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Microsoft is big mad about people using customization apps, they're also blocking StartIsBack and probably any others. And just executables in general, but i think that one can be fixed with allowing apps from all sources and not just the Windows store. https://youtu.be/g0WGO_1BjwM
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pofcorn posted:Pissing me off : apparently ExplorerPatcher is a virus now. I'm a weirdo who likes the taskbar to the right... They are saving you from yourself.
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Rawrbomb posted:I assume they mean this, which I found at their github: https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/issues/3225 There's also https://github.com/valinet/ExplorerPatcher/issues/3053 and even Raymond Chen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20230324-00/?p=107966. I understand the MS developer position that it sucks having to spend time on spurious crash reports because people are doing weird undocumented hacks... But there's a reason people do it, and maybe they should focus that anger on the screwed up product teams rather than customers who want their productivity back.
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WFM user reports that after getting a new wireless keyboard, they randomly have letters and spaces appear like a key is stuck. After spending large amounts of time troubleshooting, I figured out the issue. .. They didn't remove the old keyboard USB fob, and a cat was sitting on the old keyboard.
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May 5, 2024 03:27
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joebuddah posted:WFM user reports that after getting a new wireless keyboard, they randomly have letters and spaces appear like a key is stuck. WONTFIX, cat working as intended.
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May 5, 2024 03:32
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joebuddah posted:WFM user reports that after getting a new wireless keyboard, they randomly have letters and spaces appear like a key is stuck. Working as intended
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May 5, 2024 10:19
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Thanks Ants posted:Is there a group that you can outsource user assistance tasks to that will sit on the phone for half an hour with your user base and talk them through things like following the MS Authenticator instructions to the letter and not losing their patience when the people asking for help decide to go completely off script and then get frustrated when things don't work? I need people with patience levels unheard of in the IT sector but a solid understanding of how to answer an M365 login prompt with the correct details. One of my current minions is like this probably because he's young enough to have not burnt out yet and I give him so much air cover from HR/upper management. Yes, he wears weird tshirts; yes, he's frequently late (or out with little warning); yes, he made a fuss about having to wear PPE over his glasses. But he does such good user handholding...
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May 6, 2024 06:13
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sfwarlock posted:But he does such good user handholding... Everything else you can teach.
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May 6, 2024 06:15
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sfwarlock posted:One of my current minions is like this probably because he's young enough to have not burnt out yet and I give him so much air cover from HR/upper management. Yes, he wears weird tshirts; yes, he's frequently late (or out with little warning); yes, he made a fuss about having to wear PPE over his glasses.
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May 6, 2024 23:26
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Arquinsiel posted:How weird are we talking with the t-shirts? Yeah that really jumped out to me, too lol. It’s ahegao hoodies isn’t it?
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May 7, 2024 04:00
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i’m guessing insane clown posse
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May 7, 2024 14:03
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Tshirthell showcase
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May 7, 2024 16:17
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“I don’t understand why this person is having persistent problems with their password” Yeah me neither. I know this is a hint towards checking for sync issues or whatever but I assure you this user genuinely cannot remember a password for longer than two days and your poo poo legacy applications are preventing us from moving to passwordless.
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May 7, 2024 21:29
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Dell, I sent you a video of the fan grinding, it's the only moving part in the laptop and the sound is unmistakable. I shouldn't need to have the laptop with me to make a warranty claim on it.
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May 9, 2024 17:48
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Speaking of Dell, got this email yesterday:quote:Hello, drat it people.
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May 9, 2024 19:13
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dude you're getting free credit monitoring from dell
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May 9, 2024 19:25
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xzzy posted:dude you're getting free credit monitoring from dell I hope it doesn’t clash with the free credit monitoring I get from Equifax and the free credit monitoring from two jobs back who lost our W2s or from my last company which got crypto’d or from my current company which also had a breach.
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May 9, 2024 20:26
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Cannot wait to swap my work Latitude out for anything else, the plastics they make the palm rest out of are the poorest wearing material I've ever seen on a laptop, the thing looked filthy after 18 months and is almost impossible to clean.
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May 9, 2024 20:41
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klosterdev posted:Dell, I sent you a video of the fan grinding, it's the only moving part in the laptop and the sound is unmistakable. I shouldn't need to have the laptop with me to make a warranty claim on it. My last latitude I went through like 6 or 7 fans, all under warranty. For some reason they'd send me both a standalone fan, and a heatsink pipe with identical fan attached, so every warranty claim was good for 2 fan failures, since the parts were "disposable" and they didn't want them back.
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If anyone's looking... My team is hiring for a mid-level security engineer. Hybrid Development/Devops/PM skillsets are a plus. Excellent pay/benefits, remote is an option for this role. PM and we can chat. You may now return to your regularly scheduled threadshitting.
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post here too : https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3075135&perpage=40&pagenumber=125&noseen=1
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May 10, 2024 02:18
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currently pissing me off: Ivanti and their lovely endpoint manager. sure, you can ping the device, you can even run a sync on it! but you can't find the agent to push out an update to a piece of software the same agent that does the job of polling the device for hardware/software details. ughhhhh
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May 10, 2024 23:37
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Here is how my job hunt is going since it started in January, Over a hundred applications, a dozen interviews including all the way to technical directors and still no offers but one on the East Coast where I have zero interest in living. 
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May 11, 2024 03:32
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The Windows 11 snipping tool spawns slightly higher every time you use it, resulting in it eventually creeping off the top of the screen.
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May 12, 2024 19:31
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Arquinsiel posted:The Windows 11 snipping tool spawns slightly higher every time you use it, resulting in it eventually creeping off the top of the screen. You must use your powers wisely and judiciously, if you run out of snipping uses you'll have to resort to other means, perhaps a cell phone picture of your screen?
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First day in a corporate environment and I’ve done no regular work and submitted four tickets to IT and visited the help desk once. The PCs are locked down so tight I can’t install Chrome or Node or VS. I’m the frontend lead. No one is available to explain the existing workflow to me. I expect to be posting ITT again tomorrow.
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May 13, 2024 14:09
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Sounds like you're getting paid to do nothing so I'd ride that as long as possible. Let the bureaucracy work around you.
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May 13, 2024 14:14
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xzzy posted:Sounds like you're getting paid to do nothing so I'd ride that as long as possible. Let the bureaucracy work around you. That’s the plan. I have a six month contract, hoping to train for 3 months and then be slowly managed out for the remaining 3 months.
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May 13, 2024 14:16
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well why not posted:First day in a corporate environment and I’ve done no regular work and submitted four tickets to IT and visited the help desk once. Depending on exactly what you mean by "corporate", I wouldn't expect to do anything really "productive" until somewhere between your second week and second month in the role. There's a lot of processes that effectively can't kick off until the employee is confirmed to exist and have actually started. Don't worry about it. Keep an open like of communication with your manager who can help set and manage expectations.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:Depending on exactly what you mean by "corporate", I wouldn't expect to do anything really "productive" until somewhere between your second week and second month in the role. There's a lot of processes that effectively can't kick off until the employee is confirmed to exist and have actually started. it’s whiplash from my last job where there was no IT or HR dept and my boss just texted me “what mac do you want I’m getting one”
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You know what pisses me off? CAPTCHAs. GodDAMN I can't get through any sometimes. Doesn't matter if I change browsers or reset my computer or what, and all my web searches are for ways to evade CAPTCHAs while using a VPN rather than figuring out the false positives (since I am not a robot or using a VPN). And of course, it's not just to do something silly; it's to apply to a loving job.
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May 13, 2024 14:43
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this new generation of "pick all the pictures of a motorcycle" captchas can all gently caress right off
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Perhaps that means Waymo has been running over motocycles so they need to put a stop to that. I know they had a bicycle collision earlier this year.
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The Fool posted:this new generation of "pick all the pictures of a motorcycle" captchas can all gently caress right off I can never tell if it wants me to click the squares with the little tiny bit of the front tire in it or whatever. It's clearly part of the motorcycle but it usually gets mad at me if I include things like that.
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well why not posted:it’s whiplash from my last job where there was no IT or HR dept and my boss just texted me “what mac do you want I’m getting one” Yea, a big corporate environment where things just take time to happen is a huge change from smaller places where you're expected to contribute from day one. Not everyone is cut out for that kind of shift. It it doesn't work for you, do your couple months and move on.
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guppy posted:I can never tell if it wants me to click the squares with the little tiny bit of the front tire in it or whatever. It's clearly part of the motorcycle but it usually gets mad at me if I include things like that.
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well why not posted:First day in a corporate environment and I’ve done no regular work and submitted four tickets to IT and visited the help desk once. My new job was also like this and it is a bit anxiety inducing. On one hand you get paid to do gently caress all but on the other I feel like skills tend to rot a bit. I really don't want to lab around with poo poo on my free time any more these days but it might have to come to that to keep up. 
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Magnetic North posted:You know what pisses me off? CAPTCHAs. GodDAMN I can't get through any sometimes. Doesn't matter if I change browsers or reset my computer or what, and all my web searches are for ways to evade CAPTCHAs while using a VPN rather than figuring out the false positives (since I am not a robot or using a VPN). And of course, it's not just to do something silly; it's to apply to a loving job. My biggest gripe with the picture ones is that they usually don't scale to screen resolution. Trying to see any detail in a low resolution image on a 2k monitor is annoying at best.
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well why not posted:That’s the plan. I have a six month contract, hoping to train for 3 months and then be slowly managed out for the remaining 3 months. 
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guppy posted:I can never tell if it wants me to click the squares with the little tiny bit of the front tire in it or whatever. It's clearly part of the motorcycle but it usually gets mad at me if I include things like that. One time it asked me to click the pictures with buses, and one image had an old VW microbus.
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