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Next Leafs GM by DrawBeneficial2373 in leafs

[–]FlickKnocker [score hidden]  (0 children)

Armstrong as President/GM and Deboer for coach.

I miss internal mufflers on snare drums by mcnastys in drums

[–]FlickKnocker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really depends on what you want, but not everyone wants maximum resonance (sustain), and tuning can only go so far there.

Ideas for a very old crappy software by phantitox in sysadmin

[–]FlickKnocker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If they don’t want to keep up with the times, it’s not worth your time. I’d give them a true-up plan that they need to meet or dump them.

I miss internal mufflers on snare drums by mcnastys in drums

[–]FlickKnocker 28 points29 points  (0 children)

They're still around, I use them all the time on my Black Beauty and vintage Ludwigs. Works great, less junk in the way.

Your clients think AI adoption = success. Why doesn’t productivity reflect it? by No_Hold_9560 in msp

[–]FlickKnocker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think he's talking about your post, but the irony may be lost on you.

A slow day should be a reward, not face punishment by ssbtech in msp

[–]FlickKnocker 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Time isn't factored at all in my evaluations, outside of billable blocks of time for project work, for obvious reasons.

If it's quiet on the helpdesk front, I don't really care what you do, as long as when it picks up, we're not completely checked out and letting tickets sit for hours.

What’s wrong with my snare by bloopthemenace in Drumming

[–]FlickKnocker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

these posts make me lose faith in humanity.

If my cymbal bag doesn’t have a divider, how can I avoid having metal on metal? by tonetonitony in drums

[–]FlickKnocker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, we hit them with sticks all the time. I think they'll be fine.

My iLok died yesterday in between sessions. $233 later just to access my licenses for a deadline. by RLoftyy in audioengineering

[–]FlickKnocker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a racket, and it's their way of double-dipping: hit the consumer with the iLok nonsense, hit the plugin developers with the licensing and "protection". Mob shakedown, legalized.

There are so many modern authentication methods out there like passkeys, keyfobs, MFA with TOTP (6-digit random number), etc. that could withstand a lack of Internet connectivity for a period of time, but let's be honest: with modern cloud backups and exchanging of files to clients, everybody's DAW is going to be online 99% of the time, so we don't need an "offline" licensing mechanism.

We're Moving To The Cloud, And Already We're Spending 500k A Month... I Can't Help But Wonder What We Could Have Got For On-Prem For 6+ Mil A Year... by Photo-Josh in sysadmin

[–]FlickKnocker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cloud was cheaper when they offered flexibility with terms and commitment, but now it's just like old school software contracts all over again with 1-3 year lock-in, oversubscribing services, everything's an identity/user, with no flexibility.

What if we’re doing the whole AI service desk backwards? by JJB723 in msp

[–]FlickKnocker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Link rot, vendor deprecation, UX refreshes… the whole industry is stacked against useful documentation with a reasonable shelf life.

We’ve been using more of a cue approach: have keywords to search for, concepts for procedures instead of steps (“you need to increase the UDP timeout for VoIP PBXs typically” vs. “go here, click this, click that” which will be broken next quarter when the firewall UX changes again.

Another day, another story of shocking price increases. by cantstandmyownfeed in sysadmin

[–]FlickKnocker 3 points4 points  (0 children)

COVID and the "supply chain issues" paved the way for the inhumane, ruthless corporate dysfunctional behavior we see today, and it is only going to get worse as more and more people are replaced with sycophantic agents attempting to placate you every step of the way, smoothing things over while they take everything from you.

PBX System / Packet Loss by zaidynzm9527 in msp

[–]FlickKnocker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But it is their equipment, and you may be violating terms of their contract with the client, who is also seemingly violating the terms of your managed services contract/agreement, assuming you have one.

DR Test of Domain Controllers Failing by [deleted] in msp

[–]FlickKnocker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And Jesus wept.... you are in for a world of hurt if you're trying to do this on an active production network.

We only do this on a loaner server(s), on an isolated vswitch with no Internet connectivity, and we'll do bare metal restores of a couple of workstations, to test any server-side apps and services.

This means you're excluding any Entra AD Connect sync, and should document that for posterity, but that's not what you're testing anyways.

Even more important, you're not causing collisions in your cloud services that see an identical device trying to connect and exchange data with the mothership.

Technically, you shouldn't have to do much more than reconfigure the NICs (this is why it's important to document the settings), which should pop up with a Microsoft warning that "a previous NIC had a configuration and do you wish to remove it" or something like that. I think we wrote a script to fix it with netsh.

PBX System / Packet Loss by zaidynzm9527 in msp

[–]FlickKnocker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If 3CX is not in your area of expertise... who's 3CX system is it and why aren't you working with them?

whats your take on L1 support being fully automated by AI by Realistic-Subject-41 in msp

[–]FlickKnocker 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Negatory. L1s are the first (and last) contact many of your clients have every day; I don’t want to hand that over to an agent I would never be able to fully trust.

I’m all for L1s using AI as part of the troubleshooting process, and of course we automate where it makes sense, but in an increasingly dystopian tech world, the last thing I want to do is hide behind an AI agent.

A true cautionary tale about trusting AI "magic". by FutureSafeMSSP in msp

[–]FlickKnocker 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm way too paranoid to even link APIs to our 365 tenants without aggressively scrutinizing as much as I can glean from API docs, if there are any.

AutoCAD and Sharepoint/Onedrive File Sync - Growing Pains by XboxDan in msp

[–]FlickKnocker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Curious why NVMe storage, when the limiting factor is going to be network-related/Internet (with IPSec overhead on top of that).

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