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johnny park posted:No, he just created a rule to try to forward all his emails to his cell number. Which of course didn't work. And then the first bounceback notification also got forwarded, which created a new bounceback message, etc What a pioneer, he created his own personal email tsunami. No reply-all torrent to a badly configured email list needed!
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I had something similar happen with a configuration on an old web forum, registration required email verification so when a new spam account registered it sent me a notification, sent them the email to verify, sent me a notification that it bounced, and repeated 5 times per span account. Took me months to notice because Gmail sent them all to spam and I never looked.
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AlexDeGruven posted:So what's a good formula for calculating side-gig hourly rates these days? 3x whatever your hourly rate is (or would be) to do the work as a W2 employee. That's what consultant companies and MSPs are billing at, about, and you can get it as a freelancer. Just don't forget about the tax implications of making a significant amount of 1099 money.
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johnny park posted:No, he just created a rule to try to forward all his emails to his cell number. Which of course didn't work. And then the first bounceback notification also got forwarded, which created a new bounceback message, etc Should have just replied “Me too!” And closed the ticket.
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MIL gave me her old laptop to convert into a Chromebook for my children. It has only 32GB hdd and 4GB of ram. Stuck on Win8 because the Win10 upgrade fails due to the small hdd. Sounds like a fun project to me. Is it doable?
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Sywert of Thieves posted:MIL gave me her old laptop to cover into a Chromebook for my children. It has only 32GB hdd and 4GB of ram. Stuck on Win8 because the Win10 upgrade fails due to the small hdd. Sounds like a fun project to me. Is it doable? hm that doesnt sound fun at all
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Sywert of Thieves posted:MIL gave me her old laptop to cover into a Chromebook for my children. It has only 32GB hdd and 4GB of ram. Stuck on Win8 because the Win10 upgrade fails due to the small hdd. Sounds like a fun project to me. Is it doable? Just go to Best Buy and buy this Chromebook (or a better one) instead. Drop the MIL's old laptop in the electronics recycling bin on your way in there.
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Depends on what you want out of the laptop as well, ChromeOS is one of those projects Google have very little interest in other than a way to entrench Google Workspace within education. You can try installing it using https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11541904?hl=en&ref_topic=11551271&sjid=14857773568469730030-EU but 32GB and 4GB RAM sounds like a netbook with an eMMC so it's going to run like balls.
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Sywert of Thieves posted:MIL gave me her old laptop to convert into a Chromebook for my children. It has only 32GB hdd and 4GB of ram. Stuck on Win8 because the Win10 upgrade fails due to the small hdd. Sounds like a fun project to me. Is it doable? I mean, it's doable? https://chromeos.google/products/chromeos-flex/ Chromebooks are remarkably usable as internet terminals on quite limited hardware. I would give it a try.
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You guys are no fun. I guess I should've asked in the homebrew thread or some poo poo, instead of the Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes.  e: ah two more replies came up while i was typing this out that are a bit more positive. 👍
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If you can survive your sanity checks doing that, you will be bulletproof in this field. I suspect everyone ITT has had times trying to do normalish tasks on a machine spawned in primordial soup and felt their souls leaving their bodies in the process. For me, it tried to leave through the ear!
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Sywert of Thieves posted:MIL gave me her old laptop to convert into a Chromebook for my children. It has only 32GB hdd and 4GB of ram. Stuck on Win8 because the Win10 upgrade fails due to the small hdd. Sounds like a fun project to me. Is it doable? Sir, have you considered GNU/Linux?
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Weaponized Autism posted:Sir, have you considered GNU/Linux? chromeos is my second favorite lingux after andriod
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Weaponized Autism posted:Sir, have you considered GNU/Linux? This is the year of the Linux desktop!
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ssb posted:This is the year of the Linux desktop! Especially when critical RCE code gets pushed to all repos!
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Sywert of Thieves posted:Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes I've no idea what you're talking about.
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ssb posted:This is the year of the Linux desktop!
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Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes would be a great thread title.
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Internet Explorer posted:Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes would be a great thread title. No because people might come in here and start actually asking helpdesk questions, which as a proud card-carrying jaded cynical butthole I want to prevent at all costs. This thread should never have any variant of the word "help" in its title.
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SyNack Sassimov posted:No because people might come in here and start actually asking helpdesk questions, which as a proud card-carrying jaded cynical butthole I want to prevent at all costs. This thread should never have any variant of the word "help" in its title. Jaded No-Help desk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical ButtholesInternet Explorer posted:Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes would be a great thread title.  I forgot that I opened this thread a while before posting, and this is what I get.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes - DO NOT ASK FOR HELP
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Dunno-Lars posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes - DO NOT ASK FOR HELP
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Dunno-Lars posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes - DO NOT ASK FOR HELP But this whole thread is a cry for help...
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Geemer posted:But this whole thread is a cry for help... Dunno-Lars posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes - DO NOT ASK FOR COMPUTER HELP Mixological assistance is available for a reasonable fee.
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there, i think we covered all of our bases
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Oh good, a helpdesk thread, I had some questions I need to ask. I found a thumbdrive in the parking lot, I plugged it in to see what was on it. It was just something about my files and something about sending a bit coin? Anyways, I can't open the q1 financial statement now and it's due in the morning. I checked my boss's desk, and there was a post-it with a system administrator login and password, I tried it and it can't open the statement either, and there has to be something wrong because I opened a bunch of random folders and tried random files and none of them will open either. Can you help me, I'm going to be in so much trouble from my boss if I don't get the statement done on time. Please do the needful.
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rndmnmbr posted:Oh good, a helpdesk thread, I had some questions I need to ask. See Internet Explorer? I told you about naming this thread, bro! I warned you dog!
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Burn down the building. Alternatively gather up all the IT equipment and shoot it into the sun
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SyNack Sassimov posted:See Internet Explorer? I told you about naming this thread, bro! I warned you dog! Look, management discussed this already and said this is the way it's gotta be. Let's just take care of the occasional ticket as best we can and move on with our lives. I know you all are not helpdesk, but they're really floundering and we need to be team players and help them out here.
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Dunno-Lars posted:The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Jaded Helpdesk Megathread For Cynical Buttholes - DO NOT ASK FOR HELP I did not expect to be the next thread title.  Anyway this laptop is super locked down, and I can't even boot from my thumbdrive or get into the BIOS. Upgrading the ram also seems impossible. It's perfect for ChromeOS! e: update I got into the bios and it's installing ChromeOS Flex now. Suck it, HP. Sywert of Thieves fucked around with this message at 08:56 on Apr 1, 2024 |
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rndmnmbr posted:Oh good, a helpdesk thread, I had some questions I need to ask. Okay what you need to do is: Go into the records archive, the door says cleaning supplies but you know we store all our finance records there, right next to The Server. Find the hardcopy that was faxed in at the end of month, scan it, return it, fax the scanned one to IT and tell them to "digitize" it
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Sormus posted:Okay what you need to do is: AAAAA! Real Muenster fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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In a previous incarnation of this thread we got to the point where someone made a cross stitch of the QR code that pointed to a document with an implausible amount of bullshit that ended with a photo of a printout of a post.
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At my old job, for food service stuff, at some point the rules changed and they had to have ingredient labels So they made some nice (okay well covered in typos because the guy in charge typed it all himself instead of copying and pasting the ingredient lists) labels paid to have them printed (except not quite paid because the distributor to stores bought and held the inventory then we would pay them for delivery) now, since this expense made the cost of goods increase slightly, someone decided to inventory it all under STORE SUPPLIES instead of food service in order to improve category margin slightly AND THEN people went WHY ARE STORE SUPPLIES SO HIGH and that is how we ended up with grab and go food items with pictures of pictures of labels taped or, to my absolute horror because one 85 year old lady hated looking for tape, stapled to them e: i forgot to specify and this is really important: it is a PICTURE of part of a monitor screen that is showing a different picture of the label itself Shugojin fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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AAAAA! Real Muenster posted:Good lord this reminded me of the time I worked at a collection agency. One of the senior managers had an attachment on an email that he wanted to send to the other managers. He saved the attachment to his desktop, printed it, scanned it, then attached the scanned image of the attachment to an email that he then sent to the other managers. TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Speaking of going down the rabbit hole, I had a client call today who had trouble sending email. Now let it be known that he and his brother who run this 5-person company are notorious for trying to send 20MB attachments thru AT&T's provided email service.
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