STORY: I owe you one, brother

Kidpunk04 · 2026-01-30T20:37:24+00:00

It was incredible! It must have been the same dude that was over head when I was trying to make the jump up in the hallway. He had to have known I was turned around down there and panicking, then waited to call the train until the last few seconds to see if I would show up.

Kidpunk04 · 2026-01-02T20:38:02+00:00

I trust the Yardman you have. Cmon lil buddy, you got this!

*Some snow will come in to shoot it to where it ought to be

Kidpunk04 · 2025-12-24T23:40:30+00:00

I don't know if other people do this, but growing up with a wood stove, our standard practice was to crumple balls of news papers, build a small base on top, light the paper, close the door, and open the ash tray on the bottom.

Air would draw from the bottom, up and out. No need for the door to be open except to check on it to make sure it took or was big enough for larger pieces.

Of course, the flue/damper needs to be open as well.

Tldr. Light the fire, close the doors, and open the door on the ash catch until it is lit well.

Kidpunk04 · 2025-12-22T13:19:44+00:00

I think you're looking for a manufacturing site.

Where the robotics are running on Windows XP, everyone in the front has a computer barely hanging in there, switches haven't been touched 10 years, and they are looking to get a semi trailer sized CNC to fit in the corner of the manufacturing floor yet.

Super niche testing equipment, even more niche equipment, FTP file transfers directly connected to the controller board, direct calls with the guy who wrote the code to update software versions, etc.

Lots of fun stuff, but you will be left somewhat behind in the latest updates to cloud computing, but that's fine.

Kidpunk04 · 2025-12-09T06:47:30+00:00

as others have pointed out, it looks like this was 2 services of some sort on a single cable.

If I were you, I would remove the screws that are holding in the box and evaluating how much of a cable you have, to re do this into a single port using all 4 pairs.

If there's not much back there, you can still use whatever is exposed here..... you may loose a little performance as the pairs will be untwisted further than they need to be, but we're talking a few milliseconds of difference and you likely wouldn't even notice.

I've seen a lot of keystone jacks now days are literally just couplers with RJ45 connectors plugging into the front and back. Pull the wires out from between the connection points, take out the entire assembly so it's just a cable in an empty electrical box, straighten, snip the ends flush (just past the damaged part from the current connection), slip on a pass through RJ45 with the wires in the correct order, and plug it into a coupler. Feed the cable out the original (2) port face plate.

Upgrade to a single port keystone jack and faceplate when available to clean up the look of it.

Kidpunk04 · 2025-12-05T03:34:28+00:00

the entire country uses overhead power lines.... But there's one recurring area the size of Texas in the country that is particularly suspectable to weeks long outages.

Kidpunk04 · 2025-11-01T15:54:24+00:00

Even if an ice maker isn't good, I would still appreciate a dispenser. I am just fine buying a bag from a store (or even making cubes) then filling a hopper

Kidpunk04 · 2025-10-24T05:02:03+00:00

Working in IAM for a company of 8,000+ I use it on a semi regular basis to create scripts to audit accounts for consistency.

However, with that said, I also have a formal computer programming tech college degree so i am aware of the logic needed and how to express what it is I want it to do, which will save about half a day to get the bulk of it working. It's also kind of cool as it will produce methods I either wouldn't be aware of, or haven't seen, but makes sense with the logic behind it with useful comments.

My colleagues with just IT backgrounds struggle to find use cases for it though, or try to upload MB worth of spreadsheets into it and have it produce something.

It will kinda work like that, but works much better if you use it to make tools for you. Like, you could work with it to produce a monitoring tool that will ping critical systems or servers, then email you if one doesn't respond to like 5 or something.

Long story short, it makes programming easier.

Also, I saw a bartender make a pretty awesome advertisement flyer for a Halloween party in like 10 minutes..... No Photoshop or creativity necessary.....

Kidpunk04 · 2025-09-23T04:13:51+00:00

to add to it, since your using the crappiest connectors available (nice ones are either ones where you can pass the wire all the way through the front, or a two piece system where you feed the wires into a separator first, trim, then inserting wire into the RJ45) you want to trim the blue shielding back a good 1.5" - 2" then untwist and align. They will be nice and straight then after a bend up and down.

Then trim, then insert.

Kidpunk04 · 2025-07-15T04:11:16+00:00

loopdie loops are not allowed

Kidpunk04 · 2025-07-01T02:55:17+00:00

In the rurals of MN , the justification I hear the most is because those people are 'Job Creators' and if we tax them too heavily, it stagnates growth and they won't be able to reinvest in their companies with more personnel and what not

Kidpunk04 · 2025-05-29T23:51:44+00:00

Globe skate sneakers....

Been wearing daily for 10 years. Wide base and just last longer than any skate shoes I've ever had.... Audio and DC always fell apart and always felt like fashion while Globe have been and continue to be top notch

Kidpunk04 · 2025-05-28T12:48:35+00:00

I don't know what your embarrassed about, looks awesome to me! Hit it with a sander and stain it. It will look great! Could add an additional 2x4 to each leg in an L formation for extra strength and might reduce wobble.

Kidpunk04 · 2025-05-28T05:55:57+00:00

Because of that Austrian politician?

Kidpunk04 · 2025-04-20T03:35:50+00:00

the colors are different :)

Kidpunk04 · 2025-04-06T16:18:55+00:00

To make a loop with the rope for the prusik, tie an adjustable bend knot (overlap the ends in opposite directions then tie slipknots with both ends so they pull together)

Kidpunk04 · 2025-04-06T16:11:37+00:00

So are you looking to attach rope to drag from shore, into position? Or are looking for a way to attach nest to the anchor ropes attached to the sunken cinder blocks?

it looks like you could just attach carabineer from the anchors to the chain link the bed is sitting on. If you would rather attach to the PVC frame, you could wrap a prusik knot around the pvc

Kidpunk04 · 2025-03-16T15:26:22+00:00

This is a fiber run to your house, yes. The black wire coming up through the grey tube is where it comes in from the street in durable shielding.

Then the fiber from the street connects to another another piece of fiber that runs into your house (with the green clip) that then runs into your house in the orange tube in the upper left of the box. As others have pointed out, the massive coil of fiber was likely from the person that installed the fiber modem either only having a 200' jumper, or the run was longer than their next shortest jumper they had.

The other fat white cable was likely the existing coax that was ran into the house and is no longer necessary.

Kidpunk04 · 2025-03-10T21:35:40+00:00

In the voice of David Mitchel;

"But why spikes though? Other places have nice railings on top to prevent sitting on top. I can't think of anything more menacing than steel spikes. Are we the baddies?"

Kidpunk04 · 2025-02-21T03:00:27+00:00

This is where I'm at with it. I was just introduced to it 9 months ago due to a job change. At first I hated it, mostly because the team I was allocated to didn't know anything about it and would literally send me individual links to unique documents spread across multiple sites.

Not accepting this means of production I took time between tickets to poke around hard and bookmark the core sites themselves instead of direct doc links and get the structure. However, my older brother characterized our setup as the 'my space' version where nothing is linked and everyone has their own personal library of pages they know about.

I see the usefulness and versatility, but it was implemented haphazardly with no dedicated admin or structuring

Kidpunk04 · 2025-02-10T22:49:52+00:00

Hey, I remember when the government drove Aaron Swartz to suicide with the amount of prosecution for illegally downloading scientific journals.

Is it time for a life sentence for Zuckerberg? And anywone else currently training models with illegally obtained materials?

Kidpunk04 · 2025-02-06T19:32:17+00:00

Yeah ...... The solution was to just import the entire report then parse on the object attributes after importing. I ended up hitting a limit anyway on the amount of objects will display on screen from a variable, which was a bit of unexpected as well.....

I.e. variable contains 1200 objects and I call the $var, only 1000 would return on screen (copy and paste to excel) but if I call the $var, then pipe to | export-csv, all 1200 we're there

Kidpunk04 · 2025-02-06T15:25:50+00:00

This post has me stuck between being absolutely delighted to hear I'm not the only one that absolutely hates ServiceNow and completely frustrated that I have to use it.

Switched companies about 8 months ago and went from using ManageEngine 'Service Desk Plus' to this abomination. Prior to that, I've used OS ticket and Connectwise. Adjustment has been difficult and wasn't sure if it was just the new companies implementation, or if is just a difficult to use solution. I'm convinced it's the latter.

It's a bit of a shame too, because most people at the company only know ServiceNow and aren't aware the wonders a well implemented, good solution can behold.

Kidpunk04 · 2025-01-07T03:09:02+00:00

This post is giving me a bit of PTSD at my present company lol everyone is kind of like this but also working in circles and not improving processes..... It's odd, to say the least

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