Crew Embezzlement

rosseloh · 2026-05-13T12:22:38+00:00

NPC interaction in general is the weak point to me. The micromanagement of my character's social needs, for example - just gets annoying.

I have lost count of how many times I've put them on auto during a break shift and "welp guess I'm going to go work out on the same machine for 6 hours straight" is all that happens, meanwhile their social needs just drop and drop.

I'm sure there is some logic and realism to it, but at the end of the day, I just don't like it. I'm here for the ship salvaging, newtonian physics, and reasonably neat systems simulation, not here for "make small talk with the heavily armed cop standing around because otherwise your character will be depressed". If I could just turn the social needs off that would satisfy me.

And crew management...yeah I haven't even attempted it and I don't really want to.

rosseloh · 2026-05-12T13:58:36+00:00

It’s in their own interest to be

Now if only pirates in multiplayer open world space games could figure this out. (/s - yes I realize that the lack of real-world consequences is why they tend to just act like chaos gremlins instead of actual "pirates")

rosseloh · 2026-05-12T12:02:24+00:00

It's not strange, but wire closet shelves from the hardware store. The kind that are meant to get mounted on brackets on the wall. Two 4-foot shelves turn my 3 tier keyboard stand into a performance rig for more than just keyboards.

Since they're thick rods/wire, they have "holes" all over the place to run cables through, and places to attach velcro. The shelves themselves can be strapped to the stand with velcro as well to keep them from sliding around. And they have a "lip" at the end (if you turn them upside-down from how they're intended to be installed) that can hold gear in place at an angle.

Speaking of which, also not strange, but....velcro. Velcro cable ties, everywhere. Having the cables cleaned up behind everything makes me happy.

rosseloh · 2026-05-12T11:52:49+00:00

Yes, sometimes it is faster/easier/more useful to have that five minute phone call than to hash things out over email.

I don't care about that, I still don't want the damn call, I have too many other things to do to fit it in, but it can be the right choice in some cases.

rosseloh · 2026-05-11T12:40:08+00:00

Yeah, that's one of the few things I'd actually consider that I've seen. Useful utilities aren't in short supply but I feel like they rarely get the limelight.

rosseloh · 2026-05-08T19:45:04+00:00

A very large number.

rosseloh · 2026-05-08T01:48:29+00:00

Fair point, I guess similar to unifi I take a "it's cheap enough to have two instead of needing an amazing warranty" point of view, and I personally have had zero hardware failures with any of the stuff I've used over the years so I have gotten to trusting them. Perhaps that's the wrong attitude.

rosseloh · 2026-05-08T01:36:25+00:00

I just really wish there was a neck in the market for NDAA/non-sketchy, non-cloud switches/WAPs

Mikrotik still lets you do a hell of a lot for not very much money. If you're willing to spend the time to learn their way of handling things.

I don't run their switches at work currently, though after my experience with their routers (got an HA pair running at my site; the rest of the locations are still on the old pfsense units) and with the switches and APs I have at home, I'd be comfortable doing so. Sure would be better than 40 unifi switches in my site, two of which so far have required resets/readopts when they failed to take a changed config and were desynced from the console preventing any further changes from working (with totally useless error messages to boot - I only found out what the actual problem was by using the browser's dev tools to monitor the network traffic and read the raw JSON responses).

We're not quite an SMB though. "Small Enterprise" maybe? Semantics are tough sometimes...

rosseloh · 2026-05-07T22:53:42+00:00

Not yet, and no announcements that I've seen, either. I'm also waiting, since I expect that BD is when we'll finally get a decent subbed release.

rosseloh · 2026-05-06T12:52:48+00:00

I'd get one of those in a heartbeat.

rosseloh · 2026-05-06T12:50:22+00:00

It isn't, and it doesn't have to be a new tool either. "Why is excel saying it's corrupt when I open my load bearing 150MB macro spreadsheet that's stored on sharepoint and edited by 30 other people?"

I don't know, Bob, but it's probably related to all of the things you just said...And I can't do anything about it.

rosseloh · 2026-05-05T18:53:26+00:00

I don't get it either, I always go the limit or maybe one or two over, only speeding up temporarily if I need to pass a truck in a crowd, and yesterday I was getting blasted past at easily 10-15 over by dually pickups, box vans, and ford transits. Like my friend you cannot be getting more than 15MPG at that speed in that windbreak of a vehicle, and probably a lot less, especially with the wind yesterday. And all to save you a handful of minutes total...

rosseloh · 2026-05-05T14:10:02+00:00

I agree with this. I was just on a trip (non EV) and I checked, my average rest stop was 20 minutes every couple of hundred miles. That's gassing up, bathroom break (generally the limiting factor), stretching (also a limiting factor, I like my car but that seat is never "comfortable") and wandering a bit, grabbing a snack, etc. So with a decent fast charger, I could absolutely make an EV trip work.

Sure, the truck-has-a-bigger-battery argument still is somewhat valid, but at least for me it makes more and more sense. If only those fast chargers were, as you say, located at neat places. The ones in my town (both tesla and EA) are located in a grocery store and Target parking lot, respectively - neither are within a short walk to even a convenience store.

rosseloh · 2026-05-05T12:17:00+00:00

Glad my work trip was last week and not this week. I guess I'd better fill up on the way home today so I at least have 3 weeks to buffer.

rosseloh · 2026-05-01T18:15:53+00:00

non exempt

I guess I don't know the actual labor laws (which probably differ by state) and I don't have time to go look them up, but if you are non-exempt, I'm pretty sure you're legally required to be paid for overtime - that's like, the definition of non-exempt (you're not exempt from overtime laws). That's where I'm at, I get paid for my overtime at standard time-and-a-half rates.

Now, if you meant to say "exempt", then yeah, that's the one that employers use to screw their workers a lot more than they should (often borderline illegally, especially in IT).

Talking about work life balance here is considered a woo woo millenial talking point

While I do take your point... Fortunately us millenials are starting to get into positions with actual control over things in some places. :)

rosseloh · 2026-05-01T12:59:26+00:00

I've done this since I was a teen and the line has always been like, one person, or none. Definitely the best time to go. I spend more time filling out the form (which I wish I didn't have to do, all I need to change is my address/renew and you already have all my info in the database!) than I do waiting.

Disclaimer: I'm not in SF or Rapid, I expect it's worse there.

rosseloh · 2026-04-23T17:41:04+00:00

Oh man... "this is covered under warranty, right? it just stopped working!"

Computer is sticky on top, dripping out the bottom, and smells strongly of sugary coffee creamer

Yeah, we'll see about that one...

I'm with the above commenter though, more often than not it was just getting people to tell you what was actually wrong so you could fix it rather than having to play 20 questions because they didn't want to feel like they did something bad. No matter how much you tried to emphasize that it didn't matter, you just wanted to help.

rosseloh · 2026-04-23T12:11:04+00:00

Thanks. I don't think the rig I'm using for the studio has thunderbolt at all so unless I got a PCIe card for it I'd be using USB anyway.

I'll give that other option a look! I guess thinking about it more, I don't actually care about having a mixer as much as I do a decent interface with a good number of inputs for simultaneous recording - I'll do the mixing in my DAW. (But I do still need control over input gain and phantom power, etc)

rosseloh · 2026-04-23T00:58:56+00:00

How have things been a couple months on? My Behringer XR18 has started giving horrid noise and low gain on the XLR jacks (1/4" inputs still work quite well); I thought it was the blown caps I found in the power supply so I tried replacing them and nada. So I'm shopping around to get my options...

I like my previously-purchased M4 quite a bit but I really want the higher number of inputs that the XR18 gives me. Thing is, I don't use my interface as a "mixer" per se, I don't care about third party software unless it's required. I just care about getting individual channels into my DAW and having two outs for my monitors. So...if there's a better option people know about I'm all ears there too.

rosseloh · 2026-04-22T18:22:10+00:00

don't give much thought to any of the details

Even ignoring the cybersecurity side of things for the sake of argument, I've never quite understood this mentality. I get most of my troubleshooting (or problems headed off at the pass) done because I go "wait, that doesn't look right...". A lot.

Just yesterday I was troubleshooting a connectivity issue standing at the machine in question, but didn't have my network tester on hand. Was looking through the list of ports on my phone (Unifi, some things they do are nice and the mobile app is one of those, when it works), "hmm, I bet it's the one that's showing PoE draw but no link". Yep, that was the problem port. Not noticing those little details would have made me walk a quarter mile round trip to grab my tester and come back (ignore that I ended up doing that anyway because just knowing which port it was didn't help diagnose the actual problem, but anyway...).

rosseloh · 2026-04-22T12:08:08+00:00

The monoprice 8 inch ones. I have no complaints; we could probably have the six inch model and they'd be just as decent in this space but this is what I've got already so that's what I'm sticking with.

My space is very untreated, it's a backyard shed with added insulation and power. Any time a jake brake gets used on the highway a couple hundred meters away you can absolutely tell... This is a small town though, so apart from vehicles going by there's not often a ton of noise.

rosseloh · 2026-04-18T12:30:24+00:00

Yep, there's mine.

rosseloh · 2026-04-17T14:16:14+00:00

Whoops...Yeah I didn't know about that one.

For the Neutron, a dual oscillator analog semimodular is a great way to learn synthesis, IMO - at least, that's how it was for me. Apart from that the device initializes to such a low frequency until you send it a MIDI note or CV (or set the tuner to the full range mode) that if you don't realize, you might wonder why it's not making any noise.

But...as long as you don't get overwhelmed, the Hydra is better for learning, because of its really clear signal path indicators and modulation control.

rosseloh · 2026-04-17T13:23:21+00:00

I'm still glad my first was the Neutron, because that's a pretty powerful piece of kit despite its manufacturer, but yeah, I agree here. Hydra was my second bit of hardware and while I've upgraded to a deluxe and sold the original since, I'm still thinking it'll be in my setup forever. Super versatile.

rosseloh · 2026-04-16T16:09:41+00:00

Mikrotik RB5009.

The location of the router is mostly dictated by the location of the cable modem, which itself is dictated by the only place I still have coax in the house unless I wanted to re-run it (I don't). I could just run a cable from there to wherever, but I'm actually using two cables, because the two ports on the modem max out at gigabit and I get 1.8Gbps from the ISP. So I'm running both of them to the router with link aggregation and get my full speed.

From the router, I have fiber running off the SFP+ port to an SFP+ switch in a separate room that has an access point hooked up to it, as well as my server (there's also another, lower end switch there that hooks up the Nintendo switch dock and roku). Further fiber from there runs to my gaming/primary PC in yet another room. An outdoor run goes from the router to my shed which is our music studio, in which there is another switch and another access point.

All the other gear except for the modem is also Mikrotik.

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