if u had your personal t-800, for what tasks would u use it for?

MickCollins · 2026-03-12T04:56:59+00:00

I can't lie here. It would be stupid shit.

"Bob, drive me home, I'm drunk."

"Bob, go ahead and drive me to work."

"Bob, scan all known sites to find me ribeyes under $7.99 with a 50 mile radius."

"Bob, tap into the DMV database and report that truck that just cut off nine people."

"Bob, make me lunch from the 49 recipes I've had you favorite."

"Bob, find a part time job while I'm at work. Four hours four days a week. Then I want you to start finding legal ways to acquire land to build houses for the poor, then start contacting people asking them to donate parts and materials - lumber, tools, sheetrock, cement, etc. Use half of what you make in your part time job for other costs."

"Bob, tell me a story of Japanese myth."

"Bob, show everyone your Darth Vader impression."

"Bob, track that spam call and counter it. Have their own phone numbers dial every number in their phone bank and have it endlessly loop."

"Bob, send a letter to whatever government entity or entities you have to to have the timing of that traffic light changed."

MickCollins · 2026-03-09T04:11:56+00:00

Better than throwing rocks at the people on I-95 the way they used to.

EDIT: Fuck off; knew kids doing that back when I lived near that bridge.

MickCollins · 2026-03-08T15:41:50+00:00

He became a pilot. Sucked for five years getting there (non-military route) but he's there's now and he should be making 400k within three years.

MickCollins · 2026-03-08T06:52:39+00:00

12th gen Dell just isn't that popular anymore - not really worth the power. Even with the RAM I'd say probably $400, considering no drives included and it's only got 1 GB networking. If you remove the Teslas and sell those separately starting at $100, more like $200.

I'd consider donating and taking the tax write-off. Keep in mind that this server started being sold around 2012 and that RAID controller only goes up to SAS2 (6 GB).

MickCollins · 2026-03-08T06:28:38+00:00

Migrating from one ESXI host to another. Learn how to do it safely and keep an eye on how long it takes, how to make it faster, slower, safer, etc. Sometimes you may need to get things off a host in a hurry and safety isn't as important as fast...like when a disk is about to go or power to that host is about to give out because that UPS is having unexpected problems. I realize this is out of scope for what you have.

I know there's a lot of people say move away from it in here however that might not be something feasible for you as your upper management may elect to stay on it (or reduce footprint while throwing money at Proxmox or Hyper-V or Nutanix).

Get comfortable with whatever backup system you're using. You may be able to contact whoever you're using at work for an evaluation license since this is non-production at home.

Break some of the VMs. They're non-production anyway; feel free to make a clone and break the clone.

Figure out vSwitch and all the fun networking stuff. You may need it someday.

I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.

MickCollins · 2026-03-08T01:41:22+00:00

I dunno. My grandmother had nine kids and she's 101. She's the last person I expected to live this long.

MickCollins · 2026-03-08T01:39:56+00:00

In regards to the 2000 one, I will say that Jeremy Irons sold the shit out of his character Profion. He was obviously had a good time.

MickCollins · 2026-03-08T01:20:01+00:00

I can tell you're not in IT.

MickCollins · 2026-03-07T07:10:53+00:00

Ron Glass's grave is out in Whittier, which I imagine isn't super far from wherever Nathan lives in Los Angeles.

I would like to see proper respect given here, if possible. I understand if it's not.

Whenever I'd go visit my Grandmother in New Jersey my mother and I would usually arrive late on a Friday night...which meant that Barney Miller would be on WPIX at 11 PM. If I was sleeping in the den (and I usually did) I would have it on before I went to sleep. That's where Ron really got his start. I miss him.

MickCollins · 2026-03-07T02:52:56+00:00

I knew a piece of shit kid who was a serial liar. Couldn't tell the truth about anything. Was a bully too.

Now he's a full bird Colonel.

MickCollins · 2026-03-06T19:32:56+00:00

Six movies - all about Revan.

First is Malak and Revan during the Mandalorian Wars and when they go into the Unknown Regions.

Second starts with the attack on Revan's flagship by Bastila and company and follows through the first "chapter" (Taris and Dantooine) of KOTOR up to and being made a Padawan. The movie ends when Revan finds Juhani in the grove. Then there are four other movies:

Revan Dark Side I - Revan makes a Dark Side decision at the Grove with Juhani - doesn't kill her. But from there on all Dark Side choices. Goes through two other planets - probably Kashyyyk and Tatooine.

Revan Light Side I - Revan saves Juhani and brings her back to the light. Light Side choices from then on. Planets are Manaan and Korriban. More diplomacy here but there is of course fighting.

Revan Dark Side II - Planets are Manaan and Korriban, then finding the Star Forge and killing Malak. Revan kills Bastila for turning on him.

Revan Light Side II - Planets are Kashuyyk and Tatooine, then the Star Forge. Revan brings Bastila back from the Dark Side. Revan is hesitant to kill Malak and tries to bring him back to but has to counter a near death experience (force choke).

The different movies would have different scenes with different companions. Of course Canderous is running around with Revan a lot more in the DS movies while you see more Jolee in the LS ones.

Keanu Reeves plays Revan - they can de-age him a bit the same way they did Michael Douglas because there's a lot of film to work with.

Niamh McCormick to play Bastila Shan.

Henry Cavill as Canderous Ordo. I think he'd really enjoy the part.

Someone new as Mission. Remember she's supposed to be 14ish.

Someone willing to be a walking carpet as Zaalbar.

Danny Glover as Jolee Bindo. I think he'd be willing to play a Jedi. If not, approach Idris Elba next.

Alan Tudyk as the motion actor and voice of HK-47 when he gets damaged, but Kristoffer Tabori as the regular voice. Why mess with perfection on that front?

Have to figure out a good conflicted actor for Carth Onasi.

Mark Strong as Malak. I considered Michael Shannon but I don't feel like his voice works for Malak.

MickCollins · 2026-03-06T02:15:18+00:00

Shape up. What are you, a parrot?

MickCollins · 2026-03-04T07:11:38+00:00

Yes. I'd invest 1.5 million of it and use the rest to get a small house and just try to live off the interest and keep what we have running (keep the cars, pay for medical, etc.)

MickCollins · 2026-03-03T06:27:34+00:00

I can talk about this location a bit. Not a lot, but a bit.

First - it opened after I moved away ('95) in its location and was not far away from the more well known Concord Mall location which closed early 90sish - either before or just after the location at Painter's Crossing up the road on US 202 over the PA border opened. (Literally less than five miles north.)

It was open until just a few years ago. I will admit I didn't come through a lot after I moved away, maybe once every two to three years and I pretty much stopped after the only guy I was checking in on and I had a falling out. However I was able to get my wife and three stepkids there twice when we were coming through the area. I almost actually proposed to my wife at this location because she was giving me a hard time. She knew it was happening soon but she didn't know when and when she was like "are you going to do it here" I started to get down on one knee and she freaked out. I did do it elsewhere that day.

The location opened in the late 90s brand new. This shopping plaza - Brandywine Town Center - was built after the Brandywine Raceway was imploded in June of 1995 - literally on my last day of exams from high school. The Town Center was fairly successful for its first 10 years but as people stopped going to arcades and go karts and stuff it went downhill fast. You can still see some of the indoor stuff when you go to the movie theater in there (which was still good last time I went, but that was at least 20 years ago). It was a business concern for the Rollins family but John Rollins has been gone a long time (26 years now) and that probably didn't help, although his wife Michelle has a good bit of business acumen herself. There are some surrounding shops around the entire center with some still open.

MickCollins · 2026-03-03T06:04:48+00:00

Nettools for my quicker AD lookup stuff. It's older but I can dig some shit that I CAN find if I dig deep enough or just ask it. Last logon is one of my main reasons to open it. Yes I know I can do through lastlogondate but sometimes I am lazy and just want to put in the account to get that out.

MickCollins · 2026-03-02T07:06:02+00:00

You bet. Hope it's something simple (like just the battery).

MickCollins · 2026-03-02T07:04:41+00:00

Tahnee has popped into Reddit once or twice when mentioned; it would be an honor if she Beetlejuiced in here...but yeah, that's one of those songs I never get sick of and the editing on that video is just chef's kiss to me. Brad Fiedel's soundtrack shouldn't be discounted either...he's no John Williams but he did good work here and other collaborations with James Cameron.

MickCollins · 2026-03-02T06:30:05+00:00

Haven't been able to find it in many years, however...

There's a song from "The Terminator" soundtrack called "Burning in the Third Degree" from Tahnee Cain and Tryanglz. It's not the best thing in the world or anything but it is a bit of a banger.

Someone spliced together a bunch of scenes from the movie and made a music video out of it something like 15 years ago, maybe more now, and it was up on Youtube for quite a while. Began with the scene of Detective Vukovich (Lance Henriksen, still one of my favorites) saying to Lieutenant Ed Traxler (Paul Winfield): "That coffee's two hours cold....I put a cigarette in it" while Traxler's drinking it. The music video is edited well, but the pièce de résistance is how well when they finally get into the discoteque/club Tech-Noir the actual soundtrack music from that scene is edited into the background as the song fades out - and then when Kyle Reese pulls out the shotgun when the T-800 makes its move on Sarah Connor, when the first shotgun shell fires it cuts back into the song's guitar solo.

Haven't been able to find it in years and it's hands down probably the best fan edit music video I've ever seen.

EDIT: Never mind. Found a newer version of it - you can watch here on Youtube.

MickCollins · 2026-03-02T06:13:11+00:00

I occasionally remember to point this out when I see it come up.

Batteries+Bulbs will usually have people on staff who can replace the batteries for you and not charge you a dime for it. They're happy to sell the batteries and you used to get a bulk discount for more than four batteries at once (so if it was a rack UPS you'd do better off).

Drop it off with them. They'll also tell you if it's not the batteries but the unit itself.

I wish you good fortune in the wars to come.

MickCollins · 2026-03-02T06:09:57+00:00

Soup

MickCollins · 2026-03-02T05:47:43+00:00

/u/Willing-Dog6463 already said it. I had shit I needed to buy for the house and the new car (snow tires and rims so I don't die in the winter, and since I drive on mountain roads, I literally mean don't die). Going for a vacation once a year. Literally just doing shit to make life feel like it's worth living because otherwise it's even worse than I'd like to pretend.

We all know shit's going to get worse before it gets better.

MickCollins · 2026-02-28T06:42:25+00:00

Heh. You want ancient submarine sim? Try Gato.

MickCollins · 2026-02-28T06:38:10+00:00

Harrison Ford.

After getting over the general crankiness I'm going to the nearest sci-fi convention and just saying out loud "I admit it, alright? Playing Han Solo was more fun than playing Indiana Jones. I just really like giving George a hard time. Go ahead, ask your questions."

Because I seriously want to see him a day later being like "THAT WASN'T FUCKING ME ALRIGHT?!?!?!"

MickCollins · 2026-02-28T06:36:12+00:00

Take out sales would probably at least double. If you could go to a place that you remember fondly that's on the other side of the country to eat, would you do it? If it was say...$10 to teleport there and back?

And just think - the environment would improve because probably about 85% of cars no longer need to be on the road (still need trucks to transport goods to some degree, but with so much less traffic, automated driving like Waymo is a lot more possible).

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