SwizzleStick

On Dell server hardware with the right cards/licensing, you can remove the need for physical access to the server to input an FDE password by leaning on iDRAC. This provides access to the console remotely during the boot process (and thereafter).

Alternatives exist that supposedly do the same thing, but I’ve never had to try them. Airconsole, pikvm, blikvm etc.

You can keep this interface unexposed by using wireguard to dial in when you’re away, as per your original thinking. Just make sure the endpoint isn’t on the server you’re rebooting…

Half the shit I actually want I just run directly these days, rather than nosing through either.

• ncpa.cpl
• diskmgmt.msc
• devmgmt.msc
• control userpasswords2
• cmd
• mstsc
• regedit
• taskmgr

Just to name a few.

It’s utter bollocks. It used to be the OEM crap that had to be removed or clean installed over. Now you have to spend time unfucking fresh installs.

My 11 image is just about usable, but only after a lot of gutting, reg entries, powershell scripts and openshell.

The railroading to sign in with an MS account has become worse too, but still just about bypassable.

Used FF forever, even though the birth and rise of Chrome.

We’re done. The company I IT for therefore is also done. As are friends and family I sort computers for.

The shit now stinks and must be taken out.

If your devices rely on a service that you do not control to work - then accept the fact that one day, suddenly, they will not work.

they do block Mullvad

Not well enough it seems. Still reachable for me on some exits, but not all.

Years ago, I’d laugh at this.

Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It’s bad enough that we’ve essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.

On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I’ve had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.

I’d honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)

I lean on Irfanview+plugins for this kind of processing - it’s the bedrock of some of my workflows.

Will definitely give this a try though, thank you for sharing :)

Ahhh. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.

I haven’t thought about using it to annotate my garbage rather than generating its own. Nice idea :)

reduce time spent on menial tasks

Absolutely. It’s at the level where it can throw basic shit together without too much trouble, providing there is a competent human in the workflow to tune inputs and sanitise outputs.

I buy and sell drives occasionally. Even shitty old IDE drives with 5, 10 years of runtime are worth something to someone.

Bought one recently just to get an old lathe PLC (really just an old PC with DOS software control) running again.

Step 1: Obtain cat

Step 2:

Related: https://mammon.typepad.com/root_of_all_evil/2007/06/goatse_london_o.html

Back in the day it just worked because you bought a card with a supported chip… or you had to do some ungodly things with ndiswrapper to get the Windows driver loaded.

I think back then I was using wicd as well.

It’s come a long way.

Our language is the offcuts of several others stitched together, to make some sort of coherent garbage.

Never feel bad about getting something wrong - most of the natives butcher it in their daily lives without a second thought.

The accents are wild too. I feel so sorry for new speakers that are confronted with Scots. The further north you go, the more unintelligible it gets to the basic English speaker.

I’m from Angus originally (not the very top, but close enough), but moved to Wales. There was a period of time where I could understand everyone, but found myself not understood by others.

Eventually my own accent settled into some sort of “Scwelsh” that works, but it’s difficult for listeners to place me geographically.

Have a few bonus Welshisms for your trouble:

“I do do that I do” - I also do this

Whose coat is that jacket? - Who owns this coat?

Now in a minute - Could be immediately. Could actually be in a minute. Could be an hour from now.

Downsizing from an ex biz full fat tower server to a few Pis, a mini PC and a Synology NAS was the best decision ever here.

The new hardware was paid for quickly in the power savings alone. The setup is also much quieter.

You don’t think about power consumption a lot when working with someone else’s supply (unless it’s your actual job to), but it becomes very visible when you see a server gobbling up power on a meter at home.

You’re right about the impressiveness of working creatively within constraints. We got to the moon in '69 with a fraction of the computing power available to the average consumer today. Look at the history of the original Elite videogame for another great example of working creatively and efficiently within a rather small box.

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Well done :)

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