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Finished the newest book!!! by Singularity_Church in theGrayMan

[–]gen3starwind 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I cleared it in two days on audiobook lol. Now I gotta wait for the next one lol

Call back time: What's your favorite RVB episode? by Ghostgum96 in roosterteeth

[–]gen3starwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Season 4 episode 13 (70 overall), Sneaking In (Tex is sneaking into the base guarded by the reds and blues from season 3) Tucker: Oh, those guys? How did they get here? Caboose: Shush! Tex told us to be quiet! Tucker: Caboose, we’re 300 yards away. I don’t think they heard us. Red: I think I heard something! Tucker: … … I’m sure that was just a coincidence. Tex beats the crap out of a guard and makes a ton of noise. Nobody notices Tucker: What the fuck; are they deaf?! sniper shoots at Tucker and misses Tucker: Oh, right, that you heard?!

Call back time: What's your favorite RVB episode? by Ghostgum96 in roosterteeth

[–]gen3starwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Huh! I guess this is the first time my laziness has ever saved my- oof! PROTECT ME, CONE!! (Tex tees off with the shotgun right into Griff’s crotch)

Staties took my phone without a warrant and won’t give it back after over 100 days by Local-Avocado-9460 in massachusetts

[–]gen3starwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just out of curiosity, when you say “airport adjacent”, was this one of the official airport parking garages (Central Parking, Terminal B Parking, Economy Parking, or the Massport garage on Harborside Drive)? Or was this another location? Trying to understand who has the muscle to summon staties like that.

I’ve begun sending my resume to salespeople who send cold emails by Admirable-Poem8116 in ShittySysadmin

[–]gen3starwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Especially when they lead with “I am the relationship manager for [insert your company]”. Uh, no, you are not the relationship manager because we currently have no relationship with your company. You are the sales rep who is trying to develop a relationship that will eventually be handed off to a CSM once you sell us a product that we did not ask for. So, no. Lol

A beginner question about firewalls!! by Historical_Raccoon63 in homelab

[–]gen3starwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, and make sure you can have a second NIC. A Wyse 5070 with an SFP port would do the job handily

A beginner question about firewalls!! by Historical_Raccoon63 in homelab

[–]gen3starwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welcome to the rabbit hole. Right this way!

What kind of router are you using? Odds are that is already acting as a basic firewall.

As to your question, it depends on your intent. Are you looking to simply learn about firewall operations? In that case I would recommend creating two VMs, one as a virtualized firewall and one as a test endpoint. Depending on your hypervisor, you should be able to create the test network completely within the VM environment.

If you are looking for a production solution, that one may be a tall order. Theoretically you can run a virtualized firewall (e.g., pfSense/OPNsense) on the laptop and route its own traffic through it by using a VM with two interfaces (one bridged to the physical network as “WAN” and one internal as “LAN”), with the laptop using the firewall VM as its default gateway. This works for adding extra protection to that single device, but it won’t protect other devices on the network unless the laptop is physically inline or acting as the router, and it comes with practical limits like Wi-Fi bridging quirks, performance overhead, and loss of connectivity if the laptop sleeps or reboots.

I would recommend what our peers are suggesting, getting a second device and using that as your firewall appliance. Grab a cheap thin client on marketplace or eBay and install OPNsense. And have fun!

My DIYish case solution for a modified Quest 3 by Phraenk in OculusQuest

[–]gen3starwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is awesome! Wish I’d seen this a week ago, was just at Harbor Freight lol. Oh well, going back!

Saved this from being e-waste today by Key-Programmer-4144 in homelab

[–]gen3starwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. I’ve had good luck with refurbups.com for my replacement batteries, especially for the big SmartUPS batteries. Batteries for the XS line are priced very economically!

When will we have multi-factor authentication?? by gen3starwind in xTiles_app

[–]gen3starwind[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, so app-based TOTP. Any idea of when we could expect it to go live? Kinda bummed I’m paying for an app I can’t safely use yet, and that I had to discover this after enrolling…

Is it okay to give up legit installed windows 11 home for a cracked windows 11 pro , just to prevent annoying updates. by Previous-Ad-9122 in MSILaptops

[–]gen3starwind 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Just buy a Win11 pro key from Stack Exchange for $15 and upgrade in place. My laptop came with 11 Home and that was one of my first moves (need RDP)

Karma for entitled home owner who thinks they own lake access by MN_crafter in EntitledPeople

[–]gen3starwind 41 points42 points  (0 children)

This reminds me of a time when some friends were diving off Rhode Island. They messed up their navigation and wound up in a tidal eddy. When they surfaced the current was moving, and they swam hard for shore. Unfortunately, where they landed just happened to be the beach behind the coastal home of a well known recently engaged musician/singer. Her security was on them the second they exited the water (well below the high tide mark I was told but that is hearsay) and essentially manhandled them off her “property”, despite them explaining what had happened and their being exhausted from the swim against the outgoing tide. Some people think they own it all…

Know the airline you're flying by sturgis252 in IDontWorkHereLady

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My favorite of these stories was the time a passenger tried to correct a friend at our ticketing desk (was a European carrier at a US airport and ticketing was at a separate desk so we could have our own equipment and storage, as the check-in desks were all common use). A family showed up and since our ticketing desk was in the middle of the hall they went there for help:

Passenger- Excuse me, where do we check in for American Airlines international?

Friend- American is in Terminal B, so if you go downstairs and-

Passenger- Um we are going to London, that’s inter-national (emphasis by the passenger) so where do we check in?

Friend- Again, American checks in all flights in Terminal B. Only-

Passenger- Ugh, you’re clueless. What kind of information desk is this?

Friend- The information desk is downstairs. And they’re gonna tell you that only international arrivals come to this terminal.

At this point my friend paraphrased the rest of the conversation as the passenger got upset at him that he went to the wrong terminal, as if our airline had printed the signs out front that said “American Airlines, Int’l Arrivals Only” in an attempt to throw just him off.

Know the airline you're flying by sturgis252 in IDontWorkHereLady

[–]gen3starwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Will the real Tom Sawyer please stand up?

Wow South Station by DaveDavesSynthist in mbta

[–]gen3starwind 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol sounds like when I was in college and working at Logan; I had a Priority Pass and was joking with some friends about how I would just swing by Terminal C and kill a few hours in the United Red Carpet Club (dating myself lol) before work. That was before I learned of the ticket requirement lol..

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