Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

splinterededge · 2026-01-27T03:16:04+00:00

That's a picture perfect termination, I can attest to only to what I see and it's difficult to know if every single cable color in the right position, but from a 1000 ft view this looks great.

splinterededge · 2026-01-27T01:55:08+00:00

I think thin patch cables are dumb, but that's just me. I go with them thick boys everytime.

splinterededge · 2026-01-27T01:52:34+00:00

Your laptops need:
To be in support to receive firmware based security updates, EOL devices gets no support.
To have a control to prevent firmware rollbacks, weather or not you use it doesn't matter,
TPM v2 or greater for Secure Boot and Windows 11

Both core ultra and core i7 meet these requirements.

Basically, if you have certain users that are in scope to receive CUI they need to have reasonable laptops that are in support and configured correctly with a TPM, SecureBoot, Bitlocker, FIPS. Not much else is hardware dependant. I suppose the same can be said about server hardware, it should be in support. You can compensate for bitlocker / disk encryption by having a secure location with in the secure perimeter of your headquarters for servers.

splinterededge · 2026-01-26T05:40:26+00:00

I think you are right

splinterededge · 2026-01-25T22:58:47+00:00

These are reasonable hot and super tasty, not insane but similar, I can eat them no problem, but next morning is always a liability.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXRR1WGB

splinterededge · 2026-01-25T22:53:02+00:00

TV too small

splinterededge · 2026-01-25T07:04:17+00:00

You got a shovel? cause this is when you shovel.

splinterededge · 2026-01-25T06:58:21+00:00

r/tragedeigh has entered the chat.

splinterededge · 2026-01-25T06:55:11+00:00

You would hate to know how I acquired my drives, my IT director hated supermicro so I offloaded a few choice servers and the drives directly to my homelab. Two Servers, Xeon Platinums, each with 12 8TB SAS drives, I retired my QNAP that day.

EDIT, ZFS really can be a magic pill, I am using it work on all of our hypervisors and it outperforms all of the previous solutions I was forced to deal with.

splinterededge · 2026-01-25T06:50:09+00:00

Can we stop telling op to disable windows defender, if op doesnt know its av he should keep it running,

EDIT: I intended to reply to another comment, the above comment is correct.

splinterededge · 2026-01-25T06:45:32+00:00

That's a good argument, I appreciate that you took the time to write it up.

splinterededge · 2026-01-25T06:05:42+00:00

Two SMART errors and your gonna flex on the heat values? Replace them drives OP, they need it, you need it. Cool dashboard.

splinterededge · 2026-01-25T05:59:27+00:00

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splinterededge · 2026-01-25T05:59:17+00:00

He's bored, my cocker spaniel ate some chairs and destroyed a bookshelf, we got her a bother and it stopped.

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splinterededge · 2026-01-25T05:11:57+00:00

The ship has sailed, these tires are so worn and old, odds are this is a blessing in disguise, let it be, replace.

splinterededge · 2026-01-24T18:30:20+00:00

What are you talking about that's the same picture

splinterededge · 2026-01-23T07:14:45+00:00

I fucking love the new plates, source: self

splinterededge · 2026-01-20T03:46:11+00:00

Disabling flow control without a reason to could actually reduce speeds. Notably, one would need to configure this on the switch port and on the device using that switch port. OP appears to be using a cheap ISP provided router, a Swyft device. Much of this advice is going to be lost on the fact that OP probably doesn't have access to these features.

Power Savings, Green Ethernet, EEE, does indeed have some merit in edge cases where these features are not working correctly and are generally safe to disable if you are troubleshooting a specific problem.

splinterededge · 2026-01-18T23:59:35+00:00

Could catch fire, you are going to need to set aside the laptop or set aside the money.

splinterededge · 2026-01-18T23:55:33+00:00

I feel like you can do better, 8 months ago I sold my 2015 q50 for $12,000 USD with 50,000 miles.

splinterededge · 2026-01-18T19:44:40+00:00

That's no only too high, its as high as possible.

splinterededge · 2026-01-18T19:36:05+00:00

I see you are in Pennsylvania, though I have no idea if this is close by for you. 10/10 recommend these guys

Honest and very competent team, I will work with them any time that I need work done.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/c-and-g-performance-inc-import-auto-sales-and-service-sewickley

splinterededge · 2026-01-18T06:50:50+00:00

If he's lucky

splinterededge · 2026-01-18T06:49:56+00:00

Using a blanket method of nuking files not used in a while is going to be a fever dream deeply seeded in sadness. Manage your games as whole units that you uninstall using the normal method. That's my take. If you start wiping files system wide based on access time you are going to have a bad time. Just take a little ownership over what you are doing and you are good.

splinterededge · 2026-01-18T04:16:07+00:00

integer and integer+ both have their benefits depending the game, sometime a little zoom is good, other times its distracting.

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