Here is the problem:
We have a large number of people working remotely now (like everyone else). Organizationally we are in a transition between being engineered towards the LAN and having cloud based tools. What this means is that our AD is not fully accessible to remote users without VPN. But, a chunk of users can do their job without needing to use the VPN. For the short term are there any concerns that you all would have about changing (assuming we can, haven't dug in that far yet) the expiration of the machine account/password?

I know this is not the best answer. I'm just trying to buy time before we can get some tooling implemented to fix the underlying management problem.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@kelly that's what scale care is for. We can concentrate on running and sorting the VM's out. If we have an issue scale are on hand to look "under the hood"

Good plan. I was just sharing the mistake I'd made. I opted to skip Scale Care assuming that we would be able to handle it in house. Was a bit of a surprise.

I don't know if any of you all are Age of Wonders fans, but they just recently announced a sci-fi iteration: https://store.steampowered.com/app/718850/Age_of_Wonders_Planetfall/.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee and a little catch up. Might watch some Star Trek.

TOS, TNG, DS9 or other?

DS9. Some people here recommended it and I'm making an effort to push through and actually work through all of it.

I think it was the most story driven of three concurrent series (TNG, DS9, and VOY). As I am watching Babylon 5 though I am realizing how far ahead of its time it was in moving from a purely episodic framework and to a multi season story arc.

@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee and a little catch up. Might watch some Star Trek.

TOS, TNG, DS9 or other?

DS9. Some people here recommended it and I'm making an effort to push through and actually work through all of it.

DS9 was one of my favorites. Brought, what I feel, was the gritty reality to what Star Trek was missing. It did have a few too many fluff episodes though.

Yeah, before DS9 most of the "bad" races were bad for unspecified reasons. There wasn't a good explanation for why the Federation was constantly in conflict with the Romulans and Klingons. DS9 showed more of the backstory as to why the Bajorans actually had cause to want the Cardassians gone.

A couple of things that affect selection for me is that it needs to be nearly indestructible, and it needs be independent of a cell phone for standard use. Here is one of the ones I'm looking at: http://www.doki.com/.

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I'm laughing at how we call a step measuring meter a pedometer.

Relevant:
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First off, I do not want to have some kind of discussion about civility or point fingers. However, I have noticed from a number of threads that there is a general tendency in the community to find something about a post/topic/thread that is wrong/inaccurate/incomplete and focus on that item to the (to me) detriment of the overall thread.

Am I being too sensitive, or can this be a somewhat hostile place at times? (Telling me that I'm wrong here is not being hostile, btw.)

@momurda said in What is your perspective on the overall tone of interactions here on ML?:

Sometimes the pedantry is a bit much. Don't care usually about people being rude assholes, cause I do that sometimes.

Thank you for using pedantry. That made my day. I love it when people use uncommon words.

I figured I'd let the conversation run for awhile before putting my oar back in. It sounds like some of what I've said has been misunderstood. I am rarely offended or "hurt" by anything said here. I am not interested in creating an IT "safe space". If I am being an idiot then I expect that I will be told such. That is part and parcel for the people that frequent ML.

What has bothered me (not made me feel rejected, but made me question if this is what I want in a community) is the pedantry (thank you @momurda) or excessive focus on something that is tangential to the problem at hand. Accuracy is important, but communication can be retarded by accuracy. When someone has to sift through pages of posts about something unrelated to the OP because one person misused a term in an answer and someone else called them out on it and the back and forth carried on for some time I wonder about the value achieved in the back and forth.

This isn't about me, or how people have responded to my posts in particular (after rereading the Miscellaneous Tech News thread I realized that I did overreact and that there was a valuable discussion), but about what we want ML to be. It sounds like the majority prefer it this way, and that is fine. I figured I'd bring up the discussion and see what y'all thought.

I'm debating the Endless Legend and Endless Space 2 DLCs.

All the Endless games are having a free weekend on Steam. Definitely worth a shot if you like turn based strategy.

TTRPG night - Star Wars: Edge of the Empire.

@momurda said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

I dont see how any org gains traction on Steam or even GoG. Have you looked at the twitch desktop client? Seizure inducing at best, though since it is Amazon they will likely redesign the ui every week just like with their Prime website. The steam interface is clean, refined over the last 20 years, though the new chat client update is gross. Not to mention there are twenty thousand or more games i can buy on Steam plus movies and tv shows now.
I only use Discord because Skype got butchered by MS. This Discord 'launch any game from Discord' thing smacks of raptr, the PUPware that amd was shoveling down user throats a couple years ago with Catalyst updates. I guess there are a few people who dont use Steam, that may want to buy something through Discord or Twitch, but it has to be less than 1 in 100 pc gamers.

I think where Discord has a chance is with games that aren't already tied to the Steam eco system. If they can get a few indie titles that go big then they can start to get companies to do multi sourcing deals with them, and begin to eat away at Steam's market share. It isn't going to be fast or easy, but there is room particularly if they have the depth of resources to take some financial losses by having better sales than Steam.

I'm getting set to run a one shot for my daughter and some of her friends set in the Harry Potter universe. What are some thoughts or things you all have found helpful when running your own TTRPG sessions?

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@kelly yeah, I am wondering about the lifespan of the batteries from Tesla going in all over the place.

Electric cars was another part of the discussion. They're trying to figure out how to meet the potential increased demand without actually increasing their fossil fuel use and obviating any emissions gained by the use of the cars. It is a complex problem that has many simplistic answers.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@kelly said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Currently Reading Outside of Tech:

Shadow of Victory, the latest in the Honor Harrington Saganami Island series. One of the better space operas. I forget how many different series of books are set in the same universe now, let alone the total number of books.

I enjoyed it early on, but it has gotten slower and slower as the books wind on. I'd like to see him just wrap up things and open up the universe to other authors.

At least one whole series is by other authors. I think it's the Crown of Slaves series.... yep, at least according to wikipedia those are all Eric Flint. A good number of other authors have gotten involved over the years, but David Weber has always done the main story line himself. I'm a sucker for the series at this point, and will continue to purchase digital copies of all the books. At least I realize you shouldn't trust my judgement in this case.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I've read all of the books more than once. I've just gotten tired of how slowly the pace has begun to crawl as he jumps back and forth across the galaxy following a Jordian number of characters and plot threads.

@penguinwrangler said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

On season 2 of Voyager.

I think Voyager is underrated. I really enjoyed it. My ordering of Star Trek Shows is as follows:
1.) TOS (It started the whole thing and deserves to be #1)
2.) STTNG
3.) Voyager
4.) Enterprise (Such a shame it was canceled when it was, it was really getting good and had huge potential)
5.) DS9

Too soon to classify Discovery.

Nostalgia aside, TOS is pretty bad. I'm not surprised it got cancelled.

Finally finished the last season of Babylon 5. Such an excellent series.