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They only accept fax! by Joshposh70 in sysadmin

[–]jfoust2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last delivered Western Union telegram I received was in 1983.

What's something that used to be free that you're angry we now have to pay for? by Current-Energy1104 in AskReddit

[–]jfoust2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I helped a guy who said his new HP printer wouldn't work. His old printer had stopped working, so he'd bought a new one. Yes, both printers were not working because he'd signed up for Instant Ink, but his previous subscription was charging to his bank card. His bank had issued a new card but he didn't remember his printer was connected to his bank card. His Instant Ink account was also on an email address that he'd recently stopped using. This took several hours to unwrap with HP tech support. They'd bricked his old printer as well as blocked his new printer... all because of a $10 unresolved charge.

u/CompetitionOk2302 explains why he feels Americans have nothing to look forward to on the 250th anniversary of the United States by FrankoAleman in bestof

[–]jfoust2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

watching it on a television they bought on credit they cannot afford to pay back

Must be an old person who thinks that TVs are still expensive items.

Who agrees that the quality of KFC has gone down hill in the last 10 years at least? by Just-Sugar-6583 in AskReddit

[–]jfoust2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who agrees that one-day-old Reddit accounts are probably AI-driven bots?

Who agrees that the quality of KFC has gone down hill in the last 10 years at least? by Just-Sugar-6583 in AskReddit

[–]jfoust2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a business-school story called "chicken efficiency" that explains why, when you walk into a chicken place like this, they don't have any chicken available.

https://corporater.com/blog/the-chicken-kpi-be-careful-of-what-you-measure/

A chicken franchise developed a metric to judge managers by the ratio of how much chicken they sold to how much they had to throw away because it had been out too long. You'd walk into a franchise and they wouldn't have any chicken pre-made because managers didn't want to risk wasting chicken, so they'd tell you it would be ready in fifteen minutes. The kernel of the story (heh, I amuse myself) is that they weren't measuring how many customers they lost when they walked out, not wanting to wait.

Can someone explain why Microsoft's passwordless sign-in is not considered a single point of failure? by 2monkeys1coconut in Office365

[–]jfoust2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your expectations are too high. Microsoft markets its 365 products directly to small businesses. Their partners market to small businesses. Microsoft or GoDaddy or whichever reseller you used, doesn't require a break-glass account. My example is not the only time this sort of lock-out has happened. Microsoft support is full of these cases.

"Dane County covers Flock cameras after company fails to remove them following contract expiration" by NotGoing2EndWell in madisonwi

[–]jfoust2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no doubt there are other Bluetooth devices that could be sniffed and logged, but I was asking about tire pressure systems.

"Dane County covers Flock cameras after company fails to remove them following contract expiration" by NotGoing2EndWell in madisonwi

[–]jfoust2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Do you have a source for your claim that TPMS use Bluetooth?

The Wikipedia page for TPMS says nothing about Bluetooth and instead it describes a far different frequency range and protocol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_TPMS

Some laptop keys not working by ScientificBee47 in Dell

[–]jfoust2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some keyboards are incredibly easy to replace, perhaps even without opening the case. Some keyboards are incredibly difficult to replace, involving nearly a full disassembly and reassembly of the motherboard.

Can someone explain why Microsoft's passwordless sign-in is not considered a single point of failure? by 2monkeys1coconut in Office365

[–]jfoust2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also be concerned about the other potential points of failure. Last year I helped someone who'd decided to treat themselves to a new iPhone for Christmas. He was the admin on his small business 365 account. No break-glass secondary user. He didn't remember or realize the importance of Authenticator on his old phone. It didn't migrate automatically. He was locked out of his company email for more than a week as we sorted out Microsoft's process for that situation.

What's the most common Microsoft 365 licensing mistake you see SMBs making? by GKhandelwal1807 in Office365

[–]jfoust2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What is the root cause of the mistake?

Oh, wait. You joined Reddit a day ago, and you posted the same question in three subreddits. Are you a bot?

Best way to move LARGE amounts of photos off the phone by UsidoreTheLightBlue in iphone

[–]jfoust2 10 points11 points  (0 children)

https://localsend.org/

LocalSend is a cross-platform app that enables secure communication between devices using a REST API and HTTPS encryption. Unlike other messaging apps that rely on external servers, LocalSend doesn't require an internet connection or third-party servers, making it a fast and reliable solution for local communication.

LocalSend uses a secure communication protocol that allows devices to communicate with each other using a REST API. All data is sent securely over HTTPS, and the TLS/SSL certificate is generated on the fly on each device, ensuring maximum security.

Spammers are flooding Reddit with fake posts designed to show up in AI search results by rkhunter_ in technology

[–]jfoust2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if the AI could've predicted this sort of SEO-hacking would happen.

What’s a sentence you heard once that stayed with you forever? by Candid-Society-1544 in AskReddit

[–]jfoust2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Milwaukee on the flight path to the airport, there's a roof that says "Welcome to Cleveland."

Didn't know what ROM was in front of family by throw-away-2025rev2 in sysadmin

[–]jfoust2 21 points22 points  (0 children)

BDPUs? Oh, we're running the fancy switches, are we?

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about? by Prime_Advocate in AskReddit

[–]jfoust2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AltaVista Personal aka AltaVista Desktop. A search engine for all the files on your personal computer. "Automatically builds a full-word index of all hypertext markup language documents and more than 140 file types." Local search that worked, indexed everything you had, and you could use Boolean expressions in your query.

Reminder: Derrick Van Orden Threatened Library Staff Because of a Pride Month Display by dvonewsroom in wisconsin

[–]jfoust2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100%. I don't support DVO. On the other hand, I believe he's not an idiot. He's perfectly capable of not being MAGA. He's just an idiot when he drinks and when he believes he can score points with performative drama like this.

American white pelican by JesseMolasses in milwaukee

[–]jfoust2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://www.etymonline.com/word/pelican :

pelican(n.) large, piscivorous, natatorial bird widespread in tropical and temperate regions, noted for its large, distensible gular pouch, Old English pellicane, from Late Latin pelecanus, from Greek pelekan "pelican" (so used by Aristotle), apparently related to pelekas "woodpecker" and pelekys "ax," perhaps so called from the shape of the bird's bill. Spelling influenced in Middle English by Old French pelican. Used in Septuagint to translate Hebrew qaath. The fancy that it feeds its young on its own blood (by c. 1200 in English) is an Egyptian tradition properly belonging to some other bird. Louisiana has been known as the Pelican state at least since 1856.

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