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Morning everyone!

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

think i'll have a crack Ubuntu.

Regarding mesh central, can anyone remember where the My Files folder lives in the filesystem? I'm trying to locate the 'My Files' folder so I can dump some files in there via Windows Explorer.

~/meshcentral/meshcentral-files/domain/

@black3dynamite said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@JaredBusch I have Hyper-V at home with Nginx, Nextcloud, Bookstack, PiHole, and Plex. Don't have a colo close enough. My internet service with 1 static is cheaper than the cost of colo.

I haven't had a good enough reason to move away from Hyper-V yet. I always contemplate it. I've had a spare server with KVM in my lab and it was great and light on resources.

What made you switch from Hyper-V?

I went from Hyper-V (Desktop), Fedora KVM (Desktop,R710) and now using Proxmox (R710). Proxmox is by far the most convenient one for my home environment.

Same here, more or less. Same conclusion.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

hey i'm thinking of running up a linux distro as a VM on Hyper-V to run mesh central on.
I don't really want to have to remember too much linux stuff, so what is one of the better linux distros for windows users?
I usually look for something with lots of online support/forums so when I google for answers I get lots of results.

For a server, they are all equal "for Windows users." None will be better than another.

If you know one already, that one will be better. Otherwise, pick the one that just generally does best what you want to do.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite thanks mate. Think I'll go Ubuntu.

I used Ubuntu for my MeshCentral instance since that's what's used in their install documentation.

Us too, same reason. Ubuntu 20.04 here.

@taurex said in RingCentral and Vonage:

As for the handsets, yes, Maxo sells them with a quite a bit of a margin but they don't customise any handset firmware like some other telcos here that lock you in with their handsets.

Again, I'm comparing against zero firmware modification rates. That's great that they don't do that, but no one does that here. We assume when buying a phone that it isn't sabotaged. That would get you sued in the US. It's not a bargain just because they don't do something unethical, it's still expensive for doing the right thing. Not complaining about them, just saying that looking at available rates in Australia, they seem high.

@taurex said in RingCentral and Vonage:

Call to mobiles are always expensive in Australia, the rest of the outgoing calls are only charged per call, not per minute.

Yeah, but I'm comparing to other Australian mobile rates. So yes, crazy high in general. But when I say that they are high, I mean high by comparison.

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected

Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.

I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?

@siringo said in What Are You Watching Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Watching Now:

Huh????? Didn't that finish in the 80s?

1966

LOL - pretty sure they weren't making black and white TV series for mainstream in the 80's

haha, yeah, I was thinking of the series that ran around the same time as things like The Streets of San Fransisco (is that how you spell it??) etc. Or am I thinking of Ironside??? It might be Ironside actually.

San Francisco.

Cisco is literally San Francisco. That's why Cisco's logo is the Golden Gate Bridge.

@360col said in RingCentral and Vonage:

@scottalanmiller said in RingCentral and Vonage:

I bet we can find them there for way, way less.

I just had a look at Maxotel's price. We definitely get if for way less. My previous point Australian general have to pay much more due to location / size of market.

Price search engine I frequently use for Aus https://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=yealink+T46S

That looks better.