Cleaned up a few hundred dead accounts on here today.

Coffee and about to have leftover pizza. Had a big party at the house last night.

Updated to NodeBB 3.1.4 today.

It's been a quiet week around here! I'm having coffee and enjoying a cool morning. Doing lunch in an hour with my local headhunter (he finds us a lot of talent.)

I think what you want is a completely external device. That's how this is normally handled. Meaning it's common to have a dialer / ringer on a computer but you answer the phone. Same thing could be done to make a loudhorn blast anything you want as well.

@gjacobse said in Yealink T46U external ringer:

In a warehouse setting, these phones just don’t seem to have enough ringer to be heard.

Without having to add IP device, could you add an external ringer via the USB port?

Definitely not in the USB port.

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Walking Tour of Telica

been raining here ALL day.

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Driving Leon Nicaragua's Beach Loop: El Transito, Velero, Miramar & Puerto Sandino | DriveWarp

D&D is tonight at the house.

Street Food Nicaragua | Elote

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Touring a tiny pink home in CasteLeon, Nicaragua

Was out and about all weekend. Getting back into it now. Lunch is on its way.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Being humbled as I test firewall rules on my home Edge Router Lite 3.

Those are always fun.

@Pete-S said in Debian 11 & php8:

Not a challenge at all but the reason to run "stable" is for stability.

Once you start abandoning the integration, though, you are abandoning stability. The idea of using an LTS and then replacing the parts of the OS that aren't up to date is counterproductive. Choose the most up to date, best supported, most stable version and use the fully tested and integrated components instead.

The idea of "stable" is not stability in IT terms, that's a myth. It's actually against that. The idea of current is for IT stability. Stable, in reference to an OS like this, is in reference to the versions of products remaining stable so that unsupported, out of date software from bad vendors can be used without updating for long periods of time. Not a positive stable, it's a bad stable.

Heading to Managua today to see the National Theater.

MOrning all. Been super busy with travel and filming stuff. How is everyone doing?

Camille & I head to the streets of León #Nicaragua & find some live music in Parque Central and end up trying #fritanga #streetfood

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Debian 12 "Bookworm" is, in theory, under a month away and is going to PHP 8.2. So that is very good. But the long release cycles are always going to be a challenge that there isn't really a reason for.

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@WLS-ITGuy said in Debian 11 & php8:

One of the applications we use just released a new version and the update requires php8.0 or above.

So right now the best approach is to wait until Debian 12 is released officially and then install Debian 12 with the new version of the application.
If the application is supported on Debian they have likely tested it with Debian 12.

I'd say the best approach is to not be on Debian. Debian is wonderful, but primarily as a base for building distos, running it as the core enterprise OS comes with problems and this highlights them. PHP 8.0 isn't new or current. It's a few versions behind. That means Debian as tested is out of date and less mature (software maturity comes from updating, not stagnation.) There's good reason to want distros that don't update and stay on LTS software, but those reasons are few and far between and should always be met with "why aren't you correcting the problems that led to wanting LTS?"