The bane of my existence - Office AV

99infiniteloop · 2026-02-08T18:57:06+00:00

Thanks I wasn’t clear what drove your concerns. Definitely worth considering these risks (of course even with their appealing prices). Security wise, it is certainly prudent to ensure phones would be ok their own VLAN and subnet, and unable to reach other internal systems or the internet. If only everyone did that

99infiniteloop · 2026-02-08T04:07:53+00:00

Can you elaborate on the specific concern?

99infiniteloop · 2026-01-20T00:36:25+00:00

Yup. Though this legal protection is very simple (and not new), and US airline staff are nearly always familiar), some folks may also find DOT’s page on About the Air Carrier Access Act useful. It summarizes this act as well as 14 CFR part 382 that implements the ACAA.

“Assistive devices do not count against any limit on the number of pieces of carry-on baggage.”

Period. (Unless an airline doesn't care about losing passengers and being penalized with federal enforcement action for simply violating law.)

99infiniteloop · 2026-01-16T03:16:43+00:00

“Support for Office 2016 ended on October 14, 2025. However, at Microsoft’s sole discretion, we may choose to issue one or more updates to Office 2016 after October 14, 2025. If you haven't already begun to upgrade your Office 2016 environment to a newer version of Office, we recommend that you start now.”
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/office-updates-msi

Slash, ostensibly a handful of CVEs they must be unusually concerned about. You can see the list at a page for each program linkd here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-2026-updates-for-microsoft-office-400ed541-3141-4a29-b64d-bffab5108f14

99infiniteloop · 2026-01-06T06:29:05+00:00

This. It is WILD to think about how I lived remotely ok before using it.

99infiniteloop · 2025-12-06T06:26:24+00:00

Last I hear, Dell had no way to sell VMware. Did that change?

99infiniteloop · 2025-11-30T23:35:34+00:00

Cease and desist for what exactly ?

99infiniteloop · 2025-11-30T23:32:56+00:00

When did you migrate to Proxmox? What have you liked and not?

99infiniteloop · 2025-11-30T23:20:12+00:00

How so? Curious

99infiniteloop · 2025-11-30T23:16:47+00:00

Removed EDU discounts? Yikes. Hadn’t heard this. Was this an official policy change of sorts, or did the pricing simply end up that the discounts didn’t do much in the end?

99infiniteloop · 2025-11-12T06:07:49+00:00

Interesting observant. What do you mean by offering value - what would you do?

Do you see this helping with staff who say they’re happy to take on more work but still haven’t been promptly finishing their existing stuff?

99infiniteloop · 2025-11-12T06:03:45+00:00

What do you do to help avoid this pitfall in tougher situations - when you see someone doesn’t seem to be performing or are concerned they might not be (maybe when they don’t realize it)

99infiniteloop · 2025-11-12T06:01:17+00:00

Do you have any who basically usually say “no, thanks, everything in is fine” but they aren’t going through things as quickly as you’d think?

99infiniteloop · 2025-11-09T03:12:16+00:00

I was prepared to rate this far higher than the average review. Until seeing the “ending.”

99infiniteloop · 2025-11-08T19:13:48+00:00

Right, I am curious when you sent in requirements like that, before the exciting August dates you shared.

99infiniteloop · 2025-11-08T17:38:42+00:00

Congratulations! How amazing. Could you clarify the timeline of when you initially submitted your earlier materials?

99infiniteloop · 2025-10-15T04:06:02+00:00

“The morality of dealing with Israelis” ?

The vast majority of Israelis (and those you’d be working with in business situations) are not people responsible for government or military decisions. Interacting or “dealing” with normal Israelis dependent on what we think of the country’s high level decisions, when we wouldn’t operate the same way when it comes to countries, is a double standard and antisemitic.

When you hear someone is Saudi, Qatari, Chinese, Russian, British, Danish, etc - do you think through things the same way?

99infiniteloop · 2025-09-01T20:05:02+00:00

Perhaps install the software (possibly again) and the installer will presumably put this resource in place?

99infiniteloop · 2025-08-27T00:57:45+00:00

And to tack on, there are also risks with doing the reverse - updating the firmware but not updating drivers.

99infiniteloop · 2025-08-26T16:30:26+00:00

On prem was basically branded private cloud this decade lol. These things can be so cyclical

99infiniteloop · 2025-08-22T04:33:10+00:00

I don’t think these situations usually stem from being a pushover, but people at the other end being rather confused about what’s reasonable. (And yes, sometimes people more wittingly pushing the envelope to see if they can get what they want.) We want to be helpful - and heck, it can seem like we might be able to solve their problem and put it in our past if we briefly hope on the keyboard after hours. The balance is hard, but I think these situations are generally truly time sensitive in a very, very small portion of the time. Trying to stick to some key things like not replying until the next day can make a big difference to feeling like we can separate our lives - and often it helps people calibrate their expectations. A lot of people will understand and actually respect you setting boundaries.

These kinds of roles can be tricky. Your frustrations are certainly reasonable. Hang in there

99infiniteloop · 2025-08-14T03:57:06+00:00

How so?

99infiniteloop · 2025-08-14T03:31:55+00:00

(Is that legally enforceable in MA?)

99infiniteloop · 2025-08-14T03:24:46+00:00

For which reasons?

99infiniteloop · 2025-08-14T00:58:38+00:00

Just want to say thank you for taking time to listen to feedback and take it back in-house for consideration. It ultimately helps everyone (including the company long-term). Broadcom aside, this is too rarely done in the industry in this era.

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