That's where I'm thinking there has to be better software out there for managing photos that isn't Windows explorer. I use Bynder at work and it's great for tagging and grouping assets in a collection.
Then you stick everything on the Beestation so you can actually show it to people instead of just letting them sit on the hard drive
After another session I think there's a real need to help old people with better photo storage. They all have photos on external hard drives and use Windows explorer to sort through them.
It's really apparent how terrible Windows explorer is when you see less computer literate people use it. So many UI elements are small or hidden, and commonly used functions, like going back or up a folder in the directory, aren't clearly telegraphed.
A NAS would be perfect for these people, but it can't be too complicated. A set up once black box would be perfect. I did some looking and the Synology Beelink may be exactly what these people need. I may need to get one to check it out
The closest they have is complaining about predatory game design. I'm sure a lot of the neckbeards would be alright with the sexual harassment that happens at Ubi
After telling myself I'd have an early night, I ended up making a breakthrough on website styles. So instead of staying up trying to figure out how to change a button, I was up doing all this formatting work I'd been stuck on for the first half of the week.
It has been. I think between Wordpress and Woocommerce they're trying to expand what you can do through visual editors, but there are still some problems.
I figured it out though, and I figured out how to do it with a live preview all through Inspect Element on the site. If anything, having limited editing and styling options was a distraction because I was trying to do it through there instead of just making custom CSS
I finally got some formatting on the online store working how I want it. Why doesn't the Proceed To Cart and Checkout buttons inherit from the regular button style, and why can't you change them in an editor if that's the case?
It was out of the box Windows 10. It seemed like a mid-tier laptop for the time, I can't remember brand. These people probably just go to JB Hi-Fi and buy a $500 laptop when they're on sale so I haven't seen anything too exotic in my support sessions so far
That's what's so weird. This laptop isn't ancient but it couldn't find anything. The older laptop looked like it was from 2009 and was connected to the internet
It worked in this case. But it was so weird with this laptop, it wasn't picking up any wifi networks. They had an ancient laptop at home as well and that one was connected to the wifi there. I was even able to connect the printer to the wifi via WPS. This laptop was picking up nothing. I was ready to drive down to the nearest Jaycar and pick up an ethernet cable.
I think I assume to much of a tech competence baseline in these sessions. At first I was worried they wouldn't be able to login to the laptop because they bought it a while ago specifically to scan photos and hadn't touched it in years. I should ask people to have their diaries with their passwords handy, make sure they can login to the devices and accounts they want to work on, and I should bring a couple of common cables just to make sure as well.
I got very lucky with my tech support session yesterday. I just had to set up a scanner, which could have been simple enough, but the laptop wasn't connected to wifi, nor was it picking up the hotspot from my phone.
Fortunately, the laptop was old enough to still have a disc drive. So I was able to install the drivers from the disc that came with it instead.
My boys have ridiculously high amounts of their fees subsidised, like 96 and 98%. At that point I wonder why the childcare centre is operating as a middleman and the government isn't looking after my kids directly.
Childcare is heavily subsidised so you're pretty much getting free money from the government if you operate one. The parent company of a lot of childcare centres are private equity firms you've never heard of so they strip everything out of them and try to run the centres with as few expenses as possible.
It's more insidious than it looks too. A lot of centres that look independent are part of a larger chain. They either give them different names or don't change their names after acquisition so they seem small. There are two childcare centres across the road from each other in Epping with different names, but are owned by the same parent company.
That's where I'm thinking there has to be better software out there for managing photos that isn't Windows explorer. I use Bynder at work and it's great for tagging and grouping assets in a collection.
Then you stick everything on the Beestation so you can actually show it to people instead of just letting them sit on the hard drive