Debian 12.x has been great on the Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 Gen 10 for the last year and a half. Only caveats: Lenovo Thunderbolt dock pushing two monitors is tricky on suspend and wake if the laptop is closed so there’s a little sequence I need to do removing and docking. Ran XFCE but have been on Cinnamon for the last six months. Battery life is great with Bluetooth dies every few months...
Best Methods to Represent AI-Generated Content To Users
Agree with the below from ChatGPT itself but would also be for just normalizing #ShowThePrompt or basically ALWAYS including the prompt given as well as the output. Essentially, show your source along the lines of bibliographies () or footnotes. The prompt to ChatGPT From ChatGPT Itself: To represent or denote content generated by AI in a way that values trust and transparency, consider the...
Pics from the #TAG2019 Panel on #FreedomOnTheNet
Posting some pics from Technology Association of Grantmakers keynote panel down at #TAG2019 in Miami Beach in discussion on the #FreedomOnTheNet 2019 report from Freedom House with Adrian Shahbaz.
Here are a few pics from the panel.
Thoughts on Airtable from a Longtime Smartsheet User
After kicking the tires for ~72 hours or so on the recent funded Airtable here are some thoughts on it vs. my go-to for similar functions around project management and collaboration, Smartsheet. By no means is this comprehensive, but just some notes on some time with the tools. The Good about Airtable over Smartsheet: Airtable is more fun: Playing with data is much more of a pleasure in Airtable...
Microsoft Excel Trust Center and File Block Settings Craziness
Just spent far too long on an issue with a user on Excel. The Trust Center and File Block settings in Office 2013 can be quite confusing. No matter what we did we had issues saving an older excel file format and all alerts kept pointing us back to Trust Center and File Block Settings. The mistake that we kept making was around checkbox and leaving boxes unchecked in there. If you restore...
Avoid the disco ball trap in technology implementation projects
Having led more than my fair share of technology and software implementation projects in different types of organizations, I’ve often referred to the term “disco ball” as a way to capture a trap that can jeopardize your implementation. Leading a project from discovery to selection to implementation, I have always been aware and concerned with the trap that many before me have...