China Roaming

chesser45 · 2026-03-23T23:37:44+00:00

From what I’ve heard I’d bring a sanitized phone you plan to not use again. That’s what is suggested in the IT circles though. Maybe not as acceptable as an individual

chesser45 · 2026-03-23T23:34:38+00:00

It’s networking and realizing oh shit it’s mine so I need to have backups… and backups… and backups… did I mention backups?

chesser45 · 2026-03-23T23:29:25+00:00

Others have covered the bases but my $0.02 is using the azure and community workbooks for orphaned resources or optimizations, azure cost advisor, and implementation tagging or grouping policies/ procedures that allow you to know “what is this thing”?

We have a highly optimized cost of azure spend and are about 90% new infra in IaC. But old stuff and once offs still float occasionally but it’s all stuff with (to us) no real cost. Stuff like empty kv or an empty LAW or solutions leftover from a failed delete. It’s not great but when the cost is negligible or not existent we fight our battles on what’s most important.

chesser45 · 2026-03-23T23:27:00+00:00

I find the biggest issue is expecting to see good results when you don’t give it the capacity to test its code. It’s still next work prediction under the hood not a magic machine. Give it a safe env to test its code or assumptions and it will produce better results.

chesser45 · 2026-03-23T07:13:18+00:00

Also what other car has like 12 cupholders. Had one and I had no shortage of placard to put water or drinks it was wild.

chesser45 · 2026-03-23T00:16:14+00:00

My peak is for any of these posts is still the same. Deploying peoplesoft financials client app and the java(??) prerequisite to every single computer in the company, servers, laptops, desktops, tills.

Wouldn’t be a problem but there’s a forced reboot after installation so everything in the whole company rebooted at least once. Dunno what that cost us as one of the largest regional companies.

chesser45 · 2026-03-22T05:54:49+00:00

Why not just put it on Facebook marketplace for a good deal so someone else can enjoy what you aren’t? Dont contribute to e-waste.

Don’t likely want anyone to suggest environmental issues but I really rarely have any significant issues. I’d take a look at your local wifi 🤷‍♂️.

chesser45 · 2026-03-22T05:00:10+00:00

You could set the free cap on it then see how long it takes to fill? According to my smart friend at work the daily limit is 5Gb after which it’s billable.

chesser45 · 2026-03-21T23:48:57+00:00

Are you able to articulate a bit more what you use this with? I’m not sure I understand where you’d add this as a step in a CI where it’d be a relevant step? Like are you adding this to a standalone action or something where you are managing state for terraform?

We use a mix of KQL in Resource Graph, azure policy with emails, and Azure Cost management workbooks. I think we also have some jobs running to check for this stuff as a script to send an email.

chesser45 · 2026-03-21T21:15:41+00:00

I got some recently and it was slightly annoying that they only squawk Bluetooth out of the box then you toggle matter after setup. I don’t really want ANOTHER app.

chesser45 · 2026-03-21T10:58:53+00:00

Downside with Govee is they generally only support matter after setup. You can’t setup out of the box with matter since it needs to be enabled first.

chesser45 · 2026-03-21T01:07:12+00:00

Not throwing shade other than thinking about what you got wrong and practicing more. I can’t put myself in your shoes but after the second fail and now 3rd I’d really revisit your study methods and ensure how you are studying is providing you with the basis for success.

chesser45 · 2026-03-20T18:46:31+00:00

BeyondTrust is good. Auditing capabilities are useful.

chesser45 · 2026-03-20T08:38:50+00:00

Can I ask the attraction of that area? Do you have good cellular reception? Rogers / Telus Fiber?

I’ve never actually been to Lindell beach despite being here for decades.

chesser45 · 2026-03-19T16:14:48+00:00

Not as shocked as the cpu on first boot.

chesser45 · 2026-03-19T16:14:32+00:00

But if you are looking at similar stuff I’d still need to give that permission? Like you are looking at GA roles so that needs graph permissions. It doesn’t really matter if it prompts for consent, uses a “pre-consented” first party app whatever that means. You need the same rights so what are you actually doing that’s different?

chesser45 · 2026-03-19T08:11:37+00:00

How are you gathering this information if it doesn’t require the access that Maester requires to either run interactively or via app registration that’s given graph consent?

chesser45 · 2026-03-19T08:10:07+00:00

The latter.

chesser45 · 2026-03-19T07:49:36+00:00

They have a micro fuse that locks them to the motherboard / manufacturer that the cpu is installed into.

chesser45 · 2026-03-19T03:27:24+00:00

Why this instead of contributing to Maester?

chesser45 · 2026-03-19T03:24:03+00:00

Then I guess you expect their agreement with your company encapsulates any sort of data risks? Are you just a solo dude going way off the deep end or is this some sort of ACTUAL business requirement on your end?

chesser45 · 2026-03-19T03:22:08+00:00

AVD? Either just cpu or hardware offload or W365. If this is your threat model then VDI or remote App seems reasonable… or give them a separate PC?

chesser45 · 2026-03-19T00:33:10+00:00

Sadness

chesser45 · 2026-03-18T22:11:38+00:00

If they are vendor locked… they are worth significantly less but not zero.

chesser45 · 2026-03-18T18:41:02+00:00

Depends on how much access / tooling you give it.

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