Miscellaneous Tech News
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Rochester, NY's Frontier Communications, a major fiber carrier in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/frontier-declares-bankruptcy/ar-AA19GDNS
I just signed up for Frontier. Sigh. Hopefully this means nothing for me here in PA.
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Ubuntu 23.04 is out today.
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CEO says many of his remote workers didn't open their laptops for a month, and 'only the rarest of full-time caregivers' can be productive employees
These kind of articles bother me. This to me is not a failure on the employee's part, but a total failure on the company's part. If employees and their managers can go a whole month without doing any work, and nobody notices, that's a total failure on the company, their processes, their planning... deliverables, initiatives, projects / tracking, etc.
If one isn't delivering meaningful results, and nobody notices.... so many questions.
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
CEO says many of his remote workers didn't open their laptops for a month, and 'only the rarest of full-time caregivers' can be productive employees
These kind of articles bother me. This to me is not a failure on the employee's part, but a total failure on the company's part. If employees and their managers can go a whole month without doing any work, and nobody notices, that's a total failure on the company, their processes, their planning... deliverables, initiatives, projects / tracking, etc.
If one isn't delivering meaningful results, and nobody notices.... so many questions.
The company in question says it's only 800 employees, so it's not like a crazy amount of people or anything, but even if it's 100,000 employees, if you structure correctly, there's no way anyone doing nothing for a month straight should even remotely go unnoticed.
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Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
I often do a clean install for my daily driver laptop.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
I can upgrade right now.. but I want a clean system.
but i was also lazy about organizing my dot files of some applications I want settings saved for..Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
I can upgrade right now.. but I want a clean system.
but i was also lazy about organizing my dot files of some applications I want settings saved for..Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.
If you have the space available, what I do as a middle ground is carve out some space amd install it side by side, dual boot. Boot to the new one and you can still access the old and migrate over in your own time. Once finished, kill the old, then expand the partition and it's like new fresh.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
I can upgrade right now.. but I want a clean system.
but i was also lazy about organizing my dot files of some applications I want settings saved for..Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.
Did you make /home a separate mount point? If so, just formant and install on the current root.
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@travisdh1 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
I can upgrade right now.. but I want a clean system.
but i was also lazy about organizing my dot files of some applications I want settings saved for..Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.
Did you make /home a separate mount point? If so, just formant and install on the current root.
No, but I had a separate mount point for documents and some things...
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@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
, dual boot.
Windows Dual boot left overs is one thing I want to clean up.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.
No upgrade.. some packages are hosed
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@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
https://ubuntu.com/blog/no-more-dhcpd
https://www.isc.org/blogs/isc-dhcp-eol/I saw the news about dhcpd a while ago. I haven't taken the time to mess with Kea yet. I suppose dhcpd will truly be dead when it's no longer in the RHEL repos
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Drobo finally dead
Drobo, having stopped sales and support, reportedly files Chapter 7 bankruptcy
You don't hear nearly as much about Drobo boxes as you used to, especially on sites like Ars Technica. We now have some news, but it isn't good.
StorCentric, the holding company for the Drobo and Retrospect brands, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June 2022. Now, AppleInsider reports that, based on an email sent by StorCentric, the bankruptcy shifted from reorganization-minded Chapter 11 to liquidation-focused Chapter 7 in late April.
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@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Drobo finally dead
Drobo, having stopped sales and support, reportedly files Chapter 7 bankruptcy
You don't hear nearly as much about Drobo boxes as you used to, especially on sites like Ars Technica. We now have some news, but it isn't good.
StorCentric, the holding company for the Drobo and Retrospect brands, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June 2022. Now, AppleInsider reports that, based on an email sent by StorCentric, the bankruptcy shifted from reorganization-minded Chapter 11 to liquidation-focused Chapter 7 in late April.
I kept being sure it was dead, but checking the website and finding it still around, but they hadn't made a new product in... a decade? Their NAS never got to the point that it could handle NFS because it didn't have enough RAM!!
Like, a Raspberry Pi 1 could do that!
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ArsTechnica callsed it a "NAS that wasn't a full NAS", I think they aren't aware of the term SAN. lol
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That was really Drobo's downfall, making a Windows-based consumer SAN product that promoted anti-best practices as a selling point.
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New Fujifilm XApp
Offers Smooth Connection, Speed, and Activity Tracking
Releases tomorrow, 2023-05-25!
