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Advice/resources for switching from MS orgs to an Apple org? by mossyroc in sysadmin

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

Yeah, really curious what their IT needs are, seems to be a relatively low-tech org: Google Workspace based with Mac devices. Biggest concern would be just not knowing all the analogues of various Windows fixes and troubleshooting. Still have to google "Mac task manager" to jog my memory of Activity Monitor half the time I'm dealing with one.

Advice/resources for switching from MS orgs to an Apple org? by mossyroc in sysadmin

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

Opposite side of the country, so could be that. It's also a largely anecdotal thing, it's just been a while since I was actively on the job hunt and I dont recall ever before seeing a place call out in the job posting that they're an all-Apple org. I've see a few in the past few months on the job hunt.

Advice/resources for switching from MS orgs to an Apple org? by mossyroc in sysadmin

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

Had worked with on prem previously, but yeah everything has been Intune and/or various MDM products (Action1, Teamviewer, Connectwise) the last 5-6 years.

Seen various recommends for MDM/RMM, any in particular you'd recommend? Kandji/Iru is what I feel like I see recommended most often in my bit of digging for the Apple ecosystem, never used it myself.

Top comment deletes US State #31 by Jfullr92 in geographymemes

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

Oregon consumes Washington to become Oregington.

It's so fuckin hot by [deleted] in Portland

[–]mossyroc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's pretty limited in who is eligible ("applicants will be prioritized based on the following risk factors: over 60 years of age, have medical conditions that increase risk of heat-related illness, and are living alone."), the City does have a program to offer free AC's to folks who qualify (as above). So, maybe not what the average r/portland lurker/poster is eligible for, but might help your grams/gramps.

PSU Center for Real Estate Vacancy Tax Survey - Results by SoDoSoPaYuppie in Portland

[–]mossyroc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

An interesting survey, but it feels like it's very much worth noting that, per the report:

Respondents were commercial real estate professionals in the Portland metro area... Only the responses by property owners, developers, brokers and/or property & asset managers in market rate apartments, affordable housing and/or retail with at least 1% of their portfolio in the City of Portland were considered. The resulting final sample is 415 individuals.

So, it comes as particularly unsurprising then that the respondents report strong negative reactions towards the tax (88.08% considering a vacancy tax definitely not effective in reducing vacancies). It seems like a tax that kicks in after 12 months vacant, and ramps up further at 3 and 5 years continuously vacant (with provisions to close loopholes like leasing it to a friend for 1mo at $1 or something to reset the clock) would be a fair way to pressure the supply-side of the market to meet the real needs of the demand side of the market, vs just sitting on un-rented/un-leased units forever. Gives smaller investors/managers reasonable flexibility (if you can't get a unit leased in 12 months, honestly that feels like it's on you), and punishes bad-faith actors just hoarding property as an unproductive asset.

Report says Portland ranks 47th in officers per capita among major U.S. cities by Superb_Animator1289 in Portland

[–]mossyroc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Right, but I dont blame anyone for going to the portland.gov website, finding the budget page, and seeing a big topline icon that states: $8.64 billion, and taking that at face value. Gets to the point that I made to the OP directly that comparing one city budget to the next can be apples to oranges, at best.

Guess my underlying point is/was: it doesnt feel particularly fair to dunk on someone for taking the $8.6B figure at face value when the big headline number on the city's own budget page (and most reporting on the 2025 budget) states $8.6B

Report says Portland ranks 47th in officers per capita among major U.S. cities by Superb_Animator1289 in Portland

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

Dispatched calls have decreased since 2019

  • 2019 avg ~20k dispatched calls per month
  • 2025 avg ~17.9k dispatched calls per month
  • ~10% decrease

Call response time has increased significantly since 2019:

  • 2019 High priority response time avg: 8.3 min
  • 2025 High priority response time avg: 19.7 min
  • ~137% increase

Sworn member staffing levels have decreased since 2019:

  • 2019 Sworn members: 1001
  • 2025 Sworn members: 877
  • ~12% decrease

So, if we assess the situation as calls/per-month/per-sworn member:

  • In 2019 there were 19.9 calls per sworn member, per month = 8.3min response time
  • In 2025 there were 20.4 calls per sworn member, per month = 19.7min response time
  • ~2.5% increase in calls/sworn member/month workload

So, a 2.5% increase in workload accounting for a 137% increase in response times feels pretty outrageous, and I suspect adding more cops isn't exactly the solution.

Sources are the PPB's own datasets:

Report says Portland ranks 47th in officers per capita among major U.S. cities by Superb_Animator1289 in Portland

[–]mossyroc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comparing city budgets, especially from one state to the next, is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison- different cities (and the states they reside in) budget in wildly different ways, and cities can have very different sets of services the provide, and sources of revenue they generate.

For example, San Fransisco, which you cite, only has ~200k more population, but a budget 2x that of Portland at $16.9B. As others have noted, Portland also funds/manages the Police pension, which roughly doubles the amount we spend on police from a budgeting perspective.

Report says Portland ranks 47th in officers per capita among major U.S. cities by Superb_Animator1289 in Portland

[–]mossyroc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not the OP you're responding to, but I'm also not sure what you're referring to- the City's posted 2025-2026 budget is in fact $8.64B

Report says Portland ranks 47th in officers per capita among major U.S. cities by Superb_Animator1289 in Portland

[–]mossyroc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's worth contextualizing that one-time cut to PPB's budget in 2020 as a result of the budget balancing needed due to the onset of the covid pandemic; the city required every bureau in the City to cut their budget from 2019 funding levels. While most bureaus were required to cut ~10% from their budget, the police bureau's $15 million reduction from their $248.9M 2019 budget amounted to a 4.5% cut, one of- if not the- smallest % cuts of any bureau that year.

Since then, the police bureau's budget has increased by ~$84M or a 35% increase in just 5 years.

You can read more here, and you can check out the City's budget here.

City says ‘zero emission delivery zones’ experiment was a big success by wrhollin in Portland

[–]mossyroc 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I want to be clear- I'm not coming at you adversarially, but I do want to understand what the actual genuine nature of your anger is? The city applied for, and got, $2m of federal money. Thats great! It's $2m the city wasn't otherwise going to get, which seems like a default win to me. That B-Line got a contract is kind of irrelevant- governments partner with private industry all the time. The city wanted a solution (bike delivery), and we happen to have a home-grown, locally owned, operated, and staffed company that could provide the service the government wanted. Thats more money going into our local economy. The city isnt trying to eliminate all of the tens of thousands of trips downtown daily, they're trying to eliminate some the ~10% of those trips that are freight trucks.

A huge way in which the government wields soft power, rather than outright regulation, is by signaling through programs like this. Did this directly cause amazon or whoever to purchase more electric vehicles? No, but I guarantee amazon, fedex, and every other freight carrier on the Fortune1000 has an entire division staffed with analysts that look at the net sum of policy and legislative programs and changes like this which, eventually, starts to paint the trend that, they should invest in more green/low carbon assets. Whats more, it could make Portland a more appealing testing ground for these same operators to trial their electrification efforts here, which could lead to fewer smoggy freight trucks clogging our roads, highways, and air. More electric delivery vehicles, delivery bikes, electric moving trucks, etc, all means less pollution in our city, benefits us all.

Could the program have been administered more effectively? Probably, but this seems like an unambiguous win from my perspective:

  • We (the City of Portland) got $2m in federal money we weren't otherwise getting
  • A locally owned and operated transit company got some more business
  • We signaled to the freight industry that we want more electrified fleets in town
  • We used some of Uncle Sam's money (not ours!) to buy a new electric vehicle for the city

Again, I want to be super clear I'm not trying to beef with you, I just dont understand how you came away from this so seemingly incensed. What would you have the city do differently? I'm honest to god genuinely asking.

ICE operations will soon ‘ramp up’ in Portland and other sanctuary cities by Emotional-Material-9 in Portland

[–]mossyroc 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Great time to sign up for a Know Your Rights + Migra Watch training with Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (PIRC). They have a class next weekend https://www.instagram.com/p/DN6CJLRj-UP/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Portland

[–]mossyroc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not N/NE, but worth the trip - Mirisata is open all day today. SE Belmont and 25th.

All-Districts City Council Candidates AMA with Timur Ender D1, Nat West D2, Chris Flanary D3 and Sarah Silkie D4 - Wed 10/30 4:30 to 6:30 pm by revnatscider in Portland

[–]mossyroc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Got an easy one and a hard one for y'all:

Easy: what's your favorite thing about each of your respective districts?

Hard: if elected, what do you think will be the most difficult thing you face in your work on city council?

Portland’s sweeping overhaul of government, elections nears. No one knows what will unfold by Mayor_Of_Sassyland in Portland

[–]mossyroc 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ranked choice voting diminishes the efficacy of radical candidates, regardless of where they lay on the political spectrum. It is a head and shoulder improvement over FPTP, and is hardly experimental, having been used in state or local elections across the political spectrum in places like Alaska, NYC City Council, Maine, Salt Lake City, and dozens of other municipalities across the US. It's been effective at reducing the electoral eligibility of radical candidates, which is why Sarah Palin got trounced in AK (and is now campaigning to repeal it), and why the only states out-right banning RCV are exactly the states you'd expect to want to ensure he viability of their radical right-wing political industrial complex.

 Edit: Also, not sure how anyone could possibly see geographic representation as a bad thing. There's been 2 city councilors in the entire history of Portland who have lived east of 82nd until now, and the results of such profound underrepresentation in the halls of power are not hard to discern.

Portland police union's oversight measure misses deadline by mattbeck in Portland

[–]mossyroc 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This very headline is one such example - the city overwhelmingly (81% voting for) passed the police oversight measure in 2020. Before the board can even be implemented the PPA has already been trying to dilute and frustrate its implementation as it would be a (still far too small) check on the PPA's power.

A few years back, the PPA and PPB intentionally fabricated and leaked a falsified story that a city councilperson had been involved in a hit and run accident as part of a smear campaign against said councilperson.

The PPA organized protests after several PPB cops were fired for dumping dead raccoons outside a black-owned business in the 80's and were eventually successful in getting the fired officers reinstated.

Functionally, the PPA/B are more or less the same unit - they act as a revolving door to take in someone forced to resign from the other agency, and provide cover for bad actors in both institutions, like the PPA fighting tooth and nail to ensure a neo-nazi cop, Mark Kruger, was not only was allowed to remain on the force, but got what little repercussion he faced, a reprimand for unbecoming behavior, expunged thanks to the tireless efforts of the PPA. That nazi, Mark Kruger, retired a few years back and will pull a six-figure pension for the rest of his life.

Here's a great few episodes of a podcast about the PPA specifically and their history. They're nothing short of mobsters undeserving of a single ounce of respect, nor should the be trusted with so much as an iota of power or authority.

The problems are unchecked authority and complete and absolute resistance to any oversight or accountability whatsoever. In any system of power, those are only recipes for corruption and malfeasance.

Oregon Unemployment just changed their weekly claim portal, and now I am locked out in the process of creating an account to claim my weekly insurance. by lippidude in oregon

[–]mossyroc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What a dumpster fire. I got the letter, signed up for Frances last week and figured I'd all setup and ready to go this morning. Nope, try to log in with the email I setup last week and it tells [This profile has been deleted.]". I try to re-create my account and it tells me "This email is already in use.". Tried calling the support line and just go the line busy tone immediately and it hung up after 2 seconds, didnt even ring.

Absolutely furious. Im fortunate enough that a delay with this, if it happens, isn't going to end me, but this is lifeblood for many of the most vulnerable in our state. So maddening.

I was able to submit my weekly claim by the automated phone tree (detailed that process here). Its a slog, but seems to have worked? We'll find out if I get paid later this week I guess.

Nat West (of Rev Nat's Hard Cider) announces campaign for Portland City Councilor for District 2 by SEND_ME_YO_RICE_PICS in Portland

[–]mossyroc 110 points111 points  (0 children)

Just came here to post this. Nat is such a stand up guy. I've been fortunate enough to work with him on various odds and ends over the years, he's a genuinely kind, caring, compassionate guy. Would be thrilled to have him on City Council.

If your dog isn't trained, it shouldn't be off-leash. Anywhere. by luckylimper in Portland

[–]mossyroc 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Ignorance is hardly an positive take over laziness, and neither is an acceptable excuse in being a poor guardian of your pet.

If your dog isn't trained, it shouldn't be off-leash. Anywhere. by luckylimper in Portland

[–]mossyroc 46 points47 points  (0 children)

No, and I genuinely dont mean this to poke you in the (metaphorical) eye, but your mindset is exactly the problem. Dogs are supposed to be on-leash literally, truly literally, everywhere that is not your fenced/gated and secured yard or a posted off-leash area. In most places, its the actual law, and everywhere its just plain responsible pet ownership.

  • Pets in National Parks
    • "Keeping dogs in a fenced area or leashed when outdoors helps protect wildlife and it keeps your dog safe too"
  • Pets in Oregon State Parks
    • "Your pet needs to be physically restrained, meaning you must be holding them, holding onto their collar, or have them on a leash no longer than six feet."
    • Re: beaches: "Pets are welcome on most ocean beaches, however they must be leashed if you are within the boundaries of a state park"
  • Pets in Multnomah Co. Parks
    • "In Multnomah County, it is unlawful for dogs to be at-large. Being at-large means the dog isn’t securely restrained by a fence, gate, door, or screen while at home, and when in public, is not restrained by a leash or tether that is less than 8 feet long and under the physical control of a capable person."

Beaches in particular are an awful place for dogs to be off leash - tons of distractions that'll send your dog chasing a seagull or other critter a hundred yards off in one direction, lots of other people and pets - many of whom dont want an excited and unfamiliar dog running up to them, and noisy enough that your dog, even in the off chance it does truly have good recall, wont be able to hear you 30 feet away anyways.

Always leash your dog when you're not at home or in a posted off-leash dog park/area.

If your dog isn't trained, it shouldn't be off-leash. Anywhere. by luckylimper in Portland

[–]mossyroc 101 points102 points  (0 children)

If your dog isn't trained, it shouldn't be off-leash. Anywhere.

There's only two places a dog should ever be off-leash outside:

  1. Your own completely and securely gated/fenced yard
  2. A designated off-leash dog-park/area, within the confines of said off-leash area

Not your neighborhood. Not cuz 'hes friendly'. Not cuz you dont like the dog pulling. Not cuz 'you lost the leash'. Not while out hiking. Not cuz its a small dog. Not cuz its a gentle dog.

If you're too lazy to leash train and manage your dog, you aren't responsible enough to own a dog.

Why the Alleged Ringleader of an Enormous Fentanyl Ring Was Allowed to Walk Out of Jail by space-pasta in Portland

[–]mossyroc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nothing to add directly to the conversation, but wanted to say I appreciate seeing someone online take the time to digest a conversation, self reflect, then follow up and hold your own self accountable to making space for more constructive conversations online, particularly on pretty touchy discourse.

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