Posts made by brandon220

Upgrading my NC instance to 19.0.1 Decided to cobble together an older PC with Fedora 32 Server and found out the NIC is bad from a lightning strike. Hours wasted gathering parts even though it was for nothing important. I think my vga port in my host died too. Guess it is time to upgrade.

@jmoore said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Are you all hosting Nextcloud yourself or remote ?

Hosting myself as a vm behind a proxy vm. Actually have a few installs set up this way.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller @dafyre That is the reason I was questioning it. The last few updates I ran (18.x.x) I didn't see the Collabora, etc that is supposed to be "baked-in" as they advertise. I agree that they are supposed to be the same product. I just don not see an obvious difference. An example is that I don't see the "new document" option like there is if you integrate Only Office.

AFAIK, That Collabora was only baked in to 19. I'm using OnlyOffice, myself. I may give Collabora a shot now that it's an app.

I'm not finding it. I had no idea it was even being considered to bake in.

In the promo video on the NC site is says "Collabora is baked-in and ready to use"

@dafyre I gave up on OnlyOffice integration. It was a train wreck. Was never able to get it to work behind https. I spent many hours on it too. Read every document I could find. I don't care for Docker either.

@dafyre I'll have to do the upgrade to 19.x All the info on their site made it appear it was supposed to change with version 18. I could have misread it though....

@scottalanmiller @dafyre That is the reason I was questioning it. The last few updates I ran (18.x.x) I didn't see the Collabora, etc that is supposed to be "baked-in" as they advertise. I agree that they are supposed to be the same product. I just don not see an obvious difference. An example is that I don't see the "new document" option like there is if you integrate Only Office.

Has anyone upgraded to Nextcloud 19 yet? Does it upgrade to the "Hub" version?

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Read a few articles that discussed virt-manager being deprecated by RedHat and Cockpit being the replacement. Hopefully that means that Cockpit will get more features with the cockpit-machines package.

If you want keep up with Cockpit develop, you will need to use Fedora. You'll always get the latest stable with Fedora. You'll even get the next version just by upgrading the package.

All of my servers are Fedora. I have a laptop and a desktop on Fedora Workstation. Been this way since F24 I believe.

Read a few articles that discussed virt-manager being deprecated by RedHat and Cockpit being the replacement. Hopefully that means that Cockpit will get more features with the cockpit-machines package.

Finishing up my Fedora 32 install on my laptop. So far, everything is running good.

Whiskey Sour last night, margaritas tonight.

@jmoore I will utter these words: "Because that is the way we've always done it". I can't even explain the difficulty I have trying to get some people to even try a different solution for anything.

Same goes for printers. If someone has to walk more than 3 steps to get to a printer, they complain. It blows my mind how much gets printed and then shredded. Or, better yet - printed, then scanned to a file, and then shredded. I wish I were joking. Paperless is a bad word among the people I work with.

I could go on and on.....

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If you have all this stuff - it's because management at your company made the choice to have it - they choose to continue to use Windows.

Yup, I have to say, as a company owner, every other business owner / CEO / CIO out there has to decide how they perceive their company, where they spend their money, if they are going to use Windows. When it's our own money, we don't use Windows. No one has to use Windows, it's always a choice. Sometimes it's a good one, sometimes it's a bad one, but it's always a choice and there is no such thing as being stuck with it. As IT pros, yes, we are often stuck working for companies that have someone in charge of IT that demands it. So we get stuck. But any business running Windows does so exclusively because whoever is in charge chose it and continues to choose it.

We feel that we can't choose it and respect ourselves and our staff. It's full of bloat, it's just a freaking joke. Microsoft clearly doesn't think of their customers as businesses, why should we fight that?

It is even harder to get away from when your core business relies on its software vendors that are MS only. Just like MS Office - I haven't used it in at least 4 years but some people act like they cannot function without it. Especially when they are just using it for a general word processor and email client. All the Excel "experts" you come across are only using about .05% of its capability. The list goes on ....

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Now that said - I'm wondering how much of that crap comes back when you go from a decrapified 1903 to 1909? or 2004? those two "upgrades" are not really upgrades, more like service packs, and generally take 10 or less to install, unlike past ones that took hours.

I installed the 2004 update 3 times this morning and it all came back.

Yes, Windows itself is bloatware now. And we classify Teams as malware (it meets every definition I've ever seen). The only solution there is moving away from a bloatware/malware platform. Starting with Windows, if you don't like the Windows ecosystem, will never make for a happy result.

Yes, not sure why anyone wants to use Teams.

@scottalanmiller I never thought of it that way....

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Now that said - I'm wondering how much of that crap comes back when you go from a decrapified 1903 to 1909? or 2004? those two "upgrades" are not really upgrades, more like service packs, and generally take 10 or less to install, unlike past ones that took hours.

I installed the 2004 update 3 times this morning and it all came back.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I hear ya - but that has nothing to do with the hardware manufacturer (unless you're buying MS hardware) and everything to do with Microsoft - so not sure how that relates to how you want to buy a system with no OS?

I'm referring to the reasons why I want to be rid of Windows. I just hate having to pay for MS license if it is not going to be used. That is all.

@Dashrender I am just tired of all the garbage that gets installed with every update, and every time a new user logs in. If I remove all of the bloatware, and then do a release upgrade - it all comes back. Updates take forever and fail more often than not. I am referring to higher priced workstations too. Still takes way too long. The whole update process is a failure.

I don't need a Phone Plans app, an XBox App, A My Phone App, etc. The list goes on.

@wirestyle22 My MIL lives across the street. I am a PRO at ignoring her. Don't even know she is there. She rarely comes over too. If she does, I just go to my shop.

@scottalanmiller Yes, I would expect the unit to be 100% functioning and all the hardware verified. I can buy a server with no disks, no OS, etc, and I am sure they still tested the hardware before shipping. If I buy a Server from HPE or Dell with no disks, they can't ship it to me with FreeDOS pre-installed.