And then the DM closes his screen and says "yup that was all I had prepared for tonight so I’ll see you next week

Oh that’s a very good question! I’ve seen the comic shared around the internet so much I don’t know myself

I meant it’s the whole you have to try to figure out who was lying before reading the last part. I’m realizing as I type this it could’ve entirely not been an intentional part of the reading experience of those books and just something my mom inserted when she was reading them to me

How does it been in the cloud make it any worse. User management is user management I don’t really care if it’s hosted locally or not. I’d prefer it to be hosted locally but I’d take Entra over not having it at all.

The big difference is the gaping Grand Canyon sized feature gap between M365 and on-prem AD. Sure you can enforce some desktop policies via Entra but rarely the specific one you’re after. And if all you’re really using AD for is central authentication and you’re not using group policy much anymore, alternative options start actually being options

I’ll be the first Linux fan to say it’s better to manage windows from windows, and that includes using the Windows Server stack to manage your Windows clients, but Microsoft’s really making that less and less compelling as they move everything into the cloud and off of local software and instead into less featureful web apps. At some point it makes far more sense to just kick them to the curb and instead deal with the wonkiness of Linux where at least you get control over changes and updates

because we can’t remote into a Citrix box

Citrix literally makes a tool for doing exactly that! Its called Citrix Director and while yes it’s just as slightly-not-quite-wonky as everything else Citrix, it works quite well for remoting into a thin client’s session among other management features

They said they it’s a Citrix thing.

Pretty sure it’s more of a redirected folder thing with Windows, but Windows has been pretty wonky recently about redirected folders and profiles. By memory of my last Citrix environment redirecting the recycle bin is completely possible but bad practice since it’s just more profile data to fling around and slow down login times

Its really funny, I’ve noticed in organizations where they only purchase based on support availability they tend to have a lot of random broken stuff because vendors never sorted it out and tons of technical debt from 3/4 configured stuff that nobody took the time to dig into and finish cleaning up after the vendor completed the initial setup, meanwhile organizations which actually take an active role in their infrastructure and focus more on using the right tool for the job tend to have much more robust systems, but more outages where they can only blame themselves

I mean the original source would be the Hogfather by Terry Pratchett. This comic is a rendition of a humorous interaction that goes down in the book.

In short, there’s a plot to eliminate the Hogfather (Santa) by controlling children into not believing in him, so Death (the Grim Reaper) fills in for the Hogfather while others work to the plotters and save not just Hogswatch (Christmas) but also the entire disc (the world)

I had a shitty job where I was opening lots of boxes for one of my duties but no cutting implements were provided. I asked and it was gently implied that sharp implements would not be provided to anyone in the building and that brining your own was strongly frowned upon. That was…interesting

Dude I loved the concept of Encyclopedia Brown but so many of the resolutions revolve around the most obscure of knowledge. Like yeah you get to figure out who don it but holy crap relying on knowing the exact dimensions of a US dollar bill to identify the coin collector as the culprit is quite a stretch for 8-12 year olds

I honestly could be misremembering. I swear I remember seeing somewhere that fake redacted stuff for flavoring/humor

I find it funny that it took a few days for this to come out. That’s the very first thing I try if I see a big black box censoring something in a PDF or webpage is highlight to see if there’s text under there (practice from reading SCP Wiki and various forums with fun formatting options). Heck I randomly highlight as I read enough I’d probably even find that it was incorrectly redacted without even trying

Some of the bits of the Epstein emails I’ve seen made it clear that some of his friends were really just people who turned to him for validation and occasionally favors. Almost gets me to feel a little bad for the guy

Hey if you were thinking live-transcode I can definitely see why you’d think around 20 clients per server for CPU transcode and I can also see where such a high wattage would come from!

Edit: fun bonus fact! Netflix offers caching servers to ISPs that they can place on their side of the interconnect to mutually reduce bandwidth costs. By memory from a teardown I saw on reddit like a decade ago, it was a pretty standard 1U single socket server (probably a supermicro whitebox if we’re being real)with 4-6 HDDs to serve the media files

And over 36,000 vehicles crash into buildings every year in the US (that’s roughly 100 per day!)

My understanding is that it’s related to the frameless glass on the doors, it needs to roll the windows down a smidgen to clear the water seal on the door frame, so you press the button which tells the computer to roll the window down a couple of mm then actuate the door.

The more Red Dwarf references I see the more I realize I badly need to go back and actually watch more than a few episodes of it

Since others explained most of the joke, I’ll point out that the last line is a reference to women’s jokes about guys who will fuck them in the least arousing ways possible then ask afterwards “so you came too, right?”

Clearly his pull out game is weak then…

Can we have a breed-off in 3-5 business days then?

Nice to see the concept applied to a righteous cause for once too!