@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo Still haven't decided. Dual boot on a Mac would be nice but I can get a higher spec'd machine for less from what I've seen. The MacBook Pro we have is nice and fast. I like the keyboard feel as well. Excellent battery life too.

It is crazy that so many manufacturers are making their laptops not able to be upgraded. Soldered RAM/CPU is pretty common. RAM is the first upgrades people do.

Yeah sometimes have to get the higher end laptops to get easy to upgrade features. They sure make you pay for it though. I need a new laptop for myself eventually too but debating between something like a Precision and something more gaming like from Gigabyte. Precision is like double the price. Just not sure it is worth it.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Time to start shopping for a new laptop. Definitely going with something new. Too many options to choose from. My wish list includes at least 16G ram and NVMe storage.

What OS will you use??
If Windows, something different, how about a Mac and throw windows on that. I've been using one that way for a few years and it's the fastest Windows experience I've ever had.

I also have to support iOS and OSX stuff so having the Mac able to boot into OSX is quite useful.

Same spec hardware in non-mac will be identical I think. Probably cheaper too.

@nadnerB Its like Force of Will and Timewalk all in one

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So the Dept went a bought 1600 new servers, with 3 x 1.2TB in RAID 5.
What do you think about that!

Dang thats a heck of a shopping trip

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

Just sent him off by himself? Good one.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh no, I hope that everything is okay.

Also this.

Thanks, I know what you mean. His mom took him.

Any news?

Doctor said it was a torsion. He may have to have surgery, not sure yet.

Sorry to hear that mate, what's a torsion? I hope it's not serious.

Well I don't understand it entirely myself. Its a testicle torsion. That is where some tube in there gets twisted and it shouldn't be. I am told cause is mostly genetic, for whatever that means. I did not have it when I was a kid and had never heard of it either.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

looking for a simple windows desktop thing that can give me a visual indication of the status (contactable, not contactable) of 15 windows servers. Just something simple that can launch from the taskbar, do a ping, and colour an object red or green dependant upon the reply.
Anyone know of anything. Free is best.
servers are on zero tier.

Not positive but Windows Admin Center may be able to do this.

@JaredBusch I just did my first eye appointment in 30 years yesterday. I didn't know eye dilation was a thing. I walked outside and asked who put the second sun in the sky it was so bright.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

Just sent him off by himself? Good one.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh no, I hope that everything is okay.

Also this.

Thanks, I know what you mean. His mom took him.

Any news?

Doctor said it was a torsion. He may have to have surgery, not sure yet.

Oh gosh,that's awful. Treatable, so that's good, but no fun at all. Poor kid!

Thanks. I know. Im worried about him.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

Just sent him off by himself? Good one.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh no, I hope that everything is okay.

Also this.

Thanks, I know what you mean. His mom took him.

Any news?

Doctor said it was a torsion. He may have to have surgery, not sure yet.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

Just sent him off by himself? Good one.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Oh no, I hope that everything is okay.

Also this.

Thanks, I know what you mean. His mom took him.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

Oh no, I hope that everything is okay.

Thanks, still waiting.

Son went to Er for bad stomach pain, so waiting for news.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Waiting for the call from the hospital that my wife's procedure is done. I am assuming they will update after completion and then again once she wakes.

Hope all is well!

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

My god how big is your NAS/Server?

It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.

OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?

$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.

Cant argue with that, great value

@JaredBusch That would be really cool. When I was in college I took a Japanese history class and my main paper that semester was about the differences between Noh and Kabuki theater.

Loving my ap pro, I have reception 5 houses down from mine. Wife cant complain about her wifi now!

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

@jmoore said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller Can't wait for the new LibreOffice

It’s already released

Oh dang I'm behind! Thanks!

@scottalanmiller Can't wait for the new LibreOffice

Don't forget github/gitlab pages with a static generator.

Taking pictures of my yard. Some contractor or lawn person turned around in my front yard and left huge gashes in it. Rediculous people.