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Is anybody else seeing this issue? SIMS Teacher App on iPads looks to be crashing to desktop (homescreen?) when any user tries to log in. Tried reinstalling the app, removing and deleting the device and giving it a new device code, even over my phone's mobile data instead of via our filter. Same results. Weirdly the device code did successfully get used, as the device now shows as 'Associated'

Now you're just invited no-neck-Ed photoshops

Pfft you knew exactly what you were signing up for

lmao we don't even use Bromcom here so I got no dog in this fight but this is laughably incompetent. "Availability" Y'know what not-being-able-to-log-in makes your service? The exact opposite of available. Now I don't know the details of this outage (and yes, this is a partial outage), whether it was your end or whoever handles the SSO (e.g. Sign in with Google etc), but it's clear that the automation providing the status page isn't testing enough stuff. And I mean to some degree, I get it. I don't always remember to take the time to tell my users when there's a problem, usually because I'm too busy trying to fix it, and any time an engineer is taking to explain a problem to somebody to update the website is time they're not taking to fix it. But when you're an organisation your size, with (presumably) considerably large teams, and you're running a product that you know is such an essential, core service to your clients.. Yeah, you should probably either add more automatic checks, or get some manual bits too. Or both. Both is good.

Finished The Cuphead Show! on Netflix last night. I dunno, maybe I'm missing out on something by having not played the game, but I wouldn't really recommend it. While the animation was nice and some of the hijinx very much reminded me of Tom and Jerry, overall it just wasn't bad, but outside of a few moments it wasn't really good either.

Okay, it's not quite what you asked for, but I got the idea stuck in my head and I just had to do it You might have to hide it behind a few boxes or something (The only full length photo I could find of Natalie Dormer as Cressida was this one at tiny resolution, and y'know, gun)

See? SEE?! JRAPHICS Undeniable proof that it's pronounced 'Jif'.

I did enjoy Season 1, it quite obviously deviated from its source material, but it was still a decent sci-fi show. I keep meaning to revisit the later seasons, but just never got around to it.

Another +1 for IPEVO. We don't use the 4K ones but a few classrooms here have the 1080P(I think?) ones, and my last school had a fair few too. They're plug-and-play so they mount as a regular old camera and you can use your software of choice (though IPEVO's own software is pretty good) We actually mostly have HUE visualisers here, which are also plug-and-play and the quality is decent, but the provided software (HUE Intuition) isn't particularly good, and due to the way the bendy neck goes into the weight(? stand?), they've been known to bend their own USB connector, so I'm not sure I'd recommend them.

Well for one, a lot of the data isn't voluntarily given. If I go on Amazon and search for, oh I dunno, let's say a new washing machine, my intention is clearly to let Amazon to know I'm looking for a washing machine. Suddenly I'm seeing facebook ads for washing machine repair, recycling services, and AO/Curry's/John Lewis etc. Where did they come from?* * Rhetorical, we all know how it works, I'm just talking as an average user Now the argument about usefulness vs invasive is a different issue. Personally I fall on the 'invasive' side. Secondly, if that's what you want, you still can opt in to all the tracking stuff now. That's the entire point of the consent popups. You're free to just click accept all and go about your business. But the rest of us that don't want that get to say "Er, actually, nah mate." Anyway, it's all irrelevant. GDPR isn't stopping Meta from raking in the cash. Fine it's less cash than in America. But it's still a lot of cash. It's still incredibly profitable to run in the EU, so they're going to keep doing it.

I feel like @Dos_Box or @ZeroHour need to add that as an official forum emote

We made the parents sign a form that (amongst others) stipulates the device is still the property of the school blah blah blah. It's not like we'll ever bother to enforce that should a parent decide to ignore it, but it's nice to have on paper, at least.

Yeah, but then you're stuck using the sentence-buffery, unresponsive, feature-threadbare mess that is Office Online (They might have improved it since, I dunno, it's been a few years since I looked, but from a few years ago everybody hated the online offerings and would always choose to open in local software)

Yeah, I don't really understand that diagram. As an ex-cyclist (and admittedly as someone that only cycled for a year and half so not exactly a 'seasoned veteran', but still..) there is no force on this earth that would cause me to overtake a vehicle that had stopped in traffic like that. Either the car has indicated that it is going to turn right, in which case, why the heck would I be overtaking it on the right? That's just a stupid maneuver. Or it's not indicating at all, in which case it's a toss-up as to which way it's turning, and I'm not risking it being the previous issue. (If it was indicating left I'd overtake in principle, were it safe to do so, but in practice, 99.99999% of times if the car is indicating left, it's probably not going to be hanging around in the main road for very long, due to the way traffic flows, so no real point.)

I thought "households should isolate together if someone tests positive" wasn't the official line any more?

Even as someone aware of this rule change, I still look 2-3 cars behind and check nobody is indicating before crossing. I can't understand why anybody wouldn't. At best, it's just a courtesy, at worst, it's your own safety.

A basic, unmanaged chromebook tends to be more of a one-user-device kind of deal, but it isn't explicitly, and can be signed in to by any active google account, download apps, etc. Pretty much operates like one of those 64GB EMMC 'obviously aimed at cloud-only' laptops (HP Stream, for example) or Windows S store-only-can't-install-exes (or whatever they're calling it now), only if it ran Android apps. Once you enrol a chromebook into a google workspace, you get a lot of control over what domains can sign in, what apps are installable (or force-installed), what wifi it can connect to, the whole 9 yards. They're incredibly configurable and you can lock them down tighter than the royal jewels. It's a reasonable amount of work, but IMHO the payoff is worth. There are really only three main 'problems' with them: 1. They can't run windows apps, obviously. They're not a Windows device. 2. They tend to be super lightweight devices, hardware-wise. Whilst I'm sure there are exceptions, you're not going to get much grunt out of your average chromebook. You remember how years ago, budget Android tablets were all the rage? Tesco Hudl, et al? Well now that's your Chromebook market. Do you want to just browse the internet, maybe watch some youtube, occasionally write a document or two (see the next point), and do some emails? Chromebook all the way. 3. Lack of local storage. So you're pretty much stuck using Google Drive for your files, Docs, Sheets and Slides instead of Word, Excel and Powerpoint respectively, etcetera. That being said, I feel like the integration with these servers is a bit more seamless than you'd get on a Windows device running Office Online and OneDrive. Obviously I'm biased as we're a heavy G Suite school here, but realistically, I find Chromebooks tick the vast majority of the boxes the vast majority of school classes need. As with everything, there are always exceptions, though, and obligatory YMMV.

And I've just checked, out of curiosity (without plugging it into the wall!) and yep.. You can insert the entire length of the DC12 charging pin into the headphone socket

Devices have arrived today, and been replaced with Dynabook flippy things instead of Lenovo ones. Shrug They don't seem awful at a glance. The tablet part feels sturdy enough, and has a MicroSD, a USB3-A, a mini HDMI, a 3.5mm headphone (does not have a mic symbol, just headphone) and a USB-C port. Keyboard feels decent enough. Proper keys that actually press down and actuate, rather than just rubber pads akin to the early Surface keyboards (they might still do them, I dunno), and the hinged connector feel solid, as well as having an actual locking mechanism so you can't accidentally pull it off without holding down the button. The charger is a 3mm wide by 9mm long DC pin that I can't help but feel is going to get snapped rather easily, though with this form factor I'm not sure you could do anything better without going magnetised. Bottom-right-hand side of the keyboard is kind of annoying, too: [big shift][Z][X][C][V][N][M][,<][.>][.com][ ↑ ][Tiny shift] [Ctrl][Fn][Win][Alt][biiiiiig spacebar][Alt Gr][\|][Ctrl][←][ ↓ ][→] Who needs a dedicated .com button? Seriously?! I also hate dislike | and \ on the right hand side of the keyboard. Kinda dumb, but seems to be becoming more common.

Anybody else had this? Updated from SFOS 18.5.1 MR-1-Build326 to SFOS 18.5.2 MR2-Build380 last night, and today it's throwing SSL errors for anything using Let's Encrypt. I've double-checked, and even re-uploaded all 4 ISRG root X1 and X2 certificates, as well as R3, R4 and E1. And yet still, nothing. Rolled back to SFOS 18.5.1 MR-1-Build326 and everything magically works again.

Ditto, as someone that's been playing on-and-off since 3.5, episodes of Critical Role are just far too long for my attention span. But I'll probably give Vox Machina a look in.

As true now as it was back then. "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy," Newell said. "Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24/7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country three months after the U.S. release and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable." - Gabe Newell, CEO Valve Corporation, 2011 Every single person I've ever spoken to that admits to have pirated content in the past (but no longer does, your choice if you actually beleive that or not) boils down to essentially the following progression: The first reason a person pirates is because it's more convenient to obtain. $Thing just straight-up isn't available to them on services or stores they have access to. Sometimes this is a dead easy fix, sign up for those services (such as when a game is Epic Games exclusive for a year), or order the thing online. Sometimes the fix necessitates a bigger commitment or a monetary cost, goto 2 or 3 as required. The second reason a person pirates is because it's more convenient to use. It's the classic meme that had the Matrix IIRC, of 'insert disk, get movie'. Pirated media has no Denuvo DRM slowing the game down, no 50-bajillion unskippable FBI warnings, etc. Then and only then do we get to the third reason a person pirates, because of the financial cost. In the realm of digital goods, this is mostly constrained to young people, where a fiver's pocket money isn't going to stretch to a £60 game, but this tends to fall off once people grow up and get jobs. There are a subset of selfish adults who pirate just because they can, but in general terms, working adults are happy to pay for a service. Thanks to Spotify and Netflix, we ended up in a digital era where it genuinely became more effort to pirate something, as long as you could afford/were willing to pay the sub (or just leech of someone else who paid the sub..) Now though? We're seeing piracy spike back up again for tv shows and movies because everybody is spinning up their own platform. When $Platform costs £X-per-month, but you only care about one or two offerings, what do you do? Of course, the moral answer is 'wait until the season is released, buy for a month, binge, done' but when people have a sour taste in their mouth about publication Y removing the thing you care about from you to try and make you pay for it again (hello, Star Trek: Discovery!), it's easy to see why they hoist the colours. Edit: Err, we've probably derailed a fair bit now..

1:1 iPads and Macbooks for the staff?! J.H.Christ how much money does your school have?! We've just had an additional allocation... A whole twelve. Either Toshiba Dynabook laptops or Lenovo flippy things that seem to be essentially tablets with a keyboard attachment. So I can only assume it's "We've got a warehouse full of devices nobody wanted.. Let's just try and foist them off on everybody" Still at least it's not Geobooks with baked in malware..

Two here. One is by happy accident, and the other is leeching off the housemate. So in reality, zero. I don't really watch anything on Prime, the last thing I watched was Star Trek: Lower Decks, which was apparently released in 2020, and before that it was Mr. Robot (which I didn't watch until Season 2 was out, then bailed on Season 2 early in because it just got super weird.) So hardly getting my money's worth there. Netflix is where I watch most of my streaming now, and if it isn't on there? Shrug. C'est la vie. I'm maybe-sorta-kinda curious about the Star Wars stuff that's on Disney+, Clone Wars final season, maybe the Mandolorian (but not all that much).. And.. That's it? I guess watching Encanto would be cool, but I'll just wait until it gets a physical release. And I don't really care about the Marvel universe all that much. But that's Netflix's big draw. It's not just Disney stuff. I don't want to watch just Disney stuff. I don't want to watch just anybody's stuff. Heck, can you imagine if studios broke off with Spotify? "Nah, you can only stream Rock of Angels Records stuff on the ROAR app", "You want Machine Shop? Warner Record app, mate." etc? But I'd expect X% buying straight from Disney is still a higher dollar-amount than Netflix would pay to license $Media, so greed wins out, whereas - though illegal and I'm not condoning it - it's ridiculously easy to rip music from YouTube, so the music companies won't dare. I know there's plenty of dodgy movie piracy sites out there, but it's not an apples-to-apples comparison since they still operate very much in the 'dodgy' area of the internet, with shady ads, popups and malicious download links etc, whereas YouTube is a 'legit' website you know you can watch/rip from easily. If that makes sense. I know the point I'm trying to make here lol.

This genuinely isn't hyperbole. To an experienced lockpicker (which admittedly probably isn't your case, you're likely just looking to keep out opportunists, but still...) a soft drinks can is usually just the right thickness to either make a shim out of (to slip down the shackle to move the locking mechanism out of the way) or to slide between the side of the code wheel and the lock (to feel around behind the code wheel and decode the lock by feeling for the flat spots) Also you've also got the issue that a (somewhat determined) attacker could show up night after night until they brute-force the code. Who's gonna know? Do you check your CCTV every day when you get in? Keys are your best bet. Still beatable, by all means (and of course, not many padlocks are safe from ye olde bolt cutters!) but they're a tried-and-true method with a relatively easy way to duplicate the access token (key). Granted less easy than the code lock, and you can't as easily revoke the access token (change the code vs make them give you the key back) but when you're deciding where your tradeoff between convenience and security is, I'd go for your standard pin-tumbler lock.