I’m the VP who actually knows how the things work. So after I solve your problem I:

Write the instructions in an email for the 4th time and send it to everyone involved (your name was probably in CC list, sorry about that)

Double check the internal documentation and add a bit about windows update going rogue

Notice the logs say I’m the only person to ever look at this doc

Send a second email about reading our documentation (now you’re also in the BCC list too somehow, sorry about that)

Get a text from my wife to see if I’ve left work yet

Email our Microsoft rep and CC IT to chastise them about the update but also to see if this violates our SLA so we can get some credits

Check on the status of the SSO epic, since none of this would have happened if that had gotten finished in Q1 '22 like it was supposed to

See no one has been assigned to any tickets in that epic since the last time something like this happened 15 months ago

Spend 10 minutes daydreaming about opening a bike rental shop in Amsterdam

Email the DoE about making sure the SSO epic ends up as an OKR in Q3

The main thing my phone knows about me is that I’m good at setting it down at 6:30am and forgetting it exists until 10:30pm. And from the dresser I usually leave it on, it can probably hear how often the toilet flushes in our house.

I don’t see an ad in there

Every result is for the same scammy looking site.

I learned it on QI

Problems in this image

1. SEO ads
2. It’s a cipher, not a code.
3. It was developed by Vail, not Morse.

They’ll work perfectly as soon as AI space data center robots go to Mars. I’d say a Robovan will be able to tow a roadster from New York to Hong Kong by… probably July. July or November at the latest.

I haven’t been to a Disney park since the early 90s, and everything I hear about the experience now sounds like hell.

I haven’t touched a facebook product in almost 15 years and my life has been nothing but better for it.

Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case

A settlement is an admission no matter what Google says. Headline should read, “Google Admits To Using Its Consumer Hardware To Spy On Users.”

My old ring is in a box ready to go to electronics resell/recycling. Maybe it needs a meeting with my friend Sledge before it goes out, so it can’t hurt anyone again.

You should lock any app which you don’t want casual users on your phone to access.

children notwithstanding, what other users are people letting use their phone? No one uses my devices but me.

Yeah, I hadn’t really considered writing an integration but this is more general purpose than my universal remote.

My hope is that I can use custom sentences to send values to a script or service that, in-turn, will trigger an appdaemon app where I can do all the work in python. I’m not sure about returning the calculated value as a response though.

That’s how I built my harmony hub replacement.

It worked for Microsoft. The month after they started to force install Teams in windows they published user numbers showing how teams had sprinted ahead of Slack by that metric, and the tech press mostly ate it up.

It being dumb was a selling point. I’ve wanted to dump it for ages but my wife used it (mainly for timers and unit conversions) somewhat frequently. But as someone who spends most of her day dealing with problems caused by LLM slop, she refuses to ever use them herself.

I also promised I’d do my best to get Home Assistant Voice set up so it can do math and unit conversions (sans Truthiness engine).

I convinced my wife this was coming a few months ago and its what finally convinced her we needed to drop Prime and Alexa.

So far on my work computer I’ve had a policy to indiscriminately uninstall anything that says copilot. If I hadn’t seen this post I may have nuked it, then spent the afternoon trying to figure out where excel went.

Then stop being a slopmonger.

Every person on the internet that responded to an earnest tech question with “sudo rm -rf /” helped make this happen.

Good on you.

Printed Solid Jessie filament has become most of my stash, its mid-priced filament that prints like premium. I use PLA for most stuff and PETG if its going to get sun or if PLA would be too brittle. I also use some flexibles (TPU) but each printer is different in how it handles soft filaments, so its hard to recommend.

If you experiment with other types of filaments, be sure your plate can handle it. PETG will stick too well to some plate coatings. Prusa has a good matrix to help.