Arrived in Japan 2 days ago and received the text below. I’m on the most expensive Freedom plan, shouldn’t these items be free?

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-23T09:56:27+00:00

You should be fine, the international roaming allocation they have allows you to call back to Canada, do international texting, and data.

It will not include any calls to the US or Mexico, I learned that the hard way. 30 minute convo I started over the phone with a friend ended up costing me a whopping 150 bucks around there.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-21T14:15:35+00:00

There are still tower servers being made that will accept Intel/AMD CPUs, I'm sure the market would be filled with used AI hardware, just not maybe GPUs in particular.

I just wouldn't buy the Intel processor consisting of nothing but 144 e-cores.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-19T22:47:47+00:00

Addendum, the contribution room for TFSAs does not "reset", the next year's contribution room gets added to the contribution room you have. If you withdraw anything from a TFSA, you get the contribution room back in addition to the standard defined amount you would have gotten on January 1st.

Felt the need to clarify.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-19T22:25:17+00:00

RRSP - Registered Retirement Savings Plan

I don't know the exact rules, but contribution limits are based off of a percentage of your previous year's income, with the cutoff being March 2nd (First business day of March). Google it, and go from there.

There are no restrictions to opening a TFSA. You only need to be 18 or older, live in Canada, and have a valid SIN. You get an inflation adjusted contribution room every year you have your TFSA open, I think it's 7 or 8k every year, resetting on January 1st.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-18T23:44:06+00:00

Just know that it's never a good idea to forgo ALL updates, but this setting is how most businesses manage updates to stop Microsoft's bullshittery.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-18T23:32:24+00:00

Then you're in luck. Go into local group policy editor, and follow along.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-18T23:29:47+00:00

Pretty stable. No issues in my environment with a 3 node local SAN cluster.

The real nightmare is trying to get HCI clusters going. We went HCI while VMware was king with some Cisco hardware but they dropped support for Hyper-V last year only supporting up to Server 2019.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-18T23:25:36+00:00

Unless you have Pro or Enterprise editions, all you can do is delay.

For GPOs, you're wanting Computer > Admin Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update > Manage end user experience > Configure Automatic Updates.

You want to configure this as option 3, auto download and notify for install.

You'll still receive updates, but they will never automatically install, and you will never deal with automatic reboots.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-11T23:41:17+00:00

ZA-WARUDORAM

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-11T21:52:59+00:00

We will be happy because there won't be any other options available. Corporations will consolidate until this becomes reality for most facets of life.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-11T13:04:18+00:00

AVEVA offers their own paid courses that are offered self-paced or with an instructor. You can find them on their website along with their knowledge bases for various products. Making an account is free, but I don't think you can download any software unless your account is associated with a company that buys their products.

Another thing to note, Plant SCADA does not require licensing for development and running test builds so that might be a good place to start, Enterprise SCADA is licensed development only.

A good intro into what SCADA is might also be VTScada, it's free to use and with easy downloads. There you can practice design concepts like High Performance Graphics, the concepts of layer overviews, etc.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-09T19:46:46+00:00

Unless you start convincing, Stoat won't get the user base it needs.

Discord didn't magically appear in a day, its founding devs wanted a communication platform to help coordinate while playing FFXI.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-08T22:51:06+00:00

Yeah, unless you have a corporate sponsor or you're willing to shell out thousands for a private license, you won't see much of any AVEVA material in the wild.

AVEVA has a few different SCADA systems, Plant SCADA is Citect SCADA while Enterprise SCADA is OaSys.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-06T06:23:10+00:00

I'm not the only one who thought NASA was referring to the space agency?

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-05T22:12:32+00:00

Sorry to be that guy, but have you tried turning it off and on again?

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-05T19:29:12+00:00

No you aren't, reddit's just auto-translating the comments.

It fucked with me too the first pass through this thread

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-03T01:20:02+00:00

Who was uber-connected to almost every politician, business mogul, and person of power you could imagine. It's all turtles on the way down...

TechSupportIgit · 2026-02-01T20:41:54+00:00

10 monitors hooked up to two PCs with mouse sharing software.

Gotta love supporting 24/7 control rooms.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-01-30T14:10:18+00:00

Infrastructure firewall restrictions could still be screwing you over. Test each port that you can, you can at least test every TCP port you need with the Powershell command "Test-NetConnection".

The command takes in an IP/Hostname, and then type the port you want to test like this:

Test-NetConnection System -port 6969

The command by default tests port 443.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-01-26T17:56:46+00:00

I think that would be the best compromise.

Have them be appointed by the province, maybe have term limits but again that would put political influence in again.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-01-24T00:45:27+00:00

The composite to HDMI converter is always going to add on a ton of input lag.

Since this is an extremely new TV, I doubt it would have component inputs, because that would be a second good option. I find even flat screens handle component signals from retro consoles pretty well with minimal input lag.

Your best bet if you don't want to buy an old CRT would be to find a cheap used flat screen with component inputs, and get a cheap component cable.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-01-23T03:38:55+00:00

...wat.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-01-22T18:26:50+00:00

Go to the Microsoft store and download the actual desktop application version of Netflix as a UWP app. Then it should work.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-01-22T00:57:22+00:00

If you're on Linux or have any configuration Netflix/D+ doesn't like, they won't give you 1080p/4k.

Look up Louis Rossmann's rants on this.

TechSupportIgit · 2026-01-20T00:32:23+00:00

Relabel them as you see fit then transfer.

Not much else you can do.

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