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@Grey said in Windows 8.1 Microphone Gain Changes Automatically: @scottalanmiller Why are you on 8.1? Customer I assume.

@Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas: @scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas: @JaredBusch said in Video Editing Rig Ideas: @scottalanmiller said in Video Editing Rig Ideas: @Pete-S said in Video Editing Rig Ideas: Your choice of camera can also affects performance a lot due to format. Some formats are very slow to edit and requires ingestion and re-encoding for decent editing performance. I do everything in a mix of h.264 and h.265 Why would you export anything in h.264 today? Or do you mean your device actually natively records to h.265? The devices. I try to use h.265 whenever I get the choice. This is not a good choice. You want to edit in a format that is easy to decode and H.265 is not. So to be able to edit you either have to re-encode your H.265 video clips into another format (aka transcoding) suitable for your editor or suffer much slower editing performance. If you shoot in H264 you can probably edit it directly without much impact. The editing software will re-encode it on the fly. H.265 is a delivery format. GoPro says h264 only for legacy older devices. H265 is their editing format. H265 works fine on newer hardware.

@travisdh1 said in 12th Annual Scott Alan Miller Afterparty at Spiceworld 2020 (Zoom): Shoot, completely missed it By a bit, yeah.

@IRJ hrm it didn't when I looked will check again

Looks like @Osvaldo was able to get it.

I read that, can't wait to see what happens. Would give nvidia even more capability

@IRJ said in Self Taught vs. Bootcamp vs College Video from Joshua Fluke: @EddieJennings said in Self Taught vs. Bootcamp vs College Video from Joshua Fluke: @scottalanmiller Imagine an IT Generalist bootcamp IT generalist is the bootcamp More like the war.

Also of interest.... https://www.jeremymorgan.com/blog/linux/90-days-with-pinebook-pro/

@black3dynamite said in Why I Choose LibreOffice: @travisdh1 said in Why I Choose LibreOffice: I've been using OnlyOffice personally for a couple of years now. It was just better at getting the MS Office formatting correct when I made the switch. Which was a major factor for me while looking for a job. /tangent Recruiters, do yourselves a favor and stop asking for resumes/CVs in Word format! /tangent I've used LibreOffice since it was only OpenOffice. Remember when it started as StarOffice, the Sun aquesition, the split to LibreOffice, and now the Apache OpenOffice. More history lesson here. Sun purchased the company, Star Division, in 1999 because buying said company for 59.5 million was cheaper than licensing Microsoft Office for 42,000 employees. Even when asked, I’ll still only provide a PDF version of my resume. LOL, yup. I give a pass to the sales applications. But tech applications in anything but PDF get the stink eye from me.

@scottalanmiller I saw some job postings from Basecamp the fitness company be linked to Basecamp the tech company. They're probably trying to autolink stuff together and royally screwing it up.

@Mario-Jakovina said in When Does It Stop Even Being IT: Buyers vs Doers: My point is - I don't see many companies in non-competitive environment I see absolutely tons. Mostly because the market is small. I'll give an example... Crappy restaurant opens in a town of 1,000 residents. It's not horrible, just not very good. Prices are a little high, service slow, a few food items are good, most are blah. They survive because people want a place to eat and they are it. No competition. Logically a competing restaurant will just open up and kill them off, right? Well, no. Because the market doesn't grow with the new restaurant. So someone looking to open a new restaurant says "even if I make a better restaurant I have to compete against an established restaurant with less debt... the potential market for the second restaurant is smaller even if they do better." The second restaurant has a lot of fears... can they really do better than the first one? If they cost less, they have fewer profits to use to compete. If they make better food or have better service, that only causes a certain percentage of people to switch to them. Most people will split their time to some degree between the two, lowering the market share for both. Presumably the established company has less debt and is already up and running and can improve their food, service, and prices before the new restaurant opens - potentially making it impossible to compete, then they can go back once the new one fails. Did the first restaurant get the best choice of real estate and the new one just the second best location? It's actually extremely common in the SMB world for companies to remain without competition because it's often not a market where there is much to any value to competing where someone is already there. Established companies have typically deep pockets to throw at making new start ups in their space fail.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04: @Pete-S said in Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04: @Pete-S said in Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04: @scottalanmiller said in Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04: @Pete-S said in Installing Laravel on Ubuntu 20.04: OK, if you are not running apache or nginx, you should install the php-cli package instead. So that seems to get installed anyway as a dependency on its own. Yes, it does. But by using the php package and not php-cli, you probably got apache installed on your system as well - by dependencies. You could find out by running: apt list --installed | grep apache Or systemctl status apache2 to see if it's running. Even if it was, Laravel uses Artisan's server. I'm guessing they are invoking php's built-in webserver. Regardless, the point is that if you swap php to php-cli in your install guide you don't get apache and other stuff you don't need.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/09/pinebook-pro-elementary-os Elementary OS coming to Pinebook Pro.

@Emad-R said in Testing Zulip: @scottalanmiller I hated zulip for the same thing, sad to hear the Rocketchat. So push notifications is only affecting mobile users or all users ? Mobile users. And all their info is fuzzy. They've not exposed metrics to know what you use, and they keep saying you have to register but even putting in quite a bit of time to do so, I can't find any registration information. Their forums are full of people complaining that there is no transparency, the limits are BS, and nothing works. But that's all the info I can find.

@Dashrender said in Skyetel Postcards - What's Needed: That said - I see both sides of this. non IT/security people just don't seem to give two shits about security and are just as likely to post their SSN on the side of their car as they are to protect it. There is no "both sides of this" at all. This is a business tool. Business tools that are unable to be used in an intelligent fashion are useless. @Skyetel Postcards was waste of hours of my time. I have customers that absolutely would love a simple solution like this to send and receive text messages from their main number. But a crippled solution as Postcards is now is useless to them.

@marcinozga said in Install Skyetel Postcards on CentOS 7: @scottalanmiller said in Install Skyetel Postcards on CentOS 7: @marcinozga said in Install Skyetel Postcards on CentOS 7: @black3dynamite said in Install Skyetel Postcards on CentOS 7: Still preferred fallocate instead of dd to create a swap file? dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=4096 bs=1MiB && chmod 600 /swapfile && mkswap /swapfile && swapon /swapfile && echo "/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0">>/etc/fstab Still using swap file? Memory is cheap. I don't recall a server where I created swap partition or swap file. Memory is NOT cheap, not at all. It is if you own it. If you rent your hardware, yeah, it adds up. Even if I own it, throwing away 2-3GB of RAM makes no sense. Now, if I own it, I can easily assign 4GB of RAM then remove it once installed, by why? That's harder to script and still no benefit. It's a bad habit to see resources as cheap and so waste them just because you can. Extra memory doesn't improve performance, it hurts it (just the tiniest bit). And it's not free, if you always apply twice as much RAM as you use (or four times, here), that gets costly one way or another. Either you wasted money overspeccing in the beginning, or you are stuck buying more now.

@JasGot said in Skyetel Postcards Redirect Issue: I believe ./run.sh restarts all services, and I suspect that includes Nginx. Yes, Nginx is inside a Docker container. But there are three. All you need is... systemctl start docker systemctl enable docker And you are good to go. It's just a process that needs to be started like any other. There's nothing to know about Docker in this instance. Think of it as the server itself, it just needs to be turned on.

@EddieJennings said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10: @Obsolesce said in Use PowerShell to Disable UAC on Windows 10: What special case needs UAC completely off? I'm curious about this as well. Installing malware

@scottalanmiller said in Deploying NodeBB 1.14 on CentOS 8 with MongoDB 4.2: NodeJS 13, @scottalanmiller said in Deploying NodeBB 1.14 on CentOS 8 with MongoDB 4.2: curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | bash - Those two things don't say the same thing.

@StuartJordan said in MeshCentral Web RDP Client: Hey scott, what a great feature...bevgood to see some screenshots We just got it turned on this morning. I see it but haven't had a chance to try it. Will get some.

@scottalanmiller said in MeshCentral Run Commands on Multiple Computers at Once: "Starting with MeshCentral v0.5.85, you can now select "Run Commands" in the group actions or device actions. Allows running shell commands on many devices at once." Wow, this is going to really change the way we use Mesh! Awesome stuff!

@scottalanmiller said in Automated NextCloud Backup to Wasabi or Amazon S3: @VoIP_n00b said in Automated NextCloud Backup to Wasabi or Amazon S3: @scottalanmiller said in Automated NextCloud Backup to Wasabi or Amazon S3: It is indeed. It's running now. How much data? How long is it taking? Note: Use the -P/--progress flag to view real-time transfer statistics 260GB or so, nothing crazy. Not sure, ran it overnight. Also, WTF... Who watches backups real time?

So far the rebuild appears to be still working. It ran all night. No complaints yet.

@brandon220 said in Show Active Users in NextCloud: Mine is on 18.0.5 via the stable channel and shows there is an update to 18.0.6 I ended up with two systems that will not upgrade path 17 all the rest of them are upgraded 18 on the stable channel

@JaredBusch said in Odd Reboot Command in DNF-Automatic Discovered: @scottalanmiller said in Odd Reboot Command in DNF-Automatic Discovered: ExecStartPost The file dates are the same across multiple systems. June 2 and March 31, and that text is not found Yeah. We have never seen it before.

I did some experimenting... but it's not always the case, it depends on what you are doing. But doing this with simple counting results: And for fun lol....