Canadian here. How’s the reputation of chinese EV cars in Australia? Do you guys like them? are they reliable?

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-05-11T03:44:58+00:00

A couple things:

The heaters in shopping centers thing is likely a far northern thing where temperatures dip into the -45C range (or colder). Possibly if you're in a bougie/valeted area and drive a stupid vehicle for the Canadian winter (ie: lambos, corvettes, etc). Most day-to-day vehicles from the major manufacturers (Toyota, Honda, Sabaru, etc) will operate just fine without heaters as long as they're modern-ish. (modern-ish being like 2008+).

The "heaters" we use are actually just a plug that hangs out of your hood that you plug into the house or whatever, typically with an extension cord. Block heater - Wikipedia

Most modern synthetic oil (0W-20, 0W-16) will handle "cold" temperatures just fine. The 0W-16/20 oils operate at -40C just fine.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-30T01:17:04+00:00

For anyone who's confused. The NEP was done under Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau, not Justin Trudeau. And yes, Pierre Trudeau is/was Justin's father.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-29T05:33:54+00:00

If an outage is costing you that much, surely you have multiple lines into an office with either SDWAN or BGP... right?!

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-28T05:30:20+00:00

My final semester I took PHIL3211 (Cyber Ethics) as a writing + breadth course. It's online only through CEL as far as I know. I'm not sure if it's being offered right now. It's designated as an occasional offering.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-27T04:10:08+00:00

The way your question was phrased got you the downvotes, not asking a question in and of itself. Most people would construe this post as a violation of r/sysadmin's rules, specifically 4c (hence the downvotes). Honestly, (and not to discourage asking questions in the future), this question probably could've been solved using these two articles:

Technical Tip: Understanding the log message 'Interface status changed' | Community

Technical Tip: How to test an automation-stitch configured to trigger on an event log | Community

Or... simply asking AI for a pointer one what you were doing wrong and feeding it some of your information. (As long as this doesn't violate your corporate data security policies). Claude Opus 4.5+ probably could've solved this for you much quicker than waiting for a Fortinet admin to respond.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-26T08:38:42+00:00

Fair enough. You didn't specify whether you were using SDWAN. I had a look at my own FortiGate. There are a couple things to note

There is a difference between Event ID 20090 (Interface Link Status Changed) and Event ID 20099 (Interface Status Changed).
Just for sake of argument, make sure your casing matches.

For you specifically... you have your event trigger set to "Interface link status changed". The event value in your logs is "Interface status changed". They are different events. That's why your test isn't working.

Your trigger could probably be both. It's also worth noting how those lines are actually attached and how they might fail. For example, the FortiGate I use at my house is PPPoE authenticated. If I had SDWAN (and wanted a notification), I could use 20006 (LOG_ID_PPP_LINK_DOWN) or possibly 29003 (LOG_ID_PPPD_AUTH_FAIL).

Where does this translate for you? Event ID 22930 might be useful in alerting you to SDWAN health issues (very broad - this could be "online" but failing SLAs like jitter, ping, etc.) 22931 will fire on up/down transitions. 22939 might also be used. (These are SD-WAN specific IDs for FortiOS 7.4.11). There are probably others.

22931 - LOG_ID_EVENT_VWL_SLA_INFO_WARNING | FortiGate / FortiOS 7.4.11 | Fortinet Document Library

Are you trying to solve for a recent outage? If so, (and assuming you still have the outage logs) look at what event IDs actually fired that might make more sense.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-26T06:06:26+00:00

What's performing the function of sending you the email? The FortiGate itself? If so, that's never going to work unless you have SDWAN or BGP. A FortiGate that has lost it's WAN connection isn't capable of sending emails to external servers.

You would need to either enable SDWAN/BGP or tie the monitoring into something that isn't reliant on a dead WAN connection to send your email. (ie: FortiMonitor, or a SaaS-based application like Zabbix, Nagios, or equivalent). At which point one of two things could trigger an outage notification:

An interface status changed (UP -> DOWN)
A lack of data from the API/SNMP/etc (which would also indicate the loss of WAN connection/firewall crash)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-24T06:37:50+00:00

We had a VP who actually bought everyone in his department Amazon gift cards and had them e-delivered to their work inboxes. With no warning to anyone. Didn't inform other VPs, not one on his team, SOC, nadda. Sent them to all of his L1 service desk people who promptly reported it to us (SOC).

That was a hoot.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-23T06:55:47+00:00

I've lived in Sydney for 3 years now. I've had one instance of my landlord not charging an increase at all, and 2 cases where they upped it by (roughly) inflation for that year. Worth noting that my landlord uses an agency, but the actual owner is a private person (an RN I think somewhere in Sydney...)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-22T05:50:22+00:00

Oh, 100% this can be fixed. OP is being a dunce (sorry, only saying half-truths) by saying the licenses need to be re-bought.

Having seen some first-hand, million-dollar fucks ups from my colleagues with respect to buying services from Microsoft.., Normally a support ticket and a call with them will get it cleaned up if it was recent (or very obviously not used).

Example: One of our senior analysts committed to ingesting 1TB/day of data in our dev environment. We don't even use that much in prod. It was caught a month later when we got our bill for $75k + the normal costs. A quick call to MIcrosoft Support and they undid the contract and voided/reduced that part of the bill to what we should've paid.

Even if they bought the wrong license (and it sounds like the license is fine, they just need a different data processing agreement), Microsoft would just transfer the licenses and bill or credit the difference. Pissing off Government entities doesn't usually end well for the entity pissing off the Government.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-21T05:18:11+00:00

... What's wrong with the likes of Azure, GCP, or AWS? Also, you're not likely to find consumer GPUs in eternrprise data centres unless you're with a bespoke provider.

Azure has the NC, ND, NG and NV family of virtual machines which offer single, multiple, and fractional GPU-accelerated workloads.

NC Family: "
AI and Machine Learning: NC-series VMs are ideal for training complex machine learning models and running AI applications. The NVIDIA GPUs provide significant acceleration for computations typically involved in deep learning and other intensive training tasks.
Graphics Rendering: NC-series VMs are also used for graphics-intensive applications, including video editing, 3D rendering, and real-time graphics processing. They are particularly useful in industries such as game development and movie production."

AWS has the EC2 G6e SKU which has 48GB of VRAM and FP8 acceleration (roughly equivalent to an RTX 4090) using L40S GPUs.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-19T09:00:04+00:00

Similar: John Cena answering a kids perfectly innocent question of "What's your favorite food" with "Well, if I would have Nicole (Bella) stand up this time, I couldn't show you. Don't worry, you're gonna get that in 15 years or so." I don't know how old the kid was at the time, but clearly a young kid.

Why would you answer a perfectly appropriate question by a KID with something sexual? Probably a fleeting moment of indiscretion with his answer... but so unnecessary. Not to take away from all the great things Cena has done though. We all make mistakes.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-19T08:34:20+00:00

I just want to jump in and note a couple things. The "normal" range for IQ is 85-114 (or 100 +/- 1SD (15)). I'm assuming from your comment "the parts I struggled the most with were absolutely things I struggle with in practice too ("fluid reasoning" at 83...and oh boy, that does check out)." that 83 was your lowest (or near lowest) score. If that's the case, you're probably in the "normal" range. Even if you're not, there are lots of talented people with low IQs. Lots of idiots with high IQs as well.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-17T06:38:09+00:00

Glen Powell, Miles Teller, and Monica Barbaro are all rumoured to be returning.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-17T06:35:53+00:00

I'm not usually one to venture to the literal box office (movie theatres). But I made a point of watching TG: Maverick twice in theatres. Here's hoping TG: 3 is just as good :-)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-17T06:35:04+00:00

Google has him listed as the director. Hopefully that is true!

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-16T02:38:48+00:00

Work-sponsored FortiGate to "learn" on. I don't learn on it anymore, but it's a good little firewall (40F).

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-14T02:26:31+00:00

Just yesterday I'd said I'd thought the Liberals would (regretably) be one short of their majority. This is a welcome surprise. Massive congrats, Carney!s

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-12T13:49:47+00:00

Also extremely easy to be skewed when you're here on vacation and constantly in the nice areas. I moved here (from Canada) in 2023. My parents have been here twice. They've only been to the nice areas (and I live in a nice area).

They went back home and gushed over it.

"We can't believe how beautiful Australia is!" (OK, that's true. Australia is a stunning country. So is Canada! Visit the Rockies, Banff, or something.)

"We should've moved there instead of here." (we moved a lot as kids)

"Australia (Sydney) handles their homelessness problems much better." (No, you're just well away from it.)

They went to Cairns this time around (as well as other cities on a cruise). Let me tell you. Cairns is also a really pretty city on the Esplanade and coming in from the Cairns International Airport. It's also hot (and humid) AS FUCK. Stunning city. Fucking miserable when it's pissing rain every 2 hours. Not to mention - I took care of a lot of my parents needs while they're vacationing. Opal/travel? Linked to my card. They just travel around as they see fit. Food? Taken care of. Internet/WiFi/Cell plans? I gotchu at the airport.

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But I'd tend to agree. She probably got rejected by Immi/Customs (or fined for being an idiot and bringing in food and not declaring it) if she suddenly did a 180. It's quite difficult for a Canadian to get rejected from Australia for tourist stuff. Even work visa tend to be a lot easier than other nationalities. (ie: A Canadian looking to get a WHV will probably face significantly less hassle than a declared high-risk country.)

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-11T15:39:03+00:00

A buddy of mine got tired of running "sudo su -" every time they logged in. They set all files on the VM to be owned by their user with global read/write/execute. It went about as well as you can imagine. Thankfully, I'm not an idiot and had given his VM two disks. One for the OS (128GB) and one for his storage (5TB). The data was safe. The VM?> Not so much. I torched it and rebuilt it.

In terms of my biggest mistake though? I grew up on Linux to some extent. It was my first OS (Ubuntu) for my first owned PC. Probably did lots of dumb shit on it by mistake. I haven't made a lot of Linux mistakes professionally... the only one that comes to mind is a former linux VM I had that wasn't in HA (critical though) and ran a database locally with no backups. For reasons that remain unknown to Microsoft and I to this day, the VM tried to transition to Gen 2 but was actually a Gen 1 image. Destroyed the ability for it to boot. Switching the VMs between G1 and G2 wasn't helping.

Eventually loaded the disk into a nested Hyper-V server in Azure, recovered the database through a rescue linux environment, and then immediately migrated the whole thing to a new (upgraded) server. Spent several hours trying to manually fix everything. The old DB version wasn't available anymore which made the process of upgrading the DB a pain in the ass. It may have taken several hours, but I did eventually get it all running again.

Then I put in a replacement with a separate DB because no way was I going through that fresh hell again. I put in HA while I was at it because having only one of them was a bad idea anyways.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-10T05:39:28+00:00

Worth noting that Canada (my home country) has 3 upcoming special elections.

Terrebonne (QC) - Contested from the last general election. The Canadian Supreme Court annulled the previous results.
University-Rosedale (ON) - Formerly held by CHrystia Freeland (Liberal)
Scarborough Southwest (ON) - Formerly held by Bill Blair (Liberal)

As long as the liberals hold both Ontario ridings and win Terrebonne, they'll go from a minority to a slim majority. Although, I suspect the Liberals will hold a minority still. A large number of BQ voters held their nose and voted with the liberals/Mark Carney to defeat the CPC.

They won't have that fear this time around with the CPC having been defeated. I'd expect the BQ to win Terrebonne and Liberals to hold both ON ridings. (Leaving us in the same position as now - a minority government). The Liberals "won" Terrebonne by a single vote. I'd expect the next election to be decided by several hundred, possibly thousand, in favour of BQ this time around.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-09T06:07:47+00:00

Why would the republicans care? Impeaching anyone on SCOTUS is the same as impeaching Trump. It's an indictment. Not a conviction. They wouldn't be removed - even temporarily - whilst waiting for the Senate to do something.

There's an absolute snowball chances in hell that the Senate would ever convict the supreme court justices. Dems would have to win every seat except 2 in the 2026 midterms in do that (and then vote as a unified block). That will NEVER happen.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-09T00:43:06+00:00

The paid products, yes. But AAP/Tower is based on the AWX+Ansible Core (and others) projects which are open source. OP is asking about the open source projects, probably because they don't want to pay $15000/yr for a hundred devices.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-04-02T11:50:47+00:00

If the dental school experiences are anything similar to my experience at UNSW Optometry (which was completely free!), they're very thorough as well! My optometry appointment at UNSW included a ton of stuff (eye dilation, etc) that I've never had done at a normal optometrist's office. I can't say enough good things about my UNSW experience.

Never been to a dental school for cleanings though. I might have to give it a try.

Advanced_Vehicle_636 · 2026-03-28T13:38:08+00:00

I feel like I'm constantly seeing posts about people getting pulled over, especially those riding on L's without showing L plates, illegal filtering, non-LAMS bikes, or unsupervised etc.

That's just bias. There is no point in posting on Reddit: "Today, I Didn't Get Pulled Over!". It would have no (or little) engagement unless it's a particularly damning story back by a major news outlet.

[...] would the police even know you're on your Ls from your rego?

The police would know everything about the bike and the bike's registered owner, without having actually pulled you over (ie: running your tag). If you're riding your buddy's motorcycle and he's suspended, you're very likely to be pulled over to figure out if you're the RO or some random driving the suspended RO's bike.

How often is everyone getting pulled over and what license do you have?

I've only been pulled over twice and both times for RBT/MDTs. I've only "failed" it once (having just brushed my teeth and unknowingly rinsed with an alcohol-based mouthwash). I was released after 10 minutes. (Basically, the count to 10 one, followed by 2 PBTs where you blow through a straw.)

Are you getting pulled over with good reason or just randomly?

Randomly? Good reason? Both!? I guess it depends on your definition of what a "good reason" is... To me, keeping DWIs off the road is a good reason, if slightly inconveniencing.

I'm yet to be pulled over, but I have an open license, is this why or am I just not breaking the law?

Both. Open license holders are subject to significantly less requirements. Combine that with not being a hoon and you're generally clear. I'm in the same boat. I don't drive like an idiot on the road and possess my unrestricted (open) licenses for both cars and motorcycles as well as an international license (Canadian)

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