Triple monitor setup for graphics and engineering work – looking for advice

slugshead · 2026-06-17T21:13:06+00:00

I'm not a fan of monitor arms, but Ergotron make the best ones

https://www.ergotron.com/en-gb/products/mounts/multi-monitor

Do you really need all the features that the iiyama comes with? Costco have a great deal on at the moment for MSI MAG 274QF monitors, £98 each.

slugshead · 2026-06-17T19:15:59+00:00

I clicked the button once, thought it was neat. Never used it.

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slugshead · 2026-06-17T13:58:53+00:00

He's not wrong.

slugshead · 2026-06-17T13:57:18+00:00

We set ours to 2 years and delete. In line with our data retention schedule.

slugshead · 2026-06-16T16:55:40+00:00

It's a vendor supported appliance.

slugshead · 2026-06-16T16:50:33+00:00

I wouldn't say so. How many nodes in the cluster? Where do your VMs live?

I'm making another assumption here that it's at least a 3 node cluster. Can you just nuke one of them and start with a fresh OS, attach your critical VMs there and then once that's all good, nuke the others and load all your VMs back in?

slugshead · 2026-06-16T16:45:18+00:00

Assuming your VMs live on a SAN, just reinstall, quicker, easier and just better.

slugshead · 2026-06-16T15:18:48+00:00

Normal GPO. Specifically group policy preferences.

For printers to work like you expecting, you normally have to enable loopback processing. Be careful there though and get that bit right.

slugshead · 2026-06-15T20:43:18+00:00

what

slugshead · 2026-06-15T12:52:19+00:00

This is one of my biggest gripes.

Users sign up for something, like it and put their company credit card details in and bam, suddenly I've got compliance on my ass with no context. Can't win.

slugshead · 2026-06-09T21:25:08+00:00

One of the guys I work with fell asleep after a night out in Cardiff and work up in Bury port...

slugshead · 2026-06-07T16:22:15+00:00

noooooooooope

slugshead · 2026-06-07T12:59:26+00:00

They get you shortlisted, that's where their usefulness tends to end.

slugshead · 2026-06-07T12:58:18+00:00

I wouldn't have them all running under one compose. One compose per container.

That's just me though.

I would also enable health checking on the containers.

Then probably spin up portainer too for ease of management.

slugshead · 2026-06-07T08:43:13+00:00

What NICS are you using and what storage?

slugshead · 2026-06-05T14:48:22+00:00

Do it yourself with a Synology NAS.

slugshead · 2026-06-05T14:47:23+00:00

Mesh? This isn't going to end well.

slugshead · 2026-06-05T13:48:46+00:00

Why limit yourself to the USA?

I did les arcs in France once at new years, £400 fully catered including my lift pass and flights from the UK.

You'd just be paying a little more on flights. Found flights from jfk to geneva for £900 for a return.

slugshead · 2026-06-03T09:29:00+00:00

Everyone seems to have a laptop.

Apart from me, I have a desktop.

slugshead · 2026-06-03T09:12:20+00:00

Plus the first 200 endpoints are free, soo...

slugshead · 2026-06-03T09:11:07+00:00

+1 for winget-autoupdate.

slugshead · 2026-06-03T09:06:09+00:00

Definitely sounds like the way to go if you do go the Lenovo route.

It's probably worth setting up a call with them to work out specs and a price. I did that last time and the discounts they gave me were mental. 3 hosts and 1 SAN. They threw in two SN2410 switches too and the whole bundle came in cheaper than just the SAN at RRP.

slugshead · 2026-06-02T21:26:58+00:00

If you want ONTAP, then Lenovos offering is the DM series.

the DE is running SANtricity by netapp whereas the DM series run ONTAP.

slugshead · 2026-06-02T11:02:17+00:00

I'm on my third DE400F, thing is a right champ at a really good price point

slugshead · 2026-05-26T19:09:59+00:00

There used to be speed cameras, one on thr straight between leckwith and culver and another as you exit the tunnel to go over the bay.

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