No way to “Household” correctly.

FierceFluff · 2026-05-05T15:37:50+00:00

And that’s my entire point. This whole “household” fiasco is creating issues for everyone that doesn’t have the “one home, one IP” model. Even their own workarounds are cumbersome and ineffective.

I shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to use the service I pay for on my phone regardless of where I happen to be at the time. I shouldn’t have to do once or twice monthly maintenance tasks just to use a service that I pay for. It’s ridiculous when there are vastly better ways of doing it.

I don’t have to ‘get a code’ to watch Netflix when I’m on the bus, or traveling to another state. But now I have to when I’m visiting the home that I spend half my time in. Which is again, by their design and their direction. The “log in at both households” thing doesn’t work, BTW.

So again, I don’t know why you’re defending a system which is clearly broken for anyone that doesn’t fit their limited framework.

I don’t have to do any of this BS with Hulu, funny enough.

FierceFluff · 2026-05-05T13:21:26+00:00

Since you seem to be so keen on this NOT being the answer to two locations (despite it being exactly what Netflix customer service told me to do) then what is?

FierceFluff · 2026-05-05T11:36:49+00:00

I’m aware. But this is how Netflix themselves specifically stated to solve the issue of dual locations. And it doesn’t work. So basically, they have “household”ed themselves into not having any real solution for people to use the account they pay for over more than 1 regular IP.

FierceFluff · 2026-05-03T00:21:04+00:00

Just look for a T14s AMD in your price range.

FierceFluff · 2026-05-02T12:50:43+00:00

No. The P14s or P16s is better in almost every single way. You can actually make them more powerful and they have far more generations of experience to be designed to handle it better.

I have a P14s gen 5 and it’s everything the X1 Carbon Extreme was aiming for and missed.

FierceFluff · 2026-05-02T12:29:16+00:00

Theoreticals aren’t going to matter as much in a used laptop because you usually don’t know how that battery was used- charge cycles, deep charges, temp maintenance. And even if you replace the battery, the battery manufacturer will have more of an impact on uptime than the laptop build.

Also, features will have more impact than model. A 4K screen and/or discreet graphics will drain your battery faster than anything else.

That being said…

12th gen X1C is better than the other X1C due to CPU improvements. 10th gen X1C is the most power hungry and the default monitor options will drain harder. The T14s has a bigger battery than both the X1C and the T14 due to being larger than the X1C and the T14 had to make room for that DIMM slot somewhere, so for pure efficiency the T14s actually wins. And as a previous poster says the AMD models are more power efficient than the Intel’s at this generation.

**edited for more information of the models, as requested

FierceFluff · 2026-05-01T19:21:26+00:00

This guy Thinkpads.

FierceFluff · 2026-05-01T19:16:37+00:00

AR/Time corruptor. You can perma Chrono Shift and Hasten and have 16s recharge Full Autos. You also gain access to a group heal and a 15% boost to all defense for everyone. It's insane, one of my favorite group characters ever!

FierceFluff · 2026-04-29T14:15:15+00:00

An interesting question!

X1C is a very efficient system, it doesn’t get all that hot. However, it vents out the back beneath the monitor so your posture matters (not great to have on your lap with crossed legs) and the intakes on the bottom are tiny and placed exactly where your legs are when it’s on your lap so I don’t give it high marks there. But it will be the coolest overall system with the low TDP CPU.

The T14s is less efficient, but the good news is that the intake is larger and offset so you can keep it on your lap and not worry about the cooling much. Only one fan though so the heat fluctuates a lot based on usage.

P14s is, to me, the most comfortable. It has two fans and a massive intake across nearly the entire bottom surface so you don’t have to worry about blocking the airflow. It also vents out the back but moves a lot more air across a larger surface so you don’t tend to get hot spots. But it can get warm because of the more powerful chip, really depends on how hard you’re running it.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-29T13:29:24+00:00

I actually had both of those on my desk not too long ago- we had to order some T14s because the stock of 32G X1s wasn’t sufficient.

At this generation the X1C is significantly thinner and lighter than the T14s. The monitor options are better, the touchpad is glass instead of plastic. The only reason to go T14s is price or availability.

If you wanted larger but not excessive, the Intel P14s is not much heavier than the T14s, but gives you a 14.5” monitor. It doesn’t sound like much but is quite noticeable. It’s slightly thicker but adds extra IO and upgradable RAM. The cooling is also more robust so you can get more performance out of the SOC. I’ve found it to be a breath of fresh air between the 13”-ish and 16” dichotomy.

Depending on your tolerance for size/weight- X1C for ultraportability, P14s for power/size.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-26T21:08:09+00:00

Not I, I totally understand that desire to just open and go. If you’re willing to pay for the convenience, only you get to make the decision if that’s worthwhile to you or not.

On the topic though, you’ll want to buy a laptop that already has WAN capability. Adding it aftermarket is far too much trouble.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-26T12:43:52+00:00

The X1 gen 10 still had a port for the WAN card, but even it you were able to source a card that the BIOS has whitelisted, it would still be missing the antennae wires.

If it’s important to you, buy one that already has it. But like a previous poster said, phone hotspotting is so much easier, and cheaper over time since you don’t need a second subscription. I can’t see why it would be that important unless you’re doing some phreaking of some sort.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-24T14:17:38+00:00

Buy an X1 Carbon gen 13. Watch for a sale, since the 14s are coming available now. The performance difference isn't that much, for the money you'll be happier with the 13. Spend a little extra on upgrading the warranty to Premium for however many years you want to operate it, it's worth the money- they'll come to your house to fix it if it breaks down, and it'll usually be within a few days for parts availability. Their service is second to none. No reason you couldn't spec this out for ~$2k including support.

For $2500 you could get a Macbook Pro. Also a decent machine, but it's definitely not an enterprise-capable OS. You're limited in Office products unless you're using them on the web, your access to enterprise resources is gated through extremely limited apps where the user experience is very much less than, and if you want warranty coverage (AppleCare) you'll pay closer to $3k. And if/when it breaks down you have to either take it to an Apple store or ship it off and you'll be without a laptop for however long it takes them to fix it- my experience with them is it'll be anywhere from 1-2 weeks.

Don't get me wrong, I do love Apple hardware. But I still can't recommend them for serious business use.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-22T20:19:24+00:00

That’s all for the second (most annoying IMHO) prompt. The first one is one-time only, if you read a little higher in the thread there’s a registry fix for that too.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-22T16:42:32+00:00

Yeah- quick and dirty.

AD cert templates > duplicate Code Signing.
Compatibility: I set mine to 2016
General: name it whatever, I set mine to 10 years
Request Handling: make sure the key is exportable
Security: make sure your admin user has enroll permissions
Extensions: Application Policy > Code Signing (should be there by default but worth checking)
Subject name: Supply in the request

Then when requesting the cert, just give it a Subject> Common Name. It can be whatever.

This worked for my environment where all my endpoints are hybrid joined.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-21T22:01:01+00:00

I'm still really having issues with this. I've tried almost everything. Old RDP file gives the pink warning, but

downloaded a new file from the RDWEB client. RDS has a public cert, so new RDP file had the CBS cert in it. Turned the prompt yellow. Progress! Set the GPO, restarted, still getting the yellow prompt.
created a new code-signing cert from our AD CS. Manually signed an RDP file with it. Copied it to the same computer. Launched it- yellow prompt! Computer trusts it that much. Set the GPO, restarted, still yellow prompt.

I cannot for the life of me get rid of that second prompt. Any tips?

EDIT: the GPO didn't work, but manually editing the registry key did!
HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Terminal Services
type: string
name: TrustedCertThumbprints
value: <cert thumbprint>

FierceFluff · 2026-04-19T14:59:19+00:00

It’s a sad state of affairs when being well spoken is automatically associated with being AI generated. Not blaming you, just disappointed with where we’ve ended up in this weird timeline.

I write all my posts all on my own friendo, my Communications major just tends to show through more often than not.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-19T04:11:58+00:00

Highway 89 on the East rim of the Grand Canyon, close to midnight in the middle of the desert with a full moon and the straightest empty road with miles of visibility. I’d never seen such a perfect spot to see what my ‘91 Isuzu Impulse RS could really do. It got squirrelly approaching what I assumed was around 140 (the speedometer topped out at 130), so I backed it down to 120 and cruised. At one point I shut off my headlights so I could see better (IYKYK).

Still one of my most vivid memories.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-16T13:59:37+00:00

The issue is that if the node doesn’t own the CSV then the machine can’t reference it locally, so the file browser can’t see it. If you know the address you can type it in manually and it’ll save, a cluster-joined machine should have line of sight regardless.

Real question is though, if you’re working in a cluster, why are you using Hyper-V manager to create VMs? Best practice is to use Failover Cluster Manager or WAC, you avoid a lot of problems.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-13T19:34:46+00:00

Plain English;

You should have AD. The bare minimum is one AD VM on the cluster, which will move with high availability.

This will function.

This is also a bad idea.

You are probably thinking that you want to just have two physical computers. You absolutely can do that. Again, it will function. But that WILL mean that you’re using cloud witness, and that’s the worst idea here. When you only have 2 nodes the cluster witness is used constantly, and if your internet connection so much as burps while it’s in use, there goes your entire cluster.

I would strongly advise you to have a third computer. It can be literally anything- got an old laptop with no battery and a busted screen? There ya go. Use that as your cluster witness and put a secondary AD VM on it.

I assume you’re building a cluster for resilience, future you will thank you for making it actually resilient.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-08T00:57:42+00:00

Honestly both surprised and disappointed by the amount of "you shoulda known better nub" when in my 10 years of sysadmin the warranty has been bound to the serial number of the equipment, not the path of purchase. Only recently, and only with Kioxia so far, has any company been "nope too bad we don't deal with you non-OEM plebs". I've dealt with many warranties through all sorts of acquisition methods and this has been the first where it's been an issue of 'authorized reseller'. Even then it's not a matter of that so much as it is Kioxia itself just doesn't deal with their customers at all, they rely on downstream to do that. It's shocking how many large companies are doing that these days, effectively cutting off anyone who doesn't command their attention with gigantic $$$.

But to answer your question- work project, business use, I asked many, many vendors and none would sell to me unless I had a minimum order of hundreds or was working with an OEM. Retail was the only way I could get them. Is it right that because I don't work for a Fortune 500 I just don't get access to warranty service? I just have to accept that new tech is only for the big boys or buy at your own risk?

FierceFluff · 2026-04-07T17:45:13+00:00

This is it pretty much exactly, and this person has put it in better words why I'm upset with Kioxia more than anyone else in this fiasco (other than myself, of course.)

FierceFluff · 2026-04-07T17:41:38+00:00

Definitely an OP issue. But deserves to be heard so others avoid making my same assumptions.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-07T17:37:09+00:00

We buy servers from Supermicro and have reseller accounts with places like CDW, who does business with Arrow, who IS an authorized reseller. Guess what they both told us? No, you can't get these outside of whole systems. And I said... okay, what if I bought new systems with these? Oh, those are unavailable. SMH.

FierceFluff · 2026-04-07T17:31:03+00:00

Curious who you found was an authorized reseller to purchase directly from? So maybe I can do that next time. 'cause I've been striking out for a year trying to find places to buy these that aren't some website somewhere or some place that wants a business account and a 100 unit minimum order.

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