More shit that pisses you off: What does that say about the quality of your emails?

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teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

LOL Fortinet's DNS went down this morning. Figured it out quickly enough but unbelievably worst possible timing.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2023 15:52

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 22:04

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

I like diagramming and had no problem with Visio besides it not running on Macs.

Pour one out for LucidChart which used to be a light-weight web-based version, but has all the loving cruft now of an company gone public: aggressive sales, price increases, unwanted features shoehorned into the product, etc.

Miro is pretty bad for that too.

# ¿ Sep 20, 2023 15:11

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

I'd be more mindful of false positives in KnowBe4 ... like apparently using the Gmail native "report phishing" link effectively clicks the KnowBe4 link for you and results in a positive :rolleyes:

I'm pretty sure some mail client link previews cause the same issue.

Sirotan posted:

I ran one of these two jobs ago and said the same thing, and then 29% of the company clicked it. Mostly the C-levels and finance people.

This checks out. No one else uses email.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2023 17:03

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

klosterdev posted:

Emails are for messages long enough that sending it over Teams would be obnoxious.

tl;dr

# ¿ Oct 10, 2023 00:39

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

Kibner posted:

In addition to what other other people said, there is also the option of using whatever headphone you want and pair it up with a modmic or something like a zalman clip-on mic.

Depending on how much background noise there is, you might also be better off with a cheap dynamic mic on a boom than a condenser mic.

It starts getting pricy, but I paired my ancient Zalman clip-on with one of those Asus AI Noise-cancelling adapters and it sounds excellent. (I also needed a mic/headphone Y-splitter because the Asus adapter expects mic+headphones on the same miniplug).

# ¿ Oct 30, 2023 16:18

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

ConfusedUs posted:

Yes he will, because this CEO is a HUGE micromanaging megalomaniac. He has to personally sign off on every expense over $500 (in a $5b company, mind you), including the monthly maintenance contract of the current portal.

Sounds like he took the finance route.

The worst people I've ever had to report to in IT were CFOs.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2023 18:30

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

I cheat and use Barrier (crappy open source fork of Synology) (software KM switch) but I'll have to give up running the client on my work laptop at some point as security tightens down.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2023 20:37

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

The 1920x1200 Dell 24" I bought over 15 years ago and still use as tertiary does PIP even. Fun thing is it still has analogue inputs for component, s-video and composite.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2023 15:07

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

Really appreciate the Android work profile feature. No uninstall required.

# ¿ Dec 22, 2023 22:42

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

Sirotan posted:

I just do it so I'm not tempted to open it when I get bored. I have poor self control. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Didn't know about the work profile feature though, I'll have to look into that.

I'm not sure how it would be set up on your own, but it's something done on the company side using Google Workspace. In that situation it's pretty great, essentially partitioning BYOD phones. Company can delete their data, employee's personal poo poo is never seen by the company. You can still share a photo taken from your personal camera app but have to use the share feature to push it to the work profile.

In our specific example you can also use Android wellness features to disable the work profile off hours, or manually toggle it.

Tangential, an employee on vacation joined a work call on Thursday because he "was bored" and I just mocked him the entire hour trying to get him to go do something, anything but work.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2023 13:02

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

xzzy posted:

Someone looking to hook up their DX7?

At least MIDI is still regularly in use.

I've only seen 5-pin din stuff lately for stupid proprietary power bricks.

# ¿ Jan 4, 2024 17:12

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

Lol ... I'm the out of touch IT Manager doing more hands-on work than usual because most of my team is out or sick.

Wtf Apple silicon laptops can only factory reset to the OS they came with? I know it's literally in the name, but the Intel ones let you load (via internet) whatever was last on there as opposed to just what was on the recovery partition.

They also had a network boot that let you pick the OS, though I don't remember if nor think they let you use something newer.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2024 20:15

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

Well thank you. Had no idea. Our vendor and Mosyle support said it was impossible to staff. Was my first time looking at it.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2024 23:05

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

joebuddah posted:

Just got an email today. Apparently scammers have been targeting upper level management on What's App and other socials pretending to be the CEO..

Do people really have to be told that the CEO won't message you on social media to conduct company business?

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# ¿ Feb 3, 2024 13:59

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

klosterdev posted:

Pissing me off: M365 support called me back regarding my ticket. At 3:30AM on a Saturday morning. Yes I made sure to put down the time zone when making the ticket.

Been having this issue. One of my staff could only find a window like 6-7 AM to overlap with the person assigned our ticket.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2024 21:43

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

Has anyone ever purchased a ~~major~~ any IT service they were introduced to via email/phone/LinkedIn cold calls???

# ¿ Mar 11, 2024 21:19

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

The one that made the terrible crop?

# ¿ Mar 26, 2024 00:52

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

Our owner has Rapid7 installed on everything and it's an impossible cycle to ensure everything is 100% "compliant". It's only been a month but I know my team is starting to burn out.

edit: unsaid, I'm trying to figure it out. We've been offered "support" (offshore). Also been told I can probably get more headcount ... but I don't want to manage more people, and my people just want more money in general. Headcount would destroy raises.

edit2: poo poo that pisses you off, old story, company leadership trying to bribe staff with "culture" instead of just loving paying their bills.

teethgrinder fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Mar 29, 2024

# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 18:41

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

Nothing like Rapid7 generating a poo poo-tonne of vulnerability alerts for out of date versions of Rapid7

# ¿ Apr 4, 2024 18:52

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 22:04

teethgrinder: Oct 9, 2002

Google started doing that at some point between my last two Androids and it's such a pissoff.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2024 20:40

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