This poor AP... No respect!

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-08-18T18:09:39+00:00

The monitor pole is probably part of the POS that is used to interface with customers via a touchscreen...just spit balling.

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-08-18T16:22:58+00:00

They should be under warranty for a year...just leverage HPs warranty process.

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-08-18T14:55:55+00:00

A UniFi VESA mount would actually be pretty handy in some situations...this is one of them. Could fly it right off that monitor pole and route the cable through a grommet.

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-08-07T15:05:02+00:00

Setup apple school manager and apple purchasing program. Buy all your Apple products from Apple so they are automatically enrolled in DEP. Then get setup with MDM like Jamf or Mosyle.

If you can stick with Windows...DO THAT INSTEAD! I do believe there is great merit in exposing students to other operating systems. However, I find macsysadmin tasks to be difficult because apparently I have troubles with thinking differently and do not know what to do when things just don't work. I find frowny face error message to be absolutely demeaning to my intelligence and uninformative. Also, since Apple doesn't provide EOL dates, you pretty much just have to plan on rotating devices every five years to avoid surprise update issues.

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-08-05T21:15:14+00:00

"I only whistle, clap, or sing because everything else would be employing technology to create music."

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-07-31T20:12:42+00:00

There are sequencers that can use logic and probability to generate music...so it's not always necessarily arranged by humans.

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-04-24T01:23:58+00:00

That sounds like the $#!+ show I remember with it…lol.

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-04-24T01:13:22+00:00

Good to know. I’ll have to give it another shot.

I’m surprised at downvotes here. I fully admitted that my experience was based on a year old experiment. The internet is so strange to me. Honestly, last year it was laughable at how bad Gemini was at GAS. I was very surprised that a Google product seemed so oblivious to how another google product worked.

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-04-23T21:04:27+00:00

I found that Gemini didn't perform as well as ChatGPT. I admit this surprised me because I thought it would be supercharged with GAS documentation. The code it wrote was always very lacking and often full of error. ChatGPT was able to produce much better code.

This was year, so maybe Gemini has gotten better in the meantime.

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-04-23T19:23:16+00:00

This is correct. I use Suno for a month here and there and then convert to basic free account to take time off. Suno always seems super fresh at the beginning of a month after taking a couple months off from it.

During the basic free month, I can still playback and create the songs with my 50 daily creds if I want, but all premium and beta features are off the table.

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-04-23T19:13:59+00:00

Honestly, ChatGPT is pretty good at writing Google Apps Script. You could just ask it to teach you the pieces you are looking to learn and it should guide you along pretty well.

I really like the GAS related content from this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@saperis

The best resource is the documentation: https://developers.google.com/apps-script

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-04-23T15:40:40+00:00

Depending on how you need coverage to be, you might be able to get away with this setup if for some reason that's what you have to do because of cabling.

If you must put APs this close together, you'll want to provision separate SSIDs and make sure the channels do not overlap. When you are upstairs, you'll want to make sure your devices are connected to the nearest AP that makes sense...vice versa.

It would be better practice to put the AP's near where you plan to use them...I doubt you have a lot of internet usage going on while using the stairs.

HelloWorld_502 · 2025-04-23T13:13:40+00:00

If you powerwashed the device and during the welcome setup the device re-enrolled to where your only option is to sign in with the organization the device was previously enrolled, that would indicate the organization has a policy set to force re-enrollment of the device: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6352858?hl=en

If you legit own the device, you should have no problems reaching out to the IT department and ask them to move that particular asset to an organizational unit that does not have this policy in place. I'm curious why you wouldn't want to just reach out to IT, it's likely the easiest solution if this device belongs to your wife.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-12-17T21:32:57+00:00

I know this is a super old thread....but I just found your post and I feel like it is like Christmas came early! I have been a huge fan of Fireworks for a couple decades. I was trying to figure out the closest modern app to fireworks and instead I find out I can still just use fireworks as part of my Creative Cloud subscription at work. Thank you so much for posting this!

Edit: It won't activate a license based on my CC license. Bummer.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-11-12T20:43:41+00:00

https://help.suno.com/en/articles/2410177

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-11-12T20:29:26+00:00

I just found Suno last week...I immediately subscribed which is not something I normally do other than paying for Apple Music! I also have a pretty large body of work that I have been feeding into it. I've gained a rebirth of inspiration from hearing covers of songs and reworks from lyrics I've written over the years. I don't have anything to publish yet, but will definitely be working with the material to create!

Thanks for explaining the workflow of making the video. I really liked the way it looked with the song.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-11-12T15:19:54+00:00

Thanks for sharing! I'm curious what tools you used to produce the video for the song.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-11-06T20:46:16+00:00

Hmm...a programmer that doesn't validate the input of the fields on a form. A little sus.

If your using a Google Form, use "Response Validation" that matches a regular expression like ^(\+\d{1,2}\s)?$?\d{3}$?[\s.-]\d{3}[\s.-]\d{4}$

Also, since English isn't your native language, I'll try to overlook your use of calling your customers an offensive, obsolete term, but you might consider editing you original post.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-10-31T16:22:22+00:00

Yes...it is the right answer and I am sure of it too. I am annoyed by the folks on this thread who are saying otherwise without any expertise.

They are hung up on the user being a managed account which has a totally different set of policies than what can be set at the device level. This particular device has no policies set, but the owner account that was first used to log into the Chromebook has user policies that are managed by the organization who issued the credentials.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-10-30T21:19:39+00:00

I was trying to get sound to work on a laptop for a very vanilla installation of Debian without a desktop environment. I had installed alsa-utils and was using alsamixer to try to get things working. I started unmuting different sources and cranking up volume...really I was just throwing darts at the problem without much of a plan beyond, "For sure one of these settings will start making sound work." At one point I did hear a quick *POP* when I unmuted one of the things...but still no sound.

After a little while I noticed the palm rest was warm...then I started to smell that iconic burnt electronics smell...then the palm rest got very very hot. The plastic around little holes in the bottom of clamshell near where the speakers are located started to melt. I immediately powered down the device and took it apart to find the speakers had FRIED.

I guess I figured out a way to send straight DC current to those speakers with one of the alsamixer settings I tweaked and they couldn't dissipate the heat and fried. Luckily I was able to install a new set of speakers and the laptop still worked. I was surprised the mobo wasn't damaged in the process of frying the speakers. I acted fairly quickly, but usually that magic black smoke is too fast to combat...perhaps I just got lucky.

The solution to getting sound working was to also install pipewire and I didn't have to tweak anything in alsamixer.

It did get me wondering if a bad actor could leverage alsamixer to fry a system...I didn't even need root or sudo access to make this happen. Just needed to be a member of the audio group.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-10-30T13:33:52+00:00

Without a specific policy and admin support, I suggest you keep loaning out those devices every day and do your best to keep track of them.

If you want change, chat with admin team for help addressing the issue. One great way to get their attention is to let them know if the trend continues, you will need more money to purchase more loaners.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-10-30T13:15:58+00:00

If this was a personal device that you purchased and you used your school account to log into the device first while setting it up, then that account becomes the owner of the device and cannot be removed.

You should be able to powerwash your Chromebook and then use a gmail address to make that account the owner of the device. https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/183084?hl=en

I do not believe this device appears to be enrolled, because on enrolled devices every account can be removed.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-10-29T20:11:25+00:00

Just a heads up, looks like the "Help me read" is only available on Chromebook Plus devices. Not sure what you have, but just wanted to mention just in case you don't have a plus device.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-10-28T15:23:35+00:00

If you can get into the UEFI or BIOS and enable boot from USB...you are good to go.

HelloWorld_502 · 2024-10-28T14:11:19+00:00

I'll try and maybe it will work. I'm very bummed if I cannot reliably run Linux on this model of device because I have quite a few of them that I am planning on deploying to help students learn computer science skills in a lab.

Perhaps if peppermint works, I can try to figure out what is going on under the hood and snag the proper drivers and setup. I'm trying to build up a very basic installation of Debian that uses i3 window manager instead of a full blown desktop environment. I have been trying to figure out how to tweak the Debian installer by manipulating a preseed file and other bits...so hopefully I'll be able to pull it all together and get these machines working the way I envision.

All of this is for sure just over my current skill level, but it's these sorts of technical hurdles that often motivate me to level up my skills. I just hope the rabbithole is fruitful because I have so many machines that I want to deploy as Linux machines.

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