@stuartjordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just out of interest what are most of america's different states and Canada using in regards to internet connections? Over here in the UK we are mostly FTC now, which is copper from the property to the street cabinet then fibre to the exchange. We are still limited by distance to the cabinet in regards to what speeds we get. We also still have ADSL available, but most are not using that these days. My speed for example is now 56/10. At my old address I was right next to the cabinet and would get 70/20. Just curious if you are mostly FTTP over there.

In US, Spectrum Cable Internet here 200/12 for about $60. ATT has talked about FTC in my home area for 10+ years. You can tell by my current connection how well that is going.

EDIT: In my area, ATT only has FTC installed in select areas which are new developments and upper-upper middle class areas. A couple individuals I know in both area are paying $45-$55 for 300/20 and up.

@flaxking said in Once off or short term remote access solution:

@pmoncho said in Once off or short term remote access solution:

I have used Remote Utilities in the past. Not bad for 10 free systems.

https://www.remoteutilities.com - Per their licensing page

I've also used Remote Utilities before. It worked well and RDP mode was pretty slick. However, I don't believe it is designed around one time access.

It does have a run-only agent. Client starts agent, users connects, users disconnect and agent stops. Sorta a one time deal I suppose.

I have used Remote Utilities in the past. Not bad for 10 free systems.

https://www.remoteutilities.com - Per their licensing page

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched Godzilla vs Kong

Watch it last night with the girls. Not a bad movie.

@dashrender said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@pmoncho
What’s weird here is that they are catching them red handed .... yet I assume they don’t consider that good enough.... if that’s not good enough how does their browser history help?

My only guess is, if its not written proof it didn't happen. The manager could be in a verbally acknowledge, gather hard copy evidence, wait for next employee review and then lay down the hammer mode. (Just a wild ass guess as this managerial behavior confuses me)

@dashrender said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@scottalanmiller said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

Known terrible employer and put of despair place to work announced already that they are making people come back after the pandemic.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/31/google-speeds-partial-office-reopening-and-puts-limits-on-remote-work.html

Yeah, I was asked just yesterday - can you spy on people what websites they are visiting and for how long?

I asked why do you care? Why not look at their production numbers and if they are bad - council them, if they remain bad, get rid of them...

Totally agree here. I've been saying that to my previous boss and new current VP's in charge. Before allowing Internet access, it was texting. Before that it was personal phone calls.

When I would get asked what I could do from a tech standpoint, I always replied with, "How are their practices doing? Are they behind in charges and slow entering payments? Is the monthly AR up? If all bad, why are they here?" Never did get any decent answers.

@marcinozga said in Ubiquity breached, downplayed the issue:

@scottalanmiller said in Ubiquity breached, downplayed the issue:

If you read the claims by "Adam" and then read the statement made by Ubiquiti, you can see from that alone that he was lying. The entire premise of his claim is that UBNT downplayed something and tried to blame Amazon. But there is nothing of the sort in the statement that UBNT made. Nothing. This "Adam" character fabricated it completely just to get attention. And Krebs didn't do any verification, even bothering to read his own story. He just published something he already knew to be false to get a headline.

How do you know it's Adam who's lying? What makes you so sure UBNT are telling the whole truth? In the end, the company has more to lose here, not the whistleblower.

Does that sound like a trustworthy company? Or one trying to cover their asses to protect stock prices?

I don't have much to say about the validity of "Adam" / Krebs but the stock is down roughly 25% in the last 3 days alone. The largest down day being today.

Don't know if it is related to this but that much of a loss in 3 days are the big boys dumping (plus the algos too)

@irj said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@scottalanmiller said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

@irj said in Staying at your shitty employer is your fault:

90% of jobs I'm looking at are remote post covid. Remote work existed before, but was less common

But 90% of good jobs were remote PRE-COVID. Anyone who is remote only because of COVID is a shitty shop that got better because they had to... means that the management failures are still there. Don't be lulled by jobs forced to look better than they are temporarily.

Good shops were always remote (when possible.) You can't be good and make people come into the office just for shits and giggles, the two are polar opposites conceptually. You can only make one thing a priority... is it doing a good job, or is it sitting in an office.

I've still had a few jobs reach out and say they are remote until covid crap is over then they want you to move somewhere.. I just tell them no thanks I'm not interested in even talking.

Did any of those jobs that reached out to you explain why they are no longer going to be remote post-covid?

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

anyone know of any print servers that can convert usb printers to ethernet?

I can only find a TP Link model down here. Think I used to use a DLink model but don't seem to make 'em any more.

There are Digi AnywhereUSB's here for USB to ethernet devices.

Unfortunately, a little on the expensive side.

I don't know what all is required but is it possible to use the google-authenticator-libpam module with modifications to the /etc/pam.d/nginx file.

I was thinking, if Ubuntu GUI can use it, nginx can use pam modules, is it possible to mesh it with bookstack???

This could be totally irrelevant as I am just throwing some crap ideas out there.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Spending the morning renewing the kids' passports.

If your a member of AAA, they have free passport photos.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

can anyone suggest an android tv box I can plug into the TV? nothing expensive, just something that works. just for streaming services.

why android TV?

because I don't know what i'm doing?

we got an apple tv but it's not very useful, it makes searching through things too hard.

enlighten me.

Roku works well and start at $35

yeah, Roku is super solid.

I replaced an old Apple TV with Roku so I could watch Daily Wire content. Roku has been solid.

Big fan of Roku as we have four of them. The only thing that ticks me off about them, then and now, is that they don't have a Bluetooth transmitter. Unless I missed it somewhere.

@hobbit666 said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

@JaredBusch said in LastPass Goes As Predicted Like LogMeIn:

Correct, that’s an entirely different issue and the reason why I started looking to move solutions last year but that’s not the point of that stupid ass article the Scott linked.

What have you been looking into? I'm happy using and paying for lastpass myself but if I do start looking be nice for some options

Have a look into Bitwarden. The wife and I have been using the free version for the last 6 months and has worked out fine for us. Individual use is good and sharing specific passwords between family members is nice.

@Dashrender said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@pmoncho said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@Dashrender said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@marcinozga said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@Dashrender I think they failed because of lack of e-commerce and their prices sucked. Best Buy survived, despite being almost a clone of CC.

Frankly BB just sucks today too. They barely carry anything. I buy mice/keyboards and USB sticks from there all the time because I dont' want to wait for delivery (almost no next day delivery here).

I agree, In mid-late 90's, most of their floor space seemed like it was for music, movie and software CD/DVD's. Now it seems wide open an kinda eerie when they are not busy.

I see mostly TV's and appliances when I scan the place - oh and phones... then they have a smattering of the consumer - rape my network please electronics crap...

That is what I see also. Something inside me keeps telling me, never to buy an appliance from there or anything over the occasional mouse/keyboard, USB wireless and/or SSD drive that is on sale.

@Dashrender said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@marcinozga said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@Dashrender I think they failed because of lack of e-commerce and their prices sucked. Best Buy survived, despite being almost a clone of CC.

Frankly BB just sucks today too. They barely carry anything. I buy mice/keyboards and USB sticks from there all the time because I dont' want to wait for delivery (almost no next day delivery here).

I agree, In mid-late 90's, most of their floor space seemed like it was for music, movie and software CD/DVD's. Now it seems wide open an kinda eerie when they are not busy.

Captain Phillips - Tom Hanks continues to amaze me with his acting talent. One of the few actors that I lose sight of during a movie and only see the actual character.

@travisdh1

Big fan of Microcenter myself. It's nice to see them continue to stay busy over the last 20+ years and their nice stock of Ubiquity products.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403

Yeah. IMHO, WFH has really helped UI this year. WFH isn't everything but being Up almost 80% YoY in earnings and 50%+ in YoY sales, for a hardware company???? That is a big ball of NICE!.

Unfortunately I sold out at around $230 earlier this year (in at $60 in 2019). Although those funds were transferred into Crowdstrike so no real complaints.

I just got into some play around day trading - I'm up 12%+ in 30 days...

Super nice!

If you are on ThinkorSwim platform (its free to if you want to use it), between 9:15-4:00 there is the Shadow Trader board and live Shadow Trader show. Brad, Peter and Scooter (mainly technical traders w/wo options) have some good stuff too. People listen to music in the background, I like to listen to them when I can.

If you already do or ever want to dabble into growth stocks, I use the following sites.
https://gauchorico.com/
https://boards.fool.com/sauls-investing-discussions-120980.aspx?

Been following Saul for a few years but am more conservative than most on that discussion board so I make less than others on the board. Saul will even give you his Monthly summary going back 5 years. Saul has an average of 30% Yearly growth going on about 30 years. Peruse someday when you have a little free time.

Math is math, but so many people are just stupid.
Then on top of that, so many more are simply never taught. I certainly did not know this stuff when I was 25. That is a such huge loss to where I could be right now.

Ditto. I knew some but mostly just reading Peter lynch. Problem was I had money and trading costs were huge. I keep trying to get more kids interested in "finance" because the opportunities are amazing today. Heck, free trading, fractional shares, online tools and excellent trading platforms.

That rico blog is solid reading. I have sent it to my niece.
https://gauchorico.com/category/blog/financial-freedom/

Gauchorico created his blog so he could talk about Options in addition to his Growth stock trading.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho Well the way Ubiquiti is going it will be more profitable for them for sure. We will see.

True dat.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@pmoncho said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403

Yeah. IMHO, WFH has really helped UI this year. WFH isn't everything but being Up almost 80% YoY in earnings and 50%+ in YoY sales, for a hardware company???? That is a big ball of NICE!.

Unfortunately I sold out at around $230 earlier this year (in at $60 in 2019). Although those funds were transferred into Crowdstrike so no real complaints.

I just got into some play around day trading - I'm up 12%+ in 30 days...

Super nice!

If you are on ThinkorSwim platform (its free to if you want to use it), between 9:15-4:00 there is the Shadow Trader board and live Shadow Trader show. Brad, Peter and Scooter (mainly technical traders w/wo options) have some good stuff too. People listen to music in the background, I like to listen to them when I can.

If you already do or ever want to dabble into growth stocks, I use the following sites.
https://gauchorico.com/
https://boards.fool.com/sauls-investing-discussions-120980.aspx?

Been following Saul for a few years but am more conservative than most on that discussion board so I make less than others on the board. Saul will even give you his Monthly summary going back 5 years. Saul has an average of 30% Yearly growth going on about 30 years. Peruse someday when you have a little free time.