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I worked in a bike shop for years and I get confused by all this new fangled stuff. Everyone came in asking for a mountain bike and we often tried and failed to persuade people to buy a hybrid instead as it would be more appropriate for 99% of what they did. If you're on the road or a semi-surfaced (tow path, gravel tracks) the hybrid will be more efficient and plenty robust enough. The modern gravel bikes look at least as robust and will be faster on the road than a hybrid - however my personal recommendation would be that if you think you'll be on bumpy tracks, the drop handlebars will offer significantly less control. They're not made for turning sharply and the position makes it a bit harder to shift your weight around. Modern "hard tail" mountain bikes have gone back to larger wheels - I've got a classic 26" wheeled bike which is what all the mountain bikes used to be. That makes them much more manoeuvrable and they're stronger, but the modern way of riding seems to be just plough straight on through all the rough stuff and rely on momentum and the stability of the larger wheels and the fact that modern factory built wheels have improved so don't bend at the first sight of a pothole. Our speciality was custom built touring bikes which were deeply unfashionable at the time - but were remarkably similar to what they're now marketing as gravel bikes. A road bike with more relaxed angles, upgraded brakes, mountain bike components, chunkier wheels. We had loyal customers who took them all over the world. I'm probably biased, but I'd strongly recommend finding a decent local bike shop who'll let you try a few. Hybrid is the boring choice, but realistically it'll work for almost anything you want to do and they tend to be less expensive. (That turned into a bit of an essay and I could go on much longer!)

Just spent the afternoon at Rutland Water looking at their ospreys: https://www.lrwt.org.uk/rutlandospreys Saw the male dive and catch a trout and take it back to the nest where it was fed to the three chicks. The trout thrashed around for a surprisingly long time. Very impressive birds and fishing skills.

Thank you. It still seems ridiculous/sharp practice to charge twice for storage even if you are collaborating with someone who's paying for the storage space already.

Definitely helpful. The reason I stopped was that I want convinced I had the right approach. I didn't want to force something into Power Automate if it wasn't the right solution.

Can anyone tell me whether I'm correct or not about needing to have a paid for Dropbox account to access files and folders that have been shared with me? Someone shared a folder with me yesterday so I signed up for a free Dropbox account which apparently has 2GB storage, but the folder contains 3GB and I get an error message saying that I don't have enough storage. That seems entirely unreasonable since the person sharing it has already paid to store the data on Dropbox's cloud. Today I have a user asking for us to pay for a Dropbox professional account and before I say no as we already have unlimited cloud storage as part of M365 ("only" 5TB per SharePoint site, but they can create as many as they want), I wanted to check as it might be that they're trying to access stuff someone has shared with them.

Better than the idiots driving tarmac coloured cars and don't bother turning their lights on in tunnels and on days with dark grey skies. My bugbear is the way DRLs were implemented with no rear lights (because car makers said it used too much fuel [emoji2357]) so people think they can be seen and don't notice they haven't got any lights on. On my VAG cards I use the odb dongle to change the setting to Scandinavian DRLs which put the rear lights on all the time.

Thanks for responding to my fairly ill-defined question! I'm new to power automate. Previously I would have done this kind of thing on a file server and used powershell to create a searchable database. The person who has asked me for assistance would have done it manually. All of our data (for this kind of purpose) is now in SharePoint so I'd like to take the opportunity to learn something new and also set up something so that users can add items themselves in the future. My end goal is to create a SharePoint intranet page where anyone in the organisation can type key words into a search box, one or more thumbnails will appear and the user could click on the one they think is most relevant and then view the original image. I've started by importing a few images into a SharePoint library and creating a flow. At the minute, if an image is added, it creates a thumbnail*, but I haven't got anything to link the image file to the information in Excel. To make it more future proof, I'm not sure whether I should be keeping the excel file and somehow linking it or converting it into a SharePoint list to make it easier to manipulate in a flow. *For the user, even this is a big time saver - previously they were using Photoshop to create the thumbnails manually for each image. Fortunately they've only done a few hundred out of the thousands of images. Thanks again.

I have a folder full of photos (the organisation's complete archive) and a spreadsheet with every photo listed (filename without file type extension is in one column) and a brief description of the content and context of the image in each row. I'd like to import the images and spreadsheet into a SharePoint online library so that it's searchable by terms in the description. I've made a start with power automate, but wondered if anyone had any hints. I'd rather stick with Power Automate if possible as we're using SharePoint to store the photos and then way once it's set up, the archivist can manage it without my involvement.

I guess that only gives me two more years with my Chromecast audio devices [emoji17] They're awesome devices - I have four and can inflict my music on everyone in the house with a couple of clicks. Sound quality is amazingly good (especially as I bought them all on discount at £15) straight out of the box, but in my "proper" hifi I've got one connected using the built in optical digital connection to use the DAC in my hi-fi. I don't think I could improve without spending a lot more money. Maybe I'll put them on a VLAN and run them unsupported

Does welded steel mesh have the same problem? Tightly pegged down and protecting my strawberries. Wouldn't be worth growing if they're not covered.

You're way behind [emoji16] Already mandatory for all cars gaining type approval after July last year and for all new cars sold from next year: https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/news/motoring-news/mandatory-speed-limiters/ More intrusive than your suggestion too. You'll get a notification and/or a warning which could be an alarm, haptic feedback and a visual alert directly in front of the driver if you're exceeding the speed limit *and* if you're accelerating you'll be automatically limited to the speed limit! You can override it - apparently by leading the accelerator all the way down and holding it, but the method isn't specified - but presumably it'll be easy to access records that show you did that.

Something I probably should have known, but I found a new to me limitation:

From memory there's a 3 month notice period to be wary of too

Seems to be a replication issue in the Android app!

It might be unpopular with some people here, but I wouldn't run an OS on unsupported hardware in a school (or other professional) environment. If the school won't fund newer hardware compatible with Windows 11 I see three options: 1) Convert to Chromebooks using Flex OS 2) Convert to Linux and pay to train you and all other relevant staff 3) Document the issues, report to governor's and find a new job

In a previous life I worked for a company supplying data networks. Our guaranteed redundant connection with guaranteed diverse routing was really expensive. We had several customers who thought they'd save money by buying one connection from us and the backup from someone else. Several came unstuck as various suppliers either shared ducts or exchange buildings somewhere along the route. I think the best emergency option might be mobile data. Obviously wouldn't be brilliant for data heavy applications, but to allow things like connection to cloud mis it would be useful. It'd probably be ok for quite a lot of O365 functions too. Either editing cloud based documents or incremental changes to a local document uses very little data. Teams and video streaming - not so much.

If the main purpose is to allow rdp sessions to work (other than the obvious "don't unless work pay for it") is the cheapest device you can buy. I'd go Chromebook and the MS rdp app or use rdp via chrome browser

If you have OVS or EES subscription then (at the minute) you can use device based activation which licenses the machine rather than the user.

Alcohol? I always thought it was solvent? So a good bet for a long term relationship...

I think in a school I would want to enrol work issued phones in an MDM. It would have the effect (benefit?) of being able to show oversight of the devices. It also allows remote wipe of stolen devices, deployment of apps, application of security policies. It's fairly standard in lots of businesses and schools.

When you run the tool, at the point you choose the source it offers file share, SharePoint or local folder. The only issue I've come across this time that I hadn't noticed before is that you can only go two levels into the destination, ie SharePoint library/Documents/folder Not an issue for us, just needs a bit of planning. I've used it before and knew it was a good tool, but I had global admin rights on the tenancy last time I used it and thought I needed to be at least a SharePoint admin to use it.

I came back to this today as I found someone else in the organisation using it. Turns out you don't need to be an admin of any kind on the M365 tenancy to use SPMT. I installed it on a Windows client (along with .NET and visual C++redistributable) and as long as you have effort rights on the SharePoint library you're using as a destination you can use SPMT. Everyone commenting earlier in the thread was right - it's easily the best tool I've used for migrating data to SharePoint.

MS are still going to want people to use Teams so I can't imagine them introducing charges (on top of what businesses are paying for M365). It'd therefore be a bit counterproductive for Slack to increase their prices.

https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-will-reportedly-unbundle-teams-from-office-to-avoid-antitrust-concerns-183139403.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABEFyCPhEJ1DdavUBCdCSngM85_3XZl1rhq0fJJVq8QHQHyIhW4SB4eXT4_TMsSiKRXiSKOw2-rcAfO26mlGYwg-EeDFUmdIv5nR7rl3qqtRsIifZXuLOZSpSFgeehq1YNlIV9aezR_3NzPy7Qy6azKX2dA8AaccVvU9Cp1QY6ZF

Beaten to it, but... Expresso [emoji33][emoji33][emoji33]