ago:
Easy! Assuming the earth is the center of the universe, coordinates are 360,360
± the current position of the Earth in the solar system ± the current position of the solar system in the Milky Way. In the Local Cluster, in the Local Group, in the Virgo Supercluster, in the Local Mesh
In order to return, we just go that way: Image
- Comment on True 1 month ago:
It’s the truth. 2 weeks of vacation, 6 sick days (the last two are write-ups), and 6 holidays are not enough.
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 1 month ago:
Thanks. Fixed
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 1 month ago:
I could see this working, but it’s a ton of effort to maintain. If you have the right mindset, after organized enough, and have the space, I guess it will work.
My other beef is just cost in general. At 500 pages for CMYK each, and $20 a cartridge, that’s $80 for 500 pages. You get about 10x the yield for the same cost with third party toner. Even if you were buying OEM toner at 4x the price, you are still getting 2.5x the yield for the same cost.
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 1 month ago:
Funny enough, that was the last model I had to do that to, a 9000 series. We had several, but they are dying off steadily to print head failure errors. Reminds me of the Whack-a-Mole scandal.
I would 100% buy a used enterprise printer if I could get a proper deal on it, but that is because I have been a certified HP printer tech and have fixed hundreds of printers. If you count receipt printers and other brands of office printer, I have probably touched over a thousand for anything from rebuilds to jams. There was a year when I rebuilt 10-20 printers a week as part of a schedule.
Anyhow, what I’m getting at isn’t that they are better built or anything like that. There just happens to be enough third party vendors that you never have to pay them a cent to keep a printer running. Someone else already paid them the 2-6k for the printer, and it’s e-waste if it goes into the dump. I can ship of Thesius it indefinitely, even if I have to buy parts from God knows where.
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 1 month ago:
The M477fdw is pretty solid. You can find parts and manuals aplenty for that.
Definitely check before you buy a used HP to see if there is a firmware lockout for toner. I have seen other newer models complain about counterfeit toner and still print.
That being said, I endorse HP printers. They are anti-competitive and have terrible software.
No problems with their enterprise desktops, but again, buy used!
- Comment on Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing 1 month ago:
My routine for unclogging a printhead is to get 99% IPA, blot the head on a paper towel and then drag the head down a sheet of paper until it is leaking ink. As an IT guy, I have recovered several ink cartridges this way.
After you have done this, do several prints until the ink flows properly.
If you have the ability to do so, you should look into buying a used laser printer. The toner is more expensive upfront, but you don’t have these issues and total cost of ownership is significantly cheaper.
Word of warning, do not buy consumer HP printers. These only exist to make you purchase HP toner.
- Comment on Insulin 1 month ago:
It’s no longer about saving money at that point.
- Comment on Insulin 1 month ago:
Not sure about that, and not sure if I could trust that.
Another option is to have the doctor prescribe insulin pens or another brand of the same kind of insulin. It’s technically a different prescription and the insurance company usually covers it.
- Comment on Insulin 1 month ago:
Insulin is not permanently shelf stable, and will still expire in the fridge.
Diabetics usually start with a long-acting insulin to keep blood sugar from naturally rising plus a fast-acting insulin for corrections and to compensate for food.
The old style of just giving 2 long-acting shots of mixed insulin is mostly obsolete, except for legacy patients, some pregnant patients, and other special cases I can only theorize.
A good number of diabetics only use fast acting insulin in a pump, receiving microdoses every minute.
To switch brands of insulin, much less therapies in any circumstance requires a doctor’s visit.
With all that said, the insurance company will often replace a medication in the event of an accident, typically only once a year.
Without that, a patient might be able to find a charity they will assist them.
You also may be able to travel to the next state over where the cost of insulin is regulated.
Failing all other options, it is better to check yourself in to the hospital as your sugar begins to rise and tell them that you cannot control your blood sugar.
- Comment on A blog re-used one of my Reddit posts as a genuine comment on their blog 1 month ago:
Along with the other comments, your review may have been supplied or archived well before you obfuscated your history.
As I tell my daughters, the Internet is forever.
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 2 months ago:
Well, that’s comforting. I was mildly concerned about my memory.
Guess I’m do my part in the future.
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 2 months ago:
Outside of your question, there has been some rage bait:
lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/38413203
I think it would be appropriate for these conversations to be flagged and locked. I thought there was a lot more, but it seems to have been a while.
