A few years back I wanted to setup my home WIFI credentials as a QR code for guests, but I think that was before iOS had the built in support, I might revisit this now that I know you just need to point the default camera app at it.

https://qifi.org/

"Mark Answered Elsewhere" in the ring group fixed it. I guess I should have tried that before the long winded post lol...

At least it's documented for others.

@G-I-Jones said in Good Specs to Build a Gaming PC (asking for a friend):

And?

His budget is $1000.

If you have a bit of self control and a firm budget you can build something sub $1000 easily.

This is basically my home PC, add a case and go.
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/LJr9wh

Teamviewer is free for personal use. Not the most popular around here, but I've used it in the past and it used to be solid.

@alex-olynyk said in Router Limits Hardware:

piece of hardware that does parental control

Maybe a pi-hole server with lists to block certain categories?

https://link.ui.com is pretty cool. You select the locations you're trying to link and it estimates the performance you'll get from whatever products it recommends.

I had no clue there were community guidelines

The infographic one looks like a placemat for a restaurant or something crazy... "Yep, here's my resume on a 24"x36" print for you"

Thanks for the welcome @scottalanmiller & @dafyre!

Not sure how I found my way here, but I love the high quality discussion so far. Been semi-lurking SW for a few years, I'm assuming that's the connection.

I've been using a Webroot 5-PC license for a couple years now. I keep it on my mine and my wife's computers and some immediate family member's computers that have no idea what they're doing. Phone calls for support have pretty much stopped since implementing this plan.

@scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:

OMG I want to do that. Make hilarious placemats of my face for no reason. Have random info about me. And pay diners to use them as placemats.

Ad space with the local real estate guys face right under where your glass goes. That's totally what this resume is

@dashrender said in Comcast just told me to call WOW:

It might be on Sling.. now I have to manage a DVR thing though..
Does the DVR manage the sling box itself?

I think you may be confusing this with the Sling boxes that would replicate your physical cable box connections to other devices/apps.

This SlingTV is a live (and some on-demand) content service that carries popular cable channels (TNT, ESPN, etc.) You bring your own connection and device, and it gives you access to whatever channels are in the package you subscribe to.

When is VMWare ever the recommended option for a new setup?? Is it ever?

I'm not considering it or anything, I'm just curious.

@travisdh1 This one?

AirDrop for contacts only is key here

vMotion appears to copy the state of a VM from host A to host B, while keeping the VM "live", if host A crashed while running 5 VMs, as stated above, how could it fail over to host B instantaneously in the same exact state?

@dustinb3403 Normally cell phone, but god damn was it slow yesterday. We were back in the dark ages yesterday :smiling_face_with_open_mouth_closed_eyes:

What does this company do if there's a fire and they lose everything? Are they hoping the owners took the servers home with them? The whole conversation is ridiculous.

@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:

Agree. I think Dustin missed my point. vMotion offers little more than the standard move feature in the free hyper-v.

From the whitepaper, there needs to be shared storage for this... which makes sense.
"First, the entire state of a virtual machine is encapsulated by a set
of files stored on shared storage such as Fibre Channel or iSCSI
Storage Area Network (SAN) or Network Attached Storage (NAS).
VMware’s clustered Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) allows
multiple installations of ESX Server to access the same virtual
machine files concurrently."

@dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Unifi LED - Dimmer Switch
https://unifi-led.ubnt.com/

This seems like a silly product to me... People are seriously going to buy a bunch of high power PoE switches to power lights?
The biggest Unifi Switch is 750w, you could power 30 of these lights with that, and nothing else.