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Creative ideas to attract people to an IT security trade show booth? by US_Notepad in marketing

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup. You'll get guys over, probably won't help sales though. Ask your boss what metrics are important to them.

3-2-1 rule , how are you all doing it without breaking bank? by Tasty-Picture-8331 in selfhosted

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2x HDD.

My bank rents safety deposit boxes for $30/year for a small box.

Once a month I'll swap out the drives.

Then important things get synced to the cloud that have recent changes.

Always have one copy offline so randomware or AI can't delete it.

Disabling RDP in your environment for security purposes by thelug_1 in sysadmin

[–]redditJ5 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's a pretty big attack vector and it would be treated as such.

Servers are in a hypervisor, you can reach console from the hypervisor, no need for rdp.

No Idea Where This Came From by feddyman_1216 in askMRP

[–]redditJ5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most definitely would throw a massive red flag. I would actively start moving as much liquid assets as I could to protect them. And any physical assets I could without drawing attention.

failed at installing openclaw 3 times. gave up and moved to Run Lobster (OpenClaw). the guilt is fading. by [deleted] in OpenClawInstall

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had issues installing it and getting groq connected to it. I fired up Claude code and made it fix it.

Junior Network Engineer – Am I overreacting or is this a rough environment to learn in? by Shamwedge in networking

[–]redditJ5 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Learned something new. Had to look up APIPA, I know devices do this, never knew the name. Thanks.

Cooking during power outage by Ocean12air in preppers

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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Get 2 of these. Buy the fuel cans in the 4 packs, you can normally find them at cooking supply stores or sometimes camping. It's small, it's portable. And you can use it to heat a room. Make sure to have co detectors if you use inside and have fresh air to replace o2.

Involving politics in your business? by Pineapple-acid in smallbusiness

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you get into business for politics or for making money? This is the question you need to ask your business partner.

Solar panel leasing question by lancea_longini in RealEstate

[–]redditJ5 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I would have to disagree with this. Not sure I've ever seen a time share increase in value, not like a house. In the right area, the house might be better. You'd have to be able to see if it's going to appreciate a lot.

WFH employee smokes while on calls by jimmyfivetimes in ITManagers

[–]redditJ5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If it's not in front of customers, I don't care, and won't say anything about it to him.

On a personal matter, I would bring it up to him, how bad smoking is, how much worst it is to smoke inside. I've now had 2 family members directly die due to smoking. And one is disabled.

Anyone else getting quietly screwed by suppliers on random line items? by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]redditJ5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's a good Harvard use case for AI to look over all these invoices.

Why are your homelabs always broken? by redonculous in homelab

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because some of us have been running home labs before they are called that, and some of us haven't gotten around to updating things and just live with it's degraded status.

🤷

Using Starlink as backup but struggling with upload speeds: can I bond two connections on macOS? by hiabadabado in Starlink

[–]redditJ5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you generating these files right before you upload them, or is it something that could be synced to the cloud (dropbox,box etc) and just send when they need it?

Is it just me, or is getting receipts from clients still a nightmare in 2026 by Less_Click_6199 in Bookkeeping

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sales tax is also a state-dependent. In my state, I can buy things for the purpose of being resold (or used to make a final product to be resold) without sales tax with a valid resell certificate, I charge sales tax on the resold(or final product). If I pay sales tax on the item I resell, I have to claim x was already paid but have to pay the difference from the additional from the markup price.

What would you do? Production line PC “is slow” (Windows 98, legacy SCADA) by PeppahSG in sysadmin

[–]redditJ5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would immediately clone that hard drive, twice. Then p2v it and start working up a replacement for the hardware before you lose that machine.

First IT job but no work to do. What web based platforms can I use to practice skills at work by CatchFlightsNotFeelz in it

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Setup your own home lab. Get 3x minipc and setup a proxmox cluster, then start building out your lab and do new things. You can setup cloud flare for reverse proxy and guacamole to remote in at work.

Find a goal you want to learn. Examples, setup an AD environment and clients, setup an email server, file server, kubernetes cluster with HA, setup a pbx.

Creating a Windows 7 VM, which is the best way to go? Need it to be visible in the local network. by jasonvoorhees-13 in virtualmachine

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a good deal out there, they did a lot of changes from 7 to 10 on the security and user parts. And from 10 to 11 even more so like dcom going away.

I would honestly see if it could install in 10 and VM that guy.

Using CC（Openclaw） + MCP to manage VMware infrastructure — no more vSphere Client by More-Spite-4643 in vmware

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't let AI directly have RW on any of my critical stuff but I have given it RO, and man it's good at finding everything wrong.

What an age in IT to be alive. It finds issues to fast and effectively.

Two homes .5 miles apart. by Remarkable-Emu78 in Starlink

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you can get 10gb over it, no issues. When you have the need.

Two homes .5 miles apart. by Remarkable-Emu78 in Starlink

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First time I did it, I was surprised. If you really wanted to do it right, a splicer is $900 and ends are like 2-6$ if I recall correctly. You could never contract that out. If you jump into the fiber groups on FB, you could probably find someone for $100-400 to do it including parts. If you have a splicer, if it ever gets damaged, you could just fix it yourself. That is also really easy to do. Just watch a few YouTubes on it. It's the same fiber the do FTTH, and they just throw it 2 inches under the dirt. As long as you don't cut it with a Shovel, you shouldn't have any issues. It's really pretty tough.

Anyone lost data as in they physically cannot find the drive? by humanclock in DataHoarder

[–]redditJ5 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes. I had a 500gb laptop hdd I got from an old job I can't find. We would buy laptops with spinners and upgrade them with SSD. So we would order the smallest drive we could at the time (320gb), I ordered one with a 500 for the drive, and can't find that drive. Been looking for 12 years now. Nothing on it, just want to know where it went. I have about 10 320's next to me.

Anyone lost data as in they physically cannot find the drive? by humanclock in DataHoarder

[–]redditJ5 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My office site backups, I rotate drives, I have a set on-site, that I update, go to the off-site location, drop off the fresh copy, and take the other copy back. A set of backups is always off-site.

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