I do IT for a company that actually makes the world better! (And I live in the Texas of Canada, so…)

I finally have an awesome job!

I see that one just fine!

Hi! Unrelated to the content, and for that, I apologize. I’m on lemmy.ca, and I can’t see any images or content posted from any sopuli.xyz source. I’m also using Boost for Lemmy. Is anyone else having this issue?

Small world! I literally got an email today saying “We need more Math Quest volunteers! Please help!”

I volunteer at the Calgary Public Library. I do tech mentors, but they need Math Quest, Career Coaches, Ten Tech Labs, and ESL conversation partners. We need waaay more tech mentors! P.S. If you’re on Lemmy, you qualify! Last night, I taught a lady what left click meant.

I tried unihertz twice. Jelly2, no wifi out of the box, no support. Atom XL… Sigh No WiFi. Out of the box. No support.

Different routers, different locations… Not my home setup.

Bluefox NX1. Tiny phone! It’s not amazing, but it’s exactly enough phone for me. And, lo and behold… WiFi!

Consent. Look it up.

Georges Saint Pierre? Sorry, I had to…

I have two opposing goals for 2026: Figure out something called Intune Autopilot, which is a horribly complicated Microsoft product that is replacing a system that worked just fine, thank you very much. Also, get my tech off of the big tech companies. De-Google, De-Windows, De-Amazon.

I didn’t want to see that. I’ve been trying to avoid seeing that. I’m really annoyed at you.

No, it’s end-user panic. “That report me and Bob were working on? It’s gone! Emergency! Panic!”

sigh I know. It’s my boss that implemented the policy… But it was after she audited password ages and a dictionary and found that CompanyName123 was universal and for years at a stretch.

Admin here! OneDrive synced home folders at work. Everyone ignores saving because ‘autosave’. Once a week at least, some staff member spends hours on something after the mandatory 90-day password change, never signed back in to OneDrive, and gets to kiss all that work goodbye. Also, once a quarter at least, someone was working on a document shared to the by an employee who just quit, so we have to frantically ‘unfire’ someone’s account so the suddenly missing document can be retrieved.

Are you sure you’re passing your gpu through correctly? This didn’t happen to me, but a buddy of mine didn’t do iommu and tried to pass the gpu through to a VM, and he couldn’t boot either. If you boot rescue and change the VM to not start-up on boot? I would definitely post your grub boot line.

Fun fact: every time I hear the work Telus, I do a little hock ptui at the ground. I could tell you stories. Proxmox and self host!

I’m starting to see this amongst my techie friends: invite only enclaves. Like, using matrix or signal chats that are only by invite; Jellyfin servers for streaming, again, among friends. Group cloud services like nextcloud, mail servers cut off from email at large… Internet-like services, but for small groups.

Hmm… I blocked this asshat, but his posts are still showing up…

Instead of just “Boycott US pop”, may I suggest Cove Soda, Annex Soda, Rocky Mountain Brewing Company Cola, or Atypique? All are Canadian made, all beat Coke and Pepsi any day of the week, and I can personally vouch for all of them as fricking fantastic! Dr. Cove is like a milder Dr Pepper, Annex Cola is craft Cola done right, RMBC Black Cherry is to die for, and the Atypique Amaretto Sour is my go-to fake booze.

You… Pass! Great job!