@IRJ said:

I guess I have been under a rock. This is the first time I have ever heard of inkjets being more efficient than laser printers

I'm a printer buff. For me, this is one thing I specialize in.

First, let me say that a group for nothing but community questions and issues would make sense. Maybe someone can look into creating one (hint hint @scottalanmiller )...

Anyways, I'm having issues where the little...window/pop-up/thing that shows who upvoted a post is not disappearing after upvoting. While I was writing my previous post, it was just hung there. If you hover back over it again, it disappears, but it's not doing it on its own and it's kind of annoying. Figured I'd report it.

Thanks,
A.J.

Just finished publishing my second article on my website.

So I bought a Google Home on Black Friday, and received it yesterday and set it up.

I don't have a picture of it out of the box yet. I'll get that soon.

Thoughts so far:

I like it. The voice controls are intuitive. You set it up with an app on your phone (Google Home), which was very easy. You connect it to Wifi, etc with your phone, and the like. I was able to connect my Spotify account to it and use that as the default music player. However, if you want to use YouTube to stream music, you will need a YouTube Red subscription.

As it was just released, you cannot yet make or take calls through the bluetooth, and the responses you get from it (It uses the new Google Assistant) are slightly different that "Ok Google" on your Android phone, but that is currently in the works. One other thing I didn't like is I tried to add something to the household shopping list we use on Google Keep, and instead of using the existing list, it created a new one with Google Assistant. Still need to look into that.

We were having fun asking it silly questions last night. Ask it to tell you a joke or tell you a pickup line and you'll get some funny responses. Although the functionality is currently very limited, I have no doubts that soon it will be fully functional as intended. I will update next summer (assuming I remember) or maybe sooner, depending on results. Overall though, I'd say it's a great buy. Oh, and the sound quality on the speaker is pretty damn good for such a little thing!

Thanks,
A.J.

I also raise my hand to that motion...

@thecreativeone91 said:

This is asking to be shown the door at Mcafee.

Why? For a discussion with a co-worker?

@Dominica said:

@ajstringham I used to feel like I was a wimp or something for always wanting to play on easy, and then @scottalanmiller explained why he does in a way that made so much sense. We aren't in it for slash and hack just for the sake of it, we play for the story, and you get the same story on easy.

Exactly! Some see the story as part of the game. I see the story as the reason to game.

@Dashrender said in Google Home:

@thanksajdotcom said in Google Home:

@Dashrender said in Google Home:

I'm kinda regretting my Amazon Echo some days.
It's two years old and still has the hardest time answering questions.

I wonder if the Google Home will be better at that out of the box?

I saw a video of some people comparing questions with the Echo vs the Home. It was a large reason I went with the Home. With Google, you can ask follow-up questions, like:

"What year did <insert movie> come out?" and then "who played in it?" and it will know you're still talking about the same subject. The Echo doesn't do that.

yeah the following up is cool and all - but I'm not talking about thinks like that. I'll have to try to remember to jot down the next few questions that Alexa can't answer.

If you do, let me know and I'll test them out for you!

Done!

@Nic said:

I keep asking all my coworkers if they work for the NSA

Look for the bug in your shorts after you ask them that.

Just finished my latest article on my site!

http://www.thanksaj.com/2014/07/introspect-on-infotech-behind-those-screens-sit-people/

@QuixoticAndy said:

Hi, everyone. Just thought I'd mention QDesk, which is the new help desk system in development by our startup company, Quixotic Software. It will be hosted and free (ad supported) for all users.

Things are still in the very early stages, but we'd like to know what you, the IT community, look for in help desk software. Or maybe share what other support ticket software you've used, and what you liked or didn't like about it.

Thanks!

Can you post some links for us lazy people?

@coliver said:

@Reid-Cooper Ignore the man in the suit and sunglasses... he doesn't exist.

Does this rag smell like chloroform?

Ok, now I know! I hate you Scott...

You mean crew? Lol

@Dominica said:

I just found a thread talking about how if you do a clean install and don't have all the Lenovo drivers for this machine, you are screwed.

Get them off the website. Easy peasy.

@Joyfano said:

Finally i can view the picture now lols..

and it's beautiful...

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

You mean crew? Lol

Minion slip.

@scottalanmiller said:

Complete OS reinstall and the system is exactly the same afterwards. Something about the Lenovo-modified Windows 8.1 image is flaky and is causing very noticeable issues with posting or just basic web usage.

Might be anything. There is a lot of bloatware on there. But this feels like a network shim is in place hijacking traffic. It's just a guess but that is how it appears from the behaviour.

I always wipe with a vanilla image. Lenovo, HP, Dell, all of them include tons of bloatware with their image. It's better, usually, when you get business machines. Yours came with 8.1 Home though, which means you can at least double the amount of trialware, etc that will come pre-loaded.

19096 here...