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  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    I'm a moron. I didn't give my user membership of the audio group. I'm shocked I had working audio at all.
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    If I remember right, that site uses 10th gen i3 NUCs with 8GB RAM. Very modest systems but entirely capable of doing day to day work...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    Nothing too out of the ordinary policies wise. We do run a security stack -- including ThreatLocker, which did the Kaby-R i7 in my work...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Also in the name of BS no one asked for, MS365 users are getting a bunch of new widgets to do things like Mail and Calendar, replacing...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    That is a configuration I'd like to see. Are the enforced GPOs/Intune Policies absolutely absurd somehow? Shit tons of compliance...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    Yeah, they've dropped the "new" branding from their beta baby and rebranded plain Outlook as "(classic)". I have quite a few users who...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    8GB is absolutely acceptable for a low-spec client device, even with a half dozen browser tabs and Excel. Don't ask me about Outlook or...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    Even after all that tomfoolery I still never got sound out of my headset jack and discord won't pick up my built-in mic. Thankfully...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Need help with getting a phone.
    If your trial service and permanent service are on the same carrier they should transition that for you. If they're not the permanent...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    I wouldn't buy anything meant for someone to actually use with less than 16GB of RAM in $currentYear. Really I don't even like 16 for...
  • J
    jtr1962 replied to the thread Need help with getting a phone.
    Now I have another question. My 30 day free trial is over in a few days. Right now the trial is on IMEI 1 (the phone has an eSIM). Is...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    Sometimes the order that OSS projects does in fact seem pretty goofy. Guessing Chromebooks have funky sound to skip out of paying...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    As a counterpoint, the fact that millions of mainstream notebooks (not Chromeboos) with deeply crappy Celerons still get sold for more...
  • ddrueding
    ddrueding replied to the thread Laptop time?.
    I think the OEMs saw the Intel performance numbers before we did and realized this generation was a hard pass. On the desktop Intel...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    And the Intel ones use funky sound hardware that needs special firmware and such, like this does. Would you believe that it took this...
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