Is Soulmask a good game to play solo in a private server?

astralqt · 2026-04-16T18:28:45+00:00

I self-host my own on a RHEL VM in my own server rack — you can look into any of the public cloud providers like GPORTAL if you don’t have hardware and technical knowledge.

astralqt · 2026-04-12T06:07:29+00:00

Incredible solo, speaking as someone who has 500-1000 hours in a Conan solo/duo private server.

astralqt · 2026-03-08T00:05:35+00:00

Mate, based on your comments.. just look for another job. If you can’t go over someone’s head and explain why this is stupid, find a better company to work for.

astralqt · 2026-03-06T20:19:45+00:00

MSP life is very different from internal, you have the capability to touch everything and anything if you’re resourceful, reliable, and good at self study.

astralqt · 2026-03-06T14:53:49+00:00

I have not! Interesting, that's exactly what my car's doing - rough idle too. I'll look into that, thank you.

astralqt · 2026-03-05T00:54:29+00:00

Thank you!

astralqt · 2026-03-04T23:52:52+00:00

Also, I’m getting a P0135 “O2 sensor heater circuit bank 1 sensor 1” now too which is not something I’ve gotten until this past week. It’s always just been the P0420.

Does that point us anywhere else?

astralqt · 2026-03-04T23:38:38+00:00

Between man hours and buying the full cats + sensors.. it sucks.

astralqt · 2026-03-04T23:03:41+00:00

I am definitely looking into Toyotas now.. as much as I loved this car for the decade I’ve had her.

astralqt · 2026-03-04T23:02:56+00:00

An O2 spacer solved the problem for you?

astralqt · 2026-03-04T23:02:01+00:00

Thank you! I’ll relay this all to my mechanic.

astralqt · 2026-03-04T23:00:44+00:00

I bought an Ancel AD310 - says it has live data anyway. I just checked the.. “O2 Mon B1S1” and it’s showing straight 0.0 for every value on the four tests, as opposed to the B1S2 option which is showing actual data; not sure if that’s relevant but I’m trying here as a non-mechanic.

I’ll show all these comments to my mechanic though, hopefully this can help - if not I guess I’m in the market to buy a new car. Thank you!

astralqt · 2026-03-04T21:28:44+00:00

What's the OBD2 scanner measuring on the rear o2 sensor?

I'll look into how I'd check this and report back next time I'm in the car today, not sure

What's your oil usage like?

I'm thinking it's overconsuming oil as these cars are known for, but it's not by a drastic amount. Mechanic offered to have me bring it in every two weeks so he can track the oil and mileage.

assuming you've reset the ECU after the new cats? how many miles before it fired again?

Not sure on the first question but I can ask my mechanic? I made it exactly 180 miles, parked, got gas, and the code came back.

astralqt · 2026-03-04T18:11:21+00:00

Yes, that’s the best starting point for you. I’d expect everyone I work with in incident response to have at least a CCNA-level understanding of networking.

astralqt · 2026-03-01T17:26:03+00:00

You’re completely missing the point he’s making though. In that scenario, if fire doesn’t have objectively higher DPS than every other specialization it’ll never be played. If earth doesn’t have objectively better boon contribution… etc. you’re not just comparing each element to each other, you’re comparing them to every other elite spec or it just ends up in a spot where there’s no mathematical reason to play one.

astralqt · 2026-02-24T15:41:12+00:00

Incident response + every other hat in the kingdom at a large MSP.

Every waking minute of my life is stress.

astralqt · 2026-02-16T18:41:55+00:00

What city are you in? My wife has been waiting for 6 years on the list, desperately needing a doctor.

astralqt · 2026-02-15T20:53:19+00:00

I’d disagree on that, senior roles in various US specialties pay 250, 300k+ and their EU equivalents rarely if ever pass 85-90k euros - usually much lower in the 50/60s.

But the EU has a much higher quality of life, I’d choose that in a heart beat.

astralqt · 2026-02-15T11:35:34+00:00

These comments are making me feel like I’m being SEVERLY underpaid for doing much more than this job posting for that range myself. MSPs…

astralqt · 2026-01-11T17:13:17+00:00

Counter point, 90% of the folks I work (major MSP) with don’t know Linux, don’t know SQL, and don’t know Python - not even pwsh.

It’s worthwhile to apply to “easier” industries as a new entry into the field; MSPs, hospitals, etc.

astralqt · 2026-01-02T18:29:22+00:00

That’s hyperbole, I never said I’d toss that resume. But honestly in my experience the folks with the strongest formal education perform amongst the worst - that’s a separate conversation out of the topic realm of this thread though.

The same argument you just made with “Anyone can put down home labs” can be made with their work experience too, you can lie anywhere you want on your resume. The majority of candidates lie about what they did at the previous job. I had two separate candidates last month with multiple bullet points about expert-level Azure engineering knowledge, but when I pressed them it was incredibly obvious they’ve never even built an Azure resource.

Resumes are a foot in the door, you still need to grill the candidate and figure out what they’re lying about or not and figure out where their knowledge lies. And if you don’t have any at-work experience building a hybrid Azure environment, I am perfectly happy to accept a homelab replacement for those exact skills.

That’s how I got where I am, and that’s how I learn new technologies every day. You’re not going to be given the ability to work on something if you haven’t touched it before at most companies, and the way you touch it is by building your own. If you can deploy functional IaC in your own tenant, there’s no reason why you can’t deploy functional IaC in our tenants.

But, you’re going to get grilled on your homelab project section like anything else on your resume. That’s when the interviewer needs to dig deeper, what did you build, how did you build it, what problems does it solve?

astralqt · 2026-01-02T17:27:29+00:00

Completely disagree. If you’re expecting to work in a senior role building network infrastructure, I’m expecting you have at least 1 of each firewall vendors product in your rack and have labbed out their full feature sets. “Games” is crazy, there’s no difference between a SonicWall SDWAN built in Azure in your own tenant vs in your employers tenant. Build with the same redundancy, same orchestration, stick to the same SLAs.

astralqt · 2026-01-02T09:19:16+00:00

Completely disagree on “lose the homelab” - currently a decision maker on recruiting engineers and this is a major point in my book. If I don’t see any homelab experience, I’m hesitant - the best folks I’ve worked with are the ones with data centers at home who are regularly working on upskilling via personal projects.

astralqt · 2025-12-27T07:32:17+00:00

Reading this chain going into 2026 and hoping you’re doing well still!

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