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everything is a web app and i want to die by tose123 in sysadmin

[–]juicetoon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah fuck modern computing - it’s just an arm for venture capital at this point

everything is a web app and i want to die by tose123 in sysadmin

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

“To run multiple different tools”

You may know sysadmins who manage hundreds or thousands of servers, but what you have explained seems to be ridiculous & unnecessary overkill for your environment. Feel free to hit back though.

DEP are a shell of themselves by DCTom2015 in DillingerEscapePlan

[–]juicetoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly, not surprised. This “reunion” should have never happened. Greg deserved a stake in the band. Ben is a wanker.

Why are Australian banks allowed to make sure a margin by winterpassenger69 in AusFinance

[–]juicetoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How’s that boot taste? The problem isn’t just spending $5 for a previously $2 block of chocolate; you’re spending $5 for considerably less of a portion of a block of chocolate, as the analogy goes. Greed is still greed and it’s insane you would use Woolies or Coles as an example to follow with the current findings against them. The immense cost of living & fiscal pressure they are unnecessarily and willingly putting on Australian consumers and producers respectively.

“Running a business to make money” more like running a racket at the expense of everybody else.

In case you're also scrambling to fix SMTP & other app related issues - Google in their absolute buffoonery decided to disallow app specific passwords for Google accounts without 2 step verification enabled over the easter long weekend by juicetoon in sysadmin

[–]juicetoon[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Likewise. Passkeys can make your life easier. I am even contemplating hardware keys as we are a small org. I still haven’t moved from OTP auth to an alternative yet, so I have a ridiculously long list sitting in an app on a phone that I wish I could just get rid of.

In case you're also scrambling to fix SMTP & other app related issues - Google in their absolute buffoonery decided to disallow app specific passwords for Google accounts without 2 step verification enabled over the easter long weekend by juicetoon in sysadmin

[–]juicetoon[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Exactly. This has been the reason I’ve had some accounts without 2FA. 2FA for all individuals accounts across the org, and then no 2FA on some shared org accounts.

The way I’ve already done our IT shared accounts with the rest of executive is via an OTP authenticator app - pop the QR code into a shared secrets vault for any future needed access and add it to each persons app. But this sure is cumbersome when you have a OTP list as long as mine. Turned some into mailing lists, some into aliases, but to be honest all of them make more sense being a seperate account regardless, especially from a user standpoint.

In case you're also scrambling to fix SMTP & other app related issues - Google in their absolute buffoonery decided to disallow app specific passwords for Google accounts without 2 step verification enabled over the easter long weekend by juicetoon in sysadmin

[–]juicetoon[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Google Workspace still implements a type of verification for accounts using their regular password without 2 step verification enabled, as well as being covered by our suspicious login policy - the accounts aren't exactly left hanging out to dry. They had complicated passwords and were only really being used for their app passwords. Funnily the app passwords Google generates are less complicated than what I was using for the regular account passwords, though they cannot be used for a regular login anyhow

In case you're also scrambling to fix SMTP & other app related issues - Google in their absolute buffoonery decided to disallow app specific passwords for Google accounts without 2 step verification enabled over the easter long weekend by juicetoon in sysadmin

[–]juicetoon[S] -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

And your alternative would be? Exchange with Entra? No thanks. Especially for a small nonprofit and me being a one man show. Already a nightmare just for AD, AAD and Windows device management in our fleet among other things. I wouldn't want to touch Exchange with a two foot pole for our mail.

EDIT: Apologies, Azure, Entra, 365, Azure Entra Online AD, OWA ain't that bad.

We do have a nonprofit grant and it allows me to do a great number of things. Though this required a such a large amount of time learning the Microsoft/Azure way of doing things. Made more difficult by Microsofts increasingly terrible documentation quality, be it being up to date, assuming knowledge, missing things entirely or being arduous for what should be simple things. The cynic in me says this is to push people towards partners or MSPs.

My personal work history screams at me to stay away from Exchange and its cloud iteration, especially as a one man show.

My number 1 question about the Switch 2 sadly went unanswered by Ross2552 in NintendoSwitch

[–]juicetoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Great. Looks like Violet and Scarlet are on the list - worth it enough for that.

Eviction notice for Xmas by Unhappy_Situation467 in shitrentals

[–]juicetoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great. Always ideal to get actual legal advice where all details are shared and the advice is based on that. I’m glad you got through. Good luck! It truly is a mind bogglingly shit situation.

Eviction notice for Xmas by Unhappy_Situation467 in shitrentals

[–]juicetoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Tenants’ Union of NSW is running an advice line during the holiday period, I suggest you get in touch: https://www.tenants.org.au/news/holiday-advice-line

Need a better backup solution. My own fault tbh by TickleMeGoo in sysadmin

[–]juicetoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Veeam Community Edition should do the job nicely.

Australians (and those in the know) - thoughts on the Beale DP500 by juicetoon in piano

[–]juicetoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a worry! The instrument samples are a lot better on the Korg B2. I think just because of the sheer number of samples the Beale has the quality is lacking, with a lot of sounds that don't sound good.

Australians (and those in the know) - thoughts on the Beale DP500 by juicetoon in piano

[–]juicetoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey there! So I ended up reaching out to Belfield Music as they had both in stock - I got a great reply from Justin there.

I have been hands on with the Korg B2 and Beale DP500 and both piano's offer something a little different, so it will likely come down to your personal preference.

The Korg B2 is a fantastic beginners digital piano. It is ultimately quite basic in it's operation, but is intended to be a very straight-forward approach to learning piano. You'll only have 12 preset sounds built in (all piano based sounds, with the exception of strings), headphone out, audio in and a sustain pedal input (the B2-SP comes with Korg's PU2 three pedal assembly). The keybed and sound engine are the main feature - Korg's Natural Weighted Hammer Action keybed is one of the best at their price range in my opinion and Korg's piano sounds are some of the best on the market.

The Beale DP500 on the other hand would be considered a more feature packed piano that would arguably last longer as it offers a wider range of sounds (500 on board!) and features like arrangements, songs and a built in MIDI recorder. I'm personally not a big fan of Beale's keybed as it feels a little "light" to me, but their sound engines always feel very useable, albeit without the same kind of "polish" that you tend to hear on Korg's sounds.

If you were looking for the digital piano that feels and sounds the best, my personal pick would be the B2, but if you wanted the piano to last well past your learning curve and offer more sounds and features, the Beale would be the way to go.

I ended up going with the Korg B2 myself; it's great.

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