@travisdh1 Thanks Travis. I was thinking about this last night.

I agree, I'd be better off running up a new instance of W11, installing hyper-V and running a Ubuntu VM as well as my W11 workstation so I can switch between the two.

I've played with Proxmox before, It's a good and easy product to use.

Thanks again.

Kicking off a little project to keep me busy.

I'm not a Linux person, but it's time for my 'I wonder if I can use Linux instead of Windows?' project that I do every 10 years or so.

Q1: Can I install Proxmox on Ubuntu desktop?

Q2: I'll be using Proxmox as I'll need to use my W11 PC at work. Is there a better distro than Ubuntu I could use? It must be Windows user friendly.

Q3: Is there a better Hypervisor I could use other than Proxmox?

That's it for now.

Thanks for any help.

monday night, we had the AC on cold coz it was hot.
tuesday night we sat around in long pants and jumpers coz it was cold.

@nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo that's pretty funny.
Going to cause all sorts of fun and games for them.

Over here, all the public schools have a fibre connectionstandard. Not sure about the speed these days but they were all pretty well the same across the entire state.
No room for interesting alternative options like star link.

I would expect that some of them or at least the private schools out in the sticksbare now on NBN Skymuster.

Sorry, I wasn't very clear. It's home accounts with Star Link, all schools have fibre straight into Telstra corporate connection or whatever it's called now.

I'm thinking of getting Star Link, just wondering if it causes a problem accessing ABC iVew and SBS On Demand etc???? I wouldn't think it does, or if it did, I reckon it'd be fixed by now.

Here's something that me be of interest.

Found out that folks down here who use Star Link are assigned US based IP addresses.

Found this out coz when teachers go to log into their Department based authentication thing, they get rejected coz the IP address is not assigned to Australia / APAC etc etc.

Don't know if that is still going on?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We've been using Acer and Asus for a few years now and are SO much happier. Hardware costs a fraction as much and just works. Just bought another laptop this week, $299. Can't beat that. And staff is super happy with that gear.

We use alot of Acer gear in the schools I look after. The only problem we have with it physical. Cases come apart, screws fall out, keyboard keys pop off.

But that's with kids & staff using them who really don't give a rat's ass what happens to them.

They are pretty reliable and loaded with hardware.

I love the Lenovo keyboards though.

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.

Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?

Oh, I'll never buy one of those.

Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.

Why is that my good man?

20 years ago it was because they were Chinese and nothing good ever comes out of China, well 20 years ago that was general mood.

They're still loading spyware via drivers. I'll grant that it's been around a year since I was forced to do a factory install to see it for myself, but at this point they've been so bad for so long they can't be trusted.

How do 'we' they're loading spyware in their drivers?

Do we know what the spyware does?

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.

Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?

Oh, I'll never buy one of those.

Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.

Why is that my good man?

20 years ago it was because they were Chinese and nothing good ever comes out of China, well 20 years ago that was general mood.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

2024 is a "big" year for me in my career...

35 years working in IT and software engineering
25 years at NTG specifically

Wow that makes you feel old. 2024 is the year that I will have had more time working in my career than my dad did in his before retirement! He retired at 34 years in his field (but 38 years total working.) I'll be 35 years in my field (but just 35 years total working.)

First job at 14 in a garage.

First job in electronics, early 80s.

First job in IT in 89.

Ha, that's 35 years as well. Bugger me. I've blasted past My father so have my siblings and with the cost of living on steroids, we all may work into our 70s?

It's a great time to be alive.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.

Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?

Oh, I'll never buy one of those.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo saw you mention the qualifications thing... wondering what you meant. What are "qualifications"? We had certs here in the US market 20+ years ago, but those got discredited after a few years and experience became the only real qualification. Wondering what you are seeing there that are called qualification and isn't experience? That's the opposite of what I've seen.

Yeah, thought that post was a bit too moany, so I canned the post.

Re qualifications, I meant University or College and that really only applies to certain employers. I got my MCSE and back in the day my Novell MCNE, but they made no difference to anything but my knowledge.

I've not progressed to the level of seniority I should be at. I'm a real IT nerd in one way, that being that I go to pieces when in front of more than 3 people, where's my rock, why did I ever leave it?

I can present and articulate very well, but in person, nuh, I'm outta there.

just saying hello and merry christmas or whatever it is to you at this time of year.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

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@RojoLoco WOOHOO, rock n roll, go Melbourne

The more of their stuff I hear, the more they are becoming my favorite band around.

Was in a green room on the weekend, turned around and who was looking at the back of my head but Stuart McKenzie ...

@RojoLoco WOOHOO, rock n roll, go Melbourne

coffee #3, just waiting out the day, need beer.
listening to nick drake.

just thought i'd post something.
got a 4 day weekend (pretty much) coming up this weekend.
sat & sun, then no one goes to work on mon coz the melbourne cup is on, on tue, so that's a public holiday, so i'll be doing bugger all for 4 days.

so, as merle says, '..think i'll just sit here and drink...'
no. those days are over for me.

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Moving from iOS to Android...
Honestly wasn't ready to but events have transpired to move things along.

Not sure how I feel about it.

I liked it when I did it. And then regretted it when the instability and hardware problems came, and the lack of vendor protection. It's weird the things you don't think about in iOS are often the killer features. From an interface and usability standpoint, I liked the Android better.

The whole vendor support thing really irks me, as some vendors support for their phones varies by model.
Luckily(?) I'm got the use of a Pixel phone and updates are good (just got Android 14 today!).

Even Pixel update support sucks monkey ****. They're great at getting updates out for supported devices, but devices are only supported for 3 years from the first day the device was sold in retail. For those of us that don't update phones regularly, that still blows. Apple has Google beat hands down in this area.

I say this while my personal phone is still a Pixel 3a XL. It works fine, but I've been growing more concerned over lack of updates for a while now. While I know I should upgrade, it's working great still.

Root it and install a custom rom? I've done that when I've managed to keep a phone beyond it's usual updates.

I've been looking, but haven't decided on a rom yet.

i've always had android, since smartphones began. just can't make myself get an iphone. now i no longer care, purchasing is based on cost. recently had to get, didn't want to, had to get, a new phone. hard to go past a samsung with more features in it than an iphone for only $AU350.00.

not saying android is better than iOS, I don't care, but I am saying that spending $350 is way better than over $1000.

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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

coffee#2

should i go with a cheap windows vps or zero tier to a home pc?
can get a windows 2019 server with 6gb ram and 2 vcpu for 9.95/month.
hmmm.

To do what?

just mindless testing of this n that and to get around works filtering and proxies

@dafyre ended up going with the VPS, can't always be sure the home pc will be on when i need it.