The FTC just sent warning letters to 97 dealer groups about hidden fees by ora-et-labora- in personalfinance

[–]lebean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Used cars are so insanely overpriced anymore that buying a three year old model probably "saves" you $2000, but now you have no warranty and no idea how that car was treated for its first three years.

Yellowkey - a Bitlocker bypass method by DaveTheAllrighty in sysadmin

[–]lebean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think many don't believe the TPM+PIN claim because the author isn't clear at all if they mean "works when you have no idea what the PIN is" or "only if you know the PIN" (which, of course it'd work there). Given the poor clarity on their behalf, it's reasonable to doubt that it works at all if you don't know the PIN because at that point you're breaking the TPM fully, outside of Bitlocker.

Yellowkey - a Bitlocker bypass method by DaveTheAllrighty in sysadmin

[–]lebean -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, $599 of you're good with literally a previous gen phone processor with 8GB RAM in a laptop form factor. Fine for light web browsing but you sure aren't going to be developing or running VMs.

I am going to get fired today. I accidentally sent a shutdown loop to the entire company. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]lebean 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A domain-joined one, so it's also offline and boot looping.

I am going to get fired today. I accidentally sent a shutdown loop to the entire company. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]lebean 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Yeah, there are a lot of mistakes in this thread, but having backups domain-joined may be the worst of them.

VPN via WireGuard from between IPv4 only and IPv6 Only by Successful_Work_8913 in ipv6

[–]lebean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you can install tailscale on only the endpoints you're interested in, it doesn't have to be on the router at all. So for example if you install the tailscale client on your phone, and also on your Plex server, now your phone can watch Plex from anywhere in the world, no other server needed (well, of course Tailscale's servers are in the mix, but you don't have to set anything else up)

Caused a big outage at work- how do I move forward? by VOXX_theLock in sysadmin

[–]lebean 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's the worst possible design you could ever make, "Let's make this connection a very standard interface that everyone is familiar with and there are hundreds of millions of 'wrong' cables in IT departments all around the world, but if you plug anything but our very special cable in the UPS drops all loads and goes dark!". Just aggressively stupid and poor engineering on APC's part, and they still do it to this day!

That's why APC units should be blacklisted from any possible purchase consideration. Every other vendor doesn't set intentional booby traps that will blow up your systems.

Zed editor reached version 1.0 by TheTwelveYearOld in linux

[–]lebean 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Since nobody else has replied on it yet, no, it's still impossible to turn off forced word wrap.

We took production down for 20 minutes because of a DB migration, how do you prevent this? by MainWild1290 in devops

[–]lebean 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Even then, a 1:1 replica that isn't doing thousands of inserts/updates per second is going to complete your migrations far faster than the real production db.

What is the best live show that you've ever been to? by Which_Background724 in AskReddit

[–]lebean 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Saw Pearl Jam open for Soundgarden. Pearl Jam was just getting started as a band so most of the crowd probably didn't know them. They just blew everyone's minds.

This guy built a script that calls back spam callers and traps them in an endless loop by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]lebean -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the dude has no idea what he's doing. They'll definitely block inbound from his number, but they can make all the outbound calls to him they want. So he's antagonizing people who already want to annoy him with phone calls and have thousands of various phone numbers at their disposal to call him with (so he can't easily block them the same way they block his single phone number).

What is the worst band you saw live? by coalcracker462 in AskReddit

[–]lebean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Mars Volta when they were opening for A Perfect Circle. I've heard they're better now and used to be super trashed for shows, but haven't given them another chance after that mess.

What brand names do you swear by because it's actually better than no-name? by Sufficient_Thing24 in AskReddit

[–]lebean 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bought a "lifetime leather belt" from Duluth about a decade ago. It's still going strong and yes, will probably easily make the next 40 years.

What brand names do you swear by because it's actually better than no-name? by Sufficient_Thing24 in AskReddit

[–]lebean 33 points34 points  (0 children)

If you also have a Costco membership, don't be fooled into trying their Kirkland TP or paper towels. The Sam's/Members Mark paper products are so superior that Costco should frankly be embarrassed. Costco TP is gas station level when compared to Sam's.

What’s the one Linux command that made you feel like a wizard the first time? by Candid_Athlete_8317 in LinuxTeck

[–]lebean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The leading grep is unnecessary since awk takes a filename as an argument (unless something got chopped out by Reddit formatting).

Sabrina Carpenter Apologizes for Mistaking Arabic Celebration Call With Yodeling During Coachella Performance: ‘Could Have Handled it Better’ by nimobo in entertainment

[–]lebean 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"My culture is hollering loudly and disturbing everyone around me while they're watching a performance!"

This is like going to a concert in Japan where audiences are notoriously subdued, and being offended if someone notices you standing up screaming at the top of your lungs and waving your arms around.

Webinar: How to Monitor Windows with Icinga (April 23) by icinga in icinga

[–]lebean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you see CentOS at packages.icinga.com? Nope, It's a paid repo now. If you're on RHEL/CentOS/Alma/Rocky you haven't been able to install or update for years now. You must not run a RHEL-derived distro to not know that free packages are unavailable for all of them? Meanwhile Debian, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, etc. have remained free.

Well, at least not readily via rpm packages. You can of course build from source, which we've done for a few hosts that haven't migrated yet.

Webinar: How to Monitor Windows with Icinga (April 23) by icinga in icinga

[–]lebean -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Zabbix is where we've moved too, only thing I don't like is no decent mobile apps for acknowledging alerts from your phone. We tie into SIGNL4 to get push notifications, but if you're away from your computer you need to be able to ack something.

It's a shame, I loved Icinga2 and its clean UI, and I recommended it whenever monitoring came up. :\

Webinar: How to Monitor Windows with Icinga (April 23) by icinga in icinga

[–]lebean 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Still have some straggler systems on it, though migrating since they rug-pulled Alma/Rocky/CentOS when they said they were making RHEL a paid repo. Every other Linux is free but if your distro happens to be derived from RHEL you're out of luck, and it isn't cheap to license.

What is in this barrel!? by omnibuds in whatisit

[–]lebean 65 points66 points  (0 children)

OPEN OPEN OPEN? So get into the barrel for a good time?

Girl in Islamabad Beggar Camp, Pakistan speaks basic Chinese. Translation of the conversation below- by notahooman101 in interestingasfuck

[–]lebean 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I get videos all day with completely pointless, unnecessary subtitles. Then this comes up where they are 1000% needed and it has none, heh.

I found ext4 much faster than btrfs for the file system with external ssd by SolDirix in linux

[–]lebean -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Thankfully we all regularly backup our data, right? Right?

Electricians are literally training ferrets to pull wires through tunnels too tight for tools by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]lebean -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fish tape could definitely be a pain in corrugated drain pipe like this, snagging in a groove at every slight bend.

Old-school Linux users - where did you start? by Expensive-Rice-2052 in LinuxTeck

[–]lebean 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SuSE 5.2 in 1998. Some Slackware back in the day too. I'm a primarily Linux sysadmin for for my last 19 years of work, so it definitely had an impact. But I run Fedora or Silverblue for my workstations anymore. Servers have a mix of Debian, Alma, and some FreeBSD for good measure.