Posts made by jclambert

@AdamF
It works quite well - especially for the cost.
For our company's onsite ones, I even have a cheap POE add-on card, so I can restart the Pi if it fully hangs up (rare). Obviously this does not work for your use case.

@Dashrender
Facts don't matter nearly as much today. It is more about the loudest voice.

When you drill into some of the solutions out there, some are just black boxes that give you a result. However, what was missed? In these cases, you don't get an audit trail on anything other than what was identified.

@brandon220
I have this on my whiteboard:
"That's the way we have always done it is NEVER the right answer"

When I first peeked at Proxmox, it must have been about 7 years ago. It was not ready for primetime. I just started dipping my toes back in that pool in a homelab

Bitwarden for home, and Dashlane at work currently

So, will these be give-a-ways at the next MangoCon? It is not an all-inclusive device, as it will require a carrier board of some type. For somethings this may be ideal.

https://www.techradar.com/news/mysterious-new-raspberry-pi-alternative-is-the-size-of-an-sd-card

@scottalanmiller
With Packt, you can get the book and ebook for the $40 price

Learning GCP management. Starting on Terraform tomorrow

@gjacobse It is not compatible. There was another project out there that was ARM compatible. I think it fizzled or was bought by Google several years ago now. Sigh

I used Starwind for several years. It was solid and effective for the Hyper-V clusters it was implemented on

Google bought a company (early last year maybe??) that was doing this for several years. The company was called Cloud Ready if I recall. I used it and found it an effective means of repurposing older hardware. In my case, I was able to repurpose 6-7 year old desktops. Of course it is only usable in situations where ChromeOS can be effective. The devices were manageable through Cloud Ready's console (with a license) in much the same way ChromeOS devices can be managed. I assume this is fully integrated now that it is Google Branded.

This would be ideal if the project could/would get ported to non-Intel processors. I would love to run it on Raspberry Pis

@eleceng
The basic premise of helping to stop horizontal attacks is wonderful. Last year we reviewed this as an option. In a test, it implemented well enough, but the PW was not truly encrypted. This can be better explained here:
https://techgenix.com/case-against-using-laps/amp/

@carnival-boy
Many moons ago (when most screens were still monochrome) I wrote an ERP for a manufacturing company. It was built from the ground up to meet their needs. It was extended to include barcode scanning and some other enhancements that were not considered initially. Long story short, this solution is still in use today decades later. Did it take a lot longer to work it from the ground up? Hell ya. If a framework like Dynamics existed, it would have saved a lot of Dev time. We would have been quicker to market using a framework. Would it have been better? More reliable? I'll vote for more troublesome using a generic platform like Dynamics.
Given how long it has been used with only minor enhancements, their TCO is awesome. Is it the right answer for everyone? Obviously not. However, it should always be part of the conversation.

Interesting that BackBlaze is now integrated with Vultr. No egress fees. This may prove useful

I never had an issue with Cisco ATAs connected to a cloud service behind Sonicwall devices. I don't recall setting anything up, but I am curious enough to review my setup notes to confirm.

I started with VMware many moons ago and as a result, cleaning up snapshots was pretty much mandatory or deal with "delta hell". Since it became habitual, it naturally translated to the cloud.

I spun up MC for home based on advice gained here. Based on the results, we now use it at work. It has been solid in both environments. My personal one sits in Vulr on a Linux VM @$5/mo and has about 80 devices on it currently.
It just works.

@dashrender I would upgrade my laptop to WiFi-6e if it were as simple and click-click-driver.

You are already using Synology. Have you looked at their cloud backup? I believe it even integrates with Backblaze and others.

I find this intriguing. I may have to finally upgrade my home machine (XPS13 circa 2014)
The product: https://frame.work/
Video Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rkTgPt3M4k