What Are You Doing Right Now
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Swapping a service technician's old laptop with a new one. The old one has a dead spot on the screen that looks to be the exact size and shape of a quarter, but they swear that they don't know how it happened...
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Swapping a service technician's old laptop with a new one. The old one has a dead spot on the screen that looks to be the exact size and shape of a quarter, but they swear that they don't know how it happened...
Picture?
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
breaking free and going retro. ditching o365 and moving off the cloud. keeping stuff local and no longer paying for things I don't use.
i was paying for convenience, but never using it.That's something I'm thinking about as well. The difference is I do use some of the convenience.
Will you back up your data to some kind of external hard drive, or send it off to a cloud provider?
Yes. (Both).
Files that I regularly use and need sync'd (pics and such from my phone) are on my NextCloud server which is backed up to Wasabi. (~1TB of data right now).
And your NextCloud server lives in your home?
No, that actually lives in my hosted lab... $27 /month for Quad Core, 16GB RAM, 2TB usable (2 x 2TB raid 1) from KimSufi.
The only thing in my home right now that I actually NEED is my Plex server.... but I rclone that to Wasabi too, lol.
That sounds like the kind of hosting service that might match what I want. I’ll look into it.
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Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
H aha ha. Try again?
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@dafyre Apparently I need more coffee...
Uploaded again and updated post - can you see now?
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre Apparently I need more coffee...
Uploaded again and updated post - can you see now?
I feel your pain, and yeah, it's showing now. I'm still waiting on coffee to kick in myself... and the day is nearly half over for me.
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
A new screen might be $12 bucks, what model laptop is it?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
A new screen might be $12 bucks, what model laptop is it?
not even close.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
A new screen might be $12 bucks, what model laptop is it?
not even close.
Yeah depending on the model they usually start around $60.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
A new screen might be $12 bucks, what model laptop is it?
Dell Inspiron N5050. After a quick search, the best prices I have found are $50-60, which is in line with what @JaredBusch and @stacksofplates mentioned above.
This is a bit unbelievable, but I don't need to worry about replacing the screen right now. The service dept. manager just informed me that another technician called in and said that they ran their laptop over with a vehicle and it is now FUBAR'd. They need a replacement tomorrow, and since I am fresh out of spares, they are OK with me issuing this one as-is for now.
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@srsmith bahahah
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
The Millennium Falcon with the Deathstar far in the distance?
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@IRJ In the distance? That thing could reach out and touch it.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I’m curious why you lost anything at all?
Is the non office version of O365 not available to you? That would have significantly lowered your monthly cost and left you with OneDrive for business.
Plus you could have moved to Outlook.com or Gmail for free, then paid like $1/m for onedrive if you wantedYep it is available, comes in at around $AU8.xx per month. I could have gone with Exchange Online (no Onedrive) which comes in at around $AU6.20/mth.
The aim of the exercise was to see what I could get for as few $$s as possible and still work effectively.
I've moved all my photos to a 1TB external HDD, that's about all I really want to keep, lots of stuff I kept I hardly used & is available to download again so I just ditched it.
I got a free 50GB account with MEGA but not sure if I'll use it.
The Zoho mail is slow compared to an Exchange account hosted in my part of the world, I may move my email again to somewhere geographically closer????
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
Left it out pointed at a total solar eclipse.
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got an interview for an upgraded position within the same department.
been close to 20 years since I had a job interview.
I used to sweat over them, this time 'round, i'm maybe too laid back.
8 hour round trip and loss of a days pay just to get to the interview. -
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
got an interview for an upgraded position within the same department.
been close to 20 years since I had a job interview.
I used to sweat over them, this time 'round, i'm maybe too laid back.
8 hour round trip and loss of a days pay just to get to the interview.Congrats on the interview. Boo for losing pay.
You could be sneaky and book the day off with annual leave
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I’m curious why you lost anything at all?
Is the non office version of O365 not available to you? That would have significantly lowered your monthly cost and left you with OneDrive for business.
Plus you could have moved to Outlook.com or Gmail for free, then paid like $1/m for onedrive if you wantedYep it is available, comes in at around $AU8.xx per month. I could have gone with Exchange Online (no Onedrive) which comes in at around $AU6.20/mth.
The aim of the exercise was to see what I could get for as few $$s as possible and still work effectively.
I've moved all my photos to a 1TB external HDD, that's about all I really want to keep, lots of stuff I kept I hardly used & is available to download again so I just ditched it.
I got a free 50GB account with MEGA but not sure if I'll use it.
The Zoho mail is slow compared to an Exchange account hosted in my part of the world, I may move my email again to somewhere geographically closer????
Outlook.com not available in your part of the world? or Gmail? Those are both free options... OK AU, so more expensive dollar for dollar than US...
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@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
got an interview for an upgraded position within the same department.
been close to 20 years since I had a job interview.
I used to sweat over them, this time 'round, i'm maybe too laid back.
8 hour round trip and loss of a days pay just to get to the interview.Congrats on the interview. Boo for losing pay.
You could be sneaky and book the day off with annual leaveSelf employed mate, contractor. Have to go into the city & meet with other more important contractors & be interviewed by them to see if I cut the mustard.
