What Are You Doing Right Now
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
breaking free and going retro. ditching o365 and moving off the cloud. keeping stuff local and no longer paying for things I don't use.
i was paying for convenience, but never using it.That's something I'm thinking about as well. The difference is I do use some of the convenience.
Will you back up your data to some kind of external hard drive, or send it off to a cloud provider?
Hahaha. Cloud provider. Nope. It's all on an external disk.
I'm going to schedule an ftp job every whenever to backup my important stuff to a web host somewhere maybe.I don't get much email I need to keep and I do alot communicating via phone, just like everyone I guess.
I measured my inbox and it came to a whopping 1.0x GB which included all folders etc.
I was paying around $AU18.20/mth for the O365 account.
Now I'm paying around $AU19/yr for email hosting at Zoho and just IMAPing it to my PC.
I already had a copy of Office 2016 which I had uninstalled and was using the O365 version. I hardly use that either, only Outlook and Onenote and teeny bit of Word.
Untangling myself from Onedrive and Exchange Online has been a bit of work, lost a few emails and photos & contacts, but nothing world ending.I'd really hate to have to do all that without any real knowledge of Onedrive & Exchange, you'd lose stuff everywhere I reckon.
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I’m curious why you lost anything at all?
Is the non office version of O365 not available to you? That would have significantly lowered your monthly cost and left you with OneDrive for business.
Plus you could have moved to Outlook.com or Gmail for free, then paid like $1/m for onedrive if you wanted -
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
breaking free and going retro. ditching o365 and moving off the cloud. keeping stuff local and no longer paying for things I don't use.
i was paying for convenience, but never using it.That's something I'm thinking about as well. The difference is I do use some of the convenience.
Will you back up your data to some kind of external hard drive, or send it off to a cloud provider?
Yes. (Both).
Files that I regularly use and need sync'd (pics and such from my phone) are on my NextCloud server which is backed up to Wasabi. (~1TB of data right now).
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
breaking free and going retro. ditching o365 and moving off the cloud. keeping stuff local and no longer paying for things I don't use.
i was paying for convenience, but never using it.That's something I'm thinking about as well. The difference is I do use some of the convenience.
Will you back up your data to some kind of external hard drive, or send it off to a cloud provider?
Yes. (Both).
Files that I regularly use and need sync'd (pics and such from my phone) are on my NextCloud server which is backed up to Wasabi. (~1TB of data right now).
And your NextCloud server lives in your home?
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Watching required CompTia Cloud+ videos while waiting for blades to be discovered as they're being moved between chassis.
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Waiting for my Hyperconverged quotes to come in.
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Creating a standard Win10 Install image.
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Trying to figure out how I can use rclone to connect to a remote mac over ssh and sync an external volume to b2. . . because reasons.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
breaking free and going retro. ditching o365 and moving off the cloud. keeping stuff local and no longer paying for things I don't use.
i was paying for convenience, but never using it.That's something I'm thinking about as well. The difference is I do use some of the convenience.
Will you back up your data to some kind of external hard drive, or send it off to a cloud provider?
Yes. (Both).
Files that I regularly use and need sync'd (pics and such from my phone) are on my NextCloud server which is backed up to Wasabi. (~1TB of data right now).
And your NextCloud server lives in your home?
No, that actually lives in my hosted lab... $27 /month for Quad Core, 16GB RAM, 2TB usable (2 x 2TB raid 1) from KimSufi.
The only thing in my home right now that I actually NEED is my Plex server.... but I rclone that to Wasabi too, lol.
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Swapping a service technician's old laptop with a new one. The old one has a dead spot on the screen that looks to be the exact size and shape of a quarter, but they swear that they don't know how it happened...
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Swapping a service technician's old laptop with a new one. The old one has a dead spot on the screen that looks to be the exact size and shape of a quarter, but they swear that they don't know how it happened...
Picture?
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
breaking free and going retro. ditching o365 and moving off the cloud. keeping stuff local and no longer paying for things I don't use.
i was paying for convenience, but never using it.That's something I'm thinking about as well. The difference is I do use some of the convenience.
Will you back up your data to some kind of external hard drive, or send it off to a cloud provider?
Yes. (Both).
Files that I regularly use and need sync'd (pics and such from my phone) are on my NextCloud server which is backed up to Wasabi. (~1TB of data right now).
And your NextCloud server lives in your home?
No, that actually lives in my hosted lab... $27 /month for Quad Core, 16GB RAM, 2TB usable (2 x 2TB raid 1) from KimSufi.
The only thing in my home right now that I actually NEED is my Plex server.... but I rclone that to Wasabi too, lol.
That sounds like the kind of hosting service that might match what I want. I’ll look into it.
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Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
H aha ha. Try again?
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@dafyre Apparently I need more coffee...
Uploaded again and updated post - can you see now?
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dafyre Apparently I need more coffee...
Uploaded again and updated post - can you see now?
I feel your pain, and yeah, it's showing now. I'm still waiting on coffee to kick in myself... and the day is nearly half over for me.
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@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
A new screen might be $12 bucks, what model laptop is it?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
A new screen might be $12 bucks, what model laptop is it?
not even close.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
A new screen might be $12 bucks, what model laptop is it?
not even close.
Yeah depending on the model they usually start around $60.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@srsmith said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Still don't know wtf caused it, but the laptop is a Win 7 refurb from 3+ years ago, so it's just not worth repairing.
A new screen might be $12 bucks, what model laptop is it?
Dell Inspiron N5050. After a quick search, the best prices I have found are $50-60, which is in line with what @JaredBusch and @stacksofplates mentioned above.
This is a bit unbelievable, but I don't need to worry about replacing the screen right now. The service dept. manager just informed me that another technician called in and said that they ran their laptop over with a vehicle and it is now FUBAR'd. They need a replacement tomorrow, and since I am fresh out of spares, they are OK with me issuing this one as-is for now.
