The Official Status Thread
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
share a folder or something? Because my work uses Google Drive extensively and we have plenty shared folders for stuff, in addition to our personal folders.
But now you need to make an account for each person. Or pay for the business thing.
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@blakeyrat Really? What other ways are there?
Pay for the business thing that lets you manage multiple accounts. Just to sync files? No thanks.
Make a normal account per person. Probably won't even let you. And making an account is tedious.
Use a shared Windows folder. Except that doesn't sync, that just shares. Turn off the main computer and it no longer works.Syncing files between computers sitting next to each other should certainly be basic OS functionality and not require these hacks, but guess what, it's not.
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@anonymous234 What do you use for email?
I 99.99% guarantee you it also has file syncing as a feature. Office 365 does. Google Apps does. The only one that doesn't is possibly Lotus Notes.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Syncing files between computers sitting next to each other should certainly be basic OS functionality
Is SMB not an option?
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat Really? What other ways are there?
Pay for the business thing that lets you manage multiple accounts. Just to sync files? No thanks.
Make a normal account per person. Probably won't even let you. And making an account is tedious.
Use a shared Windows folder. Except that doesn't sync, that just shares. Turn off the main computer and it no longer works.Syncing files between computers sitting next to each other should certainly be basic OS functionality and not require these hacks, but guess what, it's not.
Do you have a Domain? A common way would be an SMB file share, this then allows you to do centralized backups and auditing. It's very handy to be able to say Jane Bloggs changed this file on x at y when data is mysteriously mangled (and then be able to restore that file).
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Going to this page breaks the tab.
Don't do it.
Firefox chugged for a bit, popped up a "A website makes your browser slower" warning for a bit and then finished a moment later. No tab breakage. So, yeah, 1 - 0 I presume.
It killed the tab in Firefox when I tried it, but that's not surprising given the (low) amount of RAM on a computer that I was using for other stuff at the time also.
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: our boss set up a single shared Google account in the office to sync stuff in Google Drive.
Which I now realize means I can see the search history of everyone else.
And they can see mine :x
Silly question, but why is your browser logged into it? Your search history gets saved by whichever Google account you're logged into. If you're using a Google account for Google Drive, the only place you should be logged into it is Google Drive (uh, that'd be "backup and sync by google", I mean).
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
If you're using a Google account for Google Drive, the only place you should be logged into it is Google Drive
In my experience, logging into any site with Google causes you to be logged into all sites with Google, while the sign-out buttons may or may not be global. My sister once logged into her Gmail on my PC and now a year later I still sometimes go to random websites she'd never visit and find I'm logged in as her despite how many times I've "signed out" of her account since then.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 What do you use for email?
I 99.99% guarantee you it also has file syncing as a feature. Office 365 does. Google Apps does.
Yeah, it's called "Backup and Sync from Google", formerly known as Google Drive, i.e. exactly what they're using.
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@mott555 he shouldn't be logged into the site. The Google Drive client is a stand-alone application.
Unless they're using the web interface, but then that's TRWTF. Are they still on XP or something (the version for XP refuses to run anymore)?
edit: even if you do log into the site, you can select which Google account it uses for search.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
Yeah, it's called "Backup and Sync from Google", formerly known as Google Drive, i.e. exactly what they're using.
Riiight but the critical difference is: each email user can have their own username and password.
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@atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Going to this page breaks the tab.
Don't do it.
Firefox chugged for a bit, popped up a "A website makes your browser slower" warning for a bit and then finished a moment later. No tab breakage. So, yeah, 1 - 0 I presume.
I was impatient. Letting it go for a bit it settles down eventually.
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@blakeyrat and that allows multiple users to access the same shared folder?
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is SMB not an option?
SMB is so difficult to set up in comparison to Box.com, DropBox, OneDrive, etc. it might as well be landing on the moon for a non-technical business owner. I wouldn't expect anybody who's not paid specifically to be a network administrator to deal with that shit.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat and that allows multiple users to access the same shared folder?
Hell I dunno. I don't use Google shit.
Since OneDrive, Box.com and Dropbox all have that feature, I'd be surprised if it didn't. Then again, it's fucking Google so who knows.
(I'd also be surprised to learn a phone OS released in 2018 doesn't have a way to put the count of unread emails on the email icon, but here we are huh.)
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Is SMB not an option?
SMB is so difficult to set up in comparison to Box.com, DropBox, OneDrive, etc. it might as well be landing on the moon for a non-technical business owner. I wouldn't expect anybody who's not paid specifically to be a network administrator to deal with that shit.
I Dunno, this Netgear uVault thing was apparently so easy to install the office idiots before me had it running just fine. And these are the guys that had everyone's email password be
pass123%
(not exaggerating).
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Status: Estimates put me at around 650 mg of caffeine so far this morning, and I'm finally starting to feel moderately alert. I really need a chemical reset, and I plan to cold-turkey on caffeine while I'm on vacation the rest of the week, and I think it's really going to suck.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: our boss set up a single shared Google account in the office to sync stuff in Google Drive.
It's kind of hard to imagine a dumber way to accomplish that goal.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: our boss set up a single shared Google account in the office to sync stuff in Google Drive.
Which I now realize means I can see the search history of everyone else.
And they can see mine :x
Silly question, but why is your browser logged into it? Your search history gets saved by whichever Google account you're logged into. If you're using a Google account for Google Drive, the only place you should be logged into it is Google Drive (uh, that'd be "backup and sync by google", I mean).
Signing into the browser synchronizes browser things like extensions and bookmarks. Signing into any Google product signs you into all Google products at once, including the search engine.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
(I'd also be surprised to learn a phone OS released in 2018 doesn't have a way to put the count of unread emails on the email icon, but here we are huh.)
Which one doesn't?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
(I'd also be surprised to learn a phone OS released in 2018 doesn't have a way to put the count of unread emails on the email icon, but here we are huh.)
Which one doesn't?
I'm pretty sure he's griping about Android, but the fact that I'm staring at an email icon with an unread message count badge on my phone's home screen tells me I might be wrong.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: our boss set up a single shared Google account in the office to sync stuff in Google Drive.
Which I now realize means I can see the search history of everyone else.
And they can see mine :x
Silly question, but why is your browser logged into it? Your search history gets saved by whichever Google account you're logged into. If you're using a Google account for Google Drive, the only place you should be logged into it is Google Drive (uh, that'd be "backup and sync by google", I mean).
Signing into the browser synchronizes browser things like extensions and bookmarks. Signing into any Google product signs you into all Google products at once, including the search engine.
As far as I can remember, signing into the stand-alone Google Drive client does not also result in being signed in on my browser.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm pretty sure he's griping about Android, but the fact that I'm staring at an email icon with an unread message count badge on my phone's home screen tells me I might be wrong.
Unread messages, or unread notifications of messages? The two are different.
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@anotherusername Yeah, but if they're using browser Google Drive instead of desktop Google Drive, then they would be signing in there.
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Status: I personally don't find "unread messages" counter helpful. The number is "yes", because regardless of the number I still need to open the email App to check them anyways, knowing that I have 1,547 messages instead of 1,544 is, generally, useless to me.
On the other hand, I spent a few hours unsubscribing and deleting (apparently GDPR didn't fully do the job for me), and now I'm down to 371 messages (unread).
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@blakeyrat Just because you haven't found an app which uses the functionality doesn't mean the functionality doesn't exist. For instance, I could make a widget for my app which looks like an app icon but also has an unread notifier, and it would work with every homescreen on the store. I could also make a homescreen which has an API to set your notification number, and then you'd just have to find an app which supports that API. The capability exists; nobody uses it yet. Like how Windows Update could update other programs but nobody supports that.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
Like how Windows Update could update other programs but nobody supports that.
If there were easy ways to do that I'm all ears. But if memory serves it's even more difficult to do that than port your existing all to Windows Store.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername Yeah, but if they're using browser Google Drive instead of desktop Google Drive, then they would be signing in there.
The browser Google Drive doesn't really have the advantages that actually syncing a folder has. You have to download a file to open it, and then your changes won't be saved unless you upload it afterward.
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@anotherusername Yes, that's how file-sharing programs work.
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Status: I got the Magic the Gathering logo in Hollow Knight on the train.
I watched part of a playthrough of Captain Spirit last week, and there was clearly a Bear Holding A Shark reference there that the people playing it didn't comment on, so I have changed my avatar here.
In my Civilization 6 game, I have researched everything and unlocked every civic, but cannot beat Nubia at culture. I have almost 800 tourism, but JUST NUBIA won't go down. So I'm working on the space victory...
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
I'm pretty sure he's griping about Android, but the fact that I'm staring at an email icon with an unread message count badge on my phone's home screen tells me I might be wrong.
Unread messages, or unread notifications of messages? The two are different.
Seems to be unread messages, because it still shows and I already cleared out my Android notifications.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@anotherusername Yes, that's how file-sharing programs work.
The whole point of using a file sync service like DropBox or Google Drive is that it just works seamlessly. People just open the file, edit it, and save it. Their changes get synced to everyone else's PC automatically, and everyone else's changes get synced to their PC automatically.
If you have to download and upload files manually, you might as well force everyone to use something like FTP or git. It's something they have to learn, and it's something extra that they have to do. And if they forget, things will get out of sync.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Seems to be unread messages, because it still shows and I already cleared out my Android notifications.
What phone and what app, and where the hell were you when I was tearing out my hair trying to find this like 8 months ago?
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@blakeyrat He was probably laughing at you insulting everyone else and then insulting yourself to make up for it.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
What phone
Galaxy S7
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
what app
It just calls itself "Email." Don't know if it's a Google app or a Samsung app, but it was on the phone when I bought it however many years ago that was.
@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
8 months ago
I think I was bored and not active here.
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@mott555 Oh the Samsung thing. Yeah, someone mentioned that but fuck Samsung, so that's not really an option.
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
there was clearly a Bear Holding A Shark reference there that the people playing it didn't comment on, so I have changed my avatar here.
I was pondering on that earlier. I have no idea what it's supposed to reference.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
@mott555 Oh the Samsung thing. Yeah, someone mentioned that but fuck Samsung, so that's not really an option.
lolwut
The phone doesn't have this capability at all! In 2018! This incredibly simple capability does not exist anywhere on the phone! Like, I know of apps that do it, but I don't like those apps' manufacturers, so the capability exists nowhere on the phone at all. Wharrgarbl.
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@mott555 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Estimates put me at around 650 mg of caffeine so far this morning, and I'm finally starting to feel moderately alert. I really need a chemical reset, and I plan to cold-turkey on caffeine while I'm on vacation the rest of the week, and I think it's really going to suck.
Status: And my energy is tanking already. I'm glad I never got into real drugs.
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Status: Got home. Had a beer. Had something to eat. Cooling down. Chilling out.
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status another 2 hours in a mechanic shop. The new Schrader valves they put in were leaking. Fortunately it's covered under their warranty.
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@tsaukpaetra It's an important part of the topology of Strongbadia, as @ben_lubar can confirm.
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
It's kind of hard to imagine a dumber way to accomplish that goal.
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: our boss set up
'Nuf said.
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Status: "Catch up the virtual machine on updates because you went back out to an old site" day ResidentSleeper
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@anonymous234
rsync
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra It's an important part of the topology of Strongbadia, as @ben_lubar can confirm.
Nonsense. The population of Strong Badia is
tire
.
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Status: Sometimes you just gotta use Gordian Knot mentality and move on...
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Status: My OCD and perfectionism makes me fail photo captchas. "Select squares where traffic signs are visible" - okay... but including this one on left that captured 1mm edge of the sign too, or should I skip that?
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@gąska my rule of thumb is it has to actually contain part of the printed stuff on the sign. So the post doesn't count, the back doesn't count (if it's only printed on the other side, obviously), and the edges don't count unless it's enough of the edge to include part of a border that's printed on it or something.
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@anotherusername said in The Official Status Thread:
my rule of thumb is it has to actually contain part of the printed stuff on the sign.
Good luck with that in Europe, where half the signs are pictograms with very thick border, and the other half is just the border.
It's not that I can't figure it out. It's just that I feel uneasy submitting incorrect solution because the automaton is wrong about what's correct solution. It's like when watching Family Feud, and they accidentally asked the question that's factual and actually has some right answers and other answers are wrong, and the top scoring answer is the wrong one.