Holy shit, this thread made me realize Hammond invited the scientists and grandkids to the island with a hurricane inbound. Not like those things just pop up like tornadoes. You know it’s coming as much as a week in advance.

Active Directory is a monster. Got downvoted to hell the other day for saying there is nothing out there that comes close for managing a fleet of machines. Most of the idiot arguments revolved around thinking AD is fancy LDAP.

“Linux and Mac can do authentication!”

If one’s view of AD is that limited, we’re not having the same conversation. Cross connect AD with Powershell and Hyper-V, you have a robust ecosystem for enterprise. And there are zero issues with running headless Linux servers on Hyper-V.

Kurt Vonnegut started it!

I can’t understand where the DOE gets authority over a state in this case. Anyone?

I’m on Win11. I spend a few minutes a year turning bullshit off when I notice it or hear news about it. Most of that time is spent, “Oh. Already killed it.”

I’m on Windows and will not experience it. I often have a hard time finding these new features that have supposedly been jammed down my throat.

“Oh. Never mind. Turned that off last year.”

Not like it’s some constant battle. I look every few months when I’m told I have a new “feature”.

“Welp. Don’t have that. On with my day.”

That’s on your sysadmin. GPOs should handle all the bullshit. And MS isn’t going to deny us GPOs, fucking around in that space is the beginning of the end for corporate Windows.

My Hotmail and Yahoo! accounts from the late 90s are still good and I don’t touch them but maybe once every year or two.

The performance goals are hilariously unattainable. It’s almost like the board was making fun of Musk and he’s so narcissistic he honestly thinks he can pull all that off.

https://www.photopea.com/

Free Photoshop in a browser. Some modest ads, nothing intrusive. Ublock is stopping those for now. I’d be glad to pay for such fine software, maybe I’d pay the $5/mo. were I a pro.

Somebody clue me in on Typescript. I’m somewhat familiar with scripting, PowerShell guy here.

PS really is the bomb. Been a Windows sysadmin for a decade and I couldn’t do a damned thing without PS. I have no modern programming or scripting experience, yet picked up PowerShell and started implementing it very quickly. If you’re running Active Directory, it’s a must, no question.

Snover has some great intro to PS videos. That’s what got me started.

How not to order three drinks.

Read about a dude that rents goats out to “mow” the solar fields. What a way to make a living!

Same. 2004 F150 here, which, funny enough, needs brake pads at the moment. Too lazy, too windy, not messing with it today.

Parts are getting rare and expensive. I have trouble sourcing parts for my 2002 Mitsubishi.

Windows, Firefox, uBlock Origin, PiHole DNS, zero issues. Same in Edge.

Looks fine by me. Clicked the cookie link, done.

Funny thing, I spazzed out and clicked on my Putty link after accepting cookies. Putty pops over the website, for a split second I was like, “Oh what fresh hell is this?!”

When people post directly to lemmy, I can’t see it. At best I can see it, but not expand it, actually read it. Windows PC, Firefox, 40" TV, nothing crazy. If lemmy can’t handle such simple requests?

No, not here in Florida. One fat bill.