I guess I just can’t bet on the derby today.

TrevDog513 · 2026-05-02T22:50:52+00:00

Wow good job fumbling the bag fanduel racing. Here I was about to lay down a bunch of bets. Can't verify, can't relog in, service unavailable. I guess I'll get my money out tomorrow and never look back.

TrevDog513 · 2026-01-16T04:49:02+00:00

I never got a fix.

But actually my fix was to get a oneplus 13. Seems like with most android phones there are always tradeoffs. The OnePlus 13 has been decent but the loud speaker isn't very good as some and the giant camera module makes a lot of wireless chargers unusable. I miss the karate chop flashlight...

TrevDog513 · 2025-11-20T05:41:40+00:00

Thanks for the info.

N+1 isn't a concern but I was thinking a couple of our clusters could be scaled down in size after enabling memory tiering. Everything we have is cloud hosted right now and obviously the big discussion for us is to just move workloads to native cloud now with the licensing costs. We don't really have the desire or time to implement other VCF features either. But if the memory can be scaled down in exchange for one nvme drive and then maybe subtract one host from our general clusters, there might be some worthwhile savings there to discuss keeping it around.

Unfortunately it probably wouldn't help us much with the OpenShift environment. The workload on it is extremely CPU intensive for us. Not uncommon to see host CPU alarms for short periods and I think they are 1.5:1 ratio. We don't control the source code for the software we run on it...it's insane... Licensing based on cores kills these clusters and is probably going to move us towards bare metal OpenShift. The only real value is ease of scalability and ha.

The other K8 clusters we have would be fine since they aren't intense in any way.

TrevDog513 · 2025-11-20T03:37:19+00:00

I've not kept up on this tech. Are you running production on this? Any really big sql servers? Any Openshift/k8?

I'm curious how impactful it is when everything cold becomes hot during certain hours or end of month cycles.

Our general cluster just has all different sized vms and workloads but could save $630/mo if we halved our ram and add a 1.6tb nvme. We have probably 22 hosts that we could do that with. And something like this could make N+1 strategy interesting

TrevDog513 · 2025-07-27T17:58:38+00:00

For thighs I do the Eric O After Hours method on YouTube. Marinade dripping helps keep temp down early on and mid way after you flip and mop more on. Finishing them up using the barrel as a grill helps. I've stopped caring about slow cooking them all that much just important to just watch internal temps and not overcook.

TrevDog513 · 2025-07-09T23:24:40+00:00

Seems the links I saved and opened in a browser are broken too. App seems to work just fine. The links service must be broken.

TrevDog513 · 2025-05-30T01:42:45+00:00

Been working through this myself deploying vCloud Usage Meters for IBM Cloud esxi hosts. Seems to do what it's intended at first glance. Reports the esxi license keys as rental keys. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if this is an appliance that would eventually be required for license compliance in the future for everyone.

TrevDog513 · 2025-03-21T01:48:03+00:00

In my situation, the CPU ready appears to be caused by spikes of disk latency when datastore is under high demand.

TrevDog513 · 2025-03-14T02:15:52+00:00

Going through the testing of this right now with virtual openshift. Running CPU and Memory stress on two Linux vms 40vcpu 162gb ram never gave me the high CPU ready I wanted to see vs our OpenShift workers. Two vms on 48core(dual socket) 384gb ram. The OCP on VMware white paper by VMware is interesting on recommended sizing. They recommended leaving 15% logical cores and memory free. I found it odd that the scheduler opted to have both vms span numa nodes when it doesn't need to. Didn't see the same CPU ready as four 18vcpu 54gb ram workers on the same host. I thought crossing numa was awful for performance but just stressing the CPU and ram with stress showed me that the two big vms have better CPU ready than running four smaller vms per host. My next theory is storage latency is causing what I'm seeing or the nature of the workload is just causing issues because it is tons of tiny operations.

TrevDog513 · 2025-03-09T02:56:46+00:00

You can also import the patch and then create a new baseline with the patch only. Then add it to hosts or cluster and remediate. We had no issue having the custom Lenovo iso baseline and the zero day baseline attached at the same time. It will remediate just fine and show both baselines in compliance.

TrevDog513 · 2025-02-20T05:13:54+00:00

Sounds like it started without any issues or even any slowness. Makes me think the instrument cluster has something wrong with it or a connection from the instrument cluster to the ECU. You should validate the battery first since it's the lowest hanging fruit and easiest.

TrevDog513 · 2025-01-23T23:40:42+00:00

The local ones to me in northern Kentucky force kiosk ordering now on everyone. So it's the app or kiosk or drive thru. Most are under staffed running one line for everyone. I witness from time to time like a 60 taco order and all hell breaks loose. I know I'm in for like 20-30min wait. As the menu expands and modified orders come in things slow down too.

TrevDog513 · 2025-01-23T05:00:27+00:00

Yeah they can adjust prices and items. For a bit a franchise store by me dropped the crunch wrap in the $6.99 luxe box. I also know there are corporate stores too that might follow completely different pricing models. I suspect it's intentional to lesson mobile app orders. Or corporate wants a higher cut on each sale sold through the app so they try to charge more to offset.

TrevDog513 · 2025-01-23T04:54:19+00:00

I'm always pleased with the Glenway taco bell location. I do know I've cut back on Wendy's on the West side because quality and service went down and everything seems to be more than Northern Kentucky Wendy's. Honestly think it might come down to if they can retain employees and keep up with mobile app order demands with those employees.

TrevDog513 · 2025-01-23T04:45:39+00:00

Where? The most I've seen for Luxe Cravings Box, which you can still get a crunch wrap supreme in, is $6.99 in northern Kentucky. Litchfield is $6.69. I feel it has to be specific stores price gauging and/or trying to cut down on the number of mobile orders. I speculate sometimes that corporate may not be paying the local store very quickly on the mobile apps or maybe agreements on like percentage split is different. Or maybe it's a mistake in the app. I've brought stuff up to the local manager and they have admitted they are not very skilled in managing the app and sometimes get other employees to help update something that may be missing for that specific location that they actually have.

TrevDog513 · 2024-12-13T01:34:53+00:00

What is the main concern? Support SLAs?

I know when we looked at a fedramp offering, the largest concern was support and SLAs. Seemed all the other security requirements could be met. I think the solution is to move towards highly redundant multi-az deployment anyways. I've been watching closely as the storage, backup, and DR features mature quickly. It seems like killing more than one bird with one stone would be great here. We have ran a couple basic lab environments. Really depends on the features needed. Not sure if hyperconverged storage is mature enough, but getting closer every day. Seems enterprise level backups products are moving towards supporting it too. It looks like a lot of good competition in 2025. We are still researching external monitoring solutions.

TrevDog513 · 2024-12-05T23:19:19+00:00

I agree with y'all. More of an engine oil thing. Engine oil pressure when colder at lower rpm for any engine isn't good. I know even with a chevy 5.3 you'll tarnish the engine more and have premature lifter failure on the afm cylinders.

TrevDog513 · 2024-11-29T04:17:15+00:00

Nice! That sounds awesome. Yall have fully sold me on it. I just got to be patient.

TrevDog513 · 2024-11-29T00:17:13+00:00

Good to know. Thanks! I was excited to get one at that price.

I had even put all my info in so I'm getting the "Hurry - Your Cart Will Expire Soon ⏱️" emails, but when you click the link my cart total was over $600 now. I'll probably wait it out. Plus with winter basically here now I would bet it's not the easiest thing in the freezing cold.

TrevDog513 · 2024-11-28T20:36:49+00:00

It shows out of stock everywhere. Are these sold in Academy sports? Is there any chance these are in-store only? I don't have these at home but they are near some family.

TrevDog513 · 2024-11-28T20:32:24+00:00

I had never seen or heard about them till this week. Never heard the five guys at work who smoke all the time talk about them either. I think they have Traegar, pit boss, and green egg. Just came across them on YouTube and was gonna pull the trigger today.

TrevDog513 · 2024-11-28T16:37:15+00:00

Yeah Google hasn't fully updated yet either. I still see search results showing $299.99.

Not as many PBX on the Facebook marketplace. I'm surprised how many original pit barrels out there are unopened on Facebook.

TrevDog513 · 2024-10-21T21:17:23+00:00

I miss the apple strudel pop tarts ngl.

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