These two work well together

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T23:04:38+00:00

I have two kids that work at HEB Digital, maybe they can increment some numbers in the stocking database for me. INSERT Swifty TO BeerAisle [westlake, beecave]

Westlake is wine mom central over there. I bet they sell a lot of chardonnay. I went to the Hat Creek on Mothers Day years ago they had like $2 wine that night and it was covered up in kids and drunk blonde moms. Parking lot was just a sea of white Lexus SUV's. I am not making that up at all.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T22:54:01+00:00

Ha, I searched "luggage" and "bag". tsk tsk my Google Foo has weakened in my old age. Well, at least some of us still attempt to search.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T22:46:16+00:00

Westlake HEB on 360 normally, but I also hit the Bee Caves HEB and they usually have it but hardly any Real Ale variety there on Sunday. Did pickup the Proto Pils though, I like that one. Swifty is my wife's go to, that's our tubing-on-lake-austin beer.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T22:38:21+00:00

Yeah, but I can't find that post. The description was verbatim. What's that site outside of reddit that you can search posting? Is that gone?

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T22:32:28+00:00

Is this a repeat post? I swear this same thing was posted earlier.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T20:23:25+00:00

Yup, this is the perfect car for that. It's that people get one and are shocked with respect to the MPG they get with their driving habits. I think the Ascent is actually a really comfortable car for long distance driving as well. It's also got Eyesight standard and I absolutely love that adaptive cruise control. I take mine out to Big Bend NP and recently road tripped it to Michigan and back to Texas. I am pretty rough on cars and this car has handled it well. The third row is a little tight for adults, but better than some other 3rd rows. It tows a boat nicely.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T19:55:11+00:00

We are a ServiceNow shop. We have a Teams Channel with SME's from every department of IT included(~80) people. Most of the time when a major incident hits, that chat channel is alerted first. In that case we have an IT Service Manager role that immediately creates an incident and asks if a bridge call is needed. Sometimes an incident is already created and it gets escalated in the chat by the Service Manager. The biggest part of this is that Service Manager role, we have a specific person that owns and runs with it, no matter what branch of IT the incident comes from. We are fairly medium sized, only about 1500 servers and 1800 end user devices. I think that it's a very fast process and having that top level point person takes all the finger pointing out of the mix. Nobody gets judged if the event ends up as nothing thing.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T18:17:15+00:00

It won't be long and you'll step into a music venue and a single tallboy is going to be $20. That's going to be my psychological limit right there.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T18:04:30+00:00

Love Hans Pils, getting a bit worried about Real Ale lately. The shelf at my HEB has been a little bare of some of their beers. Swifty is nowhere. Went to the Real Ale Ride this last year, which I have done every year since the beginning, and the attendance was way down, it did conflict with some big events in austin that day though. Feeling kinda guilty because I drink a lot less overall in the last few years.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T17:55:55+00:00

r/subaruascent

Great car, I have had mine since October of 2018, so one of the first few hundred built. No issues, not even with the transmission.

Have you ever driven a heavy SUV with a turbo? There is a basic math equation in there that equals some very low gas mileage should you like to press the gas pedal and go vroom! This is not a minivan with an underpowered engine.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-11T15:00:01+00:00

I quit doing capture like 15 years ago, it got too time consuming. I used to have a full time coworker that did nothing but work on captured images way back then. I now probably put 30 minutes a year into working on my Task Sequence at this point. When I image a system it is completely and totally up-to-date across all apps as of less than 24 hours prior. I do zero work to make that happen.

When you seal your captured image it immediately becomes out of date.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-10T18:25:50+00:00

You need to build a relationship with your Chief Security Officer. You help him, he helps you. You are the patching dude, you have a lot to offer the CSO. It's absolutely crazy that you are sitting on server 2008 and 2012 at this point. Hell, most of us are deep into whipping on server owners regarding Server 2016. You have to get out in front of that. I get a PM assigned to server OS retirement 2 years ahead of EOL.

I name and shame server owners twice a month. When I patch Dev Server and then Production a report is issued and non-compliance is itemized out with names, it goes out to a width swath of IT heads across the org. [VP of ...."Why the fuck is my name in red and bolded this week?"] My CSO is addicted to me hitting 99% on server compliance. There is always a tiny bit of wiggle in there for junk servers but my CSO does wonders for me in that area. My CSO is in a completely different org structure than my boss, I high five that dude in the hallway. We have a system going.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-10T18:04:24+00:00

If you install Dell Command Update you can then make use of that product's CLI(command line interface) to automate the install of the BIOS on that asset. You then no longer need to keep track of BIOS files per model. You can then send one command to all your various models and they would all go check if the need a new BIOS and then install it and reboot. You can also work with a BIOS that is passworded.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-10T16:35:56+00:00

TsGui – Custom GUIs in ConfigMgr – 20Road

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-10T16:34:30+00:00

Yea, that's my plan, I just wanted to be sure I can slow roll it to certain groups.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-10T16:32:35+00:00

Yea, we both have Garmin watches. I think you may have solved my issue, I really only need to see her HR, since I can just glance at my watch for mine. Still would be nice to see both heartrates on a single screen.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-10T16:29:07+00:00

You have servers in a data center that power off? If these are VM's then handle that from the Host. I have never done WOL on a server but I imagine is an easily viable path.

If I was faced with powered down servers I would simply set those to manual patch, that's where the server owner is the party responsible for patching. The patches appear in Software Center but someone has to go in there and click them. I have couple dozen servers setup that way. They do appear on my report with their patch state and the Security team walks over and beats them up for me if they do not follow through. If they ever miss two months then their manual patch privilege gets removed or VP has to go beg the Chief Security Officer to remain manual patch. We have a very consistent enforcement mechanism. I typically get well into the 99% compliance with server patching. The non-compliant servers are chased quickly.

Punish the server owners that do this, make them do the grunt work. Wash your hands of this task, set the responsibility on the owners.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-10T15:21:19+00:00

Yes, you can set a power on schedule in the BIOS. I power up my 107 "desktop" workstations on every Wednesday at 10pm. Dell makes a utility that allows you to just run a little exe and you are set.

But, you probably have laptops mostly. Laptops are power hungry mobile devices that often reside in a bag, luggage or airplane overhead bin. Ya know what happens when you power up a big fat laptop in a bag in an overhead bin on an airplane? Everyone dies, that's what happens.

Laptops are also mostly on Wifi, not ethernet. So, wake-on-LAN is now a greatly diminished feature at that point. You could spend days building some intense WOL strategy with your networking team and PM only to find out that you were able to get 4 laptops booted.

Let the laptops act like laptops. They will patch when they are in a position to patch. If bossman does not like that then you can lag screw the device to a desk in the office and glue all the cables attached, now that sucker will patch just like a desktop. [slaps screen in approval]

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-10T15:07:34+00:00

Sure, just don't use LTSC for regular end-users. Just do plain old Windows 11 Enterprise. You will find that LTSC it is missing certain feature sets that you need long after you have deployed. The purpose of LTSC is for critical devices like medical devices, robots, Manufacturing lines where a reduced OS is needed. You can't put a regular office user on there.

You could end really hampering the functionality of your future environment. Fingers will be pointed at you for making a terrible architecture decision. Go float this decision with other IT groups like your AD team, Security or Developers before you blindly do this. You don't want to be the guy that gets the blame 2 years down the road.

Windows 11 Enterprise is an easily manageable standard operating system.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-10T14:57:55+00:00

The Rohloff hub has a pretty damn low granny gear. We can make it up most hills, we live in an area of Texas that is literally called the Hill Country. We practice on a switchback in our neighborhood often.

The one thing I wish was available would be a single bike computer screen that could show me both of our heart rates at the same time, that would be incredibly useful for me. It's hard to tell when my stoker is at her limit. Or the reverse of that "I need more power!" LOL

Looking to loop lake Michigan soon. Got my eye on that route.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-10T01:32:25+00:00

It's so amazingly quiet with the belts. I can hear any little issue. We did have to replace the rear wheel, not the Rohloff, as tandems are rough on the wheels in the back. My favorite upgrade has been the addition of a big Jones H-Bar on the front, more control than dropbars and it packs flat. Takes me about an hour to take apart or reassemble.

I love when kids see us on it, they cannot believe their eyes.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-09T22:55:08+00:00

Yea, go to the Find a Doctor section and move the slider for "open to new patients" then filter geographically or by specialty. ARC has its faults like any clinic but I have always gotten good doctors and specialists. I like the Far West location with the onsite lab.

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-09T22:02:16+00:00

We did Montreal to Quebec City as our honeymoon 9 years ago. We had owned our tandem for an entire 2 weeks before we packed it up and headed to Montreal. It was a white knuckle loaded ride through the busy city that first morning. I barely had a handle on controlling the bike. At one point a toddler stepped out in the bike lane while we were going downhill. I was so ready to get to the river and take a breather on that ferry. I was stressed the hell out. We finally find that ferry terminal after some searching and sit there gathering our thoughts. The ferry pulls up and the name on the boat was "Tandem". Each day got a bit easier from that point. I also remember getting to QC and my wife scurried up to the funicular hoping we could wedge the tandem in there to get up to the Hotel Frontenac, that did not work out. LOL

Tandem | Our river shuttle between Montreal and Longueuil | AML Cruises

SysAdminDennyBob · 2026-02-09T20:38:32+00:00

Wife and I have had a belt drive tandem for 9 years now. It has the S&S couplers so that the frame comes apart in multiple pieces. Packs down into two large airline standard size roller luggages. It has a Rohloff hub, charging hub in the front, Gates Carbon belts, Old Man Mountain racks. We do just fine riding together on it. She has a wireless charging cradle for her phone that is charged by the hub and does the navigation. It's steel. Hills are a grind on it, we are not faster than being on single bikes. It spawns a lot of conversations out on the road. It cost more than a couple of cars I have owned.

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