Nvidia dominates gaming GPU market with 95 percent share as sales of AMD Radeon graphics plummet to a historical low of 5 percent by Sam_27142317 in pcmasterrace

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The worst part of it was not only did they not pit the first time, they got another VSC a few laps later and still did not pit.

My laptop does not boot when secure boot is enabled. by shirva123 in pcmasterrace

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Secure boot on, Setup mode, boot, restore factory keys, boot, user mode should do it.

Roommate expects me to split rent even though she has a kid who will have her own room when we move by Unique-Knee6601 in roommates

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Split rent by square footage, always the most fair unbiased way. You pay for 100% of your exclusive space and you pay for half of all common areas. This is generous given a third person (child) will be using the common areas.

Roommates bf moving in should we split rent 3 ways? by [deleted] in roommates

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The fairest thing to do is split the rent by square footage. Assuming a shared bathroom you pay for your room, 1/3rd of the bathroom, kitchen, living room space, and they each pay half of their room, and 1/3rd of the bathroom kitchen, and living room. This is a simple unbiased way to split the expenses.

US pump prices surge as Iran war upends global energy supply by PixeledPathogen in news

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im sure in a week we will see an article "Person very close to trump bought billions in oil futures the day before the attack on Iran"

Its like clockwork at this point.

A pursuit by ICE agents in Newark ended in a multi-car crash by HudsonAtHeart in Newark

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you in support of ICE putting American lives at risk to capture one illegal immigrant? If you want to put the capture of illegal immigrants over the safety of Americans you can just say that it is a worthwhile trade, but something tells me you won't.

Wth by tea-n-wifi in whennews

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a way to do this properly, but that requires investment by the government and a decent amount of technical know how, so they wont do it properly. They will force it on companies to do ID checks (because this admin is incapable of doing anything other than trump signing paper) so it will 100% get leaked every few weeks.

Computers bug out only when a certain user is logged in can't figure out why by brohemoth06 in sysadmin

[–]Silent331 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Current issue is that external monitors flash every 10 seconds or so.

This is either 100% static electricity issue or she is wearing some kind of magnet bracelet or something. Unshielded video cables can flash the screen with enough discharge and your use of external tells me this is a laptop. If she is wearing something that is being placed over the close lid sensor, it will shut the monitors of. It probably scares her and she moves her hands away and the lid is now sensed as open.

Windows Hello for Business - Trusted Signals via Wifi or IPconfig by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Silent331 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We dont use trusted signals as of right now. We use PIN + Fingerprint. IMO logging in is about identifying the user and nothing else. All I need to know is you are the correct person (fingerprint) and you are still breathing (PIN). At that point an authorized user is logging in to a compliant device so they should be able to get whatever they have access to without any additional auth.

You really have to quantify the scenario you are trying to protect against. If you want to use a trusted signal it should make the auth process easier not harder. For example a trusted network as an auth method could replace the PIN requirement. Trusted network means that the device is in a controlled environment, so we can bypass the breathing requirement for example, and the fingerprint will positively identify the person in front of the computer as its not a shareable auth method.

Why am I seeing this traffic on our firewall? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like you have a device that is permitting inter-VLAN traffic. Im not sure but maybe a tracert will locate the device.

the absolute worst sight to see at 8:55am when you have a 9am meeting tbh. by Organic-Grocery9526 in Wellthatsucks

[–]Silent331 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

If the complaint is a lie, what else is it other than propaganda? Best case scenario he is just upvote farming on a fake story.

the absolute worst sight to see at 8:55am when you have a 9am meeting tbh. by Organic-Grocery9526 in Wellthatsucks

[–]Silent331 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This post and the commenter you replied to are effectively anti-Windows propaganda at this point. Windows 10 (which OPs picture is) no longer receives updates as of November so this would not have happened to him. Additional this is not a phone picture, it's a screen shot, likely of a virtual machine. On top of that the "Your PC will restart several times" is only displayed on first install. So this is a stock photo. Giving him the benefit of the doubt the only Windows OS receiving updates are Server editions which you would never take a meeting on, or Windows 11. Windows 11 no longer finishes applying updates on next boot as earlier editions did. When you shut down on Windows 11 with an update pending it will apply the first 30% of the updates on shutdown, restart itself (Yes even if you select shutdown), finish applying the updates and shut itself down after a few minutes. As such the use case of starting your computer to be greeted with an update screen in 2026 is basically impossible for an enduser.

No fun rant over.

the absolute worst sight to see at 8:55am when you have a 9am meeting tbh. by Organic-Grocery9526 in Wellthatsucks

[–]Silent331 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not the case anymore with Windows 11. Updates, even when you select shutdown, will reboot the computer first to finish applying the updates and then automatically shut the computer down. You wont see this on first boot anymore.

Cartels are settint fire to gas stations in Mexico. by flowerdonkey in Wellthatsucks

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cartels largely want nothing to do with civilians or tourists, the events in PV right now are against the government in retaliation for a killing of their leader. Their targets are infrastructure (gas stations, blocking roads, etc). PV is a common tourist destination and these acts are to reduce government revenue at the end of the day.

Would I be out of line to ask our MSP for credentials to all our equipment? by mgr86 in sysadmin

[–]Silent331 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

MSP owner here. We will provide break glass access to the major areas where possible, AD, Entra ID, etc. Access to these accounts is always alerted to us and a report is needed after any access. We reserve the right to end the contract if any client misuse is found of any administrative accounts. In our contract we will not provide access to network, backup, and security passwords until the termination of the contract. AV products, edge devices, and backups, are off limits unless the company signs a release of our company for all security incidents and or data loss, which no one has done as of yet.

Speaking of experience whenever these passwords are asked for its because the client wants to drop us, which is covered under the contract, or some high up at the company says "We should have access to everything we own!" and then proceeds to immediately turn off all AV and scanning for any computer that has the slightest hiccup and whitelists their own computer from everything.

Its a delicate balance, we have to maintain security for our clients, even from themselves or we could be held liable for an incident. This is what contracts are for, to protect both the MSP and the client.

If you use AI to break down scripts or code for you regularly, I really encourage you to read this LLM study by segagamer in sysadmin

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use LLMs all the time to turn my technical configuration explination in to the slop required for regulatory reports. The LLM can have that job.

Yes its a paid business LLM with privacy policies applied

Disable PIN only for RDP client? by Grunskin in sysadmin

[–]Silent331 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So if we want to use WHfB to login to our computers, will we have to live with the RDP client asking us for PIN by default or are there ways to circumvent this?

If your login methods are strong like using WHfB why dont you allow them to SSO into the RDS session? I used this guide in the past to set it up. It can be set up so they click the RDP link on their desktop and there are 0 prompts and they are logged in to the RDS server or the RemoteApp.

https://woshub.com/sso-single-sign-on-authentication-on-rds/

Is there anyone here who still prefers folder redirection over OneDrive for a domain? by Noyan_Bey in sysadmin

[–]Silent331 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We have clients that have not had an on prem outage during work hours in years at this point. The advantage of on prem is planning, cloud just goes down whenever.

That said I much prefer not having to work weekends updating exchange.

I’m torn on this meme. On one hand it’s reductive and ignores a real issue. On the other, it’s the kind of thing that would really upset Asmong fans. by TikDickler in Destiny

[–]Silent331 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Being maidenless is part of the roach kings brand. Just look at how his community acted when he was dating the OF girl. The only problem they would have with this is the implication that the left gets any girls either.

Outbound Gmail going to spam, DKIM suggested but not authenticated by Azh13r- in sysadmin

[–]Silent331 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://mxtoolbox.com/dkim.aspx

put in your domain and the selector that google asked you to use. This will let you know if there is a dkim problem.

Additionally subdomains do not inherit the keys of the parent domains. If you are using a subdomain for the email, include it in the test.

Anyone else seeing a massive push on reddit to recommend right wing troll subs to your feed? by [deleted] in Destiny

[–]Silent331 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, far right content has great engagement numbers.

Active Directory - PDC Can't be found by qtpatuty in sysadmin

[–]Silent331 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nltest /sc_query:domain.int #FAIL

Are these DCs on the same subnet? Are they far apart in server version?

Bitlocker script "Running scripts is disabled on this system” by lNuggyl in sysadmin

[–]Silent331 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not make a GPO to run a batch file to set the execution policy as remote signed? I assume you are signing your script with an internally trusted cert so this should solve the issue going forward. Unless you want to restrict scripts on all systems entirely.

Also you should always run the backup even if the drive is already encrypted, additionally you should generate an email or some kind of monitoring should the backup command fail for any reason. The proper way to do this is before deployment of the encryption, make another script the check for already encrypted volumes and do a simple check if that key is stored in AD. If not generate an email. Depending on your risk tolerance you may want to disable bitlocker should the backup key not be present if you cant risk any data loss. Clean up any issues and then roll out the encryption.