jthompson

It's where you don't go to work or check any work messages, but 70% of the things that cause you stress at work are left running unattended 24/7, are mission-critical, but have nobody else looking after them. It's really relaxing.

I'm not an expert, but my suspicion is that there are correlations to be found between the en****ification of social media platforms, the posting rate of grown adults, and the number of better or more important things that grown adults have to do during any given day (e.g. wiping little bottoms, cooking spaghetti, watching a properly produced television programme).

I have tried it in the past. I remember it being almost inedible to my taste.

Maybe this means that there'll be lots of cheap ereader hardware heading to eBay. Assuming they can still be managed via Calibre, I might [gasp]... upgrade.

So, they've reverse-engineered the recipe? I think they ought to go a step further and open sauce it.

Still have and use my Kindle 3, the one with a keyboard on it. It lost support yonks ago so now has WiFi off and I use Calibre to load it up with ebooks. Do Amazon ebooks still have DRM on them?

For me, about 30% of the offensiveness is the decision to make it an opt-out procedure, with the remaining 70% of the offensiveness being the decision to not ****ing notify my about it.

I'm realising now that I've never actually played a game of 9th or 10th, apart from a couple of games of Boarding Actions. I have the 2nd edition box set, which the artwork for that 11th edition box is definitely a re-run of (it's like the original artwork has been put through a filter). Only two minis to look at so far, but I'm getting 2nd edition vibes and will likely be drawn towards a purchase. Hopefully it won't have a cardboard Ork Dreadnought this time. EDIT: The new box artwork looks to include grots/gretchin in the same WW1 style helmets as the originals. I've painted a LOT of those, so hopefully any new ones will offer a lot more variety and dynamism.

If Copilot is trained on the tangled mess that is the M365 admin space (and/or the rabbit warren that is MS online documentation), I'm not surprised it hallucinates all over the place. Garbage in, etc.

Seems only sensible. At the risk of making a political post, a levelling-up of the Milky Way is definitely overdue: we've allowed the Krogon Empire to monopolise spice mining in the Kgh'on-Hgrha`a`dh sector for too long now. We must embed the IWRP into everything we do. Even if it is just a room booking spreadsheet.

Oooh. Will be interesting to see whether an edu SKU appears, and what upselling there will be.

First things that come to my mind are browser page zoom and browser 'reader view'. The latter will give a consistent layout to web articles, which can usually adjusted increase text size, line spacing, etc.

I'm assuming the decision is less about American tech companies not spying on consumers (they will), and more about the US/China balance on which govt can get access to that intel.

Is this the same as the 'Green Stuff' that Warhammer nerds like to use for adding free-form details to plastic space monsters?

I don't think GetHelp gets removed anyway, in fairness, even if the command is run.

Has anyone determined whether the list offered in that template is sufficiently complete? My decrufting script for Win 11 (probably built for 23H2 at the time) list these: "*DevHome*" "*FeedbackHub*" "*GamingApp*" "*GetHelp*" "*Getstarted*" "*Microsoft3DViewer*" "*MicrosoftOfficeHub*" "*MixedReality*" "*News*" "*OneNote*" "*Outlook*" "*People*" "*PowerAutomateDesktop*" "*Skype*" "*Solitaire*" "*Todos*" "*Weather*" "*WindowsMaps*" "*Xbox*" "*YourPhone*" Of those, I don't think I'm seeing corresponding options in the Group Policy template for: "*DevHome*" "*GetHelp*" "*Getstarted*" "*Microsoft3DViewer*" "*MicrosoftOfficeHub*" "*MixedReality*" "*OneNote*" "*People*" "*PowerAutomateDesktop*" "*Skype*" "*WindowsMaps*" "*YourPhone*" Some of these might be dead already (Skype, 3D Viewer?). If I get time, I might compare the output of Get-AppxProvisionedPackage on vanilla 25H2 to the Group Policy list.

8.9.3 released https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/releases/tag/v8.9.3

As long as it doesn't leave the shortucts in place and just show a "Your administrator has disabled this app. Ask them to enable it!" message whenever anyone clicks on one. I think my comment speaks to my level of suspicion about Microsoft's apparent acquiesence in this regard.

Nice. Tab groups work particularly well in vertical mode, imho. Split-view tabs was a recent addition to Chrome which I like, as well.

AUTOEXEC.BAT CONFIG.SYS I'm hoping that by posting that I've not put @Dos_Box into some odd configuration for the day.

There aren't many things more frustrating than being ready to play a game that you've just bought, but being forced to wait nonetheless. I remember when I first bought my Xbox 360 I'd also ordered Forza 4 and an extra controller with it. The game and the extra controller arrived a few days before the console... I must have cut a sad figure holding that controller in one hand and the game in the other. Sad.

I've not been following the development of this at all, but I'm assuming that the game will feature a Cybertruck take-off where you can engage a self-driving mode in order to drive into the nearest tree/lamp post/person and/or burst into flames? I enjoyed GTA 5, back when I had lots of spare time (i.e. no SO, children). Not sure I coud ever summon the energy to take on a AAA every again. They seem so.... demanding.

I can understand why a safeguarding platform might shy away from offering SSO. Yes, technically, a school staff member's Google or Microsoft account could be about as secure as anything (enforced MFA, strong password, allowllisting of third-parties, automated provisioning/deprovisioning via MIS link), but it's not in the platform's power to ensure that that is being done.

This is an interesting topic given that Bromcom's Google SSO fell over the other week. Bromcom SSO is pretty decent, in that end users don't have to perform a regular sign-in first: it just works even on the first login with all the setup being done for people by admins. Importantly, regular credentials are positively disabled when SSO is turned on for an account, so the end user is unburdened. SIMS Connected is a good example of how not to do it. The SSO is their own SIMS ID account, which you can SSO into in turn via Google, but the end user has to opt in to that. Their single sign-on documentation was largely about using SIMS ID to sign into other things, rather than about Google or Microsoft account SSO. Regular credentials remain active, too, and the Google account links seemed fragile IME. If I were starting up a web app, I'd be looking to support Google or Microsoft SSO only, with no local credentials. I'm not especially knowledgable about it, but my gut feeling is that leaving the bulk of authentication code to the big providers would seem sensible.

Not seeing any of those three in the "Discover apps" section of the Wonde portal. Various TES apps, but not one named Room Booking. I don't know if there's a list of available apps for Groupcall, however.