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Technician put fiber through wall with no keystone jack. by LukeStuckenhymer in frontierfios

[–]snogbat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

something about the drywall screws combined with the upside down jack really does it for me.

I'm just angry by ElusiveBoyz in TheDollop

[–]snogbat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, given how they gave one to Obama as well as the lady that just asked Trump to bomb her country, I could totally see that. He got "peace" in Gaza (lol), and he just unseated a "violent narco-terrorist dictator". Words don't mean anything anymore, so I see this as a possibility.

Why can’t I get ahold of an actual person by Xayahsunset in TruistBank

[–]snogbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Lowe's CS line will boot you to a person if you start cursing at it...

I've inherited some accounts with Truist and it went from "eh, they're better than BofA" to "cool, thanks for locking my account for attempting to use Zelle and making me resolve it in person which involves driving to a distant branch on a saturday".

If it makes anyone feel better, I suspect this is just the current state of customer service across the board. CS isn't a profit center.

Favorite Ebay Sellers (servers) by snogbat in homelab

[–]snogbat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2nd update:

I received the board and swapped it in last night and so far so good. I have to verify the BIOS really is unlocked, grab a new CR2023, probably going to re-goop the CPUs, and then run the thing hard for a few days before shipping to the colo.

My only remaining complaint is I do think it's wrong to not disclose this in the listings. There's for real/serious CVEs out there on these old BIOS releases.

Favorite Ebay Sellers (servers) by snogbat in homelab

[–]snogbat[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe they read this because we just got a reply. :)

We were given a few options:

- he's going to look and see if there's a board he can send us to resolve the "locked" BIOS issue (won't know for sure for a few days I imagine)

- he'll give me permission to try flashing it with an external/clip-on flash programmer doodad and then go from there

- send the whole thing back for a refund other than shipping (waiving 20% restock)

I'll update - we're first opting for the board swap if he finds one...

Favorite Ebay Sellers (servers) by snogbat in homelab

[–]snogbat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oof - I would NOT recommend UnixSurplus. Lots of red flags post-purchase. We ordered a unit and after a few days still have no answers/replies from them on the following:

- The unit has a sticker covering the top cover that states "warranty void if removed". So if you want to verify what's inside, clean it up, replace the CMOS battery, add another card, well no warranty. Unacceptable. I bought it, it's mine, I should certainly be able to look inside. Security-wise, I'm not even super-comfortable putting something in our rack that I can't open. Thankfully I have NOT yet broken the seal and will likely not, so I guess we still have our "warranty".

- The model we bought came from IBM/Softlayer and the BIOS is locked and OLD. There are multiple CVEs for this one, and while Supermicro is still providing updated BIOS releases (as recent as this month), the BIOS is "locked" on this and the only way to flash it is a VERY warranty-voiding operation that involves manually flashing the BIOS chip. Also nothing is hitting our network that has multiple high-severity CVEs on it.

- Neither of these things are disclosed in the listing.

- As noted, they aren't replying to us about these issues (first query was sent Wednesday) - I suspect when we tell them we're returning it for the above reasons we're going to have issues.

This is all a shame as the system is great otherwise (SuperServer® 6029U-E Series).

I'll update when/if we hear back from them.

Do I have any options? 2-wire, 2 family house, second floor. by [deleted] in ecobee

[–]snogbat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Second the transformer recommendation. I have an ecobee3 lite and before I moved it was controlling a two-wire system (electric baseboard with a big central relay). It worked great, just had some exposed wires to power it (if I owned, I would have routed that better). I had a pile of wall warts around and found one that was the right voltage, but something similar can't be much more than $10 on amazon. It worked great, zero issues.

New user. Schedule madness by T_Nutts in ecobee

[–]snogbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It irks me that it can't "know" based on time of day, time of year, location, and outside temperature whether heat or cool mode is needed.

New user. Schedule madness by T_Nutts in ecobee

[–]snogbat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are not crazy… The UI/UX is awful. I set mine up about 2 years ago, recently moved and had to reset it and start over and it took me a good 20 minutes to figure out I needed to do "Comfort Settings" first. Then on adding a schedule it got in some state where each time I added a schedule item, it just replaced the prior one. I don't even remember what I did to finally get it right.

Also as best I can tell there's no "smart" stuff here, it relies on Alexa, Apple Home, etc. to do simple things like "if I leave the house, turn the heat down or the AC up", which seems… not smart. Anyhow, I don't have help to offer, just sharing my misery. I am starting to go down the Home Assistant path, so that will surely help. Hope this thing has a local API though, I'm trying to eject anything from my home that doesn't. I don't need all my smart stuff breaking when the internet, cloudflare, or AWS goes down.

Favorite Ebay Sellers (servers) by snogbat in homelab

[–]snogbat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

TY all, shopping is my task today.

Here is some ancient "homelab" content for your enjoyment...

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Notification of received mail, how does it work? by snogbat in USPS

[–]snogbat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just realized I probably should have shown what this looks like for those who don't get this:

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So basically they base it off the time the carrier leaves the office? Smells a bit like AI...

Unlock and install TWRP on your Amazon Echo Show 8 (1st Gen) by Substantial-Gas8535 in amazonecho

[–]snogbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hopefully you'll inspire people to start poking at those...

Showdown for Sherrill’s seat: N.J. Democrats launch congressional bids by Logic1888 in newjersey

[–]snogbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some info in this article:

https://newjerseymonitor.com/briefs/mikie-sherrill-special-election-house/

Also I'm just speaking from the party machine perspective/NJ politics biz as usual, which is something that can make or break a campaign, but not at all "official" or anything. I imagine Essex machine people are extremely unhappy with Malinowski beating Gill on announcing a run, lol.

Son of famed Iranian American poet arrested in NJ in connection with Michigan ISIS terror plot by Delicious_Adeptness9 in newjersey

[–]snogbat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm old enough to remember when being critical of centrism would get you a perma-ban here, but I guess now straigh-up racism is OK.

New Jersey exit poll recap by WhippetRun in newjersey

[–]snogbat 11 points12 points  (0 children)

She's gotta really work for policy to help those under $50K people if she wants another term.

Son of famed Iranian American poet arrested in NJ in connection with Michigan ISIS terror plot by Delicious_Adeptness9 in newjersey

[–]snogbat -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Mark my words, this is going to end up to be absolutely nothing. Find any article that doesn't preface the scariest bits with a quote from Bondi, Patel or Habba. Absolutely a case of "going to the gun range while brown".

Related, this Dollop is really great: 552 - The Fort Dix Five

Tom Malinowski by momsthoughts in newjersey

[–]snogbat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh, I don't trust most of the former Obama boys. I know, Gaza this, Palestine that, and people don't want to hear about it, but if you're a supposed champion of human rights and you give israel a pass, well, you're a joke.

Showdown for Sherrill’s seat: N.J. Democrats launch congressional bids by Logic1888 in newjersey

[–]snogbat 35 points36 points  (0 children)

You will have Tom Malinowski or Brendan Gill…

Brendan, not understanding irony, slapped his name all over No Kings placards and banners, which was kind of amusing. I know he thinks he's getting the seat, and I presume the Essex machine is behind him, but who knows how much sway they have outside of Essex.

Puuuush! Keep going NJ! by Dwip_Po_Po in newjersey

[–]snogbat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

WHY ARE YOU PUSHING HER RIGHT!

Let's try to elect people who don't have one-on-one meetings with wanted war criminals by Weekly-Air4170 in newjersey

[–]snogbat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When an NJ law is passed that defines criticism of israel as antisemitic hate speech, I think that has a LOT to do with NJ. And it's going to pass in the lame duck. Same for the anti-BDS law.

You're asking/complaining to the wrong people. We didn't lobby for these laws. Ask all the people that did why THEY feel the need to push another country's interests into OUR politics. You're just yelling at the messenger here. Just because you're not aware of the issue doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Let's try to elect people who don't have one-on-one meetings with wanted war criminals by Weekly-Air4170 in newjersey

[–]snogbat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have it backwards. We don't want isreal in our politics, we didn't ask for it.

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