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New job has given me a surface laptop studio - are these things any good? Already seems less buggy than the cheapo thinkpad I had at my last one
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chocolateTHUNDER posted:New Teams has its issues, but one thing they’ve mostly fixed is the performance. It really is miles better than the “old” app in that regard. Too bad it’s still bad at search, chat, usability, notifications and things like connecting to bt devices. At least it’s not performing like a bitcoin miner anymore.
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Apr 2, 2024 11:33
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Generic Monk posted:New job has given me a surface laptop studio - are these things any good? Already seems less buggy than the cheapo thinkpad I had at my last one I would like a laptop with a 3:2 display. The Studio seems more like a workstation though and I would rather save the weight and cost and lose things like the weird display stand, touchscreen etc. Surface Laptop looks like a decent device but no chance would I get the fabric palm rest option.
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Apr 2, 2024 11:37
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I honestly love the main Surface Pro itself. When I'm at my desk the vast majority of the time, the tear-off keyboard can sit quietly in a draw not taking up space on my desk. When I actually need to go mobile, it's Good Enough™. And yea the screen ratio is real good. A Surface Studio seems somewhat niche, but maybe your actual work makes sense for it.
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Apr 2, 2024 14:01
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I’d quite like MS to try making a Surface version of things like the ThinkCentre Tiny
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Apr 2, 2024 14:22
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The surface was ok, if you got the one with the Nvidia, at least it was semi-capable graphics wise.
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Apr 2, 2024 14:59
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I think the Surface devices are all solid to the point where I'm unsure why I'd ever want to buy another Lenovo, HP, Dell, etc. ever again. What's also interesting is that Microsoft just brought back the Devices and OS Group once more after splitting them into two separate divisions.
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Apr 2, 2024 18:13
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Because Surface devices are horrible to get fixed. Also their lack of ports is a+. Here is your lovely dock and a dozen dongles.
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Apr 2, 2024 18:14
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I keep telling users that a Surface with a dock is not a workstation replacement. It's fine if you just need a mobile tablet, but I've had a ton of issues with peripherals and getting the docks to work consistently.
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Apr 2, 2024 18:16
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Vargatron posted:I keep telling users that a Surface with a dock is not a workstation replacement. It's fine if you just need a mobile tablet, but I've had a ton of issues with peripherals and getting the docks to work consistently. Same with here. TBH our Lenovo T14's have super loose USB-C connectors lately too tho which also sucks, but users keep requesting laptop + 2 monitors.
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Apr 2, 2024 18:18
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I had a surface book (1, from launch day) and really liked it even if I almost never undocked. I could go for another one.
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Apr 2, 2024 18:41
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My Surface Pro 3 was my favorite work computer. I would jump on a modern surface in a heartbeat for a work computer. Being able to use the surface's screen itself for whiteboarding in teams meetings would be so incredibly useful.
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Apr 2, 2024 20:26
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If any of ya'll want a Surface Pro 5 and a dock lemme know, been selling them on Craigslist since my org told me to throw them all away. They work!
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Apr 2, 2024 20:27
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GreenNight posted:Because Surface devices are horrible to get fixed. Also their lack of ports is a+. Here is your lovely dock and a dozen dongles. And it better be the right kind of dongle too if you want to PXE boot, otherwise lol get hosed Don’t know what model I worked on years ago but never again I’m not even a mac guy but if you want a tablet, get a loving iPad Maybe surfaces have gotten better in the past five years but idk there
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Apr 2, 2024 21:24
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GreenNight posted:If any of ya'll want a Surface Pro 5 and a dock lemme know, been selling them on Craigslist since my org told me to throw them all away. They work! I could use one to help look for work and school if you’re just handing them out.
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Apr 2, 2024 21:25
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I want to shake whoever in the Surface team stuck with a proprietary dock connector and mini DisplayPort for about four annual product refreshes beyond when USB-C was everywhere.
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Apr 2, 2024 21:45
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Small update on the job front: got a new contract signed last week, starting this Thursday. Collecting 2 days worth of unemployment, lol.
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Apr 2, 2024 22:00
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Asteroid Alert posted:Small update on the job front: Hell yeah congrats!
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Apr 2, 2024 23:02
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My org is moving to ADP for finance and HR, how scared should I be on a scale of 0-255?
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Apr 2, 2024 23:03
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Kind of ??? Moment where I see a director level ticket that goes to Service Desk, iam, iam figures out the ticket is for a template (i.e. something a secretary would do) sends ticket to marketing website team, they send ticket to their L3, L3 dept there sends ticket to contractor group for backend server items. They shrug at it and send it back to SD with a note to escalate it to the correct dept within their organization. I grab it as part of my effort to close aging tickets with SD and take a look and see he's asking for a template with his photo on it and not an iam or network request. Someone set the urgency to business critical so a lead reached out asking for someone to work the ticket.. nobody reads these things. Anyway it was slow so it took me like 5 minutes in photopea to fix the "issue" and I closed with "ask your secretary or the document owner next time" in nicer words.
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Apr 2, 2024 23:09
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Susat posted:Anyway it was slow so it took me like 5 minutes in photopea to fix the "issue" you should get out of this habit
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Apr 3, 2024 00:44
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i love it when software behaves the opposite to how it's documented to behave. really keeps me on my toes. great stuff.
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Apr 3, 2024 00:55
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Vargatron posted:I keep telling users that a Surface with a dock is not a workstation replacement. It's fine if you just need a mobile tablet, but I've had a ton of issues with peripherals and getting the docks to work consistently. I've had a boomer exasperated at me because those things are pieces of poo poo and like idk he expected me to magically solve everything. Then he sent it in to microsoft to get it fixed or whatever and I got stuck answering questions I didn't know the answers to very fun i've also been asked to plug it into a screen and i never loving managed to get it work. i don't consider myself stupid with technology. but i never managed to loving make it work so i just gave up i loving hate Surface tablets god drat Reoxygenation fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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Apr 3, 2024 02:32
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Surface Pro 7s are pretty great, been using them with a WD19 or D6000.
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Apr 3, 2024 04:06
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I think there are good and bad Surface Pro generations. My Surface Pro 4 has been an absolute workhorse and durable AF (knock on wood). I've been using it as my main machine for a few months now and its been perfect, especially for an 8 year old laptop. Only complaint is the battery is trashed. I wish I'd kept the docking station/port replicator over the years. 2nd monitor support on Surface Pros has always been wonky. I had to mess with the settings so it wouldnt suspend when the cover closes, and then disable the built-in display. Using both monitors at the same time usually craps out after a while.
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Apr 3, 2024 13:07
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The sight of this horrific dock should induce PTSD
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Apr 3, 2024 14:56
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Yeah I got like 4 Surface docks but not that huge rear end one. More like: https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-PD9-00003-Surface-Dock/dp/B0163HP38W/ But MORE DONGLES
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Apr 3, 2024 14:58
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Thanks Ants posted:The sight of this horrific dock should induce PTSD Perfectly designed at perfect angles. Users will never need to adjust it which is good because they can't. 
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Apr 3, 2024 14:58
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Thanks Ants posted:The sight of this horrific dock should induce PTSD Oh dear god, I had completely forgotten about those drat things.
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Nuclearmonkee posted:Perfectly designed at perfect angles. Users will never need to adjust it which is good because they can't. They'll wedge paperclips or pens underneath it to tilt it. Or whatever junk they got sitting in their desk drawer.
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Apr 3, 2024 15:21
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GreenNight posted:Yeah I got like 4 Surface docks but not that huge rear end one.  this is what i had, although I bought a powered 10-port USB 3.0 hub and its basically the same thing, although I occasionally run into I/O issues writing to the external HDD
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Apr 3, 2024 15:50
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CLAM DOWN posted:i love it when software behaves the opposite to how it's documented to behave. really keeps me on my toes. great stuff. In the Kubernetes ecosystem, I so routinely find bad or wrong documentation for absolutely critical (usually third-party) cluster components that if the source of something is available, I'll almost always read it to figure out how to do something instead of reading incomplete, ambiguous, half-finished docs.
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Apr 3, 2024 16:03
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Silly Newbie posted:Surface Pro 7s are pretty great, been using them with a WD19 or D6000. I've had about 5 WD19 docks in the past 2 years arrive and the ethernet port just doesn't work at all. Dell never acknowledged this problem until like 2 months ago. Loved ordering a $250 dock only to have to send it out for warranty repair immediately.
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Apr 3, 2024 16:05
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Boss is asking me if I want to go to any conferences and I need recommendations I did hashiconf last year and have done Ignite a few times, so I'm not super excited about doing either one again right now. We're not an AWS customer and my team doesn't work with k8s, so reInvent and kubecon are out.
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Apr 3, 2024 16:33
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Vargatron posted:I've had about 5 WD19 docks in the past 2 years arrive and the ethernet port just doesn't work at all. Dell never acknowledged this problem until like 2 months ago. Loved ordering a $250 dock only to have to send it out for warranty repair immediately. Dell docks are trash and I've long since lost count of how many times I've had to guide users through doing a dock reset.
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Apr 3, 2024 16:39
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klosterdev posted:Dell docks are trash and I've long since lost count of how many times I've had to guide users through doing a dock reset. Ours have worked fine for years without trouble 
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Apr 3, 2024 16:52
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I've never had issues with Dell docks.
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Apr 3, 2024 17:02
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Make sure you're updating the firmware on them.
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Apr 3, 2024 17:07
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Thanks Ants posted:The sight of this horrific dock should induce PTSD Especially when paired with the phrase "DisplayPort daisy chain"
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lol I just noticed the IE icon in that picture.
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