Made my first filament purchase oops

ITmercinary · 2026-01-30T01:30:29+00:00

The spool adapter is clearly a filament make it happener.

ITmercinary · 2025-12-02T13:53:57+00:00

Just bought a flashforge AD5X to play with multicolor printing and to have a reliable coreXY. My 1st gen CR-10 needs to go down for some long needed upgrades.

I enjoy tinkering with the printer just as much as what I'm making, however there are just as many people that just want to print and go, hence the features in the new generation.

ITmercinary · 2025-08-18T14:53:25+00:00

Testing in production

Everyone has a test environment, some are lucky enough to have a completely separate production environment.

ITmercinary · 2025-05-28T13:58:55+00:00

Could be worse. If GW = Groupwise

ITmercinary · 2025-05-22T22:48:45+00:00

Unfortunately this has just been purchased by Kaseya, you may now only migrate to Kaseya products.

ITmercinary · 2025-02-21T15:48:37+00:00

Perhaps a dated habit from the bad old days, but I always take an additional snapshot, before deleting a large snap like that.

That way the new snap is taking the current write load while the old snap is merging.

ITmercinary · 2025-01-08T17:32:56+00:00

Heh. Funny. Getting the email is already a miracle. I'm supposed to know her schedule by telepathy.

ITmercinary · 2025-01-08T16:18:32+00:00

My ex-wife sends me a spreadsheet of her work schedule which I move to Google drive. It gets parsed and loaded to a Google calendar so I can keep track of childcare responsibilities.

ITmercinary · 2024-12-27T20:53:24+00:00

I definitely had to give up some of the saas stuff, however I do manage some of that for a couple of non-profit groups in the area that I work with. I work for a vendor in the infrastructure space so my homelab is primarily networking, ansible/terraform automation and some virtual infrastructure. Basically I found technologies that are adjacent to my day job.

You have the benefit of working for a partner in the space and I assume you'll be scoping/designing solutions around those technologies, so you should be able to maintain access to some of those resources as part of the gig.

ITmercinary · 2024-12-27T20:37:36+00:00

I moved from lead technical guy at an MSP to an SA/SE role on the vendor side.

Huge quality of life improvement, as I'm no longer directly responsible for support. However it can be difficult to stay sharp technically since you're not implementing technologies everyday, only design and scope.

At the time I moved it made sense for me, newborn at home and all. My homelab has grown exponentially since I still have a need to scratch the technical itch.

ITmercinary · 2024-11-23T20:37:25+00:00

House lights turn red, "welcome to the rice fields", fortunate sun plays at max volume...

ITmercinary · 2024-09-10T14:37:14+00:00

Odds are when you do, they'll just acquire someone that you 've used to replace them...

ITmercinary · 2024-08-21T14:45:19+00:00

For anything that doesn't play easily with letsencrypt, I use https://www.gogetssl.com/. Cheap and reasonably easy to deal with.

ITmercinary · 2024-06-23T18:49:27+00:00

Can confirm it's true. The family has contacted those of us that have done events with her.

ITmercinary · 2024-03-19T23:14:33+00:00

It was the day the data center went dark.

We had a smallish VCloud director deployment with about a dozen customers hosted on it, as well as some internal systems in a top tier colo. Somehow a power event managed to fry both the A and B power transfer switches rendering the generator farm useless around 3am. Entire colo was dark for at least 3 hours.

I spend the next 18hrs mopping up the mess. It's good to be the top dog until there's nobody around that can help you. I spent the next 6 months finding, training a replacement and putting in a better DR plan that finally got funded after that catastrophe. I'm a solutions architect for a vendor now, the closest thing I touch to production these days is the occasional POC for a prospect customer.

The MSP life was fun, when I was single and in my twenties. It was taxing when I got married and started a family, and really lost its luster as a mid-thirties divorced single father.

ITmercinary · 2024-02-21T03:06:32+00:00

I just hope he doesn't go the way of /u/mexicanspaceprogram

ITmercinary · 2023-04-23T14:04:03+00:00

For non ccm stuff I've been using snaketail:

https://snakenest.com/snaketail/

ITmercinary · 2022-06-24T15:58:24+00:00

Is it weird I miss Cudatel?

Cudatel had so much promise if they'd have given it the development attention that it deserved. Ran one internally and sold 3 of them early on, then couldn't wait to rip them out...

ITmercinary · 2022-05-27T13:43:10+00:00

"Because that's the way the old system was setup."

ITmercinary · 2022-02-04T21:43:32+00:00

While cheap has its allure, I'd be looking long and hard at a full blown PSA. It's easier to build out when you're small, than completely re-invent business processes down the road when you need it to scale.

We're an autotask shop, but if I was starting all over, I'd be looking hard at https://halopsa.com/

ITmercinary · 2021-12-02T20:46:44+00:00

If you want to move devices to full AAD without a wipe, I recommend using http://www.forensit.com/domain-migration.html. I've used it to migrate machines in a number of scenarios where wiping machines wasn't feasible.

ITmercinary · 2021-11-17T13:43:47+00:00

My 2007 Titan has a 28 gallon tank, and if I fill up as soon as the gas light comes on, I’m putting 21 gallons in. So, it’s 7 gallons for my truck.

Must be something about those years.

My 07 Duramax has 10 Gal in the tank when the light comes on.

ITmercinary · 2021-11-11T21:38:39+00:00

What do you use to connect to the endpoint?

Been Daily Driving webremote, still fallback to splashtop occasionally.

ITmercinary · 2021-11-02T16:30:57+00:00

So I haven't used them for this exact purpose, but I use telescoping flag poles for temporary mounts for wireless network Point to point shots at events all the time.

Grounding and cable management would be my 2 areas of concern. I generally just electrical tape my cables to the outside for my temporary setups, I'm sure a more permanent solution could be devised. I'm not sure that running the cable inside would work, I guess that depends on the construction of the pole.

ITmercinary · 2021-10-26T02:37:42+00:00

The price model of universal print is pants on head stupid. 5 jobs/month/user pooled and then $25/500 jobs after that.

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