jthompson

I've been poking around in all of the menus and I'm beginning to think that there are no AI features in it at all yet.

Clever! Fairly useless, but clever.

Teacher as 'Learning Supervisor', merely an adjunct human agent. That will free up lots of money that can be shovelled towards paying the AI service providers.

American tech bosses don't want to upload themselves into Chinese datacentres to live indefintely beyond the death of their human physical form.

I can hear the Raiders March (from a certain series of films) playing along in my head watching that animation.

I do wonder what years of conversing with gen-AI bots will do to our collective language skills. Will it bring about a generation where fawning positivity after every interaction is the norm? "You're absolutely right! I'm so glad you've pointed out my mistake there. Let me put that right for you. Is there anything else I can do for you today? Just ask!" I'm not sure British attitudes will stomach much of that.

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

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.

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/

Maybe the Edge surf game has a hidden productivity suite inside it? I heard you liked easter eggs, so I put an easter egg....

Is there are Group Policy option lurking away somewhere that governs this? Something like setting "Control productivity disenablement experiences activation" to "Enable", with the sub-option being "Disable"?

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.

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?

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.