Posts by NotJustAStorageDude

AI skills shortage more than doubles for UK tech leaders

Re: Cognitive dissonance here

This times a thousand.

Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month

The final nudge to move to desktop Linux

There’s a certain inconvenience to moving away from MS, however this is the straw that has broken this camels back. Just experienced it today on a time sensitive job and it’s so maddening and rage inducing…

Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom

SAP to Private Cloud is my thing

..and it’s incredible how evenly split the market is with loads of punters deciding to stay on prem maybe influenced by the “one last refresh” mantra the traditional vendors are incentivising their sellers to push, loads of punters moving to RISE, and loads moving to cloud and managing it themselves. SAP make all the cash with RISE, so GSI’s and vendors want to remain self-managed/on-prem/private for as long as possible. Cloud vendors want the workloads however the punter will consume them, but sales teams are now competing on ann infrastructure vs saas basis so there’s some deals to be had!

Microsoft sends Windows Control Panel to tech graveyard

Win 11 time sink

I’ve setup 3 Win 11 laptops over the past couple of weeks and it gets harder every time.

1/ left align task bar nonsense

2/ turn off intrusive task bar nonsense copilot search blah

3/ yes show me the name of the window or whatever setting it’s called now

4/ err I have to search the web again to remember how to turn on hibernate.. oh yeah install Firefox to get rid of the abomination that is edge now do it in 2 places

5/ about 15 update reboots later

6/ remember startallback to actually make the start useful.

7/ err how the f do I change the power settings

8/ vow to buy a Mac next time when we can get rid of that last x86 application…

9/ look up price of a useable Mac and remember why I still suffer the pain of thinkpad/windows

10/ promise I’ll work out how to script the above as I have to do it every time

11/ thinks maybe this year I’ll move to Ubuntu

12/ forgets until next time.

Etc

There are enough lazy people like me who will end up walking into a monthly sub for windows :/

Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago

Add rtc to pi

I use a couple of pi 4s for pihole, Plex, print servers for things windoze no longer likes... usual Linux stuff. I added a seeed rtc module to use one as a local ntp server. (Pi5 has rtc built in?)

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

Re: Great idea, but,,,

I’d love a QL style mech keyboard ;-)

Ubuntu Advantage is being wired deeper into the distro

With this level of telemetry it’s finally a windows replacement!

Ubuntu used to be great to spin up get a job done; guess they have to monetise somehow but time to find another go-to distri.

Although per title with this creeping telemetry it’s perhaps finally a windows replacement ;)

What goes up must come down: Logitech sales tumble amid PC slump

Terrible software means I’ll skip logi (tech) next time

I like my g810 keyboard, my 915 keyboard, and my mx something or other mouse. The “gaming” software is terrible and I don’t bother installing it anymore which kinda bastardises the kit. The “pro desktop” software isn’t much better. Good-ish kit ruined by terrible software :/

This is the end, Windows 7 and 8 friends: Microsoft drops support this week

2023 is the year of the Linux desktop /s

Ahh Windows 11… actually it’s pretty good, but a shame it only supports TPM2 systems as lots of old kit would run it perfectly well.

The only real challenge I have with ‘11 is the combine taskbar tabs in to a single item, and I have to use 3rd party software to unmangle them.

Windows is the family productivity platform, appletvs the entertainment platform, and a couple of raspberry pis doing some networky vpny stuff (arr me hearties); I’d love to replace my desktops and media players with Linux but even with a bit of experience it’s too hard to choose a distro as the design changes between major revisions are even more puzzling than those that Redmond impose on us… and if you can’t just do Netflix or prime straight out of the box sometimes convenience outweighs the urge to wear my FOSS sandals and white socks.

So.. the boy got a new gaming laptop, wifey gets a new iPad and I got a steamdeck. Only one of us needs to worry about Win11 now!

Do not try this at home: Man spends $5,000 on a 48TB Raspberry Pi storage server

Re: A real engineer..

This.

Had a decent size ssd kicking around and added it to a Pi4, makes a great little home server and gets sustainable 90MB/s for large file copies; add Plex, Pihole.. then add another pi for resilience as a second internal dns.. and cross replicate.. and you’ve got a datacentre in a box that even a 9 year old can set up; which 15 years ago would have cost £1million. I’m really looking forward to what we’ll be able to achieve with £200 of hardware in another 15 years!

Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones

Re: we’ll be able to help people reminisce about the devices they’ve had over the years

Ahh yes, a friend in Bristol had a brand new Nokia 7110 to show off to the ladies... An "unknown person" (ahem) managed to disconnect the spring, mic and retaining clips so when he answered it the sliding cover just fell off. Smooth operator. (I had a terrible Sony J5)

It wasn't just a few credit cards: Entire travel itineraries were stolen by hackers, Easyjet now tells victims

At least it makes your refund easier

..for the flight that they instantly charged you for but will take 90 days to refund following cancellation.

..as you can tell the credit card company that your booking must have been fraudulent as they shared your details with others!