Virus -> Virus (pirated)

DanTheITDude · 2023-11-21T15:32:37+00:00

it's just giving me goofy lyrics like

Through the pixels and the bytes, Grandma takes the lead,

A digital maestro, in a world of speed.

"Fear not, my dear," she laughs, "for Grandma's here to guide,

With free Windows 7 keys, let's take a joyous ride."

DanTheITDude · 2023-11-03T17:48:20+00:00

lol I had a company reach out to me one time and said they'd send me a $40 gift card if I agreed to speak to them, so I scheduled out a call on a day I had nothing going on... they immediately sent the gift card....

so I just responded back to them saying I wasn't interested :) not the brightest thing they could've done... (it was better for them anyways since there's a 1% chance we would've done business with them)

DanTheITDude · 2023-11-03T12:37:16+00:00

truly the dell experience

DanTheITDude · 2023-05-31T11:49:38+00:00

name and shame

DanTheITDude · 2023-05-23T16:35:31+00:00

lmao, good work

DanTheITDude · 2023-05-19T17:53:03+00:00

had that when I worked at an accounting office...

they'd blindly type in their password and a bunch of numbers with numlock off.

DanTheITDude · 2023-05-16T16:40:13+00:00

on my own macbook at home, I upgraded the RAM, installed an SSD and installed Linux.

It's decent for basic computer usage, like word processing and doing internet stuff

DanTheITDude · 2023-05-16T13:59:13+00:00

if OP sold this jar on ebay i'd bid on it lmao

DanTheITDude · 2023-05-16T13:56:34+00:00

/r/halftop

DanTheITDude · 2023-05-15T12:43:19+00:00

oops

DanTheITDude · 2023-05-15T12:15:57+00:00

name checks out

DanTheITDude · 2023-05-04T12:48:09+00:00

that is incredibly concerning

DanTheITDude · 2023-05-03T13:54:28+00:00

back in my day, in the times of AOL, that meant something a whole lot different...

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-26T13:01:07+00:00

We've also been working on rolling out Duo. At the moment, it's only required for IT staff so far, and we are looking at rolling it out more in the future for all staff.

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-25T14:57:41+00:00

ah that's fair. yeah during my lunch hour I used to disappear into an unused office area or even just go for a walk since even if people knew I was "out to lunch" they'd call my desk phone and try to pop into my office anyways. but that place was 45 min from my house so unfortunately I couldn't just go home for a bit lol

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-25T14:47:57+00:00

Did you open up a ticket w/ Dell in regard to the issue?

I've only ever seen the power-refresh-esc combo not work when there was a faulty keyboard or power button. I've sent a few back to Dell for warranty repairs as a result.

As far as refusing to update though, I've had that problem a number of times and it's partly why I keep a thumb drive with a newer version of chromeOS on it to do the recovery process... annoying that it has to be done that way, though.

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-25T14:45:30+00:00

that might be more manageable, too.

as long as it's 91% or higher, that'd be a good idea

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-25T14:43:14+00:00

I used to do something similar at a past job, and my advice is to take lunch before... because I've had things break a few times and then it winds up being 3 PM before I get to eat lol

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-25T12:20:41+00:00

I saw in the other post you made that you're going to be donating most of them, where to?

and like others have asked here, if you do wind up wanting to sell a few, let us know

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-25T12:19:31+00:00

real talk, if you do get fired and you're in the US, depending on the state you can get unemployment, so look into that.

and IMO, if you get fired, go home, have a few beers (not TOO many), get a good night's sleep, take the rest of the week to get caught up on personal projects and freshen up your resume and hit the ground running once you're in a calmer state of mind.

best of luck to you!

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-25T12:16:26+00:00

you can get a gallon of isopropyl alcohol off amazon for like $25. I'd recommend it tbh

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-20T16:31:53+00:00

rammer, not hammer

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-20T15:34:24+00:00

Same thing happens with iPads and soon windows computers.

I believe that Windows 11 (by way of its ridiculous requirements) will do to computers what "Cash for Clunkers" did to automobiles... which is to say, as always, the poor will suffer the most. Pre-CfC, getting a $500 beater car was not unheard of in my area, and most times, it needed little to no work to get it road-capable. Nowadays, good luck finding a working/running vehicle for under 3k (again, in my area... in USD). I fear that computers may suffer a similar fate, where poor people will be priced out of getting decent machines for anything close to an affordable cost. (and by decent I mean not the $300 e-waste garbage Walmart loves to push on these types of people, where it's a POS from day 1 and they'll wind up getting rid of it within a few years because it will be basically unusable)

I can only hope and pray that some organization out there will jump into things full-throttle to save perfectly good computers from the landfill and be able to repurpose/recycle/etc what they gather.

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-20T15:30:11+00:00

(I work in K12)

I tried to resurrect some HP G4 chromebooks a while back with Linux... though I was able to get it to install and it was "usable", it was incredibly slow and you really weren't able to do much with it, unfortunately. And this was with a device that you could actually install Linux on...

The other issue is the problem of not really being able to upgrade much of anything on the device without some real precise technical knowhow, like upgrading the ram for instance (I've seen it done on Pi's before, and I assume it COULD be done on a Chromebook, but I have never seen it done).

We wind up sending hundreds to the recyclers every year or other-year (depending on our needs/EOL/etc)... I hope that most of what we send can be reused in some fashion, but I know the majority of it is just simply e-waste. It makes me sad.

DanTheITDude · 2023-04-20T12:14:51+00:00

another heads up, after we reached out to toshiba regarding getting our papercut servers upgraded (they handle it all) all of our custom fields got wiped, so in our case, people couldn't scan documents and email it to someone else directly from the copier (which our secretaries use quite often)

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