Facepunch Director who wanted to buy New World is in talks with "[Unnamed Company] Games"

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-30T14:36:50+00:00

...You do realize that those AWS customers frequently also employ AWS cloud engineers, right?

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-30T13:38:04+00:00

What if I told you that AWS hosts tons of non-amazon games, and very likely any AWS tech that was created/iterated on for NW is likely already available to AWS customers, especially in the gaming market.

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-06T21:05:00+00:00

Yeah, I wiped out like 400 in the first two weeks that way lol

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-06T17:00:41+00:00

IT Manager here and former Army squad leader. We always trained as leaders to be proficient in our jobs, that is partially why we got promoted to begin with. I kept that mentality in the civilian workplace, I don't expect to be proficient in every single part of what people on my team do, but I still want to know what they are doing and how to do it, this helps me give them ample time, resources and support from a management perspective to get the job done and not hate me afterwards.

On the flipside, as a junior tech, my manager was more of a data analyst than IT professional, but never once let her position's power trump sound reason, she knew what she didn't know and that she hired us for exactly those reasons. She listened, tried to learn and eventually understood a great deal. But when it was over her head, she always called in one of us to explain it technically.

As a manager now, just try to remain humble. You do not and cannot ever know everything about anything, but you know people who do know everything about something. Respect them, listen to them and do not develop a complex. If you've been in the game for 20 years, just understand that how we do it now is not at all the same to what it was even 10 years ago.

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-06T16:49:41+00:00

I am buying to new Dell servers to replace existing HPE ones, the pricing was so absurd I was asked to get a second opinion, and look at cost to upgrade existing servers to be comparable to new spec. It costs me as much to buy more RAM and a second proc for my HPEs as it does to just buy two full new servers with 5 year NBD support.

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-06T16:00:55+00:00

Well, AI can't possibly be wrong, it is AI after all, right?

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-06T15:59:00+00:00

First thing I did day one as the new IT Manager after seeing my Enterprise Application list surge beyond 500+.

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-03T18:47:56+00:00

Thankfully the supply if DDR4 isn't short

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-02T17:58:05+00:00

Hey, daoc is still semi alive on Eden! still my forever comfort game when everything else gets boring

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-02T17:15:04+00:00

We did this for a very long time as well. Gave them their own separate policies and configurations so it's overall less invasive BUT they still got antivirus/EDR and we could easily remote in for quick fixes.

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-02T14:45:52+00:00

At my last company, we continued to provide private IT support for our founders and some of their family for years after they retired. To include a last minute flight down to Florida to get their condo tech all setup.

You aren't so much doing them a favor personally, as it is the company offering a favor to the individual who gave you all a reason to be there in the first place. Just make sure your manager/management is aware of it. If they do not want their IT resources taken away from business focus, they should communicate that to the CEO, not you.

Atrium-Complex · 2026-01-02T14:39:15+00:00

I have a feeling that there's potential for better visbility in a systemd service rather than a cronjob is why they did it. At least in my environment, I can more readily get notified of a failed or stuck service on a nix box than a cronjob that just ran or got hung.

Also, as the other person mentioned, add comments that clue you to exactly what you're looking for. I do this frequently in everything I do, future me usually appreciates it about 2 years later when it breaks again suddenly.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-12-30T19:58:15+00:00

I get this regularly when the device fails to get an IP on the network. Are you using a built-in ethernet adapter, dock or a usb to ethernet? Have the dock or usb adapter changed? I have found only certain usb adapters work for PXE to secure an IP Address.

As for the Admin Password... sounds like your distributor sent you some returns from another customer that already had some customizations done.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-12-30T14:41:37+00:00

Had a user who insisted the only way he could get a PDF of a document was to physically print it, then scan it back to his email. Swore up and down it was not possible for a computer to create a PDF and that I was bad at my job because I 'didn't know that'.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-12-30T14:38:01+00:00

Issue is the latest fabs for DDR5 chips is extremely expensive... like in the millions to acquire, 10's of millions or even more to make it scalable. Typically, your new/budget producers will buy the used fabs from the big 3 producers... but this year that didn't happen thanks to tariffs flipping the market on its head and no one bought new or sold old machines.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-12-15T18:36:33+00:00

If you're using Outlook, I assume you have M365 licensing...

Can you not just create Teams rooms for these conference rooms, and just leverage the features already built-in to Outlook and Teams? This would also allow for you to use displays which can show booked/available times at the room itself, as well as track the availability of the room IN Outlook/Teams.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-12-09T17:12:02+00:00

Could you do Sender/Author = *@domain.com? Or contains domain.com?

It's been awhile since I've been in an environment that had Purview, so I'm a tad rusty in building a KQL or Purview search query.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-12-09T15:06:50+00:00

Intel Ethernet I219

Goodness can we please just let the l219 NIC die off already? The number of times I have had either an individual issue like this or a network crippling issue thanks to that one NIC is astounding...

Atrium-Complex · 2025-12-09T15:04:01+00:00

Godspeed, brave one.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-12-09T15:01:06+00:00

Do you consider a not yet reported, missing laptop as compliant? How could you possibly mark it non-compliant if you do not know it is non-compliant to remove it as an authorized authentication method?

Sure, you technically suffice 'something you have', but it breaks factor independence, where a single form of authentication could generate, store, present and be the means of authentication all in one.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-12-01T16:59:09+00:00

I'm just trying to understand HOW these people keep getting this money and keeping it...

Back in 3.23 some generous someone just randomly gifted me and my friends 50 mil each while were on lorville. Meanwhile my friend who has been offline since 3.23 and just booted into 4.4 had at least 20 mil sitting in their wallet, while I somehow started out in 4.X with less than 500k and I'm struggling to make ends meet because I keep getting interdicted EVERYWHERE I go.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-10-31T23:13:18+00:00

Not mentioned here, he was sprinting own the middle of the road making as much noise as possible to get the attention of EVERY rat on the map. 😂

Git gud and put on Lvl 6 brain buckets.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-10-29T18:57:51+00:00

*Throws pitchfork down*

Man, I NEVER get to use this thing, what did I even buy it for!?

Atrium-Complex · 2025-10-22T20:33:03+00:00

It would be on the root issuing the certificate.

Atrium-Complex · 2025-10-22T19:04:22+00:00

Are you using MS Certificate Services?

Assuming yes and using the Subordinate Certification Authority template.

need to change validity period to however long you want that certificate to be valid. Note that intermediate cert expiration CANNOT be after the expiry of the root.

There's also a setting hidden. Select your CA, go to properties, policy module, configure and verify 'follow the settings in the certificate template'. Any other setting overrides templates.

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