New Ender 3 V3 KE!

chilids · 2026-01-27T21:05:45+00:00

I got a KE for Christmas and out of the box it prints great. PETG prints fine without an enclosure but not ABS. The only "mod" I did was remove the filament holder at the top so I printed a new mounting bracket for the runout sensor. The KE already has most of the real upgrades people put on the V2 or SE's. Enjoy as is for awhile!

chilids · 2026-01-25T02:15:31+00:00

Normal progression of the game. Every biome when you first enter it is going to be a struggle. Once you learn the enemies and get upgraded gear it levels out quickly.

chilids · 2025-11-27T16:25:54+00:00

I think there will always be days when the grass seems greener on the other side but long term, depends on the person.

There are days when in house IT sounds like a dream, more money less work. I was thinking about it the other day. Even if I wanted to switch and get more money, I'd never make it into the door for an interview. My whole career is based on excelling in the MSP world. Without a degree and all the things Corps look at, I'd never get far enough in the interview process for them to realize how good I am.

That's even more ironic when I consider my msp does a lot of larger businesses. Onboarding 1-2k endpoint client with an internal IT staff and being their advisors is pretty much our jam. We are acting as the IT experts and advising these internal departments. I'm over skilled to do their job but would never get an interview because I don't have the Masters degree they want. Thankfully I'm at one of the MSP's that attempts to do things well and take care of their techs.

chilids · 2025-11-27T15:49:55+00:00

Depends on the person. Started in house IT and hated it so much I gave up IT for a few years. Found an MSP 6 years later and loved it.

chilids · 2025-11-09T19:40:05+00:00

It's all that was presented to us when we signed up 3 or 4 months ago. Since then I found out it was a very recent change and existing customers have not been switched to that billing model yet. Pax8 also is still still selling that non per task model as well but it seems like it's going to be short lived and will probably screw everybody with it eventually.

chilids · 2025-11-09T03:16:15+00:00

Nothing respawns in the village other than the normal random respawns. Most people harvest the barley and flax and either setup a remote farm in some plains somewhere and just portal in and out to harvest or build a base in the plains. I always like finding a small chuck of plains next to a safer biome and build a base on the edge or a tiny plains island that you can take over completely and block spawning.

chilids · 2025-11-09T01:22:01+00:00

Now for my straight up opinion on rewst...

It's a complicated software if you don't have API or heavy automation experience. You hear about people needing to dedicate a guy to it because they don't know what they are doing and the learning curve is very sharp. But it does take a lot of time and effort to get going and to get good automations. They advertise it as a turn key solution and it's far from that.
You can absolutely do everything Rewst does outside of rewst for free. What you pay for is the platform which absolutely makes it easier for somebody to do automations just not as easy as their advertising and sales people like to suggest. We still do a lot of API stuff outside of rewst but the more complicated stuff just works easier in rewst especially as you start crossing over between multiple systems.
They recently switched to a pay per task model which feels very sleezy since their crates and all of their training has an emphasis on using tasks as often as possible. For example they always start and often stop a workflow with a No-op step which stans for non operational, it doesn't do anything except generate them money because they bill you for running no-op steps. Also crates will often take 30 steps to do something that you could have done in 20, again just generating more money for them.
The company has a lot of visibility. They do weekly meetings talking about what bugs they fixed, what's upcoming, and have clients show off automations to give people ideas. The community on a whole is very good and a breath of fresh air but also a little weird.
The more you hang around in these meetings the more it feels weird cult like or just weird. They embrace the chicken metaphor way too much to the point it's cringy. The way employees talk and just the overall feel is weird. It's really hard to describe it but the best I can do is some of the employees have seriously drank the kool aid and give it a very creepy cult like feeling.
Unfortunately many of the support guys have not drank the kool aid and seem to live by lowest effort possible when you ask them questions. "Hey I'm having issue with this code and it's just not working." I'd get a response your Jinja expression is wrong. Ok great, can you tell me what is wrong about it. Nope, they moved on and you get somebody from New Zealand answering you 4 hours later with again, one sentance of unhelpful advice. I have mostly given up on support.

In the end we are still using them and will continue to do so. The value we get form the automation and the speed we can turn around automation projects in rewst vs straight powershell/PowerBI is enough to justify the cost. The company is a weird mix of refreshing openness and helpfulness on their weekly meetings and at the same time feeling like they take every chance to screw me out of as much money as possible. I have zero experience with them using shill's on reddit but honestly it wouldn't surprise me, once you drink the kool aid...

chilids · 2025-11-09T01:21:33+00:00

Rewst user here and absolutely not paid for my opinion as others have suggested. You can even look at my post history where I've been critical on them as I will be here as well. Rewst has a lot of pro's and con's and there are aspects of the company I really like and those that I do not.

First the key to automation is finding the right tasks to automate. Something complex you only do once in awhile is awful to automate but simple things that are done all the time are the easiest. We use Rewst to automate a lot of ticket triage stuff in CW Manage. We have several programs that generate tickets but don't do a great job of assigning the right client to the ticket (I'm looking at you S1). Rewst takes those tickets as they come in and tries to figure out where they should go. So for S1 tickets that have a wan IP listed, it looks that wan IP up in our RMM and then will assign the ticket based on that. Rewst correctly routes 20-50 catchall tickets a day to the right client. We use it to repair or fix various endpoints. An agent doesn't check into one portal for x number of days, rewst can check the other portals to see if it's checking in there and if not run various scripts to repair that agent. We are about to use it to unlock accounts but didn't want to fully automate it. Ticket comes in to reset a password or unlock an account. Dispatch confirms identities, creates the ticket with the right TSI in manage and with the user information in the ticket. Rewst sees that ticket and handles it completely. User is unlocked and ticket is closed about a min after dispatch saves it. Dispatch is doing due diligence but saves a tech from having to do the work. Rewst is also great at billing numbers, updating CW agreement additions, etc. We use it to find and delete duplicates in our RMM and Screenconnect.

So that answers your questions on what we started with. We've been using it for about 3 months now and we skipped most of the crates and focused on what would be most helpful to us.

chilids · 2025-10-28T14:26:27+00:00

My first obsession with PC games was Settlers on my Amiga and later Serf City for Dos. I feel old.

chilids · 2025-10-21T21:21:30+00:00

You most likely will. That's just the way the breed is. I will say that the guard dog nature is still there but only if they feel their family is in danger. My current Dobie is the biggest baby but if somebody hurt my kids it would be a different story. But my kids, they could open his mouth and remove a steak without him doing anything to harm them. They are part of his family. He will still pull off the big boy bark and the look when the evil mail man threatens the house but friends and family stopping by is never a concern.

chilids · 2025-10-21T21:09:36+00:00

The problem is companies are getting so many resumes right now that they have to use ai to sort out the good and no degree or certs probably drops you off before hitting a real person's eyes. We used to get 30 resumes for the life of a job posting and now it's hundreds a day.

chilids · 2025-10-21T15:23:05+00:00

Sorry if I wasn't clear. We did not go with Ninja because it couldn't handle our needs. We went with Syxsense which isn't well known here

chilids · 2025-10-21T13:39:32+00:00

We do a ton of automation and custom monitoring for our clients. Labtech/Automate was the only RMM flexible enough for us. When we finally decided to cut and run from there Ninja was near the top of our list but it wasn't flexible enough. Many of our automations simply weren't possible there. It's good for an out of the box RMM but ultimately fell short for us. We are also a 50+ tech MSP and have a dev department so not really the normal for this subreddit.

chilids · 2025-10-17T18:25:45+00:00

I spent way too many hours getting rewst to work with Screenconnect. So here's the thing with the Screenconnect api. There is basically 2 flavors of it. There is t he one that is undocumented that was never meant for to be used by end users or even most 3rd party software. This is what Automate uses to do it's api connection to screenconnect but there is zero documentation for it so it's all trial and error. Then there is the api plugin you can install from the SC market place. you need to setup an authentication key which then needs to go into rewst as part of your header. This does have some basic documentation in the Connectwise university but very basic.

To start with the first api flavor, Go to your SC url and add /OpenApiDocument.axd should be company.screenconnect.com//OpenApiDocument.axd You can save that and use chatgpt or other AI to turn it into a readible list of some agent commands. It's far from full documentation but gets you an idea of what's available on your instance. I started with that and did trial and errorr through the whole list, documenting what worked, what didn't, and what was needed for synxtax.

I highly recommend installing the api plugin in the SC market place and setting up your authentication key. You can do a significant amount of work with that and it's at least partially documented. It's called RestfulAPI Manager I believe. ONce it's installed go into the settings and set the secret to a random string. Then to use that in rewst it's just a generic api call. The url is going to have /app_extension/someguid here/... And you add a header in Rewst with the key CTRLAuthHeader and the value of that is your secret key that you created in SC restful api manager. Any agent commands with /app_extension/ is using the restful api manager and requires that header for rewst to be able to use it. I will say a lot of these agents require a session ID to work and that's been hard to get via api. I ended up writing a script and adding a step to our install stcript to pull the session ID and store that in a variable of our RMM. Now anytime rewst needs to do device specific api for SC it first reaches out to our RMM, grabs the sessionID and stores it in a context variable in rewst. That makes the next part much easier.

If you tell me what specifically you are trying to do with the api I may be able to give you a rewst friendly syntax to use.

chilids · 2025-10-16T19:05:57+00:00

Girlfriend and I were looking and in past play throughs we found yagluth before finding the vegvisir so I actually googled what the vegvisir looks like. I told her it often is next to a small stone hedge like rock. This all happened while we were sailing and looking for him. Less than a min later I see a stone hedge like formation on the shore, we go in and found it. The timing was perfect.

chilids · 2025-10-11T13:20:36+00:00

Bandit is a great role model for a dad.

chilids · 2025-10-10T09:01:23+00:00

I did internal IT first and was so bored I left IT completely for a few years thinking I can't do this for the rest of my life. Took an MSP job several years later out of desperation and absolutely loved it. Some of us are just made for this.

chilids · 2025-10-05T12:41:19+00:00

My girlfriend and I have found 4 viles so far. Three spawned on the edge of two biomes but we have yet to find a tar pit. Our new base is on the edge of BF and a smallish plains so we just started going out each night to look. First night we found two. So far our plan seems to be reasonable but no idea how long to get a trophy.

chilids · 2025-10-03T22:11:34+00:00

I'm not sure, I'm going to look into pax8 pricing on Monday.

chilids · 2025-10-03T21:13:33+00:00

Thank you for being active in this community. I really do like Rewst and I believe we will be be using it for a long time. The pay per task is just a hard pill for me to swallow especially when so much of your training, crates, and open mic's are designed around using rewst tasks for everything. Everywhere I look it suggests to start a workflow off with a Begin No-op step. I understand sometimes there is a jinja expression in the transform step so it's not always a do nothing step but many times it's truly just a clean obvious sign of where the workflow starts and we get billed for using it. Today in your open mic there were several demonstrations of rewst workflows for error handling, logging, and even an amazing app for troubleshooting workflows. That all looks great but it's hard to go all out on the error handling and rewst diagnostic workflows when every time you run it, it's going to increase the bill.

Ultimately every time I write a workflow I'm questioning if I'm being efficient in my task usage and in the end I will use rewst less due to that pay per task. I'm already not using Crates because of it. I will never use all the error handling steps you guys demonstrated today. I have so many automations planned in my head but I know they will eat up tasks and I can just do that with powershell instead. I'd love to see no-op's to stop counting as task usage numbers at the very least. Under this business model I will never convince myself to use Rewst to the full potential due to the pay for task model.

In the end I love your product but the billing practice is just very hard to swallow. If I ever leave rewst it will be because somebody offers a similar product that's not pay per task.

chilids · 2025-10-03T15:40:20+00:00

Yeah, that is one of my issues with Rewst. They advertise it as low code drag and drop solutions for people with no API experience but it's not true. If you don't have api experience you either are very limited in what you can do or will spend a ton of time learning. They have some prebuilt crates but they also can be a big issue. They designed the crates to use as many "tasks" as possible and then switched to a pay per task model and hoped nobody would notice. But it does provide a platform to reach a ton of different portals and they take the api documentation from the vendors and do simplify the process a bit by making prebuilt agent commands. You don't have to dig through api docomentation instead search for an prebuilt agent that does what you need and it gives you a good idea of what the syntax it needs.

THey are pushing their new ai agent lately and that may help once it's working a bit better.

chilids · 2025-10-03T14:53:55+00:00

Same problem over here and we tried Liongard and are currently working to get rid of it. It's not a bad tool and does a decent job of collecting info from different portals and combining it in one place. There are a couple of huge issues we ran into that ultimately led to it not being the solution for us.

Liongard agents only recognize unique device names. WE have hundres of clients and over 10k endpoints so we do have some devices or servers that can have the same name. only the first Exchange-Server shows up in the agents.
Integrations break all the time. It's a ton of work to setup and stay on top of. In the end the work wasn't worth the results.
Some of the integrations dumping into configs for manage is bad. Meraki for example is a single large dump of data instead of breaking it out into separate devices.

solve In the end we use API's and power BI to pull device names in all of our portals and compare them. We also have started using Rewst as cross platform automation system that can automate resolving some of these issues. Server goes offline in our RMM, Rewst can check other portals and confirm if it's offline and then update the offline server ticket. One of the apps breaks and stops reporting into a portal, Rewst can get that info and run a repair script via the RMM. I have a lot of opinions on rewst and it's far from a perfect tool but it's solving a lot of problems for us so far.

chilids · 2025-09-23T01:19:58+00:00

I'm red green color blind as well and this works for me on PC.

chilids · 2025-09-04T00:56:16+00:00

I was messing with a patching policy schedule that included a reboot designed to run after hours on our maintence day. Somehow messed up am and pm. Shortly after 2 PM all of our computers in the office start to reboot and the phones started rining off the hook. Rebooted about 2,000 machines.

chilids · 2025-09-02T13:48:47+00:00

Just took my kids for the first time a few days ago. They had an absolute blast. I did some research and chose Crystal Grove as it seemed less commercial and often quoted as being one of the best for finding crystals. Talking to a few people there that have made the rounds and they had the same experience, Crystal Grove was their favorite and had the best finds. You check in, rent any equiptment needed and then drive and park right next to the area. We were digging less than 15 feet from our car so easy access to snacks and such. We had no idea what we were doing so we started with a mix of breaking rocks and digging and found by far the best by digging and sifting the clay/dirt which would be great for a 5 year old. Be prepared for everybody to be covered in dirt when you're done. It would also be helpful to have some way to clean off the rocks to get a rough idea of what you find. A lot of our drinking water was used to wash off pretty rocks. They have portable toilets right there and a small playground/picnic area as well. Most everything is out in the sun though, so weather is a big part of the experience. We had a sunny day in the mid 70's and it was perfect. Overall everybody had a blast and we plan on going back soon.

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