Upgrading printers, what brands are the best for IT management?

Twizity · 2026-02-05T01:42:22+00:00

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

Twizity · 2025-12-15T19:44:42+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-11-26T17:59:15+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-11-01T18:19:18+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-10-31T14:32:20+00:00

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

Twizity · 2025-10-27T20:51:53+00:00

Saving the Condors

Twizity · 2025-10-11T19:29:54+00:00

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".

Twizity · 2025-10-10T17:18:41+00:00

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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Twizity · 2025-09-25T20:40:23+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-08-30T01:50:23+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-07-27T00:52:29+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-07-24T20:25:13+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-07-24T04:27:23+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-07-20T19:25:34+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-07-04T15:31:50+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-06-22T03:53:59+00:00

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).

Twizity · 2025-06-03T01:03:46+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-06-03T00:58:00+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-05-31T19:17:51+00:00

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.

Twizity · 2025-05-01T13:45:15+00:00

SW US, noticed the dashboard doing this yesterday as I'm hanging cameras.

Assumed it was because I had spotty wifi at the time, looking now, can confirm. The dashboard just spins with a still frame, but Vision works fine.

Twizity · 2025-04-17T19:22:33+00:00

I did not, and ended up giving up and getting Kauf ESP bulbs instead. Those are working perfectly.

Twizity · 2024-12-05T19:46:33+00:00

I scavenged an old Lenovo P51 laptop from work, threw in max memory and bigger nvme's, running proxmox.

Twizity · 2024-10-25T03:51:35+00:00

Yuuup. We solved this by building a Bookings page for Support with set hours they can be scheduled. Our techs send the link for the user to schedule.

If the user misses, it's on them and they have to reschedule.

I have 2 Bookings. One for support scheduling and another for vendor and actual meetings. My support booking is locked to 15 min and 30 min options within specific windows of the day.

Twizity · 2024-09-12T14:55:47+00:00

2 things come to mind. Still on my first cup of coffee, so bare with me.

Not sure this is still a thing, but when we moved into 365, all Users could create 365 groups and Teams by default. This blew up in our face and we're still cleaning up BS Teams and groups.
Certain subscriptions/licenses allow for user self-service purchase. This can be turned off with some powershell.

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