 Good morning. Happy Sunday, January 29. I was gonna look at the date. I never think really about the date Like I know what day it is. I don't think a lot about what the date is But I love doing these Sunday streams. They get a slightly different audience that always says hey I miss the live stream because you're in the wrong time zone for me when you go live on Thursdays Which is usually around three or four o'clock. I try to be consistent But sometimes life gets in a way or events get in the way some events just happen to happen on Thursday But glad to see so many of you here already. I also am Adding what platforms I'm doing this on and I think if there's someone who might know more about this or maybe Travis can give me a suggestion. Should I include twitch on this as well? Should I start building a twitch following? I love doing live streams are a lot of fun. Twitch seems to lend itself to doing live streams So figure out what our platforms are I want to like broadcast these on Also, I'm going to you know, I kind of abandon it for a long time But there seems to be at least some of an audience there and I have to kind of just say hey I should be where my audience is which includes other platforms such as Facebook So maybe I'll post a little bit more on my business Facebook as well So that's on my I'm not to do list expand into some of those things just kind of broaden it I just kind of I got aggravated with Facebook and Not you know privacy aside It just seemed to be the place where the most amount of messages came over Stupid stuff. So yeah There are some caveats. We'll discuss it later. Haha not live. Yeah, that's fine For those, you know Travis does work in my office. So we we chat all the time With all your free time I know I don't people ask how much I work and I have no idea I don't I don't have any definition or I'm not good at defining what is work and what is not work That's probably the trickiest thing this is having some Divider like if you work a regular job, you have a divider like I work these hours or on these projects as requested by my employer Well, I am my own employer for the last 20 years now So I work on the projects that I request therefore I don't know what's working. What's not because I just love doing this I guess the the lines could be drawn of I was playing a game the other day So I guess that's not work. That's about it writing my motorcycle not work. So those Going for walk. I don't know. I'm usually I often listen to books while I go for a walk And I do walk a lot listen to books and podcasts. So that is Probably not I don't know where that falls into my work or not. You can see how this this becomes tricky. Is this work? I love doing this It it's it's not like I'm even I mean granted a little bit of ad revenue Yeah, but it in maybe a few of you throw a few dollars at me. I don't know if this is work, but it's definitely fun I don't know. So that's that is a existential question. I wrestle with from time to time I Wouldn't exclude I always even when I promote that I'm going live the promotion is always that I'm on the Livestream on YouTube even though like this is the first time I actually put this live on Twitter, but I also Promoted on Twitter to go to the YouTube YouTube is where I think the best Experiences in terms of my stream maybe twitch to people really seem to like the live on Twitch I don't I don't know because I don't watch anybody on Twitch So I don't know what the draw to the platform is like I being honest I don't know. I'm not saying it because I looked at it and say I don't get it I'm saying I haven't even looked at it. I just can't even think of a time. I've used twitch at all I'm highly aware of twitch, but that's as far as my twitch experience goes. I'm aware people use it It seems to be popular it exists We got people from Granville, Ohio India Montreal we got people from all over the place here awesome It's always neat to me of the global nature of the platforms So yes Would you have courses on O'Reilly? Not really. I can't think of any particular. I I think O'Reilly makes a lot of good books But I don't have a particular course I recommend because I haven't taken any and it's been forever since I read a book From O'Reilly that I can think of I you know any and when it comes to technical stuff I usually don't read the whole books I usually just find the excerpts I'm looking for to solve a problem. I have a very challenge I need to overcome so I don't know I don't know that I've read a cover-to-cover Tech book in forever When I was younger Before the internet before my gray hair There was a lot of books I read and I don't even remember the names of all of them And they're also probably not going to be incredibly relevant here in 2023, but in the 90s man I was an absolute crazy bookworm. I wrote I read so many books in the library engineering electrical So I don't have a college education at all. I started in high school skipping classes To go to the library because I didn't like any of the available courses to me So my history of just spending tons of time in a library or reading in general has been since I was a kid so very Yeah, that's one thing I maybe have some regrets is not keeping a journal of all the books I read because that would have been kind of fun Like I would probably remember where someone asked me and said, hey, did you read and said the name of the book? I might remember but that's about it It I didn't even collect all these I didn't I well later I became a little bit data hoarder, but now I data hoarded books not only the ones I read But all the ones I didn't so even though I have back in the bbs days. I would download all kinds of technical stuff I don't remember how much of it I've read. I just started collecting it because I could and That was like my reasoning. I can therefore I will oh boy. I've got a lot of stuff and I know I've read at least some of this Matter of fact, you know, I can't I can say something I have read and I'm not my collection is broken But behind me for those you don't recognize this I have some 2600 books now these all the ones I purchased were read cover-to-cover many times and I have Not a complete but a pretty good collection I started in the 90s for these and they weren't like bought as a collection. They were bought as they came out I don't remember when I stopped reading it. I want to say it was around 2008 or 2009 but from the 90s until right around 2009 2010 maybe is when I kind of stopped buying every single version of it I thought about going back That many years getting that collection Anyone's I'm missing in between because I randomly read it now and putting it all together It's like a something. I'll do and just burn through all these books again and read them It might be hundreds to read all the ones I have I got there's a handful behind me There's boxes of them behind me somewhere the collection got broke a little bit Ah Still testing psense in a VM on Proxmox and it works like a champ trying to justify spending two three hundred for a net gate You know, I don't we use Pfsense in a VM for testing all the time It comes down to complexity and what about you want to manage that complexity? It's not something I think it's a terrible idea or anything like that but when I the the problem I would say I usually get is The people who have not really spent much time Learning virtualization learning Pfsense or understand networking very well And I think it could be a big learning opportunity, but they have The most likelihood of goofing it up like if you're not good at any of those other things If you're not good at virtualization or have a good understanding of it I mean good loading Pfsense will help you gain an understanding of it. It will Push you in that direction for sure But it's just about how fast you want to get things running or how much learning I do I think it's a great learning opportunity if you set the goal of I don't know what virtualization is But I want to run Pfsense in a virtual machine Awesome, you've now set your goal and now you have to build all the knowledge It takes to get to where you need to be those type of learning processes are what work for me very well And I imagine a lot of you as well like you start with that whole I have this thing I want to get done and then you assemble all the pieces of knowledge you're missing in between to achieve your goal That's like my best way I learn Time you should teach on a Riley. There's a lot of traction there live sessions You're a good practical knowledge networking proxmox will be appreciated You know, I've debated about this because we some of my friends have bounced back and forth There's a there's a couple challenges. One of them is it's a whole another set of content They usually have rules that I can't post the same content on YouTube And I feel like if I post on places like Udemy and Just any of those other platforms. I'm actually making it harder for my audience to Consume my content. I mean, maybe I'm wrong I'm more than happy to willing willing to listen to listen to objections on that particular topic but I Find those places by the way, they don't pay very well Compared to what you make on YouTube either which is one of the reasons they lose This is actually a challenge some of the learning places are having is losing a lot of top talent to YouTube because YouTube just pays better and It it's one of those things like if I was gonna be a full-time creator, which by the way, I'm not I have a business I run an IT services company But if I was just to be a full-time creator and I was going alright, I want to be an educational content creator Blue to YouTube if you're good at it and you put the time and effort in is a way more lucrative way to make money than working for any of the You have to get like to professor level for the money you might make on YouTube doing this I've talked about this before my channel I've talked about it on LinkedIn where I've also got this live of how much you make on YouTube and It's just one of those things you build a big channel You'll make substantially more than you'll work working those places which those places which also come with lots of restrictions Hard for me to also want to post on but I'm like said completely willing to listen to objections on that if I'm wrong Hello from Paris or bonjour. I think I see that right. Sorry. Don't speak any French. I know that word. I Built my pfSense box and physical box if I CPU and it's great. I still have much to learn on it, but working really well awesome Who dummy you dummy Actually, I should probably pull that up me and Jay Jay from learn Linux TV He did some experiments on this and this is you dummy Academy It's another You know platform for learning and Jay was shocked at how little Traction he got versus how much effort it was to produce all the content and courses. I believe he has since actually Pulled some of his courses from there, you know on this topic. I want to mention something really quick here May pull it up I Bracket over to the other screen here. I think this is Really amazing. I am a big fan of education and I'm also a big fan of the John and Hank Green and Study Hall is a way for people This is great for people looking to get some classes if you haven't heard of it Study Hall is a new path to earning college accreditation. Now. This is Bigger than just tech. This is more about a more general education But Study Hall is a new path to earning college credits before you even apply explore helpful videos about college Fast guides to majors from the teams at crash course and as you educated get started in college level fund foundational courses And the credits are transferable. This is a really inexpensive way to Explore your interests figure it out without the college debt and for a very small amount of money If you go through these courses and do the tests that are doing it. This is Brilliant work by Hank Green here. It's a long time into making. I just check it out. If you know, it's one of those things That's just super cool to me that they're offering this to people because educating people is near and dear to my heart We need smarter people. Well, we need more educated people smarter and educated But we need more educated people Thanks for the great content you give most of my ps s dollars from your channel awesome Uh Yes, I'm going to continue to use zorus Smashed that like button Got to get around pf cents in a vm living overseas and trying to keep everything one box also higher from china Happy sunday bret problem on learning programs find you either our super top level or start Way over my head Oh, yeah It kind of depends. I mean there's It's hard to build Because it's hard to first qualify before you build What's your knowledge starting because some people say oh man this pf sense videos way over my head because I don't understand networking I'm like well, you probably shouldn't start with a firewall You should probably start with networking and I'm not the networking 101 guy I usually start with advance because I don't have time to create all the 101 contents Not that I don't know it or have good ways to explain it. It comes down to I'm only one person But there's plenty of people who create some very one-on-one content that gets you involved Get you engaged and then you go well that I've now want to go further than this person can teach me and that's where I think that The whole You know youtube ecosystem works so well because there's such a variety of creators on there that are at every level college degree the new high school diploma awesome I think you're doing me here in brazil is good because it's really affordable compared to it pro tv Now that's a big point too is it if it works for you great. That's Absolutely important is that it is a uh system that works for you. That's always what it starts there's a lot of people that um In michael here saying you dummy has a networking class for beginners. That's how I learned about networking great And maybe that's exactly where you want to be Is learning some of that that's absolutely It's everyone starts at their own level and I think having more of this available to people is how we get better how we you know put this together as a Your own course kind of finding your own way it always starts with like I said earlier the goal you have What is what is the end result that you want to have? Can you make a pf sense video and gaming is there any special settings apply for a better experience? You know, I don't think there's I don't know if I need to make a video on this or not um Because it's not really much I don't have any special settings for mine, but But there's exceptions and one of those exceptions is actually an incredibly popular post in my forums that I'll throw a link here for you real quick, um But yeah, the the pf sense with multiple x boxes and certain Challenges that may come with it. I guess that's a gaming most of the time There's nothing to do with gaming like I play some games not many and I don't have any special setting My son plays a ton of games and there's no special settings in pf sense There's not really anything special you need to do unless and this is the unfortunate side of it Some games will need upnp turned on sorry, and you can go but tom isn't upnp a problem Yeah, build a different iot network and turn on upnp. Yes, it allows things to come back in Don't really have an answer uh figuring out what ports games use and if they use something dynamic is its own challenge So they're the video on gaming and pf sense is a video about which game are you playing which of course doesn't make it easy Uh, would you do make a video on how to do multiple dns servers on a single ip address? You can specify multiple dns servers. That's the way you do it. You don't put multiple dns servers on one ip you put Multiple dns servers and you build them with their own separate ip addresses Good video on pertaining forwarding such as already. Yeah, there is a port forwarding video. I have already I just want to say enjoy your content. Even a seasoned IT guy can pick up something new from your content Yeah, one of the things I try to bring as I stay As the term I've heard frequently used a little bit deeper in the weeds That's because I work as an IT professional doing essentially I'm on blue team of to be To describe my job a little better is managing running. Well, I'm also a business owner But I'm managing the IT side of things I'm making sure security's done right I have an entire staff of people and then we manage businesses and manage all their security So my experiences are from that real world work that I do So part of my time has spent doing that part of my time has spent making videos about what I do But cute cute circular conversation beginning of what's work and what's not work We are in three xboxes of my pc and of course Whatever my physicalizing. Thank you for your answer. Yeah the um If you're running multiple xboxes up and P that link might help if there's some challenge I someone was messaging me want me to really help them with their ps5 to test something I'm like, I don't have a ps5. I can't test this Like they're they're having some challenge with some game they play on ps5 and I'm like, I don't know You know, like well, you know, this game isn't working right and I think it's psense I said I I don't know. I don't have a ps5 or that game That can be kind of a challenge So you kind of kind of feel your own way for it and because I'm not a big gamer It goes outside of it most of my content is extremely driven by what I do And what I am doing or what projects I'm working on that is The biggest part of where my content comes from I think very little About because it's not my job to do so all the different nist standards and what are my thoughts on it? I have a business channel though where Brett Chittum if he's still paying attention to this Does cover all the nist stuff because that is Brett's problem We Brett is one of the people that is taking the time to educate himself and all the different standards I don't have to Not necessary. I you know, if I look up something I make sure which guidelines I need to be following But they're always very general. So I am Yeah, right there Brett says he is familiar with it But it's one of those things like I'm very general and all the guidelines are general So if I have a specific compliance, we can summarize the customer's needs and make sure we're doing things within their compliance so But we do we have clients that have all kinds of different things like that Yeah, my video on getting started I gotta make I'm making the 2023 edition I've been waiting for a big version of pf sense because a long video that video is like an hour and a half long And making an hour and a half long video in all the detail I put into it Is a couple day time suck for me of putting that together. So I usually You know wait till there's a major version change to do that Hi, time to give an experience and set up a scheduled backups of data storage DFS Vmcts themselves from true nas or proxmox scheduled backup of data storage DFS pools. I mean That's not a easy question answer because you're not giving me much context here. I mean if I were to say, hey We looked at this We'll log into this system Tasks and we look at a replication test. There we go. There's my scheduled backup of data in my pools So this if that answers your question awesome, uh, you can do that in true nas Or were you asking about scheduled backups like this of all my vm's? And side of xcp and g I have those scheduled too They run here's another one. I just ran a few minutes ago and some of these are just automated You know like the lab pool metadata metadata backup and things like that that that question needs a lot more context I have a forum if you need a deeper answer on that That video transferred 2.6. Yeah It's when they get to the 2.7. There's enough changes that I need to make the new video in 2.7 Here it is. I mean 2.7 definitely is uh In development right now. We can update to the latest version Let's do that now Why not update to the latest one while we're here? Because you know got to do something in the background Uh, I don't make any content open stack because I don't use open stack So if I if I don't use the product at all or have any interest in using or I doesn't or I don't think it's something It's like not worth it my time to dive into because it's just not my field of expertise. Uh, so yeah That's uh, why I don't do anything with uh open stack. I don't think there's anything wrong with open stack I just don't use it the streaming service uh uses your location by content from the market you live in I like the vpm videos create site to site when I'm in South Carolina to my new york market content. Yeah That's a whole fun thing Kids multiple xboxes dms easier for him put all the stuff like my son is not on the same network as me There's a reason that kid's clicking on stuff. All right He's playing games. He's loading extra things for games and whatever he does. Um, yeah awesome Uh, thank god that your next tip is helpful 2.7 dang this my thought is good 2.7 is not available yet 2.7 is still Um in beta we're gonna update it a little bit. Let's Ooh We'll update all the way to the these are the snapshot versions. So we'll update to this We're doing it live. Let's see what happens if it breaks or something If a dns server fails normally windows takes a long time It's like the second my question was how to make a fail over that impact the server is down uh There's not really a way You shouldn't have your dns server failing There's not like you don't put multiple on a single. I mean Granted, I mean if you want to get a more complicated answer you could Put dns and have a load balancer behind it between multiple servers. That's just a another way to do it not the I mean really focus on why is the dns server failing dns servers? Don't usually fail and usually you want local dns For example, if you're on a windows domain your windows domain controller should be your dns server If you don't have a windows domain pf sense should be a dns server and pf sense shouldn't be down with the dns Because it handles the upstream dns So from a local client standpoint, it should be pretty transparent The local clients usually need a dns server and you solve it at the server level one level up Speaking of networking, we're gonna mention microsoft outage on monday Glad i'm not the only guy who pressed the button on that chain. Yeah microsoft outage shocking It's another another day It microsoft has never been up 24 seven for an entire year very few companies have Microsoft seems to have a few more outages, but hey, whatever it happens Have you noticed shared storage in proxmox 7.3 has issues. Why don't use proxmox? So I can't answer that Maybe someone else can Plans on using grand streams Low low low on my list of things I want to test I know will he loves them and I'll leave I'll leave it to Willi how to keep making videos on it, but I I've not seen anything so compelling about them that I thought they were awesome But maybe I just haven't learned about them enough True dance food is great. Hp workstation has to share folders awesome Uh dns dist someone says can use high availability and do failover is cool Uh, well piehole is not designed for high availability So now you have a different problem Um With piehole not being designed for high availability You would have to build your own load balancer And put it in front of a couple pie holes. I mean, that's a way out of scope of what I can talk about in the live stream Yeah, I don't even run piehole. I just run pf blocker Um piehole, but people usually tell me but I like the pretty reports I'm like, well, I don't care about pretty reports that much not for Dns matter of fact, I rarely I use you block origin more than I use any dns blocking You know, I have no help for people using ppoe It's just not used here in america much and even on the consulting jobs you do because it's mostly with businesses It doesn't seem to be used in business much. I know ppoe is used a lot outside the us I just don't have any experience with it posting in their forums is the best bet I I don't have any way to test it and if I were to build my own ppoe server to do the testing I would probably build it right and it wouldn't fail A lot of it has to do with I think the company is not building their infrastructure well Do you use any of the big vendors software service like azure? Yes google workspace? Yes, I'm on google workspace Um gcloud amazon web service. I think we have some clients using ews What do you what and what you don't like about them? They're all expensive The bill only goes up compute power gets cheaper Cloud companies charge more that's that's my summary for all of them But for small business, they're kind of a necessary evil because it there's still less money as of right now There are less money to use Gmail than it is to run your own mail server if you want to have it maintained properly. I should add to that So if I missed this stepped away of you You have an amd storage server in rosewell, I think you have can Any constraints because of lack of pc aliens and am4 You have a 25 gig I have a 25 gig nick Not a 20 25 sfp 28. No, I don't have any problems with it. Yes, it works I have any am4 cpu's can storage server, but I keep reading about difficulties related a few pc ilates The reality is are you using mvme's if you're not using mvme's you're not going to hit 25 gig Um, so are you trying to build something with enough pc ilanes? And you need mvme's and you're going to saturate a 25 gig if you don't have mvme's you're not saturating a 25 gig That's that's usually where the problem is a matter of fact, that's a problem Some people had someone was complaining weren't getting the full speed out of their 25 gig. They had Spinning rust drives. I'm like, I don't know what you were expecting. Like if you're using drives that are Um, you know standard old spinning rust hard drives You have a different bottleneck. It's not your networking You want to create your own company, you know, watch my uh business channel Think carefully before you start your own company. I'm not saying not to I just Remind people and I just said a video I posted called I hate my job is not a business plan And I want to be very clear on that that is not how business plans work And it's why so many people start their businesses is This place sucks. I'm going to go do it for less and do it on my own And they don't get a better outcome like they were really hoping Running the business is more careful. It's not that you can't do it You just need to go into it very open-minded and understanding of what those needs are and that's why I have a video on my business technicalities channel and You know what? Let me link to it real quick That video is This is a link I made with a url shortener That i'll throw in here for everyone who wants to go to my it's lorns.video slash biz. That's my business technicalities channel That's just I started doing a url shortener. That's the new change I made for the channel I mean pf sense dual wan failover fallback is not working any suggestions Not with ppoe I have no idea I have a dual wan failover video though It's your way to backup dropbox from sonology. Uh, what do you do for cloud backup? Uh, I don't know about I maybe I never I don't even use dropbox in years So I don't really have much of an answer on dropbox. How do I do cloud backup as easy? Backlays backlays is my favorite backup. We also do c2. Sonology c2 is very reasonable as well And home users get more bandwidth almost nothing these days. Yeah, that's true too. It's it's got well That's relative Any recommendations for network camera management other than blue iris or surveillance station? No, I use surveillance station in some unify Mostly surveillance stations my favorite Hey, jimmy the it guy afternoon We have a lot of good business stuff on there. Yes Residential uptime and latency can be rough. It can be it's not guaranteed. It's not I wouldn't call it that rough But it's sometimes they're less guarantees are made for residential Failure works fine use a little script put interface and ppoe link down and back up. Okay And you can run scripts in pf sense if you didn't know there is a uh Or it's under services there's a cry it's so rarely that I use it It's one of those we're fixing some problem that has been created. I think maybe it's under I think it's a package you have to load Yeah, you can install cron and this will give you um You can edit cron scripts and have it check things and this might be very helpful for some people Thank you very much for donation, ryan. You helped me so much minus p. Awesome glad I get up you there Would you be able to recommend mdm uem solutions to manage laptop client users google workspace ecosystem? um Nothing specific. I mean we use ninja one rmm for managing all the workstations. So I That's that's our use case for it Ninja one is what we use to manage all the different companies that we're managing A lot of residential connections has turned to prevent anything but you can uh But It could make the your isp boot you off. Yes. Um in actually even residential people. It's not too hard to get um You could do like some basic registration stuff for a business in most states and then tell comcast I'm a business even though I work out of my home and comcast is like cool. Here's the business business plan services cron. Yep I'm a fan of uh blue iris hence my channel, but shinobi is a good open source security. Yeah, I There's shinobi. Um, there's also frigate. I don't really have time to test all these I'll at least throw them out there if someone else does because I'm not going to use them commercially Um, they're fun projects. They're not good Um that I've seen any at all. They're not good for deploying and managing at customers We sell and manage things at scale with customers. Therefore when we're doing this we need something that also works at scale um I think I probably got Like here's here's an example. This photo is actually older, but it's one of the reasons I want to point it out um We use a lot of these amcrest cameras and I see a lot like we're doing 30 40 50 cameras for a client we're doing all these installs and We want to make sure it's easy to update easy to manage and easy for the client to be able to view the cameras Usually on their phone or remotely and synology surveillance station check cells those boxes commercially now for home users Well, you're willing to because you're watching this video You're someone who likes to dive into things hands-on a technical playing with those other things. It's definitely a lot of fun Uh, recommend if you're not a ram for a gray log server is gray like a good alternative something like net data Gray log and net data are two different things completely uh I mean they both run on computers so You know we're stretching here, but logging and running a um A system that just kind of monitors is two different things. So net data gives you really I love net data by the way Um, let's pull up my net data first, but gray log, um Gray log is awesome. So I also do love there, but here's net data If we look at net data, we can see all my nodes here. Let's go ahead and click on some of them And what they're doing. Hey, let's look at gray log and net data And how much memory do you need? This is a fun one because let me zoom in make it prettier We can look at the loads and things like that and generally speaking right now You can say tom. It's not doing much. So even though you have all that ram assigned to it and it's the cpu's you got 24 cores They're pretty much idle all the time. That's because i'm not logged in a gray log right now So but if we log into gray log And how much you need for gray log is dependent on what you're going to be doing with it But for what we do with gray log I'm logging in on one side, but i'm going to show you what happens in the uh So you tell where's it playing That's her. All right, cool Now if I log in here and i'm going to go to one of my dashboards Just so I can and i'll do a heavy query here And we'll do like let's see for the last five days Now you can see how much cpu it uses so it it's one of those things that gray log is going to use and Let's see do we have like a last let's do the last five minutes I have a whole video on that data by the way, but you can see just doing a couple queries opening and log this is logging in right here This first hit. This is just opening one dashboard, which you can see You know spike the cpu usage up quite a bit and then here's a query inside that dashboard So it's really not that it needs a lot to get started It needs a lot over time and depending on how much data you keep in there and how much you want to index If I were to run a heavier query for something like oh the last 90 days of has this ip address been talked to in the last 90 days Because I dump everything from pf sense into it now. You're talking about something that's substantially more uh in tunes a disaster that I um that microsoft has I don't know how to use it, but I employ people that do so that's how I feel about it Managing for business is very different for any one instance in a lab or home. Oh, yeah Going back to emojis and emojis set in zenarkasha. Are they showing xo a light? Okay, they are showing an xo a awesome Uh, what experience do you have with the unified switches in terms of network performance compared to hps? I feel like the different network throughput isn't spectacular. I don't have any problems with them Matter of fact This goes through the cheapest switches to the most expensive ones with the exception of routing if you're doing routing on the switch That's a different topic But the 10 gig switches work at 10 gig the 25 gig switches work at 25 gigs This goes even for cheap switches expensive switches It has been a long time since I've seen a switch that won't do the speed that the ports connect at They forward traffic fine. I haven't found any problems with you know, even your off the wall Some of the weird off-brand ones that we've seen if they if they're a one gig switch They usually work at one gig so on and so forth. So that hasn't really been an issue What is your opinion on many pc? Do you have one I recommend? I don't have any particular one I recommend What's your take on jumbo friends 10 g and 25 g if you lock down to your storage network and I probably Sooner or later. We'll do a video on this on your storage network You can get a little bit more performance out of Um adding jumbo frames. That's about it. It's not substantial. It's not night and day It's not doubling your performance. You will incrementally get a little bit more performance so my take on it is I've had to fix it because people don't know how to set it up or configure it or understand some of the problems and challenges that come with it and Is cause more people to lose data than I mean probably not the most Not having things backed up properly is probably the number one killer for data But I've done a handful of consulting where people had a bunch of crashes on everything from ice guzzzy They or really they worsen their performance by doing it by not having the proper settings because There can be different settings on a per switch basis that you need to make it work properly So if you are trying to inch out the absolute most amount of performance Yeah, you can do it. That's my take on it I work for security camera sure. Well, can you confirm cheap chinese nvrs? I can confirm Cheap chinese nvrs are not fun Yes Does 2fa and bitwarden require enterprise license or is that just 2fa on volt storage? The only thing they require a license for a bitwarden and it's under Bitwarden pricing page is if you want to use um seeing so It's not just it's called advanced 2fa. That would be the way to describe it. Um You still get 2fa with all of them. You just don't get ubikey on there unless you pay So it's you get 2fa. You just have to get ubikey Ubikey is what you get when you pay Oh, yeah, I do have that video for net data. So it is Net data is awesome. Like I said, I just think it's a Great system. By the way, you notice It's been a few minutes. So there's me querying the dashboard and then there's gray log going back to sleep But this is also why I have my gray log server has 24 cores You know, you it only really peaks in usage Especially disk usage, um when There's some queries if we look at the stats here You can see when I did queries But most of the time it's sitting really really quiet. So Um, I know people who use bios, but I'm not among them. I don't know bios It's a cool thing if you want to play with it What question did I skip? I don't see the question maybe Did Nope, don't see your question I see your name once I try to answer everybody's questions, but I'm spending too much time looking. I don't see your name showing up more than once I'm curious Would you buy a framework laptop or system 76? That's a good question. Um Neither one of them had the OLED screen I wanted So my most recent laptop purchase was a Dell Because the screen was brilliant and amazing and I was dead set on buying an OLED laptop So my only reason for not choosing one of those had to be the fact that I needed an OLED laptop Other than that, I think they're great products and I know system 6 has an OLED one I just don't know I didn't have enough information on it to make my uh case because asus and Dell both make OLED laptops The asus one sucks. I when you look at them side by side with my Dell laptop My Dell laptop has one of the most brilliant OLED screens I've seen and I looked at it side by side at best buy whatever the best buy looked I couldn't believe how dull asus made an OLED laptop like literally The reason you buy an OLED laptop is for the screen and somehow asus made one that had an inferior screen and the Dell screen is like Just blew me away and I don't know if there's any easy way for me to do a review of something like that It's not a good fit for my channel, but it's also I can't really Express how good the OLED screen is unless you also see it side by side compared to other things So that's a challenge I just did a switch to bit warden sifting through all the passwords and need to change awesome Hello, you recommend pf sense open sense for home So it was better to have a single pane of glass from ubiquity could get the sense that's stable enough for production uh The I mean for home users that don't need any advanced features Unify is great the moment you need vpn features is the first example of unify falling flat So unify just doesn't give you many advanced features in our routing equipment They give them to you in a weird way So they're not like they finally kind of have wire guard only with the udmse They're actually making their product line harder to talk about or maybe they're creating more to talk about So there's more content, but i'm going to do an updated video on it So I can answer that question again here in 2023 because things have changed in the last few months They finally added a feature, but it's only to a very specific model and not all the models which cause confusion to people And it's hard to keep up with them like as multi site management Is listed as a unify function, but it's not available on udmse You're locked out of it on that and this is something people get very aggravated about is they can't do multi site management on The udm even though it still runs the same software that you can run on a cloud key But you can see I'm making content your thoughts on in tune alternatives um My co-workers love it. I think microsoft made it overly complicated is my answer for it being a disaster As as microsoft does they've they made it way harder to use than it should be um That's my answer for disaster like if you make it hard people are not going to use it properly They're going to do things wrong and microsoft has the resources to make something good. They have simply chose not to So that's my answer for it being it But I mean That's one of those things like some people think sysco is amazing and they hate the fact that uh when anything's made easier Some people don't like it because they're like hold on my value I provide is knowing this incredibly complicated thing that I've spent some incredible amount of time Uh doing this is also why I think a lot of programmers are probably More jaded about things like chat gpt Because they're like, you know, I spent 20 years Accumulating all this knowledge and look at these people that just typed in a query and chat gpt. So Yeah net data dashboard is on docker. No Uh, you can't you can run net data in docker their dashboard is not in docker Their dashboard is in their cloud you it runs individually on each machine So you can view net data on an individual machine But their cloud as of right now to my knowledge only is available via their cloud Why oled because oled is beautiful. There is uh, no better reason Once you've seen it you've looked at it. You're like, oh, that's amazing My tv is oled my um laptop is oled. I just love oled Dell over them both uh for business just because uh pro support Yeah, that is a nice feature Uh, do you run I run mb not plex I I earned plex for years I bought one of those subscriptions for plex forever ago. Um, I just kept having stupid problems with it I couldn't answer myself. It just kept pausing a lot. I don't know why uh, I run mb and I run it on a synology mb were straight on synology by the way And mbc I like the simpler like plex I feel kept adding more and more and mb feels back to the simple I just want to play movies. I don't want a lot of extras. I don't want things hard to find I just want to play movies or shows or whatever. I've downloaded onto my server and that's it I have a little x1 Carbon, I looked at that one too. I thought the x1 carbon with oled was a pretty good choice as well What about system 76 laptops? They make great laptops Um, they're not going to be the cheapest ones, but they're going to be extremely Linux friendly Uh, do you need a load balancer when you use primary secondary? Do you Do you need the load balancer when you can use primary secondary? A person was trying to stop any pausing that occurs when there's a failed dns in windows Using tune. It's good. Take some time to config that takes some time to config is quite the understatement jimmy. I'm gonna throw that out there Uh framework optimized the power consumption a bit more 4k oled would be feasible With any realistic battery life. Yeah, yeah Framework gets lots of youtube views. That's probably true You might want to wait a couple months for the unify stuff They just released a huge network update that requires unify 3.1x And coming soon I have heard coming soon now since last year. I did a video ranting about coming soon since last year Coming soon is not a timeline No, why did unify abandoned? Why does unify anything? They don't give roadmaps. I can only leave it at that Intune agree is overly complicated with some good tools. Yeah It's there's good things you can do with it Yeah gate capers for it or miserable people. Yes There are many of them Combined in tune with chat gpt. Now if this actually could be one of the reasons microsoft's buying this there'll make us going Hold on. We are absolutely Bad at writing interfaces microsoft you suck at writing interfaces, but hear me out guys Chat gpt is an interface to your overly complicated stuff that you're not even sure how it works There you go. There's there's your million dollar Sorry trillion dollar idea microsoft doesn't care about a million dollars microsoft doesn't care about a billion dollars They care about trillion dollar ideas. So chat gpt managing in tune yes What's the best way to migrate your data off on rage at your nascale? Uh rsync I I would assume rsync would be the best way But I don't use on raid to know what protocols it has. I'm assuming it has rsync though Uh mb rocks even even my sales guy was able to set it up brett's more than a sales guy. He just We call him the sales guy. He does a lot of the sales for the office, but brett's technical do I run plexa dill opti plex i7 What do I gain by using mb using free plex nothing you you lose complexity? So you're losing not gaining if you if you are happy with plex. I'm not here to convince you to to not use it I don't think there's anything wrong with plex I found a problem with plex on my synology that I think I'm pretty sure it's because I have too many networks That's my guess um I didn't I didn't spend too much time on it I just got aggravated because it wouldn't happen all the time and it wouldn't happen I just drove me bananas and I said I'm gonna give this mb thing a try because it's available on synology So I've been happy using that ever since It was it was it's me cheating I could have probably spent more time solving the problem But I actually found a better solution and so I've been using mb for like a year now It could be that that problem doesn't exist in plex anymore that I had But if you're in the middle of watching a movie it stops You will solve the problem in your best when you really want to watch something And you don't want to play with tech because you're trying to relax and watch some show You will find a solution very quickly I recently picked up an interest in home lab servers should I get an after plex 90 20 Uh or an hpz workstation for my first server I would probably go opti flex. I think del's easier to find parts for but You find the one that's a best deal for you If you're serious about router firewall ago, I wouldn't go for unify. That's true I will leave that comment there for sure Still need 25 year programmers to check see if chat gp is giving you correct code No, you need the programmers to see if it's giving secure code code that works And this is this is just a truth of the coding industry right now Too many people stop when it works not enough people keep going until it's secure Stopping when it works does not mean it's been debugged and it especially doesn't mean it's secure So I think that's where we're going to create a new problem with chat gpt I switched to jellyfin because the extra stuff in plex. Uh, I don't want yeah, some people like I mb was in Synology, so there's my entire rationale for it in case you know something uh It just look at the pricing. It's not really a comparison figure out which price works for you. I think c2 is cheaper than s3 um I don't know and it may be where you're at. There could be different pricing tiers based on things, but yeah Coming soon use motion. I on docker flash my wise rts. Yes. I've thought about that I loved motion. I played with that for a while. I'm glad someone else picked up the project Motion. I is a really cool project soon as my standard is yeah I use Synology video station works better works better, but really I've never tried the Synology Uh video station. I may try that. I didn't even think to try it honestly, so I'm glad you brought it up. I know it exists Cyber matt lee me matt and jason slagle have some great videos about getting hacked with sysco and things like that Look them up on my channel Bossel follow cyber matt lee if you don't already Easy enough to find look for cyber matt lee I like that. He's got an easy combination of words that are easy to spell to figure out what he is He talks about he's he's got like a whole lot of acronyms after his name because he talks about all those things all the time Um, and he's got he doesn't have room for all the acronyms He actually has because I learned he used to be into the finance world. It also has another collection of acronyms Uh, when do you think pf sense would come out? I have no idea Uh, what about using graphon on prometheus? I think it's a great idea. I have zero videos on it, but you can find plenty of them You never have too many networks. Oh, I know Other people saying jellyfin is good Uh, the only problem I have with plex is that my main Is that my main user sometimes can't access the server after you with the plex server? Matt tuned in at the right time Good morning to Matt. I see lots of people saying good morning Code that works but requires full admin root permissions is not working code. Oh, I don't know. I would still call it working code I just call it insecure code Um, like I said, lots of people stop on our code works not when it's secure That is kind of like that would summarize as the it industry That's that's why we're so busy all the time Uh, do you as an msp offer management a bit more than for clients? I think Uh, I think not from your previous. He stated standpoint if you do consider using bit warden's dashboard We resell a bit warden. So yes, but we're not going to manage locally installed instances. It's not worth it. Um, it I don't It's one of those things like it's just cheaper to host it in their infrastructure If there's some client need for it There's going to be a cost associated with managing it and they come up with updates Maybe about once a month for bit warden I mean I could put a package together for someone who wanted to manage but usually this is the problem I run into we get small businesses contacting us a and hey I like you to manage my locally installed bit word no problem And then they go but I can they look at the price. I'll quote them and say but I can get a cheaper from bit warden I'm like, what did you expect? I can't do it cheaper than bit warden. They're doing it at scale Doing it one off in your environment is not the same as doing it at scale in a large cloud hosted infrastructure So anytime someone asks this is that same answer, you know Next cloud management. Do you want me to manage an instance for next cloud? Sure. I'll manage and do all the updates for your next cloud instance Here's the bill and people go. Well, I can just go get office 365 cheaper. You sure can so Uh, those are the rationals for it. I was going to do Uh, and I might still do some videos about what should be in the cloud What shouldn't just kind of talking about the rationale that comes with it Uh, so you can have a better idea of it usually comes on to managing updates Who someone's got to pay to do it whether if you if you have a good internal team to manage updates it might make sense Uh, watch your video on link aggregation using lacp and my quiz. Is it possible on wanner face? Uh, yeah, you can you can do um link aggregation on wanner interfaces. It that is true I at least some pf sense. I'll assume you're talking about pf sense Hi, loren city thoughts on qnap nas qnap in general. I have a video on qnap I think they're a hot garbage when it comes to security I would not run a qnap and publicly face anything because they are bad at security. They are slow to listen to security researchers And uh, usually only by bad publicity. Do they feel compelled to actually do something? Good point on secure code Good afternoon from denmark Yes, we definitely uh reach out to matt lee, but I think that's a great idea Yeah I might not want to mention qnap to tom. We use them and uh, they do need Yeah, don't expose them to the internet Yeah, the security is just bad now qnap using them to run something else might be interesting You know use them to do something Like I think you can load on I don't know if this goes for all models But some qnaps you can load alternative software on there. That would be awesome I've heard some people tell me their os is buggy as well How do you handle someone leadership constantly asked for admin rights? um It doesn't I don't know it's it's just dumb conversation you have with them. Uh they You know, the best part is sometimes you can tell them they have it and give them read Give them read only writes and get away with it I I don't know. There's not an easy way to express how dumb of an idea it is Um, make sure you create them separate than yours to never give them your admin rights Make them sign waivers to say that you're responsible for whatever dumb thing happens with this You can usually talk people off of it Start with why do you need them? Let's explain the use cases. Have a real genuine conversation because just saying no won't get you anywhere Does the last passage you make this conversation harder for clients? Um to utilize purchase bit warden. No, no makes it easier because some of them are using last pass Hey, tom just want to say thanks for all the info on proxmox and stuff. I got this up in my home lab Uh info is really helpful Wrote a few articles on the topics as well. Awesome Do you think pf sense is a bit bad? In hyper v proxmox to cameo I don't know. I don't use hyper v so I can't answer but some other people said it works well in proxmox So I seen that early that was some earlier comments on that Tips for an ssd only true nas um I don't know if I really have a tip on it I mean, I've been running one for years My true nas is uh, this is all ssds Has been for a while. So there's nothing None special i'm doing for it. It works quite well and this is running true nas scale, but these are all um What is it? There we go. Let me zoom in so it's easier to read These are all micron ssds type ssd This is one of those weird things that uh people keep seeing to think That you can't run ssds on here I don't know true nas works fine with ssds. That was a question that came up on my last live stream too People thinking it wouldn't work. There's no real things you have to do I don't think there's really Uh Is there anything in here? I think it just figures it out automatically I don't think there's a single thing you have to do Not in scale at least there's a check box in um True nas core I think it's under pool options If you're running ssds in core, they have an auto trim option But I think the auto trim is already on and in scale google that asking their forums Maybe give them a local admin. Yeah, if you want trouble Question I have a custom nas with xeon 32 in 12 slots for hd's and you're recommended to hdc gate wd which you trust for for this work Yeah, both are good. No drive company is without failure. Um hgsts has some of the best ones. I usually reference the um My favorite place to reference is I love this And since 2013 They've done all these reports. This is so great. Um, this is backblaze's drive report So I usually buy the drives that they recommend Importing your password from last pass to bit warden is easy, but you need to remember to change all the passwords. Yeah Have you compiled gen 2? Uh, maybe about 10 years ago or something. It's a forever ago thing Stalogy is the same thing What is it? Hold on. What are these messages? Interesting. All right Uh, cool Stalogy does the same thing with a bit uh, better track record and security. Uh, I Do have an interest in one of their ha sands for seda. Yeah, their ha sands really nice Just enabled sherman go. Yes It's a safe to use external usb on proxmox. It's all laptop. I don't know about safe Uh, never use robo form. I have no opinion on it Uh, plus you don't have to you relay you do not have to Use a relay multi networks. Okay Uh, do you use zoho assist? Nope. We use uh screen connect Does open sense seem to use more cpu power? I have no idea. Um I that i'm not sure about it all Uh, craig and from I think I heard you guys talking about cmsc if this is true It was the best way to start the conversation Uh, the conversation is usually started because the client needs to have it Not because we have to start the conversation It's going would you like to keep this government contract to you have Would you like to keep making widgets for the us government? You're going to need to be in compliance and that causes them to go Hey, are you guys in compliance? How do we get in compliance? What does this mean? What are these words? So that's how cmc compliance comes up. It's usually driven by the client's needs By the way, if you're an msp and you're servicing clients that will in the future need cmmc And you are not you may be in risk of losing those clients Multiple kvm hypervisors and multiple vm's on them with Doc swarm running task doc volume backup working in infrastructure as code to automate adding swapping hypervisor nodes computing kvm's treatment Do you have any suggestion for tips? Sounds like you were well underway for understanding that i'm not sure what tips you were looking for that's a lot of fun Thoughts on one password people seem to like it. I can't tell you a reason not to use it Any tips on wake them land different lands? I don't think wake on land works over different lands Have have a raspberry pi on each one of those lands do wake up land via your pf sense Which is talking to all the lands you can do wake on land inside a pf sense. So that's probably the best way Recommendations to battle evil twin attack with unify or other solutions. We have students setting up mobile phones to mimic our si these No, there's no easy way to do that. It's just You're gonna get it I think first I know unify detects people doing it, but there's not You know, there's not a lot you can do about that Nothing simple at least Everyone seriously by coffee marucci takes Half of uh, every dollar give time your wallet um Good news youtube takes half of every ad dollar, but they don't take the donations you give to me just so you know I was second remote access question. What do you use several methods for different purposes? um So matter of fact, if you want to see Because people ask I don't agree my website's going slow. Why isn't my website going slow? If you go to the remote support part of our website, you'll actually see the screen connect embedded in there I think my internet might be going slow Because I actually seen the stream give me an error that I um having problems. I don't think it's actually my website Refresher page magic It works, but where's your screen connect? I have a usg pro on my us with my two us 24 poes for my home network Should I use the sfp ports to link everything together or cat six? This is one of those confusions. There really isn't a great deal of difference. It's it's Pico seconds nano seconds between using a DAC cable and rj 45 cable So either one of them is going to get you the same amount of speed thoughts and medium se for home lab Not if you want to do anything advanced if you're being very basic I think it will work if you want anything advanced then you're going to want to go with pfSense Have you deployed Synology with their hd's been experiencing more than normal failure rate? Uh when we have I haven't really seen a problem with it. Uh, we did a medical place recently. Um That I don't remember any problems at all not not a one. Um, so I haven't seen that but then again Synology doesn't make the drives as people were so happy to point out many times in the comments on my Synology drive video That being said, um any drive company can have a bad run of drives That's just a risk good news is they come with warranties. Um, and that's just part of it What make a model car do you use as your daily driver anything special sit in the garage? No, I I used to be Used to be a car person um, I am not the car person I used to be back in my day um I had all kinds of different hot rods and things like that, but I no longer have such things so in my garage is a motorcycle and um What else is in my garage mike tesla, but there's nothing exciting about it Wonder if I have a picture of one of my old vehicles maybe Maybe nope I forgot I had There you go This is one. This is one of my old hot rods So that's that's one of my old ones and If you want to know how old this photo is there is my uh, ex-wife being pregnant in it Um with my son who is now, you know frequently in these videos. Uh, so this was from 2006 That's uh, I just know by the I don't need to look at the date on the photo to know So those I used to build hot rods. I used to have different fast cars and things like that But uh, not so much anymore. I'll keep back on topic of tech Just set up a dedicated pf sense box, uh, LAN errors using two different intel cards and cables interesting Uh, rg45 deck isn't Any good advanced research protection Not if you're using deck, but if you use fiber absolutely fiber creates a plastic You know fibers are plastic between the two devices So now two separate ends of the building connected with fiber versus some other type of you know wire are now isolated The reality is inside of a rack if you're doing it locally, it doesn't matter because the search is probably going to come from You know the the power powering all of them. So you're more likely to have a problem related to that Uh, can you explain? Is it okay to set mtu and home switch? No, no, don't do that. That's this is where people break things. Don't do that Don't set the high mtu unless you understand what you really need there uh, keep in mind Always fail even ssds regularly fail. They sure do fast server uh Faster fast cars Oh supercharger over turbo all day I especially because of the era I grew up in super chargers are what we would put on stuff not turbos Uh turbos were you know Something I mean with the exception grand nationals made that popular in the 80s 90s Uh with the grand national I had a few friends that had those but I was always like if we're gonna do it We're doing it right and we're going uh, we're definitely going supercharger Which is funny my car can support supercharger my tesla supports supercharging We're actually grounded yes Time replying to the hot rod. Yeah age will do it uh age and I don't know what else uh It's kind of like I got burned out on the hobby I was really into that as a hobby like the whole hot rod scene and stuff like that I did it for years and Then one day decided I was done I wonder if I have a picture So if I can find it there's actually a fun picture I have I built a Here you get an idea how old this picture is This is one of my trucks I built too and it it purposely looks like that that was I was into the rat rod or sleeper trucks used to call them That's got a corvette engine in it. So that that truck at uh at a built engine that we dropped in it and uh, It was rusty. I left it kind of looking like that It was primered and uh, but it had straight pipes a corvette engine And used to make people laugh when I would take off in it It didn't have the tires to get the grip, but it was always a fun When people go, what is in that thing? And then the under the hood's amazing under it, but that's my daughter and now she owns her own house now If you don't know how long ago that was so Oh fun times Awesome. Thank you very much, uh, michael Uh turbos are way more common in general because turbos have become Uh more reliable turbos were known for blowing up. That's one of the reasons we never had them turbo blowing up Was like part of the reason you didn't like turbos So that's definitely um, yeah The european was the best invention for smallest peak and make they have two thousand dollars of free capital You know That's a tough one. I don't I'm not going to lie. Um, 2000 is really You know, not where the problem is that you for good marketing you need more So marketing is one thing to invest in but before you market and it all depends on where you are Unlike a maturity model and where you are as an msp. You're really going to think about What are the? You know, uh things and gaps you have do you need more compliance understanding spending it on education would probably be A high priority 2000 depending on how you stretch it. Um, you know, may or may not cover some of the education gaps But also I don't know where your education gaps are Yes, that was a jack russell and truck I follow a few youtube dog channels. Uh, oh youtube white dog drag channels Seems very expensive hobby with all the spare parts required. It is an expensive hobby. There is no doubt I put a corvette engine in bmw. Yes You really need fuel injection true Hey, why not both? A lot of people answer marketing, but Education first too many people start getting Clients without knowing how to properly service them and then end up in trouble Turbos for motorcycles superchargers had a bit too much weight. I used to have a Yamaha xj turbo um Someone asked this question so I can pull it up. He said what motorcycles do I have? um Me and my friends are all into Uh adventure riding so it's you it's usually like the big bmw adventure bikes. Um You know having fun in the sand crashing on this was me riding my friends. Just not that long ago This guy just put his legs up. He didn't want to pick his bike up. So we're just taking selfies, but uh, yeah I I like crashing large motorcycles way more fun than crashing small motorcycles Uh, it's a good strength building technique to pick them up And they look cool when I take pictures in the woods like hey, you drive that beast I'm like, yes, I do. Matter of fact, I have like a 360 view I have one of those 360 cameras where I can take pictures and stuff. So that's me and my uh, Yamaha super tenor a That's the bike. I probably ride the most There now we've got the motorcycle answers out of the way Hi from kenya. Thanks for your, uh Clarification on link aggregation have done any videos on implementing ipv6. Nope. I do not do ipv6 We have a jack russell. They are awesome dogs Engines over on this side were a lot smaller. So we had a ton of turbo. Yeah We we had all those big block engines because we have cheap fuel here So we can my truck got um four miles to the gallon That's um that orange truck I showed earlier Favorite consumer or server motherboard for diyp of sense. I don't have a favorite. Um Really, whatever works, whatever you have Two weeks ago, I got hacked believe they're using wishlist critical bug. I do Wait my c drive to get back in trouble. How would you about protecting? There's not much protection pf sense can give you for windows The reality is the threat surface you face right now is going to be You clicking something you clicking a fishing link you getting something in your browser that Escapes your browser in some way because you downloaded it or whatever the browser is your interface There's not much pf sense can do about that That's actually one of the reasons why we focus so much as a business on endpoint protection Microsoft's own tools though the microsoft defender works really well Hello all Are you concerned about last cast may have kept your vault after you can uh answer the description Not so much Because I had a crazy long master password I The the high entry master password is your best protection So even if I would have been under the old because I left it so so many years ago now Under the old iterations of it. I don't think it's a it's um A huge worry because of the high entropy of my master password Have you encountered getting a public slash 29 over slash 30? I'm looking to see if I can have two pf sense routers to be able to Nat on these six public I don't understand what you're trying to do. Yes, we have companies that have um, even ourselves We have multiple ip's on our pf sense. I don't understand your question Why no ipv6? It's a headache. Um, and I can even joke that it reduces threat surface because there has been times when The threat surface is uh increased because of the poor implementation by manufacturers. I just don't have an interest in it. Um I'll let someone else do it Turbo fewer missions more economy more power, which is why they're so prominent now. Yeah Uh defender for businesses like number six and Gartner. Yeah Uh truenas does not have a surveillance app. This is one of the things that makes synology so popular Is the fact that they have such a good surveillance system The synology surveillance station is great. It's for the price. It's hard to beat Do I need to reset my bit word and account key if I update the master password to a more secure one? Uh, no, I don't think so You choose sandbox environment as a stopgap a lot easier recover from a sandbox. Yeah awesome. Yeah slash 29 is um Easy enough is a thousand megabit connection oversold on products. I don't understand that question Can you try using vgp and fmp since it works? Well, um, we don't have a ton of people using it It's a very the reason the package is popular is because it works so well A lot of people that are used to it works great Uh, do you use terraform vagrant ansible airflow for deployment? The answer is no that not something goes outside of my wheelhouse for what we do Can you access surveillance station through a browser? You're looking at it through a browser This is actually all done to a browser and it's available as a app on my phone So we can pull up the other one will pull the app up on the phone to show you Oh, I probably should stop. I know the sounds come through So I'll actually switch to another tab but Works on my phone just fine. So there's my uh The same ones you're looking at. Hey, there's my car So It works both on phone works as a browser app being pretty backwards, uh To straight up ignore ipv6 when everyone And her cg added some magical sauce that makes this you go away. Um, it's an industry problem It's not a me problem I know where the industry is and I deal with where the industry is the home users are clamoring for ipv6 We have a running joke at a local linux users group that I attend from time to time Of how many times the same talk for like 15 years has been going on called You know, uh, what do they call it like the year of ipv6? It's been like 15 times this talk has been done maybe longer And it's because the industry hasn't adopted it. So I'm staying where the industry is and I'm not the problem I'm I'm just reacting to the fact that ipv6 report sucks on lots of products and causes Sometimes problems with products not working and people like well, don't you report the bugs? I'm like, yeah, good. You can go report the bug to the firewall company that didn't have the proper ipv6 setup What ups set up as you recommend the one you can get on sale That is the one that's going to be important to get um Would you deploy true nas scale and a client production as primary? Back up to curry vice when use it for docker domonts and our sim collector. Yeah, we we use these We just did a project not that long ago I got a follow-up on a project because I think it's installed now We worked with another my friend's it company to get this done It's it's 300 terabytes of beam storage with true nas um Wait, no that one's not running true nas that one's running It's running 45 drives. Yes. We use it with true nas the other different projects You know we have another company that has a few petabytes of storage using true nas So I've done a follow-up on that video Let's see great Uh, what softers your company use to manage projects right now. We use a lot of spreadsheets and a cam ban board. Um It's actually called. What is that one called? It's the one from google Has a name Um, it's called google tables. This is literally how we manage stuff is with a tool called google tables so Uh, why are my questions not going through? I don't get it if you're posting links. They're not coming through Simple as that You can't post links in here. That's why I have forums typically you hand off a dash 30 and expect a public router to router put 30 trying router A second router is then a nat to local. I don't even I don't have an answer for that question or understand completely what you're asking In front of mine told me that norton and all our protections will waste some money claims that windows security is enough Yeah, windows security is actually even for home users. I just use windows defender. It works well Uh, yeah, we'll get ipv6 is the same time we get the uh linux desktop What weird cameras do you recommend? I don't know about weird, but I like the amcrest ones Well, I gotta fix this They're closed astrology. I don't want to listen to it no more There we go, uh, let's see amcrest cameras Had an isp level ipv6 is a pain sitting up private land multiple routers was your preference osp Uh, a private land with multiple routers. I don't know it depends on the project Well, let's go with ospf. That seems like a more popular one as the answer It all comes down to the scenario and context. You have to put a good Stereo of what I'm trying to accomplish before I tell you what the answer is Uh, the only people who care about ipv6 is Cisco networking people. Uh, home home users asking about it all the time Uh, systems and shadows first time here last year. I didn't know how long I can be here, but hello Um, I'll keep going for a while Brett's talking about tables here Blasted yt notifications first notification said 15 minutes pulled up the site Said three hours then just checked because it said it was live weird Uh, I thought they had a high speed internet connection is oversold because many people can't take advantage of them Oh, yeah, that's probably true too What is your best recommended service for off-prem backup from Synology 24 terabyte use space trying to offload something that works It's not expensive either c2 or back plays it's going to be the best ones there I got one gig fiber at home. Uh, be able to connect to work at the same time. Would I be able Wouldn't be fiber able to connect to work at the same speed if I'd able to land work for accessory I don't understand it as a question Cisco search bang on ipv Uh, I'm assuming mean ipv6 and field but if uh in the field you forget it overnight That is a good way to put it You'll you'll find it really important in this document here that we make you pass on your exam Am I going to use this? No, but we're going to make sure if you want this exam, you're going to do it. So Yeah, someone else answering for the osp f versus bgp environment really depends on the environment Uh, for me, I based enough for the head of the share of the route table with third party bgp That's probably a good good explainer on there is do you have any external routing it? Also, the best way to configure something is the protocol you're more familiar with if someone was a bgp expert They may be better at using it internally Because they know more about that particular protocol I uh got your test here Only time I've ever had ipv6, uh Was provisioning new tanix boxes interesting Ac oh, we get to go through a whole handshake here They talk in cluster with ipv6. That's interesting Ah google tables is in beta us only Well, I want to keep the live stream going, but I also want to get something to drink Um, what do I do? Can I get my wife to come down here and amuse people for a few minutes? I wonder if I could I can ask her They'll make this fun. I'm gonna I'm gonna call her. I'm gonna video call her. Maybe she'll come down here I'm gonna ask her she wants to come down here and amuse amuse you guys for a few minutes So I go get something to drink I thought ccna was a future Yes question for you Yes, will you come downstairs and entertain people while I go upstairs and get something to drink real quick? Because I'm getting ready to go Okay My wife said she's not coming down to entertain you. So I guess there's no entertainment I was going to get something to drink and come back. All right. Thanks, honey Bye Uh My wife my wife has decided not to come down here Play some music pause the stream. Is it too early? You know what I need to do? Um I don't get it. So she's a different account. My questions are still not showing up If you were posting links your questions will not show up That's as simple as I can tell you If you post links, they don't work if you post banned words They don't work Yes No, that's fine All right, all right Well, you're either you're posting some banned word from youtube Or some, you know, if you post anything What do I there's a handful of um people posting emojis I had to ban because that's that's actually how I've been combating the spam You create filters for all the weird spam emojis people use So because so many of those spammers use those same ones all the time. So clearly whatever you're posting is uh Probably got one of those banned words. Also if you swear youtube filters any swear words out I think I turned it off to tell them not to do it, but they still if you drop a swear word It seems to it'll block you 27 nodes uptime kuma after your video on it I wish there's a way to get it not to resend notifications every minute. I think there is a way, but I don't remember I think once it sends it there's a way once you send it to say down it stays down I got some host web service looking behind a reverse proxy. I know firewall is preferred, but does it matter if it's disabled um I don't understand the question exactly web services locally behind your reverse proxy. I know firewall is Preferred well reverse proxy. I mean you're gonna have the firewall open up to the reverse proxy um So Yeah Where's bret? Yeah, bret could probably take over I don't know if bret's can take over though. I don't know what he's doing Hello from swichlin awesome Uh firewall, you know this came up on my last live stream. Some people love it. Some people hate it I don't have any reason. I want to use it if you like it some then try it see if it works for you Uh, oh Mike on you want to know if my wife still works in finance and what she's doing for return She is doing retirement playing for me. We put money in investments Bitwarden, are you gonna post one word at a time until you figure out what word it is that's being blocked? Breta's cleaning his house before his wife gets home When you send up time kuma it asks on recent notifications Each time you monitor. Okay Here's let me I'm gonna run upstairs real quick Where do I do the video links? Okay, I can do a countdown. I got to set up a video clip for this. I'll hit the countdown I'll run on upstairs do my thing and then I'll be All right, there we go Ready for more live stream. I love doing these live streams. You're fun Chair stream. Yeah, I'm gonna make a video for that. I didn't think Uh, let's see Brett chairms. Yeah, Brett's not wearing any makeup either They only have a 30 second one. I got to make a better one. So Yes 18 quay things asking about the fact that they were out yeah, I AT&T has different weird ways they do things. I I don't have one to test Oh ipv4 ran out a long time ago large blocks of ipv4 Tom does your video on home firewall rule allow you to block ip h on the net from getting to pf-sense routers on the admin page Yes Yes, it does So if we go to firewall rules share this tab um Where's that? Kamlan This rule right here Blocks those parts So it says you can't talk to the firewall. This is the rule that does it Net data versus. I don't know the other and never heard of the other one. So I'm gonna say net data But firewall to use pf-sense What app is up on the screen? I I had net data on there earlier Magic like cgnat is how we solved all these problems. Yes What is your homelab power budget? Do you monitor your homelab power usage at all? Yes. No, um I I would have to leave my chair to go look because I've never Tied I have an apc. It tells me how many watts I'm using and um I'm gonna do what's in my home rack versus what's in my office rack, but yes, it does know the wattage You know, I don't think this is I'll throw this out here because people are gonna um I love this This is from a long time ago. I don't know if there's a Copyright strike that will come from this. So I'm not gonna play it But this is a um When the broochers died This is such a great parody song is still one of my favorites. It's from forever ago What is this from 15 years ago? That's when we were running out of ipv4 space Oh Let's see here On a pf sense. Can you block internet on default vlan have all our vlands have internet? Yes Wonder if you should ask chat gb and see if you get back on blocking rules. Mmm Love your pf sense setup Uh, set up my fair wall halfway through so i'm finished the video yet. Awesome I mean, it's nice heating in mishkin winners, but uh, I'm pushing close to 500 watts And now it's either cut back or looking at solar systems. Yeah, that's definitely an issue Uh, nope. I have not I just don't care enough. So I haven't like techno tim has probably the best video I just tell people watch techno tim's video on nut. He's got it all um Documented really well. I just don't use it. So um It's not That's not where I do a video I was hoping i'm looking i'm running the 2301 beta of pf sense and it's still in beta Soon soon Thank you again for the donation. Uh, if you watch tom's videos, give me a sandwich. Yeah, tom likes sandwiches I hear crack dealers have blocks of ip4 addresses hoardered. Um, no Certain universities are sitting on massive amount of addresses So many big courts sitting on whole subnets of ipv4 public ip's never use them. Um Yeah, my I have friends that work at universities can confirm universities aren't just sitting on them They start public ip addressing all the things because they have so many of them I do like spicy sandwiches public Internet to bit warden homestead up risky or use vpn. Is that the question you've been trying to ask for like an hour? um If you run anything publicly and you don't have a plan To keep it managed enough to date. Don't do it. That's where the risk comes in If there was a flaw found how fast could you fix it? How fast would you be aware of it? What's your mechanism for being aware of flaws and products if you can't answer those questions? You probably shouldn't publicly expose it. So that's that's my thought you may as well Let them handle the infrastructure if you can't handle the infrastructure pf sense has a nut package as well. This is true. You can do this in pf sense You can also do this with synology So if we pull up my synology server, I'll actually point this out Just this may be something people are interested in So if we go to the control panel and we go to the ups You can actually control inside your synology I tell it to shut down if the ups has been off for six minutes and then Permitted by synology nas. I have two more systems that are allowed to talk to the synology nas What does that mean? Well, sonology has its own version essentially of nut and then you can go here We're going to pull up my Home assistant and you can get things like my battery runtime is right here All done through talking these things together. This is why I don't bother running nut. I just don't care So I like I care that there's runtime on it and things like that, but I'm not really tracking it that much By the way, I love home assist. I am going to do a video on home assistant because it's How I do oh, you know the things like if you can kind of see behind me. There's like a Lamp on a shelf. We can just change colors of Oops, I think I changed your color the wrong one. Did I? Yes, I I'm doing this wrong light That's the Change that one back. It's a lamp. I wanted to change color. There we go. The lamp right there I can just make it green or whatever I love I'm going to do a whole video on how I set all this up and Give people some ideas because home assistant's awesome for doing all this Uh last contract head pub slash 24 35 30 50 ipz. Yep You have a question Installing a buntu container and docker on sonology. No because there's no official a bunch of containers from a bunch to therefore I don't run them We really need to get to ipvs. We don't we really do not need to get ipv6 anytime soon. Yeah, you're right Um, how do you like the 8200? Uh, I have a 6200 Which is overkill. I 200 has been great. I'm too lazy to babysit my bit warden. Yep I really don't know. Um, how good those will work on pf sense Uh, I haven't bothered with any one day. Maybe I'll do an integration. It's not today though Here's to you tom. Thank you for your content. I'm studying for ccna now I'm a little disappointed here. I before is still being used Once you you're gonna be very disappointed once you get into the enterprise world and realize it's used all over the place I remember working in a du d tons of space. Uh, no one else is ever going to use until the heat death of the universe. No We're gonna come up with a replacement for ipv 4 that won't be ipv6. It'll be something yet again that actually gets better market adoption Cg nat you're right Do you run homeless assistant? No, I run home assistant on a raspberry pi And the reason I run it on a raspberry pi is because that allows me to have a nice low powered device That can do wake on land for all the other devices if I need to so if I want to power down any of my other devices I can power them all down and I can set them all to wake on land if needed to wake them up to do other things I like it just being on its own independent thing. Plus. I'm using z wave and I'm using zig b And I don't have to deal with usp pass through Nope, there is there isn't a functional bunch. Okay doc. Oh, I'm sorry a bunch too. I read that as unify Yeah There is one for a bunch too. The I read it as unify. So this is my mistake My college gives every wi-fi device a public ip If you want to use an a bunch of container, uh But prevent it from run use command If anyone's internet, uh flash a sofos xg to work a pf sense. Yeah sofos xg appliances are x86 At least all the ones I've seen so yeah, you can reflasher to run a bunch too Yes, alpine linux is used to base a lot of docker containers off of that is correct High time. Thanks for all your videos and guides. Do you know if neck 8 1100 and 2100 support the upcoming pf sense beach for ebc 14, uh No, as far as I know they do I don't see why they wouldn't Most common security fart that most people have things ip's can secure because they don't understand that It's not secure Microsoft just had some cbe's related to ipv6 And you can say it's all about proper firewall rules, but when the firewalls don't properly handle ipv6 Then there's your problem This home assistant support matter, you know what devices even support matter um I imagine I imagine a home assistant will but What is there a list of popular matter devices like that are I don't know I I'd have to do some reading on this I like this here. Here's here's a um, I just this is a top article. I found with a quick google search state announced announced ready for amazon electra Announce it's more announced. It feels very new. So I don't I don't know probably home assistant. I imagine home assistant will support it I know something matters a dumb name They look at autocompleted Oh, look, it does support it. So Integration will communicate and control matter devices on your wi-fi network. So yes Uh, someone's trying to pop out what? Favorite weekly series on the streams awesome. I love doing easier to find. I like answering everybody's questions Currently is untangle on a protectelli, but it's getting replaced with pf sense as soon as That $150 original license comes up for renewal this year Do you have some incredible videos of great guides? I'm a little too intimidating at this point What's the most jank tech system you're running your home? Uh, that you rely on I wouldn't really see anything I do is jank because I I just don't I've always been like Let's get this done right But I don't know that would be a hard that's a hard one for um Me to easily answer I'd have to find a uh Really old I have a photo of Um Wow, or how would I'm trying to figure out how I can quickly find this Maybe some setup I did forever ago I mean I gotta go really back on this one Because I have some old pictures from Where would it be? I mean this is This is one of the networks that I didn't build all this is some of it's just my mess um This was in 2004 and it was one the budget kind of ran out for the company And I was still working there and doing things. Oh my wife wants to join now Now she'll join in a live stream Now I got which way over here. Yeah there. All right. Now. I got my uh, you're done in my makeup. Yes So now she joins for a live stream So hi everyone. Bye everyone. I'm taking off. Have fun. Thanks So, yeah, I mean but I mean look at the date on this. This was uh 19 years ago H. A's the bomb run. It runs everything in my home and uh, it's pretty solid So I guess as you have your You have all your lights and not on iot network Did you make a network just for the stuff that runs on home assistants running on zigbee? Zigbee and z-wave. So because I'm using zigbee and z-wave um I don't really have any special networking needs on there Does your daughter ask you for tech tips? She does not crap is better You've got something McGyver's somewhere Uh You mean your whole infrastructure reliant some old obscure hardware with rushroom firmware that you found in forums I know i'm weird I mean I we we replace these things all the time you gotta remember My first job in the bigger budget space was almost 20 years ago So I've always like I mean sure I did I clutched all kinds of things together in the 90s when I was first getting started I don't really have pictures of that so The default 15 amp charger for my tesla. Yeah, how that is I don't really use that Oh, I I used to be an rs 6000 administrator. That's an ibm rs 6000 running aix so Yeah, I got let me see what else I have in here. I may have some older pictures of different setups I had from way back when this My desk from 2002. I got a picture. I found a picture of that I used to custom Do computers like I'd never put the side on it, but I do cool logos and stuff. But yeah, this is my Messy desk goes to my nc multi-sync. That's my firewall running right there by the way Um in the back corner. So yes, I was running open source firewalls. This is in 2002 I was still running open source firewalls back then I was full on Tin foil hat as far as that's concerned like as people were like, oh, no, you can't run your own You got to go sysco and here I was you know Over more than 20 years ago running open source firewall So I can in a very literal sense that I've been using these things for over 20 years So yes, I've definitely um The old school stuff And there's oh, hey, here's it. I actually love what this picture shows. So let me throw this picture in here This picture I want you to read what's on the screen here. It says smooth wall So can you see where it says smooth wall on the screen? That was the firewall. I was running at the time was actually smooth wall So and this is on february 8th of 2003 and that's my daughter So yes I get some old pictures As far as live streams like when tom streams from home and we Tom included all set around and drink our favorite health beverages. Yeah Wow, the old old r6 hated the old r6000. They were fun Old crt's the good old days. Yes even a printer Picks would have been popular, but I I moved to monowall. This is what got me in there, but I was using smooth wall So, yeah, it's um Smooth wall was linux based. I believe boy. It's been a long time How old am I? I'm almost 50 It's running a pve node and it has well pf sense vm awesome monowall Oh tom and linux, you know the lgr collab for legacy firewall build who else wants it that would be fun I actually really like that Oh, this is fun Printers are evil managing them is not fun. I don't have any good There's we there's some software we pay for if travis is still in here. He'll he'll reply I don't remember what it is. I don't even know if it's that good Well, let's see trying to think what else I have. I have a lot of old photos. I'm trying to figure out which ones are relevant Me before I'm before I had gray hair I'm older than you expected That's funny I use ip cop as well Ran my own fairings linux firewall in the 90s. I sp liked your results and they're burning their firewalls for years. Awesome printx, that's the one Like I if you want to know which one I hate the least You can't say which one do you like you can say which one do we hate the least? And uh travis said printx so Yes, it isn't really just what it's all a matter of is what do you hate the least What is the least hated ones you have? Let me um See if I can find some of these other old computer photos I could probably make an archive of all these and it'd be easier to find them maybe maybe somewhere still looking I thought I had a collection of Specifically computer pictures, but maybe I don't Maybe one day we'll take a we'll do a video take a trip down nostalgia lane or something like that That could be fun, right? I love the idea of doing an old firewall review. That would be interesting firewalls have changed so much Oh, here's a here's a fun one. I can throw in the stream here the uh me being at the hacker conferences was and I It's funny. I ran someone this is and you can look this up. It's in the archive. There's a wikipedia page for it This is rubicon 2002. Uh, it was a hacking convention here in Detroit. So Did all devices have public ip's everything was over telnet? We were Managing things on the internet with telnet man. I don't know how we survived Basically the internet worked because people weren't being nefarious. That's the only reason it worked back then nothing was secure Do you have a total new pf sensor trial? I want to say my 2020 getting started video is is close as I have to that In Bosnia back in 96. We ran cat tv everywhere built the first deployment network Hated it with all the passion Never seen before because someone always unplugged a terminator. Oh, yes. Yeah Old firewall ip chains boy are gonna dig in there smooth wall Later made routers and public nat ip mounted wall. Yeah It's crazy when you've been in a market this long Uh, have you looked in storox and nas they're building nash router? Uh, no not interested. I don't think nas and router should be on the same place There is no cloud manage option for pf sense That is a question. I got to do a video called like pf sense for msp's and kind of explain that there's not that feature Smooth wall. You can still download it, but it's not been updated forever. Well, that makes it fun First email address was back in 93 back in 93. I would have been on bbs's so I didn't have I couldn't tell you what my email address. I don't think I had one in 93. Maybe I did I was using a company called Netcom They were my isp. So I would have had a netcom email address Yeah public out at ip's all over the place for sure Matter of fact, do you think about it? Oh, I used to look I I didn't get into pine until probably 97 or 98, but yes I was I guess a little late to pine But I remember pine mail It's pine mail still around Oh, man. Wait, I found it Here someone asked the question. I dug it up here You said what's what's tom's? This is my gaming sir. This is my gaming server not the one I play games on But this is what I used to serve up games my favorite is the power supply broke and Um, so that's the power switch It had dual power supply options and I fixed and soldered together a few things and This this was my unreal server. I used to run unreal terminal on this. There you go My best friend UNC so he says pines his very day. Awesome. I'm glad it's still around You worked at us robotics back when you dialed in nice Yeah, so this was probably I mean I rebuilt everything a lot nicer later Um, but yes This was a This was a beast. I wish I had higher as photos of this. There's my rca cable modem. You like that You like my kvm sitting on top with some cds. Um, this was my firewall right here So that that ran the firewall so it came in here went to the firewall There's a switch on the floor somewhere I think that was the key. I don't think that was my switch. I was the kvm at the top here. I think Man, it's been a long time but Yes Oh only one piece of ram by the way, you see the ram one stick of ram, but that was enough because this ran linux So there's someone I found it. There's definitely we're gonna put a star on that And oh, there's a switch. I found it. So here's the other photo with the switch So this was the firewall And uh, there's the switch it was a samsung switch I had in there What was my IP address back then it looks like? Yep I had I had comcast so it was uh That was my I've now showed you my public IP address from what year was this 2002. I don't have the same IP address Okay, so that's this is old picture for sure I'm gonna put a star on that one So if I have to find it again, someone's gonna ask again and I'll say definitely Probably against yes, I've been I loved Unreal Tournament. That was my favorite I ran a bunch of other stuff. I ran my own website. I ran all kinds of stuff Uh, oh, that was a hub. So technically you're right. It was yeah, I said switch, but this these um Kind of read the model number here. It looks like a sh 2224 s Let me see if I can still find these each 224 I think that's the right number. It's a samsung s It's the internet. So there's probably one of these floating around here somewhere I don't find if I can find it There's probably a hub who knows maybe mine's on eBay somewhere I'm not finding it It's it's too old. It was retired equipment in 2004 when I put this in so What were the speeds those steps? I don't remember I liked Unreal better than quick. I played both but yeah 10 100 hub That sounds right. I realized uh, I was old when they knew higher did not know the sound of dial-up Yeah, I would say a lot. Not all my staff knows about it. This is probably still at my office somewhere. Yeah Samsung made networking stuff. Now now you're knowing I'm dating myself for uh, this You know, I wonder if we can I don't think these are these are actually old enough that you Can't find them on a Yeah, I'm not even finding them on ebay You know, it's old when someone's not trying to shuck it on ebay with There's I'm not even finding I'm not even finding old ones on ebay here But yeah, samsung made that we We had some those are some great times playing quake and half life. Half life was great I won't lie found it on ebay. They're asking 200 bucks. Wow Still have the u.s. I actually You know I probably should I don't really keep old stuff. I'm not I'm not a big nostalgia person if I look in even my Random drawer next to me. There's not much nostalgia in here I'm trying to figure out the oldest thing in my junk drawer, which isn't much Yeah, there's not even I can't even think of anything old in here. Nope. No, this is old Yeah, I had one adapter in here that was old, but Nope, you'll you'll find a lack of nostalgia with me. I just don't keep old stuff I don't like old stuff called the only old stuff. I've kept and I mentioned this earlier What's I don't know. I have to look to see what the oldest one I have is But some of these issues of 2600. This is like the this is the 2002 edition of uh 2600 So some of these are older That's about it. This is from 2002, but hardware wise. I don't other than old books. I don't really have any old hardware. I scrap it all Mando 2000 Bring back the epic land party, you know I I think online gaming has offered a convenience of scale and convenience of you know, my son plays a lot of people online And I think that's awesome, but there was something really Like in person things are still cool I as much as I'm an online person and hiding in my studio a lot Um, I do like occasional technical group interactions So uh in gaming was a great way to do a lot of that Had the 9600 before that couldn't afford a 288. Oh, yeah, I know Couriers flashed for the 56k. Yeah What mic for streaming recording? I think this yeti is one of your best ones. That's what this is right here I recommend the yeti for anyone getting started and on a budget. Um Once you want something a little bit better like for my I use the yeti which is what i'm using right now, but when I want to go higher end like for my actual studio stuff It's sennheiser Descent. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah Ooh when irs first did rapid read funds they recorded cps. They have a 4800. Wow. Yeah Crazy stuff. I do miss the land parties back in the college day. Halo with these and the cables running all around Yeah, they were just a good time doing those I see people recommending the elgato's elgato makes nice stuff. I use I use the elgato capture cards Um, I think they make solid stuff Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, we used to do these. Um, the linux users group we we had these uh distro install days and it would we would just help people install things That was always fun in early linux days Everyone will come to the linux users meet up and this is in the 90s And it would be to get your stuff running and they'd have some all those linux experts would be there And uh would teach you how to get things loaded and how to set up your systems and stuff like that It was always a lot of fun free space. Yes PC board for the wind Hello from the ukraine awesome Worked for the state department of the army back in the day supported 9600 dedicated modem links To all the us embassies around the world 1980s. Wow Oh, yeah ipx spx and the tcpi config. It's how I learned a lot too Have I played uh math with mass nope? I think techno tim did a video on it The lug meet-up still do that. That's awesome Yes, I had a um 3dfx card I don't think I I don't think I have a picture of it But the old 3dfx cards man, those are cool 3d There we go 3dfx these ones right here. Oh, these were so cool And this is how they worked you looped through them to get the 3dfx stuff working. They were They were so I I think there's a couple um of like the linux gamer people that did videos on these they were 3dfx was a really cool thing I miss computers from the 90s. We can go to the shop all unique cases and couldn't find Couldn't even find in computer shopper. Yeah I asked around about xv gpu pass you for gaming productivity vm anyone been successful prox was great For this but switching xvp energy I don't use it much. So I'm not the expert on it. I know it's possible, but I don't know much about it 90s working for a computer store and playing command and conquer awesome I remember seeing some bangin vines. I never really used it voodoo cards. Yes voodoo 2 s li Uh, I don't know who the cheapest register is. Uh, I use hover I don't use hover because they're the cheapest I use them because they're not garbage It really was good for the quake performance Uh, the reason pk you not look is because re in redacted redacted paid mss to create office 2000 ms rolled it up to office 2003. Yeah Yep. Yep. Yep Oh ati all in wonder capture cards Um, there was a project that was for capturing all your live tv I had one of those ati captured cards to record TV shows it was like an ati capture card nbr. This was in the early early days Um, I learned a lot about that stuff back then Google domains isn't bad either. Um They make it convenient obviously to tie it to any of your google services But like I said, my biggest reason for using hover this actually came up in one of the uh, we we had a home lab show We did all about domains and one of the complaints someone had was the fact that The we didn't tell people the cheapest place to buy them But me and jay both like hover because they're just a good company to deal with and are easy to deal with I missed the fact that they used to have their concierge service, which I think they discontinued But still they're easy people to deal with their support is solid And uh, you know, I think they're reasonably priced Never use namecheaps. I don't have an opinion on them Google does not do dot tv. Uh, yeah Cloudflare has a register as well. That's true Based on replies. I'll start over under at Oh I thought it was cool because those ati all on wonder cards always had a cool look to them as well agp based one but Yeah, they were pretty cool for the time I see someone has, uh Retro hardware for it retro hardware videos, which is cool Like I said though, it's like I don't keep any of this old hardware I've had all this stuff and I just throw it all out even in my office We purged a lot like I go through and go why do I have all this? I asked myself that question very frequently What is this? Why do I have it? Do I need to keep it? Oh, let's see Someone says namecheap sucks My age is over 60 retired network admin for about two and a half years to like to play I think it keeps you young keeps your brain thinking Love your content. Think it up You're loving Papa West and that's good to hear Ooh sound blaster pro. I mean I tried the gravus ones I even had some of the turtle beach stuff at one time I tried and I didn't like the turtle beach at all I remember that being the most trouble, but the sound blaster With with your DOS configs that you had to push for it. Yes Uh, we do recycle. Yeah, when I say purge it it does all get recycled. That's where it all ends up Green versus red PCBs. Yeah Uh purges in a bunny bay frequently not Well, yes. No There's another computer company that is by us that likes to put stuff on ebay And I just give stuff to them like I know it's got some value Maybe they're making 30 bucks or 40 bucks here and there and I don't care Uh, but we'll give them stuff and they might put it on ebay Um, so we do I'm just too lazy to do it and I don't have that much old stuff That's worth putting on ebay by the way By the time I get rid of it It's really very little of value Those aren't cable modems. No, those are tv tv card tv tuner cards on the ati I forgot some of the stuff that namecheap told them we gave all the stuff verify it told me that it wouldn't help me I'd never use namecheap again I don't use them. So I don't have any real opinion Old isa device allows you to back up your heart rate of phs tape. Yeah Does anyone hear play a multi boot windows restart? Oh I wouldn't run multi boot Florence systems, but bret chitum says your samsung hub is still in the back room. Sorry I don't think so, but could there's a chance I don't I don't have any of the old floppies Never throw out your cables and adapters ever. No, we had so many we had to reduce the number We had we used to just keep collecting them until one day. We realized we have You didn't measure them in quantity. You measured them in pounds. So once you measure them by weight Yeah I don't use multi boot because it's a headache one of the updates from one of the operating systems breaks something And then you've got more work to do than you planned. So I mean, I don't care if you use it I'm saying I don't use it because it's a headache I omega zip drives. Ooh, I remember zip drives um, technically though Technically I do have a multi boot environment because I have two mvme's and I flip flop which mvme I boot right now I boot it into my business one, but this same system Shuts down the other mvme. It's encrypted at rest. So I'm not worried about it And then I can boot up my other system if I want so I do have it so I can run windows on this computer as needed But it is a two separate mvme's. It's not exactly multi boot because I'm doing it with the bios I use multi boot from my laptop between windows and cali. Yeah, I mean Works fine to update linux. Hmm. Yeah I just prefer to run things in a vm. Um, that's a easier solution My zip drive is clicking if your zip drive is even working. I'm impressed It's been a few years for those Lap link and parallel ports. Yep. Yeah, the um You can probably fire this up here Hasn't been updated. So I guess I could fire it up If we say present share screen um Now I have windows. Um You can do this. You just got to Like on the right screen, but yeah, this is windows running inside of a virtual machine Um, that's my answer to running windows. It boots up really fast. It gets the things out. So most of the time I just use this First it's all windows connect drive other install linux when linux install plug-in box. Yeah, there's different ways to do it but My preference is really not to Not to multi boot Actually, then this one hasn't been on for a while. There's probably updates Hey, look, there's updates. So I can let this run and run these updates in the background and do its thing Whatever it is this thing is doing But I rarely need to run this, um It's usually just for demonstrations for youtube. That's probably my biggest reason for using this Outside of that. It just doesn't really get used much Huh fun stuff Watch windows updates go Also, linux updates are way way smoother You set up, uh, oh the windows services for linux under a bunch of awesome does the trick windows Windows updates as fast as the system is windows updates are just so painfully slow And I know virtual box doesn't have the best disc performance, but just in general windows updates are Just awful Still downloading come on Download so we can do the install It's grinding away doing something. I'm sure I must uninstall that there we go now. We can click install now I'll update this because if not, I'll go to do a video and I want to update this I forget I I think it's been a month since I did a windows video Um or a video where I use windows So I may as well get it update now while I'm doing a live stream here. It's a saturday or no, it's a sunday It's it's not a normal work day That's it's a weekend work day Use that you know um vmware hyper v neither I use xcp and g I wouldn't use hyper v Especially on windows servers. I have Uh server work to spend two hours shutting down rebooting every time it runs updates. Yeah I mean if you do if you like license fees vmware is for you vmware is popular They have a lot of good system. I'm just dogging on them because uh, they're expensive But you know, we we we have clients using it. Um, vmware is a thing. I just don't push it When did you get used to windows command left it's windows seems, uh, yes We use it because some clients have it, but we're not pushing it to people Like it's not my uh go-to solution Windows always yeah Yes There's no way to open a vm and xcp and g separate browser tab instead of being inside nested inside as an orchestra Not really It's all done Inside of zen orchestra. So I don't understand what you're trying to do Oh, my wife didn't this is different start when you changed. Yeah That's just messy Windows updates are like watching paint dry very fast Yeah, which uh, which wiki do I use media wiki? My office mates never update their machines. It drives me crazy. Oh, yes If you give people the choice they won't update them that is for sure It's still going Yeah pending status installing do do do Put something like the task manager up. What's it chewing on? Go windows go whatever windows is doing my guess is disk Who who's betting on disk activity? Well, if those we got something rolling in the background there um They do officially support cfs We use it for personally and for clients. Yes. We use a lot for clients We use it in the commercial and we have clients that have over 2000 vms and some of their pools So you could say we use it as some larger clients The group policies for schedule already started are barely even work. Yeah, we use ninja rmm to manage all of our window systems We need some windows. Yeah windows to just play jeopardy music while it does this Look at this thing run, man Trying to get these windows. Come on There we go. That looks better 20 disc pinned at 100 Whatever Is that an hg? No, this is actually on mvme Using proxmox right now. What are the things xcb does better worse? Um, I have a whole video where I break it down in more detail, but you're with proxmox versus xcp and g They're just very different architectures I think xcp and g scales better But homeland people are usually happier with proxmox because it gives them more things to do and different levels of integration Oh Your one drive is almost full five gig warning. Yeah, funny Is ninja more affordable compared to I don't think there's a massive price difference. It's not about cost savings It was more about functionality. That's why we switched from solder winds or slash enable Do you have the bit word mobile app installed? No And the reason why is because I use 2fa on my phone and I don't want my 2fa to live where my password manager lives Is windows server monitoring and patching with in-tune or azure thing or a thing on horizon. Um We use an rmm tool for it called ninja one windows update process Single thread lot of process, especially the militia software update thing kick off the optional update as well Ha ha ha Yeah Fun stuff. Look at this thing go still It takes forever. I just let it run in a background. It's like it'll get done when it gets done I know I just need to remember to do it more often So I don't run into the problem of when I go do a video. It's broke Event logs. Yeah I've been going for two and a half hours. So I'm probably gonna wind it down This was definitely a lot of fun though. Oh, let's see By the time windows installs a couple updates a linux machine would do a complete release upgrade. You are correct And I have a linux vm on this as well I if I spun that up I could I could update my ubuntu to a new release and it would probably be perfectly fine He'd probably run in parallel to this and be done already Oh, is it is it super bowl time? Or is that next week? Isn't super bowl coming up soon? Look at itop. I don't know what I not sure your itop is Super bowls next week. Brett knows more about sport ball than I do. I don't know much about sport ball It's fun lots of intelligence lives you enjoy your rest of your Sunday gentlemen time for a Costco round We'll have fun at Costco Super Bowl is 2 12 23 I know I mean, I don't I'm not a big baseball fan either. So super bowl is like Does it handle Window yes, it does but not great There's a way to do it google it there you'll the first search result if you type in great log windows is the explainer and how to set it up and how it works The problem is Microsoft's event log system is garbage Itop is an open source. Uh, I've never used it. So Vm's on zen my home server. I need something mobile as they can about dual boot windows is primary os Super bowl like a big bowl of milking corn flakes We'll go with that I mean last year Uh, they played a lot of cool Music in the halftime shows or there was that I think I watched the halftime show. That's about it I don't I don't even know who played last year and I don't know who's playing this year Well, I know one thing the one thing I do know about the Super Bowl I'm from Detroit and the Detroit Lions are never in it. That's there's my knowledge of Super Bowl So The Detroit Lions are never in a Super Bowl Which may bother some people The commercials. Yes I'll end the I I would say I'll end the live stream when windows is done, but I don't get that kind of patience Because I may start another live stream on thursday and this may not be done doing whatever it's doing So I'll let it keep doing Because it's you know 73 it's lots of cpu usage here Do I need more ram? a little more disc rating fun stuff We did not no ansible gray log script. That's not working I think this is a really good point. I've brought that up too because so few people realize how small I mean america is influential on a global scale But on a population scale we're really small compared to the rest of the world We only represent about five percent of the total global population And when you interact as I have with people from around the world you think about things a little bit differently because you're right The world series doesn't include the world not really it's more it's Where it's so american focused now at least world cup. I'm not a that's the soccer one, right? I think the soccer or football as it's called outside of america At least does include a larger more global audience at least I think so. I don't watch any of them even that Uh like a two-filler internet knowing anything about sports. I don't follow me there. Yeah I am from Canada. Look how small we are but bigger land. Oh, yes Football not soccer. Yes We need we need to stream when the updates finish longest stream ever. I'll run out of energy before I do that um I don't really I you know, here's the thing as much as I was into building hot rods and stuff like that I was never I don't attend or follow a lot of the motorsports stuff. Um I watch occasionally some videos on youtube about it, but I'm not a big motorsports follower I like building it. I like driving fast I like motorcycles, but I don't watch a lot of other videos on it as a topic Hey, we love getting off topic on these live streams It's it's all right. That's what we're here for have some fun. Have some conversation Does it have a hemi? Windows 25 years of professionally Uh constantly wasting your computer's resources. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah for sure Yep, I see the IO ramping up again. Hey, look it might be done Is it done? Oh 74 it went from 73 to 74 percent. So progress has been made This is gonna run in the background for a while folks Yeah, top top fuel drag is wild so Let's see Windows updates fake. It's just mining dogecoin. I yeah, maybe Pull updates or I don't it doesn't pull the updates during install. You can reinstall it. It's just a different pain It is a challenge. All right. Well, I'm gonna end it here. I have a few things I'm gonna go do So thank you all for joining Uh, do you have your own a s or if you thought need ip I don't need that so I don't have that I know what you're asking. I don't have one Um, but thanks you all for joining. I'm gonna go do some more stuff and things and uh, you all have fun Thanks, and uh live on thursday, maybe live next weekend before the super bowl Maybe during the super bowl, but not during the halftime show. Maybe we'll watch the halftime show together Well, that would get me in trouble, but we'll figure it out Thanks everyone for joining. Thanks everyone donated. See you next time