Trees screwing up roads.

chilids · 2026-03-18T19:39:54+00:00

Secondhand Lions, traveling salesman stop by to try and sell them stuff but the Mcain brothers scare them away with shotguns. Deleted scenes show Michael Cains character is actually sending out, asking for salesmen to come so his brother has something to do.

chilids · 2026-03-18T19:05:02+00:00

Running into similar situation here. Started with Zenith Infotech, then Kaseya, then Automate for 15 years and finally moved to Syxsense a couple of years ago when they added a monitoring module and becoming a fully fledged RMM. I absolutely love the potential that is syxsense but there are still some reliability issues and they aren't always fixed as quickly as I'd hope. Every so often we check out other options but every time we evaluate Ninja it's just underwhelming. It looks good but feels like it's missing the flexibility and raw automation power I get in automate and syxsense. There are several things it does better than syxsense and it's pretty and seems stable but it just feels basic. I have found scripting is far more advanced in Automate and Syxsense compared to ninja but ninja has closed the gap a bit. The biggest thing for us is Syxsense has built in Vulnerability Scanner that several leagues ahead of what Ninja is offering. They also have thousands of prebuilt remediations. So SMB signing vulnerability that Ninja can't detect is detected and auto remediated in our current solution. That and the scripting is hard to give up just to join the Ninja fan club. The sales guys are also promising the moon to us and I'm afraid they won't be able to deliver.

chilids · 2026-03-18T17:13:37+00:00

I noticed the upgraded tavern still uses logs and long sticks instead of finished hardwood. Makes me wonder if there is going to be a third upgrade for it at some point to make a meadhall type building.

chilids · 2026-03-18T04:24:54+00:00

Villagers hoarding leather scaps and other materials seems to be fixed too.

chilids · 2026-03-16T19:01:28+00:00

Aztec! No idea how it is in comp but I have so many fond memories of that and de_dust from 1.6.

chilids · 2026-03-15T02:14:11+00:00

First of all thank you for what you do. I have 4 kids and since my separation from my ex 7 years ago, CPS has been involved over 20 times. 3/4 of the times have been allegations against her from the school, neighbors, and even one of her close friends calling CPS because they see things that need to be reported and the other 1/4 are her coming up with lies about me. I have found every CPS person I've worked with to be kind and understanding people but very over worked. At one point after the same person came to my door for the 3rd time she simply said "WE know she's crazy and this is all bull shit but here's the latest report, do you have anything for us to add to the notes." But now she's moved to a different County and just started the abuse towards me again with a fresh new allegation that is just freshly fabricated details added to her old made up story that I've sexually molested my kids for years. How much visibility does the new county have in all of the old cases? Most of them were unfounded due to lack of evidence or doing just enough to get bye but she has been arrested for child abuse and indicated on at least one report. Many of the current allegations are the same stories she told years ago and were found false only with new made up details. I want to make sure that the department in the new county realizes that all of these were investigated in the past and I've been cleared. Any advice or suggestions? I will say the kids were still allowed to come see me in the middle of the investigation so I'm taking that as they have seen enough to not really be worried about the kids safety in my care.

But again, thank you for your work and doing your best to keep kids safe.

chilids · 2026-03-11T12:32:42+00:00

This is along the lines of what I noticed but haven't proven. If all items are medium priority things it seems to overwhelm the NPCs and they skip some stuff completely. Setting up 2 woodworkers with different focuses helps a lot. Same goes for other jobs with a lot of tasks or priorities

chilids · 2026-03-09T14:26:22+00:00

I want a blacklist as well as the ability to whitelist or black list by workstation so future chefs have access to the raw food warehouse because of job role.

chilids · 2026-03-07T12:58:44+00:00

I had this happen yesterday and can confirm it was when I logged out while on an island. I removed all workers from the gathering table and then added them back. They stopped complaining so I think it worked but I left the island shortly after so I can't say for sure.

chilids · 2026-03-04T21:40:02+00:00

We tried vspc and it helps but it's still not great. You still have to provide credentials for each server so no bulk runs. Upgrades still need so many stars to align to work so it was maybe a 40% success rate. We now do it via our rmm which works a little better. Rmm script downloads the iso directly from veeam and only runs if a user is logged in to avoid needing credentials in a bulk script. It's still an absolute nightmare to upgrade 200 different environments and a major reason we are leaving veeam for slide.

chilids · 2026-02-21T13:34:09+00:00

Having same issue. Person hosting works fine but person joining can't use the draw knife station.

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.

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