What Are You Doing Right Now
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Person arrived within the window. Watched him check the signal at various places, all of which were fine (even though at that moment my cable modem was failing to find an upstream channel). Probably time for a new cable modem.
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Researching Chromebooks for an alternative to my laptop.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Researching Chromebooks for an alternative to my laptop.
Asus C201. Absolutely love it. $179 on Amazon, comes in colour chocies, keyboard is really good, touchpad is good, screen is good, weight and size are perfect, battery does 13 hours. It's a quad core, 4GB unit which puts it in the most powerful of Chromebooks categories without going to the crazy units.
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Finally got a bit of sleep. Feeling a bit better today.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Researching Chromebooks for an alternative to my laptop.
Asus C201. Absolutely love it. $179 on Amazon, comes in colour chocies, keyboard is really good, touchpad is good, screen is good, weight and size are perfect, battery does 13 hours. It's a quad core, 4GB unit which puts it in the most powerful of Chromebooks categories without going to the crazy units.
I was checking those out after your recommendation. I would like to put a Linux distro in it. Do you know if Fedora runs well on this device?
Also, what "apps" do you use for SSH and RDP?
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Researching Chromebooks for an alternative to my laptop.
Asus C201. Absolutely love it. $179 on Amazon, comes in colour chocies, keyboard is really good, touchpad is good, screen is good, weight and size are perfect, battery does 13 hours. It's a quad core, 4GB unit which puts it in the most powerful of Chromebooks categories without going to the crazy units.
I was checking those out after your recommendation. I would like to put a Linux distro in it. Do you know if Fedora runs well on this device?
Also, what "apps" do you use for SSH and RDP?
No, I keep it as a Chromebook. I don't RDP so that's not an issue. I use Termius for SSH.
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@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
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Coffee and trolls with the Son and Girlfriend! good start to sunday so far
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
Is there any task than an IT person would need to do offline? I have none.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
Is there any task than an IT person would need to do offline? I have none.
I was really trying to think of some, but I can't come up with any. We do use 365 for Excel and Word online. Does that work offline? I'll have to try that.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller And you like ChromeOS enough not to put a flavor of Linux on it?
Of course, I find the entire idea of buying a vertically integrated device and then switching out the OS to be odd. Fine for playing around, but you give up so much.
All of us when we say we have Chromebooks mean we have Chromebooks. Once you put Linux on it, you just have a really low powered Linux laptop.
Right. I guess you really just need to define a main purpose for the device. For example, I need to use a Windows VM every day, due to a piece of custom software that only runs on Windows. I also need a Windows VM for Hyper-V management purposed. However, neither of those scenarios will work without an internet connection anyway. So, in that case, I can just really connect to a Windows VM somewhere else on my network via RDP, and have the same functionality.
Then my second main purpose for the device is SSH.
The Chromebook would be used as a secondary device when traveling, and when I don't want to work with my laptop. So in that scenario, the Chromebook would be perfect.
Is there any task than an IT person would need to do offline? I have none.
I was really trying to think of some, but I can't come up with any. We do use 365 for Excel and Word online. Does that work offline? I'll have to try that.
Office 365 is just licensing. The online Office editors might or might not work offline, I've never tried. Google's online editor tools work offline.
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How often do you want to be working on documents offline? While in theory for traveling sales people or something that could make a lot of sense, it's not a task I ever really want in IT.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
How often do you want to be working on documents offline? While in theory for traveling sales people or something that could make a lot of sense, it's not a task I ever really want in IT.
In reality, not that often. However, there are rare occurrences where I could be working on a "guide" or something similar. Those are rare cases though, and in those rare cases, I'm sure I could use Google Docs to capture whatever I need to capture.
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@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
How often do you want to be working on documents offline? While in theory for traveling sales people or something that could make a lot of sense, it's not a task I ever really want in IT.
In reality, not that often. However, there are rare occurrences where I could be working on a "guide" or something similar. Those are rare cases though, and in those rare cases, I'm sure I could use Google Docs to capture whatever I need to capture.
Yeah, lots of ways to do that. I never use things like Word docs for IT guides, not generally a good format for that compared to a wiki or similar. But in cases where I need to work offline, I normally use text editors or whatever and transfer to a final formatting later.
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MS Office is specifically problematic because they make it in order to sell MS Office on premises deployments. So they don't make their online version work offline like everyone else does.
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Sunday afternoon releases around here.
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Waiting for food
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@fuznutz04 the only app that really works with RDP and Chromebooks is
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-rdp/cbkkbcmdlboombapidmoeolnmdacpkch?hl=en-US
And it has a cost of $9.99 perpetual license.
