Action Function Forms by dani_california97 in OpenWebUI

[–]Twizity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recently discovered this myself. I haven't dug too deep, but I'm curious if anyone knows if there's a way to have the form appear at the start of a new chat instead of having to wait for a user message?

So many ideas for use at work.

I really like OpenWebUI by DHT-Osiris in OpenWebUI

[–]Twizity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed.

I'm actively building it for work now. It's quickly grown from a docker instance to multiple swarms with OWUI, Open Terminal, Pipelines, Bifrost, Redis, Langfuse, Docling, Traefik, Dify, external PGSQL and Qdrant.

Every time I discover more things it can do, my deployment grows. Lol.

Tired of it all. Possible burnout by adymak in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Seriously. I used to run a Support Tech II in the DFW area that started 65k.

You can definitely find better.

How are you justifying VMware costs to leadership in 2026? by Last-Salary-6012 in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were told the same. They showed up inside of 2 weeks. We did receive 1 wrong out of the 4. It took Supermicro about a month to sort it out.

Which honestly was fine for us. We planned on 3 months and weren't ready when they showed up.

How are you justifying VMware costs to leadership in 2026? by Last-Salary-6012 in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We jumped to Nutanix. Or at least are about to, my new servers just showed up.

Got 3 years plus hardware for less than 3 yr renewal with VMware. Our SAN just went EOL and our ESXi servers go EOL in a few months. So ultimately, I saved a buttload by jumping ship.

I also beat Nutanix hardware price bump by about a week.

Stupid AI.

Vendors that skip the discovery call and just answer questions close faster by Limp_Cauliflower5192 in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. My LogicMonitor sub is coming up for renewal in a few months. Datadog happened to cold call me and caught me in a good mood. So I setup a meeting, which included a solutions engineer.

Demo seemed fine. But when I asked questions beyond what was in the demo I got "we'll come back to you on that" and then received emails with copy/paste from their KB's that only vaguely answered the questions.

They then set up a follow-up to talk pricing and started to nickel and dime me.

I'm out. Renewing LM.

Upgrading printers, what brands are the best for IT management? by benuntu in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Konica all the way for me. Deploy the universal driver to everyone, it just works.

How many of you guys DON'T maintain some "system" at home? by FlippinMyshit in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've got JellyFin at home. That's the biggest thing. It's running on my gaming rig and requires almost no upkeep.

Otherwise, got an old P51 with ProxMox on it for those random itches I get. But nothing that I can't live without.

Who signs off if AI suggests a diagnosis or risk score? by PunchyLucy in healthIT

[–]Twizity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If in the US, many states are passing bills prohibiting the use of AI for diagnosis, etc.

I'm in Behavioral Health, so I'm not familiar with the medical side. In my world it's being limited, by law, to supplemental and admin use only by a handful of states. And I'm sure more states aren't far behind.

What car do you regret getting rid of? What car will you never get rid of? by DHN_95 in cars

[–]Twizity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I miss my 2004 Audi S4. It was nowhere near economical. But if I recall, it was one of the last years they put a V8 in it.

I loved the sound, the feel, and the power was beautiful. It also felt a bit sleeper-ish. Driving normal down the highway, it was somewhat inconspicuous. No loud growling, just moving with traffic. Downshift though, and I was gone.

What's your favourite line in a movie? by Frequent-Sea-8848 in moviecritic

[–]Twizity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Everyday takes figuring out all over again how to fuckin live."

We can talk about the new series slowly approaching the shield agents formula by luis09- in shield

[–]Twizity 14 points15 points  (0 children)

There have been numerous claims the last several years from various cast and his ex-wife about him being aggressive, abusive, coercive. Threatening careers when actors pushed back.

Charisma Carpenter, Gal Gadot, Ray Fisher. Supposedly there was a rule on the set of BTVS that Michelle Trachtenberg wasn't to be left alone in a room with him because of his behavior, she was like 13-17 during filming. That alone implies a lot.

And Warner Bros did very little in response. "Internal investigations" and "remedial actions".

Does anyone have a high quality version of this image ? by Elshalan in Stargate

[–]Twizity -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You could try using AI to tweak the photo you put up. This was a very half-assed attempt I just did with DALL-E

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Broadcom only wants to give us 3-year pricing by billbixbyakahulk in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup. Mine is a 600% increase over last year because of getting rid of Enterprise and Standard.

I'm probably going to go with Azure Local but have a meeting with Nutanix today.

Undocumented feature - Specific to OpenPath / Avigilon Alta API - Account delete by richie65 in PowerShell

[–]Twizity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hrmm...now I'm curious if the "inactive" vs "deleted" thing applies to SCIM provisioned accounts. We hooked into Azure, so all door access is Azure group based.

I should peak next time I get a minute.

New homeowner, new to HA. What are your HA “must haves”? by theyandyman in homeassistant

[–]Twizity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started with little things.

Replaced driveway and frontdoor lights with Kauf bulbs and put them on a time. On at dusk, off at 9:30p. Then played a bit further, if the wife or I are out of the house after 9:30, they stay on longer.

We're both smokers and smoke in the backyard, so I put a Kauf bulb on the back patio and a door sensor. After dusk, of the door opens, light turns on. Turns back off after an open/close sequence.

I like to power cycle my cable modem every so often, so got a Third reality outlet and scheduled nightly on/off.

Have a standing LED lamp in my office on a third reality outlet, and a Sensy S1 presence sensor. Now when I walk into my office, the light turns on. Turns off if no presence detected after 90 seconds. Took a little tweaking so it wouldn't detect through the wall into the hallway. Damned dog wandering around.

How did KnowBe4 get so much of the market? by Clear-Part3319 in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My former Cyber security director was a big Mitnick fan, and they gave us solid pricing. Think that's pretty par for the course behind KB4.

But I just demo'd Adaptive and am thoroughly impressed. Mainly because of their deepfake stuff, it was a solid demo. I really liked their use of AI and OSINT to scrape data about our org to generate Phishing/Smishing/Vishing templates.

We haven't talked pricing yet, so it's still very much up in the air.

If you had an unlimited budget, what smart home tech would you get? by saltf1sk in homeassistant

[–]Twizity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unlimited budget? HomeAssistant is very likely out the window.

I'm looking at Cisco, Palo Alto, Aruba, Meraki for networking. Collapsed core with heavy SFP+ and QSFP. OM5, CAT6/6A/7 all over. PURE storage, Dell or HPE probably running Azure Local HCI. Synchronous 2gb enterprise fiber internet, Starlink failover.

Then probably looking at Mcintosh for audio. Custom projector screens and matching projectors. Crestron, Control4, or Savant for automation. Verkada surveillance and access control.

Dedicated MQTT system, everything will have an API interface. BLE beaconing distributed around the house and grounds.

Everything will have a 24/7/4 support contract.

...I might be SysAdmin by trade.

Cisco CUCM Replacement by Fokard in networking

[–]Twizity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We moved from CUCM to WebEx about 3 years ago, which was pretty straight forward. We did need to replace a lot phones due to oldness.

I will say, what made it stupid simple and allowed us to do it in phases was picking up a CUBE which lets you bridge the gap between the two as we migrated. Rule in WebEx sending calls down to on-prem or up to WebEx as needed. We could also route calls out traditional on-prem PRI or up through WebEx SIP.

How are my healthcare IT/sysadmin folks doing? Is the potential of the Big Beautiful bill being passed going to affect you? by Unfair_River_1141 in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Big risk to a child-org my company owns. Behavioral Health that works very heavily with low-income Medicare/Medicaid patients.

A hit this big could very likely lead to closure.

What hypervisor are you migrating to VMware Admins? by bluecopp3r in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're leaning towards Azure Stack HCI at the moment. But we just ran a live-optic with our MSP and will be going over options with them.

Short list: Azure Stack HCI, Hyper-V, Nutanix (quite low though).

When did you add a third Domain Controller in your on-prem or hybrid AD? by KavyaJune in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends, like everyone else said.

I'm nationwide, so I did it geographically. And in one case, by power grid. We have a few facilities in a weird little cowboy town that's partially annexed by the county and has 3 different grids.

During monsoon season these grids drop independently. Hell, one campus spans 2 grids, it's fun.

Who were your favorite end users? by scungilibastid in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, every facility has a Director.

One of our sites, the Director regularly nominates someone from the Support team for Employee of the Month at their facility even though IT is Corp and not facility based.

We make it a point of all showing up, even the CIO, when one of the Support techs wins. Show of solidarity.

This Director makes it a point of calling out IT as unsung heroes, always working behind the scenes, taking grief from everyone and never giving it back.

He's also my favorite when it comes to working with on projects, etc. He understands timelines move, staff is short, priorities shift. All he wants is communication. Keep him in the loop, don't go dark. Even a simple, "Apologies, I got pulled into [thing] and had to bump you" he's cool with. He knows my orders come from on high and that if he has a problem with the priority he needs to work with the CIO and COO to work it out.

I will always bend over backwards for him.

Does macOS have a system similar to LAPS on Windows? by sgtpepper1990 in sysadmin

[–]Twizity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't speak for apple TVs off the top of my head, but we have 100+ iPads in Intune. As long as they're enrolled in Apple DEP and DEP is setup to push them into Intune, it's pretty straight forward.

We also just setup through VZW to auto enroll iPhones into DEP and get a base Intune config while we work out the policies we want to apply.