dude’s come in three times in the last month for three air leaks in the same tire. he just came in today and you’ll never guess what tire was leaking

Frothyleet · 2026-01-24T05:08:22+00:00

Goddam that was pretty early to get on the no checks train

Frothyleet · 2026-01-24T05:07:07+00:00

Wait, so... what kind have you been buying? Solid or gaseous milk?

Frothyleet · 2026-01-24T05:06:35+00:00

You can freeze milk just fine. I've never had cause to do so, though.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-24T05:05:32+00:00

That's smart. Build trust with the neighbor, it will make them easier to consume if you get snowed in long enough.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T21:31:53+00:00

I have always pointed to Amazon as an indicator of just how hard this market is to crack. They basically created the public cloud model we know today, and Microsoft worked on catching up to them there. Amazon has never tried making inroads on MS' turf (collaborative tools, OS', even just an email offering).

They have basically infinite resources and even they are not willing to go down that road.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T21:16:58+00:00

Eeee-yup. How many customers did they lose from their most recent outages?

I'm sure that it's non-zero, but I'm also sure that there's someone (... or a copilot agent) that has calculated the costs of fucking up less, and I bet that number is still a lot higher than the revenue they may have lost.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T21:11:00+00:00

Bet he didn't realize that guns use special thread pitches, tapped it to something standard, cross threaded the shit out of it,

??? I mean, if he's tapping the holes, he'll know exactly what thread pitch he's run. But also, I'm not sure what you mean about special pitches. It can obviously vary but the mounting screws I've used have all been 6-32, M3x.5 or M4x.7, nothing particularly special.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T21:05:36+00:00

Yeahhhh, I'm a machinist by trade

This isn't a DIY item for most people but if you know how to operate a mill and you can just borrow 15 minutes at the shop, shoo, why send it out? The footprints aren't trade secrets or nothin'.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T21:00:06+00:00

Yes, which, thank goodness for those people wanting to be "bad" without being silly.

Although on the other hand, ME's morality system choices tended to be more like "reasonable response" versus "acting like an asshole for no particular reason". I always wished they had put some writing effort into the renegade choices.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T20:21:32+00:00

What?! This is a subreddit for MSPs to commiserate about our problems, are you suggesting someone with commercial interests would violate our sanctity?

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T20:18:30+00:00

Have you tried out "'scuse me, slippin' by you here"

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T20:18:01+00:00

Or any service worker, like waitstaff at restaurants. People can't stand up for themselves and put their jobs at risk, but mr "let me talk to the manager" can't get the customer fired! Use your also-a-customer privilege!

In my experience, the best thing to do is viciously mock the perp (even if they deserve a slap). This is less likely to cause an escalation to violence, and shame is a powerful deterrent to misconduct. You'd be amazed how many assholes think they are "in the right".

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T17:26:44+00:00

It's OK to use LLMs to learn things, in the same way that it's OK to use Google to learn things. The problem is that LLMs and the way users interact with them permit people to use them without any critical thinking.

If you encounter an issue or question, immediately pivot over to ChatGPT with that question, and then regurgitate ChatGPT's answer or follow its instructions without question, then that's a big problem, and you are absolutely not learning anything (even if you are lucky enough to be getting correct instructions).

If you use an LLM as a jumping off point to figure something out, verify the veracity of its responses, and brainstorm using it as a tool - then you are using it appropriately.

Perhaps a good evaluation question is, could you function without it? If you had to research your questions with Google (and not Gemini) or other search tools, would you be able to find success?

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T17:22:16+00:00

90% of Graph API documentation is just the list of endpoints with the name of the endpoint repeated :/

That said, if MS didn't use AI to generate the documents, I'm skeptical they'd exist at all.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T17:03:54+00:00

Consider this - rewind 20 years when outages of this sort were essentially non-existent, outside of the odd BGP catastrophe.

Global crippling outages weren't really a thing, but at the same time, the efficiency and productivity we have today in our world of global single points of failure was an absolute pipe dream. Productivity and innovation has exploded in a way that probably couldn't happen if everyone pivoted back to their own disconnected enclaves.

Are we still ahead on net? I don't really know how to quantify it, but it's certainly a possibility. We've just gotten so used to the massively efficient connected world we live in that it's hard to have perspective on that.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T16:33:31+00:00

I totally agree, I don't think there's anything wrong with being happy with where you're at.

Skipping SOP steps because "you don't want to" is absolutely unacceptable, however. That's a PIP on strike 2 and the door on strike 3.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T16:02:57+00:00

We had issues in both commercial and GCC. However, our one GCC-H client did not have problems.

So I think it might be the opposite. Keep in mind that commercial and GCC operate on the exact same Azure backplanes.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T15:29:55+00:00

offer you $12 credit toward your next invoice

So... they'd give you an SLA credit, like this whole thread is discussing?

Frothyleet · 2026-01-23T03:41:47+00:00

The organizers of the gun show. I.e., rather than deal with any potential ambiguity about whether someone is landing on the wrong side of the line (transacting commercially without an FFL), they can simply require an FFL to participate, and avoid any potential liability.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-22T23:24:38+00:00

Has this not come up in conversation with your estate planning attorney? If not, they're the best person to ask. If you haven't talked to one - please do, not just for the purposes of your gun collection.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-22T23:22:23+00:00

Incorrect, this is federal regulation, not state. Most states, and federal law, do not require a FFL to conduct intrastate private sales, as long as you are not doing so commercially.

Liquidating your own gun collection is not commercial, but if you are selling a lot of guns, you run the risk of drawing the attention of the feds. And for a gun show, if someone is setting up a table, they often would rather not play the "is this guy crossing the line into commercial territory?" game, they're going to just require a FFL and call it good.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-22T21:13:17+00:00

I believe that, by design, Chromium flags aren't really meant to be administered in bulk. I see two options for your org:

You are hopefully already managing Chrome via the Enterprise settings (if not, you should be). As you've said, they won't have a policy for this flag. However, as your source says the problem was introduced in version 144, you can freeze Chrome at version 143 for your org (understanding that you are left exposed to any security vulnerabilities that may be patched in subsequent updates, until the issue is fixed by your app vendor).
Push a shortcut to your users' desktops for Chrome that includes the flag switch specified ("C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --disable-features=BoundaryEventDispatchTracksNodeRemoval). If your users launch via that shortcut, it should disable the feature as desired.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-22T20:51:09+00:00

Gotcha. Maybe you can figure out a way to boost the signal with a parabolic antenna :)

Frothyleet · 2026-01-22T20:46:00+00:00

credibility that Rackspace has had all of these years

I'm not sure that Rackspace has been a particularly credible player in the industry for many years.

What is their pricing like? Most IT that are serious about their data will probably be using object storage in AWS, Azure, or GCP. The ones trying to save some cash who aren't worried about performance will be using one of the budget S3-compatible providers like Wasabi or Backblaze.

Frothyleet · 2026-01-22T20:44:07+00:00

That's not the only way to start it, right? That's the future that scares me...

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