 Hey, welcome to vlog Thursday number 260 31 people here already as soon as they hit the live button and it takes a minute and we got a who we have in here Hello from Denmark. There was the first Happy Thursday from Chris here And sorry that you had to spend any time at all in your life using QuickBooks Let alone actually fixing it QuickBooks is The the most used and hated product. I you know, I tweeted this the other day and I believe it was the Linux gamer a follow we follow each other on Twitter and I think one of the things I think just so many people have a hard time understanding I can both believe QuickBooks is an awful stupid terrible product I can also make money servicing QuickBooks these two things can simultaneously be true I cannot like something but also make money from it And this just applies to so many things in tech and it is what it is I can dislike Microsoft but still have a business that services Microsoft servers that's that's the fact these things are both true at the same time and Yeah, so it's just life and how things are going because also I Have a thing in the thumbnail and I don't know if people are gonna be able to guess or people will look at this and go I know what that is and Well, we'll leave this for later for people that want to know what this thing is I'm curious who's gonna be able to guess it first And we'll maybe we'll play with it on air So that's nonetheless, there's lots of things to talk about but I'm going to try to keep it narrower in scope I actually me and Jay do this thing Jay from learn Linux TV where we get together and talk tech every Tuesday Specifically around what we do is in our jobs. Is it a job doing YouTube and talking to people? I don't know we we actually joke about that. We're not positive if this is really I mean it is a job We make money at but it's also Kind of fun. I do enjoy this quite a bit Take a drink of my tea I do love this is my daughter got me this cup for Christmas It is it is truly my favorite cup for tea and it's tea in case you I drink coffee in the morning And then I'm a caffeinated free tea herbal tea drinker in afternoon Hey, someone recognized that this is a label printer, which of course the first label you guys stick on a label printer is It's always DNS Why would you buy a pink label printer Tom that's USB and Bluetooth? So it's really simple life pro tip if you're at a construction site and you have a tool that is pink There is there is a hundred percent less likely chance that anyone's going to try to wander off with it Also, it'll be pretty confidently known. It's that you're the one with the pink one It'll be a discussion topic, but I'm not worried about someone stealing this. It's also inexpensive It just came in the from Amazon the other day. It's actually a really clever little Bluetooth label printer. It's You can go ahead and actually let's print something on here, so we'll put It's kind of just I like the simplicity of it. So if we type in blog Thursday, and you just Hold my phone up just like that And then you just press the print button and I mean it's just this is really really simplistic of this And I think this thing's like thirty five dollars. They're pretty inexpensive. I might do a review on it I just needed a handy little inexpensive label planner to be able to print things and Those questions come up. Is this the commercial industrial thing you should use commercially? No, that's not what it's for But when you need something small like that fits in your back pocket that you want to be able to put some labels when you're out Somewhere it for thirty five bucks. It can't be beat because a thirty five dollar label is still better than no label at all So that's my thoughts on that All right back on topic of things here the Review I'm working on I actually spoke today and for those of you that are in the MSP community manager provider IT provider and like to talk about software The here's my little the little label here that says There we go blog Thursday, but Can it be used to mark wires? Of course it can be used to mark wires absolutely it can be used for wires I did not have time to make my cable labeling videos. So yes There we go, thank you for flying them. So yes, that's the that is a VIM sticker on the mic Absolutely matter of fact Mike is actually Sorry for the noise this may make there we go. It's a little bit low It's kind of it may end up down lower as the as the vlog goes on anyways the Labels that I'll be doing for a cabling is still not coming video I did not have time to complete that but let me finish my thought so I can just kind of get off of the topic But I'm looking for feedback on this So I put this early in the vlogs that already makes it to the end I get it, but I did put in as a title topic ninja one So we have moved off of the enable platform and over to the ninja one platform So there are upcoming videos on this Unfortunately, I've been really really busy and had enough time to do said videos. So that's a Good news Peter. You're I'm on that topic because I wanted to knock it out at the meeting for those of you That don't have to stay later for the video. Anyways So I'm working on a video on ninja one Feedback is always appreciated. What are the things you want to know? What are the questions you can? You know post in my forums is a great place to have a Q&A So I understand what all should be in a video. If not, I have a pretty good I read of a pretty good idea of how I'm going to be doing a video how many putting things together I do have a system set up that I can Share let me actually bring that over. So we go to clicking share Share a screen I hope this is the right one this looks like the right screen Actually me go to a Yep, that's the right screen cool This is what the ninja one and don't worry about seeing IP addresses in here. These are not my IP addresses. I Figure I get this we go in an overview. I think it has the IP on here. Yeah, it is If someone wants to look that up, they'll figure out that that's PIA's IP address but This is kind of what the platform looks like I'll dive into a Lot more of it sooner than later on how it works so that'll be an upcoming video where I go a little bit in there and Yeah, I like it better. There's a reason we did some demos with it before we switch to it There's definitely is a platform. I like a lot better. It's something we're working towards and It's a it's a nice system I Do overall like it actually have to make some changes to it. I'll log in the other account I realize I have something else tied to it that doesn't need to be so let me go ahead and switch that So I want to go and show you guys another part of the demo, but I can't do it until I Log out log in So that should be right here How did that get switched? Okay, I'll fix that later either way To give me an idea of some of the stuff that works on it. That's what I'll be covering Do do do see can you access Windows desktop from Linux desktop is Ninja RMM? The answer is this Ninja RMM is all web based so you don't access the desktop from Ninja RMM at all That's not what it's for Ninja RMM is remote my remote management and monitoring not desktop access We get decks the desktop access via screen connect So I still use screen connect and screen connect works in lendo windows so because screen connect works in windows I can still you and and in Linux Windows for the server side or client side and me. I'm connecting with Linux therefore as long as you use the screen connect. Yes Ninja also has splash top splash top. I have not tried to make it or know Do I have plans to make an attempt to get it working under? Working under Linux so that's not not something I plan on doing So let me why did that I got too many demos open at once. I'm trying to find out the right login with the right demo So that one should work and this one should work here. If not, there we go Alright, oh I see why never mind Person got the wrong access now that should fix it save You know the demos when you do them live, this is the reason I record all the demos people ask if I don't do more live stuff Because that's broken and you are right It does integrate with that. So yes, that's one of the features it has of integrating with the Screen connect. I that's one of the things I wanted to show Actually, let me hit save here policy reports You view view Connect That should work that's work, right? I didn't that's why it wasn't working was actually the ability to do that So that's why I'm going to I'm saving these settings so I can log in with all of this. I Was wondering why it was missing. I'm like, why is that not there at the top? That sounds like what did I do wrong? View restored. There we go No, no, no, I'm sorry about the delay here folks. Don't worry. I'll catch up with you in a second. Alright save Now I should be able to log in and share the screen and it should actually have all the right information and the little icon at the top That was missing. Yay There we go Recently when do I'm in center works great love the ability to manage basically everything a browser perfect for Windows Server shops? Yes, I have no idea if it's good for Mac. We don't do Mac management That's just something we're not really Not us not our thing Not something we do simple as that share share screen Chrome tab That's probably the wrong tab. So let's close close And make sure this is the right tab Promise me you have everything open. You have lots of tabs open There we go. Now. I got the right tab share. Whoo back to the right one Demo's are always cursed live demos part of the problem is in we we have a Specific demo user setup that we've been using to try all the different permissions and you know Even though these companies go through their own audit reports I'm a hey cool. I read your documentation, but let's go further and test every aspect of it I had created a bunch of user restrictions now the things show all the top like you're supposed to do splash top Connect wise control manage backups are all showing up Processor details all the fuck all the fun stuff. These are all things and all this is web base This is just a web page by the way So that's how I'm able to see all of this so it doesn't really matter as long as you have access to a web browser Whether it's a chrome a chrome tablet or if it's whatever you can see all these right here And this of course is the one everyone wants to know is how'd this go? How did the patching? Patching go on any of this or what patches got installed? Did it did it break apart during? patch Tuesday and things like that because you know We wanted to make sure all of these things got installed. So here's just all the patches and We can pull up the task manager in here People asking about the command prompt. I should have that I mean, oh did I not enable that still? Well, I came close. I apparently didn't able back-end command prompt still. Yeah, whatever you get the idea the file explorer works now Or not Error nope. I forgot to give permission to the this user my bad oh The fun the fun the fun of doing this You get the idea though. I when I put together the demo, it'll be more complete because I yeah Yes, it does manage and patch windows that's built in so you have windows patch management Ninja one All their site and talk about what they are so we'll stop this share add another share share screen Chrome tab This is their website for people to just want to run down the feature list of everything they do But I wanted to bring it up like I said I'm gonna dive into doing a more in-depth video on all of this In you can by the way, and I'm gonna mention this in the beginning of the video Feel free to ask how much it costs us because it helps with engagement But you won't get replies but go ahead and leave all those comments on there because I don't talk pricing on these particular videos That's for you and your sales person to decide because I've had people that just like to hammer that out there And I'm like, oh go ahead. It's Not a problem, but they have a pretty cool platform overall. They have some nice fun screenshots everything out there I don't even know if they support Mac though when it I don't I they support Linux when I've done some Linux testing with it so far it seems to work but I'm not big on any of the max side of it at all We if someone says hey, I like you to manage our Mac environment I'm like, oh, I'm sure you would but I would I'm gonna have to pass on this particular project We don't plan on getting good at max. We're not a Mac Place so yeah, but they do have all the patch management cost platform patch management for remote and hybrid workforces Remote access. This is actually through splash top We have not tested but this is something we're gonna test someone asked we currently use fresh desk for ticketing and we'll probably Keep using fresh desk for the immediate future But we're gonna look at the ticketing system because it's integrated with them It has to be at least on par with fresh desk is one of the things and I don't know if it is or not We haven't tested this is like one one challenge at a time fresh desk. We've spent time working on and understand it We are testing out and have demoed all their backups Their backup system is different because of the way it creates two backup jobs one for files and one for images. I Yeah, that's something I'm less thrilled about from a solution standpoint, but it's functional it works I like setting one backup that does both in one click like the solar winds enable one does but I'll just be honest You know that's something that could be improved, but that's where we are right now, but it's nicely integrated They have a really nice integration with it. So Okay, it's a Sam Sarin says ninja does support that How do you monitor your UPS with Watson data you use things like? What do you call it? What's that tool the Linux nut utility? That's if you if you care about that data you use that. It's not something. I actually actively monitor I you know who's really interested how many watts their house uses Jay from learning TV has talked a lot about it He's he is way more fascinated within me. I'm much less concerned with how many watts is going through my UPS so the way I look at UPS is is will they have enough capacity to Keep the system powered on long enough for them to power down and there we go. So That's another way to do it you can collect UPS infobia SNMP or AC UPS that actually works fine inside of PF sense. So Yeah Able to make a script and package execute on all computers managed. Yes. I actually really like their scripting so far has worked. Well That's actually we we could do that with enable and by the way We wrote the scripts inside of enable to deploy ninja to migrate from enable to ninja Then once we were on ninja we use scripts inside of ninja to remove any extra enable clients that we had and redeploy I Guess this thing turned off and redeploy any of the software you need deployed so Yeah, that's um That's the whole process for it. So absolutely. They have the full support for all of that. It works That's something we've been doing. So the should be in the RMM IT automation And they have by the way a bunch of built-in scripts. So you have scripts already built in that it can do and From there you They have anything on the scripts. I'll have to cover it in a video, but they they do have scripts I don't think they have much on the For emerging and state and local government enterprise expanding Blah blah blah resellers We're gonna be a reseller of it too because on nature what we do matter of fact because we sell co-managed IT That's one of the reasons we like them their permission set was better So far than enables when it comes to being able to say here's your Servers because we have like internal IT departments that we do some of the external for like providing sent a one providing managed security Through that and monitoring. So that agreement puts people Where they go? Hey, I'd like to see the dashboard. Well, it was always it wasn't great the way I thought it was handled enable it's handled better inside of ninja and that was actually why that that well even this user I've been playing with all the granular permission to see if I can get around something if I can do that so far It works pretty good. So what do we use to you automate install software? We use scripts deployed via ninja for pushing something So if we have a soft piece of software we need installed for a particular client We just put a power shell script and we'll push it out through that You know, this is how we can get if we have some setting that needs to be deployed or whatever We use our RMM tool to script that and push it out whether it's even a registry setting like hey windows Windows 11, can you not bother my my people that are on our managed system? You can just push that out as a policy change There are no I guess maybe Tactical RMM is a free alternative to ninja, but not exactly so that's yeah That not exactly is how I was saying. There's not any good is solid Free systems that'll be that are like that not not the same scale either as ninja They're not targeted This is something very specific to my space to have a small staff of people as we do of seven employees Manage a very broad number of endpoints And that's the only the way to do it is with our mem tools because you'll watch this in different forums and discussions of people going Well, how do we not have such a powerful tool on everything and I'm like good luck I mean not you could just throw people at it As a solution and manage it that way, but it's much more realistic to Get people Get people using this V or using using and managing people sorry me two things at once I'm managing people with an RMM tool It's just kind of the reality of it So, let me go ahead and drop just for those wondering this is the link and I can throw it in here Or it's called the Nimbot and and I am BOT I dropped an Amazon link for people interested in that so and Tactical RM security concerns. Yeah, they they had some immature behavior is what I will simply describe it as recently with the tactical RMM I I Got no dislike for the people a tactical RMM or anything like that You can join their discord you can get to know people and I'll even Throw a link here for people that don't know what this is So let's share the screen to actually me share it somewhere else share screen Chrome tab and this is the tactical RMM. It looks like they have demo demo and this is submit This is a free remote management tool. I mean I dropped the link in there you guys can play with it. So the You're region update page refresh. There we go. I Did this I've never I've never used it. This is not an endorsement of it This is someone asking is there a free alternative out there? This is a pretty cool dedicated team, but it's not necessarily someone who's I don't know where they're at And on the maturity of it. I don't think it's been code audited or reviewed So would you trust to see your bunch of systems? I'll leave that a completely up to you. Obviously I'm paying ninja one money for using their products. So I have chose not to do that do what you want I'm not here to tell you I'm here to inform people of products sometimes or talk about my opinions on them or inform You of risk that may come with it, but I'll leave that all up to you Ninja one server or Linux server deployed I don't their back end is all their own hosted back end you so I don't understand the question Yes, Jeff Kearling's been doing all kinds of fun Tutorials we may have him on the homelab show me and Jay. I think Jay reached out to him I got it. I'm gonna reach out to him if Jay hasn't But yeah, we want to we want to get Jeff on he does some really solid tutorials, especially, you know He's a raspberry pi enthusiasts. I believe he's got some really solid ansible videos. So yeah Does ninja have a self-hosted option? No, they do not and nor will they Jeff is great for sure Thank you very much for the super sticker there Pete much appreciated. I Don't think there's yeah, the super stickers don't show in my I'm using stream yard for managing the chat And it doesn't show in here. So Yes, Jeff is a solid habits of documentation for sure. Ah Yeah, ninja one does not have it. Okay. So someone else asked that same thing And it looks like tactical has logged out So we'll stop sharing that screen. I'm done with I've talked about it. I've shown people tactical If you're looking for a self-hosted option the tactical arm is the only one I can even think of that's Well, I can't say that I think there's still a couple other companies out there making some self-hosted ones But they're they're gonna be a lot different and they're not certainly not in the free category. Ah Yes, red shirt Jeff. He's always up to chaos You know, that's a good point. You probably if I believe he did write a book on Ansible I think I haven't read any of his books But I follow I've watched a full as YouTube videos and seems like a really solid Tutorials really nice and genuinely anyone knows I'm not directly interacted them, but uh, yeah, so He seems like a nice guy. I have no reason to believe otherwise Jeff seems genuine You know mesh central is another one that's out there I've never really looked at it a few people talked about it. It is a Let me pull it up s The mess central Which is part of this I'll drop a link to it. It's not once again. Don't think of this As an endorsement for said product. This is just me mentioning it. It's not something I've ever used So don't if it if it ends up, you know having some nefarious bugs in it that allow for Bad things to happen There you go. Um, I Don't know much about it, but this is the mesh I think it's mesh commander calm a set of open source project folks on remote management of devices People ask me about it. It's not something I plan to use in production I'm not confident yet that they've gone through thorough code reviews and That boy if there's something right now that's going on and if could the casea incident of July of 2021 Wasn't you know memorable enough. It's one of those things like even companies not granted casayas probably not the best example Because they're not clear. They're clearly a company that was not securing things very well, but um, the problems of Massive management means high high risk So with that higher risk and a lot at stake We just have to as much as I'm a big open source advocate I have to be very realistic and I have to go with companies that have put the money and put the time in and the Effort and which by the way does cost quite a bit of money to go through Security audits and review of their product and have pen testing done on regular Basises you can't just choose a product based at this level I mean, maybe something that runs locally less of a big deal something that manages at a one to many scale Computer systems. I mean that's that's something I don't take lightly So I'm very careful about the software I choose on that topic and security is Really just one of those first questions I ask for any of these softwares that I choose where security isn't a secure product before I can go a step further I have to have that answer because if that answer is no or we don't bother auditing or I've had companies Who are just straight up evasive and don't want to talk about the security they use that's fine That means we don't want to have any further conversation with that company. It's as simple as that to me So Mess sensual I probably said mess sensual so that's for sure See is there is there a good rule of thumb cuckling ISP speeds on a build. I'm assuming you mean for PF sense Yeah, you can go to the PF sense You go to neckhates website specifically look at their hardware and they have a speed chart for how fast that hardware can go and You'll actually find it doesn't even take barely anything to do one gig In older not even super fast Processor will handle one gig routing without a problem Been using ninja rmm for our internal team for almost two years. It's just been getting better and better That's one thing even since we started this process of moving we moved sections of Clients over and this is some of the chaos that created internally is It's a segment of our clients for on ninja for testing reasons The other ones were still left on unable because we weren't positive if we're going to switch the demo went really well but some of the bugs or Shortcomings I should say not really bugs but shortcomings we found with the product with the navigation and a couple other things Were actually fixed in there. I think it was their december update so we've actually In our cycle of testing it from November to december we actually seen direct improvements we their improvement and Their track for doing it seems to be pretty well laid out like they're very open about what they're going to be doing next And uh, that's something I really like them the company. They seem to engage with us as it people of things that are getting better So I thought that was cool Uh recommended rmm ninja one sure Oh, man, me and sam could talk about this and anyone else who's ever used enable the billing The billing and enable is confusing. So That's that's partly an industry problem. Some of the companies in the industry have confusing billing. So I've never used team viewers. So I have no opinion on that Yep sg 1100 will do that much with that speed. Yes Let me know how much I need to order like a hundred meg or 200 meg. Yeah. Oh, let's see Looking for an rm tool to scale the business. Yeah, so that's Uh, that's fine. That's a fine jug. How big is it? I I assume you mean this cup This is uh, I have no idea it holds it holds enough tea to keep me happy for about an hour From the time I sit it on my desk and let it steep so the tea gets to the point where I want it I'm gonna say I have about an hour of happiness with it I I think that's a fair enough assessment Um, we'll talk about this briefly Because it's worth mentioning I guess Um, I brought I put this in here because and I'll drop a link Hey, look at sam sharon and who messaged me right here Um Anyways for those of you that would like to connect with me on linkedin I did put this in the description of the video the um I've been trying to use linkedin a little bit more so If you would like to connect with me on linkedin Please feel free to do so. Um, I'm just bringing it up here No particular reason other than if you are trying to increase your business professional network Hey, I said why not I can throw this in a live stream and talk about it Um, you know, I don't mind connecting with people on linkedin But whatever platform whether it's twitter whether it's linkedin whichever platform you'd like to Uh in some way engage with me the proper way and I actually helped someone out with this the other day um, the proper way to engage is not not by asking for tech support via dm I will simply send you to forums in that case. Uh, if you're looking for tech support That's not the way to connect with me. Um, but if people want to have conversation and reach out I'm I'm open to you know, hey this or hey that and things like that I am social but when it comes to one-on-one talks The problem of doing tech support on a one-on-one basis is it doesn't teach the rest of the world something That's why I have my forums a matter of fact many times It's something that's always been weird to me is when people um Email me or not even email me still gets ignored to the volume I can't handle them. Um, but when people Semi dms that are literally I can write I can highlight right click and google search and it's the first search result Um, that's also not a great thing if you haven't even googled it Which by the way, I thought someone asked me a question about something I don't know what it was exactly but I thought it was funny because the first result was my forums Uh, that's just and I'm I usually reply to people like that that say please help me with this You know setting in pf sense. I'm like forums, you know things like that but nonetheless, uh, yeah, uh Like you said last week dm you to talk about cars and motorcycles that's a more likely about that. Um, absolutely. So Um I thought only people using linkedin were the ones looking for jobs It turns out there's a little bit more interaction on linkedin somewhat more than I expected. So Yes, there's probably a percentage But I've actually had some good engagement and become friends with some more cyber security people on there uh in following different cyber security people like west from over at perch or Jason snagel and a few other people I've gained I've made more friends and had some good interactions with them Just learning about tech and talking about the their perspectives on things and they post and have good discussions on there So there's um, there's other reasons besides that So I'm going to say linkedin actually has a use case for professional development and it's good having these circles of people. So you're You know engaging with them understanding and doing community things because there's not really as much and I've never been as big on them Anyways to to some extent going places. I I don't always like to travel much because I kind of like my little Comfortable desk. I said at most of the time which With the incidents of 2020 and 2021 and all these conferences getting canceled Now I am actually engaging with more people online because they have no other choice Because you're not going to find tom at as many conferences. So hence things like linkedin are become rather important for uh communities to get together Talk with people and engage with them in a way that you know, um, you know, we have there's so many facets of technology Having all these extra resources and people is really helpful. So I had no idea linkedin learning and linkedin premium is free to a year for all vets. That's actually really cool So that's pretty neat. Oh I have really wanted to do this a lot. I am always polite because I helped someone else who um They they actually DM'd me on reddit and I was like they asked for some help and but their help came four paragraphs Asking about hard drive. So I'm not even sure if something about a choice in a hard drive for schoonas And then they said I said, you know, this is something better in the forums They said, well, I post in a forum and people didn't reply and I looked at their forum post I'm like you wrote four paragraphs that don't really have many question marks And that can be probably why no one's responding. There's so much reading that you've you've put the burden going here Read my entire history And then somewhere in there, I have a question That is not the best way to get someone to have tech support and the other problem that I've run into and I feel people I don't have time to do this. It's a capacity thing. If you have a narrowly scope problem Someone posted a problem with um, they were having a radius server I knew about what the answer was because I think I knew it I there's I don't remember the setting but I told them what I thought the answer was instead of a link right away Great I have other people I didn't answer I've had people leave like 12 screenshots and three paragraphs of text Hey, I'd like you to review my configuration. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. I'm not gonna I just don't have the capacity to stop and read if you ask me one simple question About your whole setup, but a narrowly focused one. Ha I'll answer that question It's an overwhelming thing to people who want to provide and I'm providing free tech support in my forums To the capacity of which I can you know do this and by the way, I have thousands of posts that I've done So I'm doing this quite a bit But if you notice what I reply to versus the ones I ignore If someone just screenshots every section of their pf sense and asks me what do you think? I'm probably gonna not say anything about it So I'm always trying to encourage people because I never want to be Toxic in my forums like a lot of people are and it's easy to get that way Obviously, you can become bitter and jaded and you know These people should just know or whatever But I my goal is ultimately to bring everybody in bring everybody up to speed And sometimes that means teaching people how to ask a better question So they get the result they're looking for and that's ultimately the goal. I want them to have their problem solved I also don't want to have to read through three paragraphs of text You know There's a lot of research that people can do on their own spend some time googling You're not the first user of that product is pretty much almost always going to be the case therefore someone else has probably tried to do this and ran into these problems before so Yeah That's a that's kind of a true statement Uh, the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask the question but to post the wrong answer People will correct you. Yes, as long as you're concise about it and things like that um For sure. Oh, let's see. What else we have in here? That's such a true statement though Lots of people going into detail on how you're wrong. Yes. Yes if you if you want to dive into well Kind of related that and it's always it always made me laugh was uh, there's I'm I like history a lot and uh, the Book released by melvin gladwell called the bomber mafia talks about lame. He was a brilliant strategist with the air force and uh lame sat through like a two-hour strategy session on how to Pull off this thing They said nodded his head after sitting for like a two hours of listening and just said won't work and walked out And I kind of like that. There's there's some brilliance to someone who's so good They can look at these what smart people thought were really way to lay out plans and say things like won't work Light a cigar and walk out There's a lot of fun in that book because uh, they were someone who had a vision for how things should go Um during world war two, especially around the air force, but always that that little whole statement makes me laugh to think about that but For a forum post, I like the idea of a full background post um Yeah, you know, it's full of things too I like when people put a tldr and put there because that helps it's sometimes you're just asking me about hard drives Uh, but you want to add more context. That's fine. I will if I see a tldr and it's just a question cool Um, I'm some people do have time to sit and read a lot of that No, I'm thankful for those people that have a lot of time under hands to do that for me time is I between producing content running the business and I went on site and did a bunch of filming So like I had everything happening and once I had all those things happening. There's not also time for me to um Get some of those other things done So that's the fact, um For what it's worth. I'm gonna share something else here. So I'm not gonna go too much longer. Maybe another 10 minutes or so um Since we're not not off topic, but we're just jumping topics, right because I talked about I talked about the things I wanted to Now we're to the errata part share screen chrome tab the uh Basement has been painted The lights look like some weird because my ceiling is not my ceiling is delayed until 10 more days. I think um, so there's no ceiling in the new studio, but the walls are um painted and the dangling lights from the ceiling are because when the drop ceiling goes in these lights go in so uh Yeah, uh, sure. Why not we'll say this too go ahead and smash that like button 161 people watching how many people are actually 160 viewers 40 likes go ahead and hit more like buttons. Absolutely. I'm all for that but uh, so the the whole project on the new studio is certainly coming along It's actually kind of strange. It made some kind of I just as why I just finished it There's so many lights everywhere What else is uh, there's not much else to talk about with it though This is the um, it's actually there's more than one project going on On the other side of the wall is that this is the rest of my basement. Uh, this is a 33 by 22 space so Yeah, this is um, the other area that I'm finishing on my basement at the same time. So It's a I got I got a pretty good sized basement So it's this is one part of my basement the studio is another part and then I have a utility area that we built out so that's um All coming along little by little getting it all done And I say little by little because there's my wife painting I just take pictures of things that get done. So She's doing the painting and everything else there Oh, it's funny. This was the before picture. This is before lights were put in I I did all the electrical Um, I wired all the lights put everything in That's uh, it's a lot of fun doing all that Where's the other pictures? Oh Yeah, these are nice. These are just I made it look really clean I did all my electrical really nice and took pictures and everything else. So Yeah, the uh All these little pushpins junction boxes. There's so much, um, so much to do I did all I'm not obviously a professional electrician, but I took the time to really, um, Make it nice Actually, I'll pull these up right here. So this is one angle here and This is from the other side. Um, so this is the utility room in my studio was actually this corner In the back over here is where my studio is. So this is one area Then, uh, these are the lights I installed So They're pretty cool. You can find these on amazon for cheap. So they sell them at Lowe's and uh, the local hardware store sell them But uh, they work really well They're called wafer lights and they snap into like drop ceilings and stuff like that I'm gonna go when the studio is done one I'll be doing a tour plus I'll have a whole parts list for those of you interested in doing stuff Because you know, I have some thought process I put in a little bit at least to How I came up with what I should buy for all these things I love these lights because they have the junction boxes built in so everything You know when you pull the wire in wire out and how you jump her to the next one And make sure, uh, you know, you get all that right. That's how you see. Yeah Ah, yes the Nope the three open plan toilets not mine Not mine. I there was a discussion on that on there. So Yeah, these lights work great. They're really bright. So that um, definitely happy with how bright they are so the matter of fact Because this was the this will look like before the lights So it's so dim and dingy in there and um Yeah Me staring at the lights trying to figure out what works And then after the lights, it's all nice bright and well lit in there and everything else. So they they work really well definitely, um Definitely pretty cool. I was I was happy the way that part turned. I put the same ones in my studio I have rgb lights that are going to be separate on there So that's all that's a whole separate thing and um I had too many donuts today. So I need to need to work out more because uh, this was almost the almost the whole uh, the picture For the thumbnail was that one because these those donuts are really good Uh, we have a news we hired a new staff member and the Well, you know, it's not exactly an acquisition. So let me explain I'll leave this with you guys before I wander off here We had a company where we recently took over their clients. Um, they decided to get out of what they were doing in the it Uh services space. So we acquired their clients and we acquired one of their staff And they're doing consulting now. So it's kind of a weird split. So we still engage with them to an extent So we hired a new person the new person brought in donuts from a local donut place and that made us really happy. So yeah That's uh, that's been kind of fun It's it's always cool when someone comes in from another it company Because some of the people that work here have worked here for a long They'll worked here a very long time someone like 12 and 13 years And so when you bring in someone who's an outsider from another company It's always interesting the insight that you get with that Acquisition and the person coming in and all the culture changes and you know, what do you like? Do we do this smart or do we do this dumb? What do you think? I'm very open to Um, how did you do it where you used to be? Uh, is that something that's a fit here? I'm very and they actually are very appreciative of this Of I'm really, you know open to ideas It's it's also very different from a perspective because I run my company What we refer to as open book? So I'm very public with my staff so to speak on all the money that comes in and comes out what we bill for things Nothing's nothing's a secret and you can't just do it partially You can't just talk about the money coming in you also have to talk about some of the money going out It's a very open discussion here how we set things up and how we structure it That'd be everyone's on the same page because we're ultimately on the same team In order to make this a profitable company to move forward. So we yeah It's a lot The it's it's kind of a lot there. So yeah Uh, you acquired the one that knows where the bodies are buried. Yes, we did that is always true. So yes The company I work for is buying smaller companies. Yeah, this was less of a buy they wanted out. So there was just a um agreement made for passing the clients Back and forth where they would get a finder's fee for finding the clients that they had It's kind of how it works essentially So we did the takeover and we some of these already had existing contracts So we assumed any of the contract we looked at them all first to make sure we would Assume that we did nothing was done blindly of course never do that. That's a terrible idea So that it worked out really well the customers Are really happy some of them were excited to meet us and they're seeing some of the changes that we do that We do different we have We have a bigger broader tool set and we're able to do things in a fashion that they've been really happy with So even though we're only because we did this on the first of the year and we're it's january 13th right now 13 days in the customers are going. Oh, wow. This is you guys have a very clean process for all of this Um eat right down to the way we engage with our billing system and everything else So and and the new guy fits in with our team really well. He likes puns Important. Yeah, I like puns if you're here. I mean, I haven't listed that as a job requirement yet It's kind of just needs to be there though I mean, I don't know how to put that like you really how good is your puns like if you If you can at least laugh at them, I think you can fit in here Yeah, that's an important there's there's a lot of cross training I do that way no one person ever and I learned this from corporate We were very much Not at all military oddly But some of the stuff I learned later in life because I worked I worked in corporate at a very young age But one of the things that the company always did that I worked for was cross training. They would rotate jobs To make sure those jobs were Completely doable by other people and make sure no one could hold any department hostage So they would cross train the different people in accounting cross training different people in Areas of the business and I always that was important. So Huh personally add to yeah, oh huge huge, you know What one of my staff it's it's kind of wild to think that they've only been here a few years And the amount of knowledge they have like, you know doing You know, they go from Barely knowing tech to I brought him up to the speed and now You know, he's going to shadow me tomorrow on an enterprise storage consulting But I have several staff members that do a lot of enterprise consulting and it's once the training and me Working with them always pushing them to the limits. Um, so to speak is really important to me. So yes that's um Is it's something I really try to push for I try to get everybody trained I never want to be the smartest person My goal is to see is always try to find someone smarter to me Always give these people that work for me all the tools they need In order to grow in order to connect and get better at their jobs. So that's Always huge for me I know nothing about network lighting. No idea. Um, that's why I'm just got good old standard hardwired led lighting in my House, I got a switch that I can turn on and off and I'm perfectly happy with it There's some things I want just to work. I'm still gonna. So I have inside of here. Um, the Lighting system where did it go? We'll pull it up here A home assistant. So we do have a home assistant here Stop sharing Share screen come to We do have this I I'm gonna do a video on it once I reset it back up at my house So I don't know anything about there, but I can tell you currently steve's heater is pulling five amps and uh There's there's the history of uh, kyle So we do know some of the stuff in there. My staff set this up not me I could turn off kyle's light if I wanted to I think I could change the color of it too Yeah, I could set the colors of their lights and things like that. I'm gonna build one of these for my house Um, we have one here. We have this turns on the kitchen light. This turns on a recording plug So this if I hit this button, it turns on Uh, I look this way because that's where my cameras are when you see me in most of my videos This is another one, but it turns on all the studio lighting and stuff like that. So I have some of this on remote control Ninja's definitely, um, awesome Or home assistant is awesome And ninjas. Yes ninjas awesome too. So All right Rapid fire will give it a few more minutes. Does anyone have any last minute questions? I see a lot of you found my linkedin based on the sudden the sudden number of uh Of my network requests that have come up on linkedin. So at least a few of you seem to you found that all right Well, if you're alone in your room Are you the smartest device in a room? We can go with that Or is there a device there? Is there an AI system that exceeds you in there? Can you restore data at the file level? I don't have context for that But I'll say yes I need better context on there What type of or tea are you drinking? I like this stuff. Um, it's egyptian licorice I don't know what it I don't remember the name. It's by yogi y o g i yogi Um Egyptian licorice Other than billing issues. Do you prefer ninja over enable that'll answer with a yes. So ninja works with Just has a nice modern web interface to it. So I'm going to say I like that more modern looking web ui system versus Um, I the enable system It's looked the same for a long time. It looks the same since it was I think it was gfi back in 2014 when we started using it Um, I like the better interface on there. So I'm going to have probably some notes of why I like it better and more Uh Detail, but yeah, overall I do the overall. I'm going to definitely say yes Finally get your tiny pilot working awesome there gene turned out that the case I was using broke otg. Oh, okay On usbc port, huh? Yeah, this can be a challenge. Um, I am not So the the career advice thing I've been unemployed since 2003. I have not applied for a job Since 1998 that's the last time I think I ever and I don't know. I don't even know if I applied maybe 97 or 96 So I'm not I I see that and I actually swing it a little bit this way I've seen cori doctor. I'll publish something I thought was really interesting he says his advice for publishers would be very wrong because the the Era we live in now is so much different than when he started doing his publishing and kind of the same way I am very disconnected. I know what I look for in employees, but I'm also not hiring thousands of people We only have a staff of seven people So with only having a few people I'm not someone who is full of incredible insight when it comes to the job market That's one of the reasons I don't give too much advice on it I feel that I feel is always not something I have the best advice for but I do know From friends that have struggled in those markets. It's definitely a lot of challenges to the job market in general Hey, awesome. Glad you got one of those Jetson boards. I heard they're cool It's it's way down on my to-do list to get one, but uh jay from learnings tv has one. I know he's playing with his too Uh unlikely So Synology with pf sense and open ldap. I just don't use it. So it's just not likely. I'll ever do a video on it Um, if if I start using it in the future. I might but right now The problem with videos where I only do it to learn something to do a video Is it's harder and never is in depth? Um versus most of my videos are based on products we use and deploy so I can I can talk to them much better Uh, can I use a dumb switch to expand a? Uh single vlan port on a streaming view I don't know what a streaming vlan is but you can't mix Uh, it is not a guarantee that a dumb switch will carry the tagged traffic across Some of them just go I'm going to throw this out because I don't know what to do with it So when the packets come across a dumb switch, they usually don't so no I don't recommend mixing vlan traffic on dumb switches. So it can it can just fail sometimes The only thing I don't like but ninja is using it these last two years in a dark mode. I told them to ask their devs Uh to program in light mode and yeah, that's a good point. I'll agree with that for sure I think one of my staff or maybe two of them already modified the css anyways to fix that That's an issue. Um After the homelab show, I'm busy redoing the ip range in olahouse tonight. Awesome. That's always a fun adventure Interesting videos in a pipeline. Ooh, if only I was so organized as to have a content schedule, but um cable labeling and several cabling videos that i'm going to be talking about Uh, updated true nas video for a whole getting started with true nas in 2022 getting started with pf since in 2022 And uh ninja sentinel one cyber security video and probably some updated videos from huntress Um, those are all on there. I actually talked to my friend Xavier for those You don't know Xavier is my cyber security hacking friend and he may help me do the demo on sentinel one. So Um, yeah, there's definitely some cyber security videos up and coming on there where people want to know about the products We use so that those are some of the up and coming ones on there The Yeah, if the port is used to access that if you trunk a port and tag a port then push it to a dumb switch That does work. So because now you're you've stripped off the vlan tags. So If that's the thing there Oh, yeah, any updated security review. Yes, uh, that's also Something into works because i'm giving people a longer term video on this and let me go ahead and vpn connect I'll show this before I wander off To stop sharing screen chrome tab So I have my surveillance station here at my house. So I will be doing a uh Hey look my garage is empty except for some leaves but uh Because I've been using this for a while. I will be doing a video on This based on a long term review of it So the fact that I've been using it's going to be the helpful one of my dears apparently fell over That's the thing the screen's a little stretched. Let me uh deer down It's it's dead jim my wife should put that away But uh, yeah, I will be doing some updated reviews Hey look a car drove by That's not exciting though It's my backyard It's my toy trailer What else we got I did post on twitter some videos about this all the snow was gone though because it all melted again to the swarm again But it'll be yeah, so I'm going to be doing a video on this and I'll be diving into um, some of the cool features that can do including Um, all the smart laps features. This has been a really fun thing to play with this smart lap So yes, I will definitely be doing a video on all of that. Hopefully that makes sense Uh sent in a one How'd you get a rgb light in a patch panel? I bought it. They are out of stock. They're made by a company called penlcom EL COM I couldn't find any of last week someone said, oh my god. Those are a hundred dollars I'm like, yes, they are. I don't think they're the best purchase buy some cheap led lights and and build and do a diy Or spend a hundred dollars on those if you can find them Uh, nope. I have not tested out s3 on xcp ng Nope, I have not used crowd strike and not on my to-do list to do so Um, we use the you know sent in the one as a competitor for cloud strike. We I don't remember why but for a reason we evaluated, uh, set in a one compared it to a few other things And someone's going to be mad when I do the review because they're kind of going but I think this one's better Okay, I'm not here to convince you. Uh, I'm using what I like to use you use what you like to use Um, I don't I don't have a good reason not to use crowd strike We just overall when you looked at the market and talked to our my friends in cybers security They pretty much agreed that sent in a one was one of the best ones. So we use sent in the one um That was home assistant if you're looking for a project to do at home For remote control of all of your lights home assistant Uh, great great tool. Matter of fact, let me find the link for it But for those of you wondering home dash assistant dot i o is her website. So Uh 7200 rpm mechanical drives Yeah, the it's not bad with the mechanical drives. Um, let's see It pulls up really fast. So It has no problem with the um There's my wife going to work or I don't know where she's going Unplugging the tesla But it pulls up fast. It's only got four mechanical drives in it and it's it's running my uh mb server it's running, um These cameras recording time lapsing It's the hard drive speeds actually not been bad Yeah, this is that amd one and it works well. Um It's been it's been a good performer and there goes the garage door Uh, which one do I have at home? Uh, I forgot let me look this is rs one two two one plus with dsm seven. So Uh, now that I got in there But yeah, probably maybe overkill for home, but I'm doing a lot of things with it. So I'm happy with it It works. It works really well I've been I've been really happy with it. Like I said, I'm running. Uh, I have mb running at it Once I actually go here You can switch to this and this And I can put this on the screen Here's all the well actually I got to remove plex. So Uh plex is broken. So let's go ahead and uninstall I switched to mb. Yeah, we'll get rid of that Yes All right, I like mb quite a bit. That's what I've been running on this So this thing's running mb and running surveillance station, which not recommended. I just want to see if it worked And I have active insight hiver backup installed Um log center surveillance station sand manager Overall it works. It's been it's been solid. So It's been a good system Started updating moise laptop for the stream finish reboot 5200. Oh, no. Yeah, if you're running windows, you have to have an ssd I'm sorry. So I haven't had any problems with the permissions in dsm seven But that's me. Um, I also know how to fix problems with it So I'm never afraid of those problems because whatever it's the same thing with like true nasa. I'm not worried about it I'm so familiar with the product that oh, there's a permissions problem wipe the permissions rebuild the permissions I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it because I just jump in and work on it. So Hopefully that makes sense. All right, I'm going to actually end this so I can go home and do stuff, uh I think I've answered all the questions I will have an announcement soon with my new channel I, um, I got a reply to some emails to get the graphics finished on the new channel I said this last week. I started the new channel I just there's no point in subscribing to it because it's blank right now Uh, but that's going to be my business channel. So I'll be tweeting it posting on linkedin I'll even do an announcement video on this channel just for anyone interested in business videos Head on over to the new channel once it's ready. I'll have the graphics uploaded probably about tomorrow so hopefully that makes sense and, uh That's gonna be that's gonna be a lot of fun because you know, I know there's people who don't care about the business videos Which is fine. You don't have to subscribe to that channel and uh, yeah why, um I like ninja one better. That's why I've decided to go with ninja one I don't really have any better insight because I've never tested synchro and I'm not planning on testing synchro Um, that's my opinion. So but if you'd like to use synchro, I don't know any reason not to use synchro So nonetheless Thank you everyone who joined smash that like button before you leave unless you've already done it because doing it twice Wasn't helped me any so 104 likes that is awesome Uh, so awesome. Thank you very much and I will see you next week and maybe some other videos in between. All right Take care