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We have to use the ones that cost 8x more than regular ones and are certified by something that our industry approves.

> It wasn’t a “help me!!!111!” site, it was an exchange.

That's exactly what it turned into, though.

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/320536/what-is-the-...

I'm going to guess Best Buy's health insurance (for retail employees) is terrible.

There are a couple versions of the Windows CD player here (along with other operating systems)

https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/cdplayer/

I always liked the look of the more complicated ones like this:

https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/2021-09-29-media-rack-download-win...

If it were up to me, I'd drop Dell just because of the hoops they make you go through to get service on a server.

They want you to diagnose the issue, and to be the remote hands. Shuffling around DIMMs and drives and re-seating cables and all kinds of crap. Just send someone to out fix the damn thing like HPE does.

I've used some great AI support agents/bots, whatever they're called. An example of a great one is Lemonade (the insurance company).

Most of the others are terrible. I'll pick on Dell for this next one. Their website in general, is terrible. Why would their support agent be any better?

We purchased a switch from Dell, that cost more than my SUV. Having a hardware issue with it, can't remember if it was fans or a power supply or what. It needs someone to come out and repair it, and we have the big fancy service plan.

There's no way to find the switch on the Dell support website. It's not listed anywhere.

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/products/networking_...

You can't actually contact support, you have to identify your device, and then you get options from there.

https://www.dell.com/support/incidents-online/en-us/contactu...

However, this product doesn't have a service tag, or express service code, so you can't do that.

So you try to use the 'Virtual Assistant', who has no idea what you're trying to tell it, no matter which way you try. They link to a contact page but you just end up getting looped back around. There is no useful information to be extracted from this dumb thing.

I finally found a phone number on the website, and was connected to a woman who sounded like she was smoking cigarettes in a basement somewhere in Alabama. She looked through her notes on the computer, and found out for this particular switch I need to go through the OEM manufacturer. I was relieved to have gotten useful information.

I'm surprised domestic groups have not hit the US datacenters yet

Do you still have to download things called GNOME Hacks to change things that should have regularly accessible settings?

I thought this would be focused on the parents coming in to assault the teachers.

I hate to be that guy, but computer prices, even Apple machines, are still so cheap.

My first 'modern' Mac was the 13" 2010 MacBook Pro, and it was $1299. The current Air is $1299. Inflation be damned.

Let's not even go back in time and look at what the PowerBook G4 or PowerBook 5300c cost...

So many parallels with Angry Birds.

Appeals to all groups, released on every platform. Then come the sequels, special editions (like Christmas Lemmings), and then it just kind of faded away.

Lemmings just didn't get a movie and merchandising.

They'll be right back in two years

I started buying some this year when Slickdeals would post something, whether it was from Amazon or closeouts at the auto parts stores. Even grabbed some $18 Walmart Supertech.

2018+ Ford Mustang V8 for one.

GM V8's take 8 quarts

Kind of an odd viscosity unless you have classic cars or live in a hot climate

Write the program, punch the cards, send the cards to another building to be loaded, program runs, printout comes out in another building, somehow this takes 2-3 days

> But no, let's in fact choose the stupidest possible way of doing it — by rendering everything as HTML commit by commit and then parsing it.

I feel like I'm at work.

We had some web crawler using Selenium to make queries and scrape the data instead of just downloading the whole file.

Every day it seems like we have some people that know just enough to be dangerous creating things like that. And then of course it's our fault that things are slow, or we won't give them infinite system resources, etc

It seemed like there were numerous versions of this, but LifeGenesis from Microsoft entertainment Pack was the one I remember playing the most

https://games.zerker.ca/GameDetails/LifeGenesis_Windows%203....

I took a picture of my keychain tag, set the date of it to my membership expiration date, and then scan that picture my phone when I go in

Meanwhile we're having neighborhood groups protest running fiber through neighborhoods, calling police on the workers, removing untility marking flags in yards...

I wish the Teams emoji/reaction popup would not come up so often.

I have to intention place my mouse cursor somewhere that won't trigger it. I don't need to react to every message. I'd rather be able to read them without something blocking them.

It makes sense to have them connected for a lot of reasons.

Does that $10k server not need RAM?

> We have since added more than 3 million CPU cores, 120 petabytes of high-speed storage, and significant network capacity. We installed as much hardware as available power allowed in our existing data centers while accelerating our migration to Azure.

That can't be cheap.

One of the earlier releases (when they would send you free CD's) got flack for people in their underwear

https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-turns-20-shaping-the...

For those who have not seen one in action:

https://youtube.com/shorts/HzCCsZB4jKg?is=377XKg7gUXfMHzA2