pedz @ pedz @lemmy.ca

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Why is everyone saying it's Trump? Isn't Stephen Miller the one pushing for all this?

At some point I was trying to coordinate a situation with someone from our client using the Teams of my organization. It worked for a while before being blocked by Teams, because we were in a different organization.

I'm sure it was a configuration issue, but I am not an admin for MS shit, had hundreds of calls, needed to communicate with my clients, and was blocked by that crap.

I may have swore a bit.

My previous job was tech support for multiple companies. One of our clients was using Salesforce. Another client used Jira.

A handful of clients were using their own Teams to which I had to connect or run using Citrix and Pulse Secure/Ivanti. Sometimes I had to juggle between three or four Teams.

I'm so glad I quit. I can only hope my next employer won't use Teams, but I won't hold my breath.

When I started a new job in IT around 2009, I learned that AS400 / iSeries / IBM i was a thing, and it's still doing pretty well with big retail and the insurance business.

In the same vein, the system used by the aviation industry to book flights is also quite ancient but still very much used to this day.

Yes, green means go!11! Even there's an old lady that just didn't finish crossing yet, she just had to do it in the few seconds allowed.

My favorite one is people honking at other drivers for not blocking an intersection because "it's green!". I don't know the term in English but in French it's a mix of intersection and blocage. Like, if the light is green but there is no space to advance because of gridlock, some apparently like to make it worse by advancing their car in an intersection and sit there while it turns red, and thus blocking the intersection. BuT It WaS GreEn!

Not in Canada and I believe also not in the US. The yellow only comes before red, not before green.

Here it's red, green, yellow, red, green, yellow...

Just wanted to add that maybe the last thing that we did for the environment and that really worked was for acid rain in 1991. At least where I live.

A few years before that there was the Montreal Protocol that banned CFCs and helped to heal the hole in the ozone layer. I think.

But yeah, I don't remember anything of the sort recently,

Your optimism can only be admired. However the US has already stated multiple times that it doesn't care about international law and that Americans cannot be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity, or they will invade the Netherlands. The ICC cannot even detain an American. This was during W Bush and his "war on terror".

And then Trump recently reiterated it with a new executive order, imposing penalties and visa restrictions on people even helping the ICC to investigate Americans.

This reminds me of the death penalty. Killing someone because that person killed is still killing someone.

However society choses to do it, it's still killing someone. Because killing is bad so if you kill, someone will kill you. Oh no, it's not a murder. It's a state employee that works in the correction department. Killers are not okay. The executioner is only applying the lethal will of society towards killers by unaliving them. It's not murder, it's justice!

But it was maybe a few months old at best. Maybe it had a defective battery from the start but I contacted Xiaomi and I've been told it was "normal" in "winter". Then when I looked online for this issue with Xiaomi phones, the people on the forums said it was "normal", and that I expected too much.

In the end it was probably a defective battery. I couldn't believe that they were selling millions of these and that people always just kept them warm all the time. Like, they have a proper winter too in some parts of China, and I can't imagine millions of people having their phone dying on them as soon as we get into sweater weather.

But obviously this left a bad taste in my mouth. This and having to ask permission to root my phone.

I decided not to buy another Xiaomi phone when the one I previously had would turn off when it was a bit mildly cool outside.

Like, I would take it out of my pocket to look at bus schedules but it would turn off after a few seconds of being exposed to 5°C, saying the battery was dead. Another time I had it attached to my bike handlebar and it kept turning off because apparently 13°C with the wind was also too chilly. Every time that fucking Xiaomi phone was feeling a bit chill, the battery would just die. And not even in freezing temps!

I looked online and everone of the fanboys on the forums kept saying that this is normal, battery performance degrades in winter, that iPhones do the same, and apparently all other phones do the same. In short, I had unreasonable expectations.

Yet, all my other phones' batteries didn't die within seconds of taking them out of my pocket, even in winter.

So, I don't have to bother with their names anymore.

Por que no los dos?

There's already milk in the ingredients so adding some must be acceptable.

But since we mention Doritos, it's one of the things that I noticed how fast it got expensive. They nearly doubled in price since the pandemic.

Like, where I live a bag was around $3.49 a few years ago and now they charge $5.49, for a single bag! I was buying a bag once in a while but since it crossed the $5 mark, I leave them on the shelves.

How many times has he "completely lost it" recently? He's always been insane. Insanely stupid in fact. Nothing new here.

Yet, when we read the headlines, every few days or weeks, he "completely loses it".

If he were throwing grass in the air, eat dirt, or speak in tongues, maybe it would be worth the completely lost it title. Otherwise, it gets old after a few times.

It's interesting to see how this strategy changes depending on the species.

Some birds will fake being injured to lure predators away from their chicks, and others will attack anything coming too close.

Aside from the sad news, as a Montrealer, the title confused me.

When I hear about the North Shore it's usually to describe the north of Montreal, as opposed to the south. I thought the title was lacking precision.

Then I read the article, saw Natashquan, and realized 'North Shore' in this context is about Côte-Nord (North COAST).

I didn't know it could be translated to 'North Shore'.

I was using E16 years ago and liked it but eventually switched to Gnome (2, I think), after waiting for E17 for too long.

What made me quit was the wait. All the other DEs at the time were releasing new versions frequently but Enlightenment took forever.

I was working as a level 1 tech for a consulting company. I had to take calls and monitor the systems.

We had a ticketing system in place where we received alerts and various alarms in there. But because some of my coworkers didn't do anything with these and some systems (and clients) suffered from this, people in management thought it would be a marvelous idea to have those alerts and alarms make a notification in Teams.

So when some random location lost internet for a few minutes, we sometimes had hundreds of Teams notifications.

I quit last month. I couldn't take it any longer.

I hated school because there was a bunch of kids mocking and laughing at me for most of it.

I guess some popular kids had good times by pulling my pants down or constantly hitting my chair during class. They must reminisce and miss those times, when they were laughing with their peers.

That must be why Google’s greenhouse emissions went up 50% in five years. ChatGPT's legendary efficiency.

Keep defending those power wasting glorified autocomplete. In no way are we doomed as a species.

We can just continue tu pump more and more into the air. "AI" will surely find a solution for that anyway.