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Filling out forms to submit to HR for employee payroll changes.

"Your forms are bad and you should feel bad."

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The Rise of Skywalker is getting hammered, especially for a Star Wars movie.

Doesn't being part of such an epic.. um... epic make it more likely to get hammered if it isn't exactly what fans wanted?

And the people dissing TROS are the professional reviewers, not the much maligned fans of Star Wars.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

The Rise of Skywalker is getting hammered, especially for a Star Wars movie.

Doesn't being part of such an epic.. um... epic make it more likely to get hammered if it isn't exactly what fans wanted?

There is a narrative out there that criticizes those who dislike TLJ as those who wanted to get something specific. Most of the people that I talk to just wanted a good Star Wars story. It wasn't about not having fan service, or nods, or callbacks. It was because we wanted a coherent story set in our favorite universe. No one is upset because of the subversion that Rian Johnson did. Except for the fact that it appears that that was primary motivation for making the movie instead of telling a good space magic movie.

The Rise of Skywalker is getting hammered, especially for a Star Wars movie.

@Dashrender said in Dropbox and Box - billing issues:

@coliver said in Dropbox and Box - billing issues:

@Kelly said in Dropbox and Box - billing issues:

I CAN'T TELL YOU OUR NEEDS IF YOU WON'T TELL ME WHO IS USING YOUR SERVICE SO I CAN ASK THEM WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE!

I mean, you could definitely say this to them...

This sounds like one of those weird end of the year tactics sales people use to get their bonus.

it's worse than that, I think - they are claiming he owes them money. Pretty sure that's not legal.

I guess we'd need to see the bill they submitted to you. Perhaps there is wording in there that makes it not a bill- but look like a bill that sadly many AP just pay thinking it's legit.

When I pushed back on the bill thing they are now stating that they just want to consult, that there isn't a bill.

@Dashrender said in Dropbox and Box - billing issues:

WOW - if you are responsible for the bill, then the PII is within your purview, I would think. it's really sounding like a scam, and I'd likely threaten litigation if they don't provide the verification or drop the claim of charges.

After I mentioned getting legal involved the person from dropbox has backed off and said they just want to understand our needs so that they can be a consultant and support us. I CAN'T TELL YOU OUR NEEDS IF YOU WON'T TELL ME WHO IS USING YOUR SERVICE SO I CAN ASK THEM WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE!

Sorry for the yelling. I'm frustrated and y'all are safe.

I'm curious if anyone else has run into issues with Dropbox and/or Box coming after you pretty hard for money? The Box issue has died down somewhat, but Dropbox is driving me nuts. They are asking me to pay some unnamed amount for an unspecified number of accounts ("over 600") that have performed a number of actions. They are also refusing to provide me with the accounts in question because they consider that information to be PII.

I'm not in a good space to be dealing with this level of absurdity. Anyone else had something like this with either of these vendors? If yes, what did you do to handle it? If our police department didn't use dropbox for some things I would block their domain at the firewall.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

While I'm sure there was something - but the last major one I can think of - in sci fi was The Matrix.

that was a good long while ago

within the decade...

Which decade? It came out in 1999.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

is Disney Plus worth it?

Depends on if you like Disney movies or properties. It is quickly going to be the only place you can find Star Wars, Marvel, animated, etc.

I get that @coliver and @JaredBusch think it is good. I'm happy for you. I am glad that they're going deeper into the lore and might be building a large story. My patience is very thin given TLJ and what it is, so I have been hoping that after nearly 2 hours of screen time that we would have something more than we do. Maybe my expectations of what this show is are wrong.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.

WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?

Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.

That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.

It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.

This has nothing to do with me wanting to binge the show. I actually like the pacing overall. I like having time to think about it and having the episodes be a separate thing. What I do want, that I haven't seen much of is for there to be some kind of advancement of someone's story. So far <spoiler> Mando has more armor and baby Yoda has joined him </spoiler> nothing else of significance has happened in either of their stories.

The Mandalorian betray his people the bounty hunter's guild and forced his people to have to go into hiding elsewhere is not a big development?

No, because we have no idea why the Mandalorians are in hiding (from the context of the show, can't use EU because Kathleen Kennedy). Why are they on the same planet as the BHG?

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@coliver said in What Are You Watching Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.

WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?

Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.

That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.

It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.

I'm probably in the minority. But so far the pacing of The Mandelorian has been pretty decent. It throws a ton of lore in there without going overboard, and gives you plenty of time during the show to digest what's going on.

It also, bizarrely, doesn't play the audience for stupid. Which is a nice change of pace.

And most of the actual lore is about the Mandalorians and the Bounty Hunters Guild so far.

Tidbits about the resistance in Episode 4 with Cara.
Obvious bits about the down and out Empire remnants driving the whole plot with the entire "The Child" thing seeming to be the over arching storyline.

And that is my primary complaint. They are at 5/8 for Season 1 and all we have are tidbits and bits and pieces.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

My conclusion about the Mandalorian: <ssnip> and has next to zero story or progression.

WTF? You want a TV series to be done in 1 episode? What would be the point of a series?

Get over the binge watching attitude of needing to see 10 hours of story at once.

That or wait until the season is over and then watch the fucking thing.

It may well turn out to be shit. But that is not what it looks like so far.

This has nothing to do with me wanting to binge the show. I actually like the pacing overall. I like having time to think about it and having the episodes be a separate thing. What I do want, that I haven't seen much of is for there to be some kind of advancement of someone's story. So far <spoiler> Mando has more armor and baby Yoda has joined him </spoiler> nothing else of significance has happened in either of their stories.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

if it were not sharing a timeframe with TLJ.

They have nothing to do with each other.
There is ~25 years between The Force Awakens and The Mandalorian.

Our timeframe, not the Star Wars timeframe.

I have not read the whole thread, so I apologize if I missed something. I read through the first ~20 posts and decided to toss my stuff in here.

We currently use a tool called CyberArk for privilege escalation. It requires that an exe be registered with it by an admin, but allows an end user to silently escalate a process that has been so registered. This gives us the ability to remove admin rights from almost everyone (I don't have any), and still allow the function that is needed for business operations. Depending on your scale it might not make financial sense, but it saved my city a large chunk of time and resources.

@Dashrender said in deploy iPads - locked down - suggestions?:

@Kelly said in deploy iPads - locked down - suggestions?:

@Dashrender said in deploy iPads - locked down - suggestions?:

@Kelly said in deploy iPads - locked down - suggestions?:

@IRJ said in deploy iPads - locked down - suggestions?:

iPads seem like a waste of money here. If truly only accessing the web on a tablet, android would make alot more sense financially.

https://rootmygalaxy.net/screen-pinning-android/

Oh, that is fancy.

And the Samsung Galaxy Tab A series are very inexpensive.

Wow - Android 5, that's ancient, also the oldest version supporting this pinning option.

The newest version was released this year: https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/tablets/galaxy-tab-a/.

sure it wasn't killed?

no availability.

That would be weird since they just refreshed it late last year. I did have to purchase the ones I got in August from CDW.

@Dashrender said in deploy iPads - locked down - suggestions?:

@Kelly said in deploy iPads - locked down - suggestions?:

@IRJ said in deploy iPads - locked down - suggestions?:

iPads seem like a waste of money here. If truly only accessing the web on a tablet, android would make alot more sense financially.

https://rootmygalaxy.net/screen-pinning-android/

Oh, that is fancy.

And the Samsung Galaxy Tab A series are very inexpensive.

Wow - Android 5, that's ancient, also the oldest version supporting this pinning option.

The newest version was released this year: https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/tablets/galaxy-tab-a/.

@Kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scotth said in What Are You Watching Now:

They had Timothy Zahn's best selling trilogy in hand and had to build a ramp, drive a JLG up and add a ladder to see past it. Sometimes....

This was the most frustrating thing about TFA.

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/lucasfilm-president-kathleen-kennedy-interview-rise-skywalker-future-star-wars-912393/

"Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be."

I'm getting tilted just rereading that.

@scotth said in What Are You Watching Now:

They had Timothy Zahn's best selling trilogy in hand and had to build a ramp, drive a JLG up and add a ladder to see past it. Sometimes....

This was the most frustrating thing about TFA.

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/lucasfilm-president-kathleen-kennedy-interview-rise-skywalker-future-star-wars-912393/

"Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be."