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I wouldn't blindly trust a brand new author in 2026, but it's very easy to trust an author that has put out good writing in years past. Not hard to find, there has been plenty of g…

Pretty much described what MSFT is trying to do with M365 Copilot. It's "secure", it can be deployed in GCC tenants, etc. It may not be a dedicated private server exactly, but they…

Am I crazy? MSFT has was up about 100% in the prior three years before 2023 as well, and again for the three years before that. AI has had very little to do with MSFT growth. Prett…

I don't think MS value has been inflated by AI, if anything it's value has decreased from it's AI investments. MS has mostly been on it's same growth path for the last decade.

The auto-empty is absolutely worth it. If you want to be very thrifty, get an i7+ from eBay, or a refurbished J5/J7.

Things like this have been done before: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/12/zwift-uci-cheating-astou...

There is probably no transmission in a US road car that can be replaced for $500 in labor at an auto shop. Your buddy or some rando may do it, but no shop will for that price. Typi…

Out of all the og Xbox games, Kung Fu Chaos provided the most fun and laughs with friends. It honestly still holds up gameplay wise. I still play it sometimes. The minigames were t…

That's true of DNS, not DHCP. One has to specifically install the DHCP role in a new AD domain.

Yeah this is completely unrelated to Teams. Exchange is actually still fairly prevalent, even among smaller companies. Although many of the smaller orgs that still have on-prem Exc…

Gonna be the Dunlop Grandtrek PT20, which are terrible tires.

Just so everyone is aware, ReviOS disables the Spectre and Meltdown mitigations, virtualized based security, Windows Defender, turns off and hides the ability to use Windows Update…

With NIST frameworks, one needs to explore a bit. Here are some of the stakeholders: https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework/request-comment And here is the PDF that should answer a…

In the Windows world one would just get a 25Gb NIC and be good to go. * and supporting network equipment/cabling of course

I have a lot of experience managing O365/Azure, and these issues all come down to the config of MFA in the O365/Azure tenant. They may even be intentional for "security" purposes. …

Sounds to me that MFA is not setup correctly for you or the Azure tenants you are logging into.

I miss GPM so much. No one I know in person knew it existed, yet they still get to listen to my rants about Google killing the one true music service. I too have been finding music…

Back in the before times, taxi drivers knew how to navigate a city just by memory. Give them an address and they'd probably know how to find it. Most likely this app was not naviga…

When people say "I've nothing to hide", I usually say it's just like closing the curtains over the windows of your house. You may have nothing to hide, but you still want privacy. …

Split-tunnel has solved all of our bandwidth and performance issues, and it's so easy.

If you've got the setup for rackmount, the Dell R7515 has PCIe4, but not 3200MHz memory support I think.

I miss Grooveshark, it's radio feature brought me so much amazing music. Surprisingly, Youtube Music has pretty decent music discovery in the form of it's radio feature, sort of li…

The Italians were also doing some amazing things in the 60's and 70's with electronic synthesizers and keyboards that made/make sounds that still can't be recreated.

Ah yes I turned off all the "smart" features I could. I don't trust Samsung with anything. I use a Chromecast for streaming needs, it's very reliable.

I own a Frame, and the normal viewing mode does have a very slight brightness adjustment that is automatic, I think I turned that on. It's not as dramatic as the Art Mode setting. …