I've been using wireguard for a month or two now. We have Linux, Mac, and Windows clients on it. It works fine on all systems, and is easy to do split tunneling if you are looking for that feature.

If you intend on using VPN and wireguard. As in you use wireguard for one connection and VPN for others, you will need to turn off the wire guard interface with a one line command.

Wireguard is nice because it's activated do boot and you don't even have to think about it. Unless of course you need to connect to another VPN and redirect to that VPN's DNS. In that case, you just temporarily change the state of wireguard to down.

I don't care about the speed much because I'm not transferring files, but it definitely is improved over Openvpn.

I loathe this question (it's not you) because everyone asks it and it really doesn't matter. They spend so much energy worrying about the distro that they miss the Linux experience of customization because they are so focused on a particular flavor.

Honestly, it doesn't matter. I would use Ubuntu which is easy enough to use for anyone and is well supported. To me gnome looks really nice by default on Ubuntu, and is your best community supported workstation distro by far.

It's time to upgrade if you haven't already.

https://wordpress.org/news/2020/04/wordpress-5-4-1/

@Dashrender said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@IRJ said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@Dashrender said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@IRJ said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@Dashrender said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@IRJ said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@pchiodo said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@IRJ We are discussing this option. We will likely do both a live stream and a live event once the all clear has been issued.

That makes sense. I would like to see it opened up to more people that could attend. It will really cut costs, and of course avoid all the issues we will obviously have for the next several months (at minimum).

Could there be a meetup separate from the conference? I dont see why the two have to be connected especially considering the circumstances.

Kinda hard to get your company to pay for a meetup that has no technical content, etc.

Most places are offering their virtual conferences free right now. My Hashicorp conference in October is been switched to virtual they are refunding my money and offering it free virtual since the only real overhead is paying their employees to present via Zoom session. Redhat did the same thing as did many others like KnowBe4 and HITRUST.

If there was a cost for a virtual mangocon, I would assume it would be minimal.

All that makes sense, though not sure what it has to do with my quoted post about getting a company to pay for a meetup that wasn't around a conference with content?

Why do you need your company to pay for it if it's virtual? That was my point.

OH - I guess I don't see a meetup as a virtual thing, I assumed you meant a later in person meetup.

It seems like best case scenario for in person meetup is probably in the fall, but even many conferences are canceling then.

@Dashrender said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@IRJ said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@Dashrender said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@IRJ said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@pchiodo said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@IRJ We are discussing this option. We will likely do both a live stream and a live event once the all clear has been issued.

That makes sense. I would like to see it opened up to more people that could attend. It will really cut costs, and of course avoid all the issues we will obviously have for the next several months (at minimum).

Could there be a meetup separate from the conference? I dont see why the two have to be connected especially considering the circumstances.

Kinda hard to get your company to pay for a meetup that has no technical content, etc.

Most places are offering their virtual conferences free right now. My Hashicorp conference in October is been switched to virtual they are refunding my money and offering it free virtual since the only real overhead is paying their employees to present via Zoom session. Redhat did the same thing as did many others like KnowBe4 and HITRUST.

If there was a cost for a virtual mangocon, I would assume it would be minimal.

All that makes sense, though not sure what it has to do with my quoted post about getting a company to pay for a meetup that wasn't around a conference with content?

Why do you need your company to pay for it if it's virtual? That was my point.

@Dashrender said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@IRJ said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@pchiodo said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@IRJ We are discussing this option. We will likely do both a live stream and a live event once the all clear has been issued.

That makes sense. I would like to see it opened up to more people that could attend. It will really cut costs, and of course avoid all the issues we will obviously have for the next several months (at minimum).

Could there be a meetup separate from the conference? I dont see why the two have to be connected especially considering the circumstances.

Kinda hard to get your company to pay for a meetup that has no technical content, etc.

Most places are offering their virtual conferences free right now. My Hashicorp conference in October is been switched to virtual they are refunding my money and offering it free virtual since the only real overhead is paying their employees to present via Zoom session. Redhat did the same thing as did many others like KnowBe4 and HITRUST.

If there was a cost for a virtual mangocon, I would assume it would be minimal.

@VoIP_n00b said in UNMS Cloud:

@scottalanmiller said in UNMS Cloud:

If you have nearly ten devices, it might be worth buying one or two to get the free cloud hosting. Pays for itself eventually. You only need the very cheapest of devices for it to count.

What devices count towards the 10?

@VoIP_n00b said in UNMS Cloud:

@scottalanmiller said in UNMS Cloud:

If you have nearly ten devices, it might be worth buying one or two to get the free cloud hosting. Pays for itself eventually. You only need the very cheapest of devices for it to count.

What devices count towards the 10?

I would assume any managed device

@pchiodo said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@IRJ We are discussing this option. We will likely do both a live stream and a live event once the all clear has been issued.

That makes sense. I would like to see it opened up to more people that could attend. It will really cut costs, and of course avoid all the issues we will obviously have for the next several months (at minimum).

Could there be a meetup separate from the conference? I dont see why the two have to be connected especially considering the circumstances.

@pchiodo said in MangoCon Postponed Due to Covid 19:

@VoIP_n00b The email said the following

"First off, thank you all for your support of MangoCon. Due to the current crisis, we are postponing MangoCon 2020. We have not yet picked a new date, but are hopeful we can reschedule sometime later this year. We are monitoring the situation, and plan to reschedule once a safe date can be established.

Your tickets will still be honored for the rescheduled event, and we hope that you will still be able to attend.

Due to these uncertain times, we are also offering a refund for your ticket purchase if you prefer this option. If you would like a refund, please send a reply to this email and we will initiate the process. Again, we hope that you will attend the rescheduled event, and look forward to seeing you soon!"

There is no other information. If you prepaid, then we have a record of it under the email you used to purchase the ticket. With your email, we can initiate a refund if that is what you would prefer.

Is a virtual conference possible?

I am down to attend if ML joins the trend and goes virtual like everyone else. We can be LANless and not localized to Texas due to travel restraints and hotel accommodations.

It would be much easier logistically and financially. More people could attend because it will drive costs down. You could probably find more speakers, too (hint, hint).

I haven't noticed it. I have it on two workstations now and all is good.

@scottalanmiller said in Certifications:

@alex-olynyk said in Certifications:

Are cloud certifications worthwhile to get?

If that's a direction that you want to take your career in. Cloud has little to no applicability to the SMB market, so you have to consider that when picking a cert. But lots (and I mean LOTS) of SMBs are SMBs because they don't make good decisions, so loads of SMBs might want cloud and cloud certs regardless of its applicability.

The real question here is why would you want to be in the SMB space as an employee? Low pay, long hours, and stagnation.

He's been doing the same thing for 20 years. It might be time to try something different. The real issue is that he's about 15 years late on trying something different, but it's never too late I suppose.

Think forward when it comes to certifications. Prove where you want to be, not where you're at, currently. With 20 years in IT, an A+ is useless. You have already proven well above that competency. If I look at your resume and see Windows Server and powershell experience for 10 years, I know you have those skills and Windows Server cert doesnt really matter much to me. If you get a cert in AWS, Security, and Redhat. Then you seem pretty adaptable to any environment. It shows you have strength in 3 areas most Windows administrators don't have. Which increases your stock.

Are we still using OBS as the go-to screen recording app on Linux?

1. Dont give vendor any details about your IT infrastructure, it is their problem not yours. Give them minor details that make sense that are relevant to investigation, but certainly dont reveal any infrastructure to them.

2. This is most certainly an insider attack or a compromised account. In either situation, you have to assume they havent resolved it yet. Hopefully its a compromised account which is more easily fixed, but if its an insider they may be hard to detect.

This was the thread @stacksofplates

https://mangolassi.it/topic/17468/issues-with-android-on-kvm

@stacksofplates said in Android emulator:

@IRJ said in Android emulator:

@stacksofplates said in Android emulator:

Is there an advantage to using BlueStacks over just downloading the x86_64 ISO?

That doesn't work correctly on KVM / QEMU unless thats changed

Ah ok. I had one I used a few years ago and wasn't sure if that was the same one. It's been forever since I did it and I only needed it once for a few mins.

Yeah we had a thread about it here and I remember you testing it as well. We couldn't get the mouse input to work correctly

@stacksofplates said in Android emulator:

Is there an advantage to using BlueStacks over just downloading the x86_64 ISO?

That doesn't work correctly on KVM / QEMU unless thats changed

@black3dynamite said in Ubuntu 20.04 Upgrade / Usage Experience:

@IRJ Did you choose a normal or minimal installation?

Normal because I'm lazy