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I need a little educating here, mostly as I've not had enough time to sit and look properly yet. Are they full MacOS devices but with an IOS hardware base, or are they closer to IOS in operation?

At least some things never change Still don't have any money, but I managed to spend what I could when starting to get everything to up a reasonable scratch - now it's just employing the same tactics you are to keep them in one piece. SBM has walked on me several times over the last couple of weeks panel-beating HP laptop chassis back into shape, gluing, taping and soldering things. Some people's 5 year plan has a rolling replacement of laptops. Mine gives finance an idea of when I'll need more Gorilla Glue and Duck Tape

! That explains it! They'll all long gone now thankfully, but I do recall seeing a couple of older Lenovos I think they were. I only remember because I thought it was a step up from my "wedge it in with some blu-tac" method which was a go-to solutionfor many years, before case manufacturers made spaces for 2.5" SSDs

lol that's actually a good question... we tidied up over half term, I found it in the back of the cupboard and I've been looking for an excuse to use it so it's been sat on my desk Did you guys leave it here?

Not quite accurate - the current guidance will become law as it is, meaning there are exceptions and this would/could certainly be one of them.

@Fazza where exactly in my office are you hiding? I know you're only the next town along but this is ridiculous

Of course, this has naturally already been discussed with those people and I would also be helping Contractors are out of the question, but won't be necessary anyway for something this menial - the only awkward bit is turning off the mains as a failsafe when we take a short lump of trunking off the wall. I think we're now looking at 2-3 days max although a little more initial outlay, and I'll likely be doing the making-good myself.

Oof - at least viewsonic will a) provide the parts b) do so at a rate that isn't nearly the cost of the full board and c) won't berate for you doing it unlike either Smart (used to) or Promethean who are frankly terrible.

Doesn't add any mass - might dampen the noise in our office but wouldn't do anything to stop us tearing our hair out and learning more about GCSE/A Level Business than most of the students in the actual classroom. @robintechI'd seen another one of their videos and watching that one is interesting - it'd cost just over a grand to do the office in those Soundboards but using the same idea, I'm considering using MLV sheets with 12MM MDF over the top and should provide more than a 10dB drop to effectively half the volume. (The figures are 16dB for the sheet alone, so probably a little more with the MDF, so 10 is worst case scenario but still acceptable). One wall however has pipework which is sort of boxed out and I might use that to advantage a little - i.e. just the MLV and MDF on one wall, and add a secondary insulated stud wall, with MLV and MDF on that one. Even with the extra timber, we shouldn't break £600.

That epoxy is almost identical to the putty, but the putty gives more bulk and better suited for hinges IMO. I'm using that exact epoxy at the moment for broken screw holes on a laptop where I suspect the teacher used it as a cricket bat!

Yeah think that's likely to be more in-room. Edging towards a combination approach at the moment as one wall has an ancient radiator on and huge pipes, so thinking about fitting a stud wall to that and boxing those in, and going for a tecsound/acoustic plasterboard sandwich on the other wall

The joys of language! No chance we can do anything in the neighbouring rooms due to the services on the walls unfortunately. A couple more ideas have come up: https://www.noisestopsystems.co.uk/shop/wall-soundproofing/noisestop-2-panel/ - just under £600, minimal intrusiveness and an apparent "46db" reduction in sound although pinch of salt I assume that will be for particular frequencies etc. (a few variants of the same product available) And another I'm just looking into more, https://soundstop.co.uk/products/tecsound-100-acoustic-membrane?variant=43491337011423 - thinking a layer of that with some 12mm MDF over the top (because site would rather not deal with plasterboard if we can help it ) So in both cases that's just adding mass, I don't think there's any chance of isolating as we'd lose too much space.

A little off-piste for this one, but work related! We have an office sat between 2 classrooms, with walls that are primarily stud walls which replaced old folding doors many moons ago. The noise transfer is ridiculous and is often impossible to work in our own office if there's rowdy classrooms or excitable teachers. Just as worrying is the concern of people hearing our conversations or certain words uttered when toes are stubbed a UPS! We have *extremely* limited budget so I feel bad asking for this, but our SBM and head have insisted I'm right to investigate options and they'll do what's needed. There's not a huge amount on each wall electrically so there's no issue with adding something on top - whether it's specific sound proofing boarding, an additional insulated stud wall or something. Ideally want to avoid taking out what's already there due to the mess involved, but if we have to, we have to. The options we have already considered are: Removing our internal plasterboarding, adding insulation, replacing plasterboard with new acoustic plasterboard, tape, plaster, paint, make good & refit services. Doable for £400ish, a LOT of mess, week's work. No loss of space. Building a secondary stud wall onto existing, leaving old plaster in place. Insulate, fit new acoustic plasterboard, tape, plaster, paint, make good & refit services. Add another £100 for extra timber, much less mess and work. Loses circa 500mm of office space. I can see lots of "acoustic panelling" available, basically felt backed MDF panels but all these appear mostly cosmetic, and it really pi**es me off they're marketed as "acoustic". That sort of idea though would be perfect, as we'd just have to adhere them to the walls we have and could do it in a day. Has anyone got any experience of doing something like this? Maybe any recommendations of materials or solutions that would help? I don't know a huge amount about sound travel, and googling around shows a fair bit of information which I can't verify but does sort of make sense, for instance if the stud walls already in place don't have any insulation, are sound waves "bouncing" around in that cavity and making it worse? In which case, would we need to strip it out anyway? I think anything over a grand is likely to be a non-starter. Not a huge office, the stud wall sizes are 4.5m x 2.5m each wall.

How are you cabling them in out of interest?

Wow - of all the obscure adapters I've seen, that's a new one on me! I immediately want one

Bluetooth side of it is hit and miss for us too, but the app itself has always been absolutely rock solid. Biggest issue is reel changing - process for us is swap the reel out, clear the print queue and turn bluetooth on and off on the ipad then it kicks in. When it falls over, it's also inaccessible by anything else on the iPad so I'm more inclined to think it's an Apple and/or Bluetooth thing. Or maybe even the printer itself - in our case it was the recommended Brother QL thing.

Just please take care with that approach - if I recall correctly a precedent was set with someone who didn't handle a request in a timely manner and not handling it as an SAR because the request, although not formatted in the style or language of an SAR implied that it was one. Quite possible that our training told us that as a scare tactic though! (god I'm getting cynical). But as you say there's an audit trail regardless, so hopefully all covered - and that's the name of the game these days, covering your back as well as doing our actual jobs

Averages 5 or 6 for us currently. A marked increase over the last year and many of the requests coming through now are AI generated/prompted, more than likely linked IMO. Great for people to have more control over their data - not so much for the people having to manage it.

Thanks - have one of these packs! Less said about my GP surgery the better, but shows some of the state of affairs when I get information like this from an IT forum before the GP, who gives me the stuff in the first place does!

I tried that a few years ago for a primary, it was impressive for what it was and did work to a point, but in the end Impero won out as it generally just worked. Was a while ago so interested to see if it's improved. Open source isn't a problem - the vast majority of the time being open source means something is more secure and more trustworthy, in a school the only issue is likely to be support as you'd be on your own with it short of their community.

Oh that looks good. I wonder what the ratio of kids to 40+ year olds in cinemas will be when this comes out

Ah I see, that description either didn't show for me or, quite likely, I didn't see it Cheers!

Have been digging into this further, @sideone worth checking the registry for the profiles - HKLM>Software>Microsoft>Windows NT>CurrentVersion>ProfileList>profileGUID>NextLogonCacheable Was 1 for this instance but I don't think I can verify if it was the same when this occurred for the user. I can see a hangover in that profilelist however from an old home drive which no longer exists, so it may be related - a rebuild of the laptop at most or at quickest, removing the user profile might stop this happening again. The information pinpointed by @psydii does show a lot of evidence of changes in windows updates that have affected different areas of authentication; whilst most appear to centre around smartcard authentication I suspect there may be other implications, particularly with certificates used to authenticate devices as well as the usual credentials. In which case, I plan to keep a close eye on things in the near future and force any windows updates that come along (rather ironically as they seem to be the root cause of the issues these days!) Sources: https://community.spiceworks.com/t/domain-not-available-for-single-user-while-on-different-network/1208422/32 https://schweigerstechblog.de/offline-cache-credentials-mit-smartcard-unter-windows-11-24h2/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1i1y9j9/windows_11_24h2_offline_cache_credentials_failing/#:~:text=We noticed that starting in,into the computer just fine https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1g9e4kc/comment/mig5jkj/?context=3 https://community.spiceworks.com/t/domain-user-not-cacheing/365337/4

That appears to work - quick question though, can anyone translate that last bit about the timezone into English? "Always send Wi-Fi access points to the server while resolving the time zone" - what? By AP is it referring to the chromebook/client?

I did see entries for credential guard in event viewer but didn't think anything of it - thought that was only something that worked in the user context rather than system context, could obviously be wrong! (could be thinking of credential manager)