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The Fool posted:with the caveat that they are all terrible It could have been so good though. but no, they are all poo poo.
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The general recommendation for USB3/Thunderbolt docks is the CalDigit TS3+. For a tiny USB/DisplayPort port without power, I use the HD-500 Continuum dock that came with my Lumia 950XL. It's a general USB3 device, and works fine with my XPS13 and my Surface Go. It's really anemic on power supplied. It's fine for "I have two screens and a couple of USB peripherals that live on my desk", though.
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May 14, 2020 20:10
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Personally, I think this guy is better from Caldigit https://www.caldigit.com/usb-c-pro-dock/ There's a better port selection and it works as BOTH a USB-C dock and a Thunderbolt dock. I have one for home, my only issue is that my T480 doesn't like two high res monitors via thunderbolt since they dedicated some display capacity to the onboard HDMI.
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May 14, 2020 20:17
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Before I left my old job, we were trialing some of the Kensington thunderbolt docks and they were pretty good.
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May 14, 2020 20:18
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The Fool posted:with the caveat that they are all terrible
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May 14, 2020 20:29
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I used to deploy a StarTech USB-C docking station with every laptop and aside from the one that burst into flames the first time I plugged in the power cable, they all just did their loving job, it was honestly kind of great.
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May 14, 2020 21:57
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GreenNight posted:I got one of the new HP USB-C docks and while it's like $175 loving dollars, it actually works great. Once I firmware upgraded it. I have some other version of this thing and the entire top surface is a giant power button. It's just a huge waste of space and I manage to hit it least once a week, I really hate whoever designed it that way. edit: this one 
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May 14, 2020 22:04
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Sirotan posted:I have some other version of this thing and the entire top surface is a giant power button. It's just a huge waste of space and I manage to hit it least once a week, I really hate whoever designed it that way. I have one of those on my desk behind me and yeah I agree. This thing sucked rear end before the latest firmware too, nothing but DP issues. But it works fine now if you don't hit the power all the time.
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May 14, 2020 22:07
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Sirotan posted:I have some other version of this thing and the entire top surface is a giant power button. It's just a huge waste of space and I manage to hit it least once a week, I really hate whoever designed it that way. Mine is like that except it also has a speakerphone and call control buttons on the top
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May 14, 2020 22:15
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I have an HP one like that for working from home, but smaller and with a tiny power button. It's been totally fine, except my monitor doesn't work at 144hz over USBC and it makes me more upset than it should.
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May 14, 2020 22:15
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Sirotan posted:I have some other version of this thing and the entire top surface is a giant power button. It's just a huge waste of space and I manage to hit it least once a week, I really hate whoever designed it that way. Bold of them to have the logo basically be flipping you off.
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May 14, 2020 22:24
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I miss the old HP side docks.
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May 14, 2020 22:25
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I like the new hp logo. it's like 1-off from being loss.jpg
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May 14, 2020 22:26
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We switched to Latitudes and USB-C docks, and I'm really hoping to just hold on to my Thinkpad 480 for a couple more years.
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May 14, 2020 22:28
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I do have a also have a Visiontek USB-C dock to go with my Caldigt TB-3 dock that I linked above as I use the Visiontek with my work notebook. It has displaylink which actually lets me run my 4k monitor and a 1440 monitor at 60hz which the T480 cannot do over thunderbolt. It does chew through some CPU cycles for the display compression, but it's been pretty stable so far and I can still use the notebook's screen as well so I have a 1080p notebook screen, 1440p main monitor and 4k secondary monitor. So, I have ALL the desktop space for work. I really wish the T480 didn't have an HDMI port as all the display lanes could have been dedicated to the displayport out via Thunderbolt and I could run both monitors at 60hz.
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May 14, 2020 22:49
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The Fool posted:with the caveat that they are all terrible My CalDigit TS3 is great!
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May 14, 2020 22:52
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The Fool posted:Mine is like that except it also has a speakerphone and call control buttons on the top What model is that which has the phone and call control buttons? If you don't mind.
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May 14, 2020 23:01
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kensei posted:What model is that which has the phone and call control buttons? If you don't mind. Thunderbolt 120w G2 with Audio 3YE87AA
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May 14, 2020 23:06
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When these were new tech a VIP wanted one for 3 monitors and it just wouldn't loving work. Dell actually recalled the TB15 entirely, didn't stop the VIP from talking poo poo though.
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May 14, 2020 23:17
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Yeah, I had the TB15 and tried to use it with my XPS 15 9550. It went back to dell. Terrible device. The XPS 15 9550 has another issue that if you have the wifi module turned up to full power it will reset the TB controller under high network load, that was fun to figure out. Meanwhile my XPS 13 2:1 (2019 Ice Lake) works flawlessly with my Caldigit TB3 dock. I can drive my 1440p monitor at 144hz, my 4k monitor at 60hz and the internal 1080p display with a single connection.
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May 14, 2020 23:20
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Anybody else having issues with their users using Teams in context of a meeting platform? It certainly isn't intuitive, but I've gotten complaints of performance issues in context of video dropping, or where the meeting freezes for like 30 seconds for all participants. Teams is a great platform and totally our future of collaboration, but goddamn it's hard to push people off of Zoom when performance is inconsistent.
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May 14, 2020 23:38
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I've used both Teams and Zoom... I'm slightly preferential to Teams just because of the persistent messaging capabilities. You can even send pre-formatted text!  The weirdest thing about Teams is how you get messages from meeting you haven't joined. That's the most bizarre and aggravating design decision. You can't even have it off by default.
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May 14, 2020 23:46
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klosterdev posted:Anybody else having issues with their users using Teams in context of a meeting platform? It certainly isn't intuitive, but I've gotten complaints of performance issues in context of video dropping, or where the meeting freezes for like 30 seconds for all participants. Try turning off GPU acceleration and read receipts.
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May 14, 2020 23:46
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skooma512 posted:When these were new tech a VIP wanted one for 3 monitors and it just wouldn't loving work. I hate these people. Get a loving desktop. "So I just got the new MacBook Air I need to run seven monitors also i only want to use one cable thanks for the tips guys" 
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May 15, 2020 00:31
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Matt Zerella posted:My CalDigit TS3 is great! gently caress yes it is.
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May 15, 2020 02:39
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Podima posted:Bold of them to have the logo basically be flipping you off. lmao, I never saw this but now I'll never be able to unsee it.
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May 15, 2020 03:29
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Sirotan posted:I have some other version of this thing and the entire top surface is a giant power button. It's just a huge waste of space and I manage to hit it least once a week, I really hate whoever designed it that way. Does the fan in yours run all the loving time even when your laptop is doing nothing??
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May 15, 2020 13:53
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Bob Morales posted:I hate these people. Get a loving desktop. This is really the answer. If you want five displays and to work from home then you should be permanent WFH and on a desktop.
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It's pretty cool that you can do that stuff though  (says the person who doesn't need to do IT for anyone's laptops)
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Buff Hardback posted:Before I left my old job, we were trialing some of the Kensington thunderbolt docks and they were pretty good. I don't like that the Kensington requires a USB-C display adapter if you want to run two monitors. The whole point is to minimize dongles you fucks. Just put a DisplayPort on there. bull3964 posted:Yeah, I had the TB15 and tried to use it with my XPS 15 9550. It went back to dell. Terrible device. We've actually switched to using the Lenovo USB-C docks on both Dell and Lenovo over all the display issues we've had with the loving Dell docks. the WD19 isn't much better than the WD15. The Lenovo dock has been solid. And neither will work with our Macs for two external displays, unless you want to mirror them. I'll see about getting one of the CalDigit ones in for testing with the Macs. I like the port arrangement.
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mattfl posted:Does the fan in yours run all the loving time even when your laptop is doing nothing?? I finally just brought this thing home from my office last week and set it up, and it isn't until you said so that I realized the loud fan noise I was hearing now was the drat docking station and not my laptop. So yes, yes it does.
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Sirotan posted:I finally just brought this thing home from my office last week and set it up, and it isn't until you said so that I realized the loud fan noise I was hearing now was the drat docking station and not my laptop. So yes, yes it does. Excellent! Working as intended then lol
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May 15, 2020 16:20
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I have hated every docking station and port replicator I have ever used, generic and name-brand.
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Does anyone have any good advice on how to convince a junior engineer or non-technical manager that despite it not being documented Windows is going to have all sorts of warnings, errors, etc. written in the Event Log that are completely useless or normal yet the machine is still in good health? Transitive errors - a connection is interrupted for a split millisecond but doesn't actually impact anything but still reported is the best analogy I'm able to make off the top my head. Essentially, what I want to communicate is that picking through Windows Event Viewer may lead you on a wild goose chase.
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May 16, 2020 01:46
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Yes. If they won't just listen to you, let them go on wild goose chases until they figure it out. Just tell them not to bother you or anyone else about them.
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May 16, 2020 01:59
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Bob Morales posted:I hate these people. Get a loving desktop. More monitor more productive Meanwhile I use the gently caress out of computers and actually have attention issues, still prefer just one monitor, even though I have access to several.
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Internet Explorer posted:Yes. If they won't just listen to you, let them go on wild goose chases until they figure it out. Just tell them not to bother you or anyone else about them. "Come back to me when you can explain to me what the error means in its context, what problem it's causing or future problem its predicting, and what you propose doing to resolve it."
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Scientist Al Gore posted:Does anyone have any good advice on how to convince a junior engineer or non-technical manager that despite it not being documented Windows is going to have all sorts of warnings, errors, etc. written in the Event Log that are completely useless or normal yet the machine is still in good health? Show them jim When a dumb mistake is monetized as one of the most common it scams scam is the breaking point when you can point a finger and say 'you are dumb' TheParadigm fucked around with this message at 05:46 on May 16, 2020 |
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May 16, 2020 05:21
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You meant Jim Browning, right? I hope.
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ugn, yes, that's the one. Thanks for the correction
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