The 'I work in I.T' thread

[Ray Gin]

I'm using phrase express for keyboard shortcuts which is deal for constantly typing out an email address in an email or a website. Saves so much time.

What I'm wanting, is an autocorrect software that i can program to 'confirm' the correction with the space bar, so I can just type as quickly as i would on my phone, but on keyboard. Is this a thing? According to claude, grammarly is the closet thing. But I tried it and didn't see much of an advantage over the default windows autocorrect suggestion / method.

If that's not a thing, is there a highly recommended voice to text software which works on chrome, which can work on here and in gmail/icloud? I do use voice to text a lot on claude but I'd rather also have the autocorrect option.

aye cheers lads

 

[Louis]

aye cheers lads

Dance Mat Typing - KS2 Computing game - BBC Bitesize

Play this fun computing game and learn how to touch type with the BBC Dance Mat Typing game it's a fun introduction to touch typing for kids covering level 1-5.

www.bbc.co.uk

This should help.

 

[Ray Gin]

Dance Mat Typing - KS2 Computing game - BBC Bitesize

Play this fun computing game and learn how to touch type with the BBC Dance Mat Typing game it's a fun introduction to touch typing for kids covering level 1-5.

www.bbc.co.uk

This should help.

I don’t think that does at all bud ok?

 

[Rojer]

aye cheers lads

Please log a ticket by emailing support@cliosport.net and one of our engineers will be with you as soon as they can.

 

[Ray Gin]

w*****s

i'll stick to my voice to text or raw dogging the short comments manually on a keyboard like a f**king caveman

 

[Donny_Dog]

 

[charltjr]

I think I’m gonna go postal today.

Been dealing with a project manager the last few weeks. All their comms need feeding through a business bullshit reverse translator.

Engagement, progression, connect with, facilitate, yadda yadda yadda. Every time I email back and address their points, while asking the question “what do you want me to actually do” and I never get an answer. Then a few days later a new email thread basically saying the same thing in a different way.

Sorry buddy, if you want time from my team, you have to actually tell me what the request is. We’re not part of your project team, we are massively overloaded with work as it is, and I can’t help you “facilitate” jack s**t without knowing what you actually want so I can prioritise it against our other work.

Got another one yesterday and I think today is “I’m not playing this game any more, kindly f**k off” day

 

[Archtronics]

I think I’m gonna go postal today.

Been dealing with a project manager the last few weeks. All their comms need feeding through a business bullshit reverse translator.

Engagement, progression, connect with, facilitate, yadda yadda yadda. Every time I email back and address their points, while asking the question “what do you want me to actually do” and I never get an answer. Then a few days later a new email thread basically saying the same thing in a different way.

Sorry buddy, if you want time from my team, you have to actually tell me what the request is. We’re not part of your project team, we are massively overloaded with work as it is, and I can’t help you “facilitate” jack s**t without knowing what you actually want so I can prioritise it against our other work.

Got another one yesterday and I think today is “I’m not playing this game any more, kindly f**k off” day

Nobody does specification documents anymore I don’t know if it’s this new age agile bullshit but it just makes everything so much harder.
Ask for a spec and all I ever get back is a short email or “let’s have a meeting”.

 

[Gray]

I think I’m gonna go postal today.

Been dealing with a project manager the last few weeks. All their comms need feeding through a business bullshit reverse translator.

Engagement, progression, connect with, facilitate, yadda yadda yadda. Every time I email back and address their points, while asking the question “what do you want me to actually do” and I never get an answer. Then a few days later a new email thread basically saying the same thing in a different way.

Sorry buddy, if you want time from my team, you have to actually tell me what the request is. We’re not part of your project team, we are massively overloaded with work as it is, and I can’t help you “facilitate” jack s**t without knowing what you actually want so I can prioritise it against our other work.

Got another one yesterday and I think today is “I’m not playing this game any more, kindly f**k off” day

Let's circle back next week.

 

[R3k1355]

I think I’m gonna go postal today.

Been dealing with a project manager the last few weeks. All their comms need feeding through a business bullshit reverse translator.

Engagement, progression, connect with, facilitate, yadda yadda yadda. Every time I email back and address their points, while asking the question “what do you want me to actually do” and I never get an answer. Then a few days later a new email thread basically saying the same thing in a different way.

Sorry buddy, if you want time from my team, you have to actually tell me what the request is. We’re not part of your project team, we are massively overloaded with work as it is, and I can’t help you “facilitate” jack s**t without knowing what you actually want so I can prioritise it against our other work.

Got another one yesterday and I think today is “I’m not playing this game any more, kindly f**k off” day

Ask for clear requirements in bullet point format.

When they ignore that and continue with more waffle f**k the useless c**t off.

 

[charltjr]

Ask for clear requirements in bullet point format.

When they ignore that and continue with more waffle f**k the useless c**t off.

I did worse.

Asked him to book a call with me so that we could discuss how to better align our perception gaps on team responsibilities.

Which I believe is LinkedIn for “come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough”.

 

[Rojer]

The best part about working in IT today is that I was in an ice cold server room all morning

 

[Gray]

The best part about working in IT today is that I was in an ice cold server room all morning

I took some extended tips to our DC last week

 

[YorkshireKyle]

The best part about working in IT today is that I was in an ice cold server room all morning

It's fine if you're in the cold aisle

I spent 3 hours in the hot aisle last week and started smelling shapes

 

[Donny_Dog]

 

[Donny_Dog]

 

[Rojer]

More surveillance and more ads

 

[Daz...]

The sooner more games don’t require windows for anti cheat the better. I’ll happily run Linux.

 

[Rojer]

The sooner more games don’t require windows for anti cheat the better. I’ll happily run Linux.

Unfortunately Linux isnt going to save you from this one.

 

[Matt Cup]

Would that windows ads thing be for just stuff on gamepass for instance and my steam library be safe from all that shite?

 

[Rojer]

Would that windows ads thing be for just stuff on gamepass for instance and my steam library be safe from all that shite?

I haven't watched it all yet, but from the bit I did see it's going to implement it in many areas like on the desktop, in applications including games. So let's say you get the new fallout, because it's MS owned it would have the ads regardless if you played on Steam or anywhere else.

 

[Matt Cup]

Hopefully with all the clever hacking that goes on there’ll be an ad blocker released shortly after they enable that then.

 

[adamlstr]

I don't suppose anyone has a windows 7 64-bit image stashed anywhere do they?

All the links I can find are dead.

Scratch that, should've checked p*****bay first.

 

[Louis]

I don't suppose anyone has a windows 7 64-bit image stashed anywhere do they?

All the links I can find are dead.

Scratch that, should've checked p*****bay first.

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- All download links available on our website lead to genuine files only.

massgrave.dev

Safer than TPB

 

[adamlstr]

Download Windows / Office | MAS

- All download links available on our website lead to genuine files only.

massgrave.dev

Safer than TPB

That’s a great link; thanks!

 

[dann2707]

My company is needing us to install MAM software on our phones if we use teams or Outlook.

I'm very weary and don't have access to or want a work phone because hassle.

Shall I just sack teams off altogether on my phone or am I worrying about nothing?

They have listed a load of things they won't be able to see or do like wipe phone etc.

 

[dann2707]

For what it's worth we don't need teams or are required to have it, it's an optional extra for us and it's really handy to have it, so that part is my choice

 

[andybond]

For what it's worth we don't need teams or are required to have it, it's an optional extra for us and it's really handy to have it, so that part is my choice

I have this on my personal device. It’s no dramas at all

 

[dann2707]

I have this on my personal device. It’s no dramas at all

That's good. Am I right in thinking if it's mdm it would be a different story?

 

[andybond]

That's good. Am I right in thinking if it's mdm it would be a different story?

Exactly.

 

[charltjr]

I am getting so fed up with the downsides of AI at work.

Our core product was written in-house, no LLM has any real knowledge of it. We now have developers, infrastructure people and even customers generating static based on what Claude is getting confidently wrong.

On the one hand AI is great and is saving me a ton of time, but that’s also because I know what I’m doing and can spot when it talks s**t. Being told I’m wrong by some nerk who’s done nothing but get Claude to interpret some log files is getting really old, really quickly.

 

[Oggy997]

One of the consultants at our erp support provider was just whacking any of our tickets through AI and replying back with a literal copy paste

He's now gone, I'm not really sure what he aimed to achieve, he didn't even try to hide it - and just resulted in us reviewing the support contract.

I've disabled it in our BI tools & the company pushed to put people on AI courses, thinking it would displace me.
They soon realised that that only really works with good data control & as we don't sanitise any data input, it's not of much benefit if you want clean, concise reporting.

 

[Advikaz]

My company is needing us to install MAM software on our phones if we use teams or Outlook.

I'm very weary and don't have access to or want a work phone because hassle.

Shall I just sack teams off altogether on my phone or am I worrying about nothing?

They have listed a load of things they won't be able to see or do like wipe phone etc.

Can do it through device management in mdm. And have teams etc through the company portal (segregates business).

 

[Louis]

My company is needing us to install MAM software on our phones if we use teams or Outlook.

I'm very weary and don't have access to or want a work phone because hassle.

Shall I just sack teams off altogether on my phone or am I worrying about nothing?

They have listed a load of things they won't be able to see or do like wipe phone etc.

We use company portal and it cant access what I do on my personal phone.

I hope