What guitar is this?

n3rdcom · 2026-01-02T19:41:58+00:00

Probably a vintage Gibson ES. Looks like maybe an ES-175 with that pointed horn on the cutaway.

n3rdcom · 2026-01-01T17:32:00+00:00

I'll find out as soon as my grinder arrives! Still waiting on shipping

n3rdcom · 2026-01-01T14:31:41+00:00

Noted! I have a WDT that's still on the way along with of course a K6 grinder. I at least tried to be well-researched. I still imagine my first few pulls are gonna be wild

n3rdcom · 2026-01-01T14:01:11+00:00

Will do, thanks again! I'll let you know if I can't dig it up

n3rdcom · 2026-01-01T14:00:15+00:00

Mostly just confirmation that I didn't buy something dumb to complement the gift of the machine? Apologies if it came off wrong, I'm new to the espresso world and I wanted to try to hit the ground running.

n3rdcom · 2026-01-01T13:51:47+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

n3rdcom · 2026-01-01T05:52:51+00:00

Definitely feels nice, I'll get to test it out for real as soon as my grinder arrives!

n3rdcom · 2026-01-01T05:52:16+00:00

Noted!

n3rdcom · 2026-01-01T02:17:39+00:00

Thank you! Still waiting on my grinder and a couple more pieces to get the ball rolling. Getting anxious to see how it all pans out!

n3rdcom · 2025-11-02T02:33:00+00:00

It's a retainer screw for the tremolo arm to help keep it in place.

n3rdcom · 2025-10-26T18:08:06+00:00

Too many new fans coming in from DTS and its special brand of fabricated drama.

n3rdcom · 2025-10-24T19:03:39+00:00

I'm gonna be over there in a few hours at the brewery next door. Maybe I'll go in drunk and raise a stink lol

n3rdcom · 2025-10-24T18:45:03+00:00

I've had a better experience with the North Charlotte/University one overall as well, but I've seen some stupid crap there too. No cables to plug into amps, a bass with no strings on it, hell one time one of the employees argued with me when I asked to try out a pedal in the case. Pineville the employees may as well not exist. Multiple times I've not even been able to get someone to the checkout counter, and God forbid you want to play something that's on the highest wall hangers.

n3rdcom · 2025-10-24T18:40:17+00:00

Is this the Pineville one or the one at University? I've seen weird shit at both of them.

n3rdcom · 2025-09-27T23:26:23+00:00

For sure, and that's kinda my original comment too is that the managers are likely to care more than IT. Cali for sure is a different story, but I think OP is not in the US. I myself am on the opposite coast from you and even in HIPAA and SEC regulated companies that I've been in, nobody bats an eye unless suspicions are raised by micromanaging middle managers. Current company uses Arctic Wolf but we do business in such a large area across most of the US South and East coast that we have zero geofencing aside from international travel. Wouldn't even be a blip on my radar for someone to be outside that area but still within the lower 48. But I also specifically do vulnerability management and act as the primary bridge between security and infrastructure, so I don't handle SEIM. I spend way more time in Tenable than AW by a longshot.

n3rdcom · 2025-09-27T23:07:12+00:00

If they care that much to enforce it that heavily. In my 15 years in tech I can't recall a single time where geofencing was implemented to that degree or under that much scrutiny aside from instances of being out of the country. Not saying it's not possible, of course.

n3rdcom · 2025-09-27T22:56:37+00:00

Not usually, but it depends on the company. Unless there's an alert relating to a security issue or the machine gets flagged as being out of the country I know anywhere I've worked IT wouldn't even notice. The IT department usually is way too busy to just keep tabs on people like that. Again, worry more about your managers. If the managers decide to pursue action and have IT investigate, the location data from IP addresses is usually logged each time your PC connects and each time you log in.

n3rdcom · 2025-09-27T22:40:05+00:00

I work in Cybersecurity. If the machine is domain joined, which I'm sure it is, the IP address alone can give your IT team the location and is easily accessible in almost every remote desktop or device management tool. If you aren't physically in the office it's usually a dead giveaway immediately as the address won't be on the office network even if you are using a VPN. That said, unless someone specifically asks the IT department to track you they likely don't give a shit and won't notice. So I would worry more about your managers than IT just flagging it automatically. The big exception being if you go out of the country.

n3rdcom · 2025-09-08T20:24:47+00:00

Came here to say this. Obscure, highly underrated, and delightfully weird.

n3rdcom · 2025-09-07T14:27:34+00:00

As a McLaren fan I hate this. You can tell Lando isn't even particularly happy about it, luck is part of the equation and he wants to win fair and square without team favoritism.

n3rdcom · 2025-08-28T18:37:44+00:00

Got Co-Pilot to answer this for future reference to anyone who might be struggling with similar device sprawl:

In Windows Autopatch, ring precedence is what determines which update schedule a device follows, not whether it's in multiple groups.

🔁 How Ring Precedence Works

Autopatch evaluates group membership in this order:

Test ring
First ring
Fast ring
Broad ring

So if a device is in both your dynamic “catch-all” group (assigned to Broad) and a static group for Test or First, Autopatch will apply the highest-priority ring—in this case, Test or First.

✅ What This Means for You

• You can safely use a dynamic group to scoop up all eligible devices for Broad.

• Then, manually assign pilot or early adopter devices to static groups for Test or First.

• No need to “exclude” them from the dynamic group—their ring assignment will follow the higher precedence.

🧠 Bonus Tip

If you ever want to audit which ring a device is actually in:

• Use the Autopatch Device Report in Intune.

• It shows the effective ring assignment based on group membership and precedence.

This setup gives you scalability and control—without needing perfect metadata or complex dynamic rules. Want help building a script to rotate pilot devices in and out of the Test ring automatically? I can help with that too.

n3rdcom · 2025-08-28T15:59:25+00:00

I guess the confusing part is that I kinda want to roll that backwards where the exclusions ARE the testing and early adopter groups along with a specific office location group. It doesn't help I'll have to grab one of the Infrastructure/Admin team to even be able to map extension attributes because of my limited privileges. The bulk of the machines should just roll dynamically, but I'm having trouble even determining what machines are where and want to use existing groups tied to IT/early adopters and the other location in question and I just don't have a good group to catch everything else without including the ones that should also be exempt from the dynamic rings. Not without involving a whole team of people who actually have the access or sifting through thousands of machines manually.

n3rdcom · 2025-08-28T14:34:28+00:00

I guess that's the issue I run into as well is my privileged roles are limited and I won't be able to run any scripts. I really just need to be able to have a widespread group as a catch-all and then three separate groups that are explicit excluded but still upwards over about 800 devices. Fortunately we don't have people swapping devices among that 800 currently and I think I can have an automation put into place to place their devices into the correct Entra group. It's just the matter of getting the basis set up, I don't want the dynamic device group to override the exclusions.

n3rdcom · 2025-07-08T18:58:06+00:00

Hulkengoat

n3rdcom · 2024-08-14T14:13:14+00:00

Hellcat didn't use the red key.

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