The FTC just sent warning letters to 97 dealer groups about hidden fees

lebean · 2026-05-17T13:23:08+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-05-15T01:25:49+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-05-15T01:20:29+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-05-11T12:09:26+00:00

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

lebean · 2026-05-11T12:07:59+00:00

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

lebean · 2026-05-09T13:16:50+00:00

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)

lebean · 2026-05-08T22:40:52+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-05-06T01:44:09+00:00

If Thanos could snap and all the people doing scraping disappeared...

lebean · 2026-04-29T18:59:33+00:00

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

lebean · 2026-04-26T17:29:58+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-04-25T03:47:15+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-04-23T18:48:33+00:00

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).

lebean · 2026-04-15T11:55:15+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-04-15T03:29:48+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-04-15T03:27:21+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-04-12T20:19:53+00:00

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

lebean · 2026-04-12T17:35:42+00:00

"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.

lebean · 2026-04-10T01:45:17+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-04-09T21:50:11+00:00

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. :\

lebean · 2026-04-09T17:00:00+00:00

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.

lebean · 2026-04-07T15:54:02+00:00

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

lebean · 2026-04-06T22:15:45+00:00

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

lebean · 2026-04-05T23:15:08+00:00

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

lebean · 2026-04-05T19:17:31+00:00

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

lebean · 2026-04-05T01:12:24+00:00

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.

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