typed in "Laptop" in the search line, then I checked 10.1" and under.
I got lots of results, and not all of them sucked. There was some HP and Lenovo stuff that looks like it fits your parameters.
I was a netbook fan too, I've still got a couple laying around, though I use them less in the modern day. Back when I loved using them it was a different job and a different list of requirements than I have now, I carry a Lenovo w540 beast around now and think it's great because I'm not putting it in my bike "trunk bag" like I did with the netbook.
You have no idea how many times I've given up on collective good arrangements even to as small of a scale as my own household. I'm seriously considering getting a safe when I get my next TV so I can lock up the remote control when I'm not home. I would love to share it, but it spends 90% of it's time misplaced.
At NASA we had "free range" bikes, which were just bikes that got abandoned or donated into common use, they were marked. I found out that even though the idea was that they should be randomly distributed to bike racks around the campus, the reality was they were usually piled up at one particular administrative building. See, administrative people tend to have meetings, lots of them, at various buildings on site. They would walk to those other buildings, then grab a free range bike back to their own building - EVERY TIME.
There were bigger issues than that, if you brought your own personal bike to the space center - and many people didn't bother to lock them up because theft was quite rare inside the fence - the same asses who wouldn't just get their own bike - would take someones obviously personal bike too if it wasn't locked up. I personally had spokes broken on my bike because I did have it locked up and someone jerked on it in the rack hard enough to break spokes as the wheel rolled back. Even though out in public I run cable locks through both wheels at the space center I started locking up just the frame outside to prevent damage from a "don't care" type.
I even saw free range bikes standing in the middle of parking lots. It was obvious that someone rode the bike all the way to their car and left it.
I love the idea of a free-range, common use bike pool. I found that in reality people are assholes and don't care. Even in place like the space center where I know for a fact you can leave a brand-new Alienware laptop unattended for weeks at a time in full view in a not actually public but still accessible to many area with nothing holding it down but a power and Ethernet cable. I found that even in a place where people have shared common goals that a shared candy bowl will have one person pick out all their favorite stuff and hoard it in a personal lock box.
Nope, we as human creatures can't be trusted to have a public use anything, unless it's got a self-enforcement or monitoring mechanism which sort of defeats the whole idea.
"Crose's motivation is to expose white nationalists who use more or less obscure, mundane, or abstract symbols -- or so-called dog whistles -- in their posts, such as the Black Sun and certain Pepe the frog memes. "
The Black Sun - fine you can call that one - I had to look that one up. Just about anything Pepe the frog is a post meant to troll people like this ex-NSA hacker.
In order to be a proper victim there has to be a group that's in power and victimizing you, and if one doesn't truly exist, or isn't as organized as you would like you have to take the extra step and create one. The group that is making fun of people fighting to be top-victim is obviously the best choice. We can ignore the fact that group isn't actually all-white, or even all male because if you say "certain Pepe the Frog" meme's and exempt any that are from minorities or females while declaring any from a white male racist you built a nice little sifting box.
I was just using Edge to login and get the installer yesterday.
On occasion I do load up the web version of Office 365 on my Linux system at home. Last time I did it I was still using Firefox. I haven't tried it with Brave yet.
Considering the system is perfectly fine otherwise I figure a patch will eventually come along that fixes Edge and I won't even notice for months...
This is really weird, I installed Windows 10 fresh on an Optiplex 3010 next to me this morning and Edge is working fine, I decided to try downloading Brave with Edge again just to test, it tried to convince me to make it my default browser just fine, but when I hit download the fans spun up and it's like it's pegging the CPU. It's a Thinkpad W540. I haven't installed anything from the Lenovo site on it - it's just plain Windows 10 with a month or two old install image, all available patches installed, no splats in the device manager. It's one of those things that just bugs me. I don't need or want it, but the fact it's not working right and it seems to everywhere else just nags at me.....
Other than my own laptop I do admit Edge has been fine functionally, a little annoying when users use it to open PDFs and blame I.T. when they don't know how to use Adobe instead. Easy enough fix. I don't want to use it personally, but it generally beats the hell out of IE. I ditched FIrefox for Brave about a month ago - I've played with Brave for quite a while, but it finally crossed some compatibility readiness lines I had been waiting for.
I added a second HDD to my work laptop and decided it was time to reinstall Windows yesterday.
Edge is nearly all together broken. Nearly every page I load gives me a disconnected / time out type error. I could bring up the Brave website this morning, but I couldn't actually download brave using Edge.
That's right - I started Internet Explorer to download another browser because Edge wasn't up to the task.
It took me nearly an hour to log in, download, and install Office 365 yesterday using Edge as my on-ramp.
I don't know what the hell is going on with Edge, but the rest of the system is working fine. Once I got Brave installed I was able to cruise the web just fine. For the purposes of this post I started up Edge on my Windows laptop to see if it's working. I was able to load Slashdot, it took a lot longer than Brave does.
The only thing out of the ordinary about this laptop is I syspreped it, I left the factory SSD as most everything and I put \users on a 2 TB hybrid drive. Literally Edge is the only problem I've had since doing the install yesterday.
Statins are the worst thing I ever did to my body.
I lost most of my muscle mass in three weeks. I went from having an ass like a pack mule to having difficulty keeping my pants up. I feel on my butt trying to move a 55" LCD TV I could have man-handled one handed just a few weeks prior and started losing my vision because my eye muscles were too weak to focus.
Why was I on statins? The onset of Type II diabetes. What does your body need to burn off glucose and fight Type II diabetes? THE MUSCLE THE STUPID FUCKING STATINS GOT RID OF. I told my doctor fuck you I'm not taking those anymore and started taking Niacin instead. Apparently Niacin can raise glucose levels while doing the other good they do. It's a wash, I'm better off taking the niacin and it's easier to get healthy when I'm not taking drugs that deplete muscle.
I bought the powder! That stuff is super cheap in powder form and isn't that slow release namby-pamby crap, FEEL THE BURN! I'm not immune the to "Niacin Sunburn", but I rarely get it anymore. If I happen to be a little dehydrated or I drink the stuff too fast I still get one, but if my wife picks up the cup I've been drinking from and just sips it BURN!!!
I bought this over a year ago and I'm still using the same canister (I should take it more regularly, I've gotten lazy about getting a morning drink together).
This was supposed to be a reply to the e-waste posting, not the crypto one. I guess I clicked back to the wrong tab or something. When people come into my office and interrupt my train of thought I make mistakes. I was upset someone marked me off-topic until I realized I was playing in the wrong playground.
I've got lots of old stuff in use. The big issue is where do I draw the line between generating e-waste and using older energy hungry hardware instead of something more efficient?
Some districts. My buddy who lives in the same town as me, but on the other side of the county line so is in a different district than my kids has a different setup. His district wants every kid to have a Chromebook owned by the school (they wanted a $200 deposit - yes I see the same thing you do with that) that the parents are fully responsible for financially, but is under the schools control. Every kid is expected to be walking around the school with a Chromebook at all times.
There are ways around this - you can provide whatever you want to your kid as long as it can run Chrome and actually run what the school wants it to run.
During this year so far his daughter has broken an older Mac Book Pro, a Surface Pro I think Gen 2, and a slim Dell.
I think it would cheaper for him to just buy his own Chromebooks or HP Streams. My kid would be working off the costs of each of them if she kept breaking them.
This is one of the few good replies I've received.
I was actually on the MGTOW bandwagon until my second wife, who is an exception to the norm. I've known her dad all my life and we're on the same frequency, she was raised well, she is not one of the modern women the MGTOW movement formed over, but a woman of a couple of generations ago. A true out of time gem. I spent a decade following the MGTOW movement until I find out this lovely young woman went through something just as traumatic as I did, so I offered her some guidance mostly because I respected her dad so much. She was taken advantage of for exactly the same reason I was - she was innocent of most of the worst that was thrown at her and couldn't fathom people being that horrible until experiencing it. Long story short the fact I came along with no intention of trying to get in her pants and offered real support she wasn't going to let me go. BTW - her dad was incredibly happy to find out she had fallen for me. I actually tried to hold her at arms length at first.
My message to the MGTOW movement - you're doing the right thing in response to the the general environment being wrong. I fully think you're doing the right thing, and modern women deserve to have good men removed for the prospect pool in response to the way men like me get railroaded. Don't write off all women - there are still good ones. They mostly exist in small towns and rural areas, and even non-US countries. They for the most part have strong religious backgrounds - regardless of how you feel about religion having a strong background teaching you not to fuck people over on a core fundamental level makes a difference. These types of women however generally won't have anything to do with MGTOW types who are just out to get laid and move on.
Don't become what you are protesting. Be honest about who you are and why, you can sometimes find a special someone that doesn't fit the mold of why you joined the MGTOW movement.
Another thing: I shared this link with my wife while we were still dating. She agreed with it after reading it and had no idea us dudes were in such a pickle and agreed with it. http://www.the-niceguy.com/art...
The other shrink I only saw a couple of times BTW flat said to me, after tell me I was among the most mentally well adjusted people she had ever talked to asked me "You're here for validation aren't you?" Bingo.
I'm not asking for sympathy, that's an emotional need I'm well beyond for the most part. What I want is corruption fixed. If no one shines a spotlight on it nothing gets fixed. Unfortunately you're one of those types of people what when they see a problem with a spotlight on it ignore the obvious and double down on the narrative. If you would have seen the entire break-out scene from the Green Mile where the guy had info to free Andy you would have just said he shouldn't have been out there trying to escape.
You're right, poor choice in a woman. Of course a bad choice in women shouldn't be a court enforced multi-decade punishment for a man, especially when you can prove the woman was the screw up. I grew up well ahead of most of my peers, the court system is designed so that ONLY men have to grow up responsible.
You think that a school district somehow has the switches and cables to manually plug in 10,000 normally wifi enabled devices?
You say that like every one of them has to be plugged in at the same time so patches will install.
You think they're going to put network devices where students can access them to even be able to plug them in? I would argue that WiFi access points are network devices where students can access
You think it's reasonable to take a class of 20-30 kids and string cables across the room? Do you even I.T.?
I'm going to argue that most schools are old enough there's probably at least one network jack in each classroom for the the teachers computer from 1990's early 2000's.
I'm also going to argue that most schools probably have the infrastructure to have at least one computer lab from the same era that is similarly wired.
I'm going to then argue that selecting one particular event throughout the day - say homeroom or study period, or whatever kind of staggered less responsible time they have scheduled for students throughout the day could be utilized to have groups of kids go report to the old computer lab, set their computer on the table, plug in the cable then hit "run updates" or whatever the computer guy tells them to do would be enough to knock out the entire school in a few days.
I can't imagine not learning new stuff as it comes out.
I have however been employed as a temp between good jobs at places like power plants and government facilities and met people who've done tech jobs while not actually knowing how to do them. Turns out the government prizes people who can follow written instructions from actual techs but not understand them.
If they've been there that long and can't do much more than plug in USB mice, which replaced the PS/2 mice, which replaced the RS-232 mice they never knew anything to start with. Even imaging, I've seen trained monkeys do imaging and wiping, I've helped to build the stations they can use without understanding how they work. If a computer failed to network boot when plugged into one of these stations or had the wrong kind of connector on a hard drive they were at a complete loss. Literally in 2007 I heard one of these people refer to SATA as "a drive I couldn't wipe because it had a proprietary connector".
Nah, these people should be put out to pasture. I know the situation the original poster is in however. The thing I've found is long-term gofor people tend to be great at the paperwork needed to get the job done. I would do my best to give them all the paperwork and procedural stuff I didn't want to deal with, they're good for projects as long as you can write step by step instructions, which often takes more time than doing it yourself. Nah, this dudes is a near hopeless pickle, his best bet is to hire someone young who can write procedures for the other two.
An Ethernet port is nowhere NEAR RS-232, PS/2, Parallel port territory. I'm personally considering turning off the WiFi in my own home and just going straight wire on everything, the phones are the only reason I don't. Ethernet is still in heavy use throughout the world and I still encourage my users to plug their damned cable in when they're at their desk, especially if they want me to remote in and fix something.
Just like nearly everything it depends on which chips are on-board. I know in many cases even stuff that's well supported in Linux is sometimes stripped out of a Chromebook kernel for performance and lock-in reasons. My guess - maybe. I've had good luck mostly with modern USB devices, but I did run into one USB C item that required a driver install when I put it on a Mac.
I've paid around $7 for a 10/100/1000 USB 3 dongle before. You just have to be willing to put your trust into cheap stuff from China if you do that. I have to say, it works rather well. For around $20 I bought a 10/100/1000 dongle with a three port USB 3 hub in it. That one is super handy.
Other peoples mental health seems to be an issue I have to keep dealing with.
Married then divorced a socio-path. Dated several women that turned out having a lot worse issues than they let onto at first. Then thanks to corrupt courts my daughter lived with the sociopath instead of me, now she has some severe issues as a result.
I've been to two shrinks in my lifetime - the one the court made me go to and the one that I had free access to at one of my previous jobs.
The one I had free access to pretty much told me I was one of the most well adjusted people she had ever met and I had a phenomenal ability to deal with stress and hardship - most people would have had severe breakdowns after what I've been through. I told her I never had the luxury of having a window of low responsibility to allow myself to have a breakdown, I was too busy to have my own mental health issues. She liked the answer.
In my particular case the court appointed psychiatrist thought that having had more than ten jobs over the past ten years at the age of 28 meant I was unstable. This of course was a woman in her sixties who's parents put her through an ivy-league school then never really had to hustle a day in her life because her dad was politically connected and got her connected to several judges who sent her business as often as she wanted in exchange for campaign contributions. She literally had a quarter million dollar a year position handed to her right out of college due to her connection and it just went up from there. Let's look at theses ten jobs over ten years at the age of 28 - most of them were in the first four years of that span, meaning right out of high-school moving from the sticks to the city without a connected family. The home town video store, to security guard - still aged 18 - that only lasted about eight months, to manufacturing, to better manufacturing to engineering to supporting businesses, to supporting satellite earth stations for gas companies. You're supposed to go through a bunch of jobs right after high school to work your way up in your career, the job as of the time of the shrink visit was at four years. Something else she held against me - the company I worked for when I first moved to Houston dissolved and formed a company in partnership with one of our clients. I worked for the same people more or less for four years, but since it was two different companies I changed jobs on paper and that contributed to my instability. When I did work for one of the oil companies who I worked for changed four times while I sat in the same desk in the same office - that was job hopping to her. It's almost like she was programmed into government technicality stupid mode. You would think someone doing that job for that long could understand people without a silver spoon in their rectums having to climb a ladder and someone who lived in Houston all their lives having some understanding about oil companies.
My next job was a pretty good one. It's wasn't super awesome, I stayed in one spot for 8 years at about ~$50,000 simply because I've been in a custody stale-mate the whole time and I wanted to keep the shrink happy. I had more opportunities come up, but I refused to take any risks, the sheer magnitude of my child support combined with well-timed extra expenses kept me from ever developing any kind of buffer zone for risk combined with the fact even if I found something better it would be a red mark as far as the shrink was concerned caused me to remain stagnant. My job at NASA was finally Obamanated after 8 years and I'm coming up at 4 at the next place. Fortunately within the position I'm at we're making changes in my department to actually form a subsidiary company and I might have a chance to make some risk taking type advancement without the same risk taking stigma I would take on my own. Regardless it's only a few years until my kid hits adulthood at this point and even though I don't truly have the buffer zone anymore it matters less.
I was considered a wiz-kid well ahead of the curve when I first started out. Even after I leveled out a little I was still upwardly mobile and making waves. After getting married to a sociopath the career brakes were hit hard.
manually joining a WiFi network on 10,000+ Chromebooks is a nightmare
Yep.
Bet you're happy they've quit putting Ethernet ports on everything huh? You know, with an Ethernet port, even if they almost never used them, you could dust it off, plug in a cable later and get the update that would fix your WiFi issue. If only you had the port.
I stay mad at Macbooks over the lack of Ethernet jacks these days, Chromebooks are a mixed lot, but one thing I do know, Samsung put out some really thin systems with a fold-down Ethernet port so there's no excuse not to have and and having one is much more reasonable than expecting everyone to keep up with a dongle.
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typed in "Laptop" in the search line, then I checked 10.1" and under.
I got lots of results, and not all of them sucked. There was some HP and Lenovo stuff that looks like it fits your parameters.
I was a netbook fan too, I've still got a couple laying around, though I use them less in the modern day. Back when I loved using them it was a different job and a different list of requirements than I have now, I carry a Lenovo w540 beast around now and think it's great because I'm not putting it in my bike "trunk bag" like I did with the netbook.
You have no idea how many times I've given up on collective good arrangements even to as small of a scale as my own household. I'm seriously considering getting a safe when I get my next TV so I can lock up the remote control when I'm not home. I would love to share it, but it spends 90% of it's time misplaced.
I've also considered drilling a hold through the casing somewhere and affixing a cable to it - since some public use things do work.
At NASA we had "free range" bikes, which were just bikes that got abandoned or donated into common use, they were marked. I found out that even though the idea was that they should be randomly distributed to bike racks around the campus, the reality was they were usually piled up at one particular administrative building. See, administrative people tend to have meetings, lots of them, at various buildings on site. They would walk to those other buildings, then grab a free range bike back to their own building - EVERY TIME.
There were bigger issues than that, if you brought your own personal bike to the space center - and many people didn't bother to lock them up because theft was quite rare inside the fence - the same asses who wouldn't just get their own bike - would take someones obviously personal bike too if it wasn't locked up. I personally had spokes broken on my bike because I did have it locked up and someone jerked on it in the rack hard enough to break spokes as the wheel rolled back. Even though out in public I run cable locks through both wheels at the space center I started locking up just the frame outside to prevent damage from a "don't care" type.
I even saw free range bikes standing in the middle of parking lots. It was obvious that someone rode the bike all the way to their car and left it.
I love the idea of a free-range, common use bike pool. I found that in reality people are assholes and don't care. Even in place like the space center where I know for a fact you can leave a brand-new Alienware laptop unattended for weeks at a time in full view in a not actually public but still accessible to many area with nothing holding it down but a power and Ethernet cable. I found that even in a place where people have shared common goals that a shared candy bowl will have one person pick out all their favorite stuff and hoard it in a personal lock box.
Nope, we as human creatures can't be trusted to have a public use anything, unless it's got a self-enforcement or monitoring mechanism which sort of defeats the whole idea.
"Crose's motivation is to expose white nationalists who use more or less obscure, mundane, or abstract symbols -- or so-called dog whistles -- in their posts, such as the Black Sun and certain Pepe the frog memes. "
The Black Sun - fine you can call that one - I had to look that one up. Just about anything Pepe the frog is a post meant to troll people like this ex-NSA hacker.
In order to be a proper victim there has to be a group that's in power and victimizing you, and if one doesn't truly exist, or isn't as organized as you would like you have to take the extra step and create one. The group that is making fun of people fighting to be top-victim is obviously the best choice. We can ignore the fact that group isn't actually all-white, or even all male because if you say "certain Pepe the Frog" meme's and exempt any that are from minorities or females while declaring any from a white male racist you built a nice little sifting box.
How victim are you?
I was just using Edge to login and get the installer yesterday.
On occasion I do load up the web version of Office 365 on my Linux system at home. Last time I did it I was still using Firefox. I haven't tried it with Brave yet.
Considering the system is perfectly fine otherwise I figure a patch will eventually come along that fixes Edge and I won't even notice for months...
This is really weird, I installed Windows 10 fresh on an Optiplex 3010 next to me this morning and Edge is working fine, I decided to try downloading Brave with Edge again just to test, it tried to convince me to make it my default browser just fine, but when I hit download the fans spun up and it's like it's pegging the CPU. It's a Thinkpad W540. I haven't installed anything from the Lenovo site on it - it's just plain Windows 10 with a month or two old install image, all available patches installed, no splats in the device manager. It's one of those things that just bugs me. I don't need or want it, but the fact it's not working right and it seems to everywhere else just nags at me.....
Other than my own laptop I do admit Edge has been fine functionally, a little annoying when users use it to open PDFs and blame I.T. when they don't know how to use Adobe instead. Easy enough fix. I don't want to use it personally, but it generally beats the hell out of IE. I ditched FIrefox for Brave about a month ago - I've played with Brave for quite a while, but it finally crossed some compatibility readiness lines I had been waiting for.
I added a second HDD to my work laptop and decided it was time to reinstall Windows yesterday.
Edge is nearly all together broken. Nearly every page I load gives me a disconnected / time out type error. I could bring up the Brave website this morning, but I couldn't actually download brave using Edge.
That's right - I started Internet Explorer to download another browser because Edge wasn't up to the task.
It took me nearly an hour to log in, download, and install Office 365 yesterday using Edge as my on-ramp.
I don't know what the hell is going on with Edge, but the rest of the system is working fine. Once I got Brave installed I was able to cruise the web just fine. For the purposes of this post I started up Edge on my Windows laptop to see if it's working. I was able to load Slashdot, it took a lot longer than Brave does.
The only thing out of the ordinary about this laptop is I syspreped it, I left the factory SSD as most everything and I put \users on a 2 TB hybrid drive. Literally Edge is the only problem I've had since doing the install yesterday.
Agreed.
Statins are the worst thing I ever did to my body.
I lost most of my muscle mass in three weeks. I went from having an ass like a pack mule to having difficulty keeping my pants up. I feel on my butt trying to move a 55" LCD TV I could have man-handled one handed just a few weeks prior and started losing my vision because my eye muscles were too weak to focus.
Why was I on statins? The onset of Type II diabetes. What does your body need to burn off glucose and fight Type II diabetes? THE MUSCLE THE STUPID FUCKING STATINS GOT RID OF. I told my doctor fuck you I'm not taking those anymore and started taking Niacin instead. Apparently Niacin can raise glucose levels while doing the other good they do. It's a wash, I'm better off taking the niacin and it's easier to get healthy when I'm not taking drugs that deplete muscle.
I bought the powder! That stuff is super cheap in powder form and isn't that slow release namby-pamby crap, FEEL THE BURN! I'm not immune the to "Niacin Sunburn", but I rarely get it anymore. If I happen to be a little dehydrated or I drink the stuff too fast I still get one, but if my wife picks up the cup I've been drinking from and just sips it BURN!!!
I bought this over a year ago and I'm still using the same canister (I should take it more regularly, I've gotten lazy about getting a morning drink together).
Wow - how did I do this?
This was supposed to be a reply to the e-waste posting, not the crypto one. I guess I clicked back to the wrong tab or something. When people come into my office and interrupt my train of thought I make mistakes. I was upset someone marked me off-topic until I realized I was playing in the wrong playground.
I've got lots of old stuff in use. The big issue is where do I draw the line between generating e-waste and using older energy hungry hardware instead of something more efficient?
Some districts. My buddy who lives in the same town as me, but on the other side of the county line so is in a different district than my kids has a different setup. His district wants every kid to have a Chromebook owned by the school (they wanted a $200 deposit - yes I see the same thing you do with that) that the parents are fully responsible for financially, but is under the schools control. Every kid is expected to be walking around the school with a Chromebook at all times.
There are ways around this - you can provide whatever you want to your kid as long as it can run Chrome and actually run what the school wants it to run.
During this year so far his daughter has broken an older Mac Book Pro, a Surface Pro I think Gen 2, and a slim Dell.
I think it would cheaper for him to just buy his own Chromebooks or HP Streams. My kid would be working off the costs of each of them if she kept breaking them.
This is one of the few good replies I've received.
I was actually on the MGTOW bandwagon until my second wife, who is an exception to the norm. I've known her dad all my life and we're on the same frequency, she was raised well, she is not one of the modern women the MGTOW movement formed over, but a woman of a couple of generations ago. A true out of time gem. I spent a decade following the MGTOW movement until I find out this lovely young woman went through something just as traumatic as I did, so I offered her some guidance mostly because I respected her dad so much. She was taken advantage of for exactly the same reason I was - she was innocent of most of the worst that was thrown at her and couldn't fathom people being that horrible until experiencing it. Long story short the fact I came along with no intention of trying to get in her pants and offered real support she wasn't going to let me go. BTW - her dad was incredibly happy to find out she had fallen for me. I actually tried to hold her at arms length at first.
My message to the MGTOW movement - you're doing the right thing in response to the the general environment being wrong. I fully think you're doing the right thing, and modern women deserve to have good men removed for the prospect pool in response to the way men like me get railroaded. Don't write off all women - there are still good ones. They mostly exist in small towns and rural areas, and even non-US countries. They for the most part have strong religious backgrounds - regardless of how you feel about religion having a strong background teaching you not to fuck people over on a core fundamental level makes a difference. These types of women however generally won't have anything to do with MGTOW types who are just out to get laid and move on.
Don't become what you are protesting. Be honest about who you are and why, you can sometimes find a special someone that doesn't fit the mold of why you joined the MGTOW movement.
Another thing: I shared this link with my wife while we were still dating. She agreed with it after reading it and had no idea us dudes were in such a pickle and agreed with it. http://www.the-niceguy.com/art...
The other shrink I only saw a couple of times BTW flat said to me, after tell me I was among the most mentally well adjusted people she had ever talked to asked me "You're here for validation aren't you?" Bingo.
I'm not asking for sympathy, that's an emotional need I'm well beyond for the most part. What I want is corruption fixed. If no one shines a spotlight on it nothing gets fixed. Unfortunately you're one of those types of people what when they see a problem with a spotlight on it ignore the obvious and double down on the narrative. If you would have seen the entire break-out scene from the Green Mile where the guy had info to free Andy you would have just said he shouldn't have been out there trying to escape.
Asshole, you obviously didn't read it.
You're right, poor choice in a woman. Of course a bad choice in women shouldn't be a court enforced multi-decade punishment for a man, especially when you can prove the woman was the screw up. I grew up well ahead of most of my peers, the court system is designed so that ONLY men have to grow up responsible.
You think that a school district somehow has the switches and cables to manually plug in 10,000 normally wifi enabled devices?
You say that like every one of them has to be plugged in at the same time so patches will install.
You think they're going to put network devices where students can access them to even be able to plug them in?
I would argue that WiFi access points are network devices where students can access
You think it's reasonable to take a class of 20-30 kids and string cables across the room?
Do you even I.T.?
I'm going to argue that most schools are old enough there's probably at least one network jack in each classroom for the the teachers computer from 1990's early 2000's.
I'm also going to argue that most schools probably have the infrastructure to have at least one computer lab from the same era that is similarly wired.
I'm going to then argue that selecting one particular event throughout the day - say homeroom or study period, or whatever kind of staggered less responsible time they have scheduled for students throughout the day could be utilized to have groups of kids go report to the old computer lab, set their computer on the table, plug in the cable then hit "run updates" or whatever the computer guy tells them to do would be enough to knock out the entire school in a few days.
I can't imagine not learning new stuff as it comes out.
I have however been employed as a temp between good jobs at places like power plants and government facilities and met people who've done tech jobs while not actually knowing how to do them. Turns out the government prizes people who can follow written instructions from actual techs but not understand them.
If they've been there that long and can't do much more than plug in USB mice, which replaced the PS/2 mice, which replaced the RS-232 mice they never knew anything to start with. Even imaging, I've seen trained monkeys do imaging and wiping, I've helped to build the stations they can use without understanding how they work. If a computer failed to network boot when plugged into one of these stations or had the wrong kind of connector on a hard drive they were at a complete loss. Literally in 2007 I heard one of these people refer to SATA as "a drive I couldn't wipe because it had a proprietary connector".
Nah, these people should be put out to pasture. I know the situation the original poster is in however. The thing I've found is long-term gofor people tend to be great at the paperwork needed to get the job done. I would do my best to give them all the paperwork and procedural stuff I didn't want to deal with, they're good for projects as long as you can write step by step instructions, which often takes more time than doing it yourself. Nah, this dudes is a near hopeless pickle, his best bet is to hire someone young who can write procedures for the other two.
Court ordered shrink.
Not my choice, it's the one who was buying $1,000 a plate meals at the judges election dinner.
An Ethernet port is nowhere NEAR RS-232, PS/2, Parallel port territory. I'm personally considering turning off the WiFi in my own home and just going straight wire on everything, the phones are the only reason I don't. Ethernet is still in heavy use throughout the world and I still encourage my users to plug their damned cable in when they're at their desk, especially if they want me to remote in and fix something.
Depends.
Just like nearly everything it depends on which chips are on-board. I know in many cases even stuff that's well supported in Linux is sometimes stripped out of a Chromebook kernel for performance and lock-in reasons. My guess - maybe. I've had good luck mostly with modern USB devices, but I did run into one USB C item that required a driver install when I put it on a Mac.
I've paid around $7 for a 10/100/1000 USB 3 dongle before. You just have to be willing to put your trust into cheap stuff from China if you do that. I have to say, it works rather well. For around $20 I bought a 10/100/1000 dongle with a three port USB 3 hub in it. That one is super handy.
Other peoples mental health seems to be an issue I have to keep dealing with.
Married then divorced a socio-path. Dated several women that turned out having a lot worse issues than they let onto at first. Then thanks to corrupt courts my daughter lived with the sociopath instead of me, now she has some severe issues as a result.
I've been to two shrinks in my lifetime - the one the court made me go to and the one that I had free access to at one of my previous jobs.
The one I had free access to pretty much told me I was one of the most well adjusted people she had ever met and I had a phenomenal ability to deal with stress and hardship - most people would have had severe breakdowns after what I've been through. I told her I never had the luxury of having a window of low responsibility to allow myself to have a breakdown, I was too busy to have my own mental health issues. She liked the answer.
In my particular case the court appointed psychiatrist thought that having had more than ten jobs over the past ten years at the age of 28 meant I was unstable. This of course was a woman in her sixties who's parents put her through an ivy-league school then never really had to hustle a day in her life because her dad was politically connected and got her connected to several judges who sent her business as often as she wanted in exchange for campaign contributions. She literally had a quarter million dollar a year position handed to her right out of college due to her connection and it just went up from there. Let's look at theses ten jobs over ten years at the age of 28 - most of them were in the first four years of that span, meaning right out of high-school moving from the sticks to the city without a connected family. The home town video store, to security guard - still aged 18 - that only lasted about eight months, to manufacturing, to better manufacturing to engineering to supporting businesses, to supporting satellite earth stations for gas companies. You're supposed to go through a bunch of jobs right after high school to work your way up in your career, the job as of the time of the shrink visit was at four years. Something else she held against me - the company I worked for when I first moved to Houston dissolved and formed a company in partnership with one of our clients. I worked for the same people more or less for four years, but since it was two different companies I changed jobs on paper and that contributed to my instability. When I did work for one of the oil companies who I worked for changed four times while I sat in the same desk in the same office - that was job hopping to her. It's almost like she was programmed into government technicality stupid mode. You would think someone doing that job for that long could understand people without a silver spoon in their rectums having to climb a ladder and someone who lived in Houston all their lives having some understanding about oil companies.
My next job was a pretty good one. It's wasn't super awesome, I stayed in one spot for 8 years at about ~$50,000 simply because I've been in a custody stale-mate the whole time and I wanted to keep the shrink happy. I had more opportunities come up, but I refused to take any risks, the sheer magnitude of my child support combined with well-timed extra expenses kept me from ever developing any kind of buffer zone for risk combined with the fact even if I found something better it would be a red mark as far as the shrink was concerned caused me to remain stagnant. My job at NASA was finally Obamanated after 8 years and I'm coming up at 4 at the next place. Fortunately within the position I'm at we're making changes in my department to actually form a subsidiary company and I might have a chance to make some risk taking type advancement without the same risk taking stigma I would take on my own. Regardless it's only a few years until my kid hits adulthood at this point and even though I don't truly have the buffer zone anymore it matters less.
I was considered a wiz-kid well ahead of the curve when I first started out. Even after I leveled out a little I was still upwardly mobile and making waves. After getting married to a sociopath the career brakes were hit hard.
manually joining a WiFi network on 10,000+ Chromebooks is a nightmare
Yep.
Bet you're happy they've quit putting Ethernet ports on everything huh? You know, with an Ethernet port, even if they almost never used them, you could dust it off, plug in a cable later and get the update that would fix your WiFi issue. If only you had the port.
I stay mad at Macbooks over the lack of Ethernet jacks these days, Chromebooks are a mixed lot, but one thing I do know, Samsung put out some really thin systems with a fold-down Ethernet port so there's no excuse not to have and and having one is much more reasonable than expecting everyone to keep up with a dongle.
But I never though Billy Batson would sell out!