The new tires are because the cars in both Furiosa and Fury Road are all real cars! Even immortant Joes Gigahorse and the War Rig!

I like to try and find the roll cages while I watch the movies. And yeah I could see how that could break your immersion but for me, knowing that these are real cars doing largely practical things is really cool.

Ubuntu Server supports Windows Active Directory. I haven’t used it for anything but authentication (and authentication works flawlessly) and some basic directory/share permissions but theoretically it should support group policy too.

It’d be cool if there was a mainstream FOSS alternative though (there might be, I’ve done literally 0 research), but this works okay-ish in the meantime.

But for management of the actual production servers at work I use a combination of ManageEngine (super great and reasonably priced) and Microsoft’s Entra (doesn’t work well, don’t do it)

Its not nearly as Dinky as it looks in this picture. Its almost the entire width of the device. I got to play with it a bit and its actually super stable, its obviously not 100% rigid and personally I wouldnt use it like that because its a bit awkward. But its a really cool device.

Here’s the store page with some more pics of it.

Ubuntu Server baby. That shit is absolutely rock solid, I’ve literally never had an update break stuff in the decade+ I’ve been managing it.

I actually love the cross platform PowerShell stuff for two reasons. One it’s really nice to be able to have something that works on my windows environment and the Linux one, and 2 because PowerShell is enormously better than bash.

but at least people who can’t even navigate their basic file explorer that they are expected to use scary terminal commands.

This! I work in IT, in fact, I’m the director of both the IT and software teams at my company and I am constantly teaching my new techs and reminding my existing techs that they need to remember just how little the “average” person knows about computers, and how much more that is than what they’d actually care to learn.

99% of people don’t care about computers, or how to make things “more efficient”, or anything else. They just care about the easiest way to do something. And like it or not, the easiest way for the vast majority of people is through a GUI.

There is even an XKCD about this

And that’s even before you get to the security problems! I am constantly trying to prevent users from going to FreeNuclearCodes.com or sending passwords and social security numbers to i7716tvq_88@gmail.com (actual email address I had to block last week)

Sonos is about the only smart home thing I like. It makes setting up a whole home sound system with discrete zones significantly easier than trying to wire it all up.

For me (sysadmin actually) it’s because what I’m doing is either simple enough that I can use Nano (editing simple config files) or complicated enough that I’ll want a full fledged IDE. I use VSCode and it handles remote files really really well.

Although I have learned a little bit of Vi/Vim because sometimes thats all you have.

Plus if you’re doing major changes (like more than editing a line or two) you shouldn’t be doing that on a production server anyways. Like if I found out an engineer or dev was primarily working directly off of the server they would probably be on their way out the door. Uptime is worth way too much for that nonsense.

Nanos search and replace is Alt+R as far as I remember

Good. They need to be humbled haha

Tbf, the file explorer is actually one really good argument for GUIs over terminals. Same with editing text. Its either simple enough to use Nano or I need a proper text editor. I don’t mess around with vim or anything like that that.

Its all tools. Some things are easier in a file manager, some things are easier in a GUI.

Where? I haven’t heard of any rail lines that don’t have a human operator onboard or somewhere in the loop?

That’s because they’re called “teams groups” not “teams for teams” ;)

Honestly thats just a user problem, not a Teams one.

Just limit it to files and forms and stuff like that, and explain to users that the teams folders, SharePoint, and the files on their computer are all the same.

Source: IT manager

Idk I like outlook. Its more feature rich and reliable than any other client Ive used. Especially since basically every company uses Echange for email.

Edit: I should clarify, I dont like outlook overall. But thats more because email in general sucks. Outlook is the best out of all of the email clients though, especially for power users.

10% of Americans live in towns of under 10000 people.

I wouldn’t call that “insignificant” lmao

Yes it’s definitely 100% a reasonable choice for people who don’t even technically live in cities. Absolutely

The only thing that’s been keeping me on OneNote is the handwriting stuff. I keep trying to move to Obsidian cause I like it but I take notes on my iPad constantly. As much or more than on my computer.

And I really like how OneNote will take my chicken scratch and use OCR to turn it into actual text.

Honestly this is the most sane take. If the asshole can’t work with 2/3 of the team then they need to GTFO. I don’t have the time or mental bandwidth to deal with shit like that.

Source: director of both the IT and software departments

why would they buy a car when they can pay the same price for public transport

They answered that

In some parts of the US not having a car would be a real problem

And truthfully, for a not insignificant part of the country, it won’t be. Population densities just wouldn’t support it.