Posts made by dafyre

If you're running a script that relies on the aliases, you can add the aliases to the top of the script if you need to.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Merging several of my routinely used Powershell functions into a menud system.

Taking some time,.. but will put machine and user functions into one place. Something I’ve wanted to work on for a while..

I've done the same with VMware Snapshot cleanups. I'm about ready to post a new version of that before long. Just need to polish up a couple of things before I release it to the masses.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

coffee#2

should i go with a cheap windows vps or zero tier to a home pc?
can get a windows 2019 server with 6gb ram and 2 vcpu for 9.95/month.
hmmm.

I'd choose ZT+Home PC.... (i'm a bit biased as I've been doing this for quite a while, lol).

@RojoLoco Eye believe you!
you!

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Moving from iOS to Android...
Honestly wasn't ready to but events have transpired to move things along.

Not sure how I feel about it.

I liked it when I did it. And then regretted it when the instability and hardware problems came, and the lack of vendor protection. It's weird the things you don't think about in iOS are often the killer features. From an interface and usability standpoint, I liked the Android better.

The whole vendor support thing really irks me, as some vendors support for their phones varies by model.
Luckily(?) I'm got the use of a Pixel phone and updates are good (just got Android 14 today!).

Even Pixel update support sucks monkey ****. They're great at getting updates out for supported devices, but devices are only supported for 3 years from the first day the device was sold in retail. For those of us that don't update phones regularly, that still blows. Apple has Google beat hands down in this area.

I say this while my personal phone is still a Pixel 3a XL. It works fine, but I've been growing more concerned over lack of updates for a while now. While I know I should upgrade, it's working great still.

Root it and install a custom rom? I've done that when I've managed to keep a phone beyond it's usual updates.

@RojoLoco Then your eyes were stabbed by a flash of neon light that split the night?

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally figuring out how to get my Amcrest video doorbells actually working with Shinobi.

Nice!

How does Shinobi compare with ZM? I haven't had a chance to test out Shinobi yet. ZM works good enough for my home stuff.

I've never really used either before.

My attempt at figuring out the Amcrest doorbell use with Shinobi hasn't panned out so well. Frustrating when I can view the feed in VLC easily.

It took me a minute to get my ancient camera hooked up to ZM, but once I figured it out, it's worked great.

So after working with both Shinobi and ZoneMinder for a couple of days, Shinobi was the clear winner for me.

I never got the previews working in ZoneMinder for some reason. Probably not going to pursue ZM any further since Shinobi is now working how I want it to.

Cool. That's the big part I'll have to pick up Shinobi for one of my next projects.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally figuring out how to get my Amcrest video doorbells actually working with Shinobi.

Nice!

How does Shinobi compare with ZM? I haven't had a chance to test out Shinobi yet. ZM works good enough for my home stuff.

I've never really used either before.

My attempt at figuring out the Amcrest doorbell use with Shinobi hasn't panned out so well. Frustrating when I can view the feed in VLC easily.

It took me a minute to get my ancient camera hooked up to ZM, but once I figured it out, it's worked great.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally figuring out how to get my Amcrest video doorbells actually working with Shinobi.

Nice!

How does Shinobi compare with ZM? I haven't had a chance to test out Shinobi yet. ZM works good enough for my home stuff.

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

This is my current office environment.

@EddieJennings said in I can't even:

This thread, https://access.redhat.com/discussions/669573, likely requires a Red Hat account to view, but it wins the necro post award.

The last relevant comment was in October 2011. Here's the latest comment nearly 12 years later

You should log in and post this:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got a parrot today. It's a rescue, very old and needed a new home very quickly. So now we have a parrot.

Polly wanna cracker?

@nadnerB said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

What if when we die, we just respawn at the fridge without remembering anything that happened after we left the fridge last time?

@CCWTech said in No Sound, no webcam and Only one monitor on Ubuntu 23.04 with NVIDIA graphics card:

Turns out it's a Ubuntu bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-signed-oracle/+bug/2023986

That's always fun!

Did you try some of the different suggestions there? A couple of folks mentioned changing kernel versions seemed to make things happy-ish again.

@CCWTech said in No Sound, no webcam and Only one monitor on Ubuntu 23.04 with NVIDIA graphics card:

@scottalanmiller Yes and sudo apt dist-upgrade shows all is up to date. Not sure why I have no sound or why the webcam isn't recognized. I am guessing it's a driver or dependency issue as well.

Just because I'm stupid, did you check in the Sound area and make sure there were no other devices showing?

@CCWTech said in Only one monitor on Ubuntu 23.04 with NVIDIA graphics card:

Ran this, sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Not sure why they weren't installed or what happened but I have 4 monitors now.

I'm surprised the NVIDIA drivers even installed. They'll normally yell at you if you don't have the header files installed.

Glad to know you fixed the issue!

I think Ansible and Bash both can go hand in hand. Bash can help you learn how to navigate and automate things without the overhead of having an ansible set up.

But, if you have Ansible configured, automating things with bash and pushing out a bash script or other automation to your entire infrastructure just became a lot easier.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Quality saxophone time with major and minor scales = done. On to home Ansible stuff.

I haven't played mine in such a long time, I'd probably sound like a cat stuck in a blender, a dying duck, or some combination thereof.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre damn, I missed one!

Work around here has been absolutely crazy for us. Finally getting back to the actual "things that need to be done" list rather than the crap that keeps popping up these days.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Cleaned up a few hundred dead accounts on here today.