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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Buy the 5yr warranty extension. Yes you can delay updates/make them manual. If I were you and weren’t ready to give up the fortinet I’d double NAT it for a while, I think you’ll find the benefit of using the complete ecosystem will convince you to give up the fortinet even if there are a few features that fortinet do better.

    You can buy a firewall model that has the required controller built in requiring cloud connection or 2nd to that I’d setup a VM using the http://glennr.nl/ scripts as the controller. The scripts are reliable and capable.

    I used to run 3rd party, like Sonicwall, firewalls with Unifi wifi for a few years but recent improvements to their approach has made me switch to the whole eco system now and I prefer it.






  • I learned one morning that a cmos battery could become a resistor. It can fail in a way that it’s not working nor completely dead but passes just enough current to make a server motherboard that otherwise might A: Work, B: detect it’s dead/missing and boot anyway with defaults to instead C: just freeze and not do anything. That was a fun full day of time wasted.















    1. Entropy is a law of our universe. All data wants to be lost given a long enough timeline and without attention.

    2. Divide your data into what you can’t do without and what you may not care about losing.

    3. Take a backup out of your hands, make it as automatic as possible.

    4. I sync to encrypted folders on Google drive then use msp360 cloud to automatically copy everything in that drive to another cheap cloud storage that is client side encrypted.

    For the protection it gives me, it’s cheap.