Harbor freight sells battery powered hammer drills and masonry bits that are cheap and powerful enough to drill a few inches into concrete in under a minute.

They also had saws and saw blades used for cutting up masonry.

Take it to jury trial and bring up that evidence is being withheld.

I know you said open source and free, but PatchMyPC is cheap if you have WSUS or Intune already. Otherwise chocolatey is the closest to your request.

Side note, you can use psexec to span a power shell as system to work with it interactively to understand what’s going wrong. I’m guessing you either need to import a module or make sure the correct powershell version is being invoked.

Lemmy isn’t ready for a dedicated sysadmin community yet. It needs to reach critical mass in another community like technology first, much like how the sysadmin reddit community did.

The reddit sysadmin community is pretty great and i see no reason to abandon it.

Hypervisor. The hypervisor doesn’t need to know much about application needs. It can perform compression/deduplication for the VM, and you can therefore add more memory to the VM and prevent it from using additional swap and CPU to perform memory management.

The other benefit if assigning more memory instead of using guest compression is that the hypervisor can use a memory ballon when it needs to reclaim memory, forcing the VM to decide what will stay in memory and what will be sent to swap.

The concepts of storage are similar. If you need to encrypt data at rest, it’s usually better to let the hypervisor or SAN handle it. Letting a VM perform storage encryption would work, but would eat up CPU cycles and prevent the hypervisor from performing compression, deduplication, and in some cases knowing what space is used but empty.

Storage compression is similar, you want the hypervisor to handle it since it can compress block of data that are the same across the environment. If you have 1000 machines all running the same OS with many of the same applications installed, then you’ll have a lot of opportunity to save space. You can use these same ideas when it comes to memory.

You should buy both. Don’t mess around with VIP UAT.

Reolink might be another to consider.

Also you’d buy in bulk because the cost of delivery is probably the same.

https://orb.net/ monitors your internet performance.

https://tailscale.com/ access your home internet or devices when you’re away from home. Usually only helpful if you have a NAS, but I’ve used it to stream tv shows without having to get bothered or blocked because the service can only be used in the US. I watched some NFL over youtubetv while in Germany for example.

OpenVAS is a vulnerability scanner that appears to be open source.

Metasploit is another that I think is free and might be open source.

Mine runs Orb and Tailscale as an exit node.

Easy partner, no kids and 3 relationships since 1997 isn’t a red flag.

Taco pizza?

True but it’s designed to be on networks that don’t have internet.

Tplink Omada doesn’t need a cloud connection. There’s plenty of other reasons to not like Omada but it’s something to consider. It’s also dirt cheap.

If any service has only username and password instead of mfa or password less then it’s not safe.

You also didn’t mention if you have automated patching or immutable backups enabled.

This is to protect the victims, right?

Most cats can survive terminal velocity. That cat isn’t stuck.

Even large streaming services drop their servers close to the users to make the experience good. They just do better at scaling.

You could federated authentication so only one ldap service is maintained. You could also sync media from one device to the other so you don’t need to manually update both.

Not just any user, but people in Asia. Seems very targeted.

The issue was they weren’t validating the update pulled down from the hacked update hosting server was legit.

They’ve since switched hosting services and added validation.