Controversial posts made by Obsolesce

"I need a tool, which manufacturer should I choose? " is all I see here.

@FATeknollogee said in Hypervisors: revisit your choices!:

@Obsolesce said in Hypervisors: revisit your choices!:

That is already sounding expensive for no reason. Why not a $2.50 / mo VPS? That's way cheaper than server hardware, and all the time and resources spend dealing with that.

Where did I say anything about VPS's?

We'll I'd certainly not be considering hosting a hypervisor and server for no reason at all, so im assuming it's to host some kind of virtual server. But with zero reasons why, I'd default to the cheapest possible option to get the basic requirement met... which is a VPS, also for no reason.

That is already sounding expensive for no reason. Why not a $2.50 / mo VPS? That's way cheaper than server hardware, and all the time and resources spend dealing with that.

@flaxking said in How-To / Community Documentation & Resources:

@Obsolesce said in How-To / Community Documentation & Resources:

@notverypunny said in How-To / Community Documentation & Resources:

I searched really quickly and didn't find a section or category where folks have been posting useful how-to guides or articles for the community. There are a couple of things that I've worked through lately that could probably be useful to others, just don't know exactly where to stash it on here. As an example, how to make a uefi bootable USB to automatically apply BIOS settings for Dell. In all honesty, my motivation here is as much to share with the community as have stuff like this publicly documented so I can find it if I need to re-do or update it for my own needs.

Store them on GitHub GitLab

GitHub works excellent for me, no issues. What issues are you having with it?

@David_CSG said in Ansible Agent Option?:

I'm just thinking out loud here, but for remote units, perhaps a cloud-hosted VM, but... that means relying on something like "fail2ban" to block repeat offenders, hard to limit incoming connections in an ideal way. Some kind of scripted phone-home system ? On OS X this is easily accomplished (in response to detected network change) via something like crankd
Parse the originating IP out an email, temporarily allow ssh from said address...
So, inordinately complex hackery to chase a less-than-ideal solution.

I don't know why everyone is so afraid to have a public facing service. Does anyone know about the internet?

It's simple to lock down hosts and keep them updated, especially with cfg mgmt tools. You can auto update security packages, disallow user login, force secure certificate login, block every single incoming port, use cloud firewalls that AWS and Azure provide for example in front, not to mention all of their other security services and tools, I mean it's insane what you can do.

There's a whole internet and cloud out there you use every day for web browsing and other services like voup, ERP, and so many other services that run in the cloud that are not hacked.

And typically the services are hacked via social engineering, not directly. I mean there are a lot of exceptions such as jimbobs doughnut shop WordPress website because he uses outdated plug-ins and hasn't updated for 15 years...

Get my point?

@DustinB3403 said in Scripting - How do you store your credentials and call them later?:

PS I learn from seeing and doing, rather than reading. Just as an FYI.

How do you learn what to do without reading or seeing how TF to do it first? Not capable of learning on your own, is that what you are saying?

I'm sure there are Ansible classes, courses, videos, etc out there.

@EddieJennings said in Examples of proper utilization of SAN:

@DustinB3403 said in Examples of proper utilization of SAN:

@EddieJennings what conversation is going on that you're looking for more information regarding SAN (products I assume). Which SAN isn't something you can purchase, it's something you have to build.

Been busy this morning, and haven't been able to follow the thread closely. I know that SAN is something that's built, and what I was looking for are real-world examples of infrastructures that utilize SAN and see what about their needs leads to the decision that building a SAN is necessary.

Likely there isn't any kind of clear example of the process that leads to said decision, but at least it got folks talking, so I can go back in a bit, read what's there, and see if there's wisdom to gain :).

Good luck wading through all the straw-man arguments and examples lol.

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

How is anything you are saying not victim shaming if you aren't calling me a liar?

First of all, no, I do not believe you are ever lieing because, lies are false statements made with deliberate intent to deceive. If I feel you say something that is untrue when you believe it to be true, and I disagree with what you say, does NOT ever fucking make it okay for you to tell me I'm calling you a liar. Stop doing that. I'm not talking specifically about this case so don't quote my previous statement because it will then be out of context. I'm saying in general, that if someone disagrees with you, does not in any way give you the right to say they are calling you a liar. Lies are specific to deliberate intent to deceive, what you are inserting is wrong.

@JaredBusch said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@travisdh1 said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@Obsolesce said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

@scottalanmiller said in Lenovo Owns Motorola Discussion:

I'm one of the people that they harvested.

What data did they harvest from you?

Everything. Literally everything.

I was just curious how he knows what was harvested. Did he capture packets being sent to them, was it all data? I'd like to see the results he's has showing all of his data was going there.

Fucking seriously? FFS, this is publicly known information.
It was bad that Lenovo did it. It was worse that they covered it up.
Lenovo has lied and covered it up and repeatedly done this.

Superfish related:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/lenovo-pcs-ship-with-man-in-the-middle-adware-that-breaks-https-connections/
https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/lenovo-laptop-virus.html
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/further-evidence-lenovo-breaking-https-security-its-laptops

Oh look. they did things AFTER superfish...
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/security-failings-demonstrate-avoid-lenovo/

It doesn't appear to me that any of you have read those articles.

@Emad-R said in Hats off cmder:

@Emad-R @Obsolesce

Why would I want to try "Windows" Terminal which is locked to only Windows 10 latest versions and from Windows 10 store, where this app can be mine on all windows platforms and portable and I can easily export settings in it. Maybe I am using Windows Long Term releases with no store .
Lets face it everything is better on Windows from another vendor:

Windows Media Player = VLC
Browser = Chrome or Firefox
notepad= notepad++
etc...

this is no exception

Cause Windows back in the day allowed Developers full access.

Sounds like you are doing everything the hard way.

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

And when someone says "That's a GM, and tehre is an issue with them", you'd respond "It's a Chevy, not a GM",

My whole point is to call it by the label. Not something up the line. Of course GM makes it, but it's called a Chevy. Yes Lenovo owns it, but it's called a Motorola .

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@Obsolesce said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@Obsolesce said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@wrx7m said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@wrx7m said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@WrCombs said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

That pretty much sums it up. I was literally going to order a Huawei watch this week because I thought that the price and look was amazing. But no, that seems like a bad idea now (if they figure things out, I'll totally buy one to support them later.) Right now I need one this week to wear to Europe (smart watches are an important part of effective travel.) I want something attractive and very functional.

The Samsung is nice, but too pricey. I'm thinking $150 - $200. This is a utilitarian travel device not a fancy watch. Right now from quick research, I'm seeing a lot of love for Fossil and Amazfit. Anyone have experience or thoughts?

I have this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NC8PMUK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I didn't even realize Lenovo made watches. Not surprised, they are quite big.

That link goes to a Motorola Moto for me. What are you seeing?

https://www.google.com/search?q=does+lenovo+own+motorola&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS819US819&oq=does+lenovo+own+&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.2887j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Oh lol. Forgot about that.

Call it what it is. It's not a Lenovo.

It's still under the brand name Motorola, regardless of the parent company.

A Chevy is called a Chevy, not a GM.

A Chevy is totally a GM (and a Chevy.) It is 100% a GM, and GM tells you that. As someone who went to school inside a Chevy factory at a school called GMI, trust me, GM 100% considers Chevy to be a GM. A GM is what it "is", the Chevy name is the "marque".

Exactly, so call it a Chevy so everyone knows what the hell you are talking about.

The point is, it's 100% a Lenovo as much as any other product that Lenovo makes. The issue was you were trying to imply that my slapping a secondary brand name on it that it made it something else. So point call it "not a Lenovo" when that's exactly what it is.

It's fine to call it a Motorola as long as everyone involved understand that that means Lenovo and what that implies, if you use the term to hide what it really is, then it's not okay to use. Same if someone said that they had ethical issues with GM and you tried to tell them to buy a Chevy while attempting to imply or hide that it's just a GM by a different name.

You're more than welcome to call it a "GM Corvette". I'll stick with Chevy Corvette.

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@Obsolesce said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@wrx7m said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@wrx7m said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@WrCombs said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

That pretty much sums it up. I was literally going to order a Huawei watch this week because I thought that the price and look was amazing. But no, that seems like a bad idea now (if they figure things out, I'll totally buy one to support them later.) Right now I need one this week to wear to Europe (smart watches are an important part of effective travel.) I want something attractive and very functional.

The Samsung is nice, but too pricey. I'm thinking $150 - $200. This is a utilitarian travel device not a fancy watch. Right now from quick research, I'm seeing a lot of love for Fossil and Amazfit. Anyone have experience or thoughts?

I have this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NC8PMUK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I didn't even realize Lenovo made watches. Not surprised, they are quite big.

That link goes to a Motorola Moto for me. What are you seeing?

https://www.google.com/search?q=does+lenovo+own+motorola&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS819US819&oq=does+lenovo+own+&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.2887j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Oh lol. Forgot about that.

Call it what it is. It's not a Lenovo.

It's still under the brand name Motorola, regardless of the parent company.

A Chevy is called a Chevy, not a GM.

A Chevy is totally a GM (and a Chevy.) It is 100% a GM, and GM tells you that. As someone who went to school inside a Chevy factory at a school called GMI, trust me, GM 100% considers Chevy to be a GM. A GM is what it "is", the Chevy name is the "marque".

Exactly, so call it a Chevy so everyone knows what the hell you are talking about.

@wrx7m said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@DustinB3403 said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@wrx7m said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@WrCombs said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

@scottalanmiller said in Looking for a Google Wear OS Watch:

That pretty much sums it up. I was literally going to order a Huawei watch this week because I thought that the price and look was amazing. But no, that seems like a bad idea now (if they figure things out, I'll totally buy one to support them later.) Right now I need one this week to wear to Europe (smart watches are an important part of effective travel.) I want something attractive and very functional.

The Samsung is nice, but too pricey. I'm thinking $150 - $200. This is a utilitarian travel device not a fancy watch. Right now from quick research, I'm seeing a lot of love for Fossil and Amazfit. Anyone have experience or thoughts?

I have this one https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NC8PMUK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I didn't even realize Lenovo made watches. Not surprised, they are quite big.

That link goes to a Motorola Moto for me. What are you seeing?

https://www.google.com/search?q=does+lenovo+own+motorola&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS819US819&oq=does+lenovo+own+&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l4.2887j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Oh lol. Forgot about that.

Call it what it is. It's not a Lenovo.

It's still under the brand name Motorola, regardless of the parent company.

A Chevy is called a Chevy, not a GM.

@scottalanmiller said in Raid10, must use or another Raid limits?:

@hobbit666 said in Raid10, must use or another Raid limits?:

@scottalanmiller thought i would mention as it's happened here.
"Lets upload to the cloud" Hold on with the amount and speeds we would be constantly uploading file 24/7

Yeah, that's a huge issue, too. 170TB even over a 50Mb/s dedicated line isn't fast

With that kind of data, it's best to have your data cloud only IMO. Then scaling and backup is easier and likely more cost efficient.

Depends on the data of course!

I just did a side-by-side install comparison. Here are the results. The details are in the screenshots: (no Cockpit in minimal install, twice as many packages in basic)