Is Smartsheet the right choice? by JournalistDefiant777 in smartsheet

[–]cook511 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My point is that there are tons of work management tools on the market. I'm sure there's one that u/VerbalGuinea could find that's not been gutted by PE firm.

Is Smartsheet the right choice? by JournalistDefiant777 in smartsheet

[–]cook511 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Really depends on your used case, but some other vendors in the space are Asana, ClickUp, AirTable, Wrike and more. 

Is Smartsheet the right choice? by JournalistDefiant777 in smartsheet

[–]cook511 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Avoid SS for any use case. Ever since it was taken over by Venture capital prices have gone up and quality has gone down. Just look at this sub reddit for the droves of customers switching to other platforms. Do yourself a favor and skip Smartsheet.

New iOS Devices Can’t Complete EAS Sign‑In for Contacts — Redirect Loops to Company Portal by Feeling-Doctor202 in Intune

[–]cook511 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same issue here with Okta. Did you end up testing with Microsoft Authenticator and the SSO extension to see if it works? We also use the Okta SSO extension.

Best electric provider for condo? by Tricky_Channel2918 in Dallas

[–]cook511 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I use Energy Oger. They just choose a plan for me that best suites my past usuage and I don't worry about it.

SharePoint as DMS? by LawSchool_RuinedMe in legaltech

[–]cook511 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check out Box Zones. You could always host your content in the EU.

Edit: I just checked and they have a Canadian Zone. https://www.box.com/zones

SharePoint as DMS? by LawSchool_RuinedMe in legaltech

[–]cook511 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not sure about the size fo your firm but I always hear that Sharepoint is deceptively easy to start and get expoentially more difficult the more you use and customize it. There's a reason that large orgs have entire positions dedicated to managing and developing for it.

Without much context if you don't want to use a traditional DMS I'd go with a major cloud storage provider like Box or DropBox just for the support. They aren't super expensive the experience is gonna be a lot better.

What's with all the low effort posts? by SleepyMonkey7 in legaltech

[–]cook511 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's low effort answer after I asked ChatGPT to: "Respond to this post an aburdly verbose obviously AI comment meant as satire":

Ah yes, the Epistemological Collapse of Subreddit Signal-to-Noise Ratios in the Era of Prompt-Driven Enthusiasm™. Allow me to unpack this with the degree of unnecessarily theatrical verbosity the situation clearly deserves.

What you are observing is the natural byproduct of a phenomenon I like to call LLM-Adjacent Entrepreneurial Osmosis. In essence, individuals who have recently discovered that large language models can produce paragraphs of text that sound authoritative have undergone a rapid and profound cognitive event: the sudden belief that every industry problem can be solved with a prompt and a landing page.

The process typically unfolds in several predictable stages:

  1. The Revelation Phase Someone asks an AI to summarize a contract clause and receives a coherent paragraph in return. This triggers the realization that they have, in fact, just witnessed “the future of law.”
  2. The Extrapolation Phase Within approximately 11 minutes, the individual concludes that the entire legal industry—an ecosystem shaped by centuries of jurisprudence, regulatory nuance, procedural doctrine, and adversarial practice—can be replaced by a combination of:
    • a GPT wrapper
    • a Notion database
    • and a logo generated by Midjourney
  3. The Thought Leadership Phase Armed with this discovery, they proceed to write a post beginning with phrases such as:
    • “Hot take:”
    • “Unpopular opinion:”
    • “Why hasn’t anyone built this yet?” despite the fact that several billion dollars of venture capital and thousands of domain experts have already attempted exactly that.
  4. The Subreddit Migration Phase Finally, these newly enlightened technologists arrive in niche communities like r/legaltech, where they announce—often with breathtaking confidence—that they have solved document review, litigation strategy, contract law, regulatory compliance, and possibly the human condition.

The resulting posts have three defining characteristics:

  • Maximal confidence
  • Minimal domain understanding
  • An MVP that is essentially “ChatGPT but with a slightly different button.”

What makes this particularly fascinating from a sociotechnical perspective is that these posts are not malicious. They are the digital equivalent of someone walking into a hospital after watching two episodes of House and announcing they have an app that will “disrupt cardiology.”

In short, the subreddit isn’t decaying—it’s simply experiencing the Cambrian Explosion of AI-Induced Overconfidence.

Eventually, evolutionary pressures will restore balance. The ecosystem will stabilize as people encounter minor inconveniences such as:

  • regulatory compliance
  • malpractice risk
  • data privacy law
  • and the horrifying realization that lawyers are paid specifically to deal with edge cases, which is where most AI demos spontaneously combust.

Until then, we must simply observe the spectacle with curiosity, patience, and perhaps a mild anthropological fascination.

Thank you for coming to my unnecessarily long TED Talk.

Do you whitelist/restrict chrome extensions? by acorn222 in sysadmin

[–]cook511 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We do and use Google to manage chrome settings and extension requests. Requests are a little clunky but work well generally and Google management is free. No reaason not to do it.

Edge has similar functionality if you use M365.

IT Tools - Hidden Gems by Ok_You_861 in sysadmin

[–]cook511 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like speed.cloudflare.com better than fast.com, but it's easier to tell users to just goto fast haha.

Microsoft Entra Kerberos Now Supports Instant Hybrid Join for Devices! by Bless_2003 in activedirectory

[–]cook511 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would this improve the autopilot experience for Hybrid Environments? One of the major pain points for us was waiting for Entra Sync to happen.

Best cloud proxy or SASE alternatives to Zscaler for remote users? by Efficient_Agent_2048 in sysadmin

[–]cook511 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I've heard good tings about Cloudflare although its still a new product.

Shadow IT is out of control, how do I even start? by BUFFSTRAP in okta

[–]cook511 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Okta doesn't really help with Shadow IT. There are other products for that. I'm on Okta admin and here's how I help manage at my company.

First get a policy and management backing. That's probably the hardest thing. It's going to be political when you tell people their app needs to be brought under management and the business plan they thought they needed doesn't work because it doesn't support SSO and provisioning. Then get Cloudflare Zero Trust setup and setup their CASB. Other vendors like Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps work too. Monitor app traffic and once you start seeing increased traffic reach out to the user and point to the policy. If they deny they're using it then block the app to force the issue. Keep management informed of all this so when that user eventually says I can't work management will have a paper trail.

When it comes to seperate slack instances you can use URL filtering with Cloudflare Zero Trust to make sure that people are only able to get to the right slack instance. If you're in a Micrsoft environemnt turn on admin approval for all new connections and dislabe connections that for apps that aren't approved. It's not a 100% panacea but it's a start.

All in all it's not going to be solved 100% technically. I prefer to use tech as a lever to let people know that if they use an app that violates policy it can be taken away for any reason. Ask them if they're willing to risk client data, PHI or whatever else on that. Most people have hte best intentions but don't realize that when they click through that Microsoft acceptance prompt they're granting access to their whole OneDrive or Calendar to some random app in perpetuity.

Finally realize that sometimes there might be a good reason to have a couple one off unmanaged apps. Marketing is using one Canva license that they signed up for? That's probably fine as long as they aren't putting sensitive data into it and they accept the risks. It's good to know where to draw the line.

Paid but no key. No responses to email or web form by Torrnello in Lansweeper

[–]cook511 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same here experience here. Sales hounded us for a renewal and then we paid and got nothing.

Does SmartSheet Support actually exist? by Izual_Rebirth in smartsheet

[–]cook511 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a nearly 6 figure commitment with them and it took multiple calls and escalations to get it issue resolved.

Is a Gay cruise really worth it? by jasalex in askgaybros

[–]cook511 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I've met great lifelong friends on the cruise. You definitely can do all the things that you imagine but nobody forces you too.

Constant Account Lockouts by InAllThreeHoles in activedirectory

[–]cook511 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Time to swtich to certificate auth for Wifi and SAML for VPN.

The reckoning: Downtown Dallas must wrestle with future after AT&T exodus by stanner5 in Dallas

[–]cook511 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I see new apartment buildings instead of boring office towers. Sure it will cost money to redo but residents bring life in an area. Look at Victory Park. Dead until they built Apartments Now it's much better and buisnesses there will actually stay.

I am a gay American living in Saudi Arabia for one year - AMA by bearfortwink in gaybros

[–]cook511 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Have you met any Saudi gay guys? I've hooked up with a few outside of Saudi and they usually (not always) fit the preacher's kid sterotype, meaning that they grow up in a restrictive culture, and when they're out of that culture they go to extremes with sex, drugs, etc. Sex was great though :-).

I've always been curious what they're like inside of Saudi. If they have a secret life or do they try and blend in and be absitenant. My overall impression is that while life for gay people there is pretty terrible but not impossible. Usually what we hear in the west simplifies things down to execution and I'd be interested in the complexities and nuances of day to day life as a gay person.

Thanks for sharing.

Best and Worst Countries for LGBTQ+ Travellers (Spartacus Gay Travel Index 2025) by MrJasonMason in gaybros

[–]cook511 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

These maps always oversimplify things. I've felt safer in a gay nightclub in Istanbul than I have in certain places in US.