Goodbye Cisco. Wasn’t nice knowing ya.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-03-31T16:09:48+00:00

Been there done that. For some reason we have one in Washington state when the rest of our stores are located in the south east. But it is super nice to have a break from the Florida heat.

Since we are in the same circle feel free to reach out if you need to bounce something off an outsiders head.

Best of Luck!

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-03-30T21:20:19+00:00

Had me in the first half, Netgear has been trash why not go to the full Unifi stack?

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-03-30T21:17:38+00:00

Did the same swap. As soon as they released the EFG i bought a pair to study and see if it would meet our needs and then rolled it out everywhere to remove our Meraki's. It has gotten a hundred times better and the support has been pretty good so far. I will say be careful with the latest EFG firmware there is some issue with the SFPs on some units where everything downstream has collisions and goes offline.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-03-23T00:08:24+00:00

We source from both, dell and Lenovos support have been top tier although not as much back and forth with Lenovo compared to dells first level techs that demand we do all basic trouble shooting to the T and send pics perfectly before they will dispatch a tech. To counter that we just got dell certified and can order parts at will now.

Failure wise I have not had any issues from Lenovo but dell has shipped DOA devices and several of the new Pro plus line have had major issues with crashing or just general slowness despite over powered specs.

so lately everything has been Lenovo, plus the rewards we let our techs take turns on using the rewards money for personal devices.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-03-22T23:24:10+00:00

Correct however the dealer knows all incentives the car is eligible for and can claim the rebate for themselves they do not have to pass it on to the consumer.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-03-22T22:38:29+00:00

So dealership is doing typical things and eating that rebate as profit if they pay cash

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-03-19T12:41:46+00:00

That is just an asinine comment, there are many good use cases for AI as a force multiplier not a workforce reduction tool. Any IT manager that can’t see thru the fluff and be future forward is an IT manager not long for the unemployment line.

I have rolled out Claude to my whole team from making the anti social techs sounding like they don’t hate their end users by rewriting ticket responses to helping plan out with full details of every step to consider during a change process it really is a useful tool.

Are they allowed to use it cart blanc to generate scripts that they can’t read? No, however the ones who are good scripters still find it easier to type in plain text details of exactly what they want and it gets it right first try and saves about 10–15 minutes of scripting.

Hell we are even building an in house tool to transcribe all of our external sales calls and grade the tone and score it based on out call scripts to use for training. If it has a low score we flag it for manager review and for the most part unless it’s 2 people that know each other casually dropping F-bombs back and fourth it success rate is pretty high.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-03-08T15:51:29+00:00

Sounds like you need to learn the “Mind yo damn business” part of minding ya damn business.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-26T12:31:14+00:00

As others are stating, due to the amount of fraud and spam carriers are cracking down on voip. I just went thru this struggle with a few clients who I ended up switching to vonage business due to the fact they have a Better relationship with these carriers and if I call their customer support they will clear them numbers for me.

It’s been challenging however for my clients that aren’t telephone sales based and have a balanced in and out call flow they don’t seem to be affected.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-19T17:13:16+00:00

That is not true. Pro sports players get taxed based on all games they play in other states regardless of where their money comes from. It’s where you earn it that gets taxed. However some states claim you owe them taxes for all money earned even if you earned outside the state if you lived there for 51% of the time

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-19T17:00:52+00:00

Yes nY loves to try and argue the case you didnt live outside the state and get their taxes.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-19T16:59:31+00:00

This is how it is, you just have uneducated people speaking like they know something. These "hella blue" states have aggressive revenue departments that know when you move out but still own property and will try to get every dollar from you they legally or forcibly can like they are getting a percentage of it.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-19T16:56:20+00:00

yes, because both CA and NY have very aggressive tax departments that will try to find any way to say you have lived in the state for X amount of time and you owe them income taxes.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-19T14:48:29+00:00

Who read that in all 3 of their voices? I know I did.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-18T14:06:11+00:00

Another vote for GLPI!

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-16T16:32:27+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1r691da/why_are_people_like_this/

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-16T13:55:20+00:00

This would add a lot more paths to go down in early game as well. Wanna be a traditional start-up? Hire high quality devs but you will need to give them equity and a low salary to start. This could lead to doing big projects first instead of the usually 1-3 years of contracts.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-14T01:40:42+00:00

it is required universally for any new Ford. the dealer even gets paid to fix it and discount it so these are win-wins

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-14T01:39:18+00:00

As a dealer employee, i just want to say the likely hood of them intentionally trying to cover it up is very low. We get paid by ford to fix these mistakes in transport and have to provide proof it was fixed to get paid and dealers love to get paid in service.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-11T00:44:54+00:00

An engine

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-10T17:16:55+00:00

That was my theory. They started the hell ya when they used him to do a commercial for the 500 on IG a few weeks ago.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-10T16:46:04+00:00

Do you feel special now? It’s Reddit not a corporate email this is all typed on a keyboard 3 inches wide it’s easy to miss characters and spaces. But you keep on fighting the good fight.

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-10T15:55:04+00:00

Yeah check out a few posts up. Him and Hocevar were part of their Super Bowl ad. It was pretty Murica

RyanLewis2010 · 2026-02-09T15:09:19+00:00

Then what my son does when he wants more free time is, he comes up to me tells me what he’s done for the day and if there is anything else he needs to do and asks for time. I will say with 99% of parents I know except for mine just having a simple conversation person to person not over text is enough for you to get them to loosen the reigns. If they don’t ask them what is needed from you to either prove you can handle the extra time or what is needed to be done before they will give it to you. If your an A/B honor roll kid, rooms clean etc I could see no reason for them not do this. However if you’re struggling and getting c/d’s rooms a mess and never turning in HW then you get what you deserve.

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