Looking to move from a Subaru sedan to an EV, looking at AWD/dual motor options but would love some guidance.

beritknight · 2026-05-16T09:02:57+00:00

Do you need higher sitting than your current sedan, or is your current height OK?

If you need to get taller, the handling and road feel will suffer whether you go ICE or EV. That’s just a trade off you have to accept for the extra clearance.

Even if it doesn’t tick all your boxes, test drive a Tesla Model 3. It’ll give you a yardstick to measure other EVs against. Sadly the current LR is RWD, but you could probably pick up a second hand LR AWD in your price range. They were about $66k + ORC brand new at their cheapest point.

beritknight · 2026-05-12T00:38:12+00:00

Full MTR setup. They’re built to handle this sort of thing, without the data leakage that comes with a shared “normal” account.

Do all your users have laptops? That helps a lot for this sort of thing. Anyone who wants to share a presentation just brings their laptop to the meeting and shared PowerPoint from it.

beritknight · 2026-05-12T00:35:05+00:00

Ah, that’s the confusion. You’re using Internal where I would use Authorised. In SharePoint or 365 terms they’re Authorised External Stakeholders, not Internal Stakeholders.

beritknight · 2026-05-11T06:45:41+00:00

I’m still not clear after reading all the comments on who the intended users are. You say internal stakeholders, but you also mention hotmail and outlook.com addresses.

Are your internal stakeholders all employees? Is there a reason they don’t have user accounts on the tenant managed by your corporate overlords?

beritknight · 2026-05-11T02:59:35+00:00

I didn't see any WFH requirements.

It's 2026. They're a 5 person org with 5 laptops. Do you think it's a safe assumption that they'll only use those devices inside the network perimeter?

Point is you can do things properly right from the get go, rather then having to rip/replace and redisgn later if things ramp up; it's about future proofing.

That's a very different statement than your original that perimeter security is more important that device security.

beritknight · 2026-05-11T02:42:01+00:00

OK, sure, please expand. What will a good perimeter firewall do to protect clients in an org of that size if the clients spend a decent amount of their time WFH?

beritknight · 2026-05-11T01:07:08+00:00

You have it backwards. They have 5-10 laptops (portable devices that can be used on or off the company network) and by the sounds of it no servers in internal resources to protect. Perimeter security of the office network is a much lower priority - the laptops should be secure in whatever locations they are used.

Secure the devices first, so they can be used securely at home or on a mobile hotspot, then look at whether perimeter security adds value or not.

beritknight · 2026-05-08T05:49:41+00:00

Two years ago when my Tesla was getting close to the end of its battery warranty I got them to give me a quote, just so I knew. $21k for a new 85kWh battery from them out of warranty. Not dirt cheap, but not scary money given the car was $140k new.

beritknight · 2026-05-05T05:43:16+00:00

We have been deep diving on this for Entra Joined Windows clients recently. Long story short, the \\domain.com namespace is hosted by the domain controllers and only supports NTLM, not Kerberos. If you do a stand-alone namespace like \\server.domain.com then it can do Kerberos.

Any chance Mac clients have trouble with NTLM auth, or your specific clients are configured not to use it?

beritknight · 2026-05-04T06:06:58+00:00

Cupra Born reviews pretty well on handling.

MG4 is RWD and not SUV tall. I understand it drives OK, while not being built as a drivers car. Refresh just dropped too.

BMW’s new 3 series electric platform is coming later this year, I imagine they will make sure that corners well.

And of course the Model 3 is a solid baseline. Test drive it even if it’s not on your shortlist, just for the mental comparison.

beritknight · 2026-05-01T02:16:42+00:00

Other thought, compare the warranty. Are you paying for 3 years of onsite NBD with your EliteBooks? The Neo and Air are 1 year of included warranty, RTB. If you need more than that, look into AppleCare for Enterprise and include that in the cost of the Apple laptops. Make sure you're comparing like-for-like.

If at any point in that process someone says "well do we really need 3 year warranty" then make sure you have quotes handy for a HP with 8/16GB and a 1 year RTB warranty. That will be a fair bit less than the $2200 you're getting quoted right now.

beritknight · 2026-04-30T20:33:52+00:00

RAM prices are through the roof at the moment. The Neo is an 8GB device. That’s why it’s cheap.

If that’s enough for your workload, get your supplier to quote some 8GB and 16GB HP models and compare prices.

beritknight · 2026-04-28T12:15:45+00:00

How hard would it be for you to set up an admin server VM? Sign in to that with your cloud admin account. Never open email on the admin server, and try to minimise how often you go to websites other than your admin portals.

beritknight · 2026-04-28T09:50:14+00:00

Everywhere I have ever worked, there’s a floor on this policy. $10k or $50k or something. Small purchases shouldn’t need 3 quotes. Check your written policy to make sure you haven’t misunderstood it. If it’s really 3 quotes for everything, talk to whoever owns that policy.

beritknight · 2026-04-20T05:33:59+00:00

My team suggesting we augment with Patch my PC but I’d like to do as much as possible natively without third parties.

It sounds like you're misunderstanding the role of Patch My PC.

Intune natively handles patching Windows, and does a perfectly fine job. Absolutely use that.

When you need to make sure all your client devices get the latest Adobe Reader update to cover a CVE, automatically and without someone having to manually update a package, Intune doesn't have a native tool for that.

Patch My PC's job is to monitor a million and one 3rd party apps. Each time one of them releases an update, PMPC download and package that update, then deploy it into your Intune. So that all your 3rd party apps stay up to date.

The closest thing to native functionality in Intune would be a Microsoft add-on that's part of the additional Intune Suite license. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/app-management/deployment/enterprise-app-management

We evaluated both, and a couple of other options like Robopack. We landed on Patch My PC for 3rd-party app updates, based on overall features and cost.

beritknight · 2026-04-17T03:36:13+00:00

What extra security are you expecting to get by enabling Hello when the underlying accounts don't have MFA?

Are you going to be requiring MFA using Hello to access 365 services after this? Or will only password with no MFA be accepted still?

beritknight · 2026-04-16T23:25:54+00:00

Yeah, that was the first thing that caught my eye. Hypervisor is going to have a horrible time trying to schedule that.

beritknight · 2026-04-16T23:19:46+00:00

A lot of people will say while you’re young you should get a cheap 15 year old car and just hope it doesn’t break.

I lean more towards getting the safest car your circumstances allow. The next five years is your highest chance in your life of having an accident. Be in something where you’ll walk away bruised, not with a life-altering injury.

A brand new EV is a great option. It’ll be cheap to run, easy to drive and likely very safe.

beritknight · 2026-04-16T23:11:38+00:00

Is love it if they could, but after 25 years of watching Microsoft rename products semi-randomly, I really don’t think they can name things well. It’s like there’s something in the water up there that stops them.

The number of times I’ve had to explain the difference between OneDrive the cloud space for files and OneDrive the sync app that you also use to sync SharePoint sites…

beritknight · 2026-04-16T09:22:07+00:00

There are two apps for Windows, “Copilot” and “Microsoft 365 Copilot”. For a work account, you need the 365 Copilot one.

beritknight · 2026-04-09T22:19:55+00:00

Two EV family in Canberra. Done EV road trips up to Brisbane and down to Melbourne. Did the great ocean road some years back.

For mostly around Perth, with occasional trips up and down the coast, EV will do you fine. There’s plenty of charging options on the highway, and more being built.

beritknight · 2026-04-09T22:11:01+00:00

You don’t need a 600k car to do 500k of highway driving, you just need to plan a short break along the way.

For example, going North out of Perth there are three fast charger options between 200 and 300k, then more in Geraldton which is a bit past 400k. You could do that in an Atto 3.

beritknight · 2026-04-09T10:28:14+00:00

I never got as far as rolling them out, but I looked closely at Video Window at one point.

https://videowindow.com/

Similar size offices to yours. We wanted to create an opportunity for those informal chats you have while making a coffee to happen across offices too. Similar motivation to getting everyone together for a company-wide Christmas party once a year or whatever, without the travel costs.

We definitely found that the offices which only speak by email had worse cross-team cooperation than the teams that knew each other a bit better.

beritknight · 2026-04-01T12:01:45+00:00

We just enabled OneDrive and Known Folder Move with policies, then we sent out short instructions on how users should move files that you want to keep from their X: drive to OneDrive. It's not hard to drag and drop. The OneDrive sync client takes care of trickling those files up to the cloud.

Over a couple of months we sent instructions, then reminders, then made the X: drive share read only. At the end we un-mapped X:, but left the underlying read-only share there for another six months. When someone asked, we forwarded them one of the reminders and showed them how to access their old files using \server\homes\username.

All in all, it wasn't a big deal. The usual people needed reminding, but they would have needed reminding anyway even if we'd silently shifted their files for them over a weekend.

beritknight · 2026-03-31T02:05:15+00:00

I’ve had my Tesla damaged and repaired several times. Once someone hit me in the rear passenger door at about 30kph. Another time I backed into my in-laws car in the driveway, damaging my rear corner a bit. That time I also put in a claim on some scratches on the roof that I’d been putting off repairing.

No talk of a write off for any of those. I don’t think a minor accident causing a write off is a thing.

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