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  • It’s also worth noting that nearly nobody uses %appdata% that way anymore. It’s not even synced by default with enterprise OneDrive. And roaming documents folders need specific setup by your admin as well. Most don’t because it complicates shit. They’ll usually just give each user a dedicated private folder on a network drive and mount that at login, or they’ll be even lazier and use OneDrive to sync across devices without all the network drive hoops.

    Also some programs, including some Microsoft developed ones, will install into %appdata% to bypass the need to have local admin rights to install for all users. On one hand it’s handy. On the other it makes blocking users from installing shit more of a pain. On the third hand it makes it real annoying to manage drive space when every goddamn user gets a separate Teams install by default.







  • I have a whole bunch of old towers I’ve accrued over the years, and family audio CD and DVD collections. Now hard drive space has become a premium for the backups, but I bought a whole bunch of powered SATA to USB adapters and a PCIe slot USB hub for my desktop. Had multiple CDs backing up at a time using every disk drive that still works. ExactRip, configure the drive, and then just swap out discs as needed while I worked from home.

    Haven’t moved on to DVDs yet. CDs are easy, you just use ExactRip to rip to FLAC. Haven’t figured out a general use way for DVD ripping yet, especially because whether I want the special features backed up or not, or multiple audio streams, depends on the disc.


  • Their original Virtual Console NES games on the Wii had the roms extracted from them, and they were found to have ROM header data matching how the emulation community formatted it, with files set up the same way as online communities did things. Theoretically they could have put that there themselves so their in-house made emulator followed the conventions of open source ones, but people think it’s more likely they just downloaded the ROMs from the internet and they came that way.


  • Beyond the posting frequency, you also clearly just copy paste the title, like the post you had somewhere in the past week or so with “[OC]” in the title despite not being your own OC.

    This isn’t tough. Separate your “normal user” activity from the assisted posting. Go in your account settings and switch “bot account” on. Whatever you have set up to “assist” you in posting so frequently, adjust it to place in the body text of each post “Originally from Reddit: [LINK]. Original post text below: [ORIGINAL BODY TEXT GOES HERE]”.

    There, everyone is happy. Anyone who isn’t at that point can block you.

    Lastly, Lemmy/Piefed doesn’t have persistent karma for each user. There’s no point doing this concentrated posting shit to begin with.


  • You’ll want to make sure battery optimizations are disabled for them, so Android will be less likely to close the app for only being in the background. Sometimes allowing the app to keep a persistent notification going can help as well. A lot of the specific details can vary by phone and android OS version, so web search will be your friend on this.

    I’ll warn you though, with some phones, you can do everything right and it may still auto-close them on occasion.




  • Rub it in why don’t you. :P

    I had sporadic health issues earlier this year that weren’t consistent enough for FMLA and I’m down to 4 hours PTO. If I’m a good boy, I’ll gain maybe an hour a month.

    Plus, the whole deal at my workplace was they acknowledged they paid under market rate in exchange for extra flexibility. Now we have new management who desperately doesn’t want to pay us for time on-call anymore, and doesn’t believe in time in-lieu (work after hours, get the equivalent off during business hours). I’m a full fledged systems engineer making under $90k. That’s a lot of money, but it sure as hell isn’t competitive for my skills, and more and more I’m wondering if it’s really worth what it’s costing me.



  • I remember cheap plastic body flashlights where the battery springs had worn out a little back in the 90’s sometimes having issues where the batteries wouldn’t stay positioned inside quite right, so moving it around it might flicker as they shifted or it would shut off entirely if the batteries slipped out of “alignment”. Usually you’d just thump it a few times until they settled back in right. But they lasted plenty long, and didn’t just flicker on their own.

    Those seem to be what game flashlights are based off of, which is especially silly with how long cheap super bright LED flashlights with no battery looseness have been around now.