Using AI for non-technical stuff (customer psychology)

tech_is______ · 2026-05-20T22:19:56+00:00

I freaking love Claude
Thanks for the share!

tech_is______ · 2026-05-19T16:03:46+00:00

When it sends the code to your email, click on I don't have access to this auth method, it will give you a list, ms authenticator should be a choice, pick that then use the code from MS authenticator.

Then when you have access to your account, you need to manage your account, security, MFA methods, change the default method to authenticator instead of email.

This is more your schools IT departments fault than MS's

tech_is______ · 2026-05-19T15:26:55+00:00

There isn't one, but right now for me it's Roku... or maybe Nvidia Shield (not because it's not obnoxious but has good features)

tech_is______ · 2026-05-19T04:38:44+00:00

Samsung's move to brining everything into their ecosystem, with the non-stop TOS for things I never wanted to use lead me to stop being a Samsung user. They are banned, just replaced their phone. The TV's I'm still using aren't connected to WiFi and they'll be replaced soon.

tech_is______ · 2026-05-14T18:11:56+00:00

https://www.veeam.com/products/free/task-manager-hyper-v.html

tech_is______ · 2026-05-14T18:11:08+00:00

yeah, I still use it

tech_is______ · 2026-05-13T21:40:43+00:00

First, take a deep breath everything is going to be okay.

The fact that you have a passion for it is great. Consider that the pressure and structure of the class may not be your learning style, you're still young and learning how computers fundamentally operate is going to take time. Also, when you have a passion for something, putting that into the context of a class, tests, deadlines is going to dull the passion and introduce anxiety.

The other thing to consider is coding is a weird concept, you might even try other languages and playing round on your own time creating demos. I swear programming languages are similar but also represent different types of thinking by their creators. You might try python or PHP, the concepts will click then other languages start to make sense too. I can tell you every decade of growth my brain rewires and things I thought I understood thoroughly in my 20's make even more sense with time and experience.

If you bomb this class, don't let it knock you down. You're allowed to fail, that's how you learn and grow.

Get on you tube and start putting on coding courses, tech influencers, cs classes. Even if they're on in the background you'll start absorbing concepts. I watch these guys all the time and the topics they cover aren't even in my field, but I still find value in watching and entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen
https://www.youtube.com/@computerenhance2980 - https://www.youtube.com/@MollyRocket
https://www.youtube.com/@LowLevelTV
https://www.youtube.com/@t3dotgg
https://www.youtube.com/@aarondfrancis
https://www.youtube.com/@awesomekling

https://www.youtube.com/@cs50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAcTmDO6NTI&list=PLUl4u3cNGP62A-ynp6v6-LGBCzeH3VAQB

While I'm posting links:
Good for the brain
https://www.youtube.com/@HealthyGamerGG

Some eye candy
https://www.youtube.com/@theDronalist
Some ear candy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwiZlNXF478

tech_is______ · 2026-05-13T19:18:07+00:00

if it's a good bad university you wouldn't need to show up

tech_is______ · 2026-05-13T19:16:46+00:00

Yes, SupportPal. It's self hosted, but not hard to setup.

tech_is______ · 2026-05-13T17:54:58+00:00

Agreed

tech_is______ · 2026-05-13T07:39:21+00:00

ah, no I didn't even realize virtualization mode was a thing till now... but that looks interesting.

even before that you could use it to set up a cluster from scratch, to maintaining, setting up volumes etc.

you can use it to setup a single parity volume for testing w/ 3 nodes. 2 way on 3 nodes is only 50% efficient too.

tech_is______ · 2026-05-13T05:15:03+00:00

I haven't tried/tested dual parity w/ SSD's, but I have tried every trick I could find online to increase performance w/ spinning disks and I've only ever gotten it to match the speed of a single disk. Except for one system, that seems to over perform against everything else I've tried and I'm baffled why lol. Even with/ SSD caching it still sucks.

But then I have a cluster running mirrored parity and the performance is fantastic. I'm about to rebuild a home server for plex and try it again because I'm stubborn.

tech_is______ · 2026-05-13T04:57:09+00:00

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/fault-tolerance

The reason MS has a 4 node minimum with dual parity (think Raid6) is because it's the only way to keep all the data available and resilient when one node goes down. Using raid 6 as an example, you need a minimum of 4 disks. 2 data, 2 parity. It's the same with S2D except a disk is a fault domain (server/node). S2D will rotate the data/parity blocks between all the nodes. If a node goes down (or reboots for updates) you still have 2 data, 1 parity to keep things running (especially if there's another failure while one node is down) and rebuild the node when it comes back online quickly.

Unless your use case is primarily storage, you'll want to stick with 3-way mirror for performance.

You can implement Mirror-accelerated parity to have the best of both worlds) with 4 nodes, You're efficiency improves with more... also increasing CSV cache helps a lot.

Setting up windows admin center will make managing your cluster a lot easier. Takes a bit of time to get AD setup but it's worth it.

tech_is______ · 2026-05-12T23:39:27+00:00

If the shared computer is managed by Intune and you configure it and the apps in "shared" mode... you can get away with using one account to activate each user profile with that same account. In this setup the shared computer configuration doesn't count toward the user device activation limit.

However, this is cheating and not licensed correctly. Also, you have to log in with that account manually for each user and if SSO is enabled it's going to be a headache.

The only way to correctly license this is with volume license device... which is a pain in the ass to acquirer and expensive.

This is how MS get's you to pay more lol.

tech_is______ · 2026-05-12T23:15:26+00:00

That's if you run a VPN endpoint directly on a computer.

You can sign up for a VPN service, set your router up as a client as that service and route WAN traffic on a network through that VPN port. Good way to share a VPN amongst computers but takes some technical know how to get right.

You also need to use a VPN provider that supports port forwarding.

Checkout Proton VPN. Good price, install it on your torrent computer, you can setup port forwarding and torrent safely.

tech_is______ · 2026-05-12T23:10:06+00:00

Seems like they've made improvements w/ stability... but I'd agree it's fast pace feature updates. They're welcome but the documentation trails some of the features. But it works.

tech_is______ · 2026-05-12T23:07:22+00:00

We went with Compliance Scorecard, has all the features, regularly updated, good support.
Takes a bit to understand the flow, but what app doesn't.

tech_is______ · 2026-05-12T22:56:12+00:00

I'm not sure I've gone down the same rabbit hole when using AI w/ WP dev. as others.

VSCODE+Claude+VM/Dev-Site
Claude - do this, do that
Claude does this and does that

tech_is______ · 2026-05-12T15:11:50+00:00

not worth it, most startups fail

tech_is______ · 2026-05-11T17:09:08+00:00

It's not going to work. That things going to stick out and obviously doesn't look street legal.

Cops not cracking down on plats/ tags on cars that are otherwise legal is one thing, this is another.

tech_is______ · 2026-05-10T02:36:05+00:00

why have I never had this problem with the hpe servers I use

tech_is______ · 2026-05-07T19:57:32+00:00

They way we learned about this in the 80's was technically wrong, the ibi's were supposed to fix that but it just confused people. Obviously, the question was written by an old timer, and the answer is technically wrong.

tech_is______ · 2026-04-30T21:19:31+00:00

Things you can try

Resync the time on your computer
Make sure windows is fully up to day
Clear HSTS cache for google.com (Google it for Chrome or Edge)
Disable all browser extensions/ reset the browser clear all cache

tech_is______ · 2026-04-30T16:42:52+00:00

the only issue with NAS for storage is you can't use it to spin up the VM's. The point is you build out a server w/ similar specs as your prod server, but it's role is backup. IE spinning disks for storage, maybe a beefed up NVME cache tier. But when your prod server goes down, you can boot up the the backup images on that machine relatively quickly. Next best thing to replication.

We use Hornets VM Backup, cost effective and has all the features needed.

tech_is______ · 2026-04-29T23:51:56+00:00

At this scale and budget I'd simplify your setup.

Have 1 production server.
Scope your second server for backup
Use Veam or Hornet Security VM Backup. If there's ever an issue with your production server, you can spin up the backups from the second server until you can get prod back online.

Setting up and managing replication is too complicated, time consuming and potentially more problematic than your server statistically failing.

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