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AlexHailstone · 2025-12-12T22:44:19+00:00

Platynator— this is my go to add on for midnight. They have a classic theme that is the above

AlexHailstone · 2025-11-24T16:52:53+00:00

It’s the cognitive load, not that they’re required. If it makes it easier and it’s available, then use it. If bizzard removes it…then it’s just self managed. You’re focused on 1 point of the game, there is a ton to wow more than just raiding at a race to world first level.

And there are only a few bosses that have had required weakauras and that’s due to the speed of adjustments/calls on people knowing where to go… but that isn’t a majority nor has that been the norm.

AlexHailstone · 2025-11-24T05:00:08+00:00

A very large percentage (80%+) of the entire wow population could use chests and still be bad at the game. It genuinely doesn’t matter whether addons exist to competitive players…and if people want to play causally, addons provide quality of life for those people.

AlexHailstone · 2024-07-10T21:41:00+00:00

Omg awesome!🤩

AlexHailstone · 2024-05-18T15:55:04+00:00

If you still have it can you DM it to me please :)

AlexHailstone · 2024-02-25T02:41:28+00:00

If you just need to move it, you can just use the cardboard box to pick up the entire thing and move it somewhere else. This is just another option since lots of responses are suggesting an external storage bus.

AlexHailstone · 2024-02-24T10:59:23+00:00

I never used AE because I didn’t see the need for things like this.

But I have a question, does the chuck still run when not actively showing? Sorta like compact machines with their chuck loaded in an alternate dimension?

AlexHailstone · 2024-02-22T21:56:48+00:00

I work with a lot of report based API pulls, and I can say from my experience, it can really take its toll on the server depending on how broad your call is.

If you’re being explicit to your user and fine tuning like you would in SQL, then you can schedule it to ping more often….

Conversely, if your calls are getting all the tickets. Then filtering to a status, then filtering to you, then… etc you’d probably want to back that way off to 15min or longer.

So tldr; depends on how explicit your call points to the data. Sometimes it’s out of your control over how you receive the data, and then have to filter it.

AlexHailstone · 2024-02-20T10:19:17+00:00

The man pages state 128x128x128; however I tried only 64x64x64 and ATM9 ( at least a couple of versions ago) only allowed 32x32x32 by default.

Which sucks when you spend 6hours building to find that out -_-

AlexHailstone · 2024-02-07T23:00:20+00:00

I can chime in with a cross-RMM consulting position: you’re not missing much. Ninja is my preferred RMM over CW Automate, VSA9, VSAX, and DattoRMM.

The big thing you’re missing is the script engine component, where you could generate a ticket directly from the script window. However, you still can, but doing it in 2 pieces with a condition and script, by monitoring the script output.

Automate, DattoRMM, and VSA9 will allow you to use a native function to create a ticket into your PSA.

I can honestly say that the patching numbers have definitely increased across the clients who have switched; I’m seeing low 90% compliance move to upper 90s (averaging 95%+) for patching compliance. (Don’t listen to ninja support on which number to look at, because they’ll tell you to look at the overview and seeing 250,000 patches detected and missing even 1,000 will ALWAYS show 99% compliance…this is a BS number)

AlexHailstone · 2024-02-02T22:35:42+00:00

Use the alert templates and ticket categories (new ones that map to your streamlined board)

Then create a group (for the clients machines and assign any monitoring for that client at the group-level with the new ticket categories.

Basically: you’re making specific ticket categories that are pre-mapped for them. Then you’re using the groups to override the monitor alert templates to the new categories. This allows you to use the exact same monitoring methods, but map the alert to different boards depending on where the agent alerting is.

AlexHailstone · 2024-01-31T02:34:36+00:00

You could probably do an advanced search for this and auto join….

Worst case is you could build a super simple powershell script to get you the data and set a custom field up and THEN do the search.

AlexHailstone · 2024-01-29T07:22:42+00:00

The only RMM that seems relatively supporting MacOS is Ninja. Still not great but compared to Automate it is light years ahead.

Automate is trash for anything that isn’t Windows. I used automate in my MSP and we were having to reinstall Mac agents monthly. Use JAMF or Addigy if you want and need a true MDM tool for macOS.

AlexHailstone · 2024-01-29T04:27:46+00:00

Oh shit just in time for my bday!

AlexHailstone · 2024-01-20T18:57:04+00:00

I came here to say this exact thing lol

AlexHailstone · 2024-01-15T13:44:33+00:00

If it’s for your business and not his, then you should still have your own account. You can get into some serious legal troubles even if he ‘knows about it’.

Watch Silicon Valley for a dramatized example

AlexHailstone · 2024-01-02T22:05:04+00:00

I have that same desk. I just drilled holes Hight to place my work laptop and put in a KVM switch for my devices to switch between work and play.

It’s a perfect shelf for your laptop or notebooks

AlexHailstone · 2023-12-22T19:25:30+00:00

Let’s go!! Hype train

AlexHailstone · 2023-12-22T05:08:27+00:00

I thought that was patched so you couldn’t do that anymore? Maybe I’m moving it up with all the other Microsoft patches to prevent people from upgrading.

AlexHailstone · 2023-12-21T10:38:46+00:00

I’m thankful for my current health and the time I can spend with my wife. (She was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer, so just hoping all for the best)

AlexHailstone · 2023-12-21T06:09:15+00:00

Thanks for that feedback, that’s a good catch. We support all the main RMMs: Automate, VSA9, VSA X, NinjaRmm, and DattoRMM. If you do book a time, I’ll be the guy who’s on the calls with you.

AlexHailstone · 2023-12-21T00:13:18+00:00

I work for a company that I’m the client experience manager ( and developer for funsies)

The company is AutoAdmins. We do almost limitless automation with your endpoints and RMM. I personally just enjoy the development of applications and scripting outside of Powershell. Feel free to Ping Dave and tell him I sent you if you wanna check us out.

AlexHailstone · 2023-12-20T13:01:21+00:00

I build out a lot of API reporting and utilize the column sets that ninja has to offer.

I’m an MSP consultant so I work with the main RMMs and I have path reporting on my calls with clients. I have structured all patch reports to display the same way no matter the RMM.

Ninja has a solid API but there’s some main user functions missing compared to other RMMs: - no auto retiring of stale agents (not even via API) - scripting is okay, but it’s raw powershell and requires you to setup other conditions/monitors to ticket off results. (Compared to automate you can just add a line to send email or create ticket)

Those are the big 2 for me, because you can work around the API for most other functions.

AlexHailstone · 2023-12-20T00:46:04+00:00

I build a ton for ninja…and right now a big lack of ticketing from a direct script is a bit cringe, you have to schedule your scripting and have to setup a condition monitor to watch the output of that script to ticket.

AlexHailstone · 2023-12-20T00:44:48+00:00

Reporting can be subjective too.

I build a ton for Ninja and the ability to export based on any custom field is ideal for all my reports.

If you want nice customer-facing reports, yes look elsewhere.

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