@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
sitting in a slightly darkened room starting tuesday.
milder than it should be. 'they' say it's going to be a warmer winter than usual with less rain.had the 2 yearly pay review last week. got an extra buck twenty an hour, so that's an extra 0.60 per hour extra for the past 2 years.
i was earning more in the 90s. anyone else in that bag?
Not now, but that was me between 2014-2022.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I do not like how it embeds YouTube now, though. Eww
The new dark mode.... ewe.
Cyborg is the least bad, it'll take me a bit to get used to the new look.
I've been on hold with AT&T all freaking morning.
@Mario-Jakovina said in Should I give my SSN to a U.S. Senator?:
I am not US citizen, but I do not see what is a big deal about giving your SSN to anybody?
Isn't it just a unique number of a citizen in public records? It is not some secret code, right?
They're not even unique!
SSN are not supposed to be used as an ID, but they are used as a form of ID a LOT.
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Fedora 38 released a few days ago. Debating a clean install on my desktop instead of an upgrade.
I've tinkered with so much crap, I just want to start clean.
My dad installed it on release day and I got it up the day after. So far so good.
I can upgrade right now.. but I want a clean system.
but i was also lazy about organizing my dot files of some applications I want settings saved for..Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.
Did you make /home a separate mount point? If so, just formant and install on the current root.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Coffee time. Deleting spammers. Uploading videos. How y'all doin'?
Good day for me, booked a BnB for our anniversary.
Nice, where are you headed?
Just North Canton, so only like 15 minutes away. Probably not "going out" so much since it's anniversary time.
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Coffee time. Deleting spammers. Uploading videos. How y'all doin'?
Good day for me, booked a BnB for our anniversary.
@Jaguar said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
At the ENT with wife and baby, finding out if she needs tubes in her ears
I'd be completely deaf today without those ear tubes as a kid.
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Rochester, NY's Frontier Communications, a major fiber carrier in the US, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/frontier-declares-bankruptcy/ar-AA19GDNS
lol “expects to continue providing quality service”, might help if you had quality service in the first place.
@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Celebrating, if you will, 1 year at the new gig today
Congrats, I just had my 1 year at my job as well.
@scottalanmiller said in Email 101: How It Really Works SAMIT Series:
Starting a new series deep diving into email and what it really is, how it really works, protocols, myth busting, security, and more.
I never realized how much I needed this reference!
@scottalanmiller said in Beelink PC issues:
My kids still have an i7 6th Gen from 2015 that they use. It runs, but it is OLD and you can tell when using it. It's slow. But functional.
They replaced that i7 6th gen with one of these Beelinks, in fact, lol.
My personal gaming CPU is still an i7-3770. Still does ok, but starting to show it's age. That was released in 2012.
Got to deal with realizing I'm triple booked next Thursday, and never got a notification on 2 of the installs today.
@scottalanmiller said in Windows 2022 Disk Defrag Freezing System:
@Obsolesce said in Windows 2022 Disk Defrag Freezing System:
You should never Defrag SSDs except for very specific reasons.
Which is why it is surprising that in the SSD era, Windows 2022 has it on by default.
Has Microsoft changed how they handle TRIM yet? I know years ago they only ran TRIM when defrag was run. Why? Because Microsoft is still that bad at managing storage.
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading through income tax return.
We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.
what is her goal?
Refund.... she's used to getting a large refund.
Of course I think we came out real close to right.
She realized that's insane - right? hell - you want to owe every year so YOU get the interest free loan instead of the gov't.... Of course - you PLAN for that and save money to pay when it's time...
Preaching to the quire here @Dashrender
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I had someone recently tell me that their CIO wanted to use Vmware over KVM because, and you can't make this stuff up, they liked "working with the biggest vendor."
Literally, they didn't care if it made sense for the purpose, they didn't care if it was reliable or cost effective, they didn't care if it was secure. They literally only wanted to know which product was made by the largest company. No IT factor considered.
And then, as incompetent as that is, with only a single thing to research; with no need to check on features, cost, licensing, support, price, or other complicated factors; they got the ONLY thing that they were considering wrong.
KVM is made by IBM at about $63bn USD. VMware is made by Broadcom at about $21bn USD. IBM is roughly three times the size. And IBM is the KIND of company that should make hypervisors, Broadcom really isn't. But that aside, no matter how insane it would be to consider market cap or revenue of a vendor as the determination of product applicability to a company, they got that one, insanely simple task, ass backwards.
When you are THAT dumb, it is pervasive. If you are dumb enough to thing company size matters in some significant way, you are also so clueless as not to be able to determine company size.
I've run into that attitude a LOT.
@Jimmy9008 said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:
@Dashrender said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:
Sounds like all the bases have been covered.
It's unrealistic to work with files of that size (even 10 GB files are unrealistic to work on from cloud).
As Pete said - show the owners the time it takes to move the data, then show them the cost of a potential VDI solution with hosted storage - your solution of a NAS will quickly be back on the table with backups to cloud.
I have been doing some research and am interested in this company, they seem to have both storage in cloud and editing via browser. Any thoughts on this, or better alternatives?
Does anybody know if Adobe has a similar entirely cloud solution for video editing? When I go to their site I find it a mess and confusing.
Frankly, that site has no real useful information after a very quick look. It's all marketing fluff and no pricing listed anywhere, which tells me the price is crazy high. It might make sense, but most likely not.
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading through income tax return.
We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.
what is her goal?
Refund.... she's used to getting a large refund.
Of course I think we came out real close to right.
@IRJ said in Marketing - Video Editing Storage:
What kind of marketing department is this? A movie firm? It seems insane to have video files average 10-20gb. Even high budget commercials are probably only that size.. Is this a bunch of templates or something?
I would be interested in understanding their work flow, as it seems very extravagant to have such large files and so many of them?
Raw video is easily that large. It's not final cut and transcode that it becomes manageable.
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading through income tax return.
We ended up having to pay a little for Fed, and got very little back from state. All around close to even, but still enough to annoy the wife.