@scottalanmiller said in Small office replacement network:

@AdamF What hasn't made you happy with Unifi? That's what I'd be deploying.

The APs are still good.

However, Unifi routers aren't that great, and their network switches are more expensive than the competition. Edgerouters seem to have been silently discontinued. I really like the Edgerouters, but am not confident they'll be getting needed updates going forward. I'm at a point where I'd just pick a router without integrated wifi and call it good.

For a network switch, I'd consider looking at used gear. For work, we use old Juniper gear all the time, they're rock solid all the way back to EX2200 models. If you care about warranty, you could pickup a used HPE.

There is something to be said for ease of usability/management. I think Ubiquiti makes some products that would do almost everything you need in 2 products that you would manage together. The time savings could well be worth it for a small one-off place like this.

@popester said in Ubiquity U-LTE:

My brand new U-LTE cellular failover device from Ubiquity appears to have lost its APN setting. I guess default is not the Dallas Fort Worth metro plex in texas. It is the one that AT&T has its hooks into, or at least from what i understand. Has this happened to someone else? I can get into the config but do not want to touch any settings for fear of doing more harm than good. I reached out to Ubiquity Support and they shot back that I needed to get the correct settings for the device from AT&T. Not real sure how to do that. Have found lots of information. Since i am paying ubiquity a monthly charge for the service I am not sure who to reach out to. Anyway. Any help would be appreciated.

Have you had any contact with AT&T, or was it all Ubiquity?

I deal with cellular data things as the majority of my work now, so I may be able to help.

This process was simpler than the official instructions make it. I'm using the unlicensed repository.

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Upgrade_from_7_to_8

When you get to the section about updating repositories, only the first update is necessary.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Public notice to all of the bots that try to sign up here... if you sign up with HotMail or Proton mail, we know you're a bot. LOL

Stop making me want to use my old hotmail account!

@openit said in If starting from scratch, would you suggest learning BASH or Ansible?:

Hi there,

While I'm preparing for RedHat certification, I was thinking to learn BASH, for general use and also exam has requirement to write simple bash scripts.

But, in long run and to be more efficient, I feel deep learning of Ansible is better than BASH? If I left BASH, and go with Ansible do I lose anything? I assume Ansible covers what BASH can do?

Appreciate your suggestions.

I don't think that's an either/or question, it's which one should I learn first. Ansible is so good because it doesn't try to do everything for you, it does a lot for sure, but not everything. Knowing both BASH and Ansible lets you automate anything you could possibly want to do.

If starting from scratch, I'd say to learn the basics of BASH. Then really dig into Ansible. I think you'll find that if you use Ansible to it's full potential, you'll also have to learn to use the shell (BASH is only one.)

@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.

Youtube Video

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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@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.

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