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@Karla said in In other news today...:
I thought that it was obvious enough I didn't need to mention it.
Ah - no. I had to google it...
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@Vixen I have a Macbook Pro at work. Apple has nothing to do with the speed of the company I work for (or the typical Large Enterprise™).
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Vixen I have a Macbook Pro at work.
A suggestion.... Just a suggestion mind..... Don't bring that to a helpdesk I'm foxing. Not unless you've taken a full backup of the storage before bringing it over..... and have a backup just in case.......
Just, you know.... a suggestion.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
It called me a cog!
I'm a winker.
That's just begging for the off-by-one thread.
And then QOOC thread.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Didn't they already acquire a "sapphire glass" company for billions of dollars years ago?
@topspin Didn't they also realise that it was impractical or expensive or whatever to make them from sapphire?
Maybe it is for Apple, but Kyocera managed to make ruggedized phones with real sapphire (as opposed to Apple's fake level-6-with-deeper-grooves-at-level-7 """""""sapphire"""""" glass that they use for IIRC camera lenses and the Apple watch)
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I thought that it was obvious enough I didn't need to mention it.
Ah - no. I had to google it...
Maybe just us USains.
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@mikehurley said in In other news today...:
all laptops at my current job are Macs (they like to spend money and/or pretend to be trendy). The log in to the machine is a local account but everything on the network is handled by Active Directory.
Most of our laptops and desktops are Windows, Macs are a rarity but I use my AD account to login, it even unlocks FileVault. macOS supports AD pretty well - the only element we need to use a 3rd party application for is to allow it to be managed by SCCM.
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
Not unless you've taken a full backup of the storage before bringing it over..... and have a backup just in case.......
Just, you know.... a suggestion.How is this different to if I had a Windows computer?
The home drive (if I store stuff there) still syncs back to the network storage just like it would if I was on Windows.
Nothing that would cause a problem if it suddenly disappeared is stored on my laptop, just like it isn't stored on my Windows desktop either.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
How is this different to if I had a Windows computer?
You're far more likely to get a Windows or Linux computer back from me without extra teeth marks.
The rest tho, yeah you should always have backups, and tested ones at that.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Kyocera managed to make ruggedized phones with real sapphire
I didn't know they made anything except photocopiers and printers.
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@loopback0 According to wiki :
It manufactures industrial ceramics, solar power generating systems, telecommunications equipment, office document imaging equipment, electronic components, semiconductor packages, cutting tools, and components for medical and dental implant systems.
I looked because i swear I saw some heavy machinery with their name on it.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
You're far more likely to get a Windows or Linux computer back from me without extra teeth marks.
I'm no expert but biting on metal might not be the best idea unless you're up for a trip to the vets in the near future.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
You're far more likely to get a Windows or Linux computer back from me without extra teeth marks.
I'm no expert but biting on metal might not be the best idea unless you're up for a trip to the vets in the near future.
My vet gives me cookies for being such a good girl and biting all the corrupt capitalists!
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Kyocera managed to make ruggedized phones with real sapphire
I didn't know they made anything except photocopiers and printers.
For a minute back in the early 2000s they made widely available consumer-grade phones but IIRC they had stopped that before smartphones got popular. Now I think the only phones they make are specialty ones like this
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
My vet gives me cookies for being such a good girl and biting all the corrupt capitalists!
Corrupt capitalists make you chubby, even if you only take a little nibble each time.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
domain
I worked (on Windows) at a Apple centric place. I do not recognize that word above...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
My vet gives me cookies for being such a good girl and biting all the corrupt capitalists!
Corrupt capitalists make you chubby, even if you only take a little nibble each time.
I never swallow.
I just bite.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
because i was trying to get it to read our Exchange server for your work email...
That works extremely well for us. We do have the IMAP connector installed in Exchange; maybe you're missing that?
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One of the guys was French; the article doesn't specify, but I think when they caught them he said "phoque"
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
That works extremely well for us. We do have the IMAP connector installed in Exchange; maybe you're missing that?
macOS Mail supports Exchange natively, and Outlook has been available on macOS for a long time. If you can't download Exchange emails on a MacBook, it's a something else problem.
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
Not if you want them to interconnect and talk to each other using non appleids, because you can't apply domain policies to appleids as they're foreign to our domain, and we can't federate trust with the appleid domain because they're apple ids, why would you need any other id
You can log into macOS using an AD login. AppleID login is optional.
It's not Apple's fault your company don't configure MacBooks correctly.
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Amricans have the most accessible medical system
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@Vixen said in In other news today...:
You're far more likely to get a Windows or Linux computer back from me without extra teeth marks.
I'm no expert but biting on metal might not be the best idea unless you're up for a trip to the vets in the near future.
How else are you going to manipulate it? No horn for magic you know!
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Amricans have the most accessible medical system
Ooh! Do me! Do me!
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Wait, that effect is accidental?!? I always thought that was just idiots trying to be cool or something...
No - it's deliberate. It''s either that, or have black bars each side when showing video captured on a phone held in portrait mode, when displaying it on a medium presented in what is effectively landscape mode.
Black bars are preferable to whatever they call that mode. It's distracting, which means it's annoying.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I thought that it was obvious enough I didn't need to mention it.
Ah - no. I had to google it...
Maybe just us USains.
No.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I thought that it was obvious enough I didn't need to mention it.
Ah - no. I had to google it...
Maybe just us USains.
No.
Well, I guess @PJH should feel bad then.
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@Vixen said in In other news today...:
in the business environment Apple Ain't Cheap
It gets even worse when you are trying to develop for Apple. A company development account is limited to 100 testing devices. Even if the company has, say, about 80 000 employees and some subcontractors. Ok, many of those work in manufacturing and domain research and hardware development and the software also has server-side and maintenance of legacy devices, but there is still way more than 100 people working on development and testing of the iPad applications. And one company can't register additional development accounts either. I believe that company has some subsidiaries just to get some additional accounts.
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No.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
macOS Mail supports Exchange
But I don't
supportuse macOS Mail. What is it with so many mail clients that are just shit at organizing large numbers of messages?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Without reading, is that a "sloppy selfie"? Cause that's the first thing that comes to my mind...
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Without reading, is that a "sloppy selfie"? Cause that's the first thing that comes to my mind...
Must be something about speed. Like when each selfie takes five sloppy seconds.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
TIL Seinfeld was shot on 35mm film
TIAL that there are dumb-dumbs on Ars Technica that don't like it
@error_bot tvtropes SeinfeldIsUnfunny
Curiously enough, that was my exact thought (that Seinfeld is not funny). Might be because I only saw a few episodes in German and humor doesn’t always translate well.
We have dubs for everything, and since we do those dubs are actually really good, unlike many other places. I also seem to remember that Seinfeld aired pretty late and massively underperformed with regards to the expectations of its big success in the USA. So either the humor really didn’t work well here or the translations were bad. And maybe I was too young, too.
Anyways, I guess I should try watching a few episodes in English when it comes on Netflix.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
macOS Mail supports Exchange
But I don't
supportuse macOS Mail.Nor me.
I used it once because the setting for the macOS default mail client is in the Preferences within Mail and you need to configure an account in Mail before you can get to it. I then promptly removed my Exchange account and went back to Outlook.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Let them trademark it if it means no-one else is allowed to use it.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://www.sfgate.com/cnet/article/The-Far-Side-could-be-back-from-extinction-and-14443345.php
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
...reads...
the men in the truck seemed inebriated
Yup. Thought so.
Darwin Award denied. Bummer.
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@boomzilla Maybe I need my browser 3px wider
FileUnder: My browser is maximized
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
Let them trademark it if it means no-one else is allowed to use it.
What a beautiful world that you have envisioned. Who are you? What have you done with the real @loopback0 ?
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@abarker said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
https://www.sfgate.com/cnet/article/The-Far-Side-could-be-back-from-extinction-and-14443345.php
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How the fuck is forced arbitration legal?
If you basically have no choice but to accept their T&C, why don’t they just put "you waive all your rights and agree that, in case of dispute, we are always right" in there?!
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
why don’t they just put "you waive all your rights and agree that, in case of dispute, we are always right" in there?!
I thought they did?
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
How the fuck is forced arbitration legal?
Around here we have a massive problem with that as well. I believe they already culled it down a bit but I don't remember the details of the restriction.
IMO the most appropriate approach is to allow it, but allow any and every arbitration decision to be appealed in court.
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@error said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Mason_Wheeler said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
TIL Seinfeld was shot on 35mm film
TIAL that there are dumb-dumbs on Ars Technica that don't like it
@error_bot tvtropes SeinfeldIsUnfunny
Curiously enough, that was my exact thought (that Seinfeld is not funny). Might be because I only saw a few episodes in German and humor doesn’t always translate well.
We have dubs for everything, and since we do those dubs are actually really good, unlike many other places. I also seem to remember that Seinfeld aired pretty late and massively underperformed with regards to the expectations of its big success in the USA. So either the humor really didn’t work well here or the translations were bad. And maybe I was too young, too.
Anyways, I guess I should try watching a few episodes in English when it comes on Netflix.We got the original Seinfeld here and even in the original version I just found it boring as hell. Unfunny characters doing unfunny stuff. I just kept asking myself "Why is this popular?" because I could not get it. It is really hard to make an interesting entertainment about the ultimate premise of nothing happening and I can only recall one instance of where it has worked for me:
An exciting adventure about broken stairs, missing items and unwelcome visitors!
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I want to crack a joke but it's actually quite sad.
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@DogsB Luckily the Telepgraph picked an appropriate image...
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@error I don't think Seinfeld is special here. Almost all TV shows lose a good percentage of jokes (I'd say anywhere between 10% and 50%) when translated.
Any puns or wordplay (except a few lucky ones where the words happen to correspond in the two languages) have to be essentially rewritten from scratch. That means the translator is essentially a second writer. But they don't hire people with writer skills. So the results are sometimes... not the best.