Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I'll buy a USB C to HDMI cable (assuming it actually exists
) and give it a try.It does, just ordered one.
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I'll buy a USB C to HDMI cable (assuming it actually exists
) and give it a try.It does, just ordered one.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I'll buy a USB C to HDMI cable (assuming it actually exists
They certainly do. My laptop uses it for external monitors (technically thunderbolt, see also why the USB standard is a mess)
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Some do, but generally not for display input and it's a bit of a lottery with codec support if your trying to play from a disk.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Very possibly, but hotel TVs don't tend to be terribly modern. Haven't come across one without an HDMI input though.
souljacker
innit
They are quite often disabled or you can't change the source due to the hotels firmware. They also make the ports inaccessible sometimes.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Our Sony Bravia (which is about 8 years old so hardly the latest) has 4 x HDMI ports and we have a USB-C to HDMI cable plugged into No 4 which is used for connecting Mrs Q laptop and my Android tablet to the TV whenever we need to.I'll buy a USB C to HDMI cable (assuming it actually exists
It does, just ordered one.
I don't know if I originally knew and had forgotten or never knew in the first place but I have just checked and it does indeed have 3 x USB-A ports on one side. (Mind you the couch has a couple as well)
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
After our GPS NTP source gave up the ghost, I spent a morning firing up a VM and syncing it to the right sources and logging that everything was connecting to it properly and...
I kind of enjoyed it. Sometimes I forget that Linux is my first skill, given that I've set up the Linux farm here such that it requires absolutely no intervention whatsoever. I spend all my time doing VmWare and storage nonsense, and while I'm good at it it doesn't interest me to the same degree.
Now I need to think up a project to keep the skills up to date.
I kind of enjoyed it. Sometimes I forget that Linux is my first skill, given that I've set up the Linux farm here such that it requires absolutely no intervention whatsoever. I spend all my time doing VmWare and storage nonsense, and while I'm good at it it doesn't interest me to the same degree.
Now I need to think up a project to keep the skills up to date.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Moodle document conversion is driving me up the wall. There seems to be no way of getting any decent diagnostics out of it to tell me why it won't run the converter.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
So I've been doing this 18 months now and only today did I realise there is another control panel to administrator active directory via the Administrative Center rather then Users and Computers. That's so Microsoft. What's even more Microsoft is that is still got some old menus in the new UI.
I'm also pretty chuffed today and asked the boss about if I really need to sit in an Office by myself if my colleague is working from home (and vice versa) and he'd agreed its pointless. So more WFH for both of us and more time bouncing ideas of each other when we are in. Quite nice to claim back another few hours of my life each week.
I'm also pretty chuffed today and asked the boss about if I really need to sit in an Office by myself if my colleague is working from home (and vice versa) and he'd agreed its pointless. So more WFH for both of us and more time bouncing ideas of each other when we are in. Quite nice to claim back another few hours of my life each week.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I don't see working patterns ever going back to where they were. I know a lot of people who are now WHF, some of them full time.So I've been doing this 18 months now and only today did I realise there is another control panel to administrator active directory via the Administrative Center rather then Users and Computers. That's so Microsoft. What's even more Microsoft is that is still got some old menus in the new UI.
I'm also pretty chuffed today and asked the boss about if I really need to sit in an Office by myself if my colleague is working from home (and vice versa) and he'd agreed its pointless. So more WFH for both of us and more time bouncing ideas of each other when we are in. Quite nice to claim back another few hours of my life each week.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I think it depends on the employer. I'm seeing complaints on other parts on the Internet where more conveniental employers are trying to get people back in the office.
I'm not sure I'd like to be fully remote, but my commute isnt that bad. I work really well with my colleague over Teams, but that's partly because we've spent time getting to know each other well in person.
Nivag
Well-Known Member
The main reason some managers are wanting staff back in the office is to justify their own jobs. If bosses realise the work gets done without a team being managed and that's all a manger does, then you might as well promote someone within the team to lead it, give them a pay rise and sack the management.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I was actually thinking that. HMRC contact centres for example have one manager for a maximum of 12 people, six teams (72max) have a manager's manager etc. They had little to do when everyone was in, but now...
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Most Londoners would quit before they give up WFH
Go on, spill the contents of that imaginary angry resignation email... it'll do you good
www.theregister.com
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
That ship hasn't so much sailed as capsized and sunk the moment it was outside the harbour. I know loads who worked WFH during the Lurgy and not a single person has gone back to the office full time.
My son's employer has reduced their office buildings from four to two post lurgy and he works from home 2 to 3 days a week now. As for the husband of my Eldest daughter, his employer used to be dead set against WFH but has now moved from their city centre offices to somewhere out in the boondocks costing half the price with half the desks. SiL hasn't been in the office this year as far as I know. ('ve been once in Jan)
If your wealth is tied up in office space rentals I have some very bad news for you.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
And unfortunately it isn't easy to convert offices into dwellings.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I'm sure they can turn them into expensive flats...
they've been trying to make it increasingly easy, unsurprisingly.
www.standard.co.uk
The government aims to make it easier to create homes in town centres
The government has said new rules allowing commercial premises to be converted into homes have come into force, in a move aimed at providing “much needed” residential properties and attracting footfall to high streets.
www.standard.co.uk
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
We're not allowed to call it WFH /. Working from Home any more. Because it implies that some aren't working as hard (does it? does it fuck!)
We have to call it Working Remotely.
Usual management-HR-boots-too-big scenario going on, FFS.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
they've been trying to make it increasingly easy, unsurprisingly.
The government aims to make it easier to create homes in town centres
The government has said new rules allowing commercial premises to be converted into homes have come into force, in a move aimed at providing “much needed” residential properties and attracting footfall to high streets.
That would mean a regeneration of the High Street as it used to be, grocer fishmonger etc.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Help desk lead pinged us with a an article asking us to update group policy to allow 256 character plus file names on windows 10
Two of us said no it’s because the file server is 2012 so that’s the problem
“ah yes I know it’s the file server that’s causing the issue” says he “but maybe you can apply the policy anyway just in case”
This is a normal day.
Two of us said no it’s because the file server is 2012 so that’s the problem
“ah yes I know it’s the file server that’s causing the issue” says he “but maybe you can apply the policy anyway just in case”
This is a normal day.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
TBF, I get pretty ticked off when I'm mounting owncloud instances and Windows starts kvetching about not being able to synchronise this or that because the pathname is too long. We're not even looking at ludicrous pathnames - just somewhat (necessarily) deeply nested folder trees.
FWIW, I can't recall ever running into a pathname length related restriction on Unix/Linux filesystems. It feels like one of those historical arbitrarily hard-coded restrictions that came about because someone in 1994 said "Who's ever going to need a pathname longer than 256 characters?", and voila!
(See also mad hard "silent fail" limits on numbers of spreadsheet rows/columns)
FWIW, I can't recall ever running into a pathname length related restriction on Unix/Linux filesystems. It feels like one of those historical arbitrarily hard-coded restrictions that came about because someone in 1994 said "Who's ever going to need a pathname longer than 256 characters?", and voila!
(See also mad hard "silent fail" limits on numbers of spreadsheet rows/columns)
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Hybrid working.
It’s annoying I keep spotting jobs I’d like but they ask for 4 days in the office. I’ll do 3 and hate it at a stretch but 4 is right out.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
We get a lot of random nested folders going deep into userdata$ oh the file server which causes the odd profile issue and means home folders can’t be deleted when people leave.
Until we upgrade the server we can’t do much with it though. We’re not liable to do that as we’d like to get rid or at least management would - let me tell you about Onedrive…
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Please, don't.
However, I'll counter by inviting you to ask me to tell you about nasty, horrible PHP worms, with which my VPS has become infested. The path length issue has arisen because I'm going to need to migrate everything on that server to a temporary one, application by application, because the only way I can deworm my server (apart from running scripts out of cron that find dubious .php files with iffy-looking contents and zap them) is to clear it down and start again.
This time, I won't be installing Wordpress, which is where my embarrassing problem originated, so far as I can tell.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
2012 is EOL isn't now? I can't wait to get rid of our remaining ones. We're starting again for all our clients, rather then upgrading, which is will be great for me as I look on generations stuff that staff that left have set and don't know if it still does anything or if it was ever really needed and they were just practicing new skills. Some of them have bonkers amounts of group polices. I found one client the other day that has offline files, despite not having any staff working off site.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Yeah 2012 is end of life. Whisper it, we have a couple of 2008 servers too.
Offline folders caused a real ball ache when I first joined, I worked out what the issue was but it took ages to get people to understand what needed doing - which is give all users read access to the root folder of the user shares and individual full access to own share only.
I really need to label up and sort out the GPOs and our AD needs an organise but it’s always low priority to the next system we need to install or upgrade and we have some stuff dependent on how AD is structured
Offline folders caused a real ball ache when I first joined, I worked out what the issue was but it took ages to get people to understand what needed doing - which is give all users read access to the root folder of the user shares and individual full access to own share only.
I really need to label up and sort out the GPOs and our AD needs an organise but it’s always low priority to the next system we need to install or upgrade and we have some stuff dependent on how AD is structured
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