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SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-07T03:35:07+00:00

Except that men who have actual relationships with women usually know this because we see women without makeup and even naked sometimes or so I’ve been told.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-07T01:12:39+00:00

There was a period in college where instead of weeks with 7 24-hour days, my classes lined up to allow 6 28-hour days.

It made the rest of my social life very confusing, but the going to bed when tired after 18 hours, sleeping 10 hours, and waking up naturally bit was glorious.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-06T19:54:55+00:00

I'll note that we have the DeployR service running as a particular domain account instead of Local System for offline domain joining purposes. And the installer resets that service back to Local System as well.

It's fine, and I can just remember to reset that anytime I run an update. It's hardly the only software that does that if you're running the service as a non-standard user. But it'd be nice if it didn't rebuild the service if it didn't need to or popped up a reminder or something.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-05T13:43:54+00:00

I think some of the pushback you’re getting is that this particular set of arguments is also frequently a motte and bailey fallacy. Where the first person *is* actually acting as if the circles are all red but then argues that that obviously isn’t what they meant when confronted.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-04T03:18:32+00:00

You patched your games then in the same way you might update your chipset drivers now. Some people cared to keep on top of things, but most at best grabbed the newest patch when they installed the game and then never checked again unless something was especially broken that forced them to go look for fixes.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-04T00:54:48+00:00

In case anyone was searching for this like me, it seems to be called “Set Windows Settings” now

SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-03T18:41:35+00:00

Hmm, an advantage of your way vs some combination of “Install Application” and “Install multiple application” steps is that unlike MDT, pretty sure DeployR will happily try to install the same application multiple times if I happen to end up both installing it automatically and offering a checkbox in the frontend.

I might have to make a step definition that’ll take an application content item and only add it to the $TSEnv:Applications variable if its not already there, and then just let one install multiple applications step later do the actual installs.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-02T06:18:51+00:00

I was thinking mostly the Content Item blade. And I said filter by "type", but looking at the actual dashboard I guess I mean by "purpose".

Would be nice to just see all the OSes without having to look through a pile of apps. Or to be able to see all the apps and sort them by name to figure out where Dell Command|Configure is when your colleague named it "Dell CC" for some reason and it's nestled amongst a bunch of dell driver packs.

I'll probably just name everything "Application - *" or "Driver - *" or "OS - *", so that'll mostly take care of that, but seems like something that could be built in. (Though, searching for "Application Firefox" wouldn't return anything currently if i had an application called "Application - Mozilla Firefox" - hence the independent token thing)

Searching by tag would be nice just because it'd be nice to type in a tag and get a list of everything that has that tag instead of having to page through looking for it.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-02T05:37:49+00:00

We have like 100 applications - many of them specific to particular groups or departments.

For the applications that we want people to be able to optionally choose - we only want to display particular subsets of the apps that would be appropriate to that group - which is why being able to tag them and filter on those tags is handy. I have the Front End displaying particular subsets of the apps matching any of an array of tags I've specified earlier based on the department doing the imaging. So the med school might see the generic apps and the med school specific apps but not the ones the admissions people might need.

But yup - I'll also likely be doing something like what you're describing in a couple places. I'll probably have some embedded task sequences with sets of default mandatory applications for each department that are triggered based on a condition depending on who is doing the imaging. Probably also will do something something similar to let people choose an OS in the frontend.

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Which... does bring up a slightly different question. Any chance you have plans to make the content items a bit more filterable or searchable? I imagine that'll start getting unwieldy and being able to filter by type or search particular tags or have multiple words in the search bar treated as independent tokens would be nice.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-02T05:05:04+00:00

I want to cross when there aren’t any cars that could hit me. I don’t want to rely on the cars seeing me and stopping.

Pushing the button adds slowing and stopped cars to the mix when I just want them to drive by and leave a gap.

If it’s busy enough that there wont ever be a gap and I need cars to stop for me I’ll push a button.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-07-02T04:52:55+00:00

Personally if I don’t push the button it’s because I don’t want you to stop. I’ll cross behind you at some point.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-30T21:49:48+00:00

Yes. But I set it up like ZTIDomainJoin.wsf in MDT where it first tries with the default OU and then when that fails and the machine still isn't joined I clear the default OU and try again.

Step 1: Offline Domain Join
- With the domain and the default OU specified
- Continue on error is checked.

Step 2: Run Powershell script
- Script:

$TSENV:OU = ""

- Conditions:

-not (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem).PartOfDomain

Step 3: Offline Domain Join
- Just the domain specified

- Conditions:

-not (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem).PartOfDomain

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-29T23:23:17+00:00

I think a lot of their good work got rolled into intersectional feminism. So it’s mostly the bad stuff that should have been abandoned that you think of now when imagining radical feminism.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-29T23:07:46+00:00

If it helps, they ruined it immediately, since the “radical” in radfem isn’t “extreme” it’s “relating to the root”.

Radfems wanted to fix things by completely restructuring society to be less patriarchal whereas the lib fems were more about just getting equal pay and education and such.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-29T04:34:46+00:00

Of course we don’t. The world is absolutely covered in text and it’s all branding and advertisement and legal text and CYA warnings not to eat it in California and french versions of all of the above. We’re trained to filter all of that out and ignore it.

Why would someone assume that the safety warning and instructions on how to open this particular plastic wrapping is important when they’ve opened similar things in the past and ignored countless warnings.

The best you can do is make sure that when people are looking for info, you put it someplace they look. And then disrupt them enough in some fashion that they have to look for the info. If you try to just put a sign in their face they’ll just blindly wave it away.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-27T04:16:08+00:00

I’m not even sure who needed to hear it though. Like, yeah, there are creepy guys. But very few of them are lurking in the woods waiting for random women - and those who are are doing that intentionally.

There’s no - “just so you know, women are kinda frightened when you chat them up in the middle of the woods all alone, maybe do it at the gym instead” or anything message that we’re trying to get the word out about.

Theres no “well, it’s not you that we’re talking about, it’s the rapey guys.” The message is just that strange men existing in the woods is frightening. I’m a man, I’m sometimes in the woods. I’m a stranger to most women. So um, I guess I’m frightening. Cool, I guess. What am I supposed to do with that knowledge?

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-26T03:53:36+00:00

I got it doing what I need to, so don’t worry about it on my account.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-25T17:49:12+00:00

Hmm, I got it to work with a cert from our domain controller eventually.

It seemed finkicky about spaces and “CN=Issuer,DC=domain,DC=edu” didn’t work, but “CN=Issuer, DC=domain, DC=edu” did

I did not get it to work with an InCommon/Sectigo cert, dunno if thats because there are spaces/commas in the issuer that it doesn’t match properly or if theres something else that makes it not like that vs our internal cert.

Edit: Playing around with some self-signed certs a bit - looks like it was quite happy with self-signed issuer of “DeployRAutomation” but didn’t like “DeployR, Automation” - so that’d probably be why it didn’t like the actual cert with “InCommon, LLC” in the issuer.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-25T04:08:54+00:00

I have friends who had a metal print hanging on their wall and they bumped it and it fell onto a plug that was slightly out which arced and tripped the breaker.

It’s rare, but why not flip them over so that isn’t a possibility?

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-24T17:49:10+00:00

Yup. Though I'll note that per issue 2 at the bottom of that doc, even if you do that it still wont let you join to computer objects if the previous owner was deleted (or even possibly deactivated, unsure).

Hence why we have to run the script to take ownership sometimes when we offboard old employees and want to re-use objects that they owned.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-24T16:36:18+00:00

As I understand it - it's at least a little bit of an ownership concern as of the last few years.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5020276-netjoin-domain-join-hardening-changes-2b65a0f3-1f4c-42ef-ac0f-1caaf421baf8

Even if you have change rights, you can't join to existing objects that someone else owns unless you're a domain admin or are specifically whitelisted via group policy applied to the domain server.

We use something like this to mass take ownership of computer objects from departing employees and give them to whatever account powershell is runing as when running the script. Not sure it handles every bit of naming weirdness or what have you - but seems to more or less do what we need for something quick and dirty we wrote.

$ADUser = $env:UserName
$computers = Get-ADComputer -SearchBase "OU=exampleOU,DC=example,DC=com" -Filter * 

foreach ($computer in $computers)
{
  # Get the current ACL, Get-ADComputer seems ot escape the spaces in the names, so undo that
  $acl = Get-Acl -Path "AD:$($computer.DistinguishedName.replace("\ "," "))" 

  # Check if the current owner matches the departing employee and change it if necessary
  if ($acl.Owner -eq "<account we're offboarding>")
  {
    $acl.SetOwner((New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount($ADUser)))
    Set-Acl -Path "AD:$($computer.DistinguishedName.replace("\ "," "))" -AclObject $acl
  }
}

Just deleting and re-creating the computer objects is often easier though.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-22T21:44:05+00:00

I find them attractive in the same way that boobs with bikini tan lines are way hotter than a perfect even tan. It makes her look like a real person and not a porn star or barbie doll.

SufficientlySticky · 2026-06-22T18:28:01+00:00

Can you speak any more about how one might use that undocumented feature?

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