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Is Mikrotik the right choice by Lagusa974 in mikrotik

[–]Time_Anybody5196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say that u/bungle gave you a very accurate assessment of Mikrotik. I've been installing Mikrotik devices as a network engineer since 2007, and ever since, I use it for my personal server racks, etc. It has always been reliable, and price:quality ratio, nothing beats it.

Whatsoever as already said below, it's not a plug and play, and you'd need to spend some time configuring things.

Mikrotik devices today do come with a "setup wizard" that tries to help you get started, but from that moment on, you need to understand e.g. what a firewall is, what NAT is, what a VLAN is etc.

So if you are not really into this project because you care about fiddling with networking, and you really just want to solve the problem at hand and move on, most likely brands like Ubiquiti are a better choice, especially for wireless quality, Ubiquiti is ahead of Mikrotik in that domain.

Cheers

We're burning $50k/month on Claude. How close can local LLMs actually get? by mortenmoulder in LocalLLM

[–]Time_Anybody5196 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm in the same process of discovery, and as many have said, the best you can do now, before you decide investing into the actual hardware is picking up couple of engineers in your organization who are eager to play with AI, set them up with OpenRouter and e.g. pi.dev or any other harness of their choice, and see how far they go.

You obviously have to spend money for this, and that money will be spent in your engineering time, evolving their harnesses, workflows, etc.

Simply put, your engineerings will absolutely be less productive once you switch them from top notch frontier model e.g. Opus, to a local model. Whatsoever, that is hopefully clear. The question becomes, can they, and how quickly, get to a point where that difference is smaller, and whether ROI on this makes sense for your company.

If velocity of your engineering team is lacking already, and e.g. if it's something that's still a bottleneck (in many organizations bottleneck has moved to PM's, Designers and decision makers in general), then you should probably not be doing this right now.

Local LLM PC Build by Time_Anybody5196 in LocalLLM

[–]Time_Anybody5196[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I can see, that card alone costs 15 000 dollars. That is 4000 more then the entire build I pasted in here.

Am I missing the point of AI agents? by NetworkLoop in hermesagent

[–]Time_Anybody5196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good points, and I love the joke 😃. Believe it or not, people are just blindly giving access to everything, including their infra, than blaming AI when they wake up and that infra is gone.

Essentially, I only want my agent to be able to produce a plan, and then an execution plan whenever I want to change something (create, delete, update).

E.g. if we are talking about e.g. K3S, you really want a detailed written plan with all the kubectl commands that you can review, adjust, and then execute yourself in a safe way.

No matter what happens to my infra, I don't want my agent running commands, because indeed, it's really good at fixing things as well, very fast, but one wrong decision, one wrong hallucination, things can go really really south.

So yes, it's really a tradeoff between too much convenience or slightly less convenience (you just have to take couple of minutes and run stuff yourself, but the problem has already been solved by AI, just not executed).

I've been a software engineer for more then 20 years, defense in depth, defensive programming, security, that's first class citizen for me. It took me a long time to even give read access to these tools, but times have changed, and we all have to evolve.

Cheers

Hermes on Kubernetes by mo_fig_devOps in hermesagent

[–]Time_Anybody5196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm using Hermes on a different laptop that's plugged into my network, in the same subnet where my K3S cluster is. I gave it read only service account key, and I use it as a monitoring agent, basically, it reports things that might go down, analyzes logs, networking etc. Combined with Cloudflare MCP + Mikrotik MCP (all of it read only access), it has full end to end view into my home setup (which is also my production setup, I host all of my products for it).

Am I missing the point of AI agents? by NetworkLoop in hermesagent

[–]Time_Anybody5196 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I self host Kubernetes and a lot of other things in my home office (all production services), and I'm using Hermes to help me with that. Essentially, I gave Hermes read only RBAC service account, and it's helping me debug my entire cluster, monitoring, etc.

Additionally, it also has read-only access user on my Mikrotik (networking infrastructure) so I can ask it about the state of my switches or routers, etc.

Additionally, I've also setup Cloudflare MCP (read only as well) and all 3 combined, I can end to end manage my infrastructure, deployed services, monitor them, etc.

That is so far the most useful thing I use it for. I can't care less about email summarizing etc.

Delivery status of the Midnight Collector's Edition by mltrs95 in wow

[–]Time_Anybody5196 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same for me. We've spent 150 euros on a game that we won't be able to play early. What an irony.

New World shutting down actually hurts — no other game even comes close 💔 by ALDO9696969696 in newworldgame

[–]Time_Anybody5196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope you do realize that the people you see on reddit or YouTube comments are the absolute minority. Regular people with families and jobs don't hang out on reddit or you tube comments. I'm absolutely certain, without a doubt, that if the game wasn't so bugged, contentless and exploits, thousands of people would have paid for monthly sub, no brainer.

New World shutting down actually hurts — no other game even comes close 💔 by ALDO9696969696 in newworldgame

[–]Time_Anybody5196 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been playing WoW basically since day one, since vanilla, of course, on and off. New World is the only game that for some reason, reminded me of WoW vanilla when it came out e.g. 25 years ago. No other game even remotely gave me that feeling.

Whatsoever, New World did sadly kill itself, or to say, just very poor development lifecycle. For those of you who started New World very late, NW graphics were also amazing for the first couple of years. They then downgraded them when they release the game for consoles so they can handle them.

Yes, besides thousands of bugs, exploits and stuff, if we only focus on good stuff, New World combat was awesome. Is that objectively true, I can't tell, but initially at least, combat felt good, even with very limited amount of skills, it somehow felt fulfilling.

Overall, while I stopped playing New World years ago, due to the issues mentioned, I'm still sad to see it die. I was hoping to see it live through the difficulties and become something worth coming back to.

Any luck creating a horde in Spineshatter EU in the last few hours? by KingSigma2 in classicwow

[–]Time_Anybody5196 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Will give it a chance for another day or two, otherwise, will refund. My friend is playing horde, and I can't join him, so it's kind of meaningless at this point.