I hate on-call shifts, but if they must exist, I like the way my team handles them. We have split day and night shifts. 7-18 day shift, and 18-07 night shift. All non-work hours compensated with standby at 10% of hourly pay. Any pages outside of work hours earn you an additional 150% in base pay. Each page guarantees a minimum of 3 hours of pay even if you spent only 5 mins on it.

And since in my country, you must gave at least 11 hours between shifts, if you get paged at night, you get PTO for the next 11 hours on top.

I like the idea of added compensation based on hours covered as it incentivizes the business to avoid very small rotation sizes, but paying extra per page seems like a perverse incentive favoring instability.

It depends on who has the largest amount of influence on how noisy the on call is.

If engineers have blanket control to define what is important enough to get interrupted and to prioritize fixing frequent offenders, then sure, it's a perverse incentive.

If, on the other hand, engineering doesn't have very much control over the roadmap and/or isn't allowed to make their own judgment calls about what really matters for pages, then the arrangement that OP describes makes a ton of sense—it gets gets pages onto the budget as a separate line item, which is a good way to get the people who are really in charge on board with investing in permanent fixes.

It also becomes a good deterrent against useless requests. You get pinged on Slack at 10pm? Just ask them to file a ticket with a page-worthy severity. When its not nearly as important as that, even external managers will hesitate to do that since they need to explain if the ticket was worth 150% base pay for 3 hours plus the extra PTO next day.

Significantly reduces the number of pages.

Ehh.. Only pages between 18:00 and 09:00 count for extra pay. Which means it affects your free / personal time. Where I am, the people care a lot about work not intruding on their personal time, so the perverse incentives are reduced.

With that setup I'd almost cheer when I get paged. As long as that time off doesn't become "why you now behind on X"

I saw the email with stating that the SD Card expansion slot was in stock and jumped to the marketplace, credit card in hand to make a purchase.

Unfortunately, the page still says give us your email for a notification. Theres no per-order option for just the expansion slot as of yet.

Please make it happen, that's the last thing really important thing I need with my laptop.

Thank you for this "last laptop I'll ever buy"

What do you mean? I have Kodi running on a Pi4 with HDMI-CEC. It works perfectly. Remember, only one of the ports supports HDMI-CEC by default and you need the correct cable.

One in that list is not like the others. Nebula sponsorships are for creators that are already a part of their network trying to move viewers to their platform.

That's not a diss on Nebula. I think, among all the others, nebula is the most likely to be sustainable. It is creator owned and operated and the pricing model model seems like it is able to make decent money for the people on it.

No affiliation to Nebula, just a happy, paying customer.

Partly a joke, but with a grain of good advice. However, it doesn't really work. I live in a different country, and hence am not available for in-person troubleshooting when something goes wrong. I'm really looking for a set up and forget option.

Just something like, have Windows Defender set up, make these sensible changes and for the most part it'll be fine.

To be clear, I don't need to protect them from standard call center scams, egregious phishing attempts or so. They seem to be good enough at identifying those very obvious ones.

Unfortunately, yes. Despite (or maybe because) my best efforts to get them to use anything else, they're staunchly set on Windows.

I've already taken a massive hearing for trying to get them to use LibreOffice. Windows and MS Office is absolutely non negotiable.

No questions. But I just want to say congrats on getting another SKU out. I'm a very happy customer of an AMD FW13. The product has been pretty excellent and I absolutely love owning a notebook that I feel like I really "own".

I agree there. The Jellyfin integration here is the absolute killer feature. I hope to see the first documentation on how to set it up soon.

Looks amazing and I'm keen to try it out. However, I cannot find the sources or set up instructions anywhere on the linked page. Please add at least a link to the github repository to the page so people that stumble upon it can find their way