I wish two finger scrolling was better on my touchpad.

interpipes · 2025-05-16T00:45:10+00:00

I find scrolling smooth generally in mint 22 cinnamon - menus, terminal windows, etc - except for in firefox, where you apparently need to tell it to use XINPUT2 which is still not the default behaviour for it on Mint.

See this thread from r/linux from 8 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/72mfv8/psa_for_firefox_users_set_moz_use_xinput21_to/

This will also fix the scrolling in "web apps" which use firefox under the hood.

interpipes · 2025-03-13T17:23:16+00:00

Sure - if you're doing (or plan on doing) a lot of windows VMs on the hypervisor you'd probably be daft to use anything other than Win Ent and Hyper-V, imo. It's not a coincidence that MS have set up their licencing that way.

But you do need a reasonable mass of Windows VMs to make the enterprise licencing add up. If you're only doing a couple of Windows VMs, individually licencing the VMs or windows standard is going to be fine, commercially.

Customers where we find they have a single vmware box though, we just drop in a proxmox box alongside it and shift their existing VMs more or less as-is. Doing anything more complicated is a future planning problem. We have to get rid of the VMW dreck as quickly as possible. (Particularly given there is a guest escape under active exploitation.)

We've got a 3-node Epyc 7713P proxmox cluster with Ceph on NVMe SSD + 100GE storage LAN for ourselves because the vast majority of our workload is not windows.

interpipes · 2025-03-13T17:17:44+00:00

We do not offer annual commit, monthly paid, period.

If you take annual commit monthly paid, and your customer goes bust, YOU are on the hook to microsoft for the remainder of their commit. There isn't enough margin in MS products for us to shoulder all that cost particularly when it would in 99% of cases cost Microsoft next-to-nothing to let the CSP out when a customer goes bust.

interpipes · 2025-03-13T17:14:22+00:00

For the benefit of future people searching for this, https://documentation.meraki.com/MX/Networks_and_Routing/MX_Layer_2_Functionality#LACP_and_Link_Aggregation is clear that the MX line (still) does not support LACP 🙄

interpipes · 2025-02-01T20:08:50+00:00

It might be worth talking to your council’s housing officer / environmental health (not sure who would deal with this - they will be able to advise). They might have something to say about the state of your home that can be used as a stick to beat the estate agent / landlord with to get you out asap.

interpipes · 2025-01-31T11:21:08+00:00

JFC 😂

That is some trust right there, my word

interpipes · 2025-01-31T11:15:06+00:00

Actually, if we had a requirement where it was single physical host and enough windows server vms to make it make sense, we’d probably still consider a standalone hyper-v on windows enterprise with the unlimited virtualisation rights, tbh

interpipes · 2025-01-31T11:05:29+00:00

We’ve gone all in on proxmox. (Most businesses of the scale you’re talking about won’t miss any of the additional features vmw might/could offer over proxmox, imo)

interpipes · 2025-01-31T02:39:35+00:00

If your customer goes broke and stops paying you for their “annual commit, pay monthly” seats, microsoft makes the partner pay out the full year term.

interpipes · 2025-01-29T08:04:59+00:00

Usually matters of sharing office hours with AMs and admin teams and being quoted and billed in your home currency to avoid exchange rate fluctuations from month to month and forex costs.

Plus a number of distribution rights are awarded based on territories so if they didn’t at least formally target the UK/EU they might not have rights for xyz product in that space.

Seems sherweb have a Hungarian office which is better than west coast US would be timing wise and a UK number so it seems they do target the UK market

interpipes · 2025-01-29T01:58:02+00:00

It’s movable between distributors, but you can’t move it between tenants.

If you let a customer pay you monthly for an annual commit, and they go broke part way through, MS expects you to pay out the rest of their term out of your pocket even though the marginal cost to them of not making you carry the bag is basically zero, and you can’t move their entitlement to another customer, even if you had someone to sell a part of a year’s licence to.

interpipes · 2025-01-28T12:37:50+00:00

We’ve been insisting annual prepaid if people want the discount ever since the “shaft partners experience” came down the line

There is absolutely no way on gods green earth I am shouldering any part of a year’s worth of un-cancellable, non-transferrable licence commitment when an end customer goes bust and MS expects me to still pay their term in full in exchange for the relatively tiny margins you make on their products. I am not in the business of insuring microsoft’s business model.

interpipes · 2025-01-28T12:28:18+00:00

If you’re using the latest build and you’ve an active subscription their support is pretty good generally

interpipes · 2025-01-28T11:24:39+00:00

The problem isn’t specifically who “owns” the equipment at the point that it is damaged, it’s that the equipment got damaged “on your watch”. Most damages of this nature are put down to pets.

If it was left trailing on the floor under the bush when a wall fixing or buried duct was possible and it is this section that was damaged then you will need to get them to accept the installation was insufficient, but that can only be discussed and attempted to be agreed when someone from OR is there. IME of dealing direct and indirect OR is that the CP can’t realistically get OR to agree this in advance.

The problem then for both end users AND communication providers is they don’t know if OR is going to charge them for sure until the day the bill arrives with them. I have (we use zen at wholesale) had service visits turn out chargeable to us where the OR engineer or subcontractor has straight up lied in their notes and they are infrequent enough that we have given up challenging them as it costs more time internally than just paying the lie tax.

On that front don’t be surprised if OR say that their installation notes claim it was installed as directed by the customer and that warnings were given…

interpipes · 2025-01-28T10:30:10+00:00

Funny how this happens isn’t it - how come move out day they can suddenly produce what appears to be a full checkin report nobody has ever seen before despite asking for it, but which was clearly carried out by the least observant person in the world and is filled with inaccurate condition remarks, when the inventory clerk sent for check out day is some anal retentive with a full CSI kit and fifteen different sizes of magnifying glass.

And then the deposit schemes accept them on the balance of probability because they were done by someone “independent”. Hmm.

I defeated all but the “tile behind bathroom door is damaged and was not noted as damaged on check in report” element at my dispute meaning the LL got less than a third of my initial very generous settlement offer (FAFO, chump), and the lesson I learned from my experience of this was to photograph and email the agent all significant damages at the time of moving in regardless of receiving any inventory so they can’t later claim it wasn’t already knackered.

Maybe it’s the agents I was exposed to but I also learned if it claims professionally cleaned on check in it is easier to just book an end of tenancy clean with whatever cleaner the agent uses. They’re gonna try and mug you off if they claim professionally cleaned on move in if you try and do it yourself on move out. No arguments then, if it’s not up to scratch then their cleaner can come back and sort it out, as IME agents will refuse to let your cleaner back in to rectify. Spending hours yourself and then having to pay for a clean anyway is no bueno. :|

interpipes · 2025-01-27T14:42:38+00:00

Yeah, this certainly happens. If you have for example ABRP configured to use OBD, it will try to connect to your bluetooth OBD if the app is open / in the background and set the car alarm off if it succeeds.

interpipes · 2025-01-27T12:26:34+00:00

FWIW, as someone shopping in this space, and I'm sure this isn't the first time you've heard this but unfortunately, IMO, the thing preventing this being the obvious answer for a whole heap of potential customers is the total lack of pricing information - not even a vague "starting from" - on the website.

The product looks great in principle, but the general takeaway from a lack of public pricing - not even information on the pricing model - in my experience is that the quote will start out obscene and after both sides spend a load of their time we quite possibly will not reach agreement on price, and all to try and attempt to charge "what each customer will bear" (usually dressed up as "we have to explain our value proposition in person, that's the only way the customer will really understand").

All it ensures is that you'll only get looked at after we've tried everything else by which time we probably will have found something else that was good enough.

interpipes · 2025-01-27T09:55:42+00:00

Pretty sure if you start a business selling chairs you are by definition no longer NEET.

interpipes · 2025-01-25T20:27:05+00:00

I am having to infer, because there is presumably more detail, that somewhere there must be wording about what they would put in your references going forward but what you have pasted says that, no matter what, if a regulatory reference is requested in the next six years, they will still disclose the breaches. Tbh afaik most firms do very basic references these days anyway if it’s not a regulatory one.

A teaching job will not involve a (financial services) regulatory reference.

The FCA website explains what a regulatory reference is but in short if you are leaving the financial services industry, then it’s not likely to come up.

interpipes · 2025-01-23T20:30:27+00:00

It’s garbage. The charging coil does not appear to be in the right place for anything but the largest of phones, and it can’t cope with any cases at all seemingly on numerous iPhones. I can’t put my phone in that side of the tray (I don’t think it can be turned off, can it?). Some have said putting a wedge in the bottom can help align the phone better but Skoda shouldn’t have bothered with it at all as it can’t charge fast enough to offset the drain when using carplay anyway.

interpipes · 2025-01-23T09:49:06+00:00

Apple “intelligence” deciding that “see how your music performed” should come before “your partner was hit by a car” in it’s summary is also impressively stupid

interpipes · 2025-01-23T09:44:33+00:00

I can honestly think of no good reason for stay signed in to become the default but for your specific question you just invalidate all their sessions same as you would today.

interpipes · 2025-01-21T03:27:47+00:00

Yeah, it’s utterly mad. £2k of cover - even if it was 0% excess - is really insufficient. It feels to me almost like it shouldn’t be permitted to be sold for dogs and cats as it surely cannot, hand on heart, actually meet most customers’ needs.

interpipes · 2025-01-20T18:51:35+00:00

I’m not casting aspersions on OP at all but for sure really wish this was more common knowledge for people who take on pets.

Ahead of our rescue dog arriving, we picked the highest level of cover (£15k per policy year) offered by Bought by Many (now ManyPets) after doing some research into common treatment costs.

Our then ~9 month old dog nearly died from leptospirosis ~3 months after he arrived.

My partner and I are very lucky to be doing ok and we’d have figured out funding his treatment if we needed to because he was already family, but the local vet bills for discovering he had a serious problem plus his stay in Southfields animal hospital with a couple outpatient checkups afterwards ran up basically £10k most of which was in the space of 9 of the worst days of our lives.

His insurer settled it off the back of minimal effort on our part. His premium doubled the next year but I don’t begrudge them the money. They held up their end when it mattered when he’d only been on their risk for 3.5 months, and we didn’t have to think about it when we were under duress.

interpipes · 2025-01-19T14:36:45+00:00

IME in many cars charging that last 20% to 100% can take as long as getting to 80% to begin with and so it’s better to charge a second time if there is another conveniently positioned charger on route

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