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I can't really remember any specifics, which is probably a good thing. It was pretty smooth I think. It's not too dissimilar to FreshDesk, really, except it doesn't try and upsell all over the place
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Recently switched from FreshDesk to NeetoDesk - https://www.neeto.com/neetodesk We switched because we don't like paying for anything and Neeto's free option includes pretty much all of the features of the paid option. I should think you'll be okay with your various different teams all managed under the one Neeto account.
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Related coverage of this one: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/software-is-over-bold-ai-developer-takes-aim-at-adobe-with-open-source-clones/
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I love this phrasing. RE: the article. The name "Alpha School" conjures up in my mind a certain type of outlook: that of people who think the peak of human experience is to be a workaholic, entrepreneurial business person. Or any number of The Apprentice candidates. It also conjures up in my mind a vision of very unstable, pre-release software that is definitely not ready for public consumption.
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This looks like a useful thread. For those who've moved to UniFi from Dahau and/or Hikvision, can the UniFi system work with Dahua and Hikvision cameras and still do motion-based recording?
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Googlebooks are here... what do we think?
jthompson replied to ICTDirect_Joe's topic in ChromeOS & Cloud Based OS
I'm pretty sure that the writing is on the wall for ChromeOS. They want it gone by 2034 https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/16634428 Google clearly want to replace ChromeOS and Chromebooks with GooglebookOS and Googlebooks. The initial launch devices will likely be MacBook-adjacent premium things. Meh. Hopefully the 'good enough' affordable devices for schools will still be worthwhile putting to market, coming once there are some management tools in place. -
I think perhaps Gemini is answering people's Google Workspace queries well enough to create a noticeable lull on here. I've always found MS admin pages give me a sense of a tangled, incoherent, inconsistent mess, whereas Google Admin is far less so, with better written documentation. Add in the nightmarish dimension that is MS licensing, with all of the vague conditionality that that introduces, and I really struggle to get on with it at all.
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I wonder how long an "Ohh! Suits your, sir!" 'smart' dressing mirror would remain funny for.
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Oh, I know, it's just that I'm imagining what a smart fridge apologist might offer by way of an out of touch dismissal of any criticism of the existence of smart fridges (and similar tat). Maybe the "S" in IoT doesn't stand for "security" after all, but "stability".
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I think you might mean v8.9.8.1: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v8981-released/
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If you're having to make sure that everything inside the fridge isn't out of date, then how much extra effort is it to just ensure that the fridge itself isn't out of date either?! /s
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Yup. Prometheum is certainly harder to come by since all those refineries across the Segmentum Mid-Aestus were set ablaze by Warboss Krumpp's SpeedWaaagh!* *I haven't been keeping up with the most recent campaign books, so I don't know if citing that shows me up as being 'out of touch' or not.
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We do it using security groups also. We have a whole set of "papercut_xxxx" groups for managing the users, accounts and privileges, etc. of PaperCut.
