The lonely tech post thread.

[ouirdeaux]

Bane of my life with my fucking Samsung. All the way back when I had an S8. I think they must the most stupid over sensitive ports every, and it sounds like they haven't changed. I never found a solution other than wait.

I've never had any problems with them before. But 'ignore it and it will go away' worked after it had a good night's sleep to dry out.

 

[ouirdeaux]

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[UnderOpenSky]

The 'HDMI" broke when we tried to remove it.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

30.7TB SSD anyone? Price is a bit rich, but still, exciting times.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intel-SSD-D5-P5316-30-72TB-2-5in/dp/B09WW2N9L3

 

[Chz]

The 'HDMI" broke when we tried to remove it.

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Probably because it's not an HDMI port?

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Probably because it's not an HDMI port?

Well yes. They didn't realize they had clips and kept pulling

 

[Saul Goodman]

Well yes. They didn't realize they had clips and kept pulling

Those clips can be a bastard to get at sometimes, but no excuse on that machine.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Those clips can be a bastard to get at sometimes, but no excuse on that machine.

He genuinely thought it was an HDMI cable. I don't get why you'd just keep pulling. I don't care that much. It's not my PC and we've got a million of them in stores, as we've gone Agile in so many places and most importantly it has two VGA ports, so there was no real work for me to do then other plugging in a different cable. If I had to spend a couple of hours doing a fresh install on a different PC I'd be less amused.

On the ticket resolution I put, "but it was not in fact an hdmi port"

 

[two sheds]

Anyone tried DuckDuckGo browser? Aimed at chrome users logically enough with privacy.

The browser relies on the WebView component provided by the operating system. This means the browser engine is Blink on Android and Windows, but WebKit on iOS and macOS. [Wikipedia]

so presumably not Linux.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Anyone tried DuckDuckGo browser? Aimed at chrome users logically enough with privacy.


so presumably not Linux.

I used to use it. I put up with the fact that its search capabilities weren't as good as Google's, because they weren't spying on me like Google... allegedly... Until it came to light that DuckDuckGo were actually partnered with Microsoft, so although they were great at blocking trackers from other companies, they deliberately allowed Microsoft to plant their cookies on your devices, so their whole spiel about secure, private browsing was actually a steaming pile of bullshit. They just sold your data to one company instead of many, and that's why DuckDuckGo can suck my furry plums, and why I went back to Google's spyware.

 

[two sheds]

Fucking hell. Is their search function like that because I always use it (on firefox with a few blocker plugins).

 

[Saul Goodman]

Fucking hell. Is their search function like that because I always use it (on firefox with a few blocker plugins).

DuckDuckGo Isn't as Private as You Thought

Due to a confidential agreement, the DuckDuckGo browser does not block all Microsoft trackers.

www.howtogeek.com

 

[two sheds]

Interesting and somewhat concerning, ta. Looks like I should use the VPN when searching using it.

That article says it mainly uses Bing results - but I presume Bing will be as bad as/worse than that. I recently read that Google (which I occasionally use when DuckDuckGo doesn't help) now mainly serves up advertisements as the first search results.

What do people use? I do have Cookie Autodelete, uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Interesting and somewhat concerning, ta. Looks like I should use the VPN when searching using it.

That article says it mainly uses Bing results - but I presume Bing will be as bad as/worse than that. I recently read that Google (which I occasionally use when DuckDuckGo doesn't help) now mainly serves up advertisements as the first search results.

What do people use? I do have Cookie Autodelete, uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger.

I Firefox on Linux with ublock and privacy badger doesn't sound like your doing badly.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I feel exposed

 

[prunus]

I feel exposed

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Yup

 

[two sheds]

Nothing about switching it off and on again though

 

[Saul Goodman]

Nothing about switching it off and on again though

That's the advanced edition.

 

[souljacker]

Also needs an 'is this a printer problem?' decision box where yes leads to a box that says 'tell them to fuck off'.

 

[two sheds]

German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the...

blog.documentfoundation.org

 

[MBV]

Been a little lazy here but does anyone remember the name of that site where users show off their homebuilt computers but also link to where to buy all the components?

Ignore. I found it:

Budget Home/Office Build - PCPartPicker

Budget Home/Office Build

uk.pcpartpicker.com

 

[UnderOpenSky]

German state moving 30,000 PCs to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the local government. As reported on the...

blog.documentfoundation.org

I'll be interested to read more details about what they implement. That's a hell of a project, I wonder what they use for stuff like identity and access? Assume they're going to need quite an IT team.

 

[two sheds]

Not held locally? Or wouldn't identity/access be similar to Word? (sorry, have no idea with company wide stuff).

 

[Artaxerxes]

I'll be interested to read more details about what they implement. That's a hell of a project, I wonder what they use for stuff like identity and access? Assume they're going to need quite an IT team.

I'm curious how they are handling user training

You can drill down for more details in the German article.

The components of the digitally sovereign IT workplace are being built in a total of six project pillars in Schleswig-Holstein:

• Switching from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice
• Switching the operating system from Microsoft Windows to Linux
• Collaboration within the state administration and with external parties: Use of the open source products Nextcloud, Open Xchange/Thunderbird in conjunction with the Univention AD connector to replace Microsoft Sharepoint and Microsoft Exchange/Outlook
• Conception of an open source based directory service to replace Microsoft Active Directory
• Inventory of specialist procedures regarding compatibility and interoperability with LibreOffice and Linux
• Development of an open source based telephony solution to replace Telekom-Flexport

Not held locally? Or wouldn't identity/access be similar to Word? (sorry, have no idea with company wide stuff).

O365 handles authentication and access all in a big federated bundle of claims. It's quite comprehensive. Including licenses for word - libreoffice doesn't need one I think it's all local. The question is how does the open source handle say user logons and data protection in a similar way. User access to a SharePoint site or to a file server at scale.

 

[two sheds]

People will indeed need some training on differences between it and Word. It's pretty similar for everyday use though.

 

[Artaxerxes]

People will indeed need some training on differences between it and Word. It's pretty similar for everyday use though.

Years of IT work have left me with little faith in the matter


"Oh no this is slightly different I'm logging a ticket, what do you mean it's in the email training I'm to important to read that"

 

[two sheds]

No IT work whatsoever has left me with unwavering trust in the average computer user

 

[UnderOpenSky]

No IT work whatsoever has left me with unwavering trust in the average computer user

Most users don't know what a file explorer is.

 

[two sheds]

Trick question long time since I've used Microsoft so I had to check

 

[UnderOpenSky]