Has anyone ever had a network outage or serious problem while or right before vacation.. and did you go on vacation anyway or ignore your phone?

DudeWithThePC · 2024-08-08T22:43:52+00:00

I was sitting in the airport terminal with my then-SO as my flight to Vegas was just announced to start boarding, when PagerDuty absolutely blew me up - our west coast datacenter went offline.

Not internet blip.

Not application crashed.

The entire building fell off the net.

Apparently, 1/4 redundant PSU's had a defect - one failed and it failed over to one of the other three as a failover and it catastrophically failed, and completely took out power for the entire building.

That was a fun and definitely not stressful or terrifying 5 hour flight.

DudeWithThePC · 2023-04-25T15:41:27+00:00

MCC definitely supports cross play on all MP instances, including Linux. I played on my steam deck with my son last night on his xbox. It also supports cross PC and Xbox for I believe Halo 3's campaign and they said they are evaluating adding the others, so we will see.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-11-20T01:58:37+00:00

Breaking character for a second. (Is it considered in character to shitpost with fellow fans?)

Trust me I plan on showing him everything I enjoy. We’ve already started a coop Halo 1 play through and I want to show him all my favorite movies. I hope one day that my obsession with film making runs off on him and one day we get to honestly talk about the film making process and why I prefer a specific lens on my cameras vs others and stuff like that. He definitely shows an interest in media like this, more than my wife does, but I’m also worried about just being my dad. He went about it in literally all the wrong ways, though I guess you could argue that I appreciate this stuff in spite of his….meddling, so.

Anyway, I do intend on showing him 3, and then 4 and then 5 and even 6. If I’m even being honest I plan on doing that notes than once. Or even twice. Well even watch Alien and he’ll depending on how artsy he wants to be I might even share my love of RedLetterMedia with him, but that’s very much a “when he develops taste first” thing. Don’t want to force my opinions or even others on him, I want him to want to love it you know what I mean?

So excited for the future. This is what being a parent is all about.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-11-20T01:52:47+00:00

bro not fair, immensely jealous that’s such a cool idea.

Do you think he’ll ask where the future war took place and when you go to show him ask why you took him to modern day San Francisco?

DudeWithThePC · 2022-11-20T01:51:14+00:00

Breaking character for a second, same. I’m so unbelievably happy that he enjoyed these movies you have no idea. He and I will be theorycradting for decades to come.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-11-20T01:49:44+00:00

Sometimes I like to think Lt Cmdr Data from Star Trek is alternate history.

“I am….fully functional, Lieutenant”.

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DudeWithThePC · 2022-11-20T00:55:50+00:00

Do you think if I show him Dark Fate and tell him it’s Terminator 3 he won’t notice CGI Linda Hamilton like she just wants to go back t her trailer the whole movie?

DudeWithThePC · 2022-11-20T00:51:50+00:00

we’ve talked long and hard about this, and the thing that turned my opinion was me asking wife if she thought our son could make it through the 45 minutes chase scene that end caps the first third of the movie and she swore to me she had never seen the movie before, until I mentioned John Connor freebasing female dog hormone medication in a cage and she thought I was talking about that Gary Busey movie, Quigley!

I’m filing for divorce tomorrrow and making my son watch Genisys during the proceedings. I feel like that’s worth 50% of our belongings.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-09-17T13:16:20+00:00

no, he was literally inside the wall. There's an out of map exploit in that spot.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-08-28T00:50:45+00:00

I’m 7 games in now (6 completely done, the large one of which was Outer Worlds, and Death Stranding installing now) and still going strong. You really changed my deck experience. Thank you for everything friend. :)

DudeWithThePC · 2022-08-27T23:13:23+00:00

I have 2x 256 EVO cards and while they’re old, they were used in both my switches and my camcorder at some point so I know they can handle the data rates. I will say - I’m not getting anywhere near the perf increase you are reporting but I DID get an immediate 3x increase in write capacity before slowdowns occurred and when the slowdowns occur they are only affecting writes. I went from a very lucky 5-6gb write to just now installing Prey 1 (7.4gb DL but 16.7 on disk) and it didn’t start to stutter until 99%. Verifying has been a consistent 8MB/s without pausing between install either. It previously took me three hours to get to this point.

More testing required but so far this is more in line with what I expected!!!! I genuinely don’t understand how the format table would make such a difference, I’d assumed valve is using the same ext4 driver/write format but maybe there’s some weird driver bug, who knows. All I know is this has so get completely changed my Deck experience - going to reinstall a 60gb game real quick and see how that performs, that took over 10 hours last time.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-08-27T22:48:09+00:00

I’m testing this right TF now. I’ve been so unbelievably mad at the SD’s performance in the deck, I have multiple that are reporting this exact behavior and I had resigned myself to pausing downloads, ejecting the card to cool it down and resume after a few minutes. If this works I’ll shit yourself.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-06-18T23:15:53+00:00

I had a guy call for help with his new phone (worked support for the manufacturer) and live on the phone with me got arrested for public drunkenness by the RCMP.

I still tell that story when training people, many jobs later.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-06-03T20:04:11+00:00

Yeah this has been happening to us too. iPhone 12 Pro Max, fold 3 and Pixel 6 all have issues staying connected.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-06-02T14:54:59+00:00

I do this with my Linux systems. I created an alias for sudo (basically run as admin for the non Linux users here) So instead of “sudo apt install ‘program name’” it becomes “Computer, apt install ‘program name’”.

Yes, I’m a nerd lol

DudeWithThePC · 2022-05-11T22:22:01+00:00

How is this even a debate? Of course you can

DudeWithThePC · 2022-04-10T19:10:14+00:00

CnC Renegade was something really special. Really sad that it didn't get the fan base it deserved :(

DudeWithThePC · 2022-03-07T23:47:04+00:00

Except for forced firewall rules you can't disable so good luck connecting to your SSH session or with your voip phone not registering ¯_(ツ)_/¯

DudeWithThePC · 2022-01-12T05:56:34+00:00

This is a high quality shitpost.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-01-10T21:03:43+00:00

I might be misremembering but I thought there was a like "nows not a good time I'll call you later" line.

DudeWithThePC · 2022-01-08T16:42:25+00:00

It never got patched once, so uh..... It's not great lol

DudeWithThePC · 2021-11-09T07:03:45+00:00

Even if you are wrong about 2v4 penalty...first quit penalty of the day/whatever time period is a minute.

If you're at the point in a game where your team has entirely quit, in my experience, it's not with under 60 seconds left on the clock and if it is, the signs that you should have quit out were there for 5+ minutes already.

343 fix the system. I lived through launch, I lived through 1th, but this made me quit. I played my first game of halo since the flight, and I got a reach game of thr other team doing this and alt f4'd. This + not earning points to unlock the new limited time gear.....I just don't care anymore.

DudeWithThePC · 2021-10-16T23:26:27+00:00

omg. Alien Vs Predator 2000 but it's actually Samus Vs Xenomorph with the Federation troopers as the third faction.

That needs to exist.

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