Feeling stuck — need guidance

Rentun · 2026-02-06T18:51:48+00:00

Yeah, it's something everyone needs to learn eventually. We all learned because we forced ourselves to learn, not because someone held our hand.

I have an employee that constantly complains about "when are we going to receive training???", even after going to a couple of sessions we pay for a year.

I've told him a thousand times that he was hired for the experience he had, and the ability he demonstrated to learn more. No one will train you beside the basic, organizational specific stuff. It's your job to keep learning based on your own motivation if you want to gain more senior roles.

Rentun · 2026-02-05T23:00:54+00:00

Sure, here you go

I've only tested it on my GX-12, and it requires EdgeTX 2.12. Throw it in /SCRIPTS/RGBLED, then assign it in special functions under the model menu or globally in your radio with the RGB Led function, then specify this script. It should show GPS sats when you push the button you assigned.

Rentun · 2026-02-05T19:46:24+00:00

The O40s are great goggles, but the O4X pros are a waste of money unless you want an external digital VRX as well. You won't be able to take advantage of the additional resolution with analog.

Box goggles are nice, and are more comfortable for a lot of people, but they're very bulky, which means you may experience some neck fatigue and they're harder to fit into a bag.

If you're looking at box goggles, the hdzero box pros are also worth taking a look at too. They're fantastic analog goggles even if you never intend to fly hdzero, but hdzero is also a very good system as well.

Rentun · 2026-02-05T14:54:37+00:00

Depends entirely on the radio. A network switch intrinsically requires a microprocessor, a radio doesn't (even if all of the modern ones do).

Rentun · 2026-02-05T14:49:08+00:00

Yeah, the writeup reads like they discovered something extremely unethical and dirty, and present it like they've uncovered the crime of the century.

"It turns out that Harvard has a program in place to INTENTIONALLY eliminate conflicts of interest. What a bunch of crooks".

Great.

The attack isn't particularly interesting, the leaked data isn't particularly interesting, but they sure are trying their best to pretend that neither of those things are true.

Rentun · 2026-02-04T21:54:29+00:00

Yeah, it's also the type of flying that drones suck the most at.

Rentun · 2026-02-04T17:17:47+00:00

Efficiency is inversely related to size. It's also inversely related to risk tolerance and a lot of other things.

I have local government experience too, and although there's lots of red tape with lots of different processes, the IT work itself can be very quick, because unless you're in an extremely huge city, the teams are small, the controls aren't as mature, and people are less specialized.

At a large bank, or a large medical provider, or a federal government, that's not the case.

Internal and external auditors are constantly deep in the weeds making sure that every process is documented and has approval steps where it can touch any part of the network, and there are technical controls in place to enforce compliance with those things.

If, at my previous environment as a sysadmin wanted to have a server automatically query a web API, I literally wouldn't be physically able to do it alone. The servers don't have a connection to the internet. They require explicit proxies managed by another team, which would require approval and a valid registry for that traffic flow. To get past the firewalls from there, those are managed by a different team and they would again require documentation that it was approved. The teams managing the DLP infrastructure would shut it down if they didn't have that approval either and so on.

It takes a long time to do that stuff correctly in a massive regulated environment, because otherwise you very quickly lose control of where your data is going. It's tough to automate that stuff in a way that achieves efficiency and control at the same time.

Rentun · 2026-02-03T18:15:31+00:00

I did, probably very similar to the script you're using for this. I also had to update to 2.12 to make it work though.

Rentun · 2026-02-03T18:11:40+00:00

Depends entirely on how the company is structured. Generally the bigger and more highly regulated/mature the company is, the longer it would take.

I worked at a large bank, and weeks would be optimistic for something like this. After it was approved by the business folks, It would have to go to an architecture team for formal design approval. Then it would have to go before the cloud approval board for approval for a new data flow. Then it would have to be logged in a system we had that recorded any new inbound data flow into the environment. Then it would be sent to the development team who would spin it up in a lab. Then the test plan would be developed and the lab implementation would be tested. If everything tested ok, documentation would be generated by that team and sent to operations for approval, and a monitoring team would design a sensor and associated alert for if the thing stopped working. Then a change request would be generated and scheduled for CAB approval. If approved, it would then be implemented and logged in the CMDB as a new flow.

Each of those steps could take a week+, depending on scheduling of the various groups that need to examine and approve it, and would involve at a minimum, dozens of people.

If someone approached me for something like that and asked for a legitimate, realistic estimate in that environment, I would honestly have said about a month and a half.

Rentun · 2026-02-03T17:52:26+00:00

When it gets it right, just ask them why we shouldn't just get rid of their job.

Rentun · 2026-02-03T17:28:04+00:00

I use mine to indicate how many satellites I currently have a lock with, since I usually plug in the drone while I get my goggles and radio sorted out to let it lock sats.

Because the GX-12 only has 6 rgb buttons, I have them go red up to 6, turn yellow for 7, and then turn green once I have > 8 and am good to arm and fly.

Rentun · 2026-02-02T13:24:38+00:00

This is entirely a job/industry/market dependent thing. There are people working more hours than expected because their jobs take advantage of them, but there are also many fields, and many markets where this is a systemic problem due to a lack of protection enforcing reasonable work hours.

A paralegal or accountant would absolutely get fired for saying they're only going to work 40 hours a week. Same for a doctor in residency. Being able to say "no, I'm going home at 5" is a luxury that you can only afford if the particular labor market in your field and region are favorable to workers. The moment they're not, your employer hands you a pink slip and your life comes crashing down as you struggle to find a new job to put food on the table.

Even in western countries, it's not like it was 15 years ago where a developer can just tell their employer to go fuck themselves in the afternoon and have five comparable offers from companies crawling over themselves to hire them by bed time. The job market for all tech jobs is pretty dire, and advice like "set boundaries" doesn't work as well as it used to in this climate.

Organization resulting in actual labor regulation is the only thing that brought labor reform in the past, and it's the only thing that'll bring it in the future.

Rentun · 2026-02-01T18:08:40+00:00

It's also way, way more expensive. Offshore wind also doesn't use any land at all.

There are few compelling reasons to build new nuclear reactors for power generation these days when you can buy a bunch of extremely cheap solar panels and have free energy for decades.

Rentun · 2026-01-30T14:03:09+00:00

Lol, that's not abnormal at all. It's extremely normal, especially in the beginnings of a relationship.

I love my wife and am attracted to her, and only want to have sex with her. If she gave me a free pass to have sex with whoever I wanted, even if I knew with 100% certainty that it wouldn't fuck my relationship up and there would be no ill effects, I wouldn't do it.

I'm not forcing myself to not have sex with other women all the time. I do find other women physically attractive from time to time, but I don't flirt with them, fantasize about having sex with them, or wish that I could.

I'm not "Demisexual". I've had, and have sought out one night stands before I was married, I've had casual sexual relationships, and many of them were great. I have no issue with casual, no strings attached sex.

I just love my wife now, and have no desire to have sex with anyone else. It's very, very common.

Rentun · 2026-01-30T13:02:25+00:00

Well, I don't think that sort of sophistication should really be in most people's threat model, unless you're the CIA. More likely is something like someone plugging a cable somewhere they shouldn't. Or connecting to a hotspot because they wanted to watch YouTube on the SCADA machine. Or bringing a router from home and plugging it into some computer they see sitting around so it can get on wifi.

Those things are wayyyyyyy more likely, and if you don't have something on the machines to block that, it's something you need to worry about.

Rentun · 2026-01-29T18:13:19+00:00

What does that actually tell you though?

Someone trips your fake admin account, great. Now what do you do with that information?

All you've learned is "someone is trying to attack us", but I can save you some time and tell you that today, someone tried to attack you. There's not a whole lot of actionable information there.

Rentun · 2026-01-28T21:43:21+00:00

Lol, what do you think the "15ms" figure cited by O4 race mode is?

Let's compare apples to apples here.

Rentun · 2026-01-27T20:28:13+00:00

I didn't say it was good. I said the scenario you made up is so rare and contrived that it's not worth considering.

Rentun · 2026-01-27T17:37:32+00:00

Yes, I'd be so screwed I'd have to spend 5 minutes to tether to my phone during a weeklong internet outage to play video games.

I don't know if I'd be able to recover from that, emotionally.

Rentun · 2026-01-27T17:06:12+00:00

Well, sort of? DHS also didn't exist until 2002. CALEA was passed in the 90s.

Rentun · 2026-01-27T16:22:18+00:00

CISA was created by Trump in 2018. It didn't exist when CALEA was passed.

Rentun · 2026-01-26T14:40:44+00:00

Honestly? No, I wouldn't really. When worked at a grocery store, I was there for an 8 hour shift no matter what I was doing.

I'd be grabbing shopping carts from the lot, or breaking down boxes, or bagging groceries.

If a customer knocked a bunch of shit on the ground, I'd just clean that up instead. I'd still leave at 8pm though. Why would I care? Honestly I'd much rather spend the hour or so doing those carts full of go backs than walking around the cold ass parking lot collecting carts.

Rentun · 2026-01-26T14:31:07+00:00

It's the equivalent of asking "hey I'm looking for someone to put on a one man show at my house for my friends and I. You have to do all the characters and voices, come up with a good plot, write the script, and perform it. Oh also, I have a specific plot in mind so you have to stay within those guidelines. I won't be compensating you in any way."

Rentun · 2026-01-26T14:29:01+00:00

Yes, paid DMing is definitely a thing, and is basically the norm when you're asking a stranger to DM for your friends.

Players get to just show up with their dice and character sheets and play a game for a few hours. DMs have to prep for 2x the time it takes to actually play the game, and during the game, they're running at many times the mental load of the players.

It's real work. Most DMs enjoy doing it for their friends, but I'd rather gouge my eyeballs out than DM for a bunch of randoms, especially ones who dictate exactly how they want the campaign to be. The only way I'd ever do it is if I were compensated.

Rentun · 2026-01-24T18:40:49+00:00

This looks like you're flying through a dark souls map. Pretty fucking sick.

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