That’s what she said.

Servers weren’t much of a problem, they’re mostly virtual and could be just restored from a backup. The several hundred workstations were a problem. They needed a physical touch. All are encrypted with BitLocker, requiring passkeys stored in AD. Over half are laptops. Most of those don’t have wired ethernet ports, and an account with local admin rights hasn’t logged in since the day they were imaged. Throw in a proper LAPS config, where randomly generated passwords of three dozen characters in length are also stored in AD…

… Yeah, today was a bad day.

How do you define “everyone”, though?

Buddy of mine and I were discussing the word “buoy” a while back. His “everyone” is UK based, and pronounce it “boy”. My “everyone”, being in the Northeast US, pronounce it “booee”. Who’s correct? I’d rather use the pronunciation that doesn’t make me sound like a pedophile, depending on the content in the rest of the sentence: “I took the boat out to the end of the bay and picked up the buoy… That was quite a rough ride.”

Stomping your foot and demanding the other person stick to your pronunciation is a bit unreasonable in that situation, ain’t it?

There is no better way to come off as a pretentious asshat in my mind than to stubbornly stomp a foot and declare “my way of pronouncing this word is correct and everyone else is wrong.”

Language evolves, and some folk can’t handle it.

The hypocrisy is similar enough to warrant the lumping, in my eyes.

For your consideration: https://apnews.com/article/alabama-frozen-embryos-ivf-storage-questions-1adbc349e0f99851973a609e360c242c

Well, what’s out there?

Upstate NY is just the cold weather version of the Bible Belt.

It tastes like sarcasm.

This whole thread is sarcasm, dipped in a whipped sarcasm batter, crusted with crushed sarcasm, then deep fried in a pure sarcastic oil for a sarcastically long time until it’s a nice even color. It’s then drizzled with a sarcastic reduction, and presented on china with a sarcastic pattern with accompanying cutlery.

I’ll do that. Should I be using the “Ender-3 4.2.2 mainboard (32bit)” firmware? I’ve read that the Marlin firmware isn’t compatible with the GD CPUs, so I’m assuming the “Ender-3Marlin2.0.6HW4.2.2GD” won’t work.

Update: support got back to me, with instructions to reflash using the latter firmware. The symptoms changed: during the firmware “upgrade”, the 05 LED flashes about once a second. I let it run for ten minutes, but the printer never rebooted. Powered it off, removed the SD card, powered it back on… Still nothing but a blue display, though the 05 LED keeps blinking once a second.

I’m thinking it’s a bad motherboard. Waiting on support, now.

I’ve got a laptop running Linux on it; connected it up at some point during my time with it. The laptop was able to see the USB to serial adapter, but I didn’t poke at it to see if anything was talking on the other side. I’ll try that today!

Checked for that, too. Both the original panel and the replacement only have one “port” for the cable on the back. The board has spots for two more to be connected, but both are missing. Looking at the front of the panel (as if I’m using it), the port is the left most of the three.

Gentoo. I’d tell you the version number, but I’m still compiling.

Your projection is showing.