SpikesOtherDog
@SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
- Comment on 5 hours ago:
I took the plunge about 10 years ago. It’s so much easier now.
- Comment on 5 hours ago:
I BOUGHT 10, then abandoned at 11 because 10 pro OEM converted to home. Home prevents you from running the console snap in tools you need to administer your system.
- Comment on 5 hours ago:
I’m with you
Teams, modern O365, AD, Azure, etc only sells because its built on Windows.
I can assure you, I’m watching an org entrench themselves deeper into the MS eco to obtain these services. The reasoning is that the systems they have are useless and they believe MS will fix everything.
If MSFT loses the home market, businesses have a high chance of following, especially since their QA process relies exclusively on home users.
There is a 10-15 year delay on this as a user-base from school needs to be developed. This could happen if schools find they can run the software they need on older and older hardware.
All they really need is to reach maybe 10% desktop market share, and MSFT would start facing a slaughter in the coming years as big OEMs start shipping linux from factory.
OEMs were shipping Linux on AMD a bit more than a decade ago. I don’t recall seeing Linux in the wild like that, but I remember the Dell AMD machines ended with a 5.
- Comment on 7 hours ago:
Open Enterprise Server / Zenworks is one option. It’s actually the predecessor to AD. From my experience it is the most polished option. There are several foss implementations of LDAP, but nothing I’m aware of (or looked for) in the enterprise scale.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
You are completely right. That will be true until Linux is proven to have enough utility and be able to run enough the software end users need. Active directory is killer, but there are alternatives.
It’s a shame Novell is circling the drain, as it does have the ability to manage Windows and Linux machines in a similar network. If Microsoft fucks up hard enough and the opportunity is there, we might see an exodus. European governments are supposedly pioneering this now.
I’m aware this is still incredibly improbable, but the possibility is growing.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
They believe they have a captive audience.
- Comment on Over 40% of New Yorkers support deporting illegal immigrants — while souring on ICE tactics: poll 1 week ago:
Reframing this, a majority of conservatives do not support deporting illegal immigrants.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 2 weeks ago:
Alton showed me a few things and taught me that if I was patient I could figure it out the rest of the way. That was almost 20 years ago. Now I happily share cooking duty with my wife.
I named a dog after him. It didn’t stick, and my daughter named the dog after a kid in class’s little brother, but the through was there.
- Comment on It's fine 2 weeks ago:
I guess you can still start building your own modified kernels and software, but it’s not 1994 any more.
- Comment on It's a Furby! 2 weeks ago:
I feel like the fae is built out of fairy tales, promises, and the uncanny valley.
- Comment on Almost a quarter of UK GPs are seeing obese children aged four and under 2 weeks ago:
Shared fault for not creating public spaces and for nimbys chasing away kids.
- Comment on Real and True 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Gaming
- Comment on Anon listens to music 3 weeks ago:
Bittersweet
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks 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 weeks ago:
The minimum required to run Windows.
Nobody said anything about running other applications.
- Comment on Anon time travels 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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) 3 weeks 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) 3 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fate/stay_night
Stay/Night is the original.
- Comment on Florence Nightingale's Kink 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Pretty sure I would stop answering the door if Internet celebrities were attempting to use me for attention.
- Comment on Chilis 🌶 2 months 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)? 2 months ago:
Huh, guess you are right
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Thanks. Fixed
