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Yeah, I have to say that the devices where we've set them to delete user data are the ones that aren't running out of space. We've not need to powerwash those ones for quite a while, either, so I think something improved around about v97 or something.

Not much changed here, as we're already pretty frugal by nature anyway. LEDs in all the rooms after we moved in, and got some decent insulation work done, too. Netflix is our only media subscription, and we watch quite a lot of that, so hopefully the current basic tier won't be the one that gets adverts. The high petrol prices have definitely got us thinking about switching one of our cars for a PHEV sooner rather than later, though.

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RE: your USB drive, I'd have thought that if you just removed the hard drive item that you've circled in red on your screenshot, the VM will be able to boot okay. IIRC you'll be able to add it back later easily enough, without having to restart the guest OS. RE: checkpoints, the naming of them suggests that those were created when restoring the VM from a Veeam backup. More generally, removing a checkpoint that parents the 'Now' item will involve Hyper-V merging VM files back together. It'll display its progress when doing that. If Veeam has been taking good backups in the time since those checkpoints were created, you should be okay to remove the checkpoints. It shouldn't upset the next Veeam backup, but if it does, you might just need to run a full backup rather than an incremental.

Where are you seeing those reported disk usage stats? On the device itself, or in the Google Admin console?

I'd be interested in using GCDS to assign and release licenses according to AD group membership, but we would need it to be based on more than just one of the groups that we're syncing. That is, it can't be goverened by membership of a single group. Ideally I'd have a rule in GCDS for each group, rather than one rule to rule them all (less manageable), but I'll have to experiment to see whether it gets in a mess when the option to remove licenses is being used. EDIT: it looks as though GCDS won't let you create more than one rule per SKU when using the remove option, so one big LDAP query it is.

You'd need an LDAP query that returns only users from a particular OU, which I don't think is possible. Not without being able to specify a new base DN for the query, which you're not able to do in GCDS.

I hadn't even realised that you could assign licenses using GCDS. For the licenses that we assign to our teaching staff users on Google, we are currently just auto-assigning them in "Google Admin > Billing > License settings > OU", so GCDS sync doesn't come into it, other than when it's placing users into OUs in the first place. I wonder if that's what Google support page is referring to? That doesn't automatically release licenses when users are moved out of that OU or suspended, however, so you'd have to manually release licenses from leavers' accounts.

Are the upgrades from 1909 onwards done via the enablement package updates? I can't remember when those were introduced. If so, the heavy lifting of installing each feature update is already being done by the regular monthly CU updates, which you're hopefully rolling out to them each month anyway. I don't think there's much that will break by doing the upgrades, since Win10 is pretty mature already. The news and weather widget might suddently appear in people's taskbars (I can't remember which release that was), but Group Policy can take care of that easy enough once you've instaled the latest Group Policy templates. Most noticable changes I think are going to be cosmetic changes to the Start menu.

Interesting, although I suspect that the proportion of household expenses going towards lighting are significantly lower than even 10 years ago. I'd imagine the savings from requiring less heating in the mornings would be greater.

Thanks. I'm a total aranchniphobe and not than keen on insects, so what I'm hoping for is some Tyranids on the table-top that'll trigger the amygdala and make your skin crawl. The colourshift paint for the carapace is meant to make them look a bit like beetles.

The AppLocker rule that covers this for us is an exe path rule that allows everyone to run things in the path %WINDIR%\* with the following path exceptions added to it: %WINDIR%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe %WINDIR%\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\PowerShell_ISE.exe %WINDIR%\syswow64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe %WINDIR%\syswow64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\PowerShell_ISE.exe Note that the PowerShell executables exist in two places, so you'll want to cover both of them off. Might that be what's missing for you?

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Ditto. Been using DDG on Android as the default browser and assistant app for yonks, but occasionally have to share URLs across to FF when needing to do something important. FF has got waaay better on Android recently. Blokada has worked really well for me on Android for blocking ads and trackers system-wide, too. Not sure DDG fits my needs on desktop, though. FF still my preference there, as I tend to be browsing for a particular purpose or in and out of email.

We have ours running on Ubuntu, installed and kept updated via APT. That'll work for Debain, too. Works well, although in the past the repo details needed to be amended for each new major version, but I don't think that that's the case any longer. Certainly, it upgraded from v5 to v6 recently without needing new repo details. https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/220066768-UniFi-Network-How-to-Install-and-Update-via-APT-on-Debian-or-Ubuntu I haven't added our wildcard cert for it, as I'm happy to just put up with the browser warning step.

Ta. The glittery blue paint is really hard to photograph. Less sparkly in reality, but it's actually a colourshift paint, moving between teal and purple. The bases are meant to suggest a creeping carpet of feeder tendrils, so I'm glad that comes across. In unpainted greenstuff form, the effect is more obvious, but I wanted it to also look like something out of an H R Giger image, because, y'know, apex predator xenomorphs from the cold blackness of space.

Not a bad idea. Maybe we could just move the Greenwich meridian half an hour to the east and stick with something like 'Geneva Mean Time' all year round?

Squats kinda predate even my earliest interest in 40k. I picked it up during 2nd edition, and even then Squats were probably a preserve of the 'well I was into it when it was called Rogue Trader back before it was cool' types. I have to agree that the mini they showed off was somewhat underwhelming. I'm looking forward to seeing what the larger units and vehicles are going to llook like, though. Loads of scope for GW to supplement the range with fiction and animation as well, as I reckon the lore can probably be richer than for most other factions. As individuals they could be more interesting, characterful and storied than regular footsolders might normally be. I've been working on a new army recently, working on a Tyranids starter box. I'm quite a slow painter, so starting out on a horde army is almost certainly a bad idea, but I've managed to settle on a paint scheme that seems pretty quick compared to my AdMech stuff.

Stupid question, but does that take into the account the whole "only if not already installed" thing, such that that command can sit in a startup script indefinitely?

I think current transofrmer sensors like those intended for domestic use and undone if there is a three-phase supply involved, which I gather is more likely for a school. I don't know enough about electrical stuff to know whether that would still be an issue once inside the building and downstream from the main supply into the site, though.

The functionality of the mask in Dyson's design I can get: it filters the air that's going into your airways. I'm not sure what the headphones do, though. Do they filter out the laughter and derision from the sounds going into your ears?

Windows: For students it's the school badge on a typically 'Windows' blue background. We use BGInfo to add the username and computer name to the upper right corner. Occasionally we get asked to replace the school badge with a poster for the next musical, charity event, etc. but always on that blue background to give the same overall impression of it being a student desktop. For staff we let them pick their own wallpaper, but we still use BGInfo to add username and computer name. The login screen background is a stylised, tilted, wireframe full bleed version of the school logo in red and white. Allows you to instantly spot signed-in vs locked/signed-out. I'm also totally sick of that standard beach image. ChromeOS: Login wallpaper is the same stylised, full-bleed image that we use for the Windows login screen. Staff and students can pick their own wallpaper.

I don't think there's anything particularly surprising in that. Ultimately, it comes down to funding and prioritisation, doesn't it. I should be driving a Porsche to work.

I was going to say that a UPS with a management card could give you a pretty accurate cost calculation. Our APC unit includes weekly kWh usage logs and a cost calculator. The device itself can also display the instantaneous output Wattage. We monitor it via SNMP but sadly that particular metric isn't one of the things that's monitorable. I guess it's difficult to judge what the cost would be for equipment that you don't own yet

The browser I play on (FF on Android, with Blokada active on the device) is more likely to be blocking something 'extra' than the browser my OH plays on (Chrome on Android, with no Blokada gubbins). I wonder if there's some kind of update mechanism that the NYTimes have in place. I can imagine them looking ahead to see the next day's word being HARRY and deciding to take an editorial decision to change it via that mechanism. That's maybe why that article states that STOVE was the official solution, but a minority (the coolest people, naturally) were still playing the pure, unadulterated version of the game that day.