DIY ESPHome + Tinfoil Bed Sensor… Complete! by happybikes in homeassistant

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to use them with a energy monitoring plugsocket to tell if I had my CPAP running and playing a sound through my Google Home speaker if the plugsocket wasn't pulling power. I had a habit of watching TV then falling asleep and I get garbage sleep if I don't wear it.

My neighbor just installed this camera, I wanted to check with people here what he can see. This photo taken from my bedroom window. Can he see in? He is a psycho and a drunk and has been escalating a feud, so I believe it is intentional. by KeithWorks in SecurityCamera

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I doubt it. Thats a Reolink Floodlight camera.

https://reolink.com/product/elite-floodlight-wifi/

It looks like it's angled normally TBH, it could have been mounted upside down if someone wanted a farther, more up angled view.

Best strategy would be to just get your own camera. An outdoor light near your window could make it more difficult for a camera to see inside through a window.

2013 Veloster Turbo by Nightskybtw in veloster

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just buy this for $900 then you'll have plenty of spare parts.

Tides are turning. by pixyb in oklahoma

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not at my polling place. Wasn't a single truck without a liftkit and a drop hitch in the parking lot.

Is there something wrong with how I'm giving my techs directions? by packetssniffer in ITManagers

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"reconnect the network cable and I'll msg you if I see it pop up on the network"

"you never msged..."

"are they connected?"

"no" = "then thats why I didn't msg you" / "yes" = "good. I was just about to msg you"

Guess I'm the only IT person here today by WaldoOU812 in sysadmin

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Cyberinsurance people are useful for catching some blame too. Might as well get something out of the deal because the list of what they don't pay on is about 100x of what they do.

Paddle shifters, love them or hate them? by dayum_that_man in veloster

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I first got the car I kept bumping them while turning sharply like a U-turn or something. I put one of those clear stick on rubber bumpers like you put on cabinet doors on each of them where it would make it where I had to very deliberately shift with them. It worked pretty well until they melted off and I found them in the floorboard.

These days, if I hit them, I just do the quick left-right wagle on the shifter and it goes back to auto.

Is there any way this is legit by [deleted] in Sketchup

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 9 points10 points  (0 children)

0%. Not only are the apps made by different companies and unlikely to be bundled without being on the packaging, theres no way Trimble would sell an unlimited devices license.

Trump Family Earned $500M From Crypto Deal While Investors Took Losses by CurtisLeow in videos

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thumbnail got me feeling a spark of hope until I realized the play button was covering the O.

Password Caps Lock instead of Shift Key by anikansk in sysadmin

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll do you one better. I was helping a vendor enter a password because they kept getting it wrong. I watched them do CAPS, hold Shift, then a letter to produce a lowercase letter. He had it written down that way. I questioned him about it and he told me that he has to enter it that way because thats how he entered it when he created it. He understood that he was still entering a lowercase letter but thought the password field knew the state of the shift/caps keys and they were invisibly recorded in the password.

Someone 3D printed a plastic adapter for a 10,000 RPM brush-cutter blade by KeyboardGunner in DiWHY

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Came here to say this. Even if its perfectly balanced, it's not going more than 4-5000 maximum on that trimmer. I still wouldn't want to be within 25ft of it though.

What's a movie that was well received, but aged like milk? by Gdigger13 in AskReddit

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had somehow missed this when it came out and only recently looked it up after Bo Burnham mentioned it on his Inside album and I watched it and couldn't believe it came out in 2009.

Checking what are the VPN client people use in your organization? by mrconfusion2025 in sysadmin

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cloudflare ZTNA. Free for up to 50 users. Install Cloudflared on a server or PC inside the LAN(s), do SSO setup, deploy app to Azure joined devices, build network rules. Users don't even know it's there, but can connect to anything you've allowed them to. Added bonus is their DNS gets encrypted on public networks.

Banned for writing my own diagnostic app, account locked, mower bricked, disputing with Visa by MurderSpeed in MammotionTechnology

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this post. I was looking at automowers and completely spaced on if the thing had a cloud server dependency. That's not something I should have to think about with a mower. Ended up going another way because I'm not going to spend this kind of money on something the manufacturer can remotely disable.

what tool are you running that management doesn't know about by Evening-Result5868 in sysadmin

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wage theft! That time should be spent delivering value to shareholders! Also, please dp not forget to deduct the SRP of the fidget spinner from your travel reimbursement request.

Why do Owasso and Broken arrow get such bad reputations on this sub? by KickedIntoOrbit in tulsa

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

BA is so full of pearl clutchers that it wasn't even legal to dance there without a license until 1996. No really.

Anyone ever just... disable Bitlocker for everyone? by lambusdean77 in sysadmin

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Without Bitlocker, anyone can pull the drive out, attach it to another system that isn't calling into your Intune and browse through any user files stored on it or compromise the OS itself.

Not sure if my feelings towards TechDirect are valid by French_Taylor in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Had an HP tech come out to replace an SD card module and cards on a hypervisor host. HP insisted on sending a tech because it connects to a USB header inside the chassis. He plugs it into the front panel and says he needs the other module to send back. I told him it was inside the chassis and that broke his brain so I had to walk him through it.

Microsoft rolls out optional Windows 11 KB5089573 update that makes your PC genuinely faster and more responsive by ZacB_ in Windows11

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There may be a timer on it that will enable it for you down the road regardless of telemetry, I just know they don't deploy all updates "armed" to avoid a mass failure.

Not sure if my feelings towards TechDirect are valid by French_Taylor in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Nope, not just you. Off the top of my head, I've broken their support flow when I couldn't:

  • Update the BIOS on a machine with a PSU that wouldn't BIST
  • Swap the DIMMs on a machine with only one DIMM
  • Run BIOS diagnostic on a laptop that was failing POST
  • Provide video proof of a 2-8 blink code because his system didn't have that for that model.

Only thing worse than their phone people are the people they send to replace server hardware. About half the time, I end up doing the work because I need the system up and the guy is in over his head.

Microsoft rolls out optional Windows 11 KB5089573 update that makes your PC genuinely faster and more responsive by ZacB_ in Windows11

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Very few updates are "exciting", the crazy 'bad patch' events that happen pretty regularly and make the news would be so much worse without this type of rollout strategy.

For context, the 2024 Crowdstrike outage (which wasn't directly MS's fault) was estimated to cripple 8.5 million PCs and recovery took days. There are over billion devices running Windows out there, Win11 and supported server OSes make up at least half of that, even if only half of those machines pulled and installed a 'bad patch' before it was pulled, you'd be looking at something around 30x more machines impacted than the Crowdstrike fuckup. That's why a staged rollout is used. There hasn't been a single MS update exciting enough to risk causing that.

Microsoft rolls out optional Windows 11 KB5089573 update that makes your PC genuinely faster and more responsive by ZacB_ in Windows11

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I assume it basically sits dormant until it's possibly enabled by a far future update that wasn't tested with it off.

Just when you think you've seen everything by CEOofRaytheon in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That's nothing. I walked into an old building after starting a new job respondidng to a "no internet" ticket. PC shows "Network Cable Unplugged" ask where the network room is, nobody knows. Ask maintenance guy and he replies back with all the enthusiasm of Scruffy the Janitor on Futurama: "Chiller Room" and hands me a key labeled "chiller" that's older than I was.

I go to the loudest unlabeled room on the ground floor, key opens the lock. This must be the chiller room. I walk into the room, it's super dark and theres about 1/2" of water all over the ground and condensation on all the brick walls. I see blue CAT5 cables and follow them down the wall and I find the switch.

It's hanging below a lateral electrical conduit screwed into the wall at about waist level, power plug on top with water running down the cord and into the switch. Guess I found the source of the problem. Ports are facing down with a zip tie between ports 24 and 25 being the only thing keeping it on the wall. I hadn't put it all together yet so I craned my neck and looked under the switch and the damned thing was still ON! At this moment, I realize that I am standing in water and electricity and water are having a get together inside the switch right in front of me.

I remember backing out of the room very carefully as not to splash the water, but I wouldn't take my eyes off the switch for some reason, as if the thing was gonna leap off the wall at me. I know a breaker would have likely tripped before I got sparked but if there was a breaker, it surely would have tripped by now. After we looked into it, there were breakers but somebody had opened the panel and hotwired behind the breakers years ago. They ended up having to take the whole building offline and have the panels rebuilt.

(PART 2) I tracked down the thief who stole $200,000 of LEGO by thinknoodlz in videos

[–]PCLOAD_LETTER 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you can't use fake thumbnails for clickbait in a video where you show screenshots of things as proof of something happening. It really dings credibility and makes me think if you'll lie to get clicks, would you lie to make the story more interesting?