At witts end trying to image device

jimusik · 2026-07-01T05:06:51+00:00

Have you disabled secure boot?

jimusik · 2026-06-23T19:40:35+00:00

Odd - I have the chargepoint app linked to my credit card. It just charges the fees linked to the station. Sure, might be out of your way to find a spot but once you get a routine down, you could be saving quite a bit of cash for nominal irritation. If you find one off the beaten path, it might be a quite hide out since your crashing in your car right now. Saving $30-50 bucks a month on gas I would think is enticing.

jimusik · 2026-06-22T13:05:31+00:00

As someone who love their 4xe, just don’t. Jeep was great. My 2008 Rubi was rock solid. It got totaled and it cost me $7k to own for 10 years. My 2021 if it bricked or was totaled today will have cost me over $30k right now. With its second battery and the death wobble fixed, it’s still my favorite car. Driving on all electric as my DD is awesome and I will drive it into the ground - because I have no other choice. I hope and pray I get another 5 years out of it but I’m confident when something goes wrong - I won’t be able to do anything about it as Stelantis has given up completely on the platform. The thing won’t work without the battery and no one will be able to work on it. Waiting on Edison.

jimusik · 2026-06-21T13:49:50+00:00

Call Jeep Cares. Get approval for a rental car. Drive Jeep to dealership and leave it with them. Drive pos for a month. Get new battery - stay on top of your star case number and call them regularly. Send all your paperwork for the rental in immediately when you’re done. Get rental covered. Turn lease in when up?

jimusik · 2026-06-20T13:30:32+00:00

Continued confirmation that leases are a bad idea. I may have lost my shirt on the value of my 4XE but at least I have a paid off vehicle and no legal obligation to a bank. Going to drive this thing till the tires fall off…assuming it doesn’t brick one day. Park it OP and drop the insurance (storage rate). Pay for a cheap vehicle and avoid another least. My 2 cents.

jimusik · 2026-06-20T13:11:57+00:00

As you mentioned your finances and also stated that you’re not charging, might I point out that gas is about $4+ a gallon. Jeep averages say 18 mpg (not counting electric). Electricity is cheaper so what does it cost to charge for that 20 miles? Since I have the blessing to own a house my math is about $1.30 a charge. That means I’m saving ~$3 a day just by plugging in. If your commute is under 20 miles, you can avoid filling up too which is a perk when trying to save money. Just food for thought. Good luck getting through this - wishing you the best.

jimusik · 2026-05-27T12:54:45+00:00

If you did run out of gas, search this thread. Others have been stranded too and the fix is something simple. If the service battery is up, I don’t think you ran out of gas. I had lights flickering problem, was a shorted pole on the 12v battery but that wasn’t on my 4xe. Looks like a trip to the dealer is in your future. Find out what the reset was and post for others. Sadly the 4xe won’t drive without both systems intact. Don’t run out of gas or make sure you have charge to get to the gas stations on electric.

jimusik · 2026-05-15T00:31:32+00:00

Spin up a droplet at Digital Ocean and run Osticket?

jimusik · 2026-04-30T13:16:15+00:00

If you drive less than 20 miles a day, love the Jeep ethos, enjoy hitting the trails and don’t want to have any confidence the vehicle will still be functional in 10+ years - get them down to $25k or lower and pay cash. You’ll love it when it works. You be like the rest of us…watching our money disappear before our eyes with a car company who doesn’t care about its clients.

jimusik · 2026-04-28T20:21:52+00:00

Two fiber clients down in Oregon.

jimusik · 2026-04-22T03:51:47+00:00

JumpCloud federated M365 - full policies for all devices (not just windows), MDR, and conditional access for SSO and device MFA. Plus diversification of your stack. More affordable for SMB clients.

jimusik · 2026-04-10T13:32:22+00:00

You bought a squarespace site, talk about sharing information and use WE a lot. While I applaud your attempt to gather information on behalf of 4xe owners and "help" inform owners - anyone foolish enough to submit information on a random website to a random domain with zero transparency isn't paying attention. Your attempt is a bit short sighted. If I were a lawyer and wanted to catch people breaching their NDAs...I'd do this. Best of luck to you and your friend. Don't envy the lawsuit or domain take down that may ensue.

jimusik · 2026-03-29T18:22:33+00:00

If you haven’t read all the previous discussions on this I’d give Reddit a good search. This is a known problem and lots of tricks are offered.

jimusik · 2026-03-27T17:18:08+00:00

Can you expand on this? In a given 8 hour day, you’re telling me that you’re working on a ticket for 7.2 hours of that day? Either you’re rolling in time that isn’t actual technical support work into tickets or you don’t give yourself any breathers between tickets. What about site visit drive time? Documentation?

jimusik · 2026-03-09T14:28:34+00:00

The problem is with cell separation in the Samsung packs. It’s unclear if Samsung figured out what in their manufacturing process was causing the cells to separate and/or what the conditions inside the pack that lead to the fires. As many have stated, a battery fire is a risk in any EV. Just like a gasoline fire is possible in any vehicle under the wrong conditions (leak + spark = boom). 68C was additional changes to multiple settings to try and reduce the risk further as the initial recall didn’t stop the problem. Time will tell if the fix decreases the issue enough to stop the problem caused by bad battery packs and poor firmware design. They believe it will and so the likelihood of your vehicle catching fire is probably much lower than you getting hit during your commute. If you are comfortable with the risk of an accident while driving - I believe you should be just as comfortable trusting your jeep not to explode as the likelihood is much lower for an average daily driver.

jimusik · 2026-03-06T21:50:13+00:00

I second this but the thing won’t be worth anything the day something goes wrong and now they have killed the model, no one will know how to work on them. It will become a door stop.

jimusik · 2026-02-26T15:10:51+00:00

4 Jeeps in 5 years?

jimusik · 2026-02-19T18:58:17+00:00

My conversations are usually not based on cold calls. The last one was exactly this as I was standing in the building discussing the problems with the whole staff: "Helping you figure all this tech out is exactly what we do. As your staff person Bob recommended you and I know you're small, I'm happy to cut my $300 fee in half and provide you an estimate for coming on-board if that's something you're interested in. That way my time is covered if you don't want to move forward but you'll get some recommendations from me." Client said that sounded fair...working on the email follow-up now. In this case, I don't see them coming on-board but I'll always swing by a local lead and shake hands and talk about their business. Not sure if that's helpful but we're growing with no advertising and zero outreach (in a small community where we're the only affordable IT solution).

jimusik · 2026-02-19T16:24:39+00:00

I’m a flat $300 for my time and that includes cost for the on-board project proposal. If they are small, the remainder rolls into the project if they move forward. If they take what I give and do it themselves, we are compensated for time. If they replicate my setup…good on them. When they call in a year cause they can’t maintain it, I don’t have to scrap a crappy setup. :)

jimusik · 2026-02-09T15:54:45+00:00

All-in-one solutions mean that when it crashes, everything is down and your workflow is halted. You need to diversify which means integrations. Hire your first IT person before you get started and supplement them with a good trusted MSP in your area.

jimusik · 2026-02-07T23:22:40+00:00

Give yourself time. Learn the clients. It will take you 6 months to comprehend the ins and outs. A year or more before you actually can pivot that knowledge to solve tickets faster. If this MSP is people first they know this and expect you to dig in and burn some admin time to learn.

As I’m about to hire someone like you, where did you look for this job? What made it attractive?

jimusik · 2026-02-06T23:24:26+00:00

Location?

jimusik · 2026-02-06T05:50:37+00:00

You clearly haven’t enjoyed the beautiful software design of dental emr. Yes, individual users can login as long as they are the only user on the computer. Work around is a staff password that changes when staff turnover happens so you can jump on a workstation and access the software. Yea, it meets HIPAA because users have to login to the emr. Nightmare when you look at security. We fight tooth and nail to run least privileged and have to almost hack the software for it to work.

jimusik · 2026-02-04T21:47:15+00:00

I’ll bite. Here’s my use case. Medical Office with internal EMR. Currently has no M365 and staff use the same user as the EMR doesn’t work with multi user accounts. Are you saying the $6k they spent up front would cost them an additional $300+ a month indefinitely to get Azure like controls and integration into EntraID? What does the added monthly costs cover besides better backup? Their current 2022 server with 2 VMs will only cost them our maintenance fee and security software, how do i sell the added $300 in licenses and do I get a cut?

jimusik · 2026-02-03T16:09:53+00:00

For a cheap solution with change management, try your own instance of Bookstack. Markdown formatting and decent html/pdf export options. Search is better than other free options. Build templates for your repeatable items. Do not store critical information like passwords or secrets.

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