@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

SINCE UBIQUITI DOESN'T USE RESELLERS

https://www.ui.com/distributors/

They do, but it looks very limited.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

He's asking for advice on AP's for our IPad based software now to anybody who can give him information.
I gave him the information.

Do you guys really not resell either?

I have no idea what you are talking about.

Do you guys sell Cisco/Meraki directly to your customers? It doesn't make any sense to even consider them unless there are existing ties.

Looks like the ER‑8‑XG could also be a good fit if you prefer the EdgeRouter series over the Unifi stuff. Also slightly less expensive, and better performance.

https://www.ui.com/edgemax/edgerouter-infinity/

I almost exclusively listen to music in louder settings, so I'm not usually bothered by even airplane noise, but if you listen to a lot of podcast type stuff then the noise cancelling might be more beneficial.

I have tried a few different brands of noise cancelling headphones in stores, and Bose seem to be superior to the rest. Like totally obvious winners in that regard. As for music sound quality, I don't know, I was just trying the cancelling.

Send it to me?

I have Audio Technica ATH-M50s that I absolutely love. I used to have some Etymotic in ear monitors that I used when I was drumming a lot, I can't remember which model, but they were solid for musician purposes... I couldn't wear them for just about anything else.

I also just got the new AirPods, I am enjoying them so far. But they do make my ears hurt after a few hours.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@Danp said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2019/04/25/citrix-hypervisor-8-0-is-here/

This statement leading the article pretty much sums up Citrix to me: "I’ll let you in on a secret. Despite all my years working for Citrix, I never learned how to pronounce “Xen” correctly — even after quite a few brave colleagues tried to get me to say “szen” and not “ksen.”"

I can't figure out how to say either "szen" or "ksen"... I say "zen" like a zen garden... from wiki: pronounced /ˈzɛn/

Gotta check the specials on xbyte. Still not as good as the HP, but it is from a proven vendor.

@zachary715 said in Samsung magician - Thoughts?:

I still install it every time. It's how you get firmware updates for your SSD as well as being able to make some performance tweaks if you wish. I generally use it as a performance benchmark though and look for firmware updates

Have you ever actually seen firmware updates? I ran it for years and never saw a single one.

@dbeato said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

@travisdh1 said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

@Obsolesce said in Why Do Email Readers Always Default to Oldest Email First:

Does nobody use search? Not that I really ever need to use it, but when I do, it's instant and works 100% of the time.

After 1 month with a new email account, I have enough sitting around that search starts taking a long time and is nowhere near instant. I'm kinda jealous that you have that little email filtering through.

Same here... and Outlook Sucks at it...

This might not be a ton of emails, but I search all the time and it's always instant in Outlook.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got Vacation approved for 2 days this summer !

2 Days? Is that all you requested or is that all they gave you?

I guess it can be useful to check the life of the SSD, but I think the performance stuff is probably negligible

@WrCombs said in Samsung magician - Thoughts?:

What are you using now?

Nothing, I don't feel like anything is necessary with current OSes. I was only using it to confirm TRIM, AHCI, etc. on older Windows

I used to when I first started using Samsung SSDs, but I haven't used it in a couple years and haven't noticed a difference.

@IRJ said in Does Anyone Actually Use Conversation View Intentionally for Email:

I use it as well. I do hate focused inbox and turn that off. Like you mentioned, I never have issues finding new emails, they always appear at the top. I think the reason people don't see emails is because they have CV and have a very extensive folder system where they miss a notification there, but not because CV view.

There are a few people I work with that sort all emails into a like a million different folders. It's awful. Every time they need to look something up they're searching through folders like crazy. Just leave it all in one place and use the search bar at the top...

No experience with CV though, and focused was certainly a waste of programming time.

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Give me a remote so I don't have to use my phone as one.

Totally agree with that.

I will say that I do love being able to stream certain content from my phone onto my older chromecast without any kind of additional interaction. But this is a super rare scenario for me.

CBS sports is terrible for this. I can stream it on my phone without purchasing a subscription to some crap service, but if I try to watch the same thing on my Fire TV it wants me to sign up for stuff. B1G 10 network is the same way, I think, except without any option for watching on Fire TV, unless you get Hulu or another streaming service that has it. These are the 2 situations in which my ChromeCast comes through for me.

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Amazon and Google settle feud, bring YouTube back to Fire TV devices

The Prime Video app will add support for Chromecast and Android TV, too.
Feuding tech giants Amazon and Google have come to an agreement on their streaming services.

Too late for Amazon, they already lost their Fire momentum and the product has been left in the dust. Even those of us that had believed in it and invested and unhooked them and replaced them with better devices at this point.

I'm still a fan of Fire TV devices. The entire ChromeCast concept annoys me. Give me a remote so I don't have to use my phone as one.

What did you replace yours with?

@RojoLoco said in Weekend Plans:

Plotting the weekend assault on the mountains around Asheville... Friday - breweries and concert, Saturday - coffee and pastries, then hiking to various waterfalls plus driving the Blue Ridge Parkway, Sunday - taking the scenic route home through the mountains.

I love Asheville (and the whole surrounding area). We'll be in there in a couple weeks. My grandparents live just outside of town. Enjoy!

@DarienA said in Alternatives to Sharepoint:

Anyone familiar with Mango Intranet? Want to look at a few different options...

Seriously... $4 per user, per month. Ouch.

Looks like you could do something similar on WordPress for way less.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Because i may need to create VM's from other machines so having the ISO locally is best.
done a df -h but can't see the "MAIN" SR.
Might give Hyper-V a go

Are you running df -h on the host or on the XO VM? If you can't see the SR on the host, IDK how you're able to be running VMs on it