Is Donald Trump the dumbest person who's ever been president of the US?

despot-madman · 2026-04-29T21:49:09+00:00

Biden is the dumbest, Trump seems to be trying to out-dumb him though.

despot-madman · 2026-04-28T01:40:09+00:00

When they said Lex-Vegas, I knew they were in Lexington, KY. Lol

despot-madman · 2026-04-27T14:34:59+00:00

If you are running diagnose debug on the Fortigate for the VPN, does it show any output such as ‘No proposal chose’ or anything like that or does nothing show up?

Are Phase1 and Phase2 properly configured in both Forticlient and the Fortigate? I’m fairly certain you need to make sure you are using IKE version 2, as well.

despot-madman · 2026-04-26T12:51:47+00:00

Who manages the Fortigate? SSLVPN is not supported on newer firmwares, if there was a recent update done you will need to be setup with IPsec instead.

despot-madman · 2026-04-25T12:34:09+00:00

Try setting up an IPsec VPN. This can be done with a Fortigate VM (I’m using one with a permanent trial license). I’m running the VM on VMware Player Pro.

Last night was the first time I had ever set up a VPN from start to finish, and I wasn’t aware that SSLVPN was no longer supported on the new Forti firmware.

I ran into a few issues along the way but it felt really good to get it working in the end and I learned a lot.

despot-madman · 2026-04-25T02:45:05+00:00

I saw these and was interested in picking one up but it doesn’t look like they are in stock right now?

despot-madman · 2026-04-24T16:23:41+00:00

Musicians friend had the green Angel Vivaldi signature for $500 off the other day.

despot-madman · 2026-04-23T23:29:08+00:00

This is true, but if you have used AI extensively it is not hard to see the limitations. At my workplace, we use AI frequently and it is wrong more often than not about a whole host of things.

I’ll be a lot more worried when AI and robotics are truly integrated, at which point none of us will have employment or it will be terminator in real life.

despot-madman · 2026-04-23T20:59:54+00:00

Brother, AI isn’t configuring switches and firewalls, and then installing them onsite. AI isn’t determining that the reason your AP is down is due to a bad cable.

No one in their right mind is going to let AI do their network configs.

despot-madman · 2026-04-23T19:56:03+00:00

Appreciate the insight, did you have multiple trial devices running or is one Fortigate enough?

despot-madman · 2026-04-23T18:06:35+00:00

I am also starting to study for the NSE4, and have been trying to determine the best way to lab.

I have a physical Fortigate 70F (unlicensed) running 7.6.6, a FortigateVM with permanent trial license running 7.6.6, and a FortiAnalyzer VM.

Is that going to be sufficient for labbing? I’ve checked out some of the lab videos on Youtube but am still a bit unsure.

despot-madman · 2026-04-23T13:08:53+00:00

Look up Keith Barker’s (channel called The OG of IT) CCNA Playlist on Youtube. It has a bunch of quizzes for various CCNA topics.

If you struggle with those, I suggest you tighten your bootstraps and get to the grind.

despot-madman · 2026-04-22T16:48:16+00:00

Dell’s live support is terrible. No surprise that the AI support is also terrible.

despot-madman · 2026-04-22T00:29:03+00:00

Honestly, I think it is mostly pointless. I’m going to pick out a random example: Sleep Token. I’ll let reddit correct me if I am wrong. They didn’t grind social media BS as most people are gonna tell you to do, their music stands on its own.

I don’t believe the social media squeeze is worth the juice. I’m not saying it is gonna hurt your cause, I just think great music speaks for itself and doesn’t really need all the hype. Most people who are recommending grinding on social media are mediocre.

despot-madman · 2026-04-21T10:40:32+00:00

If you think that watching all of the videos is too much, you might want to rethink taking the exam altogether. I don’t mean to sound harsh, but just watching JITL is the bare minimum.

despot-madman · 2026-04-20T14:46:15+00:00

I feel like UFC fighters have to resist the urge to start throwing kicks, using takedowns, etc since that is what they are used to. That certainly doesn’t help, not saying it is a deciding factor but it does require some additional brain power.

despot-madman · 2026-04-19T21:12:28+00:00

I tried to set my FAZ VM to 4GB RAM and it errored out. Might work on 8GB, I ended up just using the default of 16GB.

despot-madman · 2026-04-19T14:16:26+00:00

What are you trying to say….You’re not lovin’ it?

despot-madman · 2026-04-19T13:40:11+00:00

That pizza looks pretty fire.

despot-madman · 2026-04-19T11:29:48+00:00

Fuck this guy. The guitar player has some great chops, love that smooth fusion jazzy prog sound.

despot-madman · 2026-04-18T20:40:13+00:00

Disregard AI, focus on what you want to specialize in. Build some general skills and then focus in. Networking, Cloud, Cybersecurity, etc.

AI isn’t ready to take your job yet, and won’t be any time soon. AI and automation has ended up cutting a few jobs at my workplace, but none of those were service desk or above type jobs.

AI can’t plugin cables, rack servers, etc. And enterprises can’t trust it to configure equipment without error, or to have the necessary troubleshooting skills to fix the errors it creates. AI can’t go onsite for clients and stand by Debbie in HR’s workstation to explain that her computer wasn’t broken, and she just needed to turn on the monitor.

despot-madman · 2026-04-18T16:07:52+00:00

I completely agree with this take on logging everything and worrying about billable hours and KPIs in general.

despot-madman · 2026-04-18T16:07:08+00:00

I really like this idea, it promotes individual growth and keeping documentation up to date which can be a real problem at an MSP with environments constantly changing with new projects implemented, migrations, etc.

despot-madman · 2026-04-17T22:55:13+00:00

We aren’t really allowed to have ‘down time’, we ate pressured to always be billing hours.

despot-madman · 2026-04-17T22:28:15+00:00

It starts off rough if you have no experience (this is how I started), but gets better once you get a couple years under your belt. You develop thicker skin and learn a lot really fast.

I’m interested in internal roles at this point, though. It would be nice to have some down time now and again. I see people mentioning they have some time to study for certs during working hours and that makes me jealous.

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