I am not expecting them to do that, I am expecting them to make an effort at pretending to follow the rules.

Windows in general is pretty good at warning before running updates, you usually get a few days before being forced to run the updates.

There is much to blame Windows for, but if it forces a reboot on you, it is because it was ignored it earlier.

You mention this being a “podium computer”, so probably a shared machine that no one cares about updating.

For future reference, if you are using a shared computer for presentations, you can see the update status in the system tray, Windows will show the update icon with an orange or red dot if it is waiting for a reboot.

I am an IT guy and I often get tasked with preparing the presentation computer for large presentations, I will go down to the event room an hour before and boot up the computer to check the status of it so I have time to deal with the shit it might throw up.

No, you were replying to two other people in the thread before I commented, pay attention to the usernames remember.

This all started because you implied that Twitch was a bad platform for promoting the Feddiverse without giving a reason.

So, yeah, what is your reason for not thinking Twitch is a good platform to use to promote the Feddiverse?

This is a public forum, if you want to talk private, use a private medium

What?

When did I do that?

Please read the usernames in the thread before trying to do callouts.

Then why are you here?

May I ask that you start?

Can you explain to me why promoting the Feddiverse on Twitch is bad?

Promoting the Feddiverse on the Feediverse just seem like preaching to the choir.

When you have access to CCTV of an entire area, it is obvious that you will find stuff that while perfectly normal, will seem like someone plotting something.

This is especially true if you are seeing those that you watch as the enemy.

Humans are excellent at pattern recognition so excellent at it that we often overanalyze and make up scenarios in our heads to fit an imagined narrative.

A scruffy looking man standing around a hospital entrence is clearly planning a crime, not just waiting for his mom. You can tell from how he moves his weight between his feet.

This is just an example.

Ok… another WebKit/Blink skin, yawn, these are a dime a dozen.

Doesn’t change the fact that any cloud company has the access to access or close customer’s accounts at will, and with the US legal system, the government can and do order companies to do shady stuff.

The entire shift from on-prem to the cloud where the only real alternatives are companies in the US is absolutely insane.

So now Meta has actively produced and hosted CSAM material, when does the sites get seized?

I have a question, do you only get an email notification, or donyou also get an in-app notification?

I wonder for my own sake…

As others have said, just don’t bring it up unless specifically asked.

Most users won’t care, and you might easily overwhelm them with data.

It is far better to introduce them to Lemmy/Piefed/mbin/kbin/Pixelfed/etc as a specific service, and answer further questions as they come up.

This year, probably once every other week…

Dear Apple, instead of focusing on AI, can you fix the setup process on new iPhones?

It is a fucking mess, shit has been added seemingly at random to it and you need to do stupid workarounds to activate an iPhone without a physical SIM card while setting up an Apple account.

I am an IT guy, I have to help our users several times a week with setting up new phones.

If you have a new user with a new phone you have to do it like this:

• Sign in to WiFi,
• skip setting up an Apple ID,
• skip through all settings until the phone is activated without an Apple ID,
• go into settings, mobile service, add an eSIM card with a QR code,
• disable SIM PIN,
• wipe the phone, but keep the eSIM card,
• activate the phone again, but this time, create an Apple ID,
• verify the user’s email and phone number,
• start the enrollment with Intune

The issue is that for some idiotic reason, Apple puts the eSIM part of the setup after you sign in with your Apple ID, meaning that unless you have a physical SIM card in the phone, you can’t activate an Apple account on the device since you can’t verify the phone number.

The one useful feature of AI that I have found is to use it as a dynamic manual.

I ask about specific commands, or how to do something, similar to a normal search engine.

I then test the answer given, and if successful, I implement the knowledge into my code.

Something like this:

How do I make a progress bar with diagonal stripes in HTML/CSS?

I get a generic answer and start experimenting with it.

I could easily skip the AI part and go back to regular searching, it would slow me down, but I would be fine + it would be less wasteful.

Wasn’t there a huge fallout from them changing the license a few years back?

Have they changed their license back to Open Source?

Don’t care, they like all smart glasses they have a face mounted recording suite.

So we should support these camera glasses just because they are not Meta or Google?

Nah mate, they are still a creepy recording device.