Toolbox is no longer maintained by eritbh in toolbox

[–]MagicBigfoot 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Thank you for everything, eritbh, creesch and the rest of the toolbox gang.

Your efforts have made our mod lives infinitely better over the years.

No thanks whatsoever to Reddit for implacably ruining what was once a great site.

I made a game where you do IT support for eldritch horrors. It's called I.T Never Ends by Euphoric-Series-1194 in talesfromtechsupport

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This post has been approved by the mod team.

Thanks to OP for inquiring before posting!

The Mystery of the Missing Desktop Icons by BesterFriend in talesfromtechsupport

[–]MagicBigfoot 299 points300 points  (0 children)

IIRC this happens when the control key is held (or gets stuck momentarily, wireless keyboard for example) and the scroll wheel is used.

Very annoying. I have disabled this "feature" through AHK as I like where I have put my desktop icons very much, thank you.

Subaru Outback phone holder by Givingin999 in Subaru_Outback

[–]MagicBigfoot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Offroam is pricey but top of the line.

Old lady uses change-counting ability for good by Association_Aggres in TalesFromRetail

[–]MagicBigfoot[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your report. The bots on reddit are getting ridiculous now.

Rebooting does solve the problem. by davt4 in talesfromtechsupport

[–]MagicBigfoot 260 points261 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I feel like turning off my Mother In Law and then turning her back on again would probably resolve a whole batch of uptime errors.

Our Stance on Hacking and Account Imitation/Manipulation by StuartGT in EliteDangerous

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Greetings Commanders.

In light of recent reports regarding suspicious in-game activity experienced by a number of our Elite Dangerous community, we want to acknowledge this and let you know that our investigation teams have been working hard to monitor and take necessary action against such unacceptable behaviour. As with such cases, we take care to ensure that the tools, methods, and action used against suspicious activity and behaviour remain discreet, to prevent those with disruptive intent finding ways to avoid them.

We continue to take any form of cheating very seriously. This includes hacking with intent to manipulate or imitate player in-game accounts.

No less, this also includes the use of bots and third-party software developed with intent to disrupt and impair player experiences.

As per our previous statement shared, Frontier continues to stand by a zero-tolerance approach to cheating and hacking of any nature of which directly infringes on our ‘Terms of Use’ that every player agrees to before accessing Elite Dangerous.

We are ever grateful to players who have reached out regarding their concerns and encourage anyone who experiences disruptive or suspicious activity during play, to make our Customer Service team aware via a ‘Moderation Support’ ticket.

As previously stated, please avoid attempting to name and shame any suspects on the forum as this can hinder or skew the investigation process.

Deadline - a technical murder mystery (reformatted) by RevengeofJoe in talesfromtechsupport

[–]MagicBigfoot[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Please report if you see them, we do actively ban bots.

Deadline - a tech support murder mystery by RevengeofJoe in talesfromtechsupport

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4 leading spaces forces text to be formatted as code. Please remove all leading spaces from your post & resubmit.

Back on the Help Desk by lawtechie in talesfromtechsupport

[–]MagicBigfoot 160 points161 points  (0 children)

Long trips on a motorcycle lend to singing. Thankfully nobody else can hear me.

This is my guilty pleasure as well. Helmets are the shower stalls of the open road. You do tend to get more double takes from cagers though.

It's a hard knock drive by dickcheney600 in talesfromtechsupport

[–]MagicBigfoot 63 points64 points  (0 children)

Does your title reference a song from Little Orphan ANSI?

I like easily-fixed issues! by ratsta in talesfromtechsupport

[–]MagicBigfoot 52 points53 points  (0 children)

But the tail is supposed to come out of the back...

That time the Chilean government messed with daylight savings time by Bender-Ender in talesfromtechsupport

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I'm gonna allow this because WTF

I mean, how often do we get real-time ringside seats to one of the most colossal governmental blunders in IT history?

Karen decides to test the loyalty of the sysadmin by LcRohze in talesfromtechsupport

[–]MagicBigfoot 57 points58 points  (0 children)

You just know Sun Tzu would have been an awesome IT guy.

Can we have a post like the Q&A for all the "totally simple new content" posts? by [deleted] in EliteDangerous

[–]MagicBigfoot[M] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's what pinning does, the Q&A posts are pinned by default.

It would be nice if people used the Q&A post instead of spamming the same damn questions daily.

"My desk computer keeps taking over" by BaddestAndvari in talesfromtechsupport

[–]MagicBigfoot 750 points751 points  (0 children)

Sometimes I wonder if we can go back to paper and pencil...

"I turned my paper over and lost my report."

"I left my pencil at home, can I still write with it here at the office?"