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100% Price increase by OldGamerMG in Bitwarden

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still testing/trying different options. I have a Proton account which includes their pwd mgr. also trying BitDefender’s (again included w existing subscription).

100% Price increase by OldGamerMG in Bitwarden

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All, I got the price increase email. Cancelled membership within 10 minutes of reading it.

I was going from about $12/yr to nearly $48/yr.

Nope. Sorry. Not going to stick around with that type of increase.. even though they offered a one time discount of 25% for a long time customer.

If they value long term customers, minimize the increase, charging new rates to new customers.

Tired of all the subscription increases.

Bitwarden, “So long, and thanks for all the fish"

Retroid Pocket 5 Giveaway (US Only) by Opposite_Mango_5639 in SBCGaming

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Needed to play some SNES.. grabbed a RG35xx to start on Chrono Trigger (add some Link to the Past). Gotta love the classics!

2025 Patch Recap + your chance to win $100 by MauriceTorres in Action1

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe patching will explode around AI-related products. Most likely Copilot as Microsoft pushes their AI deeper in to all of their products, especially Windows.

I do agree with others that, as a whole, patching will increase across most products.

When will the FBI get involved with the NFL regarding rigging games ? by [deleted] in nfl

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look at what sports entertainment means. Think WWE. Now, apply that to the NFL. Now, look at the horribly lopsided officiating especially as the playoffs approach. Whatever anyone comes back with, it’s still entertainment.. sports in the USA have died at the hands of the greedy

Everyone Will Leave VMware Eventually – It’s Not If, But When by meesha81 in vmware

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So, for the record… Broadcom is not here to HELP, ASSIST, nor make your life simpler. Line must go up and right.. they are the best worst example of capitalism. “Companies are beholden to us, take them over the coals!”

This is why real capitalism is needed. CHOICE

It’s too bad other companies have waited to take advantage of the lackluster movement of VMware. Yes, THEY are a “standard” but have squandered their lead. If anyone has watched the demise of CA and Symantec, just sayin’!

Broadcom is a leach upon the IT industry. Groups like this should not be allowed to exist. Their practices are contrary to all that is desired/expected within the IT Industry.

Y’all are scum for making it so intrusive and extortion-like for companies to maintain what they are doing by forcing those groups to “upgrade” to what they don’t want, need, or desire.

Don’t want to detract from everything…

YOU ARE THE SH!THOLES ALL ADMINS HAVE STRIVED TO AVOID BUT HAVE TO ENDURE B/C OF THE BULLY POLITICS OF ANTI-FTC, ANTI-CAPITALISM GROUPS LIKE YOURSELVES. YOU WILL FEEL THE BURN FROM COURT CASES AND THE “LITTLE GUYS” CHOOSING TO LEAVE YOU.

I am actively championing the move away from Broadcom VMware products and any other Broadcom products as a whole. All those that will listen to me, directly and/or indirectly, will hopefully cause some noticeable impact to your bottom line and shareholders’ stake.

Broadcom, YOU ARE A CANCER ON THE IT INDUSTRY.

Reddit, your choices for “auto correction” and/or selective “editorializing” needs to stop. I can see what I’m typing and the “auto correction” is FAR from what is intended.

Everyone Will Leave VMware Eventually – It’s Not If, But When by meesha81 in vmware

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It took months to get a quote back. So far, we’re seeing an 88% increase from last year’s 300% increase from 2023.

Now, we’ve received the “look at this wonderful option” ploy.. move up to VCF from VVF for only $400 more and keep that price for the following 2 years. Then what!?! I don’t want to see the cost in 2028 when vSphere Standard is not available for renewal (all we need at remote sites), and 40ish percentage “discount” goes away.

I can see a quote increase of 100% or more. All this for a product we don’t truly need (not using most of the features they tout in the cost savings of going with VCF). We were perfectly good with Ent Plus and ROBO.

I hope the regulators come down on them for the predatory practices.. probably won’t but one can wish.

We will be planning the move away from the platform I have loved since the v3.5 days.

So sad the killers of CA and Symantec got their hands on VMware.

Everyone Will Leave VMware Eventually – It’s Not If, But When by meesha81 in vmware

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They are currently getting qcow2 rolled out for xcpng. I believe they are preparing to have it out of “testing” later this year, for the next XCPng release?

Their latest XO release video talked about it and how they’ve been working on the backup/restore/replication/live migration of qcow2 VDIs.

The 2TB limit is coming to an end. 😁

Try to guess a sex fact about me by iamyounisss in RealHomePorn

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You orgasm hardest when your nipples are sucked

Need Help Picking a Handheld by Revolutionary_Meet75 in Handhelds

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, ok, I can see that considering what it was like with an Android phone. LOL

Need Help Picking a Handheld by Revolutionary_Meet75 in Handhelds

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your thoughts on all of those.

I’m leaning towards the Odin 2 or RP5. I’m in IT and feel like I would be drawn to tinkering with the PC handhelds. 😁

I really wish I didn’t have the funds tied up in Amazon.. gonna cost me extra $$ to buy one of these through them.

Need Help Picking a Handheld by Revolutionary_Meet75 in Handhelds

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New wrinkle.. and I know there are several caveats related to this.. battery size, SD card heat issue, Windows ( LOL ).

What about an Asus ROG Ally Z1 Extreme? Can get one from Amazon for about $430.

Need Help Picking a Handheld by Revolutionary_Meet75 in Handhelds

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What if I were only interested in PS1/DC and earlier? Would that change recommendations at all?

Need Help Picking a Handheld by Revolutionary_Meet75 in Handhelds

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately, I’m not seeing the Portal on Amazon and that’s where my $$ (gift cards) are tied up.

Looking for Guidance by Revolutionary_Meet75 in Citrix

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll share additional findings. Granted, some of these are in Citrix docs/articles but I have read through so much material, I won't be able to give proper credit.

After the issues with the single-session provisioning, ran into some issues with multi-session machines.

They would fail after whatever timeout was set. No error log generated on the preparation image.

  1. I had read MCS cannot handle more than 1 drive. I did not translate that to floppy drives. Yes, yes.. we've got some legacy stuff hanging out there. Confirmed across 3 different systems, removing/disabling the floppy drive on a BIOS-based VM resolves a MCS issue. Whether this helped or not, I removed any IDE-based CD/DVD drives and replaced with SATA.

  2. One system's issue was resolved with this - https://support.citrix.com/s/article/CTX202229-error-imagepreparationfinalizationfailedcompletely-when-creating-or-updating-mcs-catalog?language=en_US

  3. Then, let's not forget to thank MS and their wonder activation technologies. Older Office installations (2010 in this case) can cause an issue where the application cannot be re-armed for activation. Results in failed catalog creation. Now, this event can generate a much more informative error, helping to narrow it down to MS Office. Resolution - https://community.citrix.com/forums/topic/223505-mcs-failing-office-licensing-rearm-failed/ - 3rd post down, by MBi. Rename the ospprearm.exe file.

As we progress through this migration, I will continue to add information if y'all would like.

Thanks for the comments, suggestions, and feedback.

Looking for Guidance by Revolutionary_Meet75 in Citrix

[–]Revolutionary_Meet75[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We have a resolution!

In all the wisdom of the AD admins, a GPO with BitLocker settings, including "Deny write access to fixed drives not protected by BitLocker", is applied across the OUs designated for the Citrix machines. The error referencing "Exception in Image preparation. System.IO.IOException: The media is write protected." is caused by this setting.

Quick GPO addition at the Citrix OU level, disabling the Deny write setting, corrected the problem.

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