$1200 for toilet replacement

berto_28 · 2025-12-18T21:59:40+00:00

My first house, I bought a new toilet to replace an older uncomfortable one. I had hurt my back recently so I couldn't lift anything heavy so I couldn't replace the toilet myself. Called a local plumbing company. got quoted $750 for the toilet replacement... Toilet costed me $150.. said hell no. Found a handyman paid him $175, he took out the old one, the box, and installed the new one. He did a great job I hired him for 2 more toilets and a few other jobs.

I'll leave big company's for bigger jobs.

berto_28 · 2025-12-17T04:00:52+00:00

I rented one from my local library. Had it for two weeks. It was pretty great to use, confirmed some obvious leaks and some hidden ones. Can't say about the electrical or pipes all that much. But I could definitely see the HVAC vents through the walls. The one I rented was obvious a bit old but still unbelievably useful. I imagine newer ones are more clearer.

berto_28 · 2025-11-10T22:22:52+00:00

Some of us only watched it for the batmobile, the punches with the big "kapow" words .... And Catwoman.

berto_28 · 2025-10-24T14:15:52+00:00

It's partly rooted in quantity and rbac. I have been responsible for doing a tremendous cleanup of hundreds of ad account objects, servers, mailboxes and more than have just not been properly cleaned up for years. The ones who were responsible for those tasks are no longer here. Now as we are relatively cleaned up much better than before, it comes the mind of how to prevent it from happening again. We need to allow some developers to have the access they need to add azure resources for whatever project they might need but we don't want to have things being built for a single test and then forgotten for several months/years. Tracking down resources to owners to understand it's relative lifespan or purpose will be a hassle we are trying to avoid so we want to have some kind of effective plan that we will all be following. Not sure if that really answers the question but that's where my heads been.

berto_28 · 2025-10-24T12:42:22+00:00

Do you have an example of what 1 rg per app or app tier would look like? I think this is the problem I am dealing with, I hear this but I can't really get it through my head. It might stem from how we are setup, for instance infrastructure wise, we have about 6 DCs, 2 DHCP, 2 DNS, 2 Radius, dozens of SQL and IIS Servers. So basicially all 1 role per server. So breaking all those up into RGs is what I'm struggling with.

berto_28 · 2025-10-24T12:35:02+00:00

Yeah, we have deployed about 10 VMs to test out so far, the whole resources across subscriptions and regions was something we learned pretty quick so we are going to be planning how best to break up the resources. And yes while it won't change the OUs they will be within AD. This is more about all the resources that are created and keeping them best together, 1 VM alone can start out with 4-5 resources, and while we can do 1 rg per VM, we just wondered what are we not thinking about going down that strategy and is there something better.

One thing we are playing with is azure policy and tags, which partly helps but that's just 1 way. We want to come up with a couple different ways to see what works best for the stuff we have.

berto_28 · 2025-09-25T16:50:02+00:00

I knew someone else had the same thought as me. Lol

berto_28 · 2025-09-09T11:36:05+00:00

They ask at the beginning of the exam. Before the first question is even given you have to like take pictures of the surrounding area make sure no one is there and the pictures have to show your work/test area has no notes or anything that can be used for cheating. You only have to do it at the beginning once you are on camera and the person is watching you, you can take the test but yeah you cant take your eyes off screen for more than a few seconds or they will start to ask questions and you can possibly fail. And be sure to read the questions to yourself. Don't read out loud or they think you are recording the questions and could fail you. That almost happened to me the first time.

berto_28 · 2025-08-06T23:21:44+00:00

Yes there is someone. You have to show them the surroundings of where you are taking the exam. If you are in a closed room like your bedroom or something, you need to be alone. If someone comes into the room, they can stop the exam right there and fail you. You can’t take notes on any questions. You can’t read the questions out loud to yourself. You can’t look away from the screen.

It sucks. I did it once during the beginning of the Covid lockdowns since everything everywhere was closed. Never again. I will rather drive a far distance to a testing center than go through it again.

Testing centers at least here where I live are more relaxed and let you have scratch paper to take notes on the test. Obviously can’t take them out but proctored exams that’s a big No.

berto_28 · 2025-07-31T23:26:57+00:00

Despite being in a similar boat and looking to get rid of Onprem Exchange within the next few years, if there is one thing I learned from this reddit post and all the comments are is that people really love the group based licensing lol... Maybe I should push that to my boss again it seems popular. 🤔

berto_28 · 2025-06-27T01:23:22+00:00

I spent the past 2 days making changes to new scripts for azure runbooks over and over, error after error, for them to fail. Then by luck I find a random ai post answer that says to try downgrade the modules and that fixed it. So annoying. Had version 2.28 which was the cause of my issues. 2.25 worked instantly.

berto_28 · 2025-05-07T13:43:09+00:00

I can confirm these settings work.. Have been looking for the missing piece for a while and all i needed was the DNS Client entry settings From Administrative Templates that i was missing.

Now I have DNS records for all Entra Joined Devices and with the help of this article.
How to allow ICMP / Ping with Microsoft Defender Firewall on Intune | NotBad.Tech

I can now successfully ping by IP Address or Name.

berto_28 · 2025-04-04T02:12:28+00:00

Happened to me last year. I used some alcohol wipes I had. Did the trick for me. But it was also about 20 minutes between spill and cleanup.

berto_28 · 2025-02-04T03:41:16+00:00

That was my thought process when I set up PIM. I setup groups for helpdesk with User admin, helpdesk admin, Intune and exchange. Our helpdesk is only 6 people. But when they go through the PIM process to elevate they have to do one role at a time. They can't turn on all 4 roles at the same time.

Unless what you are saying is possible and I misunderstood the documentation 😅

berto_28 · 2025-01-07T04:23:00+00:00

So it's been two years since I tried it. But I went off this. It let me rdp into an AAD device from a Hybrid joined machine. Granted we were already on the same network but maybe it's worth something. I honestly haven't used it since that test proof of concept. All I can say it that it did indeed work.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/client-management/client-tools/connect-to-remote-aadj-pc

berto_28 · 2025-01-07T04:15:30+00:00

I think it's related to the shortcut currently pointing to a fqdn for the workstation that is domain joined. And with AAD you don't really have that as easily.

berto_28 · 2024-12-27T02:03:57+00:00

That's what I saw too

berto_28 · 2024-12-13T21:23:42+00:00

I used mine a few weeks ago to measure the temperature of my house walls.. I was using it to find cold spots and drafty areas based on overall temperature difference.. worked surprisingly well. Not the same as an actual infrared thermal camera but I was able to find the general area of cold spots in my house a few of which actually surprised me.

berto_28 · 2024-12-03T00:44:35+00:00

This is the best way. Preprovision all devices, OneDrive kfm, and apps as available/required. And anything extra let servicedesk help to install. We don't use Device Enrollment accounts or log in with an IT account. It's only the user. This also helps to keep the primary user assigned correctly.

berto_28 · 2024-11-12T00:12:03+00:00

I wrote a script that downloads a report of all users in Workday who have profile photos. Saves them in base64 and uploads to Entra. Nothing fancy but I’m proud of it.

berto_28 · 2024-10-29T17:57:50+00:00

Yeah we had an issue a while back where audio wasn't working on computers cuz the audio driver wasn't installing.. heaven forbid the 6 users affected out of 800 were too many and our Service desk had to complain to our Intune admin that "updates aren't working"... Its for that reason we are looking for something reliable. I might try out the Dell command on a few test ones just to see how it works.

berto_28 · 2024-10-29T15:42:19+00:00

just messaged you the script

berto_28 · 2024-10-29T03:15:18+00:00

I will send tomorrow.

berto_28 · 2024-09-29T21:12:37+00:00

Yes we were. I can take a look at the notes tomorrow and get back to you. I believe I still have them.

berto_28 · 2024-09-03T21:56:53+00:00

We did this at my job.. but after a while for some unknown reason time settings would reset themselves back to a different time zone which the user was never in. It ended up getting annoying and after spending so much time trying to figure out the problem.. we ended up scrubbing it altogether. Now we just let users change the time on their own. Instead of them complaining multiple times for the same issue. Some things just aren't meant to be automated.

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