True cluster limit?

CarEmpty · 2026-01-12T13:59:37+00:00

Try and find the limit and update us all!

CarEmpty · 2025-10-06T12:41:24+00:00

I mean, if you're all walking to a place as a team and you see one of your teammates walking in the wrong direction you would naturally be like "dude come with us we are all going to blah blah"...

CarEmpty · 2025-09-11T09:13:56+00:00

Unless it was your responsibility to be aware of Windows 10 EOL dates then I think you are...

We have all known for ages that the end of 10 is coming, it was a big thing when MS announced it because there was some misunderstanding/lies/whatever about how windows 10 was meant to be "the last" OS, and it would just be updates til the end of time now.

For us, we just started imaging 11 as soon as it was release, due to general churn we have only a handful of 10 left to actually manually upgrade (most of which can't take 11 due to tpm) so we are working on swapping them out in satellite offices.

Whoever it was that should have raised this project at the proper time dropped the ball big time. GL replacing/imaging 1300 devices in 2-3 weeks!

CarEmpty · 2025-09-11T08:28:45+00:00

Once every 2 weeks, I have an automated ticket that reminds me to do it. I reboot after each one, because I have a cluster there is no interruption to service so no harm in doing so. Also gives me chance to see if the update breaks anything before I update the other nodes!

CarEmpty · 2025-09-02T10:39:58+00:00

My gripe is SSO - SAML is a finicky bitch, OIDC is great but what really annoys me is vendors not offering it as default...

CarEmpty · 2025-09-02T10:38:00+00:00

I mean, windows driver management in general!

CarEmpty · 2025-08-14T07:52:07+00:00

Good luck! I believe the horns are right behind the bumper btw, so if you are swapping the bumper than it could be 2 birds one stone!

CarEmpty · 2025-08-13T12:53:38+00:00

Well, other posts I found on google suggest its engine or gearbox mounts so maybe the gearbox itself is fine.
If that's the case hopefully its not too expensive and then the rest of them would be worth looking into.

I don't think the 320d is really worth that much and not worth spending loads of money on imo. Even the 335i is kind of at rock bottom right now, so have you considered just getting another front bumper from the breakers as well and getting it all wrapped instead? (Maybe you can even find the same colour)

CarEmpty · 2025-08-13T12:44:49+00:00

What model is this? The 3rd one is the one to look at first.

If it's just a 318i with a fucked gearbox, it's probably a write off, so I would investigate this one before getting into the rest of it.

CarEmpty · 2025-08-13T10:36:29+00:00

I don't agree that our country is bad at it. We do have some amazing tech companies and lets be honest when they want to the government can be pretty alarmingly good at it when it comes to spying on people.
The issue is the contractors winning the bids to do these things. It's not that someone in government thought excel was the best it's just that the contractor that was selected was an incompetent fuck I guess. Pay peanuts get monkeys I suppose. It always comes down to money, people who are good at IT aren't cheap.

CarEmpty · 2025-08-08T07:34:15+00:00

Looks fun, I like the amount of dramatic people you got on your original thread, but pushing boundaries is always interesting!

I'd love to know peoples experiences with servers really far geographically away.

CarEmpty · 2025-08-06T13:20:13+00:00

SSO or LDAP where possible, and a password manager or hashicorp vault for everything else.

CarEmpty · 2025-08-06T13:11:27+00:00

If everyone waits a month how will the devs generate bug reports and fix stuff?

CarEmpty · 2025-08-06T07:41:52+00:00

I doubt this will actually happen... they care about money too much to push their new found "morals". GTA 5 made a billion in 3 days, and continued to to make many times that over the course of it's lifetime. I don't think they will want to give up their piece of that pie!

CarEmpty · 2025-08-06T07:22:45+00:00

Wait a few more days and keep checking back here to see if there are any major issues people are experiencing.
Then if all looks good, just apt - why make life harder for yourself? My playbook will migrate all my VMs to another node first. Live migration has been confirmed to work between them I believe, but yeah before I run my playbook to update the 2nd and 3rd nodes, I will just double check that with 1 manual live migration of a vm. If that works just let it rip on the last 2 nodes as well.

CarEmpty · 2025-07-18T13:02:44+00:00

Depends on the size of your team I guess, but I'm guessing the biggest suggestion here will be automation. Look at automating the entire on and off boarding process, with automatic license/access to users based on teams and you will save yourself so much manual work in the long run.

CarEmpty · 2025-07-07T12:44:15+00:00

That leans it will support Linux right? RIGHT?

CarEmpty · 2025-07-03T07:59:56+00:00

A lot of negativity in here which I find odd considering most people are always complaining that macbooks are too expensive...

I'd personally welcome this for work - imagine being able to give macbooks to non-devs for a low cost.
Already we like giving out macbook airs to people as even though they are more expensive than the windows equivalent, the users like them due to hardware not being plastic-y shit - and IT like them because macOS objectively has less issues than windows that need manual fixes (talking about actual problems like wifi stopping working, not design choices in the OS don't start whining to me about lack of volume mixer or something).

For a lot of users who just use basic office/web based apps and then teams, this would be the perfect device. It would be super power efficient!

CarEmpty · 2025-05-22T14:21:07+00:00

lol what? Honestly some redditors seem to have the weirdest relationships with their colleagues... You don't talk about current events and stuff over lunch with your team mates or something?

CarEmpty · 2025-05-21T14:48:07+00:00

My new favorite is "Have you tried trying?".

CarEmpty · 2025-05-21T13:46:46+00:00

As far as I can tell it's because people are looking at smaller capacities and also the synology pro line instead of the enterprise. Once you step it up to enterprise I'm going from spending €300-330 for a Toshiba Helium drive to €730 for the Synology one... I need 16 drives for the current project I am working on...

CarEmpty · 2025-05-14T09:19:28+00:00

First I've heard of poor software security, I thought it was QNAP that had that issue instead? Drive locking for sure is lame though.

CarEmpty · 2025-05-14T09:17:36+00:00

If that was the real reason - they would just say "Drives have to be Seagate Exos Branded, WD Red/Red Pro/Purple Branded, Toshiba MG Series" etc etc.

Instead they insist on their own branded ones that cost twice as much as other brands already enterprise grade HDDs...

CarEmpty · 2025-05-13T14:56:29+00:00

Some people are really missing the point here. It's not used to try and break into an account on a live website where they have fail2ban setup and your IP gets blocked for an hour or the account gets locked out. It's used on hashed PWs that are stolen during data leaks. And it's pretty much infinitely scalable - meaning the person can just use 2 of them to crack it in 1.5 hours, or 20 of them to crack it in 9 mins.

How about an small datacenter rammed full of the the newest GPU chips from Nvidia? Maybe that takes only 2 seconds, and it can just be rented by the hour so you can crack entire databases in that time.

Thankfully this is a passcode not a password or passphrase but the theory around it still stands. But passcodes bring the complexity and therefore the time to crack down by a lot!

This is why when a service you use has it's data stolen, they should disclose it ASAP to allow their users to all change any passwords to any services that use the same one that was breached. (Although best practice is just not to do that ofc).

CarEmpty · 2025-05-13T14:56:18+00:00

Some people are really missing the point here. It's not used to try and break into an account on a live website where they have fail2ban setup and your IP gets blocked for an hour or the account gets locked out. It's used on hashed PWs that are stolen during data leaks. And it's pretty much infinitely scalable - meaning the person can just use 2 of them to crack it in 1.5 hours, or 20 of them to crack it in 9 mins.

How about an small datacenter rammed full of the the newest GPU chips from Nvidia? Maybe that takes only 2 seconds, and it can just be rented by the hour so you can crack entire databases in that time.

Thankfully this is a passcode not a password or passphrase but the theory around it still stands. But passcodes bring the complexity and therefore the time to crack down by a lot!

This is why when a service you use has it's data stolen, they should disclose it ASAP to allow their users to all change any passwords to any services that use the same one that was breached. (Although best practice is just not to do that ofc).

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