@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

One thing I hate about XCP-ng is the lack of support for UEFI...

It's been awhile but does it support other filesystems like ext4 or xfs and is it still using .vhd files?

The EXT4 driver is in public beta since mid Jan.

It looks like whenever SMAPIv3 is production ready we'll have qcow2 as an option... who knows when that is? Maybe when XS8 drops? I believe the ZFS driver is also in beta and will be production ready shortly after SMAPIv3

@wirestyle22 said in Nginx Reverse Proxy + SSL + Wordpress:

@bnrstnr said in Nginx Reverse Proxy + SSL + Wordpress:

This is what my sites normally look like until I install an SSL Content Fixer

I run this in my wp directory:
wp plugin install ssl-insecure-content-fixer --activate

It's installed and activated but didn't actually do anything

You already had it installed or just did it?

That is what my sites normally look like until I install an SSL Insecure Content Fixer

I run this in my wp directory:
wp plugin install ssl-insecure-content-fixer --activate

Their most recent stuff has 3-4 year old processors. Even their top tier FS3017, coming in at $10k for a diskless server, has 2x E5-2620 v3 that were launched in Q3'14. That's pretty bad...

Compare that to a R740xd on xbyte with the latest processors, 64 GB RAM, and a RAID card with 8GB NV cache for ~$3500, the Synology starts looking really bad.

None of which is really apples to apples in this case, because it's a $600 box we're talking about above... but at the higher end, Synology definitely starts getting left behind.

I use duckduckgo also. If it's something I know ML people use or talk about I'll usually run a site:mangolassi.it search terms otherwise I just search it normally on duckduckgo

You can also do site:mangolassi.it site:serverblah.com site:spicewhatevs.com search terms to search multiple sites at once

I still don't trust the nodebb searching for whatever reason... probably irrational

@pmoncho said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@bnrstnr said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@pmoncho said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

Now we need an employee transition plan over the course of X amount of years and costs associated with that.
Wonder what that looks like?

I just can't envision a scenario where a single payer system is any more complicated and less efficient than a system with thousands of private insurance providers... Maybe I'm looking at it all wrong though, I really don't know.

I don't think it could be more complicated but the answer you are given sure is final. You will be fixed or you will not.

Another question that has baffled me about this subject also is, if the foreign healthcare is so good, why would any foreigner come to the US? There would be no reason, correct? The patient would just hop to Canada, Mexico, or anywhere in Europe.

Like Scott said, we are the largest importers and also the largest exporters (I didn't fact check him...), so why are so many people leaving the US?

https://community.aarp.org/t5/Politics-Current-Events/Rand-Paul-Goes-to-Canada-for-Surgery/td-p/2102175
Pretty bad when our own politicians are leaving for foreign healthcare...

@pmoncho said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

Now we need an employee transition plan over the course of X amount of years and costs associated with that.
Wonder what that looks like?

I just can't envision a scenario where a single payer system is any more complicated and less efficient than a system with thousands of private insurance providers... Maybe I'm looking at it all wrong though, I really don't know.

I'd imagine the first few years are going to hurt during the transition... Obviously we can't just flip a switch and have a single payer

@pmoncho said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@Dashrender said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@scottalanmiller said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@Carnival-Boy said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

Do people with unhealthy life styles end up having higher health care costs though?

They do from studies that I know. But universal healthcare lowers all of the costs way, way more. So his concern would make him totally passionate about it if cost was actually his concern.

Where is the proof in that - and how is it accomplished? does it remove high paid doctors? does it remove high paid administrators? does it remove wasteful spending in hospitals to keep costs respectable? Where is this savings coming from?

I have wondered the same thing. Those who champion foreign healthcare systems never mention where the costs cuts come from.

Just a few quick ones... it probably removes the billions in profits the insurance companies rake in. It probably removes the ridiculously convoluted billing systems that are in place now. It probably negotiates prices better. Those couple things would be massive improvements over the system the US has in place now.

@Dashrender said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@bnrstnr said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@Dashrender said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@bnrstnr said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

If other universal/single payer systems don't have crazy high deductibles, that needs to be considered, too. If I actually use my health insurance here, I have a $5000 deductible right off the bat, even then I'll still end up paying more out of pocket, all of that needs to be added to the "tax" amount we pay.

Somebody diagnosed with cancer in the US could easily be taxed 500% of their income if we're considering this.
I'm lost - how are you paying more than the deductible?

I too have a $5500 deductible - but once I reach it - all 'covered' items are covered at 100%, until then, it's basically like I don't have insurance - except that I have to accept the agreed upon insurance pricing - which is often higher than the cash pricing - until I reach the deductible, though that said - the rate is pretty damned low compared to most other plans - I'm not sure if an actual catastrophic plan would be less expensive - current plan cost my employer and I a total of $6100/yr for my coverage.

For my family of 4 it's $17,140/year, I pay 30% of it.

But what are you paying for after your deductible is covered? you mentioned you'd have to pay more.

If there happens to be a sneaky out of network doctor at the hospital. Copay, prescriptions... idk, there are always surprises.

One of the options we had at last renewal was a $3k deductible with 20% coinsurance, so that could have totaled $9k max out of pocket... which would have saved me $3 a month lol

@Dashrender said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

@bnrstnr said in Top Ten Happiest Places on Earth in 2019:

If other universal/single payer systems don't have crazy high deductibles, that needs to be considered, too. If I actually use my health insurance here, I have a $5000 deductible right off the bat, even then I'll still end up paying more out of pocket, all of that needs to be added to the "tax" amount we pay.

Somebody diagnosed with cancer in the US could easily be taxed 500% of their income if we're considering this.
I'm lost - how are you paying more than the deductible?

I too have a $5500 deductible - but once I reach it - all 'covered' items are covered at 100%, until then, it's basically like I don't have insurance - except that I have to accept the agreed upon insurance pricing - which is often higher than the cash pricing - until I reach the deductible, though that said - the rate is pretty damned low compared to most other plans - I'm not sure if an actual catastrophic plan would be less expensive - current plan cost my employer and I a total of $6100/yr for my coverage.

For my family of 4 it's $17,140/year, I pay 30% of it.

If other universal/single payer systems don't have crazy high deductibles, that needs to be considered, too. If I actually use my health insurance here, I have a $5000 deductible right off the bat, even then I'll still end up paying more out of pocket, all of that needs to be added to the "tax" amount we pay.

Somebody diagnosed with cancer in the US could easily be taxed 500% of their income if we're considering this.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just took a typing test for the first time in 6 years.
To my surprise, I type fairly quickly.
First test I got 68 with 20 errors (Warm up.)
next I got 65 with 7 errors.
I'm impressed with my self (we're slow this monday and I was just trying to pass sometime and look busy.

I hate these types of tests. I want to know my WPM typing an email or some other document. Better yet, take my WPM from a heated chat. I'm never reading something and typing it back verbatim.

Are there ever agent updates that need to be done with MeshCentral?

@LilAng said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Playing this new game where you search up "Florida man" and your birth month and day and see what headline you get (year not necessary)

Florida Man thought he stole opioids, got laxatives instead.

Mine isn't nearly as fun as laxatives

Truck Blast Kills Florida Man

There may be another issue updating to 5.37.0. Just killed my XOCE, reverting to snapshot now and looking into things.

EDIT: Yep, there's an issue with Babel
https://github.com/vatesfr/xen-orchestra/issues/4052

I cant remember who mentioned it, but Behind the Curve is a trip. We watched it last night, and just wow.

Is Dafang still the best choice here?

@RojoLoco said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

As though I needed more reasons to GTFO of Georgia...
https://www.zdnet.com/article/georgia-county-pays-a-whopping-400000-to-get-rid-of-a-ransomware-infection/
... but this is probably a great time to swoop in and sell them some kind of backup solution (they had NONE).

Until they throw you in jail when they stop paying like @jimk

Trying to get my Yealink phones to automatically update to the correct time. They're just not cooperating...

EDIT: Instead of using 0.pool.ntp.org, I switched the time server to my DHCP server IP. Not sure why the former wasn't working...

. -name "var/log/ovsdb-server.log.*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm

This took care of it for me. The bug was creating a billion log files