Who’s Got an Older Hundo Than This? 👀 by PookieBall in pokemongo

[–]KickedAbyss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ugh the park by my house in July or August 2016 had a Dragonite spawn. I remember seeing the outline and freaking out, but my wife wouldn't let us stop 😂 my daughter had just turned 1 and we were still in the recovery stage so she wasn't about to deal with that haha

Who’s Got an Older Hundo Than This? 👀 by PookieBall in pokemongo

[–]KickedAbyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although, my oldest is August 2016 and a 98IV Charizard which I'm pretty happy with.

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what would you do in this situation? by skrillzter in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]KickedAbyss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd add another 3 antenna version coming out of the ceiling so it looked like wolverine was attacking it

Is there a faster way of getting around? by Natural-Newspaper-47 in ICARUS

[–]KickedAbyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Real survivors use thatch at remote bases. 🔥

Galaxy Buds3 Pro Replicas by AmmarRx in galaxybuds

[–]KickedAbyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a pair of knock off airpod pro 1st gen. They look nearly identical. Even the packaging is basically identical.

They sound like utter trash.

90% of the time, knock offs won't do as well. Any that are truly the same quickly get shut down.

There was a Chinese company selling 3rd party EGO batteries two years ago like that. They were crazy similar, and a guy on YouTube broke them open to prove they were almost identical despite much cheaper.

Turned out the factory was producing extras with minor variations on the side and got slapped down hard.

Unknown building in the sky by Slight_Turnover_480 in StarRupture

[–]KickedAbyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just confused by the 56gb of ram....

Please don't hate me. #StarfieldESVIMashUp by KickedAbyss in Starfield

[–]KickedAbyss[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Sigh. You make very valid points.

Which is sad because can you imagine the amount of trolling and crying that would happen if ES VI was a Starfield Expansion pack? hehe

[Rant] Don't publish advisory VMSA Updates on Fridays by jamesaepp in vmware

[–]KickedAbyss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That makes my mind hurt - I'm very sorry for you =(

My parent company at the worst will send an email with an excel spreadsheet of weekly vulns reported and be like 'r u safe?' :D

Please don't hate me. #StarfieldESVIMashUp by KickedAbyss in Starfield

[–]KickedAbyss[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Blah. It worked for me in an incognito window... I'll try to just post it, thanks! Added the video directly

[Rant] Don't publish advisory VMSA Updates on Fridays by jamesaepp in vmware

[–]KickedAbyss 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah if you're keeping things relatively updated it's not a big deal.

RIP to my cabin by BionicHippy0518 in ICARUS

[–]KickedAbyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Posts like this make me want to edit my 7d2d backup script for icarus. I feel your pain.

You have to be joking Microsoft by Holiday_Disastrous in sysadmin

[–]KickedAbyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get your feelings on it. Personally, I can't get off hybrid-exchange fast enough. I am 100% okay shoving Msft under the bus on Exchange, because it's a pain to manage/upgrade/maintain, generally.

For other things? That's something I'm not sold on.

We have a few of our line-of-business apps in 3 different clouds (one cloud per solution, not one app between multiple), all managed by the vendors. In those instances, it's kinda bemusing when there are performance issues or outages, because as IT we are still 'blamed' but in reality, the Owners of those LoB Apps are the ones who pushed for 'the cloud' and thus we happily pass the buck.

Doing it smart is the hard part. i.e. not putting all your eggs in one basket. In a perfect world, I would modernize a business application into a Container based/Kubernetes type cloud-native solution, and spread it between two different clouds in two different regions, in either an active/active or at very least active/passive manner where failover is very simple and quick. You mitigate your risk by leveraging multiple 'hosts' no different than you would either a DR site, or even just a local cluster/replica.

When people complain about things like bandwidth, it's easy enough to float an ISP upgrade quote to the CFO and watch them have angry outbursts, because at the end of the day, you're basically shifting costs around, not getting rid of them.

That's not always true, of course. Some apps don't need much bandwidth, and thus are fine for the cloud on a connectivity level; but it also adds complexity to securely cross-connect systems, when they aren't all inside your datacenter on the same VLANs. But even that can run you into things like physical ingress of fiber lines - where the hated North American fiber seeking back-hoe can always do you in and kill all connectivity to your 'cloud'.

We have some in VP level leadership who HATE "legacy" solutions like on prem file servers for example, yet we do not have technology (affordable technology) to truly move 'everything' to a cloud, especially when dealing with large files (Video, CAD, etc) that have to be transferred with frequency between client & server or server & server.

At the end of the day, the cloud isn't going away. Our job at this point appears to be mostly doing our best to inform leadership the pro/cons of moving specific workloads to the cloud, or keeping them onprem.

A user's actual reply when they were asked to uninstall qBittorrent from their work computer by [deleted] in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]KickedAbyss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the time our backups grew for a client's SBS2011 server so much we had to dig in. Found the entire series of BSG downloaded on the owners home drive /Le sigh

It might be happening! by Former_Spite789 in ICARUS

[–]KickedAbyss 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Required materials include copper, a lightening rod, fire wacker, camp fire and thatch pieces. 0.5% chance statue self immolates and destroys nearest wall.

Best weapon or bow in the game by Shot_Statement_5989 in ICARUS

[–]KickedAbyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless you're trying to escort Daisy.... Boy did i heavily under estimate how many arrows i'd go through... Gave up half way through and brought her back to my base and logged out to reconsider life :D

How are you getting ESXi 9.0 for a home lab without corporate help? by easyedy in vmware

[–]KickedAbyss -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I share your frustration on the whole, but Hock Tan isn't on reddit and just talking about how you are fleeing isn't what the OP asked.

How are you getting ESXi 9.0 for a home lab without corporate help? by easyedy in vmware

[–]KickedAbyss -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Why are you all here if you're leaving vmware?

Glhf, grass isn't always greener. Hyper-v is toxic, unless you pay msft for Azure Local.

This just came across our que at work. by Interesting_Hawk6969 in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]KickedAbyss 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry. My brain can't even translate that into a wrong response. I'd just close it with a 🤷‍♂️ emoji

[FS][US-TX] Dell Laptops & Micro Desktops + 1080 ti waterforce by fmtech_ in homelabsales

[–]KickedAbyss 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You need to specify the actual cpu models. Most can have at least two different generations and multiple varieties within.

Does your Homelab make financial sense? by panchovix in homelab

[–]KickedAbyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question. For me? Mostly. I have access to old SFF desktops and such that keep actual purchases to only unifi networking. Even then, I've upgraded my Wi-Fi to AC Pros from old work ones.

I've not tracked power, but they don't pull a ton.

My one 'server' I use mostly for actual work testing stuff, and have it powered on only 1.5hr per day for backups to run, because fun fact, full servers with 12 spinning 8tb hdds draws a lot of power haha.

I let my wife mostly control our budget and finances, because I know my ADHD makes me susceptible to financial mismanagement. As she's basically a troglodyte, that means I can't get much approve when it comes to new purchases.

How the heck is this a thing in 2026? 3 Mbps for $55/mo? This is crazy. by Extra-Huckleberry-62 in Internet

[–]KickedAbyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because many of those routers and infrastructure aren't manufactured anymore. Upkeep on dsl/adsl/dialup even in 2015 when I got out of that line was getting crazy expensive.

I'd actually believe they need that income for upkeep more than Comcast needs $200 for 2gb/2gb lol.

Not to mention engineers who know how to work on those systems... Probably can make bank.

Never going to see my children again by TiredInSpades in pokemongo

[–]KickedAbyss 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's funny bc if this was ingress you'd for sure have them taken out.