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  • Microsoft Outlook servers down, reports say

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  • Saw this in our all IT Teams chat today with people complaining. I just laughed and said oh well that's what you get when you moved from on prem to cloud. At least it was a Saturday, although I think that was by design since it appeared to be due to a change they implemented and reversed so that makes sense.

    We recently had a huge outage almost a month ago with RingCentral as well. Our entire call center was down for almost 8 hours due to that crazy outage. I have been with this company 19 years and it was Avaya on prem and never had a single outage, last year we moved to RingCentral and boom less than a year later that happened. The funny thing is they also said they never had that happen that bad ever before either. Thankfully our VP has been around the block and knew to tell the company when we shifted to cloud that we needed to lower our expectations from what we previously had because there's no way you will have 100% uptime with a cloud solution. 8 hours was never expected, though, lol.

  • Your Boss Wants You Back in the Office. This Surveillance Tech Could Be Waiting for You

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  • Thankfully the place i work for is just a wannabe and has to weigh financial decisions like this and thankfully always gets denied. I always find it funny when this stuff is brought up because it takes a lot of distrust and bad decisions to think spending a small fortune to watch your employees is going to make them work harder and increase productivity. Like, even if that was somewhat true, which it isn't for many reasons, you spent a ton of money on a system that will probably take away any increase in profits anyway. The only people who win here are the companies paid to install and setup the equipment.

  • Dudes

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  • I wanna know if he was allowed to say 1 of each would you go full left, full right, or 1 from each side. I would also imagine the arm side would absolutely have to be the non dominant one.

  • How often do you run backups on your system?

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  • I honestly don't have too much to back up, so I run one full backup job every Sunday for different directories I care about. They run a check on the directory and only back up any changes or new files. I don't have the space to backup everything, so I only take the smaller stuff and most important. The backup software also allows live monitoring if I enable it, so some of my jobs I have that turned on since I didn't see any reason not to. I reuse the NAS drives that report errors that I replace with new ones to save on money. So far, so good.

    Backup software is Bvckup2, and reddit was a huge fan of it years ago, so I gave it a try. It was super cheap for a lifetime license at the time, and it's super lightweight. Sorry, there is no Linux version.

  • NYT Chewy Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

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  • Think I found it.

    Yield:24 squares (one 9-by-13-inch pan)

     
            ¾cup/170 grams unsalted butter (1½ sticks)
    Nonstick cooking spray or neutral oil
    1¾cups/385 grams packed light brown sugar
    ¾cup/170 grams canned pumpkin purée (not pumpkin pie filling)
    2teaspoons vanilla extract
    2½cups/320 grams all-purpose flour
    2teaspoons ground cinnamon
    1teaspoon baking powder
    1teaspoon baking soda
    1teaspoon kosher salt (such as Diamond Crystal)
    1teaspoon ground ginger
    ¼teaspoon ground cloves
    ¼teaspoon ground nutmeg
    1½cups/9 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chips

    Step 1

    In a small (preferably light-colored) saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Continue cooking, stirring constantly to prevent the milk solids from burning, until the butter foams, darkens into a light amber color and becomes fragrant and nutty, about 3 to 4 minutes more. (Watch closely to make sure the butter doesn't burn.) Immediately pour the butter along with any of the browned milk solids into a large heatproof mixing bowl. Let cool for 20 minutes until warm but no longer hot.

    Step 2

    While the butter cools, heat the oven to 325 degrees. Grease a 9-by-13-inch metal or glass baking pan with cooking spray or oil and line with a strip of parchment paper that hangs over the two long sides to create a sling.

    Step 3

    Add the brown sugar, pumpkin purée and vanilla extract to the cooled butter and whisk until smooth and glossy. Add the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ginger, cloves and nutmeg and stir with a spatula just until a soft dough forms with no pockets of unincorporated flour. (Try not to overmix.) Add 1¼ cups/216 grams of the chocolate chips and stir to evenly distribute throughout the dough.

    Step 4

    Transfer the dough to the prepared baking pan and press into an even layer using a spatula or clean hands coated with nonstick spray or oil. Sprinkle the top with the remaining chocolate chips, pressing them in so they stick. Bake until the bars are puffed, the top is lightly browned and a skewer or knife inserted into the center comes out clean with just a few moist crumbs attached or with smudges of melted chocolate, 30 to 45 minutes.

    Step 5

    Let the bars cool in the pan on a wire rack for at least 1 hour. Using the parchment paper, lift the bars out of the pan and cut into 24 squares. The cookie bars will keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.

  • Trailer Life

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  • Not everyone has to strive to be the best to be happy?

  • Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again

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  • Wow, I for one, can't wait until we have peak content like this over here.

  • Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs

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  • It hasn't even been an entire month yet...

  • Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction"

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  • Absolutely, I don't disagree with your statement at all. I work heavily in systems administration and recently transitioned to networking. I deal with Linux systems, servers, vm's, Azure daily, and for stability nothing beats Linux. I just tend to agree with the statement above commenting on how you always see these Windows articles, yet almost none actually affect you in the end.

  • Microsoft gives up on users experiencing problems updating their Windows 11 machines. Now recommends a "manual correction"

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  • It's been the same on win 11. The only experience i have had was at work. I work closely with the updating team, and there have been a few times where things would break like printers, and we would revert the updates to stop it from going to everyone and uninstall. Sometimes, that meant a help desk guy had to go to the pc or remote in to do it manually. I've been there 19 years now, and it's happened twice?

  • Is it possible for a US citizen to open up a bank account in a foreign country and transfer money to it from within the US?

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  • I would say yes just because it's asked every year I do my taxes. I'm pretty sure you have to report it when you do this, but I am not sure if it's just as information or to tax you some more. I never had to say yes to find out.

  • How do you keep up?

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  • I learned this the hard way as well... I did a big OS update on mine once and it broke almost every application running on it. Docker worked perfectly still. I transferred everything I could to Docker after that.

  • Is catbox down?

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  • Thank you! I use Quad9 and have noticed these links stopped working about a week or 2 ago. The problem was I redid my network at that time and kept thinking it was something on my end. I have a firewall with recursive DNS setup and I was able to add my own entry for it, but I'm guessing the IP changes because it only lasted a few days. Now that I know why I'll see what else I can do since I do enjoy Quad9 otherwise.

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  • Definitely not... I was pointing out how the raising of both cable and subscription services led me specifically to find alternative cheaper services to go to. Because they keep rising them so aggressively, it's super noticeable and a kick in the face. Obviously, my situation isn't the same as others where I was already spending too much due to live tv, so figuring out how to get it as low as I can now felt like an accomplishment for me and a wake up call. I hope, just like everyone else here, that rising prices hurts them, but I really have my doubts seeing the stats that show otherwise.

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  • Started with cable and paid about $120 excluding the internet. Ditched that like 5 years ago, but my wife really wanted live tv. We went with Hulu live, and I wanna say it was like $40 fully loaded with unlimited screens and no ads. Then it went up and up and up. I think 1 year it went up twice. By the end, after ditching the no ads and unlimited screens, it was still $85 a month... just ditched all that last August and convinced my wife to ditch all cable except for 1. We now use Peacock with teacher discount for the live tv. She likes the news, some sports, the Olympics, and SNL, which is about the only things she watches live. It comes with other stuff as well, so for $9 a month, it was an incredible deal. We opted to also get Netflix with ads since we were saving so much anyway, which is about $8 i think, and paid for 1 additional year of hulu at $80. With all 3 theres not much thats missing honestly. We never use Hulu anymore, but occasionally she tells me a show we dont get and find out most of the time its on Hulu. We will probably cut it once the year is up as well. They keep rising the costs, and we keep consolidating. I love that after all that we somehow got everything, and for the lowest cost it's ever been at just under $20 a month. I host my own music, so we never cared about stuff like spotify.

  • Microsoft's shady practicies of Office 365 subscription tiers

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  • I got my Windows 11 key and office key from here:

    https://shop.lifehacker.com/sales/microsoft-office-professional-2021-for-windows-lifetime-license-5

    There may be better places but the prices were better than I expected so I tried it. Site was fine, and both licenses worked perfectly. I think i saw get another 15% offer if your a new user so don't forget to sign up at the bottom to get more off your first purchase. I actually see office 2024 as well now and it's a bit much at $160, but from what I see Amazon and newegg are selling it for $250. I would still wait, I honestly have no idea what new stuff they ever add that is useful to me anymore, 2021 is probably fine for $100 less.

  • Microsoft's shady practicies of Office 365 subscription tiers

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  • I know people mentioned the free alternatives, but if the subscription is really just for office, then why not buy a license to a non web based office version? They do still make them, as much as they want to remove them completely. You can even get them heavily discounted off 3rd party sites. I got my copy of 2019 for like $20 a year before it went EOL and I'm still using it because I really don't have the highest use for it. If you want office 2021, which is good with support until end of 2026, it's about $50 right now but I see them go lower all the time and can probably get it for $30. This is the pro version as well. Sadly I don't see office 2024 for sale yet on my site but I guarantee it will be a year from now.

  • NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5080 Comes Out Noticeably Slower Than RTX 4090, Gets Tested in Time Spy & Geekbench

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  • They could just buy 40's now? They are probably a little cheaper now as well?

  • I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too

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  • I just saw this article last week! I love RSS feeds and set up a bunch through my work email outlook client. They been there since like 2010 (yes I still have the same job...) and I barely touch them these days due to time, and some sites died, but it's still the quickest way to catch up on the news you want. Wherever I saw this posted last I saw a recommend for FeedFlow and have been messing with that phone app to try and make some ultimate new feed for myself.