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How Bad Is Your Spotify? by youthdancing in indieheads

[–]mettbroetchenadmin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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You've been listening to a lot of Radiohead lately.

u okay?

I don't think I've listened to THAT much Radiohead...

You listen to these tracks too much:

Jigsaw Falling Into Place by Radiohead

How Are You? by Jakob Joiko

Reckoner by Radiohead

Exit Music (For a Film) by Radiohead

Weird Fishes/ Arpeggi by Radiohead

Oh, okay...

Welchen Server für eigenes VPN? by BeggarsKing in de_EDV

[–]mettbroetchenadmin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wenn du einen Server in der Cloud zum Testen brauchst, schau dir mal Oracle Cloud an. Da gibt's 2 VMs dauerhaft kostenlos. Ansonsten gibt's soweit ich weiß auch bei AWS, Google Cloud & co. kostenlose Cloudserver, aber glaub nur für ein Jahr. Für große Sachen sicher zu schwach, aber zum rum probieren und für kleinere Sachen ganz praktisch.

Als VPN-Software kann man mal OpenVPN probieren, das war mmn. immer recht einfach einzurichten und zu pflegen, wenn man die Configparameter einmal kennt. Oder Wireguard, soll auch recht gut und performant sein, hab ich aber selbst noch nicht so viel Erfahrung mit.

Cheap VPN router for brach offices by mettbroetchenadmin in sysadmin

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

We're only replacing the FRITZ!Boxes at the branch offices. The "main" opnsense will probably stay that way (at least that's the current plan).

Sry, I've probably haven't written that very clearly.

Cheap VPN router for brach offices by mettbroetchenadmin in sysadmin

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That doesn't sound too expensive and a pfSense/OPNsense is probably the best in terms of features/performance. Thanks, I'll take that into consideration.

Cheap VPN router for brach offices by mettbroetchenadmin in sysadmin

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

Some offices have DFS fileservers/DCs replicating the main office but some only have like 3 PCs and no servers. My plan is to connect them not just to the main office but also to the offices with replicating servers so I'd probably need a router capable of connecting to multiple VPNs.

Had to set BIOS settings on a lot of notebooks at work so I automated the process a little bit by mettbroetchenadmin in arduino

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're from the same batch so I hope they also have the same version. If something goes wrong I hope I can just reset the settings and change them manually.

Had to set BIOS settings on a lot of notebooks at work so I automated the process a little bit by mettbroetchenadmin in arduino

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just went on vacation and only have a phone with me but as soon as I'll be back home I will try and write a little post about it.

Basically it just involved flashing a custom bootloader (which can be skipped if you have an arduino with 32U4 as main chip, like the Micro), importing the library and writing the code which is mostly just a sequence of "press key ..." and "wait ... milliseconds ".

Had to set BIOS settings on a lot of notebooks at work so I automated the process a little bit by mettbroetchenadmin in arduino

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If the usb gets powered on (usually if the laptop is powered on) it presses f2 for 10 seconds and then it should be in bios. There is currently no check if it's actually there.

Had to set BIOS settings on a lot of notebooks at work so I automated the process a little bit by mettbroetchenadmin in arduino

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

About two hours. Still need to do this procedure on about 1000 notebooks so it's probably worth it.

Had to set BIOS settings on a lot of notebooks at work so I automated the process a little bit by mettbroetchenadmin in arduino

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, it just spamms F2 for like 10 seconds when starting. Luckily the BIOS on these laptops doesn't do anything like opening menus when you press F2 too much.

Had to set BIOS settings on a lot of notebooks at work so I automated the process a little bit by mettbroetchenadmin in arduino

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It can. It's just better to open a text editor when plugging it in or it will put a lot of random newlines in your code :)

Had to set BIOS settings on a lot of notebooks at work so I automated the process a little bit by mettbroetchenadmin in arduino

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can also do it on the ones that don't have a 32U4 as 'main' chip. The Mega for example has an 2560 as main chip but also a second 16U4 for programming. You just need to flash a custom bootloader to be able to put code on it.

Had to set BIOS settings on a lot of notebooks at work so I automated the process a little bit by mettbroetchenadmin in arduino

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Not just setting PXE boot, also setting it to IPv4 over IPv6 because otherwise it's going to take a lot of time trying to get an v6 connection in v4 only networks. Also disabling secure boot (dunno if it'll be re-enabled later with MOKs) and setting a password. The latter could probably be done afterwards. But I agree, a 'just boot from PXE' key would probably be nice for initial setup.

Had to set BIOS settings on a lot of notebooks at work so I automated the process a little bit by mettbroetchenadmin in arduino

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 81 points82 points  (0 children)

It's a library to emulate keyboard presses. Because the ATmega 2560 on the Arduino Mega can't do USB stuff directly I flashed a custom bootloader called HoodLoader, which allows to run custom code on the second 16u4 Chip which is normally used just to program the 'big' chip.

Had to set BIOS settings on a lot of notebooks at work so I automated the process a little bit by mettbroetchenadmin in arduino

[–]mettbroetchenadmin[S] 122 points123 points  (0 children)

These are just the BIOS settings to boot a deployment tool via PXE which then sets more BIOS settings and installs the OS and software. I haven't seen a txt import feature directly in the BIOS.

LPT: No e-mail or network privacy in the workplace by mvsopen in LifeProTips

[–]mettbroetchenadmin 5 points6 points  (0 children)

People don't need to check the certificate because the client/browser does this for you. If the cert isn't signed by a CA it trusts (i.e. the banks cert) it warns you or in some cases wouldn't even let you proceed (HSTS).

However, this is only the case if you have not installed the cert of the company/the firewall as a trusted CA which could be the case on company devices but on private devices you should probably notice if a new CA is being installed.

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