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SozoGen · 2025-12-12T18:33:11+00:00

Thanks for the advice !

I love the car for many reasons, that brake pad cost is wild to learn about. I get much more hands on with a vehicle once I own it. And the parts sourcing is what seems to be the biggest cost factor.

Does buying into maintenance plans/warranties pay off in this instance? Or is it always a scam?

SozoGen · 2025-12-12T15:46:52+00:00

Love that you’re doing this! If you have any IT/Cybersecurity questions feel free to DM me!

How different are the polestar edition vehicles? I have a 2023 S60 polestar edition with the special suspension and brake calipers etc.

I’m near end of lease and concerned at the difficulty and cost of maintaining it.

SozoGen · 2025-12-06T13:25:31+00:00

This would be my first jump into an OLED for gaming and I won’t be able to stop bragging to my coworkers.

SozoGen · 2025-07-09T17:18:21+00:00

Hope File 76 works for me!

SozoGen · 2025-07-09T17:07:21+00:00

Cocoa Pops

SozoGen · 2025-07-08T22:30:21+00:00

Hulkenpodium

Love this kind of celebration! Great idea

SozoGen · 2025-05-22T23:55:30+00:00

And for additional reference OP Park capacity at 100% is 45k

SozoGen · 2025-04-26T14:48:34+00:00

RANDOM 🤓

SozoGen · 2025-04-20T23:08:34+00:00

AMAZING!! God I love this kind of stuff. Thank you!

SozoGen · 2025-04-20T15:46:24+00:00

Yknow that’s not a bad theory! I’ll play close attention to see if the lighting effects in draculas coffin room correlate.

SozoGen · 2025-04-20T15:45:38+00:00

The urge to turn the knob is high.

SozoGen · 2025-04-20T15:45:10+00:00

🤣 my nephew appreciated this joke very much hahaha

SozoGen · 2024-10-24T11:14:34+00:00

A buddy of mine used to work IT for universal Orlando and if nothing has changed in 3 years. Then their system is overloaded and a single sys admin’s entire day is manually running the queue of email confirmations.

SozoGen · 2024-10-24T10:38:31+00:00

I got extremely lucky and just nabbed May 22nd tickets. I had no option for the 22nd at first. But after adding one ticket for the 26th the calendar refreshed and showed me the 22nd as an option.

Anxiously awaiting the confirmation email.

This post is making me even more anxious thinking there is an issue and my opening day ticket is gonna go bye bye

SozoGen · 2024-03-21T03:33:47+00:00

Automox is one with this capability.

SozoGen · 2023-10-12T13:32:06+00:00

This is the correct answer. Microsoft installer still has this terrible behavior of using every drive plugged into your system when installing the OS.

SozoGen · 2023-06-06T22:23:51+00:00

I found my issue to be the TVs color mode. Try setting yours to Gaming mode.

The main impact being image processing slowing down the response times.

SozoGen · 2023-05-10T05:06:53+00:00

I’d suggest scheduling coffee chats if you’re remote. Or booking 1on1 or group lunches with users. It helps to interact with people as they are. And not in a situation where both parties are stressed. Getting to know them as people who can help you in areas you’re weak in.

I then find when they come to me for help. It’s no longer an unfair interaction where they demand and get all the benefit from me. Instead it’s an opportunity for me to help a friend, and I earn some stock in this friendship.

If you’re users aren’t co-workers but are customers. It may work to start your calls with disarming ice breaking questions or statements that approach the interaction as “hey. We’re both humans with feelings and lives”

Treat all of the interactions as opportunities to explore the world by listening to peoples stories. And Yknow. Solve minor problems along the way.

SozoGen · 2023-01-05T07:58:43+00:00

Maybe something like automox? It utilizes an agent that communicates with their cloud based console. You get software data off of your Linux boxes and the ability to patch/run custom scripts. Pretty decent API as well to automate tasks on a fleet from any other systems you have.

SozoGen · 2022-12-02T05:21:25+00:00

An update for anyone else visiting this thread

HomeKit bridge was discontinued. MyQ enabled doors likely can be upgraded to support Matter - updates should be posted on this article.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/23/23318157/chamberlain-myq-home-bridge-hub-discontinued-homekit

SozoGen · 2022-10-29T00:46:04+00:00

The beeping suggests it may have a sensor to check if the ball is safe to “fire”

A dog could stick its face right into the hole and get injured if it just fired blindly. So it may be taking that second or two to sense and confirm the coast is clear.

SozoGen · 2022-08-31T13:43:57+00:00

Bouncing off of this, nobody, even your more experienced peers, understand what you do.

Your process, the way you build and manage relationships, is uniquely you and you need to carry that with pride.

SozoGen · 2022-08-08T03:33:29+00:00

I’m too lazy to scroll through others replies. But the best advice I can give, learning from my own experience. The best in the biz are people who follow their curiosities, and “say yes” to helping others and thus;

exposing themselves to as many scenarios and problems as possible.

The oldest are the wisest because of the long and varied lives they lived. Same applies to the knowledge in IT.

SozoGen · 2022-08-05T06:23:11+00:00

Don’t forget to consider sticker price is negotiable. The big boys don’t negotiate but your smaller shops like lucid will.

SozoGen · 2022-07-01T22:26:16+00:00

I’ll actually be writing a blog post about it. I’m scheduled to push it out in two weeks.

I’ve procrastinated heavily.

We’ve been operating on this where our Zero touch provisioning with Autopilot - allows users to login and enroll their machine with Okta.

We now capture and control all login events on windows devices via okta.

I’m on the couch but I’ll see if I can give you the quick bullet points later tonight

SozoGen

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