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All Asda petrol stations that I've seen are unattended, they're all completely pay at pump with no cashiers. You see a lot of petrol stations like that in France as well, especially in rural areas. I'm sure there must be someone in the supermarket who has the ability/authority to turn the pumps off and get rid of problematic customers but by and large they're unattended.

My old boss likes to have two monitors, one aligned horizontally and the other vertically. He encouraged the rest of the office to do the same when he joined and when all the monitors in the office were replaced, he set them all up like that. Needless to say, it drove me bat:censored: crazy and the first thing I did with mine was align them properly.

For me I think it depends on the size of the screen. 19" or smaller, 4:3 or 5:4. 20ish", 16:10. 24" or above, 16:9 is getting acceptable if you can have 1440p. At the moment, because I'm working downstairs and my big screen is upstairs, the monitor I'm using is a 24" 1080p screen which is a nice screen but I'd prefer to have more vertical resolution.

32” at that resolution would be too big imo, like 1080p at 27”. The sweet spot for 1440p would be somewhere between 24” and 27”.

I’ve not got anything over 2560x1440, but don’t like using anything smaller. 1080p didn’t give you a massive amount of vertical resolution, 1440p gives you a lot more despite the aspect ratio being the same. I agree on the ultrawides though, they’ve always seemed silly to me.

Which Aruba switches? The ones I've had which are based on the older Procurve lines have been bulletproof. Wireless kit has been excellent as well. I've not tried CX based switches, however, so I don't know what those are like.

Ars liked it: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/08/google-pixel-4a-review-the-simple-basic-reasonable-google-phone/ I think it's generally considered one of the better cheaper Android phones

Is there a certificate on the domain controller to allow LDAPS? Does the machine connecting to the DC trust the certificate?

For the average business and for 1:1 deployments, I could see how Intune and Autopilot can help reduce costs, or at least support costs, as you'd be able to drop ship a computer to a customer without having to touch it. The user would log in with their Office 365 credential and the computer would join itself to AAD, or it would hybrid join and get all of its software from the internets without IT touching it. There's a lot of setting up to do with it but there's massive potential and with current Microsoft licensing plans, you'd only pay for what you need rather than overprovisioning something like SCCM to be able to expand future use. For the more "traditional" school setup, with many users to one computer, Intune is just another management platform with no real clear advantages over any other platform, apart from possibly cost of internal infrastructure. One way or the other, it's not going to reduce endpoint hardware costs, as @TechMonkey says

I don't think the hardware requirements for 2022 are much if any higher than they are for 2019. It's still based on the Windows 10 codebase, not Windows 11 so there aren't any odd TPM or CPU requirements. The driver stack is the same. I'd be fairly surprised if they couldn't run it, Xeon 2600 v2 series CPUs are still fairly reasonable. In any case, I wouldn't worry about it; Server 2019 is in mainstream support for another ~2 years and will receive security updates until 2029. You're not keeping those servers for another 8 years are you? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-server-2019

If you want a version if Windows Server which is higher that 1809 and has the desktop experience, you need Windows Server 2022. 2019 is based around 1809, 2022 is based around 21h2 I think. The Windows Server releases you're looking at are in the Semi Annual Channel, which is Core only and IIRC is going away anyway. Turns out people didn't want to update their servers every six months. Who knew?

Hmm. Do Monoprice ship to Oz? They have a good reputation for selling good value lightning cables. /edit they do, but USD$75 for shipping Um, AusPCMarket?. They used to sponsor DansData once upon a time.

I've got some 2m Amazon Basics ones, those are pretty good. Is Amazon operating in Oz?

Ach, tripe. I've repaired iMacs before and I've sent iPhones off to be repaired. Neither ended up with me being served a Cease and Desist. There are occasions where Apple have restricted people from using third party components like touchscreens or TouchID buttons. There have usually been technical reasons behind this, such as the secure enclave attached to a TouchID button. Apple also support their mobile phones and tablets for longer than any other mobile vendor out there; my first gen iPad Air from 2013 is still getting security updates.

Which uses a standard charging standard (QI). Personally I'm not entirely convinced they're going to do that. QI charging is slower and more inefficient and considering how Apple like to claim they're a green company, that would go against that. Plus you've got all of the iPhone accessories out there, headphones, charging docks, speaker docks, Carplay etc. Changing to USB wouldn't render those useless if they provided an adapter but removing the charging port would.

At least a lightning cable is a lightning cable. As long as you get an MFI one, you should be OK. With USB-C, there are about a million different standards and specs for the damn things and several phone companies have their own charging protocols for phones, despite cables being USB-C. And does anyone remember the tests that a Google engineer carried out on USB-C cables with his Chromebook? Also bear in mind the state of the market when Apple introduced Lightning: The 30 pin dock cable was their standard charging cable and it needed replacing. The de-facto charger plugs outside of barrel chargers that phones used at the time were Micro and Mini USB which sucked then and suck now. And let's not even mention the USB 3 implementations of those. USB-C was still three years away from the market and there wasn't another reversible plug like it on the market at the time so, actually, it's not unreasonable to call Lightning "innovative". In some ways, I actually prefer it to USB 3 as it doesn't seem as finicky to me. I have no problem with companies like Apple being encouraged to use more universal standards for charging cables but it shouldn't be mandated as, as @elsiegee40 says, at some point it's going to need replacing and I wouldn't want rules and regulations to stop that from happening. Do you remember what things were like before USB chargers for phones? Each phone manufacturer had their own charger standards. Different sized barrel plugs, running at different voltages and amperages. Some manufacturers (NOKIA) had two different sized barrel plugs. Cables were captive to the chargers. Compared to how things were then, things today are a lot better; any old USB charger can charge any phone as long as it can output 5v at least 1a and you have the correct USB cable. It might not charge quickly but it'll be better than nothing.

From what the BBC article says, it's just the children's books that Netflix have got the rights to. Which means we're not going to see adaptations of anything from Switch Bitch any time soon

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58648566 I mean, wow. That's huge. I don't know if it's a good thing, but it could be considering the quality of a lot of Netflix's other adaptations. Time will tell I guess.

Per user, either deployed with a GPP or manually mapping the queue

What about the CPC? https://www.thecpc.ac.uk/ Register, tell them what you want, wait for suppliers registered with them to get back to you with a quote. Is that what you're after or is it more of a price comparison search engine?

Yes, in my experience it does. Even with all of those fixes in place, even with drivers prestaged on the client, mapping a printer queue hosted on a machine with the 2021-09 hotfix installed, printing is broken. There is one possible workaround that I've seen mentioned in this thread, originally posted by @NetworkServices: If you're getting 0x0000011b when trying to map a queue hosted on a September patched computer, try putting in that DWORD at that key on the server hosting the queue. It "fixed" it for me on my test bed.

More so than that, how long will SIMS Pay be supported? Or will they roll ParentPay and SIMS Pay into one?

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