For crying out loud. How hard was that?
𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗚𝘂𝘆: "So the customer's hard drive has failed, and he says there's important data on it, and the base unit has an asset number. Do you know where the records for asset numbers are kept?
𝗠𝗲: "Hmm? Well, they should be in the contract, but I bet they aren't. TBH, it is unimportant. Basically, we need to swap the drive out, re-install and take the machine back; we can worry about files on dead drives later."
𝗡𝗲𝘄𝗚𝘂𝘆: "But I wanted to see what size the drive is."
𝗠𝗲: "You'll see that when we get the machine back here? Give the ticket to me; I'll sort it out [It'll be quicker if I do it by the looks of it!]." 🤦♂️
Dear Mastodon
Please allow the exporting of followers. I really can't see the point of not allowing this because all I have to do is select all of my followers under my profile, copy them, and then paste them into a spreadsheet. The ballache is having to manually edit the content of the cells so that they can be imported into A-another instance.
Regards
Mr Fedup of Hersham.
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I've seen my wife for a total of roughly 50 minutes since last Friday. Five minutes here, ten minutes there.
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I shit you not
Me: "So I've done another cracking deal. We'll go and collect a new laptop from the customer, bring it back here and set up the new user, put all the required programs, VPN etc. on via intune, take the laptop back, and I'm charging £95 per user."
NewGuy: "They buy their stuff from Dell, don't they? Why don't they give Dell their AZURE keys, and Dell will put the programs on for them?"
Me: "GREAT! You've just stopped our company from earning around £6K a year for very little work."
cast.garden is becoming insanely popular on #Hive. Get your creativity in front of people's faces and in their ears. Can't afford to host your own show? Speak to @Agorise_world; he may have some free space, or @Hacker Public Radio and stream through #RSS to start earning!
Here's a thought. All these tanks that are being sent to Ukraine, are they really of much use or will they actually turn out to be a nightmare? They're all different, have different systems and, for all I know, different ammunition.
Yes, it would be so much easier to send just one type of tanks. One spare part for the entire fleet instead of five different parts and five different trainings and five different maintenance manuals and ...
But how?
Each nation helps with what is in stock. Would it be better to say "we supply only tank XYZ in sufficient quantities"? Yes. Is it realistic? No!
It is what it is.
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Militarily it's probably more harm than good although it will boost moral for a very short time.
My first thought was: "But it'll take weeks to ship those from the states?" (According to Google, it'll take 28 days) then I realised, The US is likely to strip its defences of tanks already deployed in Europe.
US joins Germany in sending battle tanks to Ukraine
Ukraine hails the announcements as a turning point, while Russia says they are a provocation.By Gareth Evans (BBC News)
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Shutterstock Has Launched Its Generative AI Image Tool
The company signed a deal with DALL-E creator, OpenAi, in October, and now Shutterstock is offering the artificial intelligence option to all its customers.Lauren Leffer (Gizmodo)
netflix.com/gb/title/81520506
Watch Represent | Netflix Official Site
A youth center leader from the suburbs of Paris becomes a candidate in the presidential election. But is France truly ready for a Black president?www.netflix.com
If you are going to issue codes, don't use i or L because how the fooking hell am I supposed to know which one when the code is: DDII75U
sorted it now. Bunch of cretins.
Microsoft Outlook and Teams down
bbc.co.uk/news/technology-6439…
Microsoft Outlook and Teams down for thousands around world
Data from outage tracking website Downdetector showed more than 5,000 reports in the UK alone.BBC News
Dungeons & Dragons move to a Creative Commons license.
games.slashdot.org/story/23/01…
D&D Will Move To a Creative Commons License, Requests Feedback On a New OGL - Slashdot
A new draft of the Dungeons & Dragons Open Gaming License, dubbed OGL 1.2 by publisher Wizards of the Coast, is now available for download.games.slashdot.org
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ROTFLMAO
Twitter- Read Elon Musk- has sold off over 600 items, including the kitchen sink, in a bid to scrape together enough money to pay the first instalment of his loan, potentially $300M, next week.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Twitter auction’s highest bid was $100K; it could owe $300M next week
Twitter's first loan payment deadline is reportedly next week.Ars Technica
theregister.com/2023/01/19/hpe…
Six years later, HPE and Oracle quietly shut door on Solaris lawsuit
Bunfight over support for proprietary Unix operating system ends with a confidential whimperDan Robinson (The Register)
DO NOT! Watch any of @geerlingguy's latest videos, or you will end up buying kit you do not need!
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Jeff Geerling on Twitter
cue the "It's Happening!" gif https://twitter.com/richdurso/status/1615826317454327810Twitter
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-sco…
Nicola Sturgeon says gender reform row will go to court
Scotland's first minister says the courts will be asked to rule on whether the UK government can block the reforms.BBC News
Talking to the missus on how part of the NHS problem is that we are able to keep more and more people alive these days, she retorted: "Oh, well. We'll all live to be 200 years old then!"
It would seem, she may have to eat those words because some folk are already trying.
bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64…
World's oldest person, French nun Sister André, dies aged 118
Sister André, a French nun who took holy orders in 1944, died at her nursing home in Toulon.By Malu Cursino (BBC News)
I'm a sucker for @argon_forty stuff. I already have the ONE, the NEO and the EON.
TBH, it would just be an "Ooh! Shiny!" purchase I have no real use-case for the Pod System. Really tempted, though.
thepihut.com/collections/lates…
Argon POD Case
The Argon POD case is the starting point of your Raspberry Pi Zero Argon POD system, expandable with other available POD modules such as the POD display, POD USB LAN and POD HDMI...The Pi Hut
A few years ago, on Google search results, you'd get two, maybe three "Paid For" results.
𝗔𝗱 ·https://SomeURL/
SomeResult
These days there's half a page of "Paid For" results.
Next time someone says: "Can I do your SEO? We'll get you first rankings!" ask them: "Are you paying Google for Ad placement then?" you can't get 1st place for free anymore.
I've yet to start uploading the episodes, and who knows, maybe I might pick up the microphone again? (Although not as TDTRS)
#hive #tdtrs
theregister.com/2023/01/11/hai…
#Haiku #BeOS #FOSS
Haiku beta 4: BeOS rebuild / almost ready for release. / A thing of beauty
Open source reimplementation could be even better than the original in its primeLiam Proven (The Register)
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#PrivateEye
Join Creative Commons, Internet Archive, and many other leaders from the open world to celebrate Public Domain Day 2023
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Celebrate Public Domain Day 2023 with Us: The Best Things in Life Are Free - Creative Commons
Join Creative Commons, Internet Archive, and many other leaders from the open world to celebrate Public Domain Day 2023.Ony Anukem (Creative Commons)
Hands up all those who have spent their heating loan money.
bbc.co.uk/news/business-641710…
Amazon to axe 18,000 jobs as it cuts costs
Most of the job losses will come from human resources and retail including its shops Amazon Fresh and Go.By Annabelle Liang (BBC News)
𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀! 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗞 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴.
People are no longer dying in the numbers they used to.
Immigration, both illegal and legal, is at insane levels.
Affordable housing is minimal at best.
And the only answer seems to be; to put everyone up at taxpayer expense in hotels!
inews.co.uk/news/nhs-discharge…
NHS discharges patients into hotels to ease bed blocking and A&E crisis
Three NHS areas in the south west of England booked out hotels run by private health providers for patients with non-critical needs due to a shortage of social care provisionDavid Parsley (iNews)
Getting tired now of seeing people moaning that Mastodon doesn't do XYZ that Twitter does. If you can't adapt, maybe you should go back? You're clearly not happy here.
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Watch: Prince Harry shares details of new book Spare in US interview
Duke of Sussex claims Royal family unwilling to reconcile in trailers of hard-hitting interviews to promote tell-all memoir, SpareThe Telegraph
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