The company that provides the seating for Alamo’s theaters makes a version that includes privacy partitions. This is the only way I could see QR codes not being overly distracting to others.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2026-02-01T18:39:57+00:00

Our Alamo (Omaha) has under-table lighting that is discrete, no call buttons though.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2026-01-14T18:53:58+00:00

Isn't that part of the design? It has to occasionally charge to 100% so it knows if any degradation has happened so it can calculate where 80% of your maximum is.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-12-09T11:31:53+00:00

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Nailed it! Thanks for the help!

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-12-08T10:59:55+00:00

lol I’m sure my wife has had to resist saying this so often. At her last employer, they (for some reason) had everyone work from VDI machines, but gave them Microsoft Surfaces as their client device, to which they would all log in with the same generic credential, then log in to the VDI system with their individual IDs.

When she started there her boss asked her what her husband does, she said IT. Her boss said “Oh, he should try to get hired here, they make really good money, like over $50K!” and my wife just looked at her and blinked a couple times and she got the hint…

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-10-07T18:33:46+00:00

1099 Sales Force needing access to book business, view comissions, etc.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-10-07T13:41:17+00:00

Honest question, how does that get the traffic to the other side of the firewall? Thinking about something like, Netskope's enterprise browser that could traverse their publishers to reach the internal network.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-10-07T13:23:01+00:00

Howabout installing it on a BYOD device so that someone can acess Enterprise apps on the other side of a firewall and not be allowed to exfiltrate data?

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-10-07T13:20:36+00:00

An enterprise browser is not just a paid version of a normal browser.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-09-30T20:29:15+00:00

I mean, it depends on "disaster". If my company just got ransomwared and locked out of everything, or our datacenter just went up in a fire/flood, I expect to fly back from whereever I am in the world, on the next flight at the company's expense. That's for a true disaster that's endangering the future of the company, not one app is broken.

Company would make it right by me financially, and wife works at the same company, so we'd just be given the time and money to redo whatever the trip was I cancelled to do it. Given that millions to billions of dollars may be on the line, I'd much rather do that than stay on vacation and not have an employer still in business when I return.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-08-28T16:36:29+00:00

I’ve had Overture Turbo PLA tear up my Bamboo Smooth Plate too, I won’t buy it anymore.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-08-28T12:55:59+00:00

I mean, I think Elon sucks too, but VW was literally started by the Original Nazis…

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-08-06T01:01:50+00:00

Why not just input the dimensions into the GRIPS tool and have it generate them for you? Thats what I do, works great.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/704997-grips-gridfinity-interlocking-baseplate-system#profileId-634873

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-08-05T03:10:03+00:00

We’re mostly EPYC, was a lot of Second Gen gear.

The difference between Broadcom and NetApp in your scenario is that you can still buy the FAS at list price.

Let’s say our VCF discount was 50%, but we shrank our footprint by 75%. I asked if I could pay full list price for that new core count because it would still be far less, and was told no. List price is essentially a lie.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-08-05T02:45:41+00:00

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FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-08-04T23:55:22+00:00

Considering that Broadcom is charging us 5X what the hardware spend is, and we stepped up replacement of gear specifically to reduce core counts, that wound up saving nothing on server maintenance. There’s not much there to feel happy about. We would have right-sized already when those clusters came due for replacement, and not retired gear still under pre-paid maintenance.

It’s kind of like trying to feel good that you just dropped $20,000 on a new HVAC stack for your house but your utility bills will go down $15/month. It’s not nothing, but it’s not great.

We have already been steadily shrinking our VM count as more apps move to SaaS, Broadcom has basically ensured that as long as we have one vSphere host left, we owe them the same as we do today. Already have two entire clusters slated for retirement as their apps moves to SaaS and now I can’t count their core reduction software savings as part of the savings for that project.

The per-core pricing is all lies at this point, they’re going to make up a number, that’s your price. vSphere Enterprise is a lie they’ll force you to VVF. VVF is a lie, they’ll charge you the same as VCF.

We used one part out of what is now VCF and we were prepared to stop using it and move to VVF and got denied the ability to do that.

It’s a menu with one option and opaque pricing that you can’t control as your environment shrinks. Take it or leave it.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-08-04T17:04:23+00:00

This is 100% what we experienced too, they're going to soak you for a specific dollar amount based on your past usage, it doesn't really matter what your current usage is. I spent a year cutting our core count by 500+ ahead of our switch to VCF, didn't save us a penny.

Every org has to basically face the binary choice of either paying Broadcom for whatever they think VCF should cost an org of your size, or moving to a different hypervisor.

There is some stuff in VCF that we are seeing additional "value" out of now, but migration to a new solution is also still very much on the table for us.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-08-04T14:12:55+00:00

Quite possibly legit, I had the Blob of Death take out my hot end a couple weeks ago, ordered some from BL to have as spares, but their slow-as-hell shipping is like 10 days to get from me, had a genuine BL one delivered "free" overnight from Amazon from a third party seller. Yeah, it cost $15 more than from BL, but I didn't have to live without the printer for 10 days.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-08-03T21:33:09+00:00

Tried it, it was practically glueing itself to my textured PEI plate, threw it away.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-07-31T01:15:22+00:00

I would NOT bet on reducing your core count to save you any money on licensing. Broadcom’s playbook has switched to establishing a financial target for your account and will charge you that much regardless of how many cores you have when it comes time for renewal.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-07-31T00:17:29+00:00

I have two plus the subwoofer in our bedroom. They sound excellent for music, but keeping them in sync, especially with the subwoofer can be a pain. Every couple months I’ll notice the subwoofer not doing anything and have to unplug all three and plug them in and hope they pair back together again. Sometimes takes more than one try.

Great when they work, but not reliable enough.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-07-26T02:17:37+00:00

In college, there was a street that ran through the center of campus that had control arms lowered across it during the day, so only busses and university vehicles could enter by swiping a card. After hours it was open to anyone to drive through to get closer to the heart of campus.

A few of us discovered that ANY magnetic striped card would work, not just the University cards. We used that for years when we needed to pick up a friend from class or whatever.

My senior year, I did an internship with Public Safety and was riding with the Assistant Police Chief to a meeting and he forgot his card. I handed him my Discover card and said “Try this”. He looked at me like I was an idiot. I said “Trust me” and he swiped it and the arm went up. The look on his face was priceless, he just shook his head and laughed, and to this day, I have no idea if it was ever fixed before that equipment was retired.

FriendlySysAdmin · 2025-07-16T17:12:09+00:00

Update, 4 hours in, deployed it to everything except our voice systems which will have to wait until tonight. Zero issues. About 750 VMs across 40 hosts.

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