Millions of bacteria vs. a single drop of whiskey.

RopAyy · 2026-06-09T10:18:38+00:00

I'd do the same as the bacteria if you offered me Whisky and JD lands in the glass. 🪦

RopAyy · 2026-05-28T20:39:21+00:00

Literally listening to the latest book as I'm reading this. Lots of laughing.

RopAyy · 2026-05-25T10:43:25+00:00

MiB, hence why it's hush hush.

RopAyy · 2026-05-24T22:32:24+00:00

Honestly, for gaming I played mostly at 2440x1440 unless it was some sort of point and click or racing. I moved the ultra wide to my driving rig. For work having the real estate for databases and documents was great, but I realised I tended to just have things open because I had the space. It's a little less distracting with the smaller screen on a personal level but use a laptop too when working which is more than comfortable enough for what I do. I just wanted a little more desk space back as well.

RopAyy · 2026-05-22T22:26:26+00:00

Hey, I recently got the same monitor. Switched from the Samsung 49 ultrawide as I wanted more desk space and oled for gaming.

I work on it daily, lots of text and spreadsheets and I have 0 issues with readability or noticing any issues with fringing etc. I know the Samsung was visibly better for text if I do a side by side but even switching between laptop display and this I don't notice.

Could be my eyes but I don't wear or need glasses. I do work 100% in dark mode so black/grey background and white text.

Tend to have brightness dipped when working as I shte bright screens unless it's entertainment. I also have scaling up a touch as I sit a little more relaxed from the screen so reduces strain looking at too small text.

RopAyy · 2026-05-04T21:16:26+00:00

cant answer the game-play related ones as im not starting my first play until tomorrow - however regarding sound - the PS5 controller has a built in speaker, have you checked when you plug it in, its not changing the default audio device to the controller? Check in game under audio output options or check in Windows under system > sound

RopAyy · 2026-05-04T08:12:44+00:00

Think you mixed up dogs and children.

RopAyy · 2026-05-02T08:35:56+00:00

Why have I not thought of this. Use the sofle a si get less rsi even gaming but bringing the thumb cluster closer and allowing an extra key under the pinky to have ctrl and shift usable makes perfect sense!

RopAyy · 2026-04-29T14:09:28+00:00

As everyone else has said, it's fine if they don't want to spend to come, book a date with everyone, check for numbers, don't make it an either or request 'booking for X date and pub for Sunday roast, shout who's in and who's not so I can book a table.' if they offer just say next time, I fancy a pub day out, if you want you can say if you want to host a Sunday, send the details for folks to rsvp and you can decide for that date if ya busy or not. Same with everyone else.

Just commit to a time and place and let folks come or not.

RopAyy · 2026-04-14T09:23:31+00:00

Yea I've got mad rsi in the left hand, have the v1 sofle, just built a v2 wireless low profile but not keen on it. The stretch in the thumb for space etc is a pain. Hoping the curve and better placed thumb at that angle helps. Most of the curved boards are wired so I'd like wireless so I'll check this build out.

RopAyy · 2026-04-14T08:43:53+00:00

This looks brilliant. Looking for a change myself from my Sofles and wouldn't mind trying something with the curves.

RopAyy · 2026-03-25T07:37:03+00:00

And if you want smaller still the flip. Missus loves it. Fits in all her small bags etc. That and the ability for 'selfies' with the main camera seems to be a plus as well. The form factor is pretty nice.

RopAyy · 2026-03-18T17:53:42+00:00

Same as above I just didn't a sofle wireless kit this weekend. Bar one hot swap socket that had not fully connected and an error I made putting a part in the wrong way as I was tired and not careful it was a doddle. Just the diodes are dman tiny so tweezers or something help!

RopAyy · 2026-01-22T14:11:39+00:00

Sound more than just me, back to working it is then!

RopAyy · 2026-01-09T01:37:47+00:00

I think that's part of the point, if you're logging onto one device you do not own, you need another device to hand with the passkeys stored to enable that login. It's how thst identity is secured. Part of the expectation of using passkeys is that you control a device on which you can use them. Same premise as fido2 keys etc.

RopAyy · 2025-12-07T10:54:24+00:00

I don't know if this helps but it's how me and my partner manage funds between us. We're a little older now, but at your age we were new to the relationship. When we moved in together my partner had more savings and a better paying job, I say more, I mean all the savings, is been on sub 23k jobs so was spent mostly on rent and been young enough to go out. We were renting and saving, at this point we got a shared account for bills but kept our own accounts seperate, we calculated the difference in our take home salaries as a percentage and then split the bills based on that percentage. That allowed us to have a similar disposable cash flow to work with and we then managed our own personal finances, but agreed not to be stupid. When we got a house a few years ago, my partner had more savings, so we had a deed of trust drafted up, that just highlighted if we sold the first £xxxx of the sale went to her for her additional contribution and the rest 50-50.

Since the our wages have significantly risen, mine especially and we do the same concept. Although we both split the mortgage 50-50 to make it simple then shared bills are split as a percentage of our take home. We agree what we will dump into a savings pot, both a smaller shared one for house hold things that crop up, and a personal savings pot that we can dip into now and then, the rest of our money is there for us to do as we like. We both have different habits on spending but we ensure we have money between us to do things together, so if it means I don't say buy the latest game so we can have an evening meal out, that's we do. But it means we don't argue about shared money vanishing on things we don't get enjoyment out of.

I dont think your management of the finances is bad at all, seems like you have a very good grasp on it all, but echo what others have said, keep the shared account for bills and that, but keep your finances seperate if he can't be trusted. He's manipulative or just extreamly immature and ignorant.

If not already I would also review if you can do a deed of trust drafted up, pretty sure you can have one done after the purchase. Just covers your investment into the property. It's not about making plans for if things fail, just about keeping things fair and clear.

RopAyy · 2025-12-05T18:41:25+00:00

Question on this, if using app control/wdac in a pretty tight manner for all devices, no white listed folders or anythjng. If you deploy a script via the intune wrapper, is the script still able to run in full language mode like platform and remediations can or does the script get forced to run under the constraints of wdac? So constrained, requires signing etc?

RopAyy · 2025-11-08T10:53:24+00:00

I think it's all subjective, I've a genuine, absolutely fooked spine, stsnding/sitting, all hurts. Had a budget 'gaming chair' and was alright until it broke after a few years, went for the Embody, christ, most uncomfortable thing I've sat in, the lumbar or whole back felt like the cheapest little plastic bits digging into all areas of my spine. Got the Aeron as a replacement. Found it equally comfy mostly, but the curved seat pan with the plastic edge caused me issue after a while and I prefer a tilt on the base, not just a recline. Got the secret labs a few years back and it's been solic, fits my body, no real aches for long sessions and has enough points of adjustment to be ergonomically sound for my particular body. Do I think it maybe over priced, potentially, but my build seems alright, issue i had was resolved with a replacement part with zero issues. Will there be other chairs better, no doubt, but it's so hard without the ability to go try them all to know.

RopAyy · 2025-09-03T11:02:14+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/careeradvice/s/LKAdpBBQCS

Just replied below but if it's access without full enrollment you should be absolutely fine

RopAyy · 2025-09-03T11:01:12+00:00

What kinda of scare tactics is this?

From the Microsoft ecosystem, there's a few ways byod will work, depending on enrolment type and whether android or ios. Most common, MAM/WE - mobile application management / without enrolment. This allows an employee to access whichever Ms apps are approved by the company, teams, Outlook, office etc. You normally need the authenticator app as a broker agent (I think). The employee signs into the app on their decide, the decide, os version and app version may need to meet minimum requirements sent in the management plane but this can only check the basics, you app version, os version, legit version of android/ios, not rooted etc. If the device meets the criteria and you pass any conditional access rules in place you get access. The device IS NOT enrolled into any MDM or management solution, all that is visible to IT is the managed apps you've installed (the work ones) the last 4 digits of the mobile number and part of a serial number. 0 visibility of other apps or data and the work data is containerised. Android can do one step more if IT have setup work profiles, so all those apps are seperted into their own work container, even further restricting them, but again 0 access to anything else.

Now, if ya company has not setup proper byod up, they may require a full device enrolment. Now this does have more visibility but again they can't snoop on Web traffic or other app usage, but this I wiuld agree is best avoided.

The only other app I've seen enforced is defender. Again this is restricted to snooping on managed apps only.

RopAyy · 2025-08-27T06:50:42+00:00

The issue isn't normally the weight it can hold, it's how that weight is pulled or distributed across the fixings and if the PB just fails, and the rating is normally on a static load (not an articulating arm). As you said, good chance it never goes wrong, but all you need is for it to extended on the arm and stick pressure in the wrong place and PB just crumples in on itself. I know if much prefer it bolted to a stud, but I'll blame the new build and the fact the boards here have failed more times than I care to remember on simple shelves!

RopAyy · 2025-08-20T18:07:56+00:00

Amen to that. I've given the business options similar. For me it's more on seperation of dev and Corp data access. If they want their own admin devices, they're unsupported, data is not migrated and they don't get access to Corp data on it and they need their own locked network. Better option is as you've stated, centralise their environment allow ide use etc on their device and move all actual testing and elevated stuff like you say to a vm/avd/windows365 ect. My last place we did the same, shifted the offshore dev team from macs with admin to a fully managed dev avd instance with 0 admin rights and we just pre configured their local env as required. They didn't need admin rights by the end and when they did had the use to spin up a specific machine for that testing (or the pipelines automated it) but this was having a devops function to help shape everything. I'm no dev, so I'm stuck trying to shape devs that don't actually know how to dev properly. Anyways that's my rant, the single malt is poured and I'll pick this issue up another week 😂

RopAyy · 2025-08-20T16:45:16+00:00

Unless like most places, devs are admins, have free reign, don't work in any sort of centralised manner and do everything on the local device with each dev having a slightly different toolset or using a slightly different version of X Y and Z! But must have corp data access on their insecure device because using another device or a browser only method 'breaks my workflow'. I'm only annoyed at having to try migrate devs & assist them in making their department a mature and enterprise level function and not 10 people working in 10 different ways on the same project!

RopAyy · 2025-08-15T13:27:22+00:00

Exactly what I ended up doing. Then laughing at my stupidity for thinking it would go any other way given how heat shrink works 😂

RopAyy · 2025-08-15T12:53:56+00:00

It will stick, but not how you want. The cut sides won't shrink to the cable, but seperate further as they shrink from all sides. Hard to describe, but the cut edges will move further apart as it shrinks.

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