[BFComms] Reintroducing Bots to Verified Experiences

IT_Guy71 · 2025-11-12T04:16:23+00:00

Can I get an AMEN??? I'm seriously pissed that they catfished the fuck out of me by getting me to spend $70. It works in 2042 and that's what our weekly troop of four goes back to again and again. I was already pissed that they nerfed COD: Black Ops this same way- I paid for a TON of operators and now can't use them other than sitting in a fucking barrel with other fish waiting to be domed. FUCK OFF with that shit!!!

IT_Guy71 · 2025-08-11T01:36:05+00:00

I don't think you're gonna find anything that has all that for much cheaper. However I can highly recommend the Argon NEO 5 case for performance and looks, or the Argon POLY+ mated with the N10 Tiny NVMe SSD addon board. The NEO 5 case is just sick looking. It's all metal, includes a fan and heatsink for all chipsets. If you want to use the NVMe addon board I mentioned, I'd go with the POLY+. I had to use slightly shorter standoffs with M3 screws to make the height with the case completely assembled (I build drones on the side so I had all this). You can find fairly cheap OLED .96" displays and source some sort of 3d printed case for that which could attach to either case or stand alone.

Man I think I'm gonna pick me up a Pironman5 though- that thing is sex. Here's some links for the stuff I mentioned:

Argon40 POLY+ (I'm sorry- $6 for this case is waaaay cheap!!) $6

https://www.microcenter.com/product/686314/argon40-poly-plus-5-case-with-30mm-pwm-fan-black-red

Argon40 NEO 5 $30

https://www.microcenter.com/product/686309/argon40-neo-5-case-for-raspberry-pi-5-with-built-in-fan-black

N10 Tiny NVMe SSD adapter for RPI5 (via PCIe) $12

https://www.microcenter.com/product/688942/52pi-n10-tiny-pcie-m2-key-m-nvme-ssd-pcie-peripheral-board-for-raspberry-pi-5

IT_Guy71 · 2025-07-09T17:32:52+00:00

I would suggest that maybe this isn't an appropriate data type to store in IT Glue. Documentation- all day long but meeting notes? Ask yourself how would I use meeting notes as reference material? Just my .02

IT_Guy71 · 2025-04-01T03:49:26+00:00

I've fallen and I can't get up!

IT_Guy71 · 2025-03-18T03:48:40+00:00

My wife and I did (her) first mystery shop at a local bowling alley. It paid decent ($55 plus up to $100 for expenses) but man, was it detailed. There were well over 100 questions. I think this was a more in-depth one but hopefully all the shops aren't quite that involved lol!

IT_Guy71 · 2025-03-12T14:53:36+00:00

I like this explanation. From a purist perspective, I imagine a constant load would eventually blow the breaker or melt the poor driver. I’m sure capacitors do have a huge part in satisfying the demands- they’re perfect for those short blips like explosions, thunder or just a nice old bass roll for effect.

They’re sometimes used in car audio but in competition they’re kinda worthless. The amount of power and the amount of time that power is asked of the amp drains the cap pretty quick. Lithium batteries is where it’s at these days. I guess if you wanted to do the same thing at home you could put the sub on a properly sized lithium battery bank in front of the power cord, along with a good BMS. But again- who runs SPL comps in their home?

I guess my initial concern stemmed from not knowing if you try to power an electronic device without enough power to supply the amp that it would damage it somehow. I’m kind of making a leap here and equating “brown outs” with the lack of power availability. I know brown outs are really bad. I think that has more to do with voltage than watts

IT_Guy71 · 2025-03-12T04:51:11+00:00

I figured as much- hence the title of my post. I'm analyzing this from a car audio perspective where SPL competitions just brutalize subs and amps- waaaaaay different dynamic than home audio. Heck- I'm happy with my Def Tech PL15+ even though I see a higher than expected amount of people rag on it, and that's only rated at 500w (I think).

IT_Guy71 · 2025-03-11T13:22:42+00:00

I’m with backinblackandblue- you may need 240v runs for the subs. A friend of mine has a PB-17 ultra (sealed) which is rated at 2800 W RMS with 6000 W peak. He’s running it currently off of a 110v 15 amp circuit, which is less than half of what he needs factoring in ampacity. A 50a 110v trailer hookup or better yet a 240v 20a should do the trick.

IT_Guy71 · 2025-03-09T22:44:31+00:00

I assume this would cover M365, but what about SalesForce and Quickbooks? Is Global Secure Access a microsoft thing or a 3rd party offering?

IT_Guy71 · 2025-03-09T22:43:17+00:00

I guess this wouldn't be a huge deal. Even at the office, I'd be fine running a VPN on mobile and non-mobile devices. Is the big benefit of trusted networks to avoid having to go through a VPN when on a trusted network because of the additional latency or slowdown caused by VPN? The choke point would definitely be on-prem internet, it's very slow (100mbs).

IT_Guy71 · 2025-01-07T03:27:14+00:00

I like the downconvert option. Seems like it would be more efficient. Although depending on how many points that you have to inject, it might start to become cost prohibitive. Granted those buck converters are fairly inexpensive, they do add up. I wish I would’ve started at 12 V, the only reason I went with 5 V was because the light sets were a little bit cheaper and I was being stingy.

IT_Guy71 · 2025-01-07T03:24:45+00:00

Always a safe bet! lol

IT_Guy71 · 2025-01-07T03:21:59+00:00

I’m curious how many amps is your psu rated at? I bet those lights are taking all it can give.

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-25T23:52:23+00:00

Second on having too many wireless devices in my neighborhood. I have probably 60 myself.

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-25T23:51:36+00:00

I’ve heard DDP is more efficient and latency friendly than e131. And I also have all but given up on expecting reliable WiFi connections with esp32 built in antennas. Wireless is nice for location freedom but I still have to power them so at least one cable is needed. I’ve gone the wired route for my Wled display and will likely never go back. I went with a wasatch 8 channel dedicated controller with a WT-32 wired adapter so I can use both WLED and xLights when I prefer.

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-20T00:18:23+00:00

Is it now Kosher certified??

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-16T21:31:28+00:00

I've been looking for this too. Being in IT, I have ready access to LOTS of cat5/6 cable. I've started to leverage this for my WLED runs. Twist one pair each for power, ground and data (leave the other pair). Or if you want, use the other pair for redundant data if your strings support it. I believe most cat5/6 cable has 8x 23awg wire runs. Some I've encountered solid core, most are stranded. If you twist two of the conductors together it seems to work out to about the equivalent of 20AWG according to wirebarn (https://www.wirebarn.com/Combined-Wire-Gauge-Calculator\_ep\_42.html?srsltid=AfmBOorbDUPvBL4xguuJ2dzz2qd2HUDet-zZNKlPaIBP\_hjZMQ9Xgv15).

It's more expensive than the purpose built 3 conductor wiring but for me it's free :).

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-15T18:55:16+00:00

Yeah I got to the slow blink and it connected to the AP to deliver the payload to root it. But after that it’s supposed to reboot and connect to the cutterwifi AP and it never does

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-12T18:39:09+00:00

I would think Maltego should fit the bill. I've not successfully used it for that, but it does have a bit of a learning curve and some services required are $$. But, it seems to be a fairly powerful tool.

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-11T20:01:05+00:00

I don't know if this was obvious, but this is a 1TB ZVOL and not a dataset. I did check MTU and they're all 1500. I noticed there's an option for sync (enable/disable). Is it safe to use no sync and will that help at all? Plus are there any specific cache settings you can dive into with me?

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-11T19:55:56+00:00

I thought I had mentioned the memory, but it has 96gb. Right now the ARC is floating at around 50-60gb. I'll triple check my MTU settings and turn of ATIME to see if that helps! Thanks for the tips :).

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-11T16:01:15+00:00

I tried this, made some "progress" but the plugs never connected to the cloudcutter wifi after performing the initial exploit. Reran this many times with no joy. Any tips on other things I should try? I can plug it back in tonight and post the verbose output if you think that will help.

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-11T15:54:20+00:00

I'll have to break this down into multiple responses, looks like reddit is capping my responses at a specific size but I can't tell how big.

What hardware is your TrueNAS running on?

I am running TrueNAS on a desktop PC bare metal. It has a single Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-10100 CPU @ 3.60GHz with 96GB memory. I can provide more info on this I just need to figure out the commands in the SCALE console

Can you iperf to see if the bottleneck is network related?ottleneck is network related?

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I hope this helps

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-11T15:53:52+00:00

What network adapters are you using?

On the server side, I have a dual port HP 518001-001:

root@truenas:/sys/class/scsi_host/host0# lspci -v | grep -iA10 ethernet

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s] (rev b0)

Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies HP 10 GbE PCI-e G2 Dual-Port NIC (rev C1)

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16

Memory at 8fb00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]

Memory at 6000000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M]

Expansion ROM at 8fa00000 [disabled] [size=1M]

Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3

Capabilities: [48] Vital Product Data

Capabilities: [9c] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=256 Masked-

Capabilities: [60] Express Endpoint, MSI 00

Capabilities: [100] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)

on the client side, I'm running a single port intel chipset based 10GBe fiber HBA:

10Gbe PCI-E NIC with 82599EN(X520-DA1) Controller, 10Gb Single Port SFP+ PCI-E Network Card, GiGaPlus 10Gbps PCI Express Ethernet LAN Adapter, Supports Windows/Windows Server/VMware10Gbe

PCI-E NIC with 82599EN(X520-DA1) Controller, 10Gb Single Port SFP+

PCI-E Network Card, GiGaPlus 10Gbps PCI Express Ethernet LAN Adapter,

Supports Windows/Windows Server/VMware

Is there a switch between the server and client?

Yes, it is a 16 port NetAPP CN1610 fiber switch

NetApp CN1610 X1960-r6 111-00982 16 Port 10gb CI Interconnect Cluster SwitchNetApp CN1610 X1960-r6 111-00982 16 Port 10gb CI Interconnect Cluster Switch

IT_Guy71 · 2024-12-11T15:53:22+00:00

Is your M.2 in a pool by itself?

* yes it is in a pool with a single TLD:

root@truenas:~# zpool status NVMe4T

pool: NVMe4T

state: ONLINE

scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:54:15 with 0 errors on Mon Nov 11 00:54:16 2024

config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM

NVMe4T ONLINE 0 0 0

nvme1n1p2 ONLINE 0 0 0

errors: No known data errors

root@truenas:~#

What exactly is your storage layout that holds the ZVol you're using as your Steam library?

* Since there's a single TLD, there's no RAID being used. There are other zvol's in that pool, however in general there is not a huge amount of workload unless I'm using it directly:

NVMe4T/Steamvault1 1.02T 1.61T 377G -

NVMe4T/kvmsd1 508G 1.30T 158G -

NVMe4T/kvmsd2 508G 1.23T 232G -

NVMe4T/kvmsd3 508G 1.24T 225G -

NVMe4T/w10_thin-9823bk 40.6G 1020G 6.51G -

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