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We need a regulation that everyone who left the plane without their bag in an emergency like this gets a grand prize money when they go to reclaim it later. So many people with luggage :C

Absolute legend, had to share this immediately

Hijacking this just to say: USB: Ultra Speedy Bussystem

Proxmox VE calls the two options "Rollback" and "Remove". Both starting with "R"!! Every time I need to remove a snapshot I'm sweating blood and adrenochrome...

What if I told you that 99% of printer problems outright disappear once you give them static IPs, connect them via IP, install the manufacturers drivers manually through the driver selection dialog, and from now on completely ignore WSL for all eternity. All that's left are users not knowing how to duplex or change consumables. But any connectivity problem is gone.

Yes? \- It's the cheapest storage for a lot of data just lying round \- It is offline and air-gapped, meaning a malicious actor gaining access to your systems will not be able to encrypt it. \- It's great to fulfill the last requirement of the 321 rule for any backup environment: 3 copies in at least 2 different physical locations at least 1 of them on a different, physical media (Tape as opposed to drives)

This. Why didn't you bring it in sooner? "Because I needed it" Yeah, well seems like that is not gonna change, buddy...

This sorta stuff can not happen when you straight just tell them "IT onboarding requires a 72h notice because that is the time it takes to get everything set up" "But!" "No but, that is the time it takes, I can not take a cake out of the oven after 5 minutes and expecting it to be done, either." "But, can't you.." "No, please inform us in time with the next user and make arrangements for this user to work without equipment the first 2 days, thank you" Basically, push work back on them, it'll stop after just 1-2 occurrences

Those 10 million companies out there, all tiny, all having a "great idea to make things easier". Their software in absolute shambles and written by monkeys or worse, commissioned from a third company because the "idea company" has no development capacity and is run by a bunch of business students. The total disconnect to any real world process. Products designed to appeal to people that make decisions but have no idea how every day working in their company actually looks like. All those half assed, reinventing the wheel over and over and never adhering to a single standard ever. "Oh, but we THOUGHT the close button should be there". No, stop thinking. The close button and search bars are in the same place since 20 years, there's a reason for that. Stop thinking you can make it better by making it different from everyone else. You're not being smart or innovative. You're also not "modern" or "fresh" or "cutting edge". You're a fucking moron. Lay down before you hurt yourself! AAAH ... Thanks for listening.

Yeah, also the argument makes no sense when it's known that there is backups. What are you going to do, delete the backups?

Maybe this can help you: [https://eforensicsmag.com/extracting-data-damaged-ntfs-drives-andrea-lazzarotto/](https://eforensicsmag.com/extracting-data-damaged-ntfs-drives-andrea-lazzarotto/) It can recover NTFS structures, files and folders by scanning for their signature even if the partition themselves and their root folders are wiped. Make a full disk image before doing anything. Good luck!

Proxmox (& backup server) opnSense TrueNAS Nginx mariadb Rustdesk Gitlab (to be replaced with Forgejo) People that say OSS is unsafe need to go back to school and be taught what OSS actually is, how it works and how anything enterprise they purchase is build on 95% OSS code.

>If you think end users are computer illiterate now, you have no idea I feel like there is a sweet spot in the generations. Those that had heavy contact when dot com came to be, when everyone had AOL. Anyone who was brought up during those times and anyone who was not too old to ride that wave as well is an amazing user today. They know filesystem basics enough to have self preservation in mind when working computers. They don't just follow a 5 button sequence that someone once showed them that they never asked "why" on. They understand the "why"

"to resurrect mummies" No further questions your honor

Microsoft is literally the reason why I haven't automated myself out of my own job, yet

While I agree with directing end users to it I do also understand where u/Tozz2 is coming from. If I reboot a system I might have reset the thing and it will run but for how long? And how many more calls will I get where I still have to tell people to restart their system. Windows is full with these dumb tiny issues that keep coming up over and over and over again. This is indicative of bad code, which in turn is indicative of bad security. If I have issues with a linux service I find the issue, I configure it correctly and the issue is gone. Pretty much forever. It's plugging the hole for good. I know it will be gone and I know the system is running as it should. With windows, the system is never running as it should. That is kinda sad

We also migrated to proxmox with 8 nodes by now. It works so well it's not funny anymore. It allowed us to set up virtualized servers in tiny outside offices which enabled us to be extremly flexible. It's also dirt cheap. I have to add that our support model is that the knowledge to work with it is in house. We do not rely on support contracts, we rely on the entire team to know linux and work with it as if it was their daily driver. So yeah, if you can do that, it's a great option. Also using proxmox backup server for the entire backup infrastructure. It's so painless, I love it.

If you call someone else and convince them to buy something that impacts infrastructure, that the IT had no say in they will do anything ANYTHING to make sure your products will never ever be bought EVER again. Do not bypass the person that has to work with it and maintain it. Your short term sale results in long term reputation damage.

Such a waste of time. I just want to know a ballpark price when I am looking for potentially new systems. I hate the meeting and "send an offer" crap. It wastes so much time and I now need to negotiate and dick around with 3 companies sales personal for days on end. I have a network to administrate, I don't have time for your sales crap... All I need to know is if your prices are reasonable on average or outlandish for what you offer. That's all

Underrated. There's a lot of other great comments but I need to give this some love. Disabling fast startup saves you 70% of calls and you will not have to explain to everyone that the "reboot" button is better than turning it completely off and on again. Fast startup is a curse

Ah yes. If MS would make a converter they would either: 1. Have to bundle it for free (100% loss of development cost) 2. Ask for a fee (terrible publicity impact) So you go for secret option number 3. Just don't make it. Does not cost you anything and the publicity impact is less of an issue. Missing converters and features seem to be a thing in the modern world. Nobody will care enough to cause a giant shitstorm. Added bonus: Some poor 3rd party is going to make a converter and sell it. That is win, win. The customer is being bled the same way, there is a converter available that you do not have to maintain, by leaving that gap open you created a market for companies to sell and profit off of the MS ecosystem. I know, never assume malice when incompetence explains the circumstance. But come on, at some point incompetence breeds from malice. Too tight budgets and not wanting to invest money to make your product line better when it comes to the absolute obvious shortcomings is shareholder malice to me.

Also a TON of trying it once and then saying it's broken. When in reality, they probably clicked the wrong thing, changed procedure this once even though they claim they absolutely didn't. This is not an arrogance or blame thing either. This is just how the human mind operates. Even if you suddenly click on something different when inquired your brain just "makes up" that you did the right thing. Wetware really is a nightmare when it comes to consistency. When I encounter something "odd" like that I usually try again with conscious thought and maybe try to recreate my wrong procedure because I know the computer always does what it is told but I can not trust my own perception 100% of the time. Brains are weird, they make up crap and think they can't fail and claim perfect memory. But look at a video of neurons just once and you'll see how flexible, mobile, not static they are, including recall abilities. Try explaining that concept to a user, without being condescending. They never experienced being taught by computers how fucking dumb you really are in certain aspects. And many don't grasp the concept that a "mistake" is not an insult nor is it personal. They happen and nobody is at fault.

It's a great product, and it will sure not happen again, right? riiight?

People that hate apple usually have very clear and reasonable arguments to do so tbh. But none matter if CEO says so anyways. We have this, too. They argue about paying shipping twice when someone forgot an item on an order but don't bat an eye when it's like "ouh, they fix the device but we need to buy a new PC for 2k" I hate this micromanagement, it's idiotic. We have brains, we can think, too.

Yupp, all 3 correct. Ofc many many services have much better policies than this but this is meant to show the worst case (which you have to assume because you can not trust anyone, really) What blows my mind is how fast MD5 is by now.

Well, all my users are normal people. You can tell they're not IT junkies like I am. Therefor they sometimes to some pretty whack stuff that I could never think of. Often, errors are not being reported properly and many times perception is such a thing. But I love them regardless. They don't know better. They don't work with their hands covered in ones and zeros, in the gears and backrooms of those machines. All they see is computer go burr and it scares them to an extend. And I totally understand. I'm a sysadmin in a medical facility with 4 satellite clinics. Thinking about dealing with patients, doing the examinations, figuring what's wrong with them scares me, tbh. I have immense respect for all my users. They are incredibly skilled. We share a mutual existence and we need each other. So, generally, I love them all. Even when some mistakes might seem painful, even if they didn't follow protocol, I love conversing with everyone. But... There is one clinic that changed leadership recently and ever since then things are sour. I get active sabotage and lies from that direction and that really is the bane of my sysadmin existence. There's immense resistance, outright ignoring requests and fixes, hiding issues to then be able to claim they "haven't been fixed since months". It's insane. Worse: They are still sitting on very bad internet (to be fixed soon) so many things don't run as smoothly as I'd want them to and that fuels things. And on top of that this clinic is the fav of a very difficult boss of mine. So that kind of plays into each other. It takes an enormous amount of energy to deal with "that dark shadowy place over there".

Yeah, I had a similar problem for the "what if the VPN goes down and you need to get into the car". Solution was a backup emergency access that I had to dig out if things went wrong. It'd let me fix the issue remotely as long as it wasn't a hardware fault. Roll back snapshots and backups, mainly. It saved my ass a couple of times, now. Invaluable.

opnSense updates that fast, it's literally only down for the reboot. "Dumb", well if you have backups? You did make a backup before updating... snapshot??

Always start a database transaction before modifying

I expect them to be in backups which is why appdata is kind of not the best place, though It seems to be the way to go for a lot of future games and engines, though

I have no idea why my stuff was weirdly hidden. I recall having to grab a savegame extractor tool from github. It was quite a process but it also felt "very microsoft" xD

Did you ever go there? From what I recall explorer refuses to list contents at some point, despite having all "hidden/system file" settings on show. My experience was from earlier this year. Tools could check contents, Explorer couldn't. Correct me if I'm wrong. Also: Someone else made me aware of %userprofile&/Saved Games It's kinda funny, though, that not even microsoft is following their own structures. I think that is pretty much in the spirit of the original post \^\^

I had to chuckle because someone else suggested Documents/My Games and I at first thought that is much cleaner but you are right. I completely forgot that path existed. I replied to that other person what the big engines are doing, TL;DR Unity and Godot go for %AppData% locallow and roaming respectively and unreal throws it in documents (apparently). But worse, microsofts own xbox live launcher does not put anything in your location either. (Even though they sometimes officially claim that's where savegames go) They mush it in some hidden location, I think in C:/Program Data ? It's absolute chaos :D

Sooooo, kinda depends. It might be desired by MS to use that but it's not really done by everyone. So, think cross platform and game engines. As a dev ideally I want to just interface with an engine and all the cross platform build stuff is handled for me (not 100% but mostly) Unity [has functions to provide you with a persistent data path](https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Application-persistentDataPath.html) no matter what platform you're on. It's in AppData/LocalLow/... for windows. Godot [simply just defines a "user://" virtual location for this. ](https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/io/data_paths.html#accessing-persistent-user-data-user)Almost all functions that accept paths accept global paths or res:// and user://. On windows, user:// is in AppData/Roaming/... Unreal seems to aim at %HOMEPATH%\\Documents\\..., don't have experience with that engine. Just a quick google. So we already see 2 companies and a large open source project breaking that rule for pretty much any game that is made on them. That's what I mean, it's a mess. Kinda like Documents/My Games/... for this, not gonna lie.

Posix even makes this a central part of the design. Separating different parts of applcation data into different folders and tbh, it isn't the worst thing to do. I always know exactly where to go if I want to configure anything on linux. The drawback is that you have a learning curve in the beginning because the folders and their names are not intuitive to the average user.

Kinda wondering: Savegame files for, well, games Where would you put them? 90s standard was with the game. 00s and early 10s standard was more likely "Documents". Can argue how much "Document" that really is, though. But it is user data. late 10s and recent standard was %appdata% with pointed at roaming. I've seen recently that it's more shifted to local, tho. I find this very annoying.

>Companies usually have these things called dress codes We don't really know enough about this particular case to know if there was one or not and if the person received this kind of on boarding. >Perhaps if the company doesn't want to get sued for discrimination (and lose) they should not discriminate against people. Rather than firing the employee, they could have simply issue a written warning (assuming their dress code/policy was clear) 100% agree and especially so if they do not provide dress code information

Well I am sure you're not barging in completely changed on the first day without ever telling anybody. I think "in good faith" is still valid if you mention some things after getting the signature, like your need for accommodation, so on. This person just came in like wrecking ball without ever trying to seek any kind of conversation beforehand. I do agree with what you're saying, though. It's far too easy for them to just cheese the selection process so not disclosing before getting a solid yes is the right way to do it. If it were done to me (if I'd be hiring someone) I'd understand and accept it.

>I know so many really good people who have been laid off who can't find a job. But isn't that the solution to your dilemma? Are they on a different pay grade, is what why only the bare bones minimum is applying? Hire your capable peers that are available right now, if that is not an option then something else is fishy.

Works just fine with some extra, relative access. However I think this solution mostly suffers from bank switching because the items on the stack are fairly large.