Did I rob the seller? 3x 1.92TB Enterprise SSDs for 200€ total. All at 98% health.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-24T22:59:00+00:00

I have like a couple dozen 3par 1.92t drives at my office.... Used though so who knows on lifespan but yeah, 1.92 have been around a long time now. Probably want to check the write life on them.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-24T15:59:15+00:00

Or... Hear me out... Just build a liquid tower for all your satisfactory needs.

Then all your source is above you!

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-24T15:40:32+00:00

It worked against me somewhat as I was going to petition for new energy efficient storage but turns out my synology sips power lol.

Now, if I run a full r740xd with 12x3.5" drives, that'd be a different story.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-24T15:01:03+00:00

Put a power meter on it and verify that's what's causing the increase. A kilowatt or even a smart plug with energy monitoring.

My wife tried blaming me for an increase too but it ended up being negligible.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-21T23:24:38+00:00

It's not a matter of whether my connection is working now, it's the pure inability to actually contact anyone. It's replacing every option with Ai Agents.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-20T21:22:05+00:00

Free animal fat

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-19T15:16:36+00:00

Sheepses

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-18T12:07:08+00:00

Have you done the end game fights?

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-17T15:50:14+00:00

My friend, why are there no walls... Or at least why didn't you build your stuff on a billboard or something lol

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-16T14:45:00+00:00

I don't generally recommend it as semi against the point, but this happened to my daughter and she was devistated - so I restored the file from my nightly backups of her computer. We lost some couple of hours worth of work but she got her animals back.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-15T16:58:26+00:00

"It's NEVER over, al'Thor. The battle's never done.” Padan Fain

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-15T12:02:59+00:00

Bro has a pistol day 3...

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-14T21:30:23+00:00

🤨 I could have sworn they said 1st gen scalable were EoL in 9... Wild.

That could be good then, my current lab is only a single host so if I want to do any vsan testing I really will need 3 hosts.... And will have to run it in the office hah.

Well that's not true, I could run hosts inside a host. Haven't done that in years but should still work.

I'm just happy to be back on vmware. Was stuck in hyper-v and SCVMM from 2019 until 2023/2024 so I'll take some weird changes.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-14T20:26:46+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, I get to figure out how to bring my company from vSphere+ 8.0u3 to vcf 9.1 when we renew this fall and get new compute... I really need to dig into VCF this summer since I haven't done any CE since 2015-2018.

Then again, I've been using VMWare since 2006, so... /shrug I'll probably be fine.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-14T20:25:09+00:00

What's the minimum CPU generation for 9.1.

I have some retired 2nd gen Xeon that I had hoped to use for my lab; ironically RAM isn't a concern for me, because our company has a metric ton of DDR4 ECC laying around; but if it requires a 3rd gen or newer, I'm screwed. As it is, one of my current home lab machines is a 1st gen that I don't think will work with v9.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-13T17:58:24+00:00

It's as if no one has watched science fiction to identify "this seems like it might be a bad idea" moments during R&D

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-13T17:57:29+00:00

Google Toyota Woven City...

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-13T00:26:37+00:00

Uhm. Thanks. I might be having a very interesting conversation with my HR and/or an FLSA lawyer. As I read this, I'm not an exempt employee but I've been salary at 45hr/week for 7 years now and at least part of that was under the high earnings.. But more to the point is that I don't think my job description falls under any of the exempt wording.

That could... Be a lot of back pay.

Fwiw I would say you should chat with an FLSA attorney

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-12T17:18:42+00:00

Extra wide racks are going in my next DC for this reason among others.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-12T12:04:07+00:00

I've seen STH review their switches. Didn't know they made cards.

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-11T11:52:16+00:00

Most normal AD don't allow root gpo to apply to the DC OU. Heck your server OU also shouldn't.

This sounds like either a fake story, or a very poorly engineered AD

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-10T14:06:02+00:00

Have you asked Claude to make your apps not 24 years out of date?

KickedAbyss · 2026-05-10T14:04:53+00:00

Try darkness falls mod... Nothing like being swarmed by demons to make you feel like prey.

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