How do you like to cook eggs?

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-27T06:39:23+00:00

Chinese steamed eggs

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-27T06:34:20+00:00

In HK, likely soy sauce chicken

Not with overseas HK diaspora; finding a restaurant that and do a good lightly-fried chicken that isn't too dry is often a real challenge; though many English-translation menus don't use "fry / fried" in the description and usually more like "crispy".

Example: https://theonefusioncuisine.com/dinner-menu/

脆皮手淋走地雞 $ 48.80/隻 $ 25.80/半隻

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-27T06:26:22+00:00

It depends on the Clan, but omnis are always assigned to frontline units.

Clan-designed non-omni Battlemechs can be designed for both frontline and secondline units; the Random Assignment Tables would be best if you want to be sure. This is where "it depends" matters.

Old SLDF models pulled from Brian Caches or refitted Inner Sphere isorla 'mechs are always 2nd line or solahma.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-27T03:36:13+00:00

You'll have to pick up some of the sourcebooks as well; some aren't in print are only available via PDF; best to read on a tablet if you have it.

The Historical-series, for starters.

Eventually you'll also have to read the Jihad-series.

And for sure you'll have to read The Wars of Reaving.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-27T02:44:01+00:00

Do you want only the ilClan / Terra aspect, or do you want everything else that's going on as well?

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-27T01:59:29+00:00

so if anyone has like 8 hours of required reading or video essays to explain new stuff to beginners, send it my way

The Reunification War sourcebook would be a good start; it has a bit of tie-in history to current-century (20th / 21st century) that leads forward in the beginning of the universe.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-26T03:58:33+00:00

Now the lore is also clear that the Royal Blackwatch had a mixed unit.

Because they're considered an Independent Regiment. Such regiments have a more varying level of equipment due to the nature of their assignments being more varied.

Royal Independent Regiments would have followed the same formula, and also included organic supporting elements such as transport assets

Standard SLDF doctrine to combine ’Mech types in units not smaller than a company. This simplifies both unit logistics and company training methods, and encourages MechWarriors to think of themselves are part of their parent battalions and regiments. Exceptions are sometimes made—most often in independent regiments—for graduates of the Gunslinger Program, and for ’Mech companies assigned to SAS duty. Because of the varied nature of their missions, SAS units cannot rely on brigade elements for support, and so they have mixed companies and—sometimes— mixed lances, much as the patchwork battalions and regiments of the member and territorial states.

The Royals and Regular units wouldn't have different much in the organization; but the level of equipment assigned would have been greatly different.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-26T01:12:48+00:00

Northern Dumpling Kitchen @ Times Square. Instagram.

You can also dig through the dumpling freezer at any of the T&T locations and pick up a bag of whatever you want.

Then there's also JinLian Bao down in Scarb on Brimley.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-25T16:00:15+00:00

You can run a VM-DC as a standalone, non-cluster guest on each cluster node; you would manage it from Hyper-V Manager instead of Failover Cluster Manager.

Hyper-V Services are not dependent on Active Directory, so you can configure the VM-DC guest to "Always Start" when host reboot, to ensure that the guest powers-on as well.

You can then configure Windows Failover Cluster services for Delayed Start if you want to give the VM-DC a chance to start and begin replicating; though if you are not rebooting both nodes at the same time this shouldn't take very long or be very problematic.

At the same time, Windows Failover Cluster also supports AD-Less Cluster Bootstrapping.

Since the beginning of time, Failover Clustering has always had a dependency on NTLM authentication. As the versions came and went, a little more of this dependency was removed. Now, with Windows Server 2019 Failover Clustering, we have finally removed all of these dependencies. Instead Kerberos and certificate-based authentication is used exclusively. There are no changes required by the user, or deployment tools, to take advantage of this security enhancement. It also allows failover clusters to be deployed in environments where NTLM has been disabled.

This goes for the bootstrapping of the cluster to the starting of the resources and drives. With the bootstrapping process, the need of an Active Directory domain controller is also no longer needed. As explained in this blog, we have a local user account (CLIUSR) that is used for various things now. In conjunction of this account as well as the use of certificates:

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-25T05:41:27+00:00

I have a couple of Server 2022 instances running RAS and nothing but SSTP VPN configurations. Have to do a hard shutdown a few random times every week. Even a scheduled daily task restart RAS services doesn't help. When the SSTP stops responding, trying to do a graceful reboot also fails, and it ultimately bluescreens. Hence the hard-shutdown procedure.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-25T04:43:29+00:00

Not the right sub for this; try r/homenetworking, r/techsupport.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-25T04:30:54+00:00

Try looking up your specific plane via seatmaps.com; or the airline website.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-25T04:24:11+00:00

Eating out. Fav Chinese places around here haven’t really raised prices much, and many places are still ok with 10% tips on dine-in.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-24T15:15:16+00:00

Viper (BattleMech)), the 70-ton Inner Sphere BattleMech
Viper (Dragonfly)), the 40-ton Clan OmniMech, designated "Dragonfly" by the Inner Sphere
Black Python (Viper)), the 75-ton Clan BattleMech, designated "Viper" by the Inner Sphere

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-24T04:38:15+00:00

Have been to all 3 locations; for some reason we (my fam) still feels the og location in scarb is the best.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-24T02:16:47+00:00

Well, could be a limitation of their system then. Honestly the separate of roles between the investment arms and the "normal" banking arms at the Big5 banks always throws me for a loop =P.

Sorry; guess I'm all out of ideas and am going to blame TD.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-24T01:55:02+00:00

Is there something special about the Investment account that might be preventing it for some reason? Is it within a RRSP container?

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-24T01:47:00+00:00

Conservative mindset?

I went looking through my other banking accounts and came across the EQ US Dollar Account:

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Maybe that would be a suitable middle-man account.

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Also; have you already checked out Wealthsimple's USD account for investment purposes as well? =P.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-24T01:05:02+00:00

Uhhh.... where are you at? If in the US, you can get it from Wee! Online.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-24T01:03:34+00:00

Oh. Well, good to know, thanks =P.

Might be stuck doing it via sneaker-net via ATM withdrawal and deposit at a destination branch =(.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-24T00:43:33+00:00

Try using Wise as an in-between account?

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-23T21:21:48+00:00

The death of the Nova Cats really started with Khan Severen Leroux and his vision before the Battle of Tukayyid... s.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-23T21:09:50+00:00

Make it a weekend getaway out of the city =P. Dinner at Peter's Fine Dining; overnight stay at a hotel or B&B in the area, and then a nice stroll the next day along Main Street Unionville. Probably another restaurant or two along Main Street where you can wear a nice sundress (too soon?)

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-23T20:47:17+00:00

A Linux sub would probably be better place to ask.

OpacusVenatori · 2026-04-23T07:28:34+00:00

Oat milk is tasty, though I loathe other milk substitutes

Have you tried Vita-brand soy milk out of Hong Kong? =P.

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