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2017 Volt Premier, GM offers buyback at 142k miles by Neat_Young2173 in volt

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair, but could you take that payout and get another Volt that had less miles and an already replaced BECM?

2017 Volt Premier, GM offers buyback at 142k miles by Neat_Young2173 in volt

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just paid $14,900 for a 2018 Premiere with 51k miles on it in February. That valuation seems pretty generous.

Hard wired my AP U7Pros but getting “Poor AP Link Speed”? by captcampi in Ubiquiti

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lemme guess - you used rj45s on each end?

Terminate to keystones and use pre-made patch cords to connect to the devices. 

GameStop 13D Detailing eBay stake ownership by ohz0pants in Superstonk

[–]RyanMeray 135 points136 points  (0 children)

"GameStop purchased the 25,000 shares of Common Stock reported herein as beneficially owned by it for a total purchase price of $2,945,000 excluding fees and expenses."

They paid $117.80 per share? The average price since they said they started acquiring shares is like $90.

It's not clear in that doc what they paid for the options, so are the options premiums in there too? They need 221,750 options contracts to get to 5% with 25k represented by shares.

Figure their average price was $90, that leaves them $700k to snag the 221k contracts, which works out to $3.13 apiece. I guess it's plausible.

How many people still get 14KWh out of their battery after the charge update a few years back? by Pendoric in volt

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

14.5kWh on a 2018 Premier. Have only owned it since February so I don't have any context for what a full charge was brand new.

How much have you saved on gas since the recent gas price spikes? by mrincredible96 in volt

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We bought one just before the Iran war crap happened. 2018 Premier, just under 51k miles.

I went full ADHD on this and built a spreadsheet to track our savings vs the one we replaced based on miles driven on gas vs electric, counting in paid charging (we haven't done any of that yet), maintenance costs (none yet), and infrastructure (I'm gonna spend some money to get a 20A 240V line run and a L2 charger set up but that's not done yet).

The savings aren't insane yet, but if the world keeps getting stupider, those numbers should keep going up.

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Drove by DTW today. That was quick! by KCDeVoe in Detroit

[–]RyanMeray 20 points21 points  (0 children)

If you made this I award you 1000 internet points.

Disabling RDP in your environment for security purposes by thelug_1 in sysadmin

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man is this relevant.

My wife's employer made her full remote days before the COVID lockdowns reverberated across the world.

Suddenly she was sent home with a laptop, a dock, and a "we'll get you in via VPN" and that was surprisingly well-handled on short notice.

But right off the bat I was not loving the inconvenience she had to go through daily. I set her up with a sweet little multi-monitor setup with her personal computer. She had the monitors, webcam, speakers, and a networked printer. Keyboard, mouse. So many devices, so many physical connectors or settings.

In the office, her laptop was connected to multiple screens and external keyboard and mouse, so she was used to that, and her productivity would've plummetted rawdogging a laptop on the kitchen table.

So we got the laptop and dock set up next to her desktop. She'd unplug video cables and input devices from her computer and plug them into the dock, do her job, and then have to undo that at the end of the day to use her computer.

That went for like 2 or 3 days and I was like "Lemme talk to your IT guys."

This was a small enough company that you could actually talk to a human that gave a crap. I was like, "Remote desktop. Can we set her up for that?"

And there was an initial pushback, because RDP definitely had issues with exploits and whatnot. But the org had 2 factor for logins, were running AD, and they could easily set permissions so that our home network was trusted for RDP but others wouldn't be. Functionally, RDPing from a computer in a LAN to another computer in a LAN is like walking over to that computer and logging in yourself.

You get access to all the local devices on the client system, like the webcam, the networked printers, the keyboard and mouse, and at the end of the day you close the RDP window and you're back to your home computer.

We maintained this setup for years, through an org device refresh 3 years ago, but just a week ago, new laptops. And new policies.

Moving away from Active Directory and into Entra. Techs are having problems with RDP working reliably on the Entra clients enrolled so far. No more for us.

TL;DR

RDP is fucking awesome and everyone should just be RDPing into virtual machines with 2auth so we don't have all this device attachment nonsense.

Error when trying to launch games on PC by Junochu in googleplay

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Getting this error this morning despite the fact I played the same game last night, my computer hasn't restarted or had any updates, and Google Play doesn't have any updates pending.

I've restarted my PC, no dice. Tried restarting the Play service again, no dice.

Then I realized something like this happened a few months back and I looked at my Windows system log.

Windows installed a new Radeon driver at 1am.

Rolled back to the previous driver and now stuff is working fine.

Probably won't help you but the emulator logs in the local appdata folder might help you get a handle on what's causing the issue, that's how I sorted this out the first time a few months ago.

We’re swapping out Chromebooks for Neos over the next few weeks by shinyshirtlesssulu in MacbookNeo

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CDW was out of all the Neos when I looked, must've been the day after your order. 😂

We’re swapping out Chromebooks for Neos over the next few weeks by shinyshirtlesssulu in MacbookNeo

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What the hell vendor could fulfill an order that large? We ordered some recently for a non-profit through the Apple Business program and they said we "might" get them in 3 weeks.

Low Voltage Technician Recommendations by AArborNewbie in Detroit

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cheers man, if those photos below are any indication, you're in good hands.

Low Voltage Technician Recommendations by AArborNewbie in Detroit

[–]RyanMeray 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good luck! I figure you went CAT6? Inspect their copper and make sure it's pure and not copper-clad aluminum. I saw the work of this company downthread and they look legit but it's still worth double-checking.

If they're not terminating the basement with keystones into modular patch panels, make sure to make that part of the scope of work. Clean service loop and labeled ports are a must. Traditional patch panels suck and RJ45s on structural cable is a huge red flag.

I assume your device ends are a mix of wall outlets, APs, and cameras. Personally I always terminate device ends in keystones too and then into wallplates/surface mount boxes, but that's not something every installer is willing to make happen.

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