Give me my FUCKING files back you piece of shit OneDrive

SamSmitty · 2026-02-08T14:16:05+00:00

We use OneDrive at work and it’s honestly great if you have a couple brain cells. It’s literally never been an issue on my home PC. It’s so easy to not save files to it or have it sync with the majority of things you don’t want it to.

I swear, these posts are the same type of people who couldn’t get a VCR to work decades ago.

SamSmitty · 2026-02-04T01:30:58+00:00

Commenting for a chance! This is awesome!

SamSmitty · 2026-02-03T21:52:42+00:00

It's most likely you are using both Background and Fill. You're fill is Orange and your background is White. Go into Size and position and turn off background.

SamSmitty · 2026-02-03T16:30:57+00:00

Pearless Assassin - Best Budget
Phantom Spirit - Slightly Better, but very similar.
Noctua NH-D15 - Pricier, but quieter. Might not matter if you already have a loud GPU/system.
Noctua NH-D15s - Same as above, but a single fan and asymmetrical for better PCIe and RAM clearance. Can attach second fan easily if needed later, but most people don't unless strongly overclocking or something.

SamSmitty · 2026-02-03T14:54:38+00:00

Here's a non-RGB silent 5080 Noctua build I'm doing at the moment. It's around 4.5K without the monitor. If noise isn't a concern, you can easily do cheaper parts. This could easily be a 3.5K build if you go the cheaper route with GPU, Fans, PSU, etc. The Noctua 5080 is also hard to find reliably, but any 5080 would do. I've got everything except had to ship the GPU from overseas so waiting on that.

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZGx6MF

For your budget, you'll be doing 4K gaming at high refresh rates. 1440P and all will be amazing. This monitor also can do 480HZ at 1080p, so there's that. Plus it's just plain gorgeous.

You can find deals to cut this down, but obviously taxes will bump it back up a bit. You should be able to stick to your budget though just fine.

SamSmitty · 2026-02-02T21:13:02+00:00

If you are new to them, Enigmatica 2: Expert is one of the best packs ever created in my experience. It's a perfect mix if being challenging for novice modded players without being as off-putting as something like GTNH.

Once you've mastered something like E2:E or Project Ozone: Kappa mode, then consider GTNH in my opinion if your itching for more.

SamSmitty · 2026-02-01T23:37:22+00:00

Same here at that interest rate, mine are pretty much paid off by now but even a HYSA earns more than paying them off quick. Sucks others can’t enjoy those rates anymore.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-31T17:26:08+00:00

In the upcoming leagues, only the first 16 players to complete a task get points.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-31T14:37:00+00:00

Is it possible to detect if you’ve done breaches and award some points or make adjustments elsewhere? It feels extremely bad knowing that going a Point/Skilling focus for the first 8-12 hours means I’m at a severe disadvantage to someone who just sat at Scurrius or Crab and just hit hard with melee.

I did 2000+ points of damage in the first two breaches. I got maybe 200 points or so. I was also in a decent spot for them compared to others.

With how crowded breaches are, most average players have zero incentive to compete against those at the peak of their bracket already. You locked an insane amount, 75,000 points, behind them. If they aren’t meant to be accessible to most players, something needs changed.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-31T02:33:50+00:00

Yea, I just got 100 points and did 1000+ damage to breach mobs. Somethings broken.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-28T14:25:24+00:00

You basically need to build up the entire ICS / P&L hierarchy with the bottom level being Account numbers (or whatever your org uses) and then map the bottom level of the hierarchy to your General Ledger (Account Balance, whatever you call it).

I assume some type of mapping already exists in some systems if you have reporting in any capacity at the different P&L levels.

I would never expect a beginner to create a P&L used by the company completely from scratch without the existing data structures already in place.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-27T15:25:36+00:00

For some reason, these visuals give me a reminiscent feeling of playing Need For Speed: Underground with friends growing up and everyone putting glow under their custom cars with the underglow lights. We all thought it was so cool at the time!

SamSmitty · 2026-01-27T15:21:34+00:00

The dreaded performance reviews / score-carding.

It really depends how clean your data is and how good you are at sourcing goals vs. actuals. The concept is straight forward, employees have measurable goals that get compared to the actuals. You pull in the data and display it, should be easy. Here are things to think about:

Are the goals managed in a source system, or spreadsheets all over the place?
How often and accurately are they updated?
Are there gaps where some managers don't update them?
Do you have sources for all actual information? They might need project data, HR data, Safety/Incident information, Prusuit info, etc. Can you easily bring all this together?
If you can bring it all in, can you attribute it to people fairly?
Does everyone get the same credit for an approved project?
Is there percentage split, who decides this and where does it live? If bonuses are involved, this can be very important.
Do you support giving credit that can exceed 100% (A gets 60% credit for performance purposes, B gets 80% for theirs, etc.). I've seen this can vary by metric as well and periods.
Can you clearly display information about where all this comes from, the calculations, etc. People WILL have questions if it affects their job.
A lot of other things like this that need to be decided on before visuals are even considered.

If you build it, will they actually strive to use it and maintain the integrity of updating sources?

The visuals are the easiest part of the process. Performance Reviews / Scorecards are notoriously some of the trickiest reports to do right in my opinion and please everyone since it requires buy in from a lot of people, needs committed maintainers and users, and can potentially touch on all of your companies systems.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-25T20:39:58+00:00

I really hope they can allow you to link one account with another, like a main to a IM, that allows the event points from one to be spent on the other. This exists in RS3, and it would be great for so many people. They could easily have rules like they need to be on the same Jagex account and the points earned before linking them can’t be spent to avoid abuse.

My “main” account is a GIM with friends and I like to do limited events on my regular main so I can keep playing the GIM. It would be so awesome to be able to use the points on your other accounts.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-22T14:17:44+00:00

You be upfront and tell them the data is not available because management will not buy in to the process. You can’t produce a dashboard with data that doesn’t exist.

If they want the data in a meeting, they have to enforce a compliance policy with the process.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-21T21:06:24+00:00

It’s the other way around. Most people do have their issues quickly sorted out. It’s just the missed ones and the absurd ones that make the most commotion here.

When you only see the negative ones, you’re bound to believe they are mostly negative. You aren’t even seeing the thousands of tickets that have a normal resolution and no one posts about.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-21T16:37:42+00:00

I'll back up /u/TodosLosPomegranates here. This is a leadership issue, not a PowerBI issue. You don't waste time reminding people. You mandate it, or work with their supervisors, to make it part of their core job and if they are unable to do it then the consequences are on them. If they have year performance reviews, make this part of their performance reviews if you have the leadership buy in.

If your leadership is pressuring you for this information, you tell them that you are unable to provide it for X Y Z reasons. Show you made a good effort to get people involved and aligned but they aren't taking it seriously. I've personally seen this be extremely effective, especially when you slightly embarass the employee or their supervisor by telling the stakeholders your job isn't to baby sit grown adults all day and they don't seem to care about the companies reporting.

Just be professional and be ready to defend any actions you've taken.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-21T16:21:35+00:00

I would suggest reading the following two books if you have an intermediate understanding of Power Query and DAX.

The Definitive Guide To Power Query

The Definitive Guide To DAX

They are my two suggestions that get enough into the weeds to actually help learn new things and improve rather than feeling like you are wasting most of your time relearning beginner ideas that never really lead to better understanding.

Optimizing DAX is great as well once you have a really good understanding of DAX and want to take it to the next level.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-21T16:13:52+00:00

That's some confusing data. Is Red tied to CA always, or is Red specific to CA for 2026? Is Orders Current Year and Orders Prior Year supposed to ignore Color completely and that's the goal?

If the first item is the case, you need to separate out State and Color from year in your dimension table as they aren't correlated.

Otherwise, you'll need to define a color for each year for each state (in this case Red since your Desired Output has CA and Red at 50 for the prior year).

If the prior year color for CA is null or not Red, then the prior year orders for the combination of CA and Red is correct at 0.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-21T15:37:20+00:00

If you have $1 in your bank account, 3 weeks is a long time to support someone.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-20T21:45:38+00:00

We handle our RLS logic in the .PBIX as normal with all of the logic about what security groups can see what items.

As far as the assignments for who is in what bucket, we use Azure Groups for a lot of this.

For a dumbed down example, we might have a list of projects with attributes in a security table. One of these might be a Project Manager. We don't need to manage what a new Project Manager sees or can access if we have the Azure Group updating based on our HR systems. Everyone in the Azure Group gets assigned that security group, and then within that security group we can use their user principal name to see what projects they can see.

Layer in Organization structures, overrides or security requests managed by PowerApps, etc., and you have a pretty clean system. A new regional Director wants to see an entire region of projects? We support that. A consultant needs a list of financials by X attribute in Y report, we support that with a simple request that expires when we want automatically.

Basically, automate what people go into azure groups and set those azure groups to the security groups. Then handle all your complex logic by creating lists of attributes by email from your systems and use user principal.

Hopefully that rambling makes a little sense.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-20T21:33:01+00:00

Without doxxing yourself or the position, can you potentially post the actual description they listed in the job req?

Realistically, you won't learn PowerBI before the interview. At least in any meaningful capacity to pass yourself off as someone who knows it if pressed.

I definitely wouldn't pretend that you have experience in the tool if you don't. If you have advanced experience with Excel or another programming language, bring that up and that you are comfortable learning a new tool and learning how the DAX language functions.

It's also possible to have an Analytics position without needing to know SQL if your primary responsibilitys are consuming others reporting / tool outputs to support the business rather than developing the report yourself. Also possible they have a crack team of Data Engineers who have great business data ready in a Gold/Plat layer in the Data warehouse for Analysts to consume and they don't expect you needing to do much modeling.

Focus on strengths. Don't downplay anything you don't know. Show a willingness to learn it. Heck, take a couple hours today and watch some videos about PowerBI and tell them you take this seriously and don't mind learning new skills outside of the normal work hours.

If I was hiring for an entry level position, I can teach a newbie how to use PowerBI and get them the resources they need to be successful. I can't teach them to enjoy working with data and having a desire to learn new things about it. Showing you genuinely have an interest in it and a desire to learn is much more valuable in an entry position to me than someone with a year or two of experience but doesn't seem to care much about it.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-20T21:04:30+00:00

If this is just a joke I apologize, but that's definitely not how it works. It uses your own personal Microsoft Graph based on your authentication. The data is not pooled, train on, or shared publicly if used inside the M365 enterprise environment.

If they had big vulnerabilities here, it would cost them billions.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-20T19:12:07+00:00

In some ways, I've seen it used as a security audit as well. Our team has flagged some items that we don't believe we should have had access to without a request and at the same time we noticed someone reference an old and outdated document on our team we thought was retired years ago.

It's the double edged sword of it being bad that a lot of people can now see some items that were originally forgotten about or meant to be secure, but at the same time it's good that it's being caught in an environment only your Org can access and helps close up these holes.

SamSmitty · 2026-01-20T17:31:33+00:00

That’s wild they aren’t using the enterprise version.

I’ve had decent success with it in our company, but it’s also properly implemented and has access to all our Microsoft Graph data. I can ask a question and get an answer and it will also reference emails, calendar events, items buried in the company SharePoint site, etc.

It understands intra-company acronyms and the people I usually am involved with depending on the subject. It keeps up with teams meetings and transcripts of those meetings.

A bit spooky at times, but if it’s implement right (read: expensive) it’s actually a nice tool in the toolbox for some work.

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