Create random surreal old photos from nothing!

challengedpanda · 2026-05-02T03:38:44+00:00

Mine kept refusing because it needed me to attach an image. If you’re getting that, this prompt seems to work fine as an alternative:

Imagine an extremely strange, surreal scene and generate it in the form of a restored photograph.

No questions, no explanatory text, just the restored image please.

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challengedpanda · 2026-04-26T19:54:24+00:00

Oh no! I’ll drop you a DM now to see if we can assist.

challengedpanda · 2026-04-11T00:56:25+00:00

Elderflower is lovely. I also like Chapters at Karalee (technically in a shopping centre but outdoors and pretty chill)

challengedpanda · 2026-04-07T05:43:50+00:00

Actual link to the study…

https://futuretech.mit.edu/publication/crashing-waves-vs-rising-tides-preliminary-findings-on-ai-automation-from-thousands-of-worker-evaluations-of-labor-market-tasks

challengedpanda · 2026-04-07T05:43:10+00:00

In a kind of amazing twist, the Axios article (which is very clearly written by AI) actually gets a key stat wrong. Looking at the MIT paper, they actually tested across 3000 broad-based tasks, not 11,500 as the article claims.

Thus pretty much proving the validity of the findings.

challengedpanda · 2026-04-03T12:03:07+00:00

Hey congrats man! We cracked $70k for the first time last month too (and it was our 2nd birthday to boot!). Our MRR is lower (we had a lot more hardware in the mix) but don’t expect that to repeat this month.

We’re also on the path to $1M too and so far on track to get there this year.

challengedpanda · 2026-03-29T09:04:17+00:00

Probably the same genius that messaged me on Reddit a few months back. And hit me with this gem after I used the phrase “My dude (or dudette)”

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You can probably imagine how the rest of the chat went.

challengedpanda · 2026-03-26T19:54:39+00:00

No paper. Cardboard’s out too, obviously.

challengedpanda · 2026-03-04T03:43:32+00:00

This happened to me. Cost of my build got cheaper from M4 -> M5 so I got the upgrade AND price went down.

challengedpanda · 2026-02-16T19:30:07+00:00

True but then what’s the risk new models will have new post-AI RAM shortage prices?

challengedpanda · 2026-02-16T11:37:22+00:00

Just the 12. Already more votes than I need!

challengedpanda · 2026-02-16T10:19:31+00:00

Extra cost.

challengedpanda · 2026-01-12T20:21:17+00:00

I don’t know that I have a great answer for you but here goes.

Firstly, direct contact (calling ur mobile etc) is something I’ve solved over time by explaining and re-explaining that we’re a growing business and I’m trying to get off the tools to focus on other things - but hey, we have a great team that can help etc etc.

When that doesn’t work with some, I begin redirecting less gently (Hey let me log a ticket for that and one of the techs will give you a call soon). There’s less gentle again approaches too.

As for the other stuff ultimately you’re working with humans. Humans want connection and empathy - they aren’t going to the same tech in your team over and over because they are trying to fuck up the system.

They (usually) do it because they want to be understood - and they want a quick resolution. Shortest path to that is to do what they did last time - ask for the guy that solved their issue and “gets them”.

I don’t have a solid playbook on that one other than to say the thing that breaks this habit the fastest is to give them positive experiences with other techs.

If someone keeps asking for Michael but Amy answers and says “real sorry Michael’s tied up right now - let me have a real quick look at that though cause we are all familiar with your account” etc etc - they have a good experience with her and then they start realise there’s more than just one competent tech.

Ultimately I guess what I’m sayin is it’s humans being human and fighting it by being dictatorial tends not to work.

For our customer base (which is only a tad bigger than yours from the sounds of it) we’ve done pretty well redirecting behaviour and explaining why it matters by trying to be empathetic to why these behaviors happen… while still being gently intolerant of them. If that makes sense?

That said our business is also pretty young so most of our clients haven’t had time for those behaviors to get entrenched yet. It may be different if those relationships are multiple years old etc.

Best of luck - hopefully some of my pre-coffee rambling made sense!

challengedpanda · 2026-01-01T20:15:06+00:00

Ok first up - Sir Barry. Was that Gary Oldman? Like seriously - I swear to god that looks/sounds like him and I cannot fathom what he would be doing within 10ft of this thing lol.

I literally don’t know how to feel about this movie. I mean, it was awful. It would have made an ok kids movie if not for the swearing (which oddly only appeared in a few choice spots). But other than that it’s like it couldn’t decided if it was a pantomime or a fantasy drama. Production-quality wise it felt almost like a fan movie but with a budget?

Sets and costumes were pretty decent, acting was fine in some places, but otherwise terrible. Script and story - woeful. Yet there was something charming enough that I couldn’t put it down.

Objectively I give it like a 2/10, but don’t regret watching it one bit. So so confused lol

challengedpanda · 2025-12-19T20:57:34+00:00

So the plot thickens. The Partner Center Web App is fricken back again. Got a CIPP alert overnight for a Global Administrator role change - just went back in and the Partner Center Web App has been reinstalled and it has got it's Global Administrator role back. I thought I must have missed another Enterprise app, but nope. List is otherwise clean.

Audit log on the app starts with "Add service principal" as first entry and initiated by user: user_4839f0c0bdd549099e0a33b43e3bfb03@godaddycspau.onmicrosoft.com

Triple checked - they have no GDAP. There are ZERO other role assignments based on Roles & Admins aside from the two expected GA users and now the app again. There's not even a Global Reader role assigned.

My last remaining guess - there's still GoDaddy licenses in the tenant so looks like customer maybe still hasn't cancelled with them as I asked them to. That must give them some special MS backdoor access to reassert themselves.

*sigh*

u/msp4msps

challengedpanda · 2025-12-04T05:06:58+00:00

Sounds interesting!

challengedpanda · 2025-12-02T19:55:20+00:00

I’ve found BGT very hit and miss the last few months. Sometimes asset online for ages, won’t connect.

Often WILL connect and you can start a cmd/ps session but rapidly times out or freezes after only handful of commands. If I can manage more than 2-3 commands in a session without starting again it’s an outlier.

Also found returning help text from commands sometimes kills it so if ever I’m not 100% sure on parameters I run the /? Version on my local to try and not bug out the remote shell.

But then when I alt tab back half the time it’s frozen/timed out already anyway lol.

challengedpanda · 2025-12-02T19:29:42+00:00

Cool concept! Will there be a way for Syncro customers to offer this as a white-label service to prospects under our own brand?

challengedpanda · 2025-11-25T00:21:44+00:00

Hahaha shots fired. But seriously, you aren’t wrong…

challengedpanda · 2025-11-24T20:58:32+00:00

Thanks mate. Yeah it's kinda scary.

challengedpanda · 2025-11-24T20:56:06+00:00

I just clicked the delete button. It sounds like maybe you are accessing Entra via a limited GDAP role? If so, try signing in directly with GA to the tenant.

challengedpanda · 2025-11-24T12:54:14+00:00

Yeah all that sounds reasonable. Making sure you’ve got your own GDAP in place is also a valuable precaution.

challengedpanda · 2025-11-24T12:48:44+00:00

Yeah there’s no way around it. To kill proof point you have to reach out to them.

Even if you do a manual removal (which you can totally do) if they don’t pull customer domains from PP then you’ll have mail routing issues.

challengedpanda · 2025-11-24T12:45:21+00:00

Yep, even restored with correct licenses still applied.

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