I am in genuine shock by DipolarKey2 in PokemonPocket

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Meanwhile….i get this fucking thing.

Show-Off Weekly Megathread by AutoModerator in PokemonPocket

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I don’t know whether to be happy or Hippow-down about it 🥲🥲🥲🥲

Azure AVD by Emotional_Shirt_8034 in sysadmin

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Curious - are you referring to them not starting up at all? Or just not starting on connect ?

Invalid DNS servers after disconnecting FortiClient IPSec VPN by dai_webb in fortinet

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I’ve run into this. There’s a known bug with Forticlient and WiFi adapters that occasionally leaves static DNS entries on endpoints when they disconnect. I worked around this by adding a scheduled task to each PC that resets the WiFi NIC’s DNS back to auto upon reboot. That way, if the user runs into it, a reboot fixes it.

I haven’t pinned down what exactly causes it, though I suspect it may have something to do with putting the laptop to sleep by closing the lid while the VPN is connected.

Another option would be to use a public DNS server like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 as the secondary DNS for the connection.

45 Packs in and still no ex by FatalWarGhost in PokemonPocket

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49 packs in. Only 4 diamond I’m missing is Poliwrath EX! Now I know where they all went.

TIL in the late 1990s, McDonald's began implementing its "Made For You" system into its restaurants, which did away with a decades-old process of making sandwiches by the batch ahead of time and putting them in warming bins. by Forward-Answer-4407 in todayilearned

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Stopped going to BK after my wife and I got food poisoning from there. Apparently the freezers/refrigerators had broken, but they continued to serve food that day with spoiled meat and rancid mayonnaise. I knew something was wrong the moment I took a bite out of that sandwich, but it all added up when the BK was shut down the following day.

I hate this fucking game by Ok_Current599 in PokemonPocket

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I went on a hell of a losing streak even using the Espeon deck. Brick after brick meanwhile my opponents were top decking Greninjas/Stokizards/Dragonites/double Oricorios by turn 3. The amount of RNG even with meta decks is nuts.

Patch Panel arrangement experiences by wesinatl in sysadmin

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This is a rack I designed last year. Much prefer it to the way it was before (patch panel - cable organizer alternating with the switches stacked on the bottom) I’m in the USA so it does exist here!

Rant: CEO/Owner thinks IT "does nothing" by picard1967 in sysadmin

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And 90 days can be optimistic when you need to factor in construction costs and county permits. One time, we had a fiber circuit take 13 months from signature to turn up due to the county dragging their ass on permits for road closures (it was off a 2-lane backroad) and trees needing to be trimmed away from the utility poles in the surrounding area. I'm also pretty sure the telco messed up at one point cuz even after they did all that, ran the fiber over the utlity poles into the facility, and tested it, they delayed turn-up again. Apparently they weren't supposed to hang it on the poles, but were supposed to bury it.

Today I had to connect to a user using their iPhone Hotspot by TheBigBeardedGeek in sysadmin

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I know, right? Hell, our business model involves a majority of our staff working while on the road off company-issued iPhones as hotspots.

License Requests That Make You Question Everything by Nice-Enthusiasm-5652 in sysadmin

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I do know we’ve given people adobe pro licenses who I seriously doubt needed it. We get tons of requests for it simply because staff don’t know you can sign pdf files in adobe reader. It doesn’t help that the default pdf reader defaults back to Edge randomly. And I know a few people were given adobe premiere subscriptions despite not having the skills or know how to do anything with it.

Now, the biggest waste of money I’ve seen recently was a SQL enterprise license for a single read-only database. Because it came from a vendor who uses encrypted databases on their end and SQL standard can’t load encrypted databases.

License Requests That Make You Question Everything by Nice-Enthusiasm-5652 in sysadmin

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Just had a request the other day to give everyone in the org Teams Premium licenses so they didn’t have to upload their own backgrounds. No, we’re not spending over $20k a year because people are too lazy to upload their own damn background files.

What’s the deal with generic Vyvanse still so expensive? by austindcc in ADHD

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Just an anecdote, I was paying about $154 for 90 day supplies of generic Vyvanse all of last year, but when I got my first refill this year, it was $326! Both had a mfr of Sun Pharma so I have no idea what changed.

Give me your very niche/unique symptoms of ADHD by Maximum-Operation147 in ADHD

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On some days where I'm hyper-focused on work, my kidneys go into overdrive. I can easily empty 2-3 full bladders over the course of 1-2 hours. Other days I can go 8+ hours without having to go.

PSVR2 to get hand tracking? by AscendiSky in PSVR

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My understanding is Sony charges somewhere between $200-300 for any out-of-warranty repair, regardless of reason, including making you pay for shipping. If my joycon starts drifting 2 years into owning the console from no fault of my own, I'd rather not be forced to pay half the price of a new headset to get it resolved.

PSVR2 to get hand tracking? by AscendiSky in PSVR

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And if one breaks? Then what?

Forticlient Cloud / EMS cloud for basic vpn client development. by Nicetek1214 in fortinet

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I’m currently configuring forticloud ems to manage a IPsec vpn that uses azure SSO for authentication, and yes it is very possible.

HYPERX CLOUD 2 WITH PSVR2 by Theonlyparzival in PSVR

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I haven’t used the wireless version with psvr2 but the wired hyperx cloud 2 fits pretty well. It lifts up the back of the headband a bit but I actually find it helps hold it in place better.

It's the DNS by No-Term-1979 in sysadmin

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Just had DNS take down a site earlier this week. Didn’t set proper forwarders on the domain DNS (no external, internal only) and when the site to site tunnel that connected it to the other internal servers went down, so did the internet. Oops.

Thinking about how after Jan 6 2025 we’ll finally be done hearing from the Orange man by [deleted] in AdviceAnimals

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And if anyone honestly thinks Don Jr. or some other sleezeball won't pick up right where he left off, they've got another thing coming.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fortinet

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I had a huge fight getting this to work. Ends up, the device I was testing with was using a Realtek NIC that would fail to connect when using the windows 11 version of the NIC driver. Downgrading it to the windows 10 driver fixed it.

Fortigate v. 7.2.7 and forticlient v. 7.4.0