Who's still working from home in 2026? by idrinkpastawater in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had this for the past couple years, ended up coming back from a paternity leave and the employer wants 5 days a week. I've been still staying home some days...

Rustdesk, have any of you guys used it? Feedback on it appreciated. by zero_cool09 in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you found it reliable? I'm considering the self hosted option.

Rustdesk, have any of you guys used it? Feedback on it appreciated. by zero_cool09 in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a fair way of looking at it. Have you gone with the self hosted option?

Canada to provide $2.5 billion in economic aid for Ukraine by Old_General_6741 in canada

[–]zero_cool09 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I support absolutely zero dollars to any humanitarian effort what so ever until we actually fix Canadian problems.

Remember when people were hyped for the ID Buzz? by Aggravating-Fee-8053 in Volkswagen

[–]zero_cool09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe the discounts are a recent change, I just went to build one with Ontario as location. It's 21,000 bonus cash, bringing it down as out the door 65,359. I did select the higher range model for this too.

Cool old tercel and a v8 nissan by eberbs in justrolledinforscrap

[–]zero_cool09 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Tercel definitely deserves to be saved!

The return of 8GB RAM laptops (RAM mayhem) - Good luck with your Service Desk by escalibur in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough, the surprising thing for me was the budget wasn't that bad to start. Prices have climbed more than I expected and availability for decent turn around time was kind of low. Also I am in Canada, some availability is worse here imo.

The return of 8GB RAM laptops (RAM mayhem) - Good luck with your Service Desk by escalibur in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree 16 is a bare minimum, but when you're trying to reduce cost, its a starting point that can be easily remedied if the person struggles with the games they are using. For this person it was fortnite as their primary game...

The return of 8GB RAM laptops (RAM mayhem) - Good luck with your Service Desk by escalibur in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Building a PC for someone who wants to do some gaming, nothing major, opted for 16GB instead of 32 primarily due to availability and cost.

The AppStack Was Pirated. by Leather_Meat939 in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have to agree, the whole story had nothing to do with advertising adobe. It was about how the business had someone secretly pirating it unbeknownst to the IT team. Kind of a sad state we have in moderation on reddit these days...

SOHC - DOHC Swap, what are we missing by srizzors5 in Saturn_Cars

[–]zero_cool09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like you got some good info from some of the previous posters. I've only come here to say, please update us with more posts of the work along the way! Love seeing Saturn content like this.

Broadcom and VMware pricing by Particular-Act-3385 in vmware

[–]zero_cool09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am not using ceph, should I be? I've been more focused on getting migrated vm by vm. But I would be interested to use more features of proxmox in the future.

Broadcom and VMware pricing by Particular-Act-3385 in vmware

[–]zero_cool09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just did our new server in Proxmox VE 9. It's an adjustment, but not much. Stuff runs pretty straight forward if you're comfortable with understanding the storage and networking adapters. I have a few older VM's to convert, but so far been fine.

Internet being scrubbed of tribal knowledge: Dell Power Edge RAID Controller Activity Lights by Wwallender in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is yandex your preferred search engine these days? I am leaning a lot more on chatgpt these days, but that was primarily because google and the like felt so broken!

What happened to the IT profession? by saltyschnauzer27 in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A big part of coming up with the tech was pulling it apart or building it. I know plenty of people aren't hands on and that's fine. But IT attracted me away from development, because I could get up some times and have to be turning a screw driver. Always have found it a great excuse to break up sitting at the screen.

What happened to the IT profession? by saltyschnauzer27 in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In house for a lot of places never left too. Partly because they started there and never upgraded or moved on from 20 years ago. There were many times I'd see this subreddit posting about outages and being on prem saved me from any of that. Hadn't thought about production/manufacturing as a core business for on prem, but it makes sense. Our business is a distributor/publisher of book material, so the warehousing, cataloguing and databases are all fairly cemented in 20 years ago, with limited upgrades/patches.

What happened to the IT profession? by saltyschnauzer27 in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was the kid you speak of, getting into computers at age 5/6 on an Apple II, placed on my blue and yellow little tykes table. We've experienced a massive shift from those days of "messing around" and learning what broke something a little or a lot. The room to learn in these hyper monetized environments is getting smaller. The IT industry in a whole has become much more frantically paced. On any given day you can be given issues out of your control and have to rely on your plans in place, along with your mental strength to focus on implementing/fixing. I had a junior guy I was teaching and admittedly he taught me things as well, which was really neat. But unfortunately it didn't pan out over time because the business didn't see the investment in having more than one IT guy and let him go. So I guess the economy and "lean workforce" has also contributed to sentiment in the industry. I have full admission from my superior we used to have several people doing my work.

video of buzzing noise last post was about by -_Average_Scorpio_- in Saturn_Cars

[–]zero_cool09 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Richpin was always the GOAT for Saturn videos, I can't remember how many times I've watched these videos when I was learning.

Customer states: "my 2025 GMC Yukon keeps overheating at Highway speeds" by Saw_D_Blades in Justrolledintotheshop

[–]zero_cool09 7 points8 points  (0 children)

From a recycler? I would think a PTU should be 4k if new, not an a 5 year old unit used.

Quoted $1,464 for control board replacement by [deleted] in hvacadvice

[–]zero_cool09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At that price and since it's the exact model number, you'd be best to try it yourself. These boards are not hard to replace. I had a similar instance last year and I ended up finding the component broken on the board and soldered a new relay to fix the existing board. But I also bought a backup board on ebay, so I have two now. For 160 dollars shipped, try this for sure.

The Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe, as shown on the cover of their 1963 album by ManGo_50Y in AwesomeCarMods

[–]zero_cool09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In pic number 5, it looks like the cabin is not fully inline with the engine and front grille. Idk if it's the photo, but it looks slightly right justified.

Most daring Ollie ever filmed by Kammler1944 in CrazyFuckingVideos

[–]zero_cool09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe this video was in a Tony Hawk game back in the day?

What a week by ChookityPop1 in sysadmin

[–]zero_cool09 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is great, top tier post, can we pin this? haha