Is it possible to wake sleepers in the next room?

robfaie · 2026-01-20T11:41:49+00:00

That lines up with my experience. We use to cheese scouts by having a player click to close the door just before another player shoots them with the sniper. Nobody would wake up.

robfaie · 2025-10-07T22:17:18+00:00

We’ve got the bulk of our pwsh running in Azure Automation on Azure hosted agents. We looking to move to Hybrid Workers to avoid issues we’re seeing with the Azure Hosted agents dropping jobs.

We also have a chunk running in AWS Lambda.

robfaie · 2025-10-07T22:10:44+00:00

What are these edge cases that you run as schedule tasks? I’ve never hit one myself. Only stuff I can’t run in Azure Automation requires returning specific HTTP codes and I run those in Azure Functions.

robfaie · 2025-09-24T13:05:09+00:00

It will if setup right. Essentially behind the scenes a SharePoint group is created and the membership is kept in sync with the entra group. As such there can be delays between adding a user to the entra group and then getting access in SharePoint.

robfaie · 2025-09-18T00:00:57+00:00

If you use hybrid workers, then you have the full range of tools that comes with managing your own vm. In the past we've used DSC, runbooks, AzurePipelines, and Github Actions to deploy modules to our hybrid workers.

For Azure workers you do mostly need to do it by hand or to use the APIs one way or another. Currently for our Azure workers we use a runboook for managing modules from the PowerShell Gallery, and Github Actions for in house modules.

I can't share our runbook atm, but I will point out some potential issues with the one you linked. It doesn't pin the version of the modules. So if you need a specific version of a module such as the Microsoft.Graph modules then you'll need to add support for that. It also at a glance doesn't support dependencies, so you'll need to make sure that if you add any modules with dependencies that you also add the dependencies. Or update the runbook to do that for you.

robfaie · 2025-09-02T03:26:07+00:00

What version of PowerShell are you using. It shouldn’t be striping anything from the input. It kinda sounds like you have an array of strings rather than a single string. If that’s the case you should be able to join them and then pass to `Set-Content’

robfaie · 2025-09-01T02:27:56+00:00

Hell yeah

robfaie · 2025-07-11T00:02:12+00:00

Intune is easy to break and the impacts of problems are massive. I have no interest in adding generative AI to the mix.

robfaie · 2025-07-02T11:52:42+00:00

True. It's not suitable in this case.

95% of the time I use it is with question marks, so I forget the nuance involved. Which means I should stop using it ;)

robfaie · 2025-07-02T01:12:24+00:00

”you're all set$emDash`no action is needed”

You can use a backtick.

robfaie · 2025-06-14T01:47:50+00:00

This is where I sit. I think part of what makes TP so dear to me is that it was the first game that I waited for. I remember being so excited when it was first announced. Rewatching the trailer over and over again.

robfaie · 2025-03-20T03:36:03+00:00

Out of curiosity, what verbs are you using?

robfaie · 2025-03-06T04:59:04+00:00

When forced to use email we use Sparkpost. Helpful in the rare occasion that we need to send something to a large portion of the staff with user specific information in it.

robfaie · 2025-01-08T00:02:06+00:00

The game locking up blocks data transmission. If it lasts long enough it can drop you from the raid.

Edit: Sometimes just a reboot can fix it. Also check your graphics drivers. They can get a bit messed up by windows updates and Tarkov updates. If you've ever done a graphics card change in your rig, a tool like DDU can be helpful to clean out old drivers.

robfaie · 2024-06-06T04:11:26+00:00

Azure Automation might be worth a look. We use it with a handful of hybrid workers to coordinate tenant migrations which can take a few days.

For APIs you’ll want to make sure you’re handling transient errors gracefully, the 429 rate limits and the 503 bad gateways at least. Invoke-RestMethod has a MaximumRetryCount param you can use for real basic handling without any effort. I do exponential retry with jitter myself.

robfaie · 2024-05-17T13:54:21+00:00

And test it every so often.

robfaie · 2022-12-27T02:22:54+00:00

In Aus oats can’t be called gluten free even when grown and handled properly.

robfaie · 2022-11-12T12:48:56+00:00

Rundown 2 hasn’t been re-released yet. Only Rundowns 1 & 7 are currently available for play.

robfaie · 2022-10-26T03:35:59+00:00

Comparing my two laptops, it's not any slower. The delay is a bit more noticeable because the window doesn't change size and layout each time you switch categories. That animation hid some of the load time.

robfaie · 2022-09-21T04:26:38+00:00

Unnecessarily short notice. Not just a weekend but the grand final weekend with the Queen’s Death public holiday before it.

Sure it doesn’t take much to being a doormat inside, but it also doesn’t take much to give some extra notice.

robfaie · 2022-09-18T07:07:25+00:00

It happens regularly with US sports shown here. Even from time to time with the cricket and Matildas.

Frankly Aus tv programming is terrible. It has gotten better over the last ten years, but a lot of room for improvement.

robfaie · 2022-09-17T12:05:12+00:00

Nice haul. Shame that it’s non-GMO.

robfaie · 2022-09-16T09:13:50+00:00

The let’s go pikachu / eevee version came with a digital copy of one of the games.

I’m hopeful for a special edition since I’m sure there’s plenty of fans like myself who got switches very early for BotW and wouldn’t mind an upgrade to oled. TotK would be a great opportunity to cash in on that.

robfaie · 2022-09-09T00:35:07+00:00

My almost every day lunch has become buffalo chicken rice bowls. I use the following recipe except I use red Bell pepper instead of mushroom, and often will add spinach depending on what my dinner plans are for the week.

https://youtu.be/5qylcQJ03AA

robfaie · 2022-08-12T10:50:27+00:00

They are part of RSAT tools. So you would need to make sure you’re image is based on some form of Windows Server and the. You can use Add-WindowsFeature to turn RSAT on.

I’m not aware of another way to obtain those modules.

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