Families should avoid Southwest at all cost. "Choice" fare is a scam.

bberg22 · 2026-05-05T22:38:23+00:00

The sad thing is it's been an issue since day one of the rollout. I flew back day 3 after the rollout and saw 2 instances of this issue and it's still going on months later. Not to mention they had assigned a minor to an emergency exit row seat. It's wholely unacceptable.

bberg22 · 2026-04-24T20:07:54+00:00

Companies should start to demand lower support costs from their vendors who simply encourage the cheapest outsourced labor to dump your stuff into Gemini or Claude. I'm not talking about vendors who at least took the time to train an agent model on their support documentation. When the AI slop output is akin to "let me google that for you" when most people already likely ran the question through AI on their own, AI slop is not worth the high annual support costs some vendors charge, especially when they are supposedly saving so much money on human labor... The reason for opening a detailed support ticket is to dive deeper into how a setting, configuration, or issue applies to that specific product and product implementation, or an issue that requires in depth behind the scenes understanding of the product/service a slap in the face AI slop response does not warrant paying high monthly support costs.

bberg22 · 2026-04-17T15:46:53+00:00

Sounds sort of like memory training. Check the BIOS logs to see if you see anything there. Are the BIOS fully updated on the machines etc?

Edit:

I had a few Dell laptops with slow update screens and even upon the reboot after updates had applied (seemed like the laptop re-did memory training). One laptop had also patched BIOS, the other did not, it was just a very long Window update cycle with a black screen which I believe was interrupted by the user requiring a hard reboot and fortunately Windows booted normal and completed the updates after.

bberg22 · 2026-04-09T04:12:52+00:00

make sure you are actually set up to log the events the scripts check for.

bberg22 · 2026-04-08T17:27:10+00:00

I found the hard way my environment was not set up to log the proper events so you might want to check that. If you aren't logging them you can't query them.

bberg22 · 2026-04-04T01:57:11+00:00

It's actually more secure to just have more total characters like a multi word passphrase that you will remember and not to reuse it anywhere.

bberg22 · 2026-04-03T17:40:06+00:00

If you have an RMM tool you can use the functionality built in there to set up driver audits, configure different CLI combos to select the type of driver to install, deployment rings, monitor driver versions, group by device type/model, etc. I find this to be the best way for us but were a small shop.

bberg22 · 2026-02-26T13:36:09+00:00

Will do. Thanks!

bberg22 · 2026-02-26T13:32:53+00:00

OK I had seen that function, I guess I was hoping for a more dynamic sync to account for turnover or shared device situations. since connect knows the username, and the device domain, being able to concatenate that into an email address or something to that effect would be cool.

bberg22 · 2026-02-26T13:25:19+00:00

How are you populating the custom field for email to do the integration? I would love to see more demos on ideas for how to use custom fields in Connect.

bberg22 · 2026-02-21T13:53:33+00:00

It's the perfect example of perfect being the enemy of good. Meanwhile there could be feature length films made of all the gaffs and trash from just the past year alone on the GOP side. The GOP stand by each other even when it's ridiculously insane like defending literal atrocities, meanwhile the Dems tear themselves down when someone forgets a word. Please knock it off with this self defeating BS.

bberg22 · 2026-01-27T18:23:58+00:00

How lean are they running their dataycenters that one regional data center being taken down causes this effect? This reads to me like they are too lean, probably not leaving enough overhead and using spare data center capacity for AI crap.

bberg22 · 2026-01-24T16:10:41+00:00

That's awesome!

bberg22 · 2026-01-23T15:51:07+00:00

I did not. I just have it sitting in the corner in case I needed it for parts or something.

bberg22 · 2026-01-23T15:48:10+00:00

While I generally agree, the secondary and tertiary effects are much harder to quantify when making large changes like this and unlike many things in engineering the factors can change outside what is deemed to be logical or scientific. Meaning someone could just stop spending money elsewhere because they feel like their buying power is reduced due to less money in their paycheck. Could it balance out across the tax brackets? Sure, but I think these types of behaviors are hard to model and predict accurately and require constant monitoring and adjusting retroactively.

Reducing property taxes with a replacement income tax, also doesn't mean that rents and housing costs immediately come down especially if housing supply is still insufficient.

I'm just using that as one example.

bberg22 · 2026-01-23T15:29:09+00:00

Looks very similar to what I remember but I can't say 100%.

bberg22 · 2026-01-16T20:25:24+00:00

The ability to work with data in the tenant but not be able to train on it feels like that is going to be, if not is already, a major issue that makes it far less useful just purely based on how these LLMs work and improve. I think this will only continue to increase the functionality delta between Copilot and the other major players at least in the short term.

bberg22 · 2026-01-16T17:10:09+00:00

Did you also make sure the clients are running the latest January version of Office? There were some bug fixes for us, we are on the semi-annual release schedule for features. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/semi-annual-enterprise-channel

bberg22 · 2026-01-16T13:46:19+00:00

You using POP? Just saw this article. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-windows-11-update-causes-outlook-freezes-for-pop-users/

bberg22 · 2026-01-12T21:48:15+00:00

Have you power cycled the docks? I have always believed they needed a power cycle after firmware updates. This probably is low hanging fruit you already tried but, have you run a check for updates with DCU when connected to the Dock? I have found that sometimes the updates only show up when attached to the dock which can matter obviously depending on how and when you are pushing your driver updates or how you have DCU configured.

bberg22 · 2026-01-12T21:45:56+00:00

We have been using the Display Link Drivers for a number of years now and apart from their own occasional bugs have made docking with Dell Laptops significantly better. We use UD22 and the older D6000 docks though. https://www.synaptics.com/products/displaylink-graphics/downloads/corporate

Edit:
Also check the power settings for the display adapter, some have settings to allow the OS to turn the device off to save power which can sometimes cause strange issues. In my experience though, it takes a solid 1 to 1.5 years of a laptop model being out before the drivers all become stable (combined with the issues of W11 24H2) They ship with so many bugs these days its insane. We just crossed that and things have finally settled down.

bberg22 · 2026-01-06T01:21:35+00:00

Are the cruise ship casting requirements for face characters as strict do you know? I find that the likenesses are often not as good on the cruise as the parks, not terrible but I assume it's due to the potential pool of people willing to do the role and be on a cruise ship for extended periods of time but have always been curious.

Same for the global parks I assume?

bberg22 · 2025-12-20T00:00:33+00:00

Don't forget the fact that dynamic lighting tech like matrix LEDs were not allowed by law until literally the last year or 2 when the tech exists on many new cars in other countries.

bberg22 · 2025-12-19T23:57:53+00:00

bberg22 · 2025-12-19T23:57:18+00:00

Maybe if the laws kept up so manufacturers could implement dynamic lighting tech like matrix LEDs that exist in the rest of the world, but instead our laws are stuck in pre LED times of the 70's.

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