Posts made by marcinozga

This is for home use, for homelab at best. I considered buying one of these few months ago, when I couldn't get ipmi video redirection to work on my home server, because f....ing Java, and I didn't have monitor. That's about the only use case for it.

Wait until they flop too, then score some deals during final sales. My relatives got huge tv, blu ray player and few other electronic devices for next to nothing when Circuit City was closing down.

@Dashrender I think they failed because of lack of e-commerce and their prices sucked. Best Buy survived, despite being almost a clone of CC.

@Dashrender said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@JaredBusch said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

@scottalanmiller said in Fry's Computer Store Chain Now Defunct:

This opens space in the market for good companies like Microcenter to fill the void.

I love micro center in general, but I hate their methodology of pushing their employees to get sales.

I assume they get extra pay or something if they help you and put their sticker on your purchase.

I only shop for things I know. I don’t purchase computers there. So I don’t know anything about that side of things.

I've never been to a Microcenter, but that reminds me of another chain that failed in the early '00's (not CompUSA (which also failed), the other, can't remember the name).

Circuit City?

Do you have some older hardware hooked up to that PC? Or any software that uses HASP/NetHASP licenses? I have one PC with older USB scanner that won't update, and few using HASP that bluescreen during updates.

And why would you care about terminology? Do you intend on teaching Ansible? It's the end result that matters, whether your playbook or role does what you want it to do, not whether you know the terminology or not. I've been using Ansible for some years, and honestly this is the first time I run into someone mentioning "dictionary".

I checked few power supplies in office pcs, every single one accepts 100-240VAC 50-60Hz input. So they will work anywhere. I haven't seen one in years that would be limited to 110 or 230 (or others) only.

@JasGot said in NC: Download direct from Plex:

@marcinozga said in NC: Download direct from Plex:

It's a social problem, not a technical one.

Related to Scott?

Nope.

Person B needs to buy 12 pack for person A and ask him to give permissions to person C. It's a social problem, not a technical one.

Short answer, no. Unless there's a Plex client app for NC.
Long answer, you could add Plex media storage to NC and access media that way.

This whole approach of not doing updates on mission critical system is nonsensical. Admins need to grow a set and setup automatic updates on everything by default. If stuff breaks when you update it, that's on software vendor, period.

I've seen it since upgrading to Windows 10 years ago. It comes and goes, I could never justify wasting time to investigate and troubleshoot, since it resolves itself after few clicks on start button. One of the Windows features I guess.

Alpine Linux would probably be best lightweight distro. It's the most popular base for docker images, it supports KVM, so it should work in your scenario.

My kid was pissed this morning when when couldn't watch yt kids. Still no services at work.

I disassemble the drive, use electromagnets and blowtorch on platters, once they cool off, I give them to employees to use as coasters. 2.5" drives are crushed in a vise. I haven't had to destroy and SSDs yet, but vise would probably do the trick. CNC mill is always an option too.

I don't bother with wiping spinning rust, when I have to destroy them, they either broke or are old and being replaced with SSDs. Physical destruction is much more fun, and saves so much time.

Caddy is really nice, and usually my choice for reverse proxy, except docker deployments. Here Traefik shines, you just can't beat auto discovery and configuration.

Scam or not, you don't want to pay to be hired. It's on the company that hires to pay recruiters/headhunters. Mark their email as spam, block telephone number, and don't look back.

@Pete-S said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@Pete-S said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@JaredBusch said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@dafyre said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

My god how big is your NAS/Server?

It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.

OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?

$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.

How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.

Buy just 1, they don't enforce 5 users minimum. You'll still get unlimited storage.

Except it is also Google, and who knows how long they will keep the offer or even the service.

G Suite is not going anywhere any time soon. They might as well kill Gmail if they are willing to discontinue G Suite. Unlimited storage has been there for years, and it's offered as a business service, it'd be pretty dumb to suddenly screw their business customers over. Microsoft and Amazon pulled that stunt before, although with non-business users, and I don't think it worked out too well for them. Everyone I've heard was using their storage services switched to G Suite.

G Suite has now been replaced / rebranded / reimagined to Workplace.
It looks like unlimited storage is gone from all plans except enterprise.

The $12 plan gives you 2TB of storage per user.

Existing users are usually grandfathered in, I know lots of people still on old G Suite plans. I proactively upgraded to enterprise for $20/mo few weeks ago. Still unlimited, and still really good value, and no minimum user requirements.

I was actually looking for a new account, which is why I noticed. I kind of assumed that old users would be grandfathered in but enterprise sound like an option. Thanks!

If you can't sign up for enterprise, I've heard some people couldn't, I have no idea why, sign up for business, and then upgrade through billing options.

@dafyre said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@Pete-S said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@JaredBusch said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@dafyre said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@Dashrender said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@marcinozga said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

@hobbit666 said in The Skinny on Plex: How Are People Using It:

My god how big is your NAS/Server?

It's in ATX tower case. 90TB is in Google Drive. Locally I have 4x2TB SSD in raidz pool.

OK, that's seemingly less crazy.. but still - what the heck is your monthly bill for that?

$12 flat, G Suite business. Unlimited storage.

How do you get that? They want me to buy a minimum of 5 to get that.

Buy just 1, they don't enforce 5 users minimum. You'll still get unlimited storage.

Except it is also Google, and who knows how long they will keep the offer or even the service.

G Suite is not going anywhere any time soon. They might as well kill Gmail if they are willing to discontinue G Suite. Unlimited storage has been there for years, and it's offered as a business service, it'd be pretty dumb to suddenly screw their business customers over. Microsoft and Amazon pulled that stunt before, although with non-business users, and I don't think it worked out too well for them. Everyone I've heard was using their storage services switched to G Suite.

G Suite has now been replaced / rebranded / reimagined to Workplace.
It looks like unlimited storage is gone from all plans except enterprise.

The $12 plan gives you 2TB of storage per user.

Existing users are usually grandfathered in, I know lots of people still on old G Suite plans. I proactively upgraded to enterprise for $20/mo few weeks ago. Still unlimited, and still really good value, and no minimum user requirements.

Do you know if different users can have different levels? IE: One users is Enterprise, and another user just needs the free version (or has the free gone completely away now?)

Free was gone years ago afaik. And I think all users have to be on the same plan. I can't check on my personal plan, as I don't wat to add additional users, but I'll ask my reseller at work if users can have different plans. Btw, we still have old G Suite Basic at work, no mention of rebranding to Workplace anywhere.

@JasGot said in Who do you use for content delivery? (If that is even the right phrase):

@marcinozga said in Who do you use for content delivery? (If that is even the right phrase):

@JasGot said in Who do you use for content delivery? (If that is even the right phrase):

Their hosting provider has told them they will not allow them to upload any more media to their site for visitors to view because there is simply too much data.

This is where you tell the hosting provider they are a joke, close the checkbook, and migrate. There is no "they CANNOT move", they are just too lazy or too cheap to have it done by professional.

You are so unaware of the circumstances, that you sound foolish with these statements.

With the limitations you provided above, it's easy to assume this isn't anything complex or large as to make it hard to migrate. These limitations are so crippling, it's hard to take that provider seriously, and I would laugh in their faces if I heard anything similar to that.

Why don't you enlighten us what the circumstances are?