The bar is pretty low these days. I’ll accept it.

Its now at 220k… I get its for a charity, but wow. It’s always crazy how much dumb money people have sometimes. 220k would be life changing for me…

I got mine way back when they were discounted to $5 bucks. I used it like once and wasn’t a fan. Plus, back then, I didn’t really play too many pc games. Funny enough, my friend texted me a few days ago and told me the controllers are becoming goldmines online now selling for $150-$200. It makes me want to find mine and sell it. I even have the box it came in still somewhere.

It’s not. Information is secure at rest and encrypted during transfer, but once it reaches the part where it is sent over voip using a telecom provider, it has the same issues as it always did. We use it because its the best way to send this many faxes, as well as automate things using our internal applications to send faxes through it as well as other applications that we leverage its API to use the service. One advantage that makes it semi more secure is if we send a fax to another client that also uses the same service as we are then then it’s actually a secure stream for the entire path.

As someone who directly manages faxing in the company i work for, yup! In Healthcare and we send out results to doctors and hospitals through faxing all day every day. We have mostly converted to electronic fax. We still control the servers on prem but the account is linked to a cloud solution so all the faxes are created with the servers and instead of using our own telephony solution like we used to, we send directly over internet to the provider who then sends out to the clients at the last leg. Hundreds of thousands of pages every month. From my understanding, it’s still the easiest solution to get away with not having to implement some new system that will be subjected to audits. Faxes are accepted, and little is required to show for compliance.

Yeah, and its most likely only due to them killing Windows 10 in the fall, which means a lot of companies have been working hard this year to replace a ton of computers before October. Anyone who has been down this road with 7 to 10 knows it will just cost more money if you need to continue support after that. They sell you a new license thats good for a year that will allow updates to continue. It doubles in cost every year after.

Funny enough, I had the complete opposite experience. I didn’t necessarily use Samsung then either, but I would get the phone that was normally rated the best or highly reviewed. I think i came from an LG to the first pixel phone. Pixel was the first phone to ever give me issues. Felt it vibrate one day in my pocket and I looked at it a few min later and it was in permanent boot loop. Tried a lot of things, but my one regret was forgetting to turn on developer options with the usb so essentially the phone was bricked. I couldn’t access it or do anything, everytbing was lost and support was no help and told me they couldn’t replace it. Last time I used them. I also wasn’t a fan of how hard they tried copying an iPhone at the time. Since them I’ve mostly used a Samsung either the Note and now the higher end galaxies and love them. Only thing I dislike is their own line of apps for everything that I disable immediately.

I have one of the pro’s from a few years ago and I am just finding out now that they have software. Thanks, i will look later.

Thankfully, nothing like that has happened here, but we have a break glass account that only 2 people know of, and it’s locked in a safe. Also, my place has gotten so good at firing people they know how and when to do it to minimize risk. Like end of day when they are all packed up, and if its a really high up person, top admins are contacted prior and held on standby to disable everything as soon as the word is given. This includes admins. If they are remote, they will normally lock them out of the laptop first and make sure access is gone before letting them know.

My wife has that option as well. It takes 10% out of each paycheck, and she gets 1 additional check in the summer months of the money that was withheld. We are terrible with money, so doing that is a must, but I do wish we could just set that up ourselves instead of allowing them to hold that money.

It’s true, but not always fun or paid. Depends on the contract. A non tenured teacher can be let go at the end of the school year, and they normally let them know if they are coming back before leaving for the summer. They are then allowed to collect unemployment for the summer, but i am not sure if this applies to every state. If you are tenured, you do not lose unemployment status, but you are also not paid for the summer months either. You either set aside the money from the year yourself or use the program they offer that takes 10% out of each paycheck, and they deposit it once per month you are off.

I think the saddest part is that we all thought the same thing. Minus the part of thinking about it, though. Thanks for letting us know!

What are you going to do after all this is over, and it’s either even harder to get or just completely gone? Im sorry you have to go through any of this…

Sadly, it may not be an option for a lot of people, but on the fortinet firewall you can make policies and set up geoblocking.

Synology with Emby (do not use the connect service they offer) running behind my fortinet firewall. DDNS with my own domain name and ssl cert. Open 1 custom port (not 443) for it, and that’s it. Geoblock every country but my own, which basically eliminated all random traffic that was hitting hit. I’ve been running it this way for 5 years now and have no issues to report.

Nintendo: What! If we got better screens you would be complaining thst it cost even more!

As everyone has pointed out, people and content. Its good in some ways since not every post is drowned out with one thousand replies nobody will ever see, but at the same time, you’re not getting much of anything at all sometimes. Not even very niche ones either. Even groups that represent entire states has limited info or replies still. If it can grow to that size and see some more unique and local content more I think even that would be a much better place for it to be.

Yeah, it’s the one I was leaning towards. I liked what I saw, but I want to try it out first before diving in. I like that it offers up the newest updates first. I just had issues with getting it spun up as a vm and all I get is a black screen after it installs. I don’t seem to be the only one with that issue so I’ll have to think of another way to test.

I was already looking around. I work in IT, so I am not completely oblivious to using Linux or how it works. I tested a few out a long time ago, and we have a few systems in production at work. I was going to try out Mint, Elementary, Pop, and KDE Neon before deciding. So far I got Mint spun up as a VM and played around a little. KDE Neon just gave me a black screen after it installed, which stinks because it was the one I was leaning towards the most. I haven’t gotten to the other 2 yet.

Yup, I finally may be trying out some Linux versions soon to find one to switch to… I have always been whatever about what Microsoft does, and it’s always been simple enough to fight back and stop whatever crap I never wanted. This announcement just feels like there’s no way it will stop, and it’s becoming way more frequent. I hate AI, and im tired of it being shoved in my face or running my services.

I find it funny to see all the stuff they try to add or do and really wonder if they came out with windows 12 in 2 flavors, 1 being a continuation of what it is now, and 2nd being a completely stripped down version that offers nothing but the OS with nothing else in the background running or spying and no apps built in which one would sell more. The funny thing is they would probably charge you way more for the stripped-down version, and it would still probably sell more.