wizardbeard

@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sorry for who fell for the relentless marketing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck, I have one from 2024 that’s been sitting in a box until I had the time to get into 3d printing (like yours, it was a gift). Guess I need to buy a fire fighting ball thing for it when I finally get it set up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you have a highly idealized idea of the past. Most jobs are, and have always been, a way to make money to fund your life. Any “meaningfulness” is a rare beneficial side-effect for most.

  And as far as understaffing and overworked? Every company will attempt to extract the most they can from you for the least amount of money. Pretty much always has been. Sometimes you can find some management that realizes you can get more out by showing some amount of care to their underlings as people, but again that is also rare.

  Also, outside of the tech hubs like the SF bay area, or FAANG employment (or the equivalent for the time), you aren’t going to be finding “the grunts” are millionaires still working.

  I hope unions take off again. People forgot how much of workers rights were fought for, with literal blood shed in support of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Revisiting the Mass Effect Trilogy (with mods!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet! I just picked LE up and had started looking at mods for my playthrough. These reccomendations will make a nice starting point!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like some words may have been added to that “quote” over time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hearbeat notifications man. “Yes I am online” email once a day or so. Yeah it’s more emails to delete but it can be a lifesaver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m remembering a very not fun discussion my team had about “the monitoring system not sending any alerts doesn’t inherently mean everything is ok” after an outage that was missed by our monitoring system.

  You need to make sure you’re monitoring connectivity as well as specific problem states. No data is a problem state often overlooked, and it’s not always considered for every resource type in these systems out of the box.

  And you probably want a heartbeat notification. Yes, it’s noise, but if you don’t see anything from monitoring you need to question if monitoring is the thing that broke. It sending out a notification every so often going “yes I am online” is useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exchange Server is effectively dead mid October too. Technically they have Exchange Server SE as an option, but it’s clearly not how they want people using Exchange anymore. They don’t even want hybrid setups.

  Which is extra annoying because if you have Azure AD (I guess it’s Entra ID now) syncing from an on prem AD forest, half of the mailbox management shit in Exchange Online just doesn’t work and forces you to make the changes on-prem anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft’s other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don’t co-mingle on the same server well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.

  If you’re competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.

  Waste of effort if you don’t need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.

  For me? I’m happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I’ve got a comfy paycheck.

  And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I’m ready, I’ll be cheering, and I’ll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m usually a Windows “shill” or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it’s not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like “I’d rather self-castrate” bad.

  Anyway…

  But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You’ll get so much more out of a Linux server that it’s not even funny.