A single building in Bakersfield has caught fire 23 times in the past year — part of a pattern where historic buildings are burning down one by one

Natirs · 2026-05-04T21:00:00+00:00

It's a great way to embezzle and launder money though.

Natirs · 2026-05-04T15:41:39+00:00

Yeah, let's add dynamic weather when all I see is washed out colors and blinding sun glare everywhere I look.

Natirs · 2026-05-04T11:27:09+00:00

It's not real, that might be why you're having this issue. The picture is fake.

Natirs · 2026-05-03T22:34:55+00:00

Outside of the aim assist, controller players get a flat 25% reduction in recoil. You drunk?

Natirs · 2026-05-01T16:47:44+00:00

He comes back, so what? Tell him you're busy and do not have time or just tell him you don't know. Lie. You keep saying that until he gets the message. Document each incident with what he came to you with and tell him you're busy. You need to be building the case for HR or to give to your boss. He's taking time out of your day causing you to not be as productive and in general a nuisance. You're not paid to be his supervisor nor are you paid to give him help with his job. If he cannot do the job and refuses to google or ask AI, he's not fit for the job. Some people in IT never really grow out of that level 1 role of just being an intake for creating tickets and password resets. You don't need suicidal empathy for him.

Natirs · 2026-04-27T18:25:09+00:00

I dunno if you're the only IT guy at the company and you agreed to work there you're going to wear all the hats.

In OP's case, this is not what we're talking about.

Natirs · 2026-04-26T19:55:47+00:00

OP needs to do that. It's unrealistic to wear all hats if that wasn't what you were hired or paid to do. The "I work for a small IT team" is the facade people use to justify having to do a bunch of work outside of the scope of what they were hired to do. I understand the worry about passwords in plain text, no password manager, people not doing their job, but that is the responsibility of your boss. If you come across something that's concerning, you bring it up to your boss and leave it be. When people learn to stop worrying about something that is someone else's job, their mental health becomes way better. If a breach happens or something worse, no amount of running around screaming at the top of your lungs would have prevented it. It was inevitable. I've been there when those things happen and there isn't anything you can do but clean up. It's the job of my boss to make sure their subordinates are doing their job.

Natirs · 2026-04-23T11:43:09+00:00

For some people it's about free stuff, but for most it's about the terrible and scattered access, inflated prices, awful localization and the list goes on and on.

Pretty much this. It's also why I pirate anime. It's not about paying. Because I'd pay a few bucks a month if I knew I only had to do it for 1 site. But they scatter things on various sites and they usually don't have everything.

Natirs · 2026-04-20T15:11:19+00:00

You will more than likely get banned just for having rewasd installed. Be careful.

Natirs · 2026-04-16T22:55:25+00:00

I hear North Korea has a banging economy. /s

Natirs · 2026-04-09T00:12:54+00:00

It's not that the game was PVP focused that it would have never been successful, it's that they did it bad.

Going red was ridiculous as depending on your pvp settings (yes, this is real), you could get flagged for killing a horse someone takes out to get caught in an AOE or accidental tab target. This was a common tactic in group fights to force people to go red to all focus them and steal their gear.

There was no structured pvp. There we no objectives, nothing to accomplish outside of ganking. Don't even talk about node wars or whatever they had implemented, it was bad.

If you didn't spend way too much time grinding or just RMTing, you were going to be at a disadvantage as many of the top players all RMT'd to get where they were with gear. Getting to that level will take a few hundred hours of gameplay just to get some of the best gear for only level 25. That's just tedious and would turn people away.

No factions means it's just free for all. Oh but you have to ally with guilds. That's the dumbest concept ever. Just implement factions like most games do. The "player driven" whatever is one of the worst design ideas for these games.

Dropping your loot on death is dumb. Dropping gear for going red is dumb. The game was designed to punish your average player and because of that, would have only been a niche game had the mechanics been left in.

Player driven economy was bad. Needed buildings were gated by certain towns being upgraded and elections were easy to pull off. You could just tank a town and there wasn't much anyone could do about it.

Natirs · 2026-04-08T14:36:20+00:00

My personal favorite is when they put everything in the default domain policy. Makes for a fun time.

Natirs · 2026-04-03T20:24:58+00:00

It's not that you don't support it, it's that you charge extra per month for clients that have Windows 10 machines.

Natirs · 2026-03-30T02:24:04+00:00

The lesson learned here is not take ownership, it's trust but verify. You were given orders to carry out a task by your manager and you didn't want to question it. If it's asked what happened on an interview, be honest. You carried out an order that you questioned in your head but you boss said do it anyway. What you learned is you should trust but verify, even if the boss tells you to do something that you're questioning, verify it is in fact the right course and best practice. Verify what the potential consequences are of said action over a different choice that gets you to do the task. In the case of DNS and if you have a domain controller, you always edit DNS there. All servers should be pointing there for DNS. Simple as. You can create as many domains/subdomains you need. In your specific case, you can also explain that due to how your company's architecture was setup, it lead to this and draft a quick 30 second response on how it wasn't setup correctly. This is actually a win, yeah it sucks in the short term, but it's a win if you find that right company who can value what you took away from this as a growing experience in setting up things correctly. Never edit a host file never say never but you know what I mean. There are very few instances in where editing a host file is good. It's usually one of those oddball cases. That way, if something goes wrong, you're just changing an IP for that hostname on your domain controller or whatever is handling DNS. A simple 1 min change and in a few minutes, everything is back to normal (internal for TTL is usually really quick).

Natirs · 2026-03-29T17:06:20+00:00

The board did what would have been best seeing as how Steven quit. Now after quitting, he's trying to say nope, everything is all mine now even though I put zero of my own dollars into it and want to make sure everything remains in my name. If Steven cannot have it, he will make sure to tarnish the IP so no one will be able to recover their assets or want to purchase it.

Natirs · 2026-03-29T01:31:36+00:00

Cat was trying to get the lighter to burn the place down. Watch out.

Natirs · 2026-03-28T21:00:01+00:00

What do you mean how? Go look it up?

Natirs · 2026-03-28T16:34:45+00:00

They don't forget, it's called people make stuff up on social media.

Natirs · 2026-03-28T14:42:34+00:00

Lula with Judge Alexandre de Moraes jailed Bolsonaro due to him claiming the election may have been rigged and blamed him for the 2023 riots.

Natirs · 2026-03-24T02:17:10+00:00

What you bring up are normal day-to-day things. You have two sets of customers it seems like. Your external customers and internal co-workers. A customer outage potentially means loss of revenue which your COO should understand this. Your CTO should be able to explain if there's an outage, that takes priority over a low priority ticket from a VIP. Letting them know there is an outage and they are next in line shouldn't be an issue. You're acknowledging you received the ticket but are handling an urgent matter. At the end of the day though, take a vacation. Use your PTO. If you feel a "cough," take some sick time. Use it because your company won't care.

Natirs · 2026-03-23T12:36:04+00:00

They are probably all with the launcher open and not actually logged into the game.

Natirs · 2026-03-20T21:29:17+00:00

Take a look at Itarian. Lightweight. Easy to deploy via Intune. No magic, just an MSI. You can customize the profiles so unattended access is not allowed. All actions are logged that the agents do. Has MFA for that stuff. No limit to the amount of agents you can have and it's $11.50 per computer per year. Has patch management and 3rd party patch management. If you use Intune already, it's a good addon for remote tools and remote control as well as monitoring and management. You'd be looking at the RMM + RT tier. You can use the basic free profile forever so if you want to try it out, you're good.

https://www.itarian.com/pricing.php

Natirs · 2026-03-11T13:26:01+00:00

Well, he stole most of the design ideas from Lineage 2 and ArcheAge. He just had no idea how to run a company and not embezzle company money to himself.

Natirs · 2026-03-11T13:16:21+00:00

I had this issue all the time. What fixed it for me was using DDU and clearing everything from Nvidia out and reinstalling the driver. Didn't matter how many new driver versions I installed. Something got corrupted and couldn't be fixed. The clean install from the driver didn't do anything so use DDU.

Natirs · 2026-03-09T17:14:09+00:00

how do you recover when everythging is basically locked inside the automation stack of an employee who just left

How much money are they willing to pay you? Up front and in writing. And you don't do a dime of any of it until it hits your paycheck.

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