 And I am live welcome to vlog Thursday 259 channel changes we're gonna cover that right off the bat, but I always like to say hi to everybody that's coming here and There's 69 of you. Mm-hmm clever 66 aw someone left 68 come on get past above that anyways Hello from Fayetteville, Arkansas. What is a good open source paid? Free the editing software. So there's a couple of them right now I am using Kaden live for all of my video editing needs but me and my friend Jay from learning TV have been looking at alternatives because there are occasionally some hiccups with Kaden live and The solution I'm really looking at it's probably gonna be DaVinci Resolve Which does have a free version by the way Kaden lives not bad. It's just become kind of Slow when I want to do certain things and it's also a limiting factor because I my channel has a lot Has very little editing because it doesn't really need much editing But when I do want to do more I'm also limited and I can't really get more done Easily with Kaden live so KDEN live. It's easy to find. It's free. It works on windows and Linux So it was DaVinci Resolve. So that's probably what I'm gonna end up going to in the future That future is not right now because I'm busy doing other things. But when I move to my new studio, I will probably do that. So You know, I just seen that Kodi from Mactelcom Networks also is a DaVinci Resolve user I didn't know I was because I was gonna ask what uh, What Kodi used so yeah, absolutely. I DaVinci is really nice It's a DaVinci's one of those ones that you can grow with because it's so extensive It has a lot of features Even if you don't use all the features in the beginning or maybe never will depending on where you're going with what you're doing But the nice thing is having it there It's actually got a really nice color grading system in it as well If you want to get into some of that more more advanced features like that Yeah, there's a open shot. I thought was pretty cool My first couple of videos like in 2016 were done with open shot before I found Kaden live I don't know where they're at in development. I haven't really looked back I'm gonna trying them maybe two or three years ago and it still wasn't up to the feature set of Kaden live Kaden lives got a really solid feature set. Ah Yes We have a series of projects. I'm gonna try to get out there and film them That's actually a real challenge. You can get out there. I I have um Another video that I'm gonna do about labeling cables where we retrofitted a building I posted a few pictures on did I post a few pictures on Twitter? I can't remember I feel like I did so there's a few photos of those. I can probably share them here So let me figure out how to do that Go to photos Mmm before I share things I can't share. Let me just make sure I have everything in here Okay, I can share these things So let me share that and give people idea what I'm talking about here where these go. There we go And it's always always all those things like pulling this up and making sure I Have so many things share screen Chrome tab Google photos. Oh boy. I have more than one Google photos open. Which one are we? Yeah, let's make sure we have the right one so cancel Share I have so many things that could go wrong if I share them wrong It's like people's phone numbers and things like that Yes, this is the right one. I don't want to share anything like private But this is the some of the videos are gonna be done on you know Dressing the cable putting it all together. I've got the video shot on some of this. This is a some b-roll I shot on my phone. This is about the cable labeling. These are some of the other cabling projects We got going on. So yes, this is this is a retrofit one We're we're gonna talk about the cable even because a couple different approaches on there These are a couple smaller projects. We did but then the bigger ones are going to be and let me Remove that and pull up the tweet and do that the whole thing Happy pasta. There we go For those of you that follow me on Twitter This is another project that started today. This one there is 40,000 feet of cable Going on there. So yes a few more feet and this is a series of a few buildings We're doing so this is the one that started today I had to pull the calendar up of within the next two months I think there's two more buildings about the same size that are getting done. So that's the yeah, that's gonna be a lot of fun All right Let's see Welcome to the first time during a live session Scotland oh Yes, so fun fun fact I shouldn't reveal on a live stream of the 114 people because it's gonna happen But it turns out if you want to be a salesperson to get through to us And you happen to have an accent very different than ours that could be Australian that could be UK Or Scotland or someone who called us from I think it was Ireland today We might take a sales call because you sound cool I'm not much of a qualifier, but sometimes we're like, oh your accent's great. I'll talk to you So we have a few clients overseas and there's like we have a particular one that they're also humorous So we're like, hey, let's just who wants to call that person Oh, we all want to call this person actually put us all on the phone It's gonna be fun. And so hi from Scotland. I Always like when I hear someone with a Different accent or something, you know, and I know they're from a different area than me It's the same thing when I know someone speaks more than one language It's frequently because they've lived somewhere. I haven't and it's always way more intriguing to me Like they probably know Something like they have been somewhere I haven't and that becomes very interesting and a great discussion topic It's always a weird fascination. I have whenever I meet people like that. So Any plans on a ceft cluster of SEO not likely I don't build them out We don't have any clients using them So it's not a it's not on my to-do list most all of my videos the majority of them are very much for real-world experience deploying something so when I deploy things I make videos about them and When I you know, so I mean, there's a once it aren't but the majority of them are that's why I Am generally a lot better at them is because of that Because they're not just me talking about it because I learned it and I want to regurgitate the information to you It's going I learned it. I deployed it Then I had to learn a few things more about what went wrong and then we deployed it Then we tuned it and we did this now here. We are Is a better tutorial in my opinion So let's see lots of I don't want to miss too many afternoon Hey travis travis is local. Um one of our clients. So hello Happy thursday After months of tinkering I pulled the trigger on Synology. Um, awesome. I like the Synologies Hello from germany all over the place Scout another person from scotland awesome Uh, what is your favorite rgb product for racks? Um, I don't know if you can see behind me I I don't know if I'll do a video on these. They're called Hold let me look what they're called I I'll have to find them on amazon. Hold. Let me pull my amazon account and I'll find them I I actually have some rgb rack tools. So that's the thing Are these things in my orders? Hold on rgb Rack but rgb We bought these a while ago. I'll find them They're They're silly No, I can't find them now if I find them. I they have a weird name on them Rgb rack lights. Where are these things? No I can't find them. I will find them some point. They're silly. They're expensive I don't think I they're not something I would do as a product recommendation. So, um Pen pen and lcom. Let me see if I can find them under that name Just so people can see what they are someone's gonna say time you're an idiot for buying them and I'll agree with you They're not So they called P and lcom Oh, great. They make lots of things Pen lcom apparently is a popular brand. When do we order these? Someone's got me on a rabbit hole. There we go here's Let me share my screen. Yes, I did buy these Currently unavailable. So I guess it doesn't matter that I shared them currently out of stock supply chain But yeah, I don't know what we paid for them One pen lcom one u led rack light They're somewhere They're like a dj product. They're just silly looking but I like them if you wonder what's glowing behind me It's those that doesn't appear to be any in stock. They're not sold here anymore but Yep All right, that's enough silliness. Now. Let's actually answer some real questions Ooh channel changes. We'll get to that. Let me catch up on the questions and I'll jump into channel changes I'll be talking about that Very shortly rgb makes the bits go faster Let's see Oh, what do you think of the real link security system? I use um Amcrest cameras. I I don't I use Synology for Synology surveillance station is one of the popular installs we do for security cameras. I really like them. They work. Well I've not tried. There's so many random ones out there and the nvrs are almost Always once you go outside of the licensed brand name ones Uh, and I see a brand name loosely. There's a lot of different brands out there I don't know exactly what constituted brand name, but you know, there's companies like, um acts Uh, xc. I want to say axiom. I know it's not it. It's um Uh, anyways, some of the big expensive ones out there And those are going to be well updated and well maintained. The Synology one is updated and maintained But all these other random ones are not very well maintained So if you want any type of access to them outside of your network that makes them kind of scary. So Anyways Access there we go. I access is the word I was looking for access make some nice ones. Um Anyways, the channel changes that are upcoming is going to be I am splitting off I've talked about doing it for too long So long, but you spoke you might not know about all of you But at least a lot of people did whenever I repost a business video one of the things youtube gives me is some analytics data And I can actually show you what that analytics data looks like And it's really simple to change. I'm going to make we're just moving all the business content to a new Uh channel because it seems to be that people come here not for business content, which is fine I don't have any problem with that and if I look at a video and let me find one of them here This is um A great example, let me find it here. Here we go. Here's the audience and we'll share the audience stats with you We lost four subscribers on this last video me and Brett did now That's not substantial. It's not like it's a ton of subscriber, but it's still four less people Um than I had before and what I'm noticing across my business videos people came here not for business videos And I get it. That's fine. This is I wish youtube allowed people to subscribe to playlists Because of the challenges they create of creating a new channel It's just gonna it almost everything I license like to buddy and things like that as licensed on a per channel basis If youtube offered the ability to Subscribe to a playlist it would be amazing because then I can have a channel But then you can only get notified when certain playlists like if that was an option I think people would love it that way if you only cared about a singular topic that I cover on my channel And as long as I populate that playlist every time I come up with it Wow, wouldn't that be amazing youtube who doesn't listen to tom laurance at all that would be great But they're not matter of fact It's one of the challenges I've had niche channels grow faster The reason people subscribe to a niche channel is because they know what to expect from that niche They subscribe to that channel because it covers a very narrow topic that they're interested in And when you're broader like me it creates a bigger challenge growing the channel To the same effect one of the reasons and it's interesting me when I talk to my friends who have more subscribers than me I have more views than them because people don't want to subscribe because i'm all over the place And they don't want to be notified for things that are not interesting and I understand that But the other bonus though is the fact that Most of my stuff is tutorials. So i'm scratching an itch which that itch I wanted to know how to do a thing I searched for it I found tom's video on how to do the thing so they watch the video So I actually have a higher view ratio than some of my other friends who have more subscribers than me Um, but either way I I just got I I have been defeated by an algorithm. Um that I have no control over So we're splitting the business videos I I yeah How does that compare to a normal video? That's a good question. So let me pull up a normal video Um Switch it here back Do here and 27 subscribers, but this one's whole this video may not be the Um, that's representation. So let me switch to another one here That because that one I just published let me go one that's a couple days old That's uh, it's actually I'll do one that's as old as the other one Here's here's one that says old other one, but it's it's also partly driven by what topic it is 238 more subscribers. So 27 I've won and 238 more on here There is no question most of my subscribers come from my tech videos and I consistently across all my business videos either no loss or a loss of like three or four people. So um, yeah, that's That's life So yeah, nonetheless Splitting the videos the business side makes sense. This can only open up for more subscribers on both sides Yeah, that way the people who care about both is that's a scribe of both channels But if you only care about one then that's fine Um, whichever one you care about you'll subscribe to I I mean technically if I wanted to get Really focused and try to game the system, which I'm not I could create like a pf sense channel I could create a true nas channel or one maybe just on storage in general So if I created like a nas channel and a network engineering channel But you know, it's trying to figure out how to divide those up But the extra effort it would take on my part is a lot and that's kind of a problem. So that's um I don't know if I want to put that much into it. I'd have to hire someone just to keep up with it I also really really try to keep up with the comments and reply to people provided the comments make any sense I remember it's always funny because people start out with this video is three years old Blah blah blah, but the way I see youtube comments is not um that way so when you go to the Um comments on youtube All the comments are like this I see them doesn't matter when the video was this video is several years old like I don't know I don't remember like this is three years ago Um I see comments like this. So I reply to a lot of people as long as the comment makes sense like even this one um, yeah It's sometimes just a thanks this one just says Original thing. Yeah, there's a thanks for fixing it and things like that. So not really anything to reply to but I see the comments like this if I have to switch between all the different channels to reply to all the different comments Um becomes a lot of work and then I may not reply to all of them and that's a whole different uh whole different problem all right Have you seen or used a deep learning nvr nas and tuning it? I have not um I have not used those it's not my to-do list to check them out because I got some new stuff coming out related to it So I'm my to-do list What abd recommend for homelabbers? If you're using windows, I highly recommend you use The windows defender. So windows defender is definitely always in the top list of Detection it detects really well with not too many false positives So if you're running windows run windows defender if you're in a home, honestly, it works good I've seen so many hacker demos screwed up like internal proof of concept demos screwed up that we're able to bypass Other systems other end point detection paid systems because they wanted to start with a stock machine improve They could do whatever their proof of concept in their hack was and uh, this this happened to Xavier twice He could get around the expensive edr. He couldn't get around windows defender As far as linux you don't need an antivirus on linux If you want to scan documents or things on linux, I mean you can low clam av but you don't need a av on linux systems Not for home users now As far as when you get deeper into doing Um, so there's features you're not going to get out of windows defender It's great for basic av for home users But when you want to do something a lot more in depth, uh, we do you set in a one for that So while there are some advantages I'm working on an upcoming video on why we use set in a one and how we do threat hunting with it Because those are tools you don't really get with the microsoft one So if you wanted to do full analysis and things like that set in a one, it's great But you can't get set in the one You have to have a pretty high minimum commitment to get to buy set in the one You can't just buy it for for users or whatever. Uh, this doesn't really work like that I did find your channel through cross-doc solutions. Love the mix and passion you have talking from experience Honest and awesome will absolutely subscribe to business channel to awesome much appreciated Thank you very much I watched tech and was getting the youtube to stop recommending Uh, it's trying to get you to stop recommending the inside business video and interesting to connections started watching more You know, it's gonna vary with what people want and I that to me is enough of a split for now I don't know what the future holds, but for now I'm just gonna say all these business content. I matter of fact It's I've actually held off because I didn't want too many of them I have an interview I haven't published with my friend bob And i'm gonna do a video with a couple videos of bob. He's really good talented sales guy I've learned so much from bob so I want to do a series of videos of them They just don't fit the channel very well because it's very salesy, but it's also good sales tips That's why I want to bring them on there and I don't want to start diluting the tech content So when I start the new channel, um Among the people i'm gonna have more I have a few other people besides him too that I want to do some of these tech sales videos And I just don't think they fit in with a pf sense tutorial videos in between them So I think there's a good reason to split it and I think this it has a good future so I Yeah, I don't know I did I didn't talk to I have not talked to Xavier For several months like I was at his wedding and then I didn't see him again for quite a while and then Um, I have for coincidence. I talked to him today, but I didn't bring that up on content creation I don't know. He's he we twittered back and forth and he said he wanted to do some content creation Hi Xavier if you're watching so we'll we'll narrow it down and figure it out He moved to california by the way, so it'd definitely be done remotely I don't know if he's moving back. I The conversation we had was on a more technical topic. So Um, nonetheless, maybe I for now it's on hold. That's I don't know if it'll be on hold forever or and until some other time Got a gig for a big house with ubiquity. Have you got any insight into the current web supply issues? No, you can't get stuff If you can find it by it, that's my answer if you can find it get it There's things are definitely in short supply. We had a customer We met with today to help them build out some stuff and Their their growth limitation is right now. They're over the next few months. They need 2048 port switches and they can't find a supplier that has them We were consulting on some of the network engineering side of it But they need 2000 switches and can't get like this is a problem for any of these larger companies go ahead We need a lot of stuff and we can't get our stuff I don't you kind of go to go to the secondary markets on some things. So Yeah, the new channel is not set up yet. I should have it set up by Um next week it was on my to-do list today And then I got on the topic of deleting things like deleting channels. I don't use anymore So that happened and then I broke I broke some stuff So that happened and now I'm my I fixed the things I broke when I accidentally deleted the wrong things I didn't delete my main channel. So I got it all sorted out. So that's uh, yes No one has insight into ubiquity. Yeah Short on supply short on staff. That is a challenge The good news is we are we just brought on another staff member. So, uh, we're not short on staff at this moment. Um We're not hiring at the moment We did some acquiring is how we uh, we acquired a few things from another company Like all their customers and some other staffs. We have we have a new person that started really I don't know. I don't know when I can really announce. It's not exactly an announcement. Um But we just acquired a bunch of clients from another company another it companies have a transition and we took some of their staff Well, one of their staff I should say But it's still a transition in progress. I don't know how much I can Yeah, I don't know how much I can say about all that but Cool, it's happening. I mean, I don't I don't I don't know how to make an announcement Something like that either or if it's even relevant. We got more customers So that's a bunch of them Yay And lots of consulting projects. It's all good stuff. It's all happy stuff The person running the business is making a change themselves. They passed off clients and staff to us there I guess as much as I can announce I can't say any names I don't know where my nda starts and ends Um, not sure if you have video didn't look but maybe pia pf since you maybe start with configuring unify cloud ufi p in the inform Um, yeah, I'm gonna do that is actively a couple things I'm working on that is included as something I'm working on is um A new version for 20 It's all right now If you watch my old videos on how to set up pf sense with unify with vlands As long as you're watching my older videos And you're using the old version the old settings I should say old ui which I like better anyways inside of unify that works out pretty well You're able to see things Um in there In the same way it was in my video if you're using a new ui things are just a little bit different So my plan is to make a new 2022 version because that video is like from 2019 So I will make some new 2022 versions of how to set up vlands and everything else Um, a lot of one of the things is going to change a lot is once I have my new studio with the next month or so Uh, hey, he's supply chain. I'm waiting on a ceiling to come in. It's three weeks on back order, but the uh when you're When you're waiting on all this and uh supply chain anyways lost my train of thought Uh, I once I have my new studio. I'll have more time where I just focus on a lot of that That's going to be a huge thing where I sit down and create a lot more of these videos Because I'll have time to and really dive in and focus on it. I also will do More than one live stream because I can do Easier to do live stream at my house. So if I want to be home, I can be home and do my live stream at night I can do some business live streams where I can do some business q&a huddles with people And I think there's probably not as huge of an audience for the business ones Which might make it fun to do a more personalized type of business q&a episodes and stuff like that So I can help people targeted for the business channel and help people targeted on the networking and Storage and nas and everything else we cover. So How do you back up your youtube channel? Actually, um, I have an answer for that. I use tube buddy Uh, there's two buddies got a great tool that will copy all the metadata out of your channel Now what I don't do is back up the videos for because I don't need to back them up once they're on youtube I keep a final copy of all of the videos So I can re upload all of my videos if youtube Did something horrible or I wanted to move my data and content to another platform I have the final rendered version organized year by year for every video i've ever done, which is like 7600 or so videos 1500 somewhere in there 1,500 videos The only thing missing would be the metadata descriptions, but I have those saved into a Tube buddy it automatically grabs them And throws them into a spreadsheet and then I just keep a copy of that spreadsheet and I updated Probably every couple weeks. So worst case is if Some video got somehow purged off of youtube and I lost access I'd lose a couple metadata but the metadata is not the important part anyways The metadata usually just has whatever links I talked about and I have those in notes So technically I have a backup for that too Do you focus on large companies or is it a mix? Oh, it's a mix. I I have We have at least two in the fortune 1,000 list that we've Consulted with worked with and are continuing to engage with And we have some small places we have a counting firm with like eight people four people So all over the place. Yes We were looking at a new office and to move the studio instead We changed all that felt nothing worked out every place we looked at people wanted Astronomical amount of money for their buildings that were garbage in my opinion Like I wouldn't buy this one building was full of mold and they wouldn't come down at a price The building had been for sale for Nine years and they wouldn't come down on price still not sold when we looked at it last year So we're coming up on 10 years of for sale Yeah, but we don't want to we don't want to you know lower our price on this We'd rather turn the HVAC system off and let the whole building have mold inside of it Yeah, the remediations about 40 000 for that. So sorry The other problem is a couple of buildings look at the taxes were so much they were in a city wouldn't budge We're like, well Here we are And I happen to own a new house that I built so that it's a relatively new construction My house was built in 2019 with a large basement So we decided to move the studio to the basement because now I can just walk downstairs Yeah, I might do a unifying untangle setup. I might do a couple more untangle videos. I still like untangle Um, it's the diminishing returns problem It takes a lot of time and effort to put a video together And then it gets very few views and the problem is with the untangle videos They don't get a lot of views. So I'm always mixed on how much time I want to put into an untangle video They're good. I think it's not it's not a dig at the product It just doesn't get the engagement on youtube by the way because untangles a paid product That's enough to turn off most of the home users and for the enterprise users They just buy the support package that comes with untangle because that's part of what your fees are with it. So, yeah How well does ansible tie in with unifying pf sense never use it with it? so yep Yes, Eric Eric's one of our network engineers here does a lot of consulting Eric has seen projects all over the place man. It is uh Eric was on the call today with the with the people looking for 2000 switches and and set up in configuration. So Yes, it is a very big mix because Eric was also helping someone solve a Pal policy routing vpn for a much smaller system. So it is it is all over the place Ah, yes, it really is. It's new york city real estate. Um, the rospin Lewis rospin. He's ranted about this. I've watched maybe a little bit of him But I I feel exactly where he's coming from on there of just How wild it is like just It's crazy. It's just I don't get it. Um These people will let a building sit for sale forever without being occupied and the taxes I mean one of the buildings you look at the taxes are and this is a standalone building by the way It's nice size, but you're I think they were 13 or 14 Thousand dollars a year in taxes So you're going to pay a few thousand dollars, you know Well a little over a thousand something dollars a month in taxes Unrelated to the actual owning of the building and upkeep and by the way the building was built in the 70s And that was the last time it was remodeled That was the last time the roof was put on it and a roof is going to be on that building right around the 70 80 thousand dollar mark the h-fax system is going to be another 10 20 thousand because also It had it had been serviced in the 80s So you're buying someone else's problem and What's the upside of it? nothing really What ups do you recommend for a rack graceful shutdown? I've actually bought recently and I I should do a review on it Maybe I'll pull them out and do do set them on the table do some review on it or something They are um apcs. I bought a couple other smart ups. They work great. They do graceful shutdown. Um I act they're both rack mount ones. I Didn't they're the lithium. I am ones is actually why I bought them. Uh, let me find the Amazon link for it and give you the right ones orders They were the apc And uh, we started So I bought the I've been using it since november, so I wanted to use it for a while Please know if you notice my videos. I tell you at least I've been using these things for some period of days I don't like a review that's like, hey, I just got this check it out That doesn't tell you as much you could have read the specs. Uh, you want to know did it work? You know Was this good and this is the one i'm using at my home. Um with all the things I have not much but I mean I got a few I got a synology a true nas and uh pf sense firewall It gives me 12 minutes of runtime And it's a you know, and this also runs my poe switches that power my poe cameras and everything else So I still have 12 minutes of runtime on it, which is fine to do a graceful shutdown And then this one's a little bigger But I like this one's been working really well. This is one we're using for our lab rack two at the office And uh, this one no problems. This is aps smart ups both these grace will shut down bottom ball same time and turn to both on I they're actually a lot lighter than your usual ones because they're a lithium ion, but they both work well Oh, I know I listen to everything at 2x. That's why I don't watch many live streams myself I watch so many things at 2x like I I heard steve gibson I like you know security now and i'm listening to him on uh and in real time once i'm like Oh, man, does steve have an aneurysm? Oh wait. I'm so used to listen to him at 2x He talks so slow in real person like I have no suggestions on getting dns over http working on your dm pro Did it have shag carpeting? Hmm I think I have pictures of it. It wasn't shag I let me find it though. It definitely lots of paneling but no shag But I'll I'll show you the pictures of the one of the buildings we looked at they wanted It came down on price eventually Um, because they bugged us a couple times to come back and we told them no And that picture though the basement is really is what showed its age Where did it go? Here we go this This picture here It had a kitchen That that kitchen's all a giant kit and it's all one piece. This is so cool. Look at this It's all just the stove and everything's all one piece on this. It was like It's really novel So yes, that building was quite old had not been remodeled so There's that But that's uh, yeah, that's the problem with these places That's why we're not doing that so If I'm watching anything less than 2x I'm invested in it. You're not wrong Oh for sure. Um, what else was I gonna cover today? I feel like that's gonna cover something else. I can cover all kinds of things. What what else do we want to know today? Yes, kind of like an old school Ikea kitchen Uh, didn't you review a ups because I remember a smaller lightweight batteries? I brought it up before I mean I've talked about it before when I first bought them because they were on the table And I remember bringing them up in a live stream but never really a review Four buildings p2p wireless all unify adding about 15 security cams per building suggestion. Uh, I like synology Synology surveillance station is nice so Hey, awesome. Thank you scott. I want to say thank you for providing great content on your videos very clear You've been a big influence. I'm getting bs. That's true. NASA the lyrics in general Windows is a dumpster fire windows is a dumpster fire for sure Uh, yes bash the like button. There's 150 of you, but only 47 likes we can get that problem solved. That'd be great Unify gracefully shutdown. I don't know how to do a unify graceful shutdown I shut down my unify server with um It's linux so it can shut down with the linux shutdown command. So I don't know what you're trying to shut down gracefully Uh, let's see. What else should you know? But I mean one of the other things I'm working on Quit this And I share this out Maybe See if this thing's working Hmm That didn't work. Well, it's I don't have to show that part of it, but At some point I will do a video on this so Make sure the system's up and running Make sure you don't have to show anything here that I can't show Use your logged in use your logged out Fun stuff. Oh, let's see You know, I thought I I posted this about a week ago and no one cared and I talked, you know Me and my friends were talking about like a week ago when they announced it and we were laughing about it And it's like now. It's a big deal today. So Uh Does the channel splitting mean we can ask those related questions in these vlogs anymore? No, I don't I'm not too big But I I do prefer to keep them focused and I'm going to do separate live streams So why not that way I can have a live stream where I can only answer business questions Or only focus on tech a little bit better for the audiences So my plan is to do two live streams one once it's split too that's um I'll do the business tech ones and maybe brett'll join me and we'll do a bunch of business q&a and have some fun with that Um, so yeah, we have some we have some solid plans I don't just want to do it to split the content But why not take opportunity to do something a little bit more and a little bit different Ah Yes, it can be a bit of a resource hog. There is no doubt about that My Synology at any given moment is definitely using a decent amount of resources Is what it is. I don't really have a solution Buy a bigger Synology has been my solution. I mean, we've got some bigger installations. Um, they work. They work well, so There's other ones out there. Um There's the one I always forget the name of that we deal with with the school districts That's what we do with it. Um exact vision. We've installed it in schools and some very very large installs exact vision It's nice, but what gets people about these is the recurring annual license fees and they're like I want to buy a surveillance system Not buy one every year and I'm like, nope. Once you get into the, you know, higher end surveillance companies That's you buy the maintenance and support contracts with them. Uh, Synology's done a good job and it's because of the way they Brand everything differently and handle things differently that their licenses are at least perpetual so that's One of the big selling points. Synology is perpetual license But that means sometimes you because of the Synology's not being as high end you got to buy one of their higher end devices and put more money up front But then again, you're still putting the money in you're like, well, I'm just going to go get an exact vision system Then you go, oh, I got to pay every year for it. Yes And the exact vision will supply you with hardware or you can build your own servers And you know, build your own server to cool as long as you built the fast enough But now you're putting the money up front to build that So yes Do you know why neck you have in a life several products in low bin range supply chain It's like the Joke with everything. There's just it's I'm willing to bet without even any insight knowledge that I bet they had More products that were supposed to be coming that they can't get because of supply chain if I had to take a stab at it Um, and this is not just a neck heat problem. This isn't everybody problem Matter of fact, I did laugh at one of my friends. He's about my age And uh, he says that's his new answer to dating. He says whenever someone asks why I'm still single supply chain problem He goes it's just the answer for everything. I was like, that's great, dude Fun times Yeah, I don't really have There's so many things right now that are just waiting on supply chain problems Oh, let's see. Can I share incognito windows and why would Tom share an incognito window? Hmm Because I want to talk I am doing some I have a couple things I'm working on that I think some people might be interested in um, let's see if we do share and we see Share screen chrome tab. Can we do incognito? I don't know if it'll let me Yes, it will. All right, cool So I think this is the right window. I only see one of them. Hold on. I gotta get these windows lined up better There we go This Is a test machine I'm setting up And that's not just so we can get it out of the way. That's not my public IP address um Feel free to look up what that IP address is anyways This is a system that we are A demo system we have. Yes. I know the product keys in there too. This is completely an old used computer That we have for this So yes, I'm aware of anything that I'm sharing inside of here But this is a system I'm setting up to give people an idea Of what the ninja rmm that we've moved to so this is something I've talked about Yes, ah the aspect ratio as I see Eric has brought up here Yes, we are moving we've moved away. Um, we're on our way away from enable and uh The ninja rmm system is our new platform we're going to be using for all the remote management and uh managing things and activities and remote tools and dealing with approved patches or installed patches and Every fun thing that we're going to be doing on this. So I'm going to be doing some videos and as a few people have asked This is that split type of video. This is not a product for home lavish This is not a product for end users. There are a good number of it business owners and Managers writers that do follow me that definitely have an interest in this video So it's probably gonna go up on my main channel. It's because it's not separate But um, I know a lot of people have been asking about this particular thing So this will be Definitely something that I'll be covering. Uh, I've loaded lots of randomness on here It's it's a lot of people don't understand necessarily what an rmm is and it's remote manage management monitoring What this allows us to do is there are a lot of computers in here I've just got a a narrowed down in scope demo account to Give a demo and show it how it works. I'll be covering this. I'll be covering how ninja works and um the The whole system so far has proven really good as we've migrated everybody over to it I just kind of got I'm gonna try to articulate it in in a better way But with enable we just kept running into a lot of little hiccups and problems And because we do a lot of co-managed it this is kind of an example of what a co-managed it situation may look like For certain clients where they want access to certain amounts of dashboard Well, the way we can give access to the dashboard enable was not great the way we can do Access to the dashboard where we manage people's systems that we can narrow and scope the systems in their account And allow them to log on and co-manage it with them Ninja just seemed a lot better for that the enable patching was always eh, but so far the patching seems to have gone pretty good for uh, using ninja the Way it works though. I like the more modern ui. It kind of has a better feel Overall, I've been pretty happy with it from that point of it So having all this in the way it works has been pretty solid. It really hasn't caused me much grief I actually like the way they have all the different things here for quickly jumping into like different Things all right. This is sand disc ssd disc partitions I just think they laid things out better being able to pull the event logs better events non-critical events What's the product? You know, we have we use sent in a one I am going to cover sent in a one the same computer. It's going to be covered on there. So It's uh, it's all a pretty solid system Have you used a manager to project that's not central. Here's the problem and it's It's one of the problems is it's I don't know like Eric's impressed with it It feels way better than enable. It's harder to articulate why it's better But there's a few things like the way it handles everything in a nicer web Ui versus the way enable has a web ui, but it's actually emulating more like a desktop application Um, I like a lot of that feel the overall smoothness of it. We like the patching has gone well um, but one of the challenges is and we Like even for a demo we set up We actually I'm not going to get into the details when we're testing even some products Like even a test for us is deploying it on like two or three hundred systems to do a test just a test And then rolling it back because we didn't want to roll it out to the whole fleet because we've rolled to the whole fleet The problem is exponential This is why it's so challenging to test an rmm every single tool tells me they're great I went and talked to a few friends of which ones they hated which ones they liked And I got such a weird mixed answer It is a regular weekly discussion and under a reddit rmsp My overall feeling so with ninja where they seem to make a pretty solid product I talked to the people at ninja their engineers have been great to work with so when we started rolling this out on a Bunch of systems it seemed to go pretty well and we said, you know Well, let's roll out on a few more. Let's kite migrating We started this process all the way in november and then we hit critical mass We said, all right, we're going to make a decision or maybe even october It's been a few months ago when we started testing with batches of clients at a time Which of course creates a kind of a pain for us because now we have more than one We have a split of systems and once we decided we felt it did things better We started just you know moving more over there and then we finally hit it and said, all right Let's move everything over there and uh, yeah It's it's not an easy decision to make and I don't like I don't have the time Every salesperson gives me the same pitch insert name of our amount of telling me they're the best You have to pick someone ninja had the right set of features had a You know good offering overall and we said hey, we like the interface So those factors led us to ninja. Is there something better out there? There's always always always going to be Someone telling me the thing they're using is better either a salesperson or another it person That's every day I hear that you should be using this insert name of product At some point you just have to make a decision. There was enough pain points with enable I stayed with them for years since like 20 The since they were gfi. I think we started using them in 2014 maybe We stayed with them for you know seven eight years and we decided we like this more modern ui and The way things work better here. So that's my overall how I feel about it um What do you recommend home lab something like rmm patching etc? We can get some experience before we go into real world There's not really much uh out there that i'm aware of you can play with though And I will bring up the one open source one out there that is very much Has a lot of features and a dedicated support people Is tactical rmm. It's a pretty neat system. It is a free and open source one that you can host So that's at least one you can look at it It's going to give you the same concept because all the rmm's even if the buttons are in different places They generally have the same set of features. So having that same set of features means that you know, you can generally speaking uh me Go to Ninja one Put you out to their main website um, you know, you look at their products your rmm If you read through these feature lists, you'll find that these feature lists are Oh, look the best rmm software in a grid like all their marketing And if you went to another one or if you went to enable you'll find a very similar marketing and a very similar Um it asset management cloud backup service desk remote access software deployment it documentation and patch management End point and monitoring awesome. And if you went to the next company same list over and over again, so Uh Have the dog could be four percent on the carpet. Um Yeah I may have froze for a minute. So open vast On that kind of topic if you're looking for a vulnerability scanner open vast is a solid product as well for those of you And haven't heard of it. Um, it was that company called green brain networks I think it's called green brain green bone not green brain Those of you that haven't heard of this open vast is a assessment tool. It's pretty neat. Um This is a good for vulnerability scanning and things like that something you can play with it's definitely pretty cool You know Hate to say it that fell into the thing. I'm like I I like this tool called invoice ninja So why not have ninja rmm because then we can have confusing conversations in our office So there's that there's that as a reason to switch to it Yeah, I see someone said green green someone got it right. I don't know why green brain is a comic bookstore Down the street. So that's part of what was in my head. There's there's a local comic book store called green brain comics I know I went to uh some business classes with the people that own it nice people We really do need a third ninja product I'll go with that because we need we just need this like, you know, ninja naming things and everything else Lawrence ninja systems. I can go with that I can Yeah Oh, that makes me more fun. C. I. M. S. C. M. S. S. I. M. S. And S. I. M. S. Ninja air fryer. Um, didn't they have a ninja food processor too? I think there was a uh ninja food processor So we can keep theming keep theming all of it Uh, yes, so much fun packed in one place but yes, I will be doing videos on all these fun topics and Covering how they work and covering what the software does and doesn't do With their ninja data protection and their backups. Does this thing have a backup? Ooh, 88 gigs of storage So it has a backup does it have See if I can get that to work I gotta put oh, I don't play I see what I gotta do. No, I don't like doing it But hey, look it has backups. We'll talk about that too. I've done already did all the backup testing and restores on it their backups are Different than the way enable does it? Um, because Eric will tell you he's one. It does all the policy writing for the backups So Eric will tell you that the policy writing on this is not what we want it to be But they're working on it. It's actually been very nice talking to the people at ninja because they've been very engaging on Fixing things and stuff like that. So that's been pretty cool We also have a script library software updates. We we can do that Windows update Are you sure you want to run the script? Hey, why not? Why not kick off the script? patch manner software patches can't start it awesome details Someone will always when I do that video um the When I start doing these videos there will always be a bunch of people going But I heard and there's a debate that was after the kaseya incident I can tell you why I ruled out kaseya for all of you that would like to know um kaseya in july of 2021 became a really popular name Because they are terrible at the way they their old code base hadn't even gone through even rudimentary code testing code review Sorry, that's a big factor is security the ninja team pitched me strong on security I talked to them had to sign Some non-disclosure so they'll reveal to me some of the stuff they do They need to make some more public documents. So but overall they they do a good job on security. That's the bottom line um kaseya less than good job on security as was made evident to the world. So that's uh You know definitely a thing. I see a few people have asked about pricing. Um I can't really discuss it. That's part of what you will have to engage with the sales team on there There is a giant document that compares all the tools It's not the most up to date But i'll bring let me see if I can find it and they give you what their ballpark is for pricing on things And honestly, I'm not even the pricing person. I don't even I didn't negotiate the pricing with ninja I let bret do that. So for those of you that wondering Hmm. I I think about things like security. I think about things like functionality I don't want to think about that's why I heard bret I let him think about things like can we make money with this tool? And uh, that's an important factor, but I don't feel like negotiating with it. So I I I don't even know exactly what our price point is on this I hope it's a good deal. I feel bret's a smart guy and he does good deals for us So um bret and the other part of the team negotiated price I just said hey guys, I'll probably do a video on it. Can I get a discount? I might have asked that because that's as much as it and then tell bret how much the discount is This computer is not particularly fast. I don't know why it's using up so much data Event logs and stuff like this. These are fun to play with. It's a pretty neat tool overall but Um, I also will be doing a video on sentinel one because the sentinel one is obviously another component of this Uh, people asking why do you use it? It's expensive. It's not the ones. Um, I don't care who you are you're it's sentinel one. You're gonna pay a lot for so It's um The sentinel one product demo is going to be a little bit more in depth Um, definitely gonna be a lot of fun to cover as a topic But it's going to be a lot more in depth to cover that as a video Uh, just try to make it concise. I've done one video on sentinel one showing how we were sentinel one Had a problem We've switched since then to using sentinel one direct as we quit buying it through enable which that was one of the Advances we had through enable was buying some of the products through them Once we started not buying the products through them because we wanted you you just get a better Set of features when you buy sentinel one directly Um through a company like packs eight or if you're big enough directly through sentinel one The feature sets better. So we said why not go that way? Um, because it's not cheap when you get it through enable either. So But I don't know about cobbles cover sentinel one on linux though They do support linux, but I don't have any deployments where I've actively used it So I can't give you an assessment I can give an assessment on what it's been like to use sentinel one for pushing Pushing into two years. I think is when we move to it Uh, so we've had plenty of experience. It costs a lot of end points way different Um, and I'll probably do an updated review of huntress at the same time people have asked about that and Same thing, you know, I'll talk about the we still use huntress even though we use it in the one So hopefully that makes sense Just like a doctor asks them something costs and they don't know. Yeah, I I'm sure we got a good price on it Yeah, the s1 linux deployment state I don't know enough about it and I haven't really used it. So Um, the dashboard you get the set if you we use sentinel one Complete the high end one. Um You just get the full dashboard segmentation. It just it's way nicer Matter of fact, I think right now if you sign up my understanding and this was what I would as I understand from people I've talked to if you buy into enable you only get the integrated sentinel one And this is actually what what got me talking to the sentinel one engineering team Was when I did that video talking about what sentinel one missed Even they were confused at the way sentinel one looked because it there's like a special version I guess at the time that they were giving to Uh enable so we we noticed it's a more it's a newer version Uh what we get when you buy it direct. So Yep packs eight. That's the great packs eight's been um of all the vendors we've dealt with that are like the middle resellers Packs eight's definitely the most convenient packs. It's great. The rest of the companies are kind of Yeah Yeah, I can't remember and no one will no one would give me. Um I it's like I'd have to go back in log into our sentinel one which by the way we got rid of So we didn't have to pay for it no more because when we canceled it so we didn't have double billing It's hard to say but there's always there's so many buttons in sentinel one It's hard to do it direct because unless you screenshot it and analyze it There were some things that were just missing in there. Um, I know the threat hunting was not there That was one of the things that was missing that we have now is when we want to do an investigation in the threat hunting It works now. It did not work so much when we were dealing with it and uh With the other system. So uh, yeah uh Does my staff prefer linux not necessarily Um, some of the people erics kind of a linux person but the rest of us all the rest of the people here I'll use windows So I mean we all like linux to some extent, but um, some things don't work on linux So we use windows, you know, I always laugh whenever they say it's the year the linux desktop I'm like for me the last 10 years have been the year of the linux desktop But I don't force people to use it because it doesn't work with their line of business application It doesn't work with the thing they need to get done and honestly outside of this tech community um People don't care what operating system may run everything's just a tool to get something done. So you don't try to force, uh It's it's not something we try to force so I think uh the support for s1 through enable was kind of goofy because you Couldn't ask s1 directly had to open tickets through enable. That was a big one there the We still do the support through packs eight because that's what we're buying it through but yeah That double and it you couldn't get easy answers Which we usually just googled our way and poked our way through until we figured it out But as for linux, I mean if you can get your job done I don't care if someone here uses linux But ultimately it has to be about whether or not they can get their job done And if if they're more familiar with a certain environment or if some of the tools they're using You know, we have a splash top integration comes with the Um system and I can't use splash top unless I fire up a windows vm So yeah Will I revisit zavix? Yes, I really want to because zavix looks cool. They've got a new interface Um, I just haven't had the time to reconfigure it. This is one of those things like it's it's so much time to do these videos sometimes there's like Three or days of putting prep time in someone says but the video is only 16 minutes long I'm like, yeah, it took days of prep work getting all the details to make sure I could put it together in a video Uh, so but I do want to do an updated one of zavix because um the latest version looks nicer They've really kind of polished it up a little bit and I thought that was kind of cool But yeah, uh zavix Zavix is one of those great tools that I uh, if you want to do some monitoring or whenever says Hey, how do you monitor a bunch of pf sent systems zavix? It's probably the easiest way to do that It integrates into so many different things. Matter of fact, uh, we brought up zavix to the you know I mentioned earlier in the live stream the company with, uh 2000 Uh switches that they are setting up and zavix is one of the options for monitoring that You know, you can do different things on there. So um Do you script out what you're going to say in your videos not really but kind of and let me see if I can pull a script up um I think I have I'm just going to read you the script. It's the way I write it so the way I write a script is Um, I thought I had one pulled up. Oh Too much filtering So this is the the one I did for um, I'm going to throw it in the chat. This is my script for securing true nas This is all that that I had done and it's in there. It's one mfa setup two Keep up to date avan interface and that actually is uh, I sent it there and then let me show you The tool I use And this is setting by the camera so you guys can see my phone. Come on focus focus Maybe There we go There you go. There's a script that I'm reading that uh, I usually on a camera. So This is how I put it and there's a holder under the camera So this my phone usually just gets bolted just under the camera Or I actually if I look this way I have a teleprompter and I put it It's got a mirror on it so I can see this and there that's my a lot of my scripts are just talking points So I'm I remember why I'm sitting in front of the camera and what I'm supposed to be talking about So hopefully that makes sense. Well, let's see I don't only see the point running linux for work if you end up with windows vm or rdp open for about everything you do um For me I don't Because I use screen connect for the projects I work on and I'm usually sshing into things So for me linux full-time is no problem at all. I rarely Open up windows. Um, I think about Three times a month. I open up the windows vm That's as much as I've ever had to use it. So, uh For me, it's not a big deal, but obviously it kind of depends on people You know, we have to have another vm set up with uh, some sometimes special vpns to get in with projects with certain clients So it just varies a lot Day's effort for a few minutes of implementation. Yes Sometimes Hey from chili awesome Now there are exceptions to when I script things occasionally when there's a bunch of model numbers if you've heard me say model numbers without Dumbling over the words then yes It's probably because it was on a on a teleprompter because that helps a lot when when I want to get really long model numbers Right that just that goes right to the teleprompter. Oh, let's see Sometimes it really be that way Yes, it do Uh, do you guys resell carrier data voice to your clients recurring revenue? Um Not really we do sell voice services. We've partnered with um, oit void So that we do sell voice services to them. We don't really get into the data reselling services as much I I just didn't I see here. There's a lot of different schools of thought here and a lot of people and this is literally The pitch because these people are called master resellers. Uh, is it mass msa master service agent? They will contact you tom. You should be selling comcast and wide open west and blah blah blah all in all together And uh, you got to lock them into two year contracts That way your clients are locked in and they can't switch to anyone else and you can make good revenue on it Blah blah blah and I'm always like I feel like I end up Because I'm if you try to commission everything and try to monetize on every interaction with the client I feel at some point you won't even steer them towards something that's a better solution Because suddenly you can't make money off of it. Uh, I've not been big on a lot of those but when it comes to the Um voice system we used to do some free pbx. The problem is maintenance on free pbx is You need some staff to do it. It becomes a burden. Uh, every time there's a problem free pbx There's not a ton of free pbx people out there Um christ from cross talk. He is really really busy. It's not like he has time Sometimes to you take on even more support So we partnered with my friend rey over at o it boyp And that's what we've been reselling for voice services because that's at least the service I think is reasonable that people go. Hey, I just want you to deal with my phones No problem. We take it over. So that's that's what we do for Phone service is we we are a reseller of o it system Which means if you'd like to buy phones you can call us we can help you with your phone deployments Uh, so if you'd like to deploy a hundred 200 300 phones, maybe 700 phones We can help you with we can help you with that project. So that's been something we've been working on Yes Yeah, uh xabbx, um, I've got if you dig around on my channel I believe I interviewed one of the uh xabbx person Like five years ago, and that's where they were from. Uh, so that was cool People about these customer lock-ins are so weird. Like they don't even know you could sell good service instead Yeah, I mean literally we we've taken over so many it contracts And they are cookie cutter it companies that tried to do everything they could to monetize every interaction Someone told me like what's a good secure app for messaging on the phone. I'm like, oh signal works great And the next thing was well, don't they have a reseller program? I know no signals free is what I replied I need something I can sell to my clients at a good markup I'm like, oh someone else come, you know, even a even something silly someone told me that the um reseller program for the pdf reader didn't have enough margin Uh, they wanted to know which one had the best margin so they could sell it to all their clients I'm just like everything is some opportunity to Monetize the the engagement with their client and I'm like You know what at some point the clients notice that everything is some upsell all the time And it kind of gets sick of talking to you and going What are you going to sell me on today that I might not even be happy with and It kind of shows when that attitude is coming out of these companies like you're always selling and I'm like really I mean, I'm in the business to make money. I'm not going to deny that But I don't think I need to make it at every single interaction of every time I talk to a client I'm trying to sell them on some product all the time. I mean, it's just not not the way I do business I think my clients like me better for it. I don't know. I could be completely wrong or someone out there Um, sitting under a yacht light and hundred dollar bills going that guy does nobody's talking about because look at all the money I got I don't know. I guess that's not my goal I could be wrong I don't know What is the other things in here cabling jobs? Yeah, I talked about those at the beginning channel changes I talked about that There's definitely more value and reputation than nickels and dimes. Yes. That's coming from one of my staff members I don't think they just say that because they're paid to say things that are nice Uh What are the other things we wanted to talk about? Oh someone got someone was upset at me for um Sharing my videos but not helping them with their problem I thought that was a weird take someone had they deleted their comments, but um Someone says you take the time to share the videos Which you won't help me with my problem and I said I don't know reload it and they said that's not helping I'm just like I'm not under obligation to fix the edge case problem that I can't I I don't see the problem like myself You say it won't load and with big details. So Yeah, it's weird I never get aggravated. I I minor get aggravated, but it's never enough to ever deter me from doing what I do So that's uh, that's an important I always just kind of scratch my head at some of the crazy things Um, yeah, it turns out I mean, I give them free food and free hot sauce, but they also want money Why does true classification need to start over if I move Drive to new build new install. I asked forum. That's what I recommend uh Transification is a block level. So if you if things change at that block level of zfs, it starts over So i'm not exactly i'm not understanding your question completely, but um because it's a block level thing when you move to a new pool It's not like files. It's synchronizing things at a block level not a file level So when they're if you talk about moving a pool somewhere else It's going to have to start all that over again If you're using something like rsync rsync is going to be your uh tool that synchronizes at the file level Happy thursday from the true nas open storage people. Yes Glad to see they're in here in the live stream So I am um, I'm excited the new true nas is I mean, I just did a video on securing true nas True nas scale is um really close. We have true nas 13 for the Uh core coming up soon. So there's there's a lot of good true nas news coming I'm looking forward to dive into some of that because that's uh, that's still where You know, I I love all their storage stuff. We're a matter of fact that we um The consulting I was doing yesterday on a company putting in a couple. I think they're the m m 50s they're the big boy servers the uh high availability awesome enterprise ones and it always blows my mind Then this is so cool. I'm consulting with the company doing these large scale servers at you know 100 000 servers that they have in their place and it's the same software That you can load as you just any listener and download That's always what's been kind of cool about true nas is it works on my small home nas which is well Underpowered and in not very fast. I have one of the true nas the original old true nas mini I still use it still works even though it has an intel atom processor in it And it's the same software running much slower than that's being used at these large enterprise spaces So he's a cool feature to me about that. So You are not wrong at all customer expect trust if they know you look out for them They will keep coming back You know, this is a good point there because if you're supposed to be working as a Outside or I don't know. I don't know if I love the term, but it is what it is virtual cio v cio Am I really asking in the best interest of my client if I'm also a commission person who sells internet to them? And if I'm selling internet to them But then there's other options that aren't on the list but are providing better internet But there's no commission in it. Now. Where's my decision making lie? Is it the most commission for me or the best deal for the client? This is why I try to stay out of some of those matter of fact one of the Consulting gigs where they bought people who's bought a bunch of hours They purposely weren't going to buy any products for me. So it was never any bias I would only suggest product but no matter what products I suggest they would never buy it through me They always wanted to go through other places to get it and I said that's fair enough They wanted to ensure my unbiased opinion and I said, that's fine. Um buy my hours. That's fine Oh, yes, yes, can you fix my psn? Here's my 12 pages of logs and configs You know, this is it's hard. I get it when you have a problem You're looking for a solution But the problem also is you have to understand how to articulate the question Because you can't go into support forum and post 30 screenshots All of your logs and everything else and hope someone else just sorts through it And you have to do a little bit of the homework and research and bring it down to a concise question There's a methodology that you go. Hey Under these conditions under this use case and I've checked this this and this, you know in a short summary This is the problem. I think I have here's the specific log that I'm looking at So it's easier to understand because someone, you know, they posted my forms there. Hey, I don't do you see what's wrong? Tom 12 screenshots. I don't always have time to read 12 screenshots and try to see do I know what's wrong? I I'm not even sure exactly what their goal or the problem was and that's where some of the problems begin So please ask questions more concisely. I never yell. Hey noob or whatever or I'm not rude to people But honestly, I don't have time to read all of that too. You're gonna have to narrow down the scope of your problem And especially when you're doing forums like that. So We are looking forward to see what you think. Yes the uh, the tunas scale is pretty cool. So that's Definitely, um, lots of neat stuff I like that they're doing in I like that they're doing the dual development here I think there's a lot of opportunity on both sides someone I I did a write up and I've read it someone says well, does this mean course going away with scale and I'm like not at all Not at all. Here's the you know, here's my thoughts and my perspective because Courses that tried and true because by the way companies with hundred thousand dollars invested in their storage server They're not ready to try the latest and greatest. They need the most reliable Absolutely bulletproof storage server that's well proven and that's still going to be true nasty core for a while Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying there's any issues with true nasty scale, but it's still a release candidate It takes a long time for a software to mature to the absolute rock solid Stableness that you get out of some of the, you know, more mature products. So Yeah, I'm for it all the way around Switzerland true nasty scale yet after nicer 10 gig or still any one gig stuff I don't know because uh true nasty scale still beta. So I don't know. Oh, what else we have on here I have replication going is somehow System broke I reinstalled true nasty imported pool replication started over I don't know what when you say something broke There's a good chance that when something broke that also broke the synchronization Um, if for some reason the two things are I think it's gotta re-sync them. It's as simple as that Oh Do do do force perspective. I thought your microphone was a nitrous injected rack server Maybe Uh, let's see Context yes. Oh, let's see what else we have in here Shall I look into single high-end system or true nasty or true nasty scale with a second compute note? I don't know depends on your use case This is a blue yeti Have I tested true nasty performance of NVMe? Um, I think I'm trying to remember when I had that super micro server. I loaded true nasty on there It works with NVMe's I we have I don't have any specific performance videos on it But I have tested it with it. I don't think I have any videos. It performs really really fast. Um Matter of fact, I think that's what they're using over at linus tech tips is maybe Their new storage server. I think is NVMe. I know it runs true nasty I think it's also like the NVMe the 100 gigabit server. So, um, yeah, it's absolutely compatible and works For a home lab then the answer is yes, and I know that doesn't answer your question The home lab is what do you want to build? It's even though it's for a home lab. What do you want to build is what it comes down to buy a high-end server? Yes, buy an extra compute note. Yes By both, why not? I don't know where your budget is. I don't know what project you're working on. Um, you know Build one tear it down build the other one. Um so Yeah, linus is full NVMe linus is full them. I thought he was now Um, I don't always watch many linus videos, but I know he's using uh true nas on it now So yes, you can use true nas mvme and it works True nas in esxi. I never virtualize true nax in production, but it's fine if you want to do the um If you want to do the whole uh Lab thing I just don't recommend it for production. It's always And not always many times I've run into a buggy and I do enough consulting and I've consulted with people who even lost entire pools that were virtualized you know, I Repeated over and over again not to do it because of how many times I've seen it go wrong You may have the perfect setup where it goes right great awesome And then you're that other person it goes it was going right all the way up until And then it went all wrong and I'm like, yeah, I got a I've seen random CRC controller errors pop up through virtualization and pass through Not what I recommend for production We don't see as much of the hyper converged Not not a ton of it Love the comments you made changed to x today from app to web teams Not 100 on the context of that um Here's the Which storage should I have now this is our this has now become our main one. Let me log into it Do a share share screen There we go So we have currently free 240 terabytes free. So we got to keep adding more to this Let's see what else Have any issues with scale my permission inheritance is not working um I found when I was testing the beta That there was some goofiness with the inheritance permission I remember applying them twice or something like that to get them to work I haven't tested it again since it's not my to-do list to switch back over to scale I was running into performance Issues so that was part of it and that's what made me stop using it I got to see if the performance issues are solved because I'm using so much of this as storage targets for my hypervisors that I didn't like the loss in performance. It was that inhibiting some of the other testing I wanted to do So I know since they moved to release candidate. They've tuned it a lot better and That's great. So I need to go back and readdress it I need to do more videos on a permission's propitions are always confusing to people Permissions and dns are the two things. Well, maybe permissions dns and vlands That is the trifecta of confusion when it comes to questions. I see across my channel Um, I don't understand vlands. It's in dns is a global problem. That's why it's the joke It's always dns. But you know why it's always dns is because people don't get dns. That's why it's always dns um, yes that's definitely Uh hyperconverge a buzz term. There's time to use the hyperconverge system. But yeah, it's People love to throw it in there. Um, it's usually not even necessary. So It all depends what you're trying to do back to core now Yeah, that's uh, and I did a video on switching back and forth. That's actually the nice thing You can just flip flop between them so you can reload it and go back Um, this is a reload and it was on there and this one I had some a few different errors on this system So, uh, I don't know why it didn't it didn't like it the other one just had performance problems This one had performance problems plus weird errors I kept getting like what looked like cabling and crc errors But as you can see There's no errors at all right now all the storage is fine and everything's green But it kept telling me every now and then a drive would drop out But that only was happening on churnass scale. It doesn't happen at all. Um, I dropped it back to core And here's the weird part the errors would get into the zfs system. So I had to do a scrub to fix all the errors But when I switched it back to zfs Uh or core churnass core. I was able to scrub it it went green again. So I Yeah, it's it was beta when I did it so Oh, yes, my favorite buzzword is sd wan sd wan Oh, let's tie them all together Hyper converge sd wan You gotta have hyper converged blockchain sd wan. That's you know That's what you really need Can you do an overview of tape backups covering all the hardware options? No, not likely. I just don't use them I It's so cheap to throw things in back plays. Um, that's why we don't use tape backups. We just get it all off-site with back plays. Um That's That's probably the um, oh Keep the buzzwords going single pane of glass. I need a single pane of glass where I can view my dns blockchain sd wan Uh Why not and it needs to be a hyper converged single pane of glass Uh, any plan to make videos a churnass to synology backup There's not really any good way to do it. Um rsync. That's the only way to really do it is just to rsync it there's zfs, um, you can't use any type of Replication because it doesn't use zfs over on the Synology side. So you just need to Rsync the data over I don't really have or you can use smb an smb share to do it. So Proof of concept is not now I work in with a lot of cyber security friends So in the hacking community a poc is huge. So, um, it's it's probably misused term But certainly not a buzzword term. So, uh, pocs are definitely when it comes to hey I hack this or this is has a security flaw. The first thing we're going to talk about is your poc out available for it. So Do you have any video begin beginner videos into works? I don't know what that means um I don't that's always hard for me when someone says they watch a video on pf sense They go, I don't even know what a firewall is. I'm like, well, I don't have an explainer video on firewalls But what level of beginner are you? I mean, I only cover from Wherever that pf sense firewall tutorial and beyond takes you But I don't necessarily have here's where the power button is on the computer I don't know and I there's a lot of youtube channels out there Um that cater more towards beginners that are even more basic, which is great too I mean, I I don't know I'm off the top of my head And it also I don't watch them because I'm not that level But I know there's probably some good ones other people can suggest or that you'll find that do start with a more basic Really large overview concept of things that then lets you narrow that down to a Uh what you're looking for it's all about it takes time to do knowledge and everybody's at a different starting point So I know where I start because that's where I want to be with my video making But I absolutely know there's going to be there There's a gap below me for getting started in general where there's we're at the very bottom Um, and you know, I'm not the one to bring you there I'm here when you get to this part, which is great But um, there's certainly a lot of other youtubers out there a lot of good youtube channels You can watch for free that cover some of the more basics of networking and things like that. So Absolutely, I don't know if I should do a video on it. There's already plenty of videos on this topic Copperclad aluminum is terrible No, don't always use plenum plenum is a fire Uh rating for the cable like it won't it's a toxic. So the cable will burn without being toxic It's not you want to use pure copper cable, but you don't always need to use plenum cable I have a whole video on whether or not you should buy a udm pro. So yeah I mean, I'm not a big fan of any of the udms. So that's the whole thing on there Someone said professor master net plus playlist is pretty great for understanding net reading concepts Even if you don't take the exam and that's a lot of it too Even if you don't take the exam you just go to the practice exams to make sure you understand the concept There's there's all kinds of stuff you can watch out there. So Uh, can you talk about pf sense first c e versus plus? There's a blog post on net gates website that literally breaks it all down in detail So uh pf sense plus right now isn't that much different? Um It It's got a couple extra features that's listed in that blog post not much like you get the open vpn Uh import I think and the aws import for uh vpn There's not a massive difference between the two of them. So Don't you love how some people think fiber is better than copper for very short runs? Yeah A new construction you almost always have to use plenum. That's not true either Uh, it it depends on Whether or not the wire is run in a shared airspace. That's when you have to use plenum you that's um The rules for plenum like if you're using standard wire, you know, we had we had someone who was convinced to that Um too and we actually saved them a fortune on the bid because they originally want to plenum and I said, um Guys you're running all the wire. This is a really cool job. All the wire was underground It was literally all in conduit because they the way they wanted it done was almost a hundred percent conduit I don't understand the point of putting plenum in a conduit It seemed like overkill. So we're like, you know, we can switch this and they're like, well Really? I'm like, yeah, don't doesn't the plenum cable have a better data rating. I'm like, no, no Nope, it's uh cat six it's cat six whether it's plenum or not plenum It's still cat six cat six is the rating plenum is the plastic shielding around it Um, whether or not it has a the fire rating on it and you're like, we can save a lot on this job You sure can you've got like 300 drops going in and a lot of cable. So yes Nope, I have no, uh Not in the short term docker container, but your nascale not on my to-do list right now It's down the road a bit I don't have time to look at sofos xg. So not interested in it Maybe someone else will but it's not on my to-do list Plenum is more expensive than riser, correct I knew you meant riser Uh Application firewalls, I don't think a lot about them No worries. You are by far. I mean, I argued with some Attack team at a company. So we had a there was a group think of people that really thought plenum was a faster cable and I You know, I just kept looking at him going, you know There was a moment when you have numerous very smart talented it people part of a whole team at a company telling me I'm wrong that I'm going. I don't think I'm wrong. I mean who wants to bust out the google here Let's um, but there was a moment when I suddenly said didn't I sing a lot of words wrong that I think you're right? So I won't lie. We all make mistakes. That's why I feel about it Little off topic what software for post processing youtube's or you already have video on that? Um, there's no post processing. Everything's done with kaden live If you look I have my if you type in like workflow, you'll find I have whole videos breaking all that down Oh, yeah, it it I imagine I mentioned earlier in one of my twitter my twitter posts um This cable right here This cable is plenum and here here's uh us pulling it And it's in the shared airspace is going to go down this hallway here So yes, this is plenum. It had to be plenum per code at this building. So New construction. Yeah, you're going to run into that a lot so if you work a lot of new construction in Some people will always push it and it kind of depends on the area or anything like that Oh, we have a motto here. It says a don't pay. We wire everything b But you're right. Some people will wire it a still either one works I don't use virtualization and churnass. I use xcp and g for that so Favorite switches, I don't know that I have a favorite. We use a lot of unify because they're affordable But I don't that doesn't make them a favorite that just makes them popular Um, but I don't know. I guess unify does make it relatively easy. So I'm going to say that's a pretty good one to use Can you recommend what to look for in an employer as a field tech wanting a new job in unfair city? I don't know. I haven't I've been unemployed now since 2003 No 2004 So I started my business in 2003 But I still kind of did a little bit of part-time work for a company But I I haven't been employed since then so I don't know what it's like. I mean, that's a long time I'm I'm pushing, you know 20 years of running a business. So I am Not the best person to ask Look for someone like me and I have no idea how to quantify that I think I'm a nice employer. I don't think I'm hated by my staff, but I don't know You need to have a button that you can push for the virtualization that you're gonna ask I like xcp and g that's been my that's my go-to the um Let me see if I can share something Oh, we run all kind I can actually just filter. Here's our production system This this is what we use for all our virtualization. These are our production systems. I can switch it to our lab systems um, but yeah, this is I do all my virtualization in xcp and g Even my gray log is virtualized bit warden jump box Maybe one day I'll talk about what the tunnel bear project is It's it's running on free bsd. It's something my staff set up We called it tunnel bear because it's funny. It's a pf sense server for reversing vpns gray log doesn't There's oh some extra logs. What's that happened right here? But yeah, I like I like this system it works well We have uh Lots of storage available. How many cpus we're using 105 of 191 gigs available Oh perfectly split here 18 running 18 halted Storage reports six users no tasks the most important part. There's no alarms 154 v out of 80 cpus I can tie we actually have more servers or only I've only got these ones turned down And connected to this I should say there's even more of them in there But yeah, I like the xcp and g it's been my favorite for stuff We're in detroit Right well south of detroit. I say detroit because that's the closest city, but um Uh, we're in michigan south gate michigan Uh, you need to pay for the features I don't need to pay for the features xcp and g's open source by the way So is an orchestra I have videos on how to set this up both the fully open source version all the features and everything else and I always do my demo videos with the open source version because I want it to be accessible but if you would like to buy support or Uh, it's actually not features as much as support you're buying when you want to buy the enterprise version So yes, it's all free if you want to use xcp and g Sacramento other side. So it's not snowing where you're at, right? It's cold here I got to finish in a minute because I got to go, uh work on things There's plenty of houses to rehab in detroit. So if you were here rehabbing you were busy doing some stuff. So yes Yes, this is a lot. Look at my channel. There's all kinds of open source Just overcast. All right winding down last 10 minutes. Does anyone have any other comments? Uh any Q&A things that you want to ask? I think you probably asked everything I'm going to ask that there's 178 people and 120 likes. So if you can smash the like button, that'd be great That does help the youtube algorithm Um What else do we got here rapid fire? bash the like button Oh, yes, I remember that that was uh that infamous um, let me pull it up this meme because Because someone got their porch stolen Yes, they did that happened Oh, I forgot about that meme that was from a long that was a long time ago. When was this? 2018 in meme years. That's a long time Get your porch stolen. Oh, I thought it was from the Detroit. It says it's from Cincinnati I don't know what it's from either way It could happen in Detroit. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna argue about that Ah Yes Look, we all know the jokes about the trait. We're all aware We live here. I appreciate a video on quoting Louis. Just help me local. Uh, I see my trying to make trying to make it Hey, awesome Yeah, the um We're a local we're local to southeast michigan as well. So you probably been against us Cool. Hope you won Uh I've never had any I've never had any smart drive troubleshooting problems If I get a bunch of smart errors the drive's usually bad That's um, it's less of a troubleshooting problem bike ride location I don't know. I gotta wait till winter's over. I even I really thought much about motorcycles and uh, because it's winter Because it's winter. What are you gonna do? So no thoughts there It's right there. We out here If you want to have some fun, um there's a YouTube video called Sunday fun day um I'll leave you guys with this for those of you wondering And this is the I'm not gonna play it here Probably run into a copyright problem if I did But I can throw the link out there for you for those of you want to watch it there's the um Sunday fun day it's uh Detroit's illegal car meets it's It's definitely pretty wild so the um The car meets that we have and all the people doing donuts and things like that interesting aspects of Detroit for those of you Interesting just an interesting tidbit about being here All kinds of fun things go on here Not all of them legal either by the way That's a part of it the uh, actually That's and I I'm definitely among the people in in there watching the illegal car Fun times fun times I they're always fun to do that so Ah, yes Detroit rock city no doubt no doubt Yeah, they're the yes Lots of fun Hey Thomas from NZ Thomas. All right other side of the world Yeah, the um All the car stuff that goes on in Detroit. It's just it's just straight up wild That's you know, it's part of it too the um Just being in Detroit. It's a it's a car place. You know what I mean? It's It is what it is Is what it is. It's a lot of fun. I'm I'm I'm a little bit of car enthusiast So that's a lot of background and the other questions some Getting ready to go home. I get replies to emails from home now. That's cold right there That is cold. Hey, they don't call us the motor city man. We put the world on wheels Oh, yeah, car culture here is um Wild we have the world's largest car show here world's largest It's it's absolutely the the woodward dream cruise stretches out several cities It's not like a city like where's where we're dream cruise? I'm like the next few cities are participating in it like continuously Uh, it's pretty wild. So How's the tesla? Um Yeah, I got a photo Covered in snow So that's what the tesla looks like because it doesn't the um fun fact There's no ingenuity. So the tesla the snow just kind of Doesn't melt on the hood. It's a Even when you turn it on and warm it up. So yeah So that's that's what the tesla looks like in the snow So there's the answer to how's the tesla question Um, the tesla's fine for long road trips. You just super charge it So, um, we took it took it down south a lot of fun um We went down to Where did it go? Somewhere I got a picture Yeah, probably here's good enough We took it down to tennessee. So that's that's a lot. That's a lot of miles I don't know how far tennessee is exactly but it's more than 400 miles around. I think it's 400 mile round trip Probably or something. It's like three well knows for it. I'll have to really think about how far to trade to tennessee is I just got in a car and drove for hours and hours and hours. So Interesting take the tesla in the snow. Um, it's fine in the snow It works quite well Around the zensor does allow you to share one gpu. There are ways to do gpu sharing in zen server out of scope of me talking about it in detail But yes, google it and you'll find there's ways to share certain video cards, uh with multiple vms As long as the video card supports it. So Yeah, could just I need I need to snow scrape it before it goes in there Yep, 10 hours no construction. Oh sure. I do have a winter video of it I have a few I have a couple of videos. I think where I was playing in the snow. Um In my tesla definitely it handles the snow pretty good. It's got, you know, all-wheel drive. So No real issues there. Can I find? Tesla snow Well, it looks like in a snow. I don't think I get to dig up the video. So Okay, so six. There we go. Eric Eric googled it for me A straight shot from my office is going to be 600 miles not round trip So I went on a 1200 mile road trip on my tesla and uh didn't drove around a mountain while I was down there and drove it back So 1200 miles is the there and back while it was there for a few days. I went around a mountain. So Yes, it's uh, it's a fun car for that. All right, now I'm way off topic and cars. So I'm gonna wander off Thank you everyone who joined I Maybe well, do I do another channel chris from crosstalk talked about this too because like doing a whole Tesla channel is one of those things but there's enough tesla channels out there I don't think I can really add much to it. I as much as I'm a car enthusiast I don't think I could be a car vlogger. I tried to watch those and I don't Like don't get me wrong. They're clearly clearly very popular to just talk about cars all the time I don't know if I could build a channel out of it But hey, maybe in the future there's a time where there's a third channel that tom talks about cars and motorcycles Because I do like it as a topic quite a bit. I like it when people ask me questions about it I don't know what to say if I'm not doing it And I don't know if anyone really wants to watch me wrenching on my motorcycles I don't know. I don't really wrench on the tesla much. It doesn't need stuff I use to wrench on cars like I used to build hot rods and I don't anymore. So I don't know that I feel like getting back into that um I don't that's a fun hobby, but not Something I'm quite as likely to do Anytime soon, I don't know like do I have I don't know. There's probably some I have some old pictures of me in cars. I built Maybe somewhere. I don't know Oh My other weird hobby here. Well, sure this one. I like being off topic sometimes I said to end the show so anyone watching is just watching me be off topic at this point Uh Oh, that's right gz. I I have a weird fascination with old scooters uh in old hondas. So that's Yeah, somebody's not I know cars are not on topic for this channel. I that much. I'm very clear on it. So Three topics I can go on about our cars tech and uh one that don't name here. Oh Yeah, there's um I I have always had a fascination. I grew up on a farm. So uh old I used to work on old tractors and then cars and hot rods and I love old classic motorcycles and things like that So this is a 70s Honda Yeah What kind of vpn do you have on that scooter? Here we go There's the problem you cross the streams. Absolutely Definitely an issue when you cross the streams Yeah, you'll find me uh, those are all fun things I like to do I thought I had a picture of one of the hot rods I built since it's been years since I built a hot rod It's been a minute. I thought I had one of my old trucks I have one picture of it before it was finished. I thought I had a picture Somewhere there's one of me Uh I got one of my daughter. This is how long ago My daughter used to help me build them when I was a kid. So I I like green at the time. So I built a green Uh monster because everyone has you know, the Chevy orange and things like that. I'm like, no, we're going green and black. So So It's orange systems. So anything you talk about is on topic. That's true too. So All right, I'm going to stop here if now I'm just going to babble on about cars and I don't have a car channel And uh, if anyone wants to talk about cars, I don't know DM me on twitter If you say I need tech support on this I'm probably not going to reply with anything other than a forum link But if you say let's talk about cars you probably find me on twitter or something like that Thank you all for joining. Thank you all for being here much appreciated. Um All right, you guys have a wonderful If I don't if I don't see some of you in the forums before then I'll see all of you next week that decided to show up again. Thanks