You've never used a battery powered drill/driver or impact? Cause I'm never hauling extension cords or air lines around again.

I honestly can't wait till we get a bit better replacements for gas powered push mowers, weed eaters, etc. Cause those are messy (mixing gas and oil for the weed eaters, dealing with gas and oil on the mowers), hard to start (Most of my relatives can't actually start those things cause the pull is so hard, and you have to do it for so long while fiddling with choke etc, and IDK how long my shoulders will stand it either) etc. Battery / electric I just plug it in, and I flip a switch and it goes. So much easier. And quieter.

I don't know, it seems like their Mirrorless cameras are all the rage right now, and I personally have preferred the Playstation to the competitors since sega folded as a hardware concern.

Yes, you're so perceptive you missed most of my points.

I pointed out there are what I consider IT adjacent jobs like Room AV system operator. We have some of those where I work - I don't know the history or long term plan, but they aren't there for every room that has an AV system.

I also think that if you use something every day for work, yet you actually need someone else to use it for you - you're not that great at your job. You totally skipped over my car / driver analogy.

I'm not a cost center - I enable where I work to do things they couldn't otherwise do. None of that has anything to do with running someone's meeting for them. I'll also point out that for some reason in IT, and maybe in other fields - the people people are good at interacting with people. They can make users feel great about having someone sit there and hold their hand, and commiserate with them about their pain. Then there are the less people people who just fix the problem, but the users don't like them.

Hey, if users prefer talking about the problem rather than having it fixed, that's OK with me. I just tell them to talk to the front line people who are good and making the users feel good, and have those people let me know when they want a problem fixed. I think it's partially that people are good at different things.

This article was a troll, that's true. However, your point reads like the reason IT hasn't solved the problem is because they're blaming someone else. It feels like that's like blaming Doctors because people get Cancer.

Then you say "I don't know what you should do, but you should still take responsibility for solving this problem".

I'm not blaming anyone - I'm point to who *might* have the ability to solve the problem, and it isn't IT. It's Management who could insist on buying secure systems and insist on training and standards for the Users security posture. It's Users who could learn how to be more secure. It's developers who could write better and more secure software.

All IT can do is suggest better software, and suggest configurations that are as secure as possible. But we're not the decision makers in many cases.

Am I supposed to just stop doing my job till we "solve this problem" that's ill defined? What do you even mean that moving on is bad? Do you sit there for hours waiting for building care to wax the floor, offering to do the waxing for them? Or do you tell management that waxing the floor is handled by building care, submit a ticket with them, and move on with your life?

I'm testing mooltipass device. Might help.

I'm not sure what you're suggesting here though? IT isn't developers. We can't custom program everything to be done "right". Heck, we often don't even get to choose the programs.

Other than saying the tech company needs to fix the issue, what are we supposed to be doing?

Yea, you're not actual IT. You're a computer concierge. Which is fine, if that's the job you want, and the people actually want to pay for it. Some do, and get that. Some don't. IT is generally a lot of different things, and our jobs may not all be to do the computing part of someone else's job.

That's the issue. To me, it's the difference between being a mechanic and being someone's driver. They're different things, but many users conflate the two. I'm not their IT assistant. I have projects to do, and actual problems to solve.

Management might pay for employees to be people's IT driver, but then you're basically paying for a lot of unnecessary employees vs hiring people who don't also need a specialist driver.

Even the janitors are not called to operate the toilet for users.

The login screen? That's your complaint? That's the hell you picked to die on?

Ctrl-alt-del, type username, tab, type password. Enter.

Have you ever seen or worked with a user? None of them know any keyboard shortcuts. So they're sitting there wondering how they change the user, or what they click on to log in.

The Start Menu looks different. That's the issue for the users. They have a bitmap in their head of what they click on, if a single pixel changes, they freeze up. I've seen it. I don't get it either, but that's how they work. Like, a shortcut moved on the desktop, and they can't use the computer.

So you think that only cultural encouragement lends people to committing acts of terror? There's no other reason someone might engage in asymmetric warfare? More to the point, did the IRAs culture encourage them to carry out bombings? There have been terrorists at different times, including organized groups, that to my limited knowledge are not muslim, and don't have any "tenets of faith [that] death while killing infidels will bring them paradise".

The US isn't really a melting pot, it's a bunch of groups sort of working together. There are issues - but they're not regularly committing terrorism against other countries either. They're not recruiting people in other countries to come and fight here. They're not even often attacking others inside their communities in the way ISIS / Taliban / etc have.

I'll take the US level of getting along, as low as it is, over the Middle East level of exporting terrorism.

The longer I work, the more "new technologies" seem retarded, or warmed over retreads of bad ideas that didn't work last time. Many "new technologies" seem pointless, or at least solving a problem I've never had. They often seem to make less and less of a case as to what anyone would do with them beyond "they're new!"

That's not to say I think all new technologies are retarded - just less of them per year as I get experience.

So if I'm flying a drone myself up to, say, 400 feet, do I then own up to 400 ft, or would I need permanent overflights or a physical structure to that height to be "using" the airspace?

I always thought you owned up to the floor for airplanes - sounds like I'm wrong.

(Nevertheless, taking "clear images" from 300m away from a shaky drone is pretty tricky; image stabilization is not that good.)

Have you tried any of the ones with a gimbal? I don't know about using a zoom lens, I don't have one, but I have used OOTB DJI Phantom Vision II v3 and it's pretty amazingly stable in the pictures or video. As stable as I can get holding a camera anyway.

I thought about it, then realized it was a pretty stupid idea, at least with current law and even somewhat affordable drones (DJI phantoms).

Then again, it's more curiosity like what's behind their house etc. And probably crosses some line, but I'm not about to set up some sort regular overflights. I mostly fly over my own property, or places where I've gotten permission by the property owner. I also stay below 400ft by settings in the software. I don't want to impinge on any manned aircraft.

Isn't that what EverNote's (and all the evernote compatible clients) are for? Then again, I can't figure out what to do with any of these note-taking programs, so . . . I'm not really in a position to judge.