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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!

# ¿ Nov 17, 2022 13:47

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# ¿ Mar 26, 2023 05:20

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

# ¿ Dec 10, 2022 23:22

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

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

# ¿ Dec 15, 2022 13:35

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???

# ¿ Dec 27, 2022 13:51

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.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2023 14:05

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.

# ¿ Jan 11, 2023 19:32

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009

need Office for Azure

# ¿ Jan 24, 2023 16:34

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009

Microsoft 360

# ¿ Jan 24, 2023 18:59

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

# ¿ Jan 25, 2023 15:55

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

# ¿ Feb 1, 2023 12:05

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

# ¿ Feb 1, 2023 15:57

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

# ¿ Feb 7, 2023 16:09

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009

Soricidus posted:

checking in, does win11 support vertical task bar yet

With Explorer Patcher

# ¿ Feb 8, 2023 12:36

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

# ¿ Feb 8, 2023 16:02

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/

# ¿ Feb 8, 2023 22:26

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.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2023 00:38

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009

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

# ¿ Feb 20, 2023 16:47

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

# ¿ Feb 23, 2023 13:06

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...

# ¿ Feb 23, 2023 14:01

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009

~Coxy posted:

oooh baby

# ¿ Mar 8, 2023 15:27

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.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2023 20:31

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009

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

# ¿ Mar 17, 2023 20:46

mobby_6kl: Aug 9, 2009

^^^

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.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2023 09:10

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# ¿ Mar 26, 2023 05:20

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.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2023 16:27

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