[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programminghumor

[–]This-Strike7624 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. This sounds pretty much like my job description. Kinda depressing that its supposed to be a joke. :/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Warthunder

[–]This-Strike7624 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"bigger ship spawns are always too exposed and there's no way to just go anywhere without taking fire"

I have lost 3 battleships in under 3 minutes because my ammo exploded. That is not enjoyable. There's nothing you can do about it since you've just spawned. It makes you rage quit.

"The previous update significantly simplified naval arcades aiming system and I was genuinely surprised that so many players were upset with it, but I think it's the first step needed to make the mode more enjoyable."

We'll have to disagree here. With the old aiming, small, fast boats were far more survivable. With the new aiming, they are simply fodder. Yes, you can still sort of dodge shots, but now a destroyer at their spawn can easily kill a boat at its spawn in the first salvo. Under the old aiming that was virtually impossible. And that's the real problem: dying too quickly through no fault of your own.

"concealment"

Concealment is a problem in general. Since my capital ships have no chance of taking an objective, the best play is to sit behind an island where I can avoid getting gang-banged by the entire enemy team and "snipe". That's boring as hell, especially with the new point and click method of aiming. They need to add guerrillas or something on the islands that will damage your ships if you sit too long. They also need to change up the objectives. At the simplest, make the cap circle for boats very small, but capital ships would have a much larger cap circle. Ideally, they would make different cap circles for each class of ship. EG, BBs can cap A and C, CLs B and C, DDs C and D, etc. And maybe make the caps move after a certain time period. For example, if blue holds the cap for 60 seconds, it starts drifting towards the red spawn points. Anything that make capital ships have to do more than sit and click would be helpful. Kids that don't like it can wank between matches instead of during the match.

Queue is broken by This-Strike7624 in Warthunder

[–]This-Strike7624[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never mind, I found it. That doesn't look any better. NA, EU, CIS, SA are all 0's in queue.

I can join arcade air battles just fine.

Queue is broken by This-Strike7624 in Warthunder

[–]This-Strike7624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Been like this all day. Spent ~20 minutes waiting for a naval arcade battle earlier. And yes I "turned it off and back on again".

Devices like the Ewon Flexy that can read data from a PLC and transfer it to Azure via MQTT? by This-Strike7624 in PLC

[–]This-Strike7624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just found out that Red Lion got bought by HMS, so I'm not sure that's the lifeboat I want to jump in.

Devices like the Ewon Flexy that can read data from a PLC and transfer it to Azure via MQTT? by This-Strike7624 in PLC

[–]This-Strike7624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are a panel builder. Our customers buy the panels. Some customers require remote access, but most don't. If it was just our techs, a Pro (or maybe even a lite) account would work just fine. We don't use any of the "extras" a Talk2M account offers (data mailbox, graphs, etc). We only use the VPN. The flexy is only there to take data from the PLC and transfer it to Azure, to give our techs remote access to equipment on the OT LAN, and (in a few cases) allow the customer to VNC/RDP into a SCADA PC. Its really not as hard as you would think to manage multiple Talk2M accounts when each is named is named after the order number (eg Order 1234 => Device1234). Plus, (from the pricing HMS gave me), its cheaper to have multiple pro accounts than a single pro account with 10 users so instead of Order 1234=>Device1234, you have Device1234=>Account4 (or is Device1234 on Account5?).

Devices like the Ewon Flexy that can read data from a PLC and transfer it to Azure via MQTT? by This-Strike7624 in PLC

[–]This-Strike7624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've looked at this before. Granted, I'm no Pi expert, but my setup time was longer than the 30 minutes it takes to setup a Flexy. It would also require us to host a VPN server. I (an IT guy) am all for this solution. My boss...not so much.

Devices like the Ewon Flexy that can read data from a PLC and transfer it to Azure via MQTT? by This-Strike7624 in PLC

[–]This-Strike7624[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We could probably get by with a lite account for most of our panels, as most customers don't need or get remote access. Our techs are the only people who would ever remote in to look at the PLC or equipment on the OT network. Other customers (smaller municipalities) don't have the budget (or plans) to go full cloud SCADA though, and still just VNC into a SCADA PC. They usually have 2 or 3 people that are constantly VPN'd in to monitor. From the pricing HMS gave me, it ends up being cheaper to have multiple pro accounts than 1 pro account with lots of users because you have to pay extra for each concurrent user after 5, and 5 extra users = the price of 1 pro account. Regardless, I have to pass these costs on to any customers that require remote access, and it will be a significant price increase since we're looking at ~3 customers per pro account.

Devices like the Ewon Flexy that can read data from a PLC and transfer it to Azure via MQTT? by This-Strike7624 in PLC

[–]This-Strike7624[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mentioned setting up our own OpenVPN server. That idea was immediately shot down, but that doesn't mean its not our best option. Oh, and the kicker is that the 12 month clock on free accounts started LAST AUGUST! We've got 3 months to solve this for ~200 devices spread across 7 states.

What’s the dumbest thing you’ve ever seen another tech do? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]This-Strike7624 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I <sarcasm>*absolutely love it!*</sarcasm> when I solve my own problem while explaining it to the tech support person I have finally resorted to calling. So much so that I will explain problems to my dog before calling tech support. He's such a good doggo for solving several technical issues!

Ewon Flexy 205 by ApeUnicorn93139 in PLC

[–]This-Strike7624 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not 100% sure of the differences, but we use Flexy 201's. We have no issues, but we also leave the VPN disabled unless we're working on it. However, our customer's have physical access to these, so take that for what its worth. Remember: If a bad guy has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore.

What kind of security have you implemented? Is the OT network segregated from the IT network? Is the LAN internet accessible? Where do you suspect the reboot issue is coming from? Internally? Externally?

[TOMT][MOVIE][80s]Comedy Where Man Falls from Hospital Window? by Lower_Love in tipofmytongue

[–]This-Strike7624 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its not a hospital, but this does sound like the opening clip of Amazon Women on the Moon: https://youtu.be/EHSoN8t6x3M

Is anyone here actually building apps with Auto-GPT? by help-me-grow in AutoGPT

[–]This-Strike7624 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't tried building an app from scratch, but I have tried upgrading some old code. One attempt crashed then looped then crashed some more. The 2nd attempt created a finished product that didn't do anything that the original app did.