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rivetgeek

@rivetgeek@dice.camp

Old school commie fiction first story gamer swine
Elderly rivethead
Senior SQL Server DBA
Tribes in the Dark Lead Designer
(He/Him)

#ttrpg #storygames #CortexPrime #TalesOfXadia #TribesInTheDark #FitD #FateRPG

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targrus, to random
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Morning not off to a great start with a tire pressure alert. Trying to get that fixed before going into work.

rivetgeek,
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@targrus We had a van where the tire pressure sensors would routinely just fail. It was a known thing so when we took it in for tire rotations or whatever they'd just replace them.

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I found where they're keeping the data.

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There's something comforting about knowing that during a flight you won't have an Internet connection. For that period of a few hours you have to entertain yourself the way you would have before web browsing and smartphones.

Who am I kidding? Having wifi on a plane fucking rocks.

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Holy shit, I submitted my wishlist for the instant the button became available and I'm for processing. I don't know if that's good or bad. I'd hate to see what it would be if I hesitated.

rivetgeek,
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@starhawk I got a decent amount. I think I'm just going to go with the flow for the remaining time.

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@frequentbeef I didn't get everything but I'm fine with that. Gives me more time to wander or just park my ass in open gaming. Considering running some Tribes in the Dark.

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@frequentbeef Not sure if it's a good idea or not to offer it, but I would've likely paid some amount for early-bird event submission. Probably not feasible given the scale.

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@frequentbeef I could see that. I got an event for every day at least, and I'll check the others occasionally in case tickets get returned as well as have a handful of generic tickets. It's all good.

rivetgeek,
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@frequentbeef I'd just do it ad hoc. That way if I decide not to I can just not.

rivetgeek, to random
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TIL that SqlSafe's UI can't handle resolutions of 1080p or higher.

Confused No GIF

rivetgeek, to random
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Dresden Accelerated is right there!

rivetgeek, to random
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A little disappointed that I didn't get into one of the sessions Eat the Reich or Spire (I had submitted both sessions for each) for , but otherwise I think I got a good lineup.

rivetgeek, to random
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I forgot I had this and I'm surprised it still works.

video/mp4

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@Steveg58 https://youtu.be/YYN7vtfj0eY?si=V0z21wWOl5z1dDlD

rivetgeek, to Powershell
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I guess my scripts for our migration might be something of a hit. We'll see how they fare with 50-ish failover clusters here in a bit, but the tests with 10 or so were smooth as silk twice earlier today. I know this doesn't sound complicated — it's just failovers amirite? — but there are stumbling blocks that have to be accounted for including network latency, SIOS mirroring, Windows pending reboots, AD, DNS...y'know all of the usual wrenches getting thrown in the gears.

rivetgeek,
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Oh and the target is for all of it to be done within 20 minutes. With the real deal including all 70+ failover clusters at once.

rivetgeek,
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I forgot to mention these are four-node failover clusters using SQL Server Standard Edition which isn't supposed to be possible but we did it. So we're in the wind for support from Microsoft. With two nodes in one AZ and two in another, and three SIOS mirrors replicating between pairs of nodes.

rivetgeek,
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@valthonis Test run was a resounding success. Next week we have an offsite in L.A., then coasting to the real deal in June. Then with that feather in our caps moving on to more cool projects.

rivetgeek, to SQLServer
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I'm feeling pretty good right now. We had an ultra-successful test run of failing all of our #SQLServer instances from the LAX LZ to the OR AZ in AWS. TBH, I just want to be done with all of this because next week we're having a cool onsite, and after that, there's lots of cool work to be done.

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I gotta admit that I'm disappointed to hear that Dire Wolf Digital will be supporting their board games at and not the or . It seems like a wasted opportunity.

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@Tim_Eagon I don't know. There's supposedly stuff in the pipeline. I'd say Cortex does not seem like a priority, and they're not allocating resources to developing the line — far less than Fandom did, at least when Fandom was putting money, energy, and people into it. Being at GenCon and not hosting any Cortex or ToX events is a signal of some kind.

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@targrus On one hand, it's keeping Cam Banks employed which is definitely something I can get behind.

rivetgeek,
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@MikeFerdinando The license didn't kill enthusiasm, or at least for those it did that's misplaced. People made a lot more hay out of that than was warranted.

Fandom dropping all support for Cortex months before the sale to DWD is what did the most damage, and DWD continuing radio silence for more than a year is just continuing to do so.

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"Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into the middle of a war with the groundhog in the backyard... So lets get to taking out their command, one by one.” - Me, this afternoon, in my best Zavala voice after the spouse showed me video of a groundhog ransacking the garden.

rivetgeek,
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@valthonis Once, a cat I had pissed off a gopher in the backyard and the gopher chased the cat into the apartment. I used a broom to try to get it out and it latched onto the bristles of the broom, so I carried the whole thing outside and just dropped the broom.

rivetgeek, to random
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Tomorrow at work is a test run for the migration from a local zone to its parent AZ, where we'll land back where we started until the real deal in June. I'm not worried about it, our SQL failover clusters are solid. I just want to be done with it. I'm looking forward to our offsite next week.

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