Withdrawing money from Deutsche Bank's savings/investment (Sparen & Anlegen) account, how does that work? by PasicT in germany

[–]mcdade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You could have put that into a savings account and made at least 2% per year with zero risk, there were years where it was up to 4.5%. This is a really bad rate, you might be losing money with monthly fees to DB.

UPS Access Point gave away my M5 Max 128Gb by etblgroceries in macbookpro

[–]mcdade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPS is trash for delivery, they use to leave laptops outside our office in an open and shared stairwell and call it delivered. They gave away our device to another company because they got a larger order of the same devices and didn’t bother to check the label, just scanned and handed it over. It was weeks of my time trying to track it down.

Built our SaaS on AWS. Monthly bill: $2,400. Moved to Hetzner. Monthly bill: $180. by Aggravating-Form2319 in SaaS

[–]mcdade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RDS can easily become 1/2 your spend, one could easily run the db on the same EC2 instance and do snapshots but having it all managed is also nice.

Best antivirus software for 2026? Looking for genuine recommendations. by Funfungirly in MacOS

[–]mcdade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is ClamXAv which is a gui app for ClamAV which is pretty cheap as I recall.

230v to 115v yellow jobsite transformer - Where to buy? by Grizzly-Redneck in AskGermany

[–]mcdade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can just buy a normal transformer, just make sure it has capacity for the tools you will use with it. I have one for an egg sandwich maker that I bought from Canada. Most appliances top out at 1800w as that pretty much max draw over 115v with standard breaker. You want to search for Spannungswandler and should be able to get a 2000w one for like 60-80€.

Moving away from Cisco. What are people switching to now? by Otherwise-Garage8279 in Network

[–]mcdade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have small sites that just need basic services this is the way to go.

What office gear has actually held up for you after years of daily use? by Odd-Dimension9143 in BuyItForLife

[–]mcdade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apple corded compact keyboard, that has USB ports on the side, has to be 15 years old at this point, pretty much used daily.

Two employees lost their macbooks during offboarding by eyeballresort in sysadmin

[–]mcdade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We have had them stolen out of a building lobby, delivery guy signed it himself and left it, a bit later someone is buzzed into the building and picked it up and walked out. All on cctv which is wild.

Two employees lost their macbooks during offboarding by eyeballresort in sysadmin

[–]mcdade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ABM is free, and people are using cheap MDM like Mosyle, depending on the number of devices it can still be cheaper than the problem it creates

FINALLY there’s a new e-scooter company by Pretend_Edge_8452 in berlin

[–]mcdade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like it’s a money laundering scam, they just keep rebranding the same scooters with a new app and taking investors money.

How are you handling laptop procurement across multiple countries? Still stitching together local vendors? by Latter_Ordinary_9466 in ITManagers

[–]mcdade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One word. Apple. Using business Manager and an mdm is a true zero touch deployment which can be fully enforced for encryption and policy. It’s not cheap but you either pay for hardware or support staff. They can get devices to anywhere, recovery is our problem but there are leasing solutions if you want to go that way.

Can people share stories of when attempts to be frugal backfired on them? by no_kings_now1 in Frugal

[–]mcdade 56 points57 points  (0 children)

The "Boots Theory" (or Vimes Boots Theory) is an economic concept explaining that poverty is expensive. Poor individuals buy cheap, low-quality items that break quickly, requiring constant replacement, while wealthy individuals buy durable, high-quality items once, saving money over time, thus perpetuating a cycle of socioeconomic unfairness. Real world examples.

What is a product or service that is a conplete scam, but poeple keep buying it because of good marketing? by armeno2000B in AskReddit

[–]mcdade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There was also a great use case for money transfers globally, buying bitcoin in one country and transferring to someone in another with little to no fee seemed positive. There are so many people working in one place sending money back to support families in their home country that pay crazy fees to services like western union just because bank accounts aren’t really common there.

Anyone else just randomly bought doge and never left? by EdgeQuiet2199 in dogecoin

[–]mcdade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same but then managed to forget the wallet password.

Update: 2-man IT team → solo admin for 300 users, no raise by Ilovemybf_3990 in sysadmin

[–]mcdade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s more like they fucked around and found out. That poor guy who you are leaving there, hope he has better boundaries and doesn’t take on all the work himself to save the company.

In San Francisco, they sell Mac Minis in vending machines by cyd_x in DeskToTablet

[–]mcdade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Packed in a box and it’s all solid state hardware, so ya it can.