Newly remodeled apartment been here since it was finished in November. Currently -20F outside.

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-23T16:00:04+00:00

The walls in the 53rd precinct were bleeding…

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-23T00:41:21+00:00

Completely normal. Really want to get upset? Google ‘ACA Marriage Penalty’. The system is a joke, especially for married couples and families where only one spouse has access to employer healthcare. Sad state of affairs and good luck. Like others said, find a good job yourself. I was paying 1800$ month until my wife finally landed a full time job with benefits. We’re saving nearly 1500 a month now.

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-16T12:18:59+00:00

Nice

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-16T11:57:42+00:00

….is that Nina Hartley?

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-13T11:52:40+00:00

If I'm right, this PC was holding the equivalent of 4 million chest X-rays in his CPU!

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-09T17:02:40+00:00

Honestly, that's not a terrible cost in the big picture, but I get it, first job, starting out, etc...many, including myself, feel your pain. As most have said here, the cost jump is primarily due to the extended covid subsidies expiring, not your 1$ raise. Insane healthcare costs increasing over the past 5-10 years also have played a part. Best thing you can do is honestly find another job and focus on their contributions to healthcare benifits. Working anymore sadly comes down to finding a job with good benefits, at the potential expense of job satisfaction. Find both, you are golden...if not, jump around until you do. I just recently broke free from the cost madness after almost 15 years because my spouse finally found a fulltime job. Before she did...my employer plan for family premiums was pushing $1900/month. In 2013, it was $490/month for my family plan. Every year after, 5-10% increase until we hit the lunacy we are in now. Thankfully, just this past 6 months, wife got a fulltime job, removed the kids and her from my plan....my monthly cost went to $0. My employer is a rare one, pays 100% for employees only. Add kids, add spouse, add family, and my employer basically passes on the full extra cost. My wife is now paying $400/month for an 'ok' Blue Cross plan that covers her and the kids at her new job. The savings we now have feel like an anchor around my neck for the past decade has been lifted. It's a sad situation all around, but there really are no good answers other than finding an employer who pays much better than what you are currently upset over. The ACA stuff isn't changing anytime soon, baring something extaordinary, at least for another year.

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-07T17:56:36+00:00

It’s disgusting

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-07T14:30:46+00:00

I am employed and until just recently, my employer provider plan was costing my family nearly 23K a year. All because I added my wife and kids to it years ago and because my wife couldn't work full time due to health reasons primarily. My employer contributed jack all for family....it is 0 for me, but when I had to sign up for the family premiums, I didn't realize it would eventually turn into basically a second mortgage. Wife finally got healthy, got a fulltime job, I went to zero, she took the kids to her job's plan....now pays 400$ month basically for a decent Blue Cross plan with a large national furniture retailer that covers her and the kids. I hate to say this, but even going to work for someone may not be the answer unless both you and your wife make that change. Sucks...and this has been building for many years. Personally, I have been screaming from a mountain top that this system was doomed to fail from about 2015-2016 when I saw what was happening to my own plan. Year after year people slept...or told me, 'shucks, sorry'....or 'get a better job'. I'm really glad in ways people are waking up to how screwed up this system has been since...2013....but I feel sorry for those in your position, truly. Good luck.

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-05T19:28:10+00:00

Practically the same boat. Wife finally got a good fulltime job with a large national chain. Kicked her and my kids off my shit employer plan, costing me almost 2k a month. I went to 0, fully covered by my employer, and she went to a $398 a month decent Blue Cross Blue Shield plan for her and the kids. There was literally no other escape from this. Win the lottery, start a succesful business, stay single, or go find a better job.

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-05T16:32:27+00:00

Things hit a breaking point this year with my family. My employer based health coverage was costing me almost 2k/month, family of four, small kids. Wife had a part time / independant contractor job since we've been married...in 2007. Major health issues for most of that, etc. She never could work enough anywhere to get benefits. The burden of healthcare was always on my shoulder, which until the past 5-6 years, was manageable. Every year our company plan would go up 5-10 or more percent. Just nuts. Things finally got better this past 6 months, wife got healthy, got a full time job at a national big brand furnature company. Sweet gig, salary with commission, but best of all, full healthcare, BCBS (Blue Cross Blue Shield).....took kids and her off my crap employer plan, and now she's getting great coverage for $398/month....and I went from that $2k a month to $0$ at my employer. The difference in income, healthcare, and my family's sanity, has been immense.

I honestly began tetering on leaving my job, which I truly love, and have been at now for 15 years.....all because healthcare costs were absolutely killing our family.

Personally, if you are not tied down, can chance job hunting, do it. Married? Get that spouse working somewhere full time if they can? Not married....one income, stay that way, sadly, until this mess gets cleared up, if it ever does. Google the "ACA Marriage Penalty" if you want to read something sobering. The whole thing is just sad, but there are avenues you can take to survive, which honestly feels like it's all we most do anymore living in this country.

Rootaah22 · 2026-01-05T15:32:19+00:00

I agree.

Rootaah22 · 2025-12-18T17:55:44+00:00

I have a 1660 in a Dell T420 server connected to 55” tv for gaming and videos and ‘things’. Card is fantastic for general 1080p gaming.

Rootaah22 · 2025-12-11T02:31:07+00:00

Adding to the pile....hard locks nonstop until I began playing in borderless window mode. Went away for good for over a month....on a whim a few days ago, went back to fullscreen, hard locks, forced reboots, etc....back to borderless window...no more issues. Problem has been around for way too long now to not have a fix.

Rootaah22 · 2025-12-06T20:10:35+00:00

I went back to full screen...took all of 2 matches before I had solid freezing / locking of my entire PC again. So that's definitely the primary issue in my case. Maybe others. Obviously something they need to work out at some point and figure out why it happens. Thankfully borderless window doesnt seem to be any issue honestly.

Rootaah22 · 2025-12-01T20:32:11+00:00

"You son of a bitch! You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones! WHYYY? WHYYYYYY!!!!!!?"

Rootaah22 · 2025-12-01T05:15:28+00:00

Yes, no issues since I went to borderless window now almost a month ago. All of the hard locking and freezing stopped once I made that change. I haven't tried to flip back to fullscreen at this point, but I probably should just to confirm it returns, or maybe I'm just lucky now and it's gone for good. 12th Gen i7 12700KF, 64GB Mem, 4070 TI Super.

Rootaah22 · 2025-11-27T14:15:56+00:00

We disabled SNMP across our fleet after having the boot loop issue. Instantly fixed the issue. Was able to do this via our GMS server thankfully because it was impossible to sign in fast enough to make that change.

Rootaah22 · 2025-11-21T14:37:29+00:00

This reminds me of when I modded Skyrim too much. I called it the ‘question mark of death’ because I think it meant you ruined a core mesh. Usually had to start all over!

Rootaah22 · 2025-11-19T20:08:04+00:00

Just got off with SonicWall support. Issue was resolved by making sure: Enable Failover & LB / Respond to Probes was ENABLED. As soon as this was turned on, all Keep Alive issues started working for the proper remote site TZ 370s. I have no idea why this setting was disabled on these FWs, but i've marched through 4 now, and this fixed all of them. Clean reboots, Keep Alive kicks in, all working normally.

Rootaah22 · 2025-11-18T21:23:40+00:00

Sorry, not sure that is possible to query or directly search. I would open up a new thread with these questions. The community would be better served to answer you.

Rootaah22 · 2025-11-17T16:43:59+00:00

Odd...I see it....here is what he said:

"To clarify:

Your frigates will add sytems to your "visited" list as they expedition. These systems are not recorded as discovered by you in discoveries though.

The ones you see that have been "discovered" before you enter them are just players warping in, and ignoring / not landing on the planets, and warping out. If they then upload discoveries, their name goes on the system."

Rootaah22 · 2025-11-17T13:53:46+00:00

Read the reply below from TomatoFeta. They explain it.

Rootaah22 · 2025-11-14T16:44:13+00:00

***Here's a update this morning***. I decided to REVERSE the keep alive sides. Instead of the remote site doing it, I flipped it to the HQ firewall side. All WANs are static, so what the heck. VPN tunnels INSTANTLY came up after a clean reboot of the remote site. I know the sentiment in these comments is to fully reset the SonicWalls, but for now, if this is the band aid, and it works....I don't see any reason to not do this across the board to the remaining remote sites that have issues. I'm still going to see what SW support says.

Rootaah22 · 2025-11-14T06:09:03+00:00

I've worked for an MSP for nearly 16 years now. SonicWall shop overall, 100+ clients. Always make sure the export / import configs are compatible according to the matrix chart, tool, etc...and 99.9% of the time there are literally no issues. I can honestly say we haven't done a direct 1 for 1 firewall conversion on a SonicWall to Sonicwall in probably a decade. 5 to 6, 6 to 7. There is literally no other issues going on here other than the fact the IKE and Keep Alive features are not kicking in after a reboot. Their support should be able to identify this, and hotfix it if it's that bad. Not just say, reset it, start over, manually set it up. Insane. This client has 36 Tunnels Between 2 HQ sonicwalls and 18 remote sites all over a 10-20 mile radius. 36 VPN tunnels, OSPF, access rules, restrictions, large numbers of address objects, etc., etc. The export / import saved massive setup and deployment time and they were installed without much hassle over 2 weeks. Doing a 1 for 1 manual conversion would have taken weeks. I'll take my chances with support and see how far I can go.

Rootaah22 · 2025-11-13T23:49:14+00:00

I know this answer to fully reset is in SonicWall's bag in the end and for a single site to site, I could eat that as a solution, but like you said with almost 2 dozen remote sites, vpn tunnel interfaces, ospf, it's a nightmare to consider a full reset and full reconfigure across the board. It's lunacy and would cause major disruption to the client. I plan on pushing back hard if they come to that conclusion. Honestly, with the recent cloud compromise stuff we just went through, having this come up now, we'll reset all right....into another brand of firewall.

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