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I had that at my last job. They had tried to poach me away from where I was working. In the initial screening I said these are my red lines. Recruiter said that's no issue. I interviewed. They said they wanted to offer but couldn't offer some of the things I was asking for. I politely told them I was very disappointed that they said these conditions were no problem then tried to switch the deal I apologized (even though it was their fault it's the Canadian in me) I said I was sorry they wasted their time when my red lines were very clear.

Then about 4-5 days later the recruiter re-engaged and completely folded. I got everything I asked for. Upon starting I asked around and my peer on my team told me he gave them an ultimatum get me someone qualified here in 3 days or he was quitting. He did anyways but at least I had the job. They always hated the deal so the moment they could find a way to get rid of me they did. They ended up nuking the whole team from orbit. It kept me occupied for 2 years.

Problem is VCDS doesn't support my car :( I have a 2024 VW Polo built in Brazil MQB-A0 isn't supported. Even the second gen OBDELEVEN barely worked. Third gen works well.

VCDS connects but the Brazilian car has all sorts of unsupported modules. Not really useful and the unsupported popup doesn't instill any confidence.

Exactly. People need to find better sources of gear besides eBay or at least run something different that's not all the rage that stuff gets bid up like crazy. I am currently setting up my off site backup I looked at a Lenovo mini they're so expensive I got an entire blade chassis of decent gear with 1.5tb of memory for way less than a decent mini. I'm going to do research and find something different so I can keep the price down.

I would say keep it to 5 years after 5 years firmware and microcode updates fall off a cliff for the safety of workloads hold to 5 years.

If your near Toronto you can come and pick it up.

We had an L1 guy back in the day that was addicted to his PSP he'd try to play at his desk then was caught and told not to play at his desk. So he just started booking meeting rooms to play PSP in there by himself. He didn't last long but it went on way longer than it should have.

Oh I have a tool for a platform I support one of the things that happens when the platform suffers an error it can email, snmp trap, they also have a very under-utilized feature run a script. I've gone ham with the script built some of my own self healing logic etc. For the stuff I haven't gotten to or requires meat to massage it.

I have a script that does a curl to my teams slack channel. We put a set of googly eyes on alerts being triaged and put a check box when complete but also at the same time my script curls slack it also curls jira and creates a ticket so we keep management happy. Our team alert channel was our "job jar" my teams didn't really get walkups. I've seen people just paste slack messages into tickets or even worse screen shots (not searchable)

I know you're looking for something a bit different but even the eye/checkmark is good but you still need tickets. You might be able to write a bot or there might even be a plugin these days to get your data into whatever ticketing system you use.

Getting good with curl really opens your eyes to possibilities.

I actually was a JIT supplier for my company. We'd be doing a project oh crap we're out of DAC cables. Well I have some "In Stock" in my home lab I'll lend them to the company and you order and backfill me. Stuff like DAC cables, SFPs or even proprietary cables for equipment. My lab was modelled after our production environment so I could test even before I tested in our QA lab.

And all if it could have been avoided if you put a password on your phone.

Is that a good price where you are? I see stuff like that tossed in the garbage all the time. I have 4 10gb switches and 2 10/40Gb switches I can't seem to give away...

Currently yes it's on top of VMware ESXi but if I rebuild it'll be either Linux or OpenShift I haven't gone that far down the hole yet.

Just sign up for the free account and you can read about what product are included I know I get I think it's 15 copies of RHEL I started doing ansible platform I haven't grabbed OpenShift yet so I'm not positive of the T's and C's just sign up takes 5 min

I use what most companies in my area use. Redhat. Anything learned at home can immediately applied to my work or vice versa. If you sign up on their website Redhat gives you free licenses of their products. They make it easy to homelab so to support them that's what I run.

You have all the oddball European stuff you really need to look at all the Latin American stuff lots of cool cars there

Saveiro

Gol

Cross Fox

Pretty sure the A2 and the Gol/Saveiro share the same platforms (PQ24)

Sorry for the late reply. It's the hood catch all the road spray and other crap get into the switch it fails says hood is open. You might find other problems like intermittent wipers no longer work. (At least it sis on my sister in laws Tiguan.) What I did is I unplugged the electrical connection to the latch it now says the hood is down and all the functionality returned.

Hope that helps.

I'm not a lawyer. Please don't take my advice. This sounds like a problem that could be fixed by stateless ESXi. Boot the cluster it boots from network comes online in evaluating mode stuff happens you turn it off the hypervisors ceases to exist there's no image even on the server. Hard to charge for something that physically doesn't exist. I'm sure Oracle would find away Oracle always finds a way. (I understand there's no relationship between broadcom and Oracle but anyone that's done an Oracle renewal before knows)

No I've had to live for the last 15+ years if I had 1m+ in the bank I would have left the industry and retired and ran of to my happy place

Because I work in enterprises. You don't get away with proxmox in prod. All of my gear is enterprise gear. My entire stack is based on product designs just from 2019. I run a full on FlexPod.

Most environments I work in are between 5k-20k VMs.

I bet my career on VMware it paid me big dividends. I've spent so many years doing it has put >1.3M in my bank account.

I have since pivoted to a new single vendor. Specializing pays well. But I'm a decent generalist as well if I needed to pivot because something crazy happened.

It's ok to ride the wave make sure you hop on when it's a ripple not when your 10m from shore...

People said the same about COBOL yet here we are...

I could probably get away with that in my backup lab. But in my primary site I run multiple OS's but ive probably deleted ~40vms in the past 6 months. Really upped my security everything is very patched now couldn't say the same thing last year finally got rid of my last RHEL 6 box what a pile of crap...

I am a VMware guy. Broadcom is making it so difficult to do business with. Back in the day my VMware rep would toss any NFR license for my lab. Broadcom is doing their best to chase everyone away. I've had a VMware server in my home lab for nearly 25 years (began with ESX 1.5.2) in the last 3 months I've thought about starting to pivot to Redhat OpenShift they give free licenses away. OpenShift is great for containers and VMs. I only want to work with companies that want to with their users.

One of my homelab friends is rebuilding his lab I asked what he's doing he said esxi 8 but he just got his vcf vcp that sort of makes sense but my last several VMware jobs were migrate out of VMware to cloud

If I had to do it over again I doubt I'd roll ESXI again probably just Linux docker to start and OpenShift after I got more comfortable.

My wife has pretty good deciphering skills she looked for awhile she believes it's says "Anything Sporty" would that make sense?

You don't say where you live. Perhaps a VW Saveiro? You can import them into Canada from Mexico after their 15 years old. I'm currently researching it. Getting 2010/2011 Saveiro take it to the body shop to face lift it to the current look. Then put it on a boat to Canada.

Once in the country looking at a couple different motor/gearbox swaps. I don't want the old EA111 would prefer a EA211 or EA888 a 07k would be fun but the track with of the Saveiro is a bit narrow I know someone jammed a 07k in a Gol (same platform) but don't know the effort. EA211 would be the easiest that and a DSG would be a hoot.

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