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@scottalanmiller said in Happy Birthday Thread:

Happy Birthday to @Dominica

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Steve Bannon charged with fraud over Mexico wall funds

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon has been arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.
Mr Bannon and three others defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors in connection with the "We Build the Wall" campaign, which raised $25m (£19m), the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said. Mr Bannon received more than $1m, at least some of which he used to cover personal expenses, the DoJ said. He is due to appear in court later. Mr Bannon was a key architect of Donald Trump's 2016 presidential election victory. His right-wing anti-immigration ideology fuelled Mr Trump's "America First" campaign.

lol. House Trump going down in flames.

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@Grey said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

https://xkcd.com/2347/

<img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency.png" alt="Dependency"/>

Did you read about NTP?

I've seen some headlines, but haven't read up on the latest news.

One guy maintains it.

One more episode left of Watchmen. I caught up on Umbrella Academy in 2 days, having already seen the first season. Time travel is so weird!

@scottalanmiller said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

Sometimes, the art is so good that eating it seems criminal.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

tuesday arvo beers

I haven't heard of that brand. Is it a PILsner?

(yes, I know that Aussie slang, but I'm trying to be funny on the internet and make a pun).

@travisdh1 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

https://xkcd.com/2347/

<img src="https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency.png" alt="Dependency"/>

Did you read about NTP?

@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

I've been using Hyper-V for a while, almost exclusively. I use it at work, and for other clients. I have not found a good enough reason to switch over to another hypervisor. Sadly, its the only real reason I still keep a Windows laptop - to manage Hyper-V. Windows Admin Center is a dumpster fire IMO. All my HV installs are non-GUI.

You can install pwsh on linux and then use powershell to your nano hyper-v.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just noticed, we've passed the two million unique users all time point!

Congratulations! Now purge all the fake accounts and how many are left?

@nadnerB said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Mozilla cuts 250 jobs, says Firefox development will be affected

Mozilla reduces investment in developer tools and platform feature development.
Mozilla Corporation is laying off 250 people, about a quarter of its workforce, explaining that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly lowered revenue. Mozilla previously had about 1,000 employees. The Firefox maker's CEO, Mitchell Baker, announced the job cuts yesterday, writing that "economic conditions resulting from the global pandemic have significantly impacted our revenue. As a result, our pre-COVID plan was no longer workable." In a memo sent to employees, Baker said the 250 job cuts include "closing our current operations in Taipei, Taiwan." The layoffs will reduce Mozilla's workforce in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Another 60 people will be reassigned to different teams.

I figured that they had no more than twenty people, total. What the heck do all of those people do?

Bake cakes to send to Microsoft?

The hell? Because of edge?

Get off my lawn.

https://news.softpedia.com/news/why-microsoft-google-and-mozilla-send-each-other-cakes-after-launching-browsers-528960.shtml

The whole tradition was actually started by Microsoft back in 2006. At that time, Firefox was still in its early days, but the release of version 2 was seen by the Redmond-based software giant as the right occasion to congratulate its emerging rival on the release of a new browser.

Shortly after Firefox 2 became available for download, the Internet Explorer team sent Mozilla a cake with a special message: “Congratulations on shipping! Love, the IE team.”

Did the cake from IE arrive on time?

https://www.cnet.com/features/microsofts-surface-duo-could-be-revolutionary-or-a-two-screen-disaster-phone/

@brandon220 said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

My idea is:

Option 1:
Set up a new raid10 volume on my host with my spare drive bays.
Install a new VM (Fedora 32 server) with 16 Tb of storage and Plex on that same VM.
This way, the data never leaves the host and has maximum efficiency.
OR

Option 2:
Set up a new raid10 volume on my host with my spare drive bays.
Install a new VM (Fedora 32 server) as a "NAS" with NFS shares for content.
Point existing Plex Vm at the new NAS.
Data would traverse network between 2 hosts unless Plex was migrated to other host.

I have option 2, but CentOS 7 and only one host with all my guests.

@WrCombs said in What Are You Watching Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Watching Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Watching Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Watching Now:

Warrior Nun on Netflix.

Just started this last night thanks to Netflix "shuffle Watch"

Don't know Shuttle Watch, but Warrior Nun was decent.

Shuffle watch for netflix is basically : We'll look at your interests and pick something we think you'll like.
You can use infinite shuffles until you find something to watch.

Someone said that they used it and ended up Episode 12 Season 6 of Supernatural and they had to restart.
But for me it started me Ep.1 S1 of Warrior Nun.

This happened to me when I was in the hospital for my gall bladder removal. I wound up stuck there a week and by then I was hooked so I had to watch the entire thing from the start.

@scottalanmiller DBAs. There is still a prevalence of thought that they must have lots of separate drives for any number of purposes. These 'drives' all go to the same two or three luns, and some drives are in the same datastore, so.... splitting drives is just splitting hairs. It makes it easier to see database size, though a good DBA should be able to manage that without complication.

@JaredBusch Believe me or not. He wanted smaller SSDs for a SAN because #reasons, and this was his primary concern.

Just had a DBA tell me to get small SSD drives so that the drive search on the platters won't have to move as much to get data.

@JaredBusch said in Redoing Home Network:

@Grey said in Redoing Home Network:

Either get an AP that matches the rest of the system, or get the rest of the Ubiquiti equipment.

FFS, are you on crack?

EdgeMax is Ubiquiti equipment.

The EdgeMax line has no wireless at all. So you have to provide a separate device for an access point.

Ok, I should have been more clear in that. I wouldn't go to a product line that not designed for home use.

@jmoore said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

What is Tencent?

Based in Shenzhen and founded in 1998, the Chinese company Tencent enjoys huge popularity - and profits - in China.
Its cute penguin symbol is as familiar to Chinese children as the McDonalds "golden arches" logo is to children in the West, says the BBC's China media analyst Kerry Allen. "Tencent is thought of as so much more than just a Chinese company in China - it has gained a reputation as a family-friendly organisation that connects families, friends and work colleagues in a digital age," she said. "It has a business model that other Chinese companies can only envy - it can reach an audience of, basically, everyone." But many people in the West have never heard of it. That doesn't mean it isn't present in our everyday lives, though - Tencent also owns chunks of some of Western culture's most popular games, music and movies.

Ive got a little stock in them, they have slowly but consistently grown in value.

I don't usually pay much attention to Motley Fool, but a month ago they said to watch gold. After investigating, I bought some KL stock, and it has done well. They also had suggested Roku last year and I wish I'd done it, because it's tripled.

@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@Pete-S said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@Grey said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@Pete-S said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

@marcinozga said in NAS for Plex use... Again:

It really depends how much storage and CPU you need. If you need lots of storage, nothing beats unlimited, and I think only G Suite Business is viable option. I know lots of people host Plex with Hertzner, Vultr is probably attractive option too.

I had a look and it looks like you need 5 minimum users on G Suit Business to get unlimited TBs. If it's $12 per month then that becomes $60 per month. Under a five year period that's $3600.

Not saying it's the same thing but for the exact same money you can buy 9 x 16TB enterprise drives with 5 year warranty. That's about 100 TB of actual storage.

Using Drive makes sense in your case but if someone only needs say 10-15 TB, I'm not sure it does. And 10 TB may not sound like a lot but if we are talking about H.264 video it's more than 3000 movies/5000 episodes. Even if you binge watch 5 hours a day, every day, it will take about 3 years to get through it.

Google doesn't enforce that limit, and one of their engineers confirmed that, I just can't find the source. I'm paying $12/mo for 1 user and I'm using close to 100TB. My 5 year cost is $720, good luck finding drives for that price.

Average 1080p movie is about 25GB.

Ehhhh... No. Average 1080p is about 3gb. It really depends on the bitrate used when you encode the ripped data. I have 2 1080p movies and one is 18564 kbps bitrate while the other is 2634 kbps. The second one is 2:40 long and just under 3gb, but the other one is 1:30 and just shy of 16gb. You really have to pay attention to more than just the resolution. Audio can change things a lot, too.

That's on the low end, usually ripped from Netfilx, iTunes or some other web source. And most likely with AC3 audio. If you want good quality rip, 25GB is actually conservative estimate, I have some files over 65GB.

Ah, you're a videophile.

Good to know that they don't enforce the file limit. As long as they don't, you have a good thing going. Google is loosing money on you for sure. But who knows how long that will last?

The only thing I'm wondering is how you watch your movies? If a movie is 25GB and say 90 minutes for simplicity, then that's about 50 Mbps average transfer rate. That's about 10 times more than Netflix at their highest 1080p quality. Do you get that from google drive consistently?

I don't think Google cares too much, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of users like me. And if we all upload the same file, which is quite likely if you get them from torrents or usenet, it gets deduplicated, so Google hardly even notices it. I wouldn't be surprised if my actual usage was 0.

I have symmetric 1Gbit Fios, so I never have any issues with streaming. And some stream 4k videos, I've heard about 90GB 3D 4k files, encrypted, streaming smoothly, without any hiccups. I think both Plexdrive and Rclone have decent buffering logic built in.

Plex will test your network connection and transcode to whatever you have. One of the reasons I had to upgrade from the 2950, aside from all the other reasons, was this transcoding process that uses cpu. The 2950 just couldn't keep up. My first 4k movie (Dark Crystal) was impossible to watch. After my recent storage upgrade, it's smoothly delivered with transcoding, if needed. As the line is tested, it also buffers the video to prevent stutters. I've done server updates with no interruption because the buffered video is longer than the plex delay caused by the software update.

@jmoore said in Redoing Home Network:

@Grey said in Redoing Home Network:

You're literally building a broken network.

Sorry guess I don't understand how I'm building a broken network. Can you explain?

I did.