Al Dykshorn

Technology Jack of all Trades, Christian, Liberty-Loving Conservative, Husband, Father.

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@GoogleForEdu 1a sounds good and we would love 2a, but after 42 biz days @GoogleForEdu still hasn't processed our request to get our tenant approved for Workspace for Edu. I'd love to work on 3a, but I'm working on borrowing Chromebooks from partner schools so we can do state testing. #NoETA

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@GoogleForEdu @GoogleForEdu It's now business day 42 since we've first reached out. Teachers have resorted to using the Chromebooks in "Guest mode." The new challenge is that without Google Workspace access, Chromebooks can't be used for state required testing. #DoesGoogleCare? #EdTech

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@GoogleForEdu It's business day 36. School is now started, there are 60 Chromebooks sitting unused, and teachers asking daily when they will be available. Support says they have a "high volume of submissions" and refuses to give any kind of ETA. Will it be this week? Next year? Should we give up and go with @MicrosoftEDU or @AppleEDU? #K12Tech #EdTech

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@GTeaman @RepThomasMassie You realize he only gets one vote, right? So outside of being very outspoken about reducing spending and always voting against it, what exactly are you expecting?

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@LilTrumpetBoi @SouthwestAir @andrew_kalman If you have their CC you get a free bag. If you buy at a higher ticket tier you get free bags, if you've achieved A-List you also get free bags. Very complicated.

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@clan_mann @SouthwestAir @andrew_kalman That's not true. If you have the CC and book for your family each person in your party gets a checked bag.

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Jesus defeated death so you can live.

[N.D. Wilson @ndwilsonmutters]

In 2020, @realDonaldTrump tweeted a warning when my hometown of Moscow, Idaho arrested three members of our church for not wearing masks at a psalm sing protesting COVID overreach. My son protested those illegal arrests by posting “Soviet Moscow” stickers downtown but was arrested, interrogated in cuffs without Miranda, and then prosecuted by the city for posting a “notice, sign, announcement, or other advertisement” without permission—a law never once enforced (before or since). Ever.

The city was completely un-subtle about its sudden zeal for the “rule of law” as it removed Rory’s stickers but left behind hundreds of others. The arresting officer even told me that he “disagreed with the messaging” of Rory’s stickers, and we later learned that the city prosecutor was sending texts calling our church members “religious idiots” and “assholes” who were “wrecking her sanity”. The prosecutor’s abuse of her discretion and resulting viewpoint discrimination was flashing in bright neon, but Megan Marshall, the trial judge, said prosecutorial prejudice wasn’t a problem since the prosecutor had a first amendment right to say whatever she wanted about us. Apparently, it was a pure coincidence that the one and only time she chose to prosecute an unpermitted sticker, it just happened to be critical of the city and placed by someone she considered to be a religious idiot/asshole. To put a cherry on top of this parfait of First Amendment violations, Judge Marshall even sentenced Rory to compelled speech (a penitent essay) as punishment for the exercise of his free political speech. 

Four years down the road, every court in Idaho has refused to disturb Rory’s ridiculous conviction. Apparently, they applaud this sort of thing. And now, Idaho Judicial Council is actually RECOMMENDING the trial judge, Megan Marshall to @GovernorLittle for a promotion. If you thought Kamala could toss a mean word salad, go read some of Marshall’s oral rulings. Next level nonsense smoothies. Meanwhile, Rory is working with @stonehiltonlaw and asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and overturn this absurdity. Because how free are you, really, if you can’t even make fun of small-town tyrants in a deep red state, without being prosecuted for hurting Leslie Knope’s feelings?

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[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Those who want to ‘spread the wealth’ almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?”

— Thomas Sowell

[Marcus Lemonis @marcuslemonis]

I’ll accept your bag of @LAYS and raise you a @CampingWorld Rv to give away

Retweet if you want to be selected the WINNER of an RV filled with @LAYS
#LaysVsCampingWorld

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@ramit Taking money I earn, by threat of incarceration and using it to fund projects I disagree with or worse, morally object to, is by definition punitive.

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@Scott43840895 @mikael_nystrom Yes, it is a pain. I'm guessing in larger environments maybe it's a good idea to put your hypervisors in a separate domain. Managing Hyper-V without a domain is painful.

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@AJDTech We often find clients paying for applications such as Trello, Asana, Notion, or Calendly when they could be using Planner, Loop, or Bookings which they are already paying for as a part of their Microsoft 365 subscription!

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[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@EAE19751 @julesvairo @indystar Most private schools are non profit.

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@nabwon @FirefighterRSV5 @jcat111 @OttawaPolice Ok. Done. Was my common sense opinion supposed to change after that?

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@Tnuge4185 @FirefighterRSV5 @jcat111 @OttawaPolice So by this logic. Holding a gun to someone's head and saying take it or die, isn't force either. "Hey, man he had a choice!"

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@FirefighterRSV5 @jcat111 @OttawaPolice Threatening to take everything away from someone unless they make the "right" choice, is pretty much the definition of being forced. Full stop.

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@KrisSiegel @Alex_A_Simons That's why I use Authy for most of my 2fa. That and the desktop app.

[Al Dykshorn @adykshorn]

@VerizonSupport @VerizonSupport Like, I've said. Contacting them has got us no where. So I'll keep tweeting until I can find someone that can actually help. #badservice #SmallBusiness