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My wife and I are looking to relocate back to Colorado but with the Denver metro being so expensive we are looking elsewhere. We have flexibility in our jobs to live practically anywhere but we want to be a bit choosy about the location. We found a beautiful house in the far Eastern Colorado city of Holyoke but after some further investigation we found the location too far disconnected from our own beliefs to buy there. The biggest negative was their city code against any marijuana businesses within city limits. That tells me that we won't align well. My wife has her medical card here and it helps her immensely in controlling anxiety and allowing her to have a reasonable sleep schedule.

The house in Holyoke really caught our eye, though. It wasn't the typical bland houses we find in the Denver metro that all look like cookie-cutter 70s and 80s houses. The house was built in 1912 and the yard had room for gardening. We have been finding other houses that are similarly desirable further west in Sterling and Fort Morgan.

My biggest question is: are those towns going to be as right leaning and anti-marijuana as Holyoke or somewhere closer to moderate and accepting. I don't need a city to be on par with Boulder but I don't want to be bugged about where I go to church every 5 minutes.

This is my one deal killer for Linux on the Desktop. I have a stack of laptops with Linux installed (mostly Fedora). They are all Dell Latitudes. My main two are a Gen 12 i7 and a Gen 8 i5. I'd rather use the Gen 12 i7 (it also has more RAM and storage). However, the i7 doesn't have S2 sleep, only S0ix. When I shut the lid, it will lose about 40%-50% battery over an 8 hour period. The Gen 8 i5 does have S2 and sleeps okay with it. I only get a 10% drop in battery over the same period.

I hear that this is some Microsoft-Dell shenanigans to "better" support Win10/11. But is there a lightweight 14" or 15" laptop out there that will run Linux well and sleep without draining the battery so much? Would and AMD system work better than Intel?

I see all the complaints about sleep but there has to be something better than 40%-50% drop on the nightly that would require me to keep it on power just to have a fresh laptop when I need it.

Anyone in here a veteran who uses the the VA for healthcare in the Denver/Front Range area?

I was previously in Colorado Springs but didn't use VA until just before I left. I only had one or two appointments after I lost my job and private healthcare.

I'm currently in Little Rock, AR and use VA here for all my healthcare. I'm considering a move from Arkansas back to Colorado but to the Denver area this time. The VA here has been great with only minor delays in well used areas of care. I've used primary care mostly but they'll send me off to speciality clinics for exams and other care occassionally. Every interaction here has been better than any civilian or military care I've had before.

How is the VA on the Front Range?

• Is it overcrowded with tons of delays for any care or is is reasonable to get timely care if you aren't a grumpy old curmudgeon who lives to complain?
• Will the providers spend time with you and work with you to get your needs met or is care more like a drive through where you only get a few minutes with a provider at each appointment?
• How are things like imaging, gastrointestinal? eye clinic? mail order pharmacy? physical therapy?
• How often do you have to rely on community care?

Any other general advice or thoughts?

I need some help here. I'm looking for vulnerability management software that accepts data from vulnerability scanners (Tenable.io and Nessus in my case) and allows for analysts to review the scanned vulnerabilities for further action. This will mostly be in creating tickets, but I want analysts to be able to group vulns together where appropriate (e.g., one system has a ton of vulns because it's obviously been left out of an automated patching program, the solution is not to patch each vulnerability but to include it in the automation) and create tickets appropriately. It also need to support simple Risk Acceptance workflows (no giant approval chains, but likely more just analysts grouping and marking sets of vulns as RA). Finally, it needs to be multi-tenant or at least have some siloing capabilities.

We are currently using Tenable.io for on-going vulnerability scanning in some smaller clients, but the vulnerability management functionality is severely lacking. I've looked at Nucleus, but it looks to be far too much for what we need. They also have a 5000 seat minimum and come out to around $10/asset, which is above our price range.

I don't want to replace Tenable as I trust it for quality of scanning, but I'd potentially switch to Rapid7 or Qualys if that worked with another vuln mgmt tool better.

Thoughts?