Go do a trade. Computers are dumb.

Super Thunder Blade did this, same era too.

Yes, this link has been disabled as per (dumb) organisation policy.

Ok. Did a quick read. And I think I mixed my words a little.

Yes, Active Directory supports TOTP fine.

But my understanding is rollouts can disable TOTP, and instead force the use of the proprietary scheme requiring the MS Authenticator app (which also supports TOTP) that uses push notifications to the device.

As is the case with my employer. They didn’t enable TOTP, and I am unable to use the provided MFA QR code with 1Password.

Afaik, Microsoft’s OTP implementation is proprietary and not TOTP.

But also, my understanding is you can select which MFA schemes you can use, and allow SMS, MS MFA, and TOTP.

Source: employer used to allow sms, locked it down, and totp apps can’t parse the MS authenticator QR codes.

• I’m lazy
• I can
• makes me look my age
• razor burn sucks
• 3’o clock shadow sucks
• who cares?

My brother behaves weird with Linux (fedora 39 silverblue).

When doing multiple copies of double sided printing, it’ll print [1|2] [1|1] [2|2] [1|1] [2|2] and then repeat until you realise you now have onen copy of what you want and 10 pages of one side, and 10 pages of the other side.

It’ll also randomly refuse jobs, and then print them 30 minutes later (lmao if you printed multiple copies, gave up and went for a walk)

My Panasonic I replaced it with was better, but you had to download binary blobs to make it work.

But, Linux has gotten more and more complicated in the last 20 years I really can’t be fucked working out if it’s the printer, cups, flatpacks, the app that’s printing, or all of the above.

Now I just email myself a PDF and print from my phone. Fucking stupid but it works.

Do state cases stay state cases?

Could “someone” leak some evidence that would make the case a federal one, and then pardon himself?

The host was stable. And I was compiling the kernel for hardware and vfio reasons anyway, so why not compile everything and it’s not like there was a lot to compile.

Tips: don’t

Performance was ok. Lots of fiddling required on both host and guest to get performance close to native.

I used to have Gentoo running a Libvirt hypervisor, which would then run multiple short lived isolated windows and Linux machines with GPU passthrough for all the different companies and projects I was working on.

Spent far too much time keeping the guest machine images up to date, and all the configs and stuff managed and synchronised.

Then my laptop died that I was using to manage everything so I gave up.

A splash of milk (probably any dairy?) in stews and meat based sauces just before serving.

Providing it has tabs, I’ll use it.

Pros:

• not as big as the UK plug
• not an American plug
• those power cords that stick out at a diagonal parallel to the wall

Cons:

• no inbuilt fuses
• no inbuilt guard on the socket
• every plug and socket feels cheap.
• thin shitty pins that bend easily
• shitty sockets that break when shitty bent pins get plugged into them.
• used by a handful of people with tight regulations … and China. Good luck getting decent affordable, certified, smarthome sockets.
• that cunt who invented the vertically oriented twin socket wall unit. What a fuckhead.
• those power cords that stick out perpendicular to the wall.

You’re conflating copackers with brands.

Store brands will go to the same copackers, truth. But the copacker will not just make a premium brand product for a store brand at a lower cost. It will be a recipe made to a taste/price spec. Maybe all the ingredients are sourced from the same place, but the recipe will be different.

What can be nearly identical are branding tiers. Large companies like Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble etc will sometimes have multiple “competing” brands in the same market, all made in the same factory.

We had the same. And you would have thought for a heavily regulated industry we’d keep it that way.

But no, some executive wonk from Microsoft flew over, gave our c-suite a “it’s safe, promise” chat over champagne and lobster, and now we’re happily using copilot.

Most foods. Store brands are (nearly) always lacking in something. Be it tiny sized canned beans, or jam whose only flavour is ‘sweet’. That shit is cheap for a reason.

Doesn’t apply to everything (depending on where you live), some things you can’t cut corners on without advertising it. 2% Milk is 2% milk.

But largely, low cost food has been made low cost via haircuts and shortcuts.

The Kirklands one is good, but doesn’t hold an emulsion. And trying to stir a 3000 litre tub of “hazelnut spread” to re-emulsify it isn’t on my list of desirable morning activities.

And it’s probably fucking cheaper than exactly the same thing in New Zealand.

Absolutely fucking awful. I’ve had issues with every one I’ve used.

Been trying to move to silverblue/ublue/sericia.

Firefox comes out of the box as both a system package and a flatpak. The flatpak does WebGL stuff fine, but video is broken; the system package does video, but webgl is broken.

Boxes was the first app I had needed to open a file with, and every time I need to, I have to restart some systemd portal service first. And there’s no guest to host audio.

I always had this problem with Inkscape on standard fedora where the icons on the layers menu would be corrupted. Wasn’t so on my first use of it with flatpak. Great! But subsequent runs the issue returned.

Discord worked fine for a few weeks. Then it started crashing on launch. A bit of googling and installing an old MESA platform flatpak had the problem resolved… for a day.

The only flatpak that has worked without a hitch has been Spotify.

Everything is so different, I have no idea how to debug this shit. And even then, I’m not 15 with unlimited time and zero dollars any more. I don’t have the time to spend 5 hours working out why my image editors icons are wrong.

Having a one-stop distribution-agnostic repository where it’s easy to install software devops-style is a win. (Setting up custom repos, or installing the latest rpm every week (looking at you discord) can be a pain). Buuut I’m not convinced.

Nice!

Now I’ve just got to work out why mine has suddenly started crashing on startup with GPU errors.