LrdThndr
@LrdThndr@lemmy.world
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 3 months ago:
Tai’shar Malkier?
- Comment on ICANN approves use of .internal domain for your network 3 months ago:
Good luck with that. .local is reserved for mDNS calls, and not every OS treats it the same way. Ask me how I know.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
Hey, it’s not perfect, but a fix that gets you 10% of the way there is still 10% you don’t have to do by hand. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good, my man.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
Fuck yeah. Even better than reimagine. That’s creative as fuck and I love it.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
From a home user? Probably ain’t shit-all you can do with PXE booting. But if you have a field office or somewhere a user can go with a hardware vpn appliance? Well now you’re in business.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
Completely fair, man.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
FOG ran on Linux. It wouldn’t have been down. But that’s beside the point.
I never said it was a good answer to CrowdStrike. It was just a story about how I did things 10 years ago, and an option for remotely fixing nonbooting machines. That’s it.
I get you’ve been overworked and stressed as fuck this last few days. I’ve been out of corporate IT for 10 years and I do not envy the shit you guys are going through right now. I wish I could buy you a cup of coffee or a beer or something.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
That’s still 15% less work though. If I had to manually fix 1000 computers, clicking a few buttons to automatically fix 150 of them sounds like a sweet-ass deal to me even if it’s not universal.
You could also always commandeer a conference room or three and throw a switch on the table. “Bring in your laptop and go to conference room 3. Plug in using any available cable on the table and reboot your computer. Should be ready in an hour or so. There’s donuts and coffee in conference room 4.” Could knock out another few dozen.
Won’t help for people across the country, but if they’re nearish, it’s not too bad.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
Absolutely. 100%
But don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. A fix that gets you 40% of the way there is still 40% less work you have to do by hand. Not everything has to be a fix for all situations. There’s no such thing as a panacea.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
How would it not have? You got an office or field offices?
“Bring your computer by and plug it in over there.” And flag it for reimage. Yeah. It’s gonna be slow, since you have 200 of the damn things running at once, but you really want to go and manually touch every computer in your org?
The damn thing’s even boot looping, so you don’t even have to reboot it.
I’m sure the user saved all their data in one drive like they were supposed to, right?
I get it, it’s not a 100% fix rate. And it’s a bit of a callous answer to their data. And I don’t even know if the project is still being maintained.
But the post I replied to was lamenting the lack of an option to remotely fix unbootable machines. This was an option to remotely fix nonbootable machines. No need to be a jerk about it.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
Bro. PXE boot image servers. You can remotely image machines from hundreds of miles away with a few clicks and all it takes on the other end is a reboot.
- Comment on CrowdStrike Isn't the Real Problem 3 months ago:
A decade ago I worked for a regional chain of gyms with locations in 4 states.
I was in TN. When a system would go down in SC or NC, we originally had three options:
- (The most common) have them put it in a box and ship it to me.
- I go there and fix it (rare)
- I walk them through fixing it over the phone (fuck my life)
I got sick of this. So I researched options and found an open source software solution called FOG. I ran a server in our office and had little optiplex 160s running a software client that I shipped to each club. Then each climber at each club was configured to PXE boot from the fog client.
If everything was okay, it would chain the boot to the os on the machine. But I could flag a machine for primate and at next boot, the machine would check in with PXE and get a complete reimage from premade images on the fog server.
So yes, I could completely reimage a computer from hundreds of miles away by clicking a few checkboxes on my computer.
This was free software. It saved us thousands in shipping fees alone.
There ARE options out there.
- Comment on How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment 4 months ago:
Fuck yeah, public transit - Right in my veins, lets go.
But for right now, there is ZERO public transit infrastructure where I live, which is only about 20-30 minutes to a medium-sized city’s downtown. And when I say ZERO, I mean ZERO. We don’t even have busses here. No trains. NOTHING. We don’t even have sidewalks on most roads - if you want to walk, you’re literally walking in the road. I used to ride a bike to work a long time ago - I can’t even count the number of times I’ve had shit thrown at me by shitbag rednecks as they zoomed past in their lifted pickup trucks.
The local governments’ answer to all this is “If you don’t have a car, fuck you.” Cars are literally the only option. If you don’t have a car or a driver’s license, you better find somebody who does and give them gas money, or consign yourself to paying for Uber/Lyft anytime you want to go anywhere. It’s straight-up dangerous to travel any other way around here.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 7 months ago:
You are a fucking hero. I couldn’t figure out why my Roku TVs were still able to get ads after blocking everything.
- Comment on octopi tip - get a Usb-a power blocker 8 months ago:
I simplified a bit. But it’s easy to bork the cable in the process, and it’s also possible the cable didn’t follow standard wire coloring.
Here’s the step by step process for anybody who wants to do this but doesn’t know for sure what to do.
You will need a razor blade or wire stripper and a wire cutter, as well as a roll of electrical tape.
Also it should go without saying, but unplug both ends of the damn cable before you start.
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Verify that the usb cable is a CHARGE AND SYNC cable. A charge only cable will not work.
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With your razor blade, make an incision into the usb cable about 6 inches from either end. Don’t cut too deep. Only go deep enough to cut the outer jacket. The cut should be slightly longer than your tape is wide. If you have a wire stripper, strip about a 3/4 inch section of the cable about 6 inches from either end.
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If using a blade, cut around the jacket at both ends of your incision and peel off the jacket between your cuts. You should have about 3/4 inch of unpacked cable.
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If there’s a wire mesh wrapping the inside of the cable, cut SOME of the mesh, being careful to ensure that the mesh is still connected on both ends. If there’s a foil wrapper, find the seam and peel it back to both sides. You can cut the foil if necessary, but do not remove it entirely. Ensure that SOME of the foil and/or mesh is still attached at BOTH sides of the exposed section.
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The inner wires should now be exposed. There should be 4 wires - red black white and green. There might also be a 5th wire with no insulation at all, but this won’t be in all cables. It’s okay if it’s missing. However, if you don’t see ALL of those 4 colors or see different colors STOP. Tape the cable back up and get a different one. If you only see TWO wires, you have a charge only cable and it won’t work. Tape it back up.
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Clip the red wire TWICE, about an 1/8th inch apart. There should be a gap in the wire now if you line the ends up. DO NOT cut anything else inside the cable. The black white and green wires MUST remain intact for the cable to function.
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Bend the red wires up and out of the jacket. Close up the foil and/or mesh and wrap the exposed portion of the cable with a layer of electrical tape, leaving the red wires sticking up. It’s okay if some metal is exposed on either side of the tape, but the red wires should be able to lay down on it without the ends touching anything metal.
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Lay the ends of the red wires down so that the ends are laying on the tape. The metal inside the red wire should NOT contact anything else that’s metal in the cable.
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Wrap the whole opened section of the cable with electrical tape to an inch or two on both sides of the open section.
Plug it in and give it a try. You should have data-only usb cable that doesn’t deliver power now.
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- Comment on Why does my printer suck so much? 8 months ago:
I bought a X1C and have never leveled it once. Everything is completely automatic, and I’ve never had a failed print.
If I can see that the print quality is starting to go down (and by that I mean I can see a little ringing or something), I just hit the calibrate button and it does everything on its own with zero intervention besides the initial button.
- Comment on octopi tip - get a Usb-a power blocker 8 months ago:
Or just sacrifice a usb cable - carefully open the wire jacket, snip the red wire, then tape it back up. Easy peasy done in 2 minutes.
- Comment on Broadcom yanks ESXi Free version, effective immediately 9 months ago:
FWIW, I run proxmox at home, and I friggin love it. It’s really not hard at all.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
No online store. I just do it as a hobby. Feel free to dm me whenever.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
There’s a pen sub? I was on r/penturning on that other place.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
The bold action is wenge with a oil/wax blend friction polished finish. I’m asking $100 for it.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
I still have the third one available. I’m asking $50 for it. It’s padauk, canarywood, katalox, and leopardwood with an aluminum inlay.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
Bruh. I make pens as a hobby. Happy to make and ship you one. Image
I still have the four on the right on hand. Can also make whatever.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
Web developer here. A “cookie” is just a piece of information stored on your machine. A cookie can be a setting, saved app data, or a tracking id.
The reason you keep seeing the banner is because by saying “no” to cookies, you’re telling them they don’t have permission to store ANYTHING on your computer. Which is fine. Your computer your call.
But if they can’t store anything on your computer, there’s no way to remember that setting next time you come to the website. No local setting storage means they don’t have the stored “no cookies” setting to load. Likewise there’s no tracking id they could potentially look your setting up in their own database by.
Web site requests are “stateless”. That means that, to a web server, each and every single request to a server is its own brand new, separate connection with no link to any other connection. The only way to share data between individual requests is via some kind of stored “state”. That state can come from your computer in the form of cookies, or from the server in the form of sessions. But linking a connection to a session requires your computer providing a session id; and guess how your computer has to store a session id? If you guessed “in a cookie” you win.
Are cookie popups annoying? Oh holy Christ yes, both from a web user standpoint and from the stand point of having to implement them as a developer. But by outright rejecting cookies (and/or auto-wiping your cache/cookies when you close the browser), you’re telling the website it’s not allowed to store your preferences for not having cookies and eliminating the websites ability to recall that preference at all.
- Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 10 months ago:
So only charge it to 80%. Why is that a concern?
- Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 10 months ago:
I mean, US Cellular had a free battery swap program for a while. If you were a subscriber and your phone battery was low, you could go into any store and they’d swap you out for a fully charged battery for free. I presume they just ate the cost of damaged or degraded batteries as part of it. I only used it a couple times, but it was kinda nice.
- Comment on Jeff Bezos plays down AI dangers and says a trillion humans could live in huge cylindrical space stations 11 months ago:
In one age, called the third age by some, a windbag rose in the west. This windbag was not the first, nor would he be the last. There are no first or last windbags in the wheel of bullshit, but he was A windbag.
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 11 months ago:
Open source hardware is a thing. See: raspberry pi, pine64, etc.
In hardware, open source means the schematics are available and the device is built with commonly available components; eg: no proprietary chips, standard discrete components, pcb schematics and plans available.
- Comment on Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported 11 months ago:
I love how this was somehow both the next line of the song AND snarkily correcting their spelling.
- Comment on GM Says It's Ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto for Your Safety 11 months ago:
I recently saw a 94 corolla with like 2400 miles on it while car shopping online. I guess it just got bought, parked, and forgotten about. It was in spectacular condition.
It was also $26,000.
