Yea, what a useless ass. If that’s the kind of people they employ I wouldn’t want that shitty company back in my house.
The condensate drain needs to be drained out of the house, like any other drain.
There are condensate pumps (very small, like a large aquarium pump) for moving condensate up high enough to reach a proper drain (such as the one for your washing machine).
Simply capping off the existing drain is simple laziness. Fuck that guy.
I like your point about power monitoring - that would be an interesting secondary method for alerting to a possible breach, if you have a consistent power-use profile.
We wouldn’t be here if we hadn’t already answered the second question affirmatively.
I have an Optiplex that at one point I had 4 2.5" drives in, had to use some duct tape and glue, but it worked fine.
I would suspect he’s getting relayed, and I suspect I was too for my test.
Connecting remotely to your home devices is dependent on your home internet connection’s upload speed, which is usually a fraction of the download speed.
Then add the overhead of the VPN (Tailscale) and how direct of a connection it’s able to make.
Then the connection of the device you’re testing from - it may have some bandwidth limitations.
I just did a quick test - copy a specific file from a local server to my phone - just enabling Tailscale made that copy take twice as long, so it’s definitely adding significant bandwidth constraints (could be an Android limitation).
I prefer the idea of a script that changes the birth date randomly, on a random schedule.
Or to always be the bare minimum “adult” age every day.
Or always be 99
To add - by doing pulls the backup server uses different credentials to run than the credentials used to perform pulls.
Backup server has it’s own credentials database, machines being backed up have their own database. Backup service in backup server uses appropriate credentials from machine being backed up to access the data there (shares, etc). So credentials from compromised machine are unrelated to credentials for backup server.
And if backups are done properly (full on a schedule, daily incrementals, or something similar) you should be able to revert to a known-good state with minimal data loss.
I have a 10+ year old 10" photoframe with wifi and Bluetooth - I’m surprised how much I like it.
It rotates through hundreds of photos - each photo has a name with a date, so they serve as reminders of places we’ve been, things we’ve done.
On a good day it simply shows what’s in a network share it has access to. Sometimes it pukes and I have to reset the wifi on it.
The best knives I’ve ever used were in a commercial kitchen - Victorinox with the molded plastic handles.
Held an edge great.
Yea, the Broadcom crap really sucks. I feel bad for businesses being held ransom by them.
Hyper-V just isn’t an option for small businesses, unfortunately (it’s really designed for Enterprise where internal expertise is the norm).
I can ignore their nonsense for my home setup., fortunately.
Have you tried XCP-NG or Proxmox?
I don’t think laptops are much of a concern - virtually every laptop on the planet spends 90% of it’s time plugged in.
All of mine have since the mid-90’s (back then that really shortened NiCd life).
Since they’ve gone lithium I’ve had probably 20 laptops (with multiple running since 2019 as hosts) and seen one spicy pillow - and that was on a year old machine.
My newest machines have charge limit on by default in the hardware. I assume they all do these days as it would reduce support/warranty calls.
Good to keep an eye on them because it can happen to any battery, I just don’t think it’s a huge concern.
Oh, I’m sorry. Lol.
Hyper-V is just so bad. Decided to run it for a while as a test, I couldn’t get back to ESXi fast enough, haha. And I come from the Enterprise world where Hyper-V is common.
My ESXi box draws 20 watts at idle with 3 Windows VMs and 3 Linux VMs.
Guess which of those VMs draws the most power (hint: it’s not Windows).
Power draw depends on more than the base OS, what it does matters so much more. Which is why my one Linux VM draws the most power - it gets used for some intense tasks with ffmpeg.
Interestingly, I’ve found little power draw difference using ffmpeg on Windows or Linux. Both will max CPU while converting and take a similar amount of time.
The only time I’ve gone to my bank in the last 20 years was to get a new card, or to open a new account at a new bank.
Gotta carry ID, what’s one more card?
I refuse to shop at a place that doesn’t do cash.
Win R Shutdown -r -f -t 0
Haven’t used the menu in years, lol
If that crawl space is a dirt floor and not concrete, that soil is going to continually provide a moisture source.
I’d seal that opening with some plastic to create a vapor barrier (tape it around the ducts and to the wall or framework). Anything more solid will generate noise from the ductwork vibrating against it.