What Are You Doing Right Now
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My Surface is one of the Samsung 123L01 models and it's just begun to exhibit the flickergate symptoms. Because it was in my saddlebag when I crashed, the screen is cracked and it's really too old to care much about any more, so I've got to replace the whole thing. Upgrade time! In like, 4 months. Bleh.
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@openit said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sometimes, I really get excited to try new things like Zabbix now, Grafana soon, even by ignoring the real work
even if not I'm good at linux/ open source things, I feel, being in touch with Open Source things, I have enthusiasm to try new things....?
We use it already extensively and have a project underway to get even more. We have Zabbix five on hundreds of nodes today, thousands soon. It's been very good. Replacing all other RMM with it currently.
So you installed Zabbix on hundreads of nodes since May 12? Did you just got rid of the Salt agents you had before?
We have been removing Salt, for now, but that's unrelated. Salt is a remote control system. Zabbix is a remote monitoring system. It's replacing the RMM that a lot of our customers are on (mix of Itarian and Ninja.)
okay, RMM ususally also have Remote access but I understand.
We removed that from our RMM a while ago. We never used the two together, but yes, that's common.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My Surface is one of the Samsung 123L01 models and it's just begun to exhibit the flickergate symptoms. Because it was in my saddlebag when I crashed, the screen is cracked and it's really too old to care much about any more, so I've got to replace the whole thing. Upgrade time! In like, 4 months. Bleh.
I'm saddled with a surface right now. The thing would be a decent mobile solution, but they chose the slowest possible HDD when they made these models (I think it's a 2). Totally ruins an otherwise okish experience. They're still priced like a high-end thing, so 100% do not recommend.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My Surface is one of the Samsung 123L01 models and it's just begun to exhibit the flickergate symptoms. Because it was in my saddlebag when I crashed, the screen is cracked and it's really too old to care much about any more, so I've got to replace the whole thing. Upgrade time! In like, 4 months. Bleh.
I'm saddled with a surface right now. The thing would be a decent mobile solution, but they chose the slowest possible HDD when they made these models (I think it's a 2). Totally ruins an otherwise okish experience. They're still priced like a high-end thing, so 100% do not recommend.
I'm on the opposite end of your experience. I had a 1 and a 2. I had been using an old Dell that weighed somewhere in the metric fucktons and moving to the 1 was a dream. I did all my Spiceworks training off it and the two. I migrated to the 4 a few years ago, and bought my wife the 3 a little before that. All were/are great machines. Even now, my surface with the screen flicker still works (if I keep it cool). I think your purchasing department may have made some poor decisions if you got the base model, which is absolutely an underperformer and no one should get that. You can get some really good cpu and drive combos in the current line, and they perform well in the ᵗᶦⁿᶦᵉˢᵗ form factor. I have no problems using my surface on a plane where others may struggle. If you're expecting a gaming machine, then you need to go big with the surface laptop, which has a discrete video card. Otherwise, I would say you and others that use the systems (VDI, Surface, iPads, Pi) always find something to complain about because it doesn't meet whatever needs you think you have. In reality, you're using a system and getting the job done, even if you feel that the extra i/o is impacting your 30 ms of work day.
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@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My Surface is one of the Samsung 123L01 models and it's just begun to exhibit the flickergate symptoms. Because it was in my saddlebag when I crashed, the screen is cracked and it's really too old to care much about any more, so I've got to replace the whole thing. Upgrade time! In like, 4 months. Bleh.
I'm saddled with a surface right now. The thing would be a decent mobile solution, but they chose the slowest possible HDD when they made these models (I think it's a 2). Totally ruins an otherwise okish experience. They're still priced like a high-end thing, so 100% do not recommend.
I'm on the opposite end of your experience. I had a 1 and a 2. I had been using an old Dell that weighed somewhere in the metric fucktons and moving to the 1 was a dream. I did all my Spiceworks training off it and the two. I migrated to the 4 a few years ago, and bought my wife the 3 a little before that. All were/are great machines. Even now, my surface with the screen flicker still works (if I keep it cool). I think your purchasing department may have made some poor decisions if you got the base model, which is absolutely an underperformer and no one should get that. You can get some really good cpu and drive combos in the current line, and they perform well in the ᵗᶦⁿᶦᵉˢᵗ form factor. I have no problems using my surface on a plane where others may struggle. If you're expecting a gaming machine, then you need to go big with the surface laptop, which has a discrete video card. Otherwise, I would say you and others that use the systems (VDI, Surface, iPads, Pi) always find something to complain about because it doesn't meet whatever needs you think you have. In reality, you're using a system and getting the job done, even if you feel that the extra i/o is impacting your 30 ms of work day.
The I/O is so bad that it takes at least 15 minutes of my time every day on average. I agree that someone got a model they shouldn't have, but Microsoft is still charging a huge premium for poor hardare. If you're going to charge Apple prices, I expect the same sort of baseline performance, and this isn't it. Glad you like yours, and the form factor is good, but form factors that are just as good for less money exist.
I'm not gaming on this thing, just web browsers for when I'm working remotely. It still takes minutes to wake from sleep mode.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@openit said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sometimes, I really get excited to try new things like Zabbix now, Grafana soon, even by ignoring the real work
even if not I'm good at linux/ open source things, I feel, being in touch with Open Source things, I have enthusiasm to try new things....?
We use it already extensively and have a project underway to get even more. We have Zabbix five on hundreds of nodes today, thousands soon. It's been very good. Replacing all other RMM with it currently.
I've installed version 5 to look at getting more out of it, like finally getting the agent on all Windows server and Linux server VM's. Then using SNMP on more network devices like switches, routers, AP
Also installed Grafana to have a look at soon.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My Surface is one of the Samsung 123L01 models and it's just begun to exhibit the flickergate symptoms. Because it was in my saddlebag when I crashed, the screen is cracked and it's really too old to care much about any more, so I've got to replace the whole thing. Upgrade time! In like, 4 months. Bleh.
I'm saddled with a surface right now. The thing would be a decent mobile solution, but they chose the slowest possible HDD when they made these models (I think it's a 2). Totally ruins an otherwise okish experience. They're still priced like a high-end thing, so 100% do not recommend.
I'm on the opposite end of your experience. I had a 1 and a 2. I had been using an old Dell that weighed somewhere in the metric fucktons and moving to the 1 was a dream. I did all my Spiceworks training off it and the two. I migrated to the 4 a few years ago, and bought my wife the 3 a little before that. All were/are great machines. Even now, my surface with the screen flicker still works (if I keep it cool). I think your purchasing department may have made some poor decisions if you got the base model, which is absolutely an underperformer and no one should get that. You can get some really good cpu and drive combos in the current line, and they perform well in the ᵗᶦⁿᶦᵉˢᵗ form factor. I have no problems using my surface on a plane where others may struggle. If you're expecting a gaming machine, then you need to go big with the surface laptop, which has a discrete video card. Otherwise, I would say you and others that use the systems (VDI, Surface, iPads, Pi) always find something to complain about because it doesn't meet whatever needs you think you have. In reality, you're using a system and getting the job done, even if you feel that the extra i/o is impacting your 30 ms of work day.
The I/O is so bad that it takes at least 15 minutes of my time every day on average. I agree that someone got a model they shouldn't have, but Microsoft is still charging a huge premium for poor hardare. If you're going to charge Apple prices, I expect the same sort of baseline performance, and this isn't it. Glad you like yours, and the form factor is good, but form factors that are just as good for less money exist.
I'm not gaming on this thing, just web browsers for when I'm working remotely. It still takes minutes to wake from sleep mode.
Apple prices? The baseline Surface Pro with Keyboard is like $999, I think you can get an apple phone for that - can you get one of their macbooks?
but yeah, that $999 model is definitely the one to avoid, of course they put low end shit in there - they don't want you to buy it, they want you in the $1300 unit.
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I'm deploying 6 Surface Pro 7's tomorrow - We'll see how they go.
my wife had a surface pro 5 for years - loved it, had very little problems, if any.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My Surface is one of the Samsung 123L01 models and it's just begun to exhibit the flickergate symptoms. Because it was in my saddlebag when I crashed, the screen is cracked and it's really too old to care much about any more, so I've got to replace the whole thing. Upgrade time! In like, 4 months. Bleh.
I'm saddled with a surface right now. The thing would be a decent mobile solution, but they chose the slowest possible HDD when they made these models (I think it's a 2). Totally ruins an otherwise okish experience. They're still priced like a high-end thing, so 100% do not recommend.
I'm on the opposite end of your experience. I had a 1 and a 2. I had been using an old Dell that weighed somewhere in the metric fucktons and moving to the 1 was a dream. I did all my Spiceworks training off it and the two. I migrated to the 4 a few years ago, and bought my wife the 3 a little before that. All were/are great machines. Even now, my surface with the screen flicker still works (if I keep it cool). I think your purchasing department may have made some poor decisions if you got the base model, which is absolutely an underperformer and no one should get that. You can get some really good cpu and drive combos in the current line, and they perform well in the ᵗᶦⁿᶦᵉˢᵗ form factor. I have no problems using my surface on a plane where others may struggle. If you're expecting a gaming machine, then you need to go big with the surface laptop, which has a discrete video card. Otherwise, I would say you and others that use the systems (VDI, Surface, iPads, Pi) always find something to complain about because it doesn't meet whatever needs you think you have. In reality, you're using a system and getting the job done, even if you feel that the extra i/o is impacting your 30 ms of work day.
The I/O is so bad that it takes at least 15 minutes of my time every day on average. I agree that someone got a model they shouldn't have, but Microsoft is still charging a huge premium for poor hardare. If you're going to charge Apple prices, I expect the same sort of baseline performance, and this isn't it. Glad you like yours, and the form factor is good, but form factors that are just as good for less money exist.
I'm not gaming on this thing, just web browsers for when I'm working remotely. It still takes minutes to wake from sleep mode.
Apple prices? The baseline Surface Pro with Keyboard is like $999, I think you can get an apple phone for that - can you get one of their macbooks?
but yeah, that $999 model is definitely the one to avoid, of course they put low end shit in there - they don't want you to buy it, they want you in the $1300 unit.
Yep, MacBook Air starts at $999 as well.
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used kindle reader on my phone last night, first time ever used it. better than I thought it'd be. It could become a thing.
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@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@openit said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sometimes, I really get excited to try new things like Zabbix now, Grafana soon, even by ignoring the real work
even if not I'm good at linux/ open source things, I feel, being in touch with Open Source things, I have enthusiasm to try new things....?
We use it already extensively and have a project underway to get even more. We have Zabbix five on hundreds of nodes today, thousands soon. It's been very good. Replacing all other RMM with it currently.
I've installed version 5 to look at getting more out of it, like finally getting the agent on all Windows server and Linux server VM's. Then using SNMP on more network devices like switches, routers, AP
Also installed Grafana to have a look at soon.
Sounds good and trying the same. Share some pics, once you pipe Zabbix collection to Grafana, to see how attractive it is
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@openit said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sometimes, I really get excited to try new things like Zabbix now, Grafana soon, even by ignoring the real work
even if not I'm good at linux/ open source things, I feel, being in touch with Open Source things, I have enthusiasm to try new things....?
We use it already extensively and have a project underway to get even more. We have Zabbix five on hundreds of nodes today, thousands soon. It's been very good. Replacing all other RMM with it currently.
So you installed Zabbix on hundreads of nodes since May 12? Did you just got rid of the Salt agents you had before?
We have been removing Salt, for now, but that's unrelated. Salt is a remote control system. Zabbix is a remote monitoring system. It's replacing the RMM that a lot of our customers are on (mix of Itarian and Ninja.)
ITarian, oh my god, other level of Lie, Free Forever
After being a Beta for longer, left it and started using Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard, is simple and better. -
@openit said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sounds good and trying the same. Share some pics, once you pipe Zabbix collection to Grafana, to see how attractive it is
This is one of the default
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anybody have Advice on actually getting decent sleep?
for the last 2 days i got a total of 8hours of sleep and I can't keep doing only 4 hours a night.. -
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
anybody have Advice on actually getting decent sleep?
for the last 2 days i got a total of 8hours of sleep and I can't keep doing only 4 hours a night..https://www.grc.com/health/sleep/healthy_sleep_formula.htm has worked well for me.
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@WrCombs I used to have that problem a lot. What helped me was drinking lots more water, quit using electronics an hour before I went to bed, and doing relaxing things like reading before you go to sleep.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
anybody have Advice on actually getting decent sleep?
for the last 2 days i got a total of 8hours of sleep and I can't keep doing only 4 hours a night..https://www.grc.com/health/sleep/healthy_sleep_formula.htm has worked well for me.
Are the ingredients back in stock?
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
anybody have Advice on actually getting decent sleep?
for the last 2 days i got a total of 8hours of sleep and I can't keep doing only 4 hours a night..https://www.grc.com/health/sleep/healthy_sleep_formula.htm has worked well for me.
I'll give it a shot, thanks.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Grey said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My Surface is one of the Samsung 123L01 models and it's just begun to exhibit the flickergate symptoms. Because it was in my saddlebag when I crashed, the screen is cracked and it's really too old to care much about any more, so I've got to replace the whole thing. Upgrade time! In like, 4 months. Bleh.
I'm saddled with a surface right now. The thing would be a decent mobile solution, but they chose the slowest possible HDD when they made these models (I think it's a 2). Totally ruins an otherwise okish experience. They're still priced like a high-end thing, so 100% do not recommend.
Thankfully we use Surfaces / Surfacebooks where I work, so I've had a chance to deal with them live and know to never spend my own money on one.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
anybody have Advice on actually getting decent sleep?
for the last 2 days i got a total of 8hours of sleep and I can't keep doing only 4 hours a night..I bought a new sleep number bed 5/18. It's been good for me. I like that it adjusts for firmness when I move from a side to back position, keeping my spine straighter. It's really helped.
