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mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Over the weekend my "Azure Portal" access expired so I clicked to "Resubmit request" in the notification email, and renewed all the authorizations that were available. So that when I needed it, I have full access again.

Well joke's on me because when I had to use it later, some stupid token couldn't be found and poo poo didn't work. Took most of the day to find out that the roles you request from the email notifying you about expired Portal access does not include the authorization that just expired.


~Coxy posted:

glad to hear it!

I'm a big idiot who has a music headset and a meetings headset so I know the pain.

(plus, windows has decided to stop connecting to my music headset when it turns on. I have to go into settings and press connect. un-pairing and re-pairing didn't fix it. thanks, windows.)
I actually prefer the handsfree profile for meetings since it seems to have lower latency. It usually works on the Jabra headset, but sometimes it randomly doesn't!

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mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Silver Alicorn posted:

theyll replace it with something worse

They just took away the "advanced settings" link



You have to go open the old control panel (which still exists) on its own

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

jammyozzy posted:

This has reminded me that work enforces the "max performance" power plan on our workstations, so the minimum processor state is 100%

I've emailed IT about it like "maybe this is unnecessary in 2022?", but meanwhile I've been seeing a lot of these fuckin menus when I go to change the plan back to something sane for the 17th time that day
Haha :wtc:

Why would this be ever necessary, let alone now? I've never had any issues caused by SpeedStep or whatever the tech is nowadays.



jammyozzy posted:

I have some noise-cancelling headphones for when I'm WFH in my tiny 'office'

I wonder how much power we're wasting as a business per year because of some stupid bodge that's probably been in place since the pentium 4 era
Dis you?

https://i.imgur.com/ZCrPfHz.mp4

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

I just tried to open a site in Edge because I thought there was an issue with Firefox and it's now pushing coupons at me???

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

I like the Onedrive integration on my work machine. it seems that the documents folder is mapped to the OneDrive folder, even though the actual Documents folder still exists. And I can't attach a powerpoint file from that folder to an email, it won't let me drag and drop it from that folder, and attaching it from the menu also doesn't work because it complains that the file is open. Just next level genius poo poo.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Some Teams features are going to be locked behind a new Premium tier:
https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/11/teams_premium_more_expensive/

quote:

As Microsoft's licensing guide clarifies: "some Teams features will move from Teams licenses to Teams Premium licenses." Those features are:
Live translated captions;
Timeline markers in Teams meeting recordings for when a user left or joined meetings;
Custom organization Together mode scenes;
Virtual Appointments - SMS notifications;
Virtual Appointments - Organizational analytics in the Teams admin center;
Virtual Appointments - Scheduled queue view.
Oh no.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

need Office for Azure

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Microsoft 360

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Hey lil' azure how's it going?

quote:

- Users may experience failures to render the account console page, notebooks, or may experience failures creating new workspaces, users and Databricks user interfaces
- Cluster start/resize/termination requests may time out.
- Jobs relying on cluster start/resize/termination may not execute.
- Jobs submitted through APIs/Schedulers may not execute.
- Workspace authentication requests may fail or timeout
yay cloud

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Pile Of Garbage posted:

some great UI design from microsoft in the Intune admin portal:



i guess they havent learned how to do client-side form validation so they just said "gently caress it" and replaced the text-box with a 730-item drop-down menu
To be fair that's the best option that came out of the brainstorming session





mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

mystes posted:

There was a whole collection of like 10 of those before right?

Yeah, found the others in this album: https://imgur.com/gallery/r102w








mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Sagebrush posted:

so i spilled tea on my laptop and fried it, and that sucks, but i have pulled out my old thinkpad from 2014 to use as a spare.

i had installed kubuntu on it because i was like oh, this computer is old and slow, i better install some lightweight os on it so it runs smoothly right??? well that was awful experience. the trackpad never worked properly, it wouldn't wake up from sleep, all the software was bad and weird, etc.

i decided gently caress it i'll just reinstall win10 and deal with it being kinda slow.

well i did that and ran the lenovo driver installer and guess what: not only does everything work perfectly, but it's even faster and smoother than it was with linux on it. perfectly usable. lmao.

windows is king of operating systems

Maybe 2024 will be the year of Linux on the desktop

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Soricidus posted:

checking in, does win11 support vertical task bar yet

With Explorer Patcher

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Shaggar posted:

google finds stackoverlow articles just fine. idk what else i'd use if for tho

But I don't want to read the articles, I just want it to give me the code to paste

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

"Microsoft Teams Free data won’t transfer over to Microsoft Teams (free)"
:hmmyes:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/microsoft-teams-free-data-wont-transfer-over-to-microsoft-teams-free/

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Pile Of Garbage posted:

yeah i know. i was just very used to right-clicking anywhere on the taskbar to get at task mgr. muscle memory and poo poo

Yes. And there's literally no reason not to have that context everywhere on the taskbar like it's always been.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Intel and AMD must be bribing MS to prevent them from making an actual native client

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Yeah Edge is also just a bit faster/more efficient. If you're using a Chromium browser (and not, say, the Real Opera, or Firefox), there's no reason to use the actual Google Chrome.


Pretty fun article on Billy G's obsession with Minesweeper: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/how-bill-gates-minesweeper-addiction-helped-lead-to-the-xbox/?comments=1&comments-page=1

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Cold on a Cob posted:

not trying to whattabout but has chrome ever done that sort of thing?

I'd have to use it to find out so...

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

~Coxy posted:


oooh baby

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

^^^
I'm sure this person certainly did!!



Edge is getting a built-in cryptowallet, just in time!

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/202...comments-page=1

r u ready to WALK posted:

I'm shocked by how much I hate Teams now that I have to use it on a daily basis

I'd rather have separate apps for meetings, chat and document collaboration than one giant piece of poo poo that tries to do everything badly
It's kind of tolerable for meetings but yeah everything else makes me really upset. As if the web versions of Office apps weren't bad enough, having them within teams is just infuriating. Among many other things.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Yeah Firefox or Vivaldi if you have to use something chromium based

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

^^^
:hmmyes:

Celexi posted:

installing websites as apps so they show up on their own window/icon/etc is nice, so I don't have a barrage of tabs which get forgotten.

Don't use web apps, problem solved.


Beeftweeter posted:

yeah, i honestly can't think of much that doesn't work in firefox. the rendering speed is pretty similar too, but it depends on what you're doing (poo poo like webgl will definitely be slower, wasm kinda depends, etc.)

for just web browsing its fine though
Edge can be massively faster in JS-heavy tasks and it makes a real difference on mobile or low-end hardware

mobby_6kl posted:

So recently performance tests of FF vs Chrome made the rounds (probably not for the first time): https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Chrome-109-Benchmarks

At first I was like whatever, it's fast enough, I don't even need to look. But then I thought... if there's a difference in performance, there's also a difference in efficiency and...



Holy poo poo, I tested it and Edge on my Celeron laptop is only half as fast as Firefox on a 13900k. Almost 80% more energy than Edge to do the test as well.


E: forgot to update the screenshot with axis labels, it's CPU power over time in seconds

That's a pretty extreme test but I also tried just reloading the youtube front page four times and it's about 37% more energy. Doesn't matter on the desktop but I think I'll go try Vivaldi on the battery and performance challenged laptop. That's a bummer.


mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Beeftweeter posted:

huh, as a fellow celeron haver this is interesting. how does it perform vs. chrome?

I don't have benchmarks on hand but Edge is a bit faster/more efficient. I'm sure somebody tested it.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Look who just messaged me on Skype



For something that's still being tested to avoid going full hitler, they're really trying to push it through as many holes as possible

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Carthag Tuek posted:

tell me why you did not reply bing up your rear end

What makes you think I didn't?

In fact I did not because I wanted to test some stuff before getting banned :(

Anyway it's garbage and way more restricted than ChatGPT. I tried a few example s from the AI art thread and it refused to do anything ever remotely amusing. The basic VBA it wrote also has HTML quotes in it.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

No it's in my normal Skype, not Skyper for business (if it's even alive) or Teams.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Why the gently caress doesn't OneNote have a way to crop an image. Every office application can do it but not loving OneNote lmao.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

mediaphage posted:

laffo i looked it up and the official support page says to just screen clip your picture and repaste it
Yep. I had to google it too because couldn't believe the function wasn't there.

The workaround is funny as well because you can't actually use the OneNote screenshot feature that's right there do it because it automatically hides the app window. So you have to PrintScreen it and paste into Paint or use the snipping tool, or I guess might as well just copy/paste it into Paint directly.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

tbh i suspect the no clip in onenote is the result of people going "i never use more than 1% of all these features anyway" about office apps, with it turning out that everyone has weird nonoverlapping uses covering the 100%
Cropping an image though? That has to be a pretty pretty common and obvious use case

akadajet posted:

why? it sucked
It wasn't chrome and worked fine

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Had this happen twice already on different occasions so I suspect that's just how it works now

quote:

I don't have a headset with me today so I'm listening to a Teams meeting from the laptop speaker. It's not possible to adjust the volume, like, at all, not even mute. The slider moves, the mute LED lights up, makes no difference.

So it's blaring loud enough to hear it from half of the floor, thankfully there's nobody else here today though.

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

mystes posted:

txt files don't have formatting

Not with this attitude

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Also why the gently caress is the camera button right next to the mute button, and tries to initialize the camera when you mouse-over it

Hed posted:

why does Teams on my Mac always try to use my iPhone camera (in my pocket or face-down on my desk) instead of the big beautiful FaceTime HD camera on the same chassis as the default speakers and microphone?
Because you use a mac, see

Carthag Tuek posted:

because its poo poo, op

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Oh god they updated Outlook and the mail/calendar/todo toggle is now a huge panel across the whole height of the winodw :argh:

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

Mr. Nice! posted:

they did that a while back. to go back to how it was go into options advanced and uncheck "show apps in outlook" and then restart outlook.
Oh wow thanks. Fixed.

AlbertFlasher posted:

ya I've had that for a couple of months now. It blows.
It was forced just this morning, on the up side I had a lot of free time to go get a coffee and look out the window. See the Mr. Nice! post to fix it though!

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

pmchem posted:

do any of y'all actually use onedrive for storing personal files with any sort of expectation that they will not disappear or be hacked by china or whatever?

i have other backup solutions in place but i am getting old and lazy and onedrive is JUST THERE waiting to be used on my PC

the annual pricing actually seems cheaper than s3 unless you use a s3 glacier option. i wish there was a good private '1 tb of cloud storage for free' option but you get what you pay for i suppose

I don't use onedrive for personal files at all

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

r u ready to WALK posted:

think of all the exciting new malware.py use cases



Looking forward to my spreadsheet code's dependencies being randomly deprecated in the MS runtime environment and everything breaking

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

FMguru posted:

bing chat enterprise

BING CHAT ENTERPRISE

TBH if this thing could actually remember all the corporate bs and spit out the definition of term ABC in readable form or explain process for XYZ without making me dig through deprecated corporate wikis or ancient ppt slides like, it would be pretty cool. Of course if my grandma had wheels...

mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

I once wanted to log into some work azure poo poo from my personal laptop and it tried to take over the entire computer, so maybe that's not the worst change

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mobby_6kl
Aug 9, 2009

It sure does work even on Win10. Holy poo poo.

It's not that I'm even particularly surprised MS sneaked in a shortcut, but they made it Ctrl-Shift-Alt-Win-L. Like who the gently caress would ever press that combination even if your job required posting poo poo there? When just typing a few letters like "lin" in the browser would be enough.

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