Grumpy Old Man
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@Machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
Different rules here, Nick. This has now moved onto pure Kafkaesque theatre involving red lines on maps, blue lines on maps, whether the cable run forms a boundary of "the works" and is within a red line or blue line and whether the PV panel support structure could be used as a greenhouse. And no, I'm not making any of this up.
Will update later.
My parents-in-law took 8 or 9 years to finally get permission to make another house on their plot - a entire acre, one (if not the) biggest in the village
The Council have told me the planning costs could be as much as £3.460.00 as they class PV panels as "Plant and Machinery", the total area would need to extend to the boundary of the road and they calculate fees on the total area. The panels themselves use about 10sq m of land
Planning costs for a 250 sqm green house are £95.00....
I might send the Head of Planning a copy of the Collected Works of Franz Kafka
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@Victor-Meldrew I only state this because I follow Robert Llewellyn on YouTube (EV show in the UK) and he got around the structural thing via the ground bored poles.
Best of luck with it
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew I only state this because I follow Robert Llewellyn on YouTube (EV show in the UK) and he got around the structural thing via the ground bored poles.
Best of luck with it
That might be Building Control which deals with stuff like structural safety.
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@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know you’re a GOM when you want to slap people you see using their phone like this
FUCK!
Fuck I hate that. People walking around holding it out like that in front of them to talk, and then holding it up to their ear to listen.I can only think they do that so they can talk quietly and can't be heard.
Or they are just piston wristed gibbons
It’s definitely not the former and most likely the latter.
The act often involves everyone in earshot hearing the conversation.They're doing voice-notes. No one rings people nowadays.
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@delicatessen said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know you’re a GOM when you want to slap people you see using their phone like this
FUCK!
Fuck I hate that. People walking around holding it out like that in front of them to talk, and then holding it up to their ear to listen.I can only think they do that so they can talk quietly and can't be heard.
Or they are just piston wristed gibbons
It’s definitely not the former and most likely the latter.
The act often involves everyone in earshot hearing the conversation.They're doing voice-notes. No one rings people nowadays.
That's what they tell you.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@delicatessen said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
You know you’re a GOM when you want to slap people you see using their phone like this
FUCK!
Fuck I hate that. People walking around holding it out like that in front of them to talk, and then holding it up to their ear to listen.I can only think they do that so they can talk quietly and can't be heard.
Or they are just piston wristed gibbons
It’s definitely not the former and most likely the latter.
The act often involves everyone in earshot hearing the conversation.They're doing voice-notes. No one rings people nowadays.
That's what they tell you.
Via voice note, yes
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Christmas present sorted...
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@Victor-Meldrew Not many old people can wear something that tight though.....
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew Not many old people can wear something that tight though.....
Another reason to be grumpy. I bought this novelty old man top and it was never a medium…
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GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.
Fuck off.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.
Fuck off.
Bit dumb to allow BYOD in the first place if that is the risk appetite.
Do they use BYOD to save their own costs? If so then they should piss right of in telling you what to do with your personal kit. -
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.
Fuck off.
Bit dumb to allow BYOD in the first place if that is the risk appetite.
Do they use BYOD to save their own costs? If so then they should piss right of in telling you what to do with your personal kit.BYOD has been in place for a few years since we moved to Google Business suite.
But IT Security clearly ran out of things to do recently as they've been running through the entire estate from PCs to cloud to anything connected.
I just don't see how, when they've got a password policy in certain areas that wouldn't pass muster in 2015, they're jumping up and down about this.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.
Fuck off.
Bit dumb to allow BYOD in the first place if that is the risk appetite.
Do they use BYOD to save their own costs? If so then they should piss right of in telling you what to do with your personal kit.BYOD has been in place for a few years since we moved to Google Business suite.
But IT Security clearly ran out of things to do recently as they've been running through the entire estate from PCs to cloud to anything connected.
I just don't see how, when they've got a password policy in certain areas that wouldn't pass muster in 2015, they're jumping up and down about this.
Is it virtual desktop environment? If so then isn't that environment separate from your own? ie you cant move files between the two.. That's how the ones I have previously worked with have been.
The only way the at information gets onto your disk is if you break policy and send it out and back (looking at you Hillary) -
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crucial said in Grumpy Old Man:
@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.
Fuck off.
Bit dumb to allow BYOD in the first place if that is the risk appetite.
Do they use BYOD to save their own costs? If so then they should piss right of in telling you what to do with your personal kit.BYOD has been in place for a few years since we moved to Google Business suite.
But IT Security clearly ran out of things to do recently as they've been running through the entire estate from PCs to cloud to anything connected.
I just don't see how, when they've got a password policy in certain areas that wouldn't pass muster in 2015, they're jumping up and down about this.
Is it virtual desktop environment? If so then isn't that environment separate from your own? ie you cant move files between the two.. That's how the ones I have previously worked with have been.
I know what you mean, but it is fully browser-based in terms of using Google (Mail, Docs, Sheets, Cloud Platform etc) so no effective OS - access everything from a BYOD via Chrome.
The only way the at information gets onto your disk is if you break policy and send it out and back (looking at you Hillary)
Exactly. And why the fuck would I when it is useless to me on a PC at home? I have a work laptop that has disk encryption and the necessary VPN for any cloud apps I'm not allowed to reach through my home setup. But I only use that when I go into the office because fuck disrupting my home office setup with my sweet HP Omen 15 that is 5 times as grunty.
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
GOM/Tech rant: our work now requires any BYOD to have encryption on the disk. Yeah sure, that'll keep the Russians at bay; my gaming PC in my WFH office that never even connected to the work network was the key weakness in bringing down the whole company.
Fuck off.
Tell them it would slow down your read/write speeds for your personal use device to be unacceptably slow, so you’ll need them to compensate you for the cost of a machine that does it at acceptable speed. Flash them a quote for a new overspecced Mac. Then trouser the cash and buy a PS5.
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@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
Movember.
Fuck. Off. Not shaving your top lip for charity is like me only wanking with my left hand for charity. You aren’t achieving shit, or suffering shit.
Stupidest idea ever.
I'm as grumpy as fuck and I don't really get why you're getting so worked up about this one. If it raises money then who cares? I'd rather grow a mo than not eat for 40 hours to raise money for charity. If you can get people to pay and not suffer shit then that's way more sensible to me.
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@Nepia said in Grumpy Old Man:
@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
Movember.
Fuck. Off. Not shaving your top lip for charity is like me only wanking with my left hand for charity. You aren’t achieving shit, or suffering shit.
Stupidest idea ever.
I'm as grumpy as fuck and I don't really get why you're getting so worked up about this one. If it raises money then who cares? I'd rather grow a mo than not eat for 40 hours to raise money for charity. If you can get people to pay and not suffer shit then that's way more sensible to me.
Plus you get to look like a porn star/sex offender/Tom Selleck/Sean Connery/Burt Reynolds/Terry Wright/Hulk Hogan depending on what cards you get dealt in terms of mo growing ability.
Win/win
