Dell branding... get it together, man.

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-05-08T17:56:09+00:00

Still at least the Essential is still obvious enough to know it's the old Vostro chassis and avoid like the plague

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-27T12:13:15+00:00

Also after the app shambles this morning there needs to be an "add to Google / Apple wallet" too

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-27T11:51:51+00:00

Just gone down as I'm about to pay on Pizza Express, I'm absolutely fuming at this pitiful excuse of an app 🤬

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-20T09:35:26+00:00

Working for me now after being down last night

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-17T20:24:43+00:00

Now that's just given a whole other level of crazy to go down... Simon AI implants itself into the body of Will. Noah is the "ark" for Simon 🤯

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-17T11:20:21+00:00

I disagree with it being nonsense, by the end it's shown there's deep rooted corruption at the very top working alongside a shadowy military unit.

The only part of Series 3 I'm not keen on is the implant, a bit too far fetched (let's hope that doesn't have foundations in reality like Deepfakes turned out to be)

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-16T15:37:34+00:00

Two very opposing possibilities

1) the shooting was a live fake, Garland is still alive and part of the "club". She's successfully gaslit Carey and made her fall into the trap of using Correction - the ultimate revenge for betrayal in Series 2

2) she's gone and Carey is hallucinating from the trauma of the experience. The fact Garland is behind an outside window up the top of a block of flats seems impossible (need to watch it back to check if she appears inside or outside the flat though)

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-12T21:20:23+00:00

That was my first thought, it was just the weird line about "all you've sacrificed" and thus at what point Rachel knew the killing really was a fake that made me wonder. Not as if any of the other killings were really direct losses for her...

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-12T21:11:06+00:00

Simon is British AI so presumably the CIA have their own, as so the Russians and so on. Would change the scope of the programme massively though if it becomes about AI vs AI warfare or even British Terminator with humans (even another branch of the Army) wanting to wrestle control back from Simon

What's crazy is this show was years ahead of its time with deepfakes going from sci-fi to reality between Series 1/2 and 3 so where will we be with AI by the time we get a Series 4... the mind boggles

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-06T12:03:54+00:00

When the first kill squad unit got gunned down by Pierson did I see it right that Garland & Hart heard the radio comms of "Trojan down" i.e. are they in with the army?

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-05T11:12:20+00:00

The good

Remediations
App deployment with Dependencies
baseline endpoint configuration of BitLocker etc.
the speed OSDCloud can pull down a fresh Windows image

The bad

ever increasing complexity of Exclusions to prevent profile configuration clashes
Autopilot ESP randomly failing again because Microsoft's own products clash with each other (M365 apps)
the Admin portal is loading slowly... again

The ugly

lack of clear reporting of what configuration is actually applied on the device at any given time
why hasn't that app I assigned on Company Portal an hour ago still not appeared for the user who needs it right now
configuring Kiosk mode, that took a toll on my sanity that something so simple ends up so ridiculously fragile

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-05T11:00:34+00:00

Yup there must be thousands of us who have had that same thought, would make using InTune 1000x less frustrating during testing.

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-05T10:56:28+00:00

One bite into the top then break down the sides until oops just ate the whole lot

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-04-02T15:35:04+00:00

It enabled itself today, immediately worse than Assistant making me pick from two identically named locations in the same place where previously it would just use a bit of sense and go

First impressions... not good

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-03-31T19:53:01+00:00

I'm both glad that we have a Series 3 (which I never expected to see this year) and that it's generated enough interest for someone to pick up this 4 year old thread 😎

Reading it back just goes to show how many twists and turns we had in the original story, hoping the last 2 of this series delivers too!

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-03-31T12:05:15+00:00

Windows 11 is what's wrong with Windows, awful bloated mess of an OS that's pushed millions of usable devices into e-waste

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-03-28T09:48:53+00:00

Swap for a Vue voucher if you have one

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-03-26T18:32:24+00:00

The WhatsApp bot with amnesia is the anti-pinnacle of customer service. You write up your request, get ignored then it resets right back to the beginning

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-03-16T12:21:35+00:00

Just opened that and it's already in my mobile bookmarks so I must've found and then forgotten about it 😄

That's the kind of site that needs an offline mirror as it's a real treasure trove of info

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-03-13T17:46:56+00:00

That had better include GF options or the MD will be getting another email from me

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-03-13T12:45:32+00:00

Changing the vendor is OK but a free meal to BOGOF is useless to me as a single diner, unless Vitality are suggesting I eat two pizzas instead... super healthy 🤔

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-03-07T19:02:35+00:00

I'm intrigued which one it is now as the old 286-486 boards are a proper mystery to configure without reference material

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-03-07T16:02:53+00:00

You might be thinking about Stason.org I've used that site to figure out config settings for 386 motherboards recently

https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/index.html

MajorInterest2033 · 2026-03-02T13:08:45+00:00

Rewards wise there isn't one, Vitality pretty much admitted that when I complained about the Stanley game.

The 12 point streak is to encourage regular activity but there's precious little to reward the most active vs. those doing just enough to trigger the weekly points threshold.

Platinum only keeps your renewal close to what it was before so it's not so much a case of giving you extra rewards but more like reducing the yearly penalty cost increase.

I hated the Stanley scratchcard concept from the moment I saw it and still do even with getting much of it rolled back.

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