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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Microsoft cuts Office 2019 one-time licenses through Home Use Program
Microsoft's march through subscription land continues apace.
Another one bites the dust. Microsoft has been shifting much of its software to a subscription model, and the latest Office 2019 news heralds another change on that front. The suite of Microsoft programs had been available for purchase as one-off perpetual licenses through the company’s Home Use Program. HUP lets select businesses offer employees discounted rates on the software from their workplaces to use at home. Both Office Professional Plus 2019 and Office Home and Business 2019 have been removed as options for one-off licenses under the program. Instead, HUP will give a 30% discount on annual subscriptions to Office software. Office 365 Personal will run HUP members $48.99 a year, and Office 365 Home will cost them $69.99 annually. The feature sets of the two subscriptions are the same, including premium versions of Microsoft programs, 1TB of OneDrive cloud storage, and OneDrive ransomware detection. The Home version supports up to six people, and Personal is for an individual.This is going to drive a lot of people away from MS Office.
Not at all. The actual % of people that use this is low. Across the few clients I had that offered this I know of 3 users that made use of the benefit.
When I worked at AT&T, this was a benefit available. I know of only a handfull of people in a 500+ person office that made use of this benefit.
So you were the one that handed the HUP out? or at least informed people how to get it?
I'd say more like 40% of people in my office used it. I sent out yearly emails, which frequently lead to questions from people, etc...
I'm only saying 40% because that's how many people asked me about it. Once you email blast the website and tell people to use their work email address to sign up, there is no involvement of you in the process - so you can't really tell how many people are actually using it at all.
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@Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
So you were the one that handed the HUP out? or at least informed people how to get it?
Not at A&T, but elsewhere, yes. As I just said, it is interesting to see different responses.
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FAA tells airlines MacBook Pros with defective batteries can’t fly
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/faa-bans-some-15-inch-macbook-pros-with-battery-problems-from-flights/The Federal Aviation Administration has banned certain 15-inch MacBook Pros with potentially defective batteries from US flights. The move, which follows Apple's June recall announcement, is part of a general FAA policy on devices with defective batteries.
"The FAA is aware of the recalled batteries that are used in some Apple MacBook Pro laptops," FAA spokespeople said in emails to Ars Technica. Under FAA policy, affected MacBook Pros are banned from the passenger cabin and from checked luggage.
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I wonder if this means anybody offloading their old equipment on ebay/etc will have to ship via ground. . .?
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https://fedoramagazine.org/taz-brown-how-do-you-fedora/
Awesome hardware setup.
Kinesis Advantage2 will cost you $349 US.
https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/
She uses Wekan, an open source kanban board. Anyone ever heard of it?
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Looks like they're finally fixing some of the annoyances with kvm through cockpit.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
She uses Wekan, an open source kanban board. Anyone ever heard of it?
https://wekan.github.io/Yeah, pretty familiar with it. We don't do kanban around here much and Asana is free and hosted, so what little we use, we use that. But Wekan is Meteor based, I think, and pretty well known.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Kinesis Advantage2 will cost you $349 US.
https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/That keyboard looks like the stuff of nightmares. How can anyone type on that?
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That keyboard looks horrible, never could use split keyboards
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I've tried ergonomic keyboards in the past and the issue is all with muscle memory. Your hands want to be in certain positions so it really requires dedication to use anything even remotely close to that form-factor.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
I've tried ergonomic keyboards in the past and the issue is all with muscle memory. Your hands want to be in certain positions so it really requires dedication to use anything even remotely close to that form-factor.
I tend to also find them uncomfortable. As someone with actual carpal tunnel, those things are just gimmicks that make the wrist problems worse, not better. Traditional keyboards are actually pretty much ideal for people with carpal tunnel.
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@StuartJordan said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
That keyboard looks horrible, never could use split keyboards
I have to use them sometimes, such a bad idea.
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The (not so) hidden cost of sharing code between iOS and Android
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Beats’ Powerbeats Pro earbuds will ship on May 10th for $250
Preorders start just a few days from now on May 3rd
There was a ton of reader interest in the new Powerbeats Pro, which are the first true wireless earbuds coming from Apple’s Beats brand.AKA: $10 generic headphones with "haha we can sucker Millenials" branding to ship for 25000% markup.
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://fedoramagazine.org/taz-brown-how-do-you-fedora/
Awesome hardware setup.
Honestly, if you work many hours that setup
sucks big timecould be improved upon.The monitor on top will
cause some serious neck problemsmight be a little uncomfortable in the long run.And two wide monitors with no monitor is in the middle forces you turn either left or right all the time because you can't place any windows in front of you - which is the best position.
It's better to use a larger monitor (a 16:9) in front of you or go to three monitors with one in the middle. Or just put one monitor in the center and one off to the side and use the one in the center as your primary.
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@Pete-S
I've been working with two monitors in a V for years now. I like it that way.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@Pete-S
I've been working with two monitors in a V for years now. I like it that way.
Me too, but I bet you haven't tried with three monitors. Also, it's when you have problems and you have the luxury to try different configs you'll notice what works better.
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Google Drive will introduce long-asked-for file shortcuts feature
It's coming to G Suite in beta first, but may reach more users at a later date.
Soon, Google will add one of the most commonly requested features to its Drive file hosting, sharing, and collaboration service: shortcuts. These will allow users to create pointers to files from either the same drive or another, separate shared drive. The new feature will work just like shortcuts in Windows—they are pointers to a file stored in another location. The shortcut can be stored anywhere without impacting the location of the original file. Google gave this example in its blog post announcing the feature:
