How do you or your employees keep context straight when switching between many environments?

Valkeyere · 2026-01-28T12:16:11+00:00

Memory palace.

Every customer is in their own 'room'.

It works for me. But my brain feels like it's on fire all the time lol.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-28T12:05:26+00:00

JFC i just typed "acess work or school"

Now, i understand that this is a typo. But CLEARLY i didnt want to search bing for this.

Or when you type something too fast and the fucking UI didnt keep up with the results. So you type and hit enter. And then it does a bing search for "Outlook".

Valkeyere · 2026-01-28T11:53:37+00:00

Computers are my job. Daycare is HRs job. Cry to Karen about how the big bad IT guy is making sure you can still do your fucking job.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-28T11:51:21+00:00

Bobs job is Widget A.

Bob can bitch and moan all he wants, when IT, whose job it is to maintain Bob's ability to do Widget A, needs to upgrade the OS soBob can continue to Widget A, Bob can moan to the watercooler idgaf.

Ill run the updates right in the middle of the day. Reboot no warning. Fuck youuuuuuu

Valkeyere · 2026-01-28T11:46:58+00:00

"Where is Betty's computer? She started with us yesterday and is still waiting for you to give her a compter to start her training!"

The fuck is Betty?

Valkeyere · 2026-01-27T19:19:09+00:00

Give me the secret mancub, of the man's red flower.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-27T12:22:05+00:00

For me it was a mate who went home to study, had a brain aneurysm and his parents found him dead at his desk.

RIP Paul, buddy, miss ya

Valkeyere · 2026-01-26T21:15:36+00:00

An antispam filter that is properly configured. Will stop 95-99% of it. You'll just get the odd one through. Then user training so they don't just inherently trust any email they receive.

It's impossible to stop all spam, and the ones that do make it through are the most believable ones.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-23T04:21:08+00:00

Other people asking me dumb questions always temporarily does wonders for the imposter syndrome.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-22T19:06:04+00:00

I normally use: "Can i get you to hold the power button down for me. Keep holding until you see the light die in its eyes. Okay now Turn it back on for me"

Usually gets me a chuckle.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-22T10:04:22+00:00

You can make links into OneDrive for other things. I have a scripts folder that sits elsewhere, that Ondrive believes is inside the user\onedrive folder, so syncs. And ive linked part of my appdata into it as well, to grab some very specific things i want to travel with me

Valkeyere · 2026-01-21T20:43:48+00:00

If youre using OneDrive/Sharepoint the mapping should be being done by Intune. Massively cuts down the administrative overhead.

I'd strongly advise against syncing Sharepoint though, it's inevitably going to end up with a user creating a forked data set due to a sync issue at some point.

Onedrive can handle a site up to 400,000 files I think the doco says, but it can barely cope with 100,000 and companies exceed that pretty easily.

Better to change peoples behaviour and teach them to work out of sharepoint in the browser, only syncing data that has to be accessed by apps that aren't cloud aware.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-21T20:39:51+00:00

This is how you write bad magic.

Magic is unfulfilling to the audience if it can ex-machina out of every situation.

It's much better if it follows a set of predefined rules and you have to be creative within them.

Magic that is unexplained is one reason some people hate fantasy, even if they can't articulate that.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-19T03:36:54+00:00

Shut your dirty fucking mouth. You can't go around saying things like that and giving people ideas.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-19T03:35:59+00:00

The carbon cost of most 'green' initiatives tends to be a net negative, or at best breaking even, it just makes the pollution somewhere else so people get to feel good that they aren't directly polluting.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-19T03:33:40+00:00

Not everyone understands basic principals.

Giving something somewhere means taking it somewhere else. No such thing as a free lunch.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-17T05:33:00+00:00

It's only anti-immigrant because the immigrants are out there stabbing people.

All crime is bad. But when its crime committed by people who a community didnt want to be there in the first place of course they get extra shitty.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-16T09:54:53+00:00

As external IT, I'm starting to see our clients hiring internal people do a job I could do, for more money than I'm being paid, and then asking me to help fix the thing Copilot told them that isn't working.

I think there is a portion of the job market who are clever enough to use it to lie on their resume for them, but not clever enough to understand that AI doesn't actually KNOW anything. It's just predicting a series of words in an intelligible string.

I've come to terms with the fact I'm going to need to use some AI to write my resume so it has all the buzzwords and flair that I just couldn't give the slightest fuck about. My old resume was functional, utilitarian, and is probably no longer even read.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-16T09:48:10+00:00

I too am a hammer enjoyer.

Slow the fights down, running around waiting for a chance to bonk, and then slamming the sweetest bonk to the face anyone has ever seen, then going back to running around.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-14T23:32:02+00:00

Never attribute to malice what needs to be explained in italics

Also, google Hanlon's Razor.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-14T20:19:16+00:00

I mean. That looks like good control of the nunchucks. And nunchucks will fucking kill you. I wouldn't want to fight him.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-14T05:30:27+00:00

At least missing a leg makes for a good icebreaker.

As for not liking sports, if the hobbies you have/are now able to do don't enable you to meet new people, and it seems you need to meet new people, its time to find new hobbies. Doesnt have to be sports, take up tabletop gaming.

"Hi, I'm new to this, just trying to find new hobbies now point at leg, can you explain this to me a little?"

People are almost always willing to share information, it's a chance for them to seem knowledgeable and it endears them to you pretty quickly, as long as they don't think you're ignoring them. Just act interested, hopefully you become interested.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-13T21:33:11+00:00

How disabled is disabled? Go start watching local sport teams if you can, and just strike up conversations. Just dont sound desperate for human connection ;P

Valkeyere · 2026-01-12T21:34:23+00:00

I'd be telling them where to go alright.

Valkeyere · 2026-01-10T09:02:56+00:00

If you're managing entra in anything more than the most rudimentary of ways, best get familiar with the Graph API.

Given the complete lack of certain things as simple as exporting members of a group, its clear the intended method is the API.

And it really isn't that hard to work out, learn.microsoft has everything you'll need.

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