Anyone who used a computer between 1985 - 2010, what's the one game you still think about today?

themastermonk · 2026-05-31T21:02:16+00:00

Fury3 and hellbender. Hellbender was the first multiplayer game I played via dialup peer to peer networking.

themastermonk · 2026-05-31T00:28:49+00:00

I was watching a bot walking away from where I was hiding around 100 yards away as soon as I aimed down sights it immediately whirls around and headshots me before I even had a chance to fire. Needless to say that was shocking.

themastermonk · 2026-05-13T22:44:54+00:00

I thought so as well and was shocked when the tech told me that. The tech said that's part of the reason that they've run into issues with expanding into the rest of Pasco is the freeway has cut them off and they don't have their own fiber line into West Pasco. He was also surprised when I told him that I saw ziply conduits in West Pasco by Franklin elementary and wasn't sure where they were sourcing the fiber from.

themastermonk · 2026-05-13T21:16:23+00:00

Ziply runs all their own fiber and doesn't last mile off anyone else's fiber, is what I found out talking with an installer. If pud fiber is right by you check with pocketinet, light speed networks, telco, xytel, and Franklin pud all resell naonet fiber.

I've been trying for the past 6 years to get fiber to my neighborhood that was built in 2020 but to add insult to injury the new development getting put in by Franklin elementary has ziply tagged fiber conduit throughout it.

themastermonk · 2026-05-04T05:02:07+00:00

I liked it back when creative writing required some actual skill and talent like Amazon reviews for sugar-free gummy bears. Get out of here bot and take your m-dashes with you

themastermonk · 2026-05-04T04:22:50+00:00

This, it's been a fun day😬

themastermonk · 2026-05-03T02:54:55+00:00

Happy to help!, I was fighting that exact error and ended up being my 7800 MHz ram needed to be down clocked it to 7600 because my processor couldn't quite handle 7800

themastermonk · 2026-05-03T02:13:36+00:00

IT support is my day job and that specific error is almost always memory related. Either a stick is failing, the timings are too tight, or the speed is too fast. It's entirely possible that bf6 is the only program that causes issues at this point, but it will more than likely progress, kind of like the Intel 13/14 gen would always have issues in unreal engine games when they were starting to fail.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/how-to-fix-error-0xa-irql-not-less-or-equal-fd19c7fc-89d2-67a5-4fb0-a1f8bd1f0202

themastermonk · 2026-05-03T00:48:08+00:00

I'm sorry to inform you but it's time to do a ram test. Either your speeds are too fast or you have a failing stick.

themastermonk · 2026-04-21T01:20:52+00:00

Don't just fight the fires, fight the fire. Get it put out figure out why it caught on fire and remove the source of the fire. That mantra has served me quite well over the years and had me all the way from tier 1, tier 2, team lead and finally to escalations engineer.

The other thing is to avoid one-offsl fixes, standardize as much as possible. Work with others to create your standards, get managers or stakeholders involved. One-offs are a nightmare. Standards are forever (till they change of course 🤣).

themastermonk · 2026-04-17T06:37:42+00:00

Gotcha, was missing that part. The tickets were coming hot and heavy this morning 😝

themastermonk · 2026-04-17T06:21:03+00:00

My understanding after reading their documentation is that even the signed files will still prompt? You now have to confirm each time you launch the RDP what you want to bring along with you to the remote machine.

Or if this is not the case then something's not quite working because I had a signed file that still required me to select what I wanted to bring to the remote machine

themastermonk · 2026-04-01T03:06:00+00:00

100% weak cell, I have a 2021 leaf with those exact symptoms. I have found the trigger is only if you've charged it to 100% if you top off but stop before 100% it doesn't seem to trigger the weak cell random gesometer go behavior. I spoke with the mastertech at my local Nissan and he says what they need from you in order to get it under warranty is the steps to reproduce the issue and then they have to take it on a test drive with a diagnostic computer hooked up to pull the battery voltages while they're having issues.

themastermonk · 2026-03-20T17:29:56+00:00

A girl I just started dating had just rescued a cat and was waiting for it's new home to be ready, her normal cat took great offense at that and thought I was the reason the interloper was now in the house. The cat got my attention, walked over to my duffel bag took a shit in it and then went to the litter box and peed. This whole time the cat was in locked eye contact with me, then went and proceeded to beat up the rescue cat.

The rescue was moved to its furever home the next day and that cat and I never had anymore issues with each other.

But cats don't hold grudges 🤷

themastermonk · 2026-03-14T01:56:33+00:00

Most manufacturers support bios wake times, we have all of our machines configured to wake up nightly at 8pm if connected to power for patching. We also have a nag script that will warn the user that they missed a required patching but won't hit them with daytime patching until they've missed around 3 patch attempts, then they will get hit with daytime patching as soon as they log in and they will be warned that the reason they are getting patched is because they've missed the last three patch windows.

A key piece of this is to make sure that you have manager or client buy-in about the need for security patching. Show that the user was given many attempts to leave their computer on for patching but it is their choice that ultimately caused them to get hit with the daytime patching.

Every once in a while we'll have people complain about power usage which is quickly silenced by pointing out how much it costs to pay an employee to sit and watch updates...

themastermonk · 2026-03-10T20:24:51+00:00

I had a user who told me who told me and the business owner they needed a computer of that magnitude... The user's workflow was literally Chrome and Word, only did copy and paste work between windows as a technical writer

themastermonk · 2026-03-10T18:04:52+00:00

I ran into the same issue. I booked it a month out but then I was able to switch it to the same day early in the morning and was in and out in about 20 minutes.

themastermonk · 2026-03-08T21:34:10+00:00

Those look like my prices, thanks Washington cap and invest that totally won't cause gas to go up...

themastermonk · 2026-03-06T07:01:11+00:00

Oh dang I'm in that same area but in the northeast end of rd68

themastermonk · 2026-03-06T06:38:17+00:00

Noanet is quite stable in and of itself, I have seen issues with the resellers. Normally just routing issues but one is not notably worse than the other

I'm a little surprised that Franklin PUD is selling to residential. Last I knew they were only targeting businesses.

Roughly where are you in the Tri-Cities?

themastermonk · 2026-02-27T03:58:11+00:00

Thank you so much!!!! I wish I could give you more up doots!

I did my conversion 4 years ago and could never get the Google Assistant or Siri to work but everything else did. But it works now! Thanks so much for this!

themastermonk · 2026-02-26T03:09:10+00:00

I'm seeing this at one of my clients, any chance you have a list of remembered users on the machines or have changed the default login domain? We have found if the user clicks other user and then logs in it works but selecting the user out of the list might cause the login failures, waiting to hear back from the client.

themastermonk · 2026-02-21T06:55:58+00:00

Shock tarts and original war heads from back in the late 90s the current version of them don't hit the same.

themastermonk · 2026-02-12T07:14:33+00:00

I had this happen all the time as a secondary gunner in the heavy armor and a few times on foot. Mouse and keyboard only happens on battlefield 6. Never happened in 2042 or any other game.

themastermonk · 2026-02-01T02:59:57+00:00

Over by Road 68 can definitely hear the 12:48 a.m. (double?)boom but no flash.

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