 And welcome to vlog Thursday number 340 whoo, that's a lot and I will jump right into some of the topics here We have some feedback if you'd like to send feedback or have me read your emails you send to me Well provided they're worth Well, I say worth reading provided they're safe for work because I usually find them all worth reading but and Sometimes maybe they're not safe for work. I get emailed some strange things. Those get skipped But nonetheless and none the more we are going to start off with those emails real quick because there's a couple questions people had and One of them I've covered before I've got a video on this for the 3100 But it essentially applies to the 2,100 neck eight device as well And it's how to set up those v-lands on those devices. That's covered pretty good in their documentation But yes, there's different ways any tips or tricks is really I have the videos or read the Documentation on them. Those are my tips and tricks for setting up those v-lands for those specific neck eight devices that have like the divided Port option on there. So the ones that have like the built-in switch. There's ways you can customize it But yes, it's confusing the 7100 has it the 2,100 the 3,100 and if you look at any of the videos I've done on that I've covered that aspect of it. So that answers that question for that The other question that came in Well, actually an answer came in so thank you for answering a question I had talked about next cloud and I just didn't check read through their security write-up To determine whether or not they had gone through a code review and they have and they've you know done things So yes, I feel like next cloud is pretty actively engaged in making sure their code is secure and audited I just released a next cloud video for doing it on TrueNAS But I did put a warning to be in the video and it's the same warning that almost it kind of kills it for some people I get it. They just want to start publicly exposing it and using it for their business And I you know kind of get the doom and gloom answer of don't just publicly expose things Unless you really really have a plan to deal with potential Consequences of having things publicly exposed. So I use next class To play around with it more get a little more familiar with it Maybe I'll do more videos on it people seem to like it I don't have the strongest use case for it But I I get the use case for it that people have and because I'm just using usually syncing and Joplin That's kind of my go-to basics for the stuff I do But you know, I want to give next cloud to try it Certainly matured a lot as a product and play with it more But I'm just using tail scale to access it because I wanted to try the next cloud phone app And it works well with tail scale on my phone. So I can edit the next cloud documents No problem. So but thank you for emailing me that the because I'd asked that question of whether or not I haven't gone through a code review It's next cloud comm slash secure. They have a lot of information, which is great I figure they're they're pretty forward thinking on top of it project. They're pretty big project. So security's awesome And I think they're you know doing that The next one is having fun going through your great log tutorials I should we pop this out so it's easy. So I'm not head turning reading this Having fun going through your tutorials recent great log videos Do you have any sericata log ingestion and alerting? If yes, I'm curious what you feel is a good list of what to alert on alerting not really log collection and parsing. Yes, and I can share this tab right here This is all in my github and I mentioned that as I add things and this is the most up-to-date one I don't think I've added any sense this particular update in the last two months But this is a parser that you can get right from my gray log extractors that has it's just a JSON Config that you can import directly you can download it out of my github import it directly in a gray log And this has a parser for all the different pf sense things in here. So it's called pf since 2023 I have one for unify as well, but this will parse out the sericata alerts So man make the least you see it looks through this put some all together breaks them out into a readable format Now figuring out what you want to learn on that's hard because there's so many alerts coming through all the time in sericata That's not an easy answer Yes So back over to I don't know what that is a message Dismiss or did someone email me? Oh, it's just someone opened it. Yeah, anyways Got all turn all my notices off But the other thing I wanted to talk about so I think you have an entitle here post merger discussion So we'll jump on that one real quick here that is over on our business technicality channel and I've got that as the top links Lawrence dot video slash biz will take you right to the channel the video we have posted is business technicalities the week after the merger and Yeah, we merged and now we wanted it. We had a discussion amongst, you know We're kind of the principles of the company doing stuff in in here We're the people that are the movers and shakers and we are the ones, you know merging all this together it's me and Brett and Matt and Jason and we have a good discussion about it I will be doing some Back-nacle things talking about what the merger looks like once we get it all squared away because there's still a lot of work going on In the back end for integration But we talked about business process integration, which I know the business videos are not as much of a fit for this channel That's why they have a dedicated channel. So there's a lot of great content over there I highly recommend encourage people to subscribe so just go ahead and Lawrence not video slash Biz and that will get you over to the business technicality channel. I do regret calling it business technicalities Just a little bit because that's hard to spell but Lawrence not video slash Biz links down below in the description. That's easy to spell so hopefully that Works out for you if you're interested in some of those business videos This is one of those things I probably should do another follow-up because I get this question Absolutely and constantly and my feelings haven't changed on it So what are your thoughts on TP? Lincomata's lineup is it worth going that route for cheaper Unify the cost savings is so minimal and I don't feel Confident that one their documentation is good that they did anything more than just kind of copy Unify And lastly, I don't feel and probably it should have been first I don't feel that they're more secure or have a strong security presence and that's a Big piece of it is the Having the presence in security and whether or not they're on top of it because if they're not Then yeah, yeah, and log4j was kind of the one that I can point to where we said, yeah They definitely weren't as fast as unify on that So the security risk is saving some small amount of money worth the security risk I leave that decision up to other people my decision is no It's not especially because we use these commercially at clients and I don't trust We've also had some quirky buggy-ness with TP links that we don't experience with there I got to get those details out of some of my texts But we've we've done some support for them and we found them like in some situations just a little bit buggy That would be the best way I could describe it. So I don't think it's worth the cost savings But if you do go for it You make them do pfSense you're going with 40 net I Have clients still using 40 net the thing with 40 net says you have to Put really strong Program around it to keep it up to date and patched because 40 net is a dumpster fire But we you know, we've got we do a lot of co-managed IT some of these co-managed IT companies You know, we're we're not telling them you have to rip out all of your 40 net firewalls You know 40 and it has some upsides, but I really think they need to refactor their code. So yeah Curious if you have had much experience with zero trust zero access security models. Yes I have I thought about doing a video on that topic Because zero trust is usually something people have a hard time understanding and I thought about doing like an explainer video because It doesn't mean you zero trust everything. I also disagree with some of the Well, it's it's the vendors who you go. Guess what zero trust isn't a product It's a process and I go yes fire zero trust product and I hate the marketing around it drives me nuts I if you go by the NIST definition. Yes, if you go by whatever BS is in the marketing World, huh? That that's a fuzzier term Any good managed socks and PF sense under firewalls and other firewalls will integrate. Well Well, I'm hoping we use blue Mara and I'm hoping blue Mara will soon integrate with PF sense We'll just say that But blue Mara is pretty awesome. I will be doing a video on it soon BLU MIR a in case you're looking for it Tell them Tom sent you by the way. That's that's important. I know the people there I have actually I have meetings with them previously and I have some more meetings with their team on next week So yes, that's all moving forward. I got sick of unified controller being offline and my AP not working Had issues in my own raid box. I swapped to maker tick have been thrilled You have to get it configured, right? Because I mean we're running I'm gonna do another follow-up video because I mean we have Thousands of unifies that we installed and we manage a pretty good quantity of them in our controller for our clients And it works wonderful, but we do a lot of consulting to get things working wonderful Their documentation is me and so is maker ticks by the way maker tick It's all things you pay with your time. You take the time to learn it once the product and you figure it out It's not a bad product, but that sometimes can be the challenge, but yes Oh, is that a keg of beer in the background? You know, it does kind of look like a keg of beer that is in the foreground and this is a Microphone, sorry if I touched it and bothered people who are wearing headphones, but yes, this is a microphone not a keg of beer Awesome. I'm so you're for some reason. I've been neglecting security for support part. Yeah Thanks for your recommendation purchase UDM pro se and replace the USG. I am gonna do some updated videos. They finally Have fixed all the objections. I've had with them So they definitely have a better product now with the with the UDM pro series Well, most of the M series now the latest versions have really stepped it up in terms of having a lot of good features Zero trust is a term everyone's want to use your trust has so many different terms That's why I said the NIST definition. This has a definition for zero trust Maybe you pull that up if you enable meshing and unifies are pretty sure stop broadcast is connectivity the controller Yeah, there's different. It's about configuring it properly. I would love if net box or any IPM solution whenever it PF sense so I can Integrate my hypervisor my router and automate IP address provisioning. Yeah, it'd be kind of cool It's a mic keg Net box integrations with hypervisor are pretty slick. We have it set up a v-center at work You can also do net box with XTP and G. There's integration the bearded IT dad It is going well Hit my my arm says it's time to be active. So I'll just wave it around I'm watching my health for those wondering I got a Garmin that kind of Trying to track things a little more trying to try to stay healthy. You got to stay young forever or at least that's the goal You have three microtik switches in your network and boy do I love them The problem microtik is centrally controlling them is a lot more challenging than it is compared to unify But hey, like I said, I don't think microtik once you figure them out are a bad product It's that once you figure them out is kind of a hang-up to the product You thought terminal servers were dead. They are far from dead Are there any demos of unify? I have co-managed client wanting to switch but like a demo I have a ton of videos on unify So I'll go with my channel might be a demo Cody from Mac telecom networks has a bunch of videos on it as well So does Chris from cross-stock solutions so between the three of us and probably numerous other youtubers out there You can probably find it of note There is one really big storm approaching and I don't know if it's going to knock out power But I can hear rumbling outside and I'm in the basement if it's rumbling in my basement here where my studio is I Know it's one hell of a storm. So if I just vanish Well, that's because the power vanished. I have a ups But it doesn't power the studio. I just didn't put one big enough to power the entire studio So the cameras will go dark the servers will stay on well until he power off Yes, for those you don't know reddit and Twitter has been dominated in the tech space I should say has been dominated by the passing of Kevin Mitnick Yes, he was definitely an interesting Character and someone who's very influential in the tech world for many years the you know from the free Kevin movement and things like that Some great books that he had put out. So yeah, definitely interesting and Sometimes controversial figure in the hacking world, but nonetheless he passed unfortunately of cancer cancer sucks and That's life. Unfortunately. I wish it wasn't that's too bad. But yes, rest in peace Kevin Net box works a prox box too. Cool. I did not know that which is trust for handing DCP leases in a home lab. I Am a Cisco networking guy at my day job the maker tick wasn't too tough to get sorted Yeah, I mean if you already know Cisco then you just got to figure out the differences in the way they do things from the command line It works pretty good from the command line It just has a terrible interface for it But if you're already someone who's familiar with setting up things on a network command line awesome In that's one of those things if you learn one network platform, let's say Cisco It's not rocket appliance to pivot to some of the other ones Back at you from Scotland satellite and TP possible using teller Android or IP input baggage satellite and TP possible with using Teller Android over IP as input into PF sense your views and TV I have no idea what you're trying to do. I I don't I don't know the goal So I I don't have thoughts on that. I don't set up any Satellite, I know you can I just don't have the need to set up satellite driven NTP servers But if you have a use case for it, cool, I think there's some integrations and PF sense for it I just never used it. I just bought a true nas our series from my ex. I like those. Those are nice I have one of those too. I Gotta I have to reutilize it for some things not it's very underutilized at the moment It's just keeping an extra copy of all the data But uh, yeah, there's my little true nas are The there we go. I forgot to I forgot to share it on the screen But yeah, definitely a nice thing. We have two pools in it I have the rusty pool and the flashy pool cuz you know Thunder Thursday, yes, absolutely Any plans a plate making a idea zen orchestra and true nas using true charts I didn't saw the works good besides have issues with setting up remote NFS. Um, yeah, I mean it works. I'm not I Guess I don't know that I'll do a video on it or not Maybe I don't I don't really use it in Docker. It's maintain It's not maintained in Docker by the people from XO That's something I want to make sure is very clear and whenever something is not from the official Repositories being built from there. I'm always a little bit more sketchy of it So I don't know if I'll do a video on it or not, but I know the person I believe I actually know who maintains it That's one of my rules before I'll recommend any docker I want to know who maintains that particular docker image I'm think and I'm not positive about this But I think I know who maintains a docker image and if I do know them I will mention so long as you trust them as well. It's okay to use that docker image So any software to bypass a raid controller to expose drives directly? No It's not it's a matter of modifying your raid controller. It's not like software to bypass it It's it's okay. I take that back in some ways flashing it is changing out the software on it So yes, if you can find the software to reprogram your raid controller the answer would be yes That's a raid controller The that's a specific raid controller type of software you have to find Can you share a good video tutorial on how to integrate vCenter in a net box? Oh, I don't use vCenter So I'm not the person for that. I think Matt was seeing WR from the video this week. He sounds exactly like Jason Yeah, maybe Matt and Jason sounds similar and I don't know I think they sound different But I'm around them enough and I talked to them up. Actually, I talked to them in slack way more than I talked To in person, but I do talk to a person at the business meetings We use GPS as an NPT service office Company is called Simitron Hold on. Let me pull this up PF sense GP S and TP Yeah, there's there is full support for that inside of PF sense they have a you know The whole GPS plug-in so I know just kind of answered the question of you know, my thought center is I don't use it I don't have a use case for it, but yes, it does exist so if you wanted to set it up the System I don't have any tutorials on it. I don't really it's pretty low. There's so few people. It's such a niche item I don't think I'll take the time because we're not using it at any of our clients So it's not something I'm likely well, I may have some clients using it that I've never been the one to set it up But nonetheless, yeah, it's not something I'm likely to do a video on Do you trust at least some Linux server duck? It all depends on who produces it. It's Are you talking about the group? What's his name badger? I know his name online on Twitter There's some people that make there are some people that make I think it's Linux server.io Maintains a lot of them. So Linux Well, is that down? Oh, I spelled it wrong. I missed the key So I know some of the people that do this Linux server.io the these are some trust or the people What do I think about wazoo wazoo is pretty cool? I also think that any time Network Chuck does a video on something the number of people that come over this way Because they generally seem to tell me network Chuck did not go very in-depth on the video. He Does the video may not go in-depth then people start messaging me about it I didn't I seen he posted a video on wazoo And I already knew he did by the number of people that said Tom What do you think of wazoo because I people start messaging me this right away? I think wazoo is a good product though So I have I don't use it, but I think it's pretty neat. It's come a long way I used to use OSEC and wazoo is a fork of OSEC and It I think the elastic people and my assumption is based on the maturity of the products It's been years since I used OSEC. It's probably matured quite a bit and gotten a lot easier to use So I've been wanting to take a look at it. It's been on my list of to-dos. It's just as far from my list of duns Good morning from the land down under What are your thoughts on MSP media network? Digging these note new segments with all the celebrities in the MSP space Ray runs that and Ray is awesome that if That's the best I can summarize it. I like Ray Ray is a cool guy on they definitely have some things on there I have been on it several times I like Ray and all the things he's doing with it He's putting the effort in and playing the long game because building a channel is a long Goal and Ray is putting the work that needs to be done to achieve that long goal I'll raise a personal friend as well by the way Random docker images used by many are a major security threat to explode. Oh, no, they've exploded many times It's I mean if you search for docker, you know poisoned docker There's a series of articles over the years. So it's not just ready to explode. It just keeps popping It's it's not a it's some of those things that keeps happening Let's see Oh, you're asking about the USP GPS having technical issues. I have no idea. Hopefully someone else can answer that Do you know if a cronus and xcp works? I don't know I've never tried the two but generally speaking if you're gonna load a cronus you would load it on the host So you're not natively tying it to xcp and g you're gonna load it on the host So I don't really know How do you update the unify controller on ubuntu? I do it manually. I don't use their linux repository. Excuse me I don't use your linux repository I like to just grab the file and manually load it because there's the updates are infrequent So I have the you I have the server itself just using the unattended upgrade so it stays patched in general from Updates from ubuntu and then from there whenever there's a new version of the unify software I just download and update the unify software It's not not too hard to do just grab the file and Run it again All right to pivot a little bit here to the next topic Let me see if this screen will share or how I can share the screen No, I can share. I you know, I can just share the tab and Let me turn close this close this Share this tab instead So I did this video. Well, I'm sorry. I did this presentation that I'm wondering if I should do in a video The concept with the using ai for small business and I just don't know if it's a fit for my channel So probably I should put it on in business technicalities But this is a talk I did in person Uh Basically, it's me going over one how I use chat gpt to come up with the entire description of the talk I did on chat gpt and using it But a lot of it's just kind of me explaining How training models work for gpt? How neural networks work? some of them stats on how chat gpt works some image creation tools and then I dive into Talking about how you can use things like canva with their ai thing. Maybe this is a better business technicalities video But let me know in the comments for those either live stream here or in post when you're watching this later I don't know if this is a video people would care about like people get excited because it's ai And it's just me explaining how ai sets are trained. What makes them work. What doesn't work and uh, I made sure to do this because I was uh Making fun things that worked, you know showing how the ai system can Do background removals. I don't know if we really call that ai, but they do have some image generation They have prompt generators. They're ai writing tools They have a whole thing that will build automatic slides, which I think is really cool too But there's also the nightmare sauce as I called it where It can make these really cool. We made these red pandas And then we said hey make these red pandas eating tacos with teeth and hey, that's awesome Look at this cool, you know graphics it did But then when I say make a family standing in front of the bank, um, it just makes nightmare fuel I mean, this is just I I don't know if I can zoom this in can I I can't even open a new tab, but it's hard to see but these people's hands are all messed up Maybe you can see that it might be a little small, but nonetheless This is one of the problems with this image generation tool You know, why don't we just pull up the original image where I generated it Uh, I just talk about the good and the bad of the ai like the I I'm not a height person because I got nothing to sell you I'm not trying to You know pump some stock or convince investors or anything like that. I'm just you know showing how it works matter of fact, um One of the fun things I did because I told them this is no parlor trick Uh, I told them throw words at me as I my presentations I do in person are gonna be much different than a youtube video because I'm very interactive with the audience And I go through and I tell them like, all right, I need you guys to start name an animal Come on name an animal. We'll get this out here. Someone says cow. All right. What is the cow doing? Someone said the cow's dancing. I'm like, okay. What's the cow wearing when it's dancing, you know, and then Someone says oh, it's wearing a tutu and it's doing it on the moon. So we created a cow dancing Wearing a tutu on the moon and it's you know, it's kind of fun. This is the ai This is the interactive stuff. I do when I do in person talks But let me go back to the nightmare sauce as I call it if we go through the other images I created This was that family image and boy, I mean That's just Oh, man, let me uh Sure, you get it. So it's there. I mean, look at how bad of a job it can create a cow dancing wearing a tutu on the moon but ai's like let me just give these people weird faces and A backwards hand and everything else So yeah, so that's It's it, but I don't know. Let me know if that talk is something I should do and throw on my business technicalities channel or not. So Just curious on that now I can catch up with all the questions here Been doing this for decades first thing I could afford was a tp link and a zike cell Uh, I'm not sure if unify was unify has been around for about 10 years But obviously it depends which unify you're talking about so Let's see I'd watch it. Okay Uh, do you know any self-hosted joplin alternatives that offer encryption at rest in mfa? Well, joplin offer offers encryption at rest. So Why that use joplin? I I don't know. I've not I've I found joplin it worked and I haven't switched to another note taking up Joplin works awesome. It just it's easy me and jay from learnlinux tv both like it a lot I'm actually not using the joplin server I just save it because I'm not sharing it with anyone so I don't care about the server that much I just save all the encrypted files to one directory and I use syncing to sync them between all the computers So That's enough for me. I don't use joplin on my phone If you want to use it on your phone, then probably it'd be better to set it up with the joplin server I love your talks and living in sweden. I have a hard time Uh, seeing them live so do upload them. Okay In my experience I have lost a lot of time Uh trying to get things to work. I probably would better off just using the old ways of doing things until I get better Was losing internet connection to troubleshoot pf sensebox need to add the modem to the wan dcp reject lease according to What I read it's a sync issue. Hmm I don't have context for that. I think Ever had a unified cam on another vlan not want to connect to the protect Uh, I usually have protect and the camera is on the same vlan. That would make the most sense to me Definitely do a video about large language models. Okay The web UI layout on churnascale and core are fairly different. Do you view this as a good or bad thing? um I I don't I just view it as a thing. I don't think they're going to refactor all the code to fix that So I think they're separate now. Um, I don't think I don't I don't see them back porting the churnascale UI to core That's my guess Core just works and I don't I don't think they're going to add any add-ons to core core is just going to keep getting Back end updates and keep being supported for a number of years forward Because it's a very reliable very robust system But I don't think it's one of those ain't broke don't fix it the people who use core because we're an ix systems reseller We know we have sold many core systems to enterprise businesses that are running these $100,000 plus churnascore builds in their environment and they don't really want an interface change They're they're going interface works. We know where the buttons are And I don't they don't get excited about changes on that internal IT departments at enterprise companies have plenty of things to do So they are not hoping that the interface randomly changes on them Most failure generated by a for small to medium businesses still predictive ml Where you can both create value from customer generated data and also pre-trained models predictions. Yeah, maybe Uh, so what search do you like seeing and hiring someone new to networking? I don't know I usually just ask networking questions. I don't have any certs. So I don't necessarily look for certs I run Joplin off of next cloud, which has been proven the easiest integration. Cool Ah, do you know any internet speed tracker? I Don't know what you're asking exactly My new system is core Thoughts on plex layoffs and restructuring themselves. I don't use plex I haven't used plex in a few years. So I don't have a lot of thoughts on it I actually I had some bugs with it and I didn't like their interface And I moved to mb because it was available on Synology and it worked and once I Logged in and it worked. I stopped looking. I don't spend that much time consuming Um media to to really put too much thought into it. I'm like cool. This works I can I can have the shows that I have in there, which are very few I don't have a lot going on inside of it. It's not not much of my focus The more storage I get the more drives fill up. Do you use a rule of thumb for what you keep and delete? Um, sometimes I'm I'm finally going and deciding whether or not I want to keep b-roll for x number of years Matter of fact, I'm debating if I want to keep any source data for a few years Now it was easy in early days in the olden days of video But as I've ramped up my production and moved to 4k the 4k is four times bigger It's not like you go from 1080 to 4k and go. Oh, it's just a little bigger. No It's a lot more data and I don't know what I would do with all the data Or what I should do with all the data So I've been Moving it to one of my longer term storage. Maybe I'll I don't know sure where to put it So I've been kind of just Deciding if I need to keep it. Um, I don't really have an easy answer for that one I'm still working out my own parameters for what am I going to do with all that video I shot in 2018 I have it all. I just don't know what to do with it. Um, and I don't I've never actually had to Uh sit down and go through like oh man, so happy I had that drone video from 2017 that when I flew I have a video no in 2018 or 2019 We did an outdoor project install the video is not great Uh, because I was new to youtube But now I have this old video and I've got more drone footage because I just spent like 30 minutes goofing around with the drone Recorded all of it then had to figure out what to do with 30 minutes of drone footage And there's like 30 seconds of drone footage in the video. So what do I do with all the old drone footage? I don't know why reminisce about it one day. I don't know Those are not easy easily answered questions But when I run as I run out of space, which I happen to just have a lot of storage But if I do run out of space that drone video is going to be among the gigs of data that just goes to the bit bucket in the sky You want to mention uh, you want to mention that pf works with broadcom dual gig nix. Um Broadcom works well broadcoms are usually what I avoid at all costs. I find broadcom work very poorly I've had some real issues across the board from churnass to um the xcp and g systems where I had really low performance using broadcom ships They just weren't good So I recommend staying away from if you find ones that work awesome if you're happy with it good good for you But if you are asking what I think of them generally, I find them to be bad What's your opinion of google barge so find gbt you do better choice for technical questions and scripting I just haven't bothered. I signed up and got access to barred and I've never asked it a single question I do use the google search results with the which I guess is barred and I I got approved to use the google Uh g-suite integration for it because I was a beta sign up early early beta sign up And I'm approved to use it but I haven't used it so I have no I have no opinions on the either one of them I have a subscription. So I have chat gbt 4 chat gbt 4 kills it. It's great Uh, one of those ain't broke don't fix it and I mostly spend my time Asking it questions I want answers for and provided I get the answer I want I just move on to uh, whatever that answer was because in the beginning someone asked about graylog And I wrote most of the parsers using chat gbt 4 because graylog parsers and extractors and rock patterns are really easy to create with Uh chat gbt you can give it log files and tell it to output not just a rock pattern You can tell chat gbt to say I want a rock pattern and compatible with graylog And it will create the file it'll create the json code and everything for you to bring it into uh graylog. So yeah The million dollar question always comes up you still use host wiki for guest documentation what cnr using uh, we move We moved over to hoodu. Uh, so hoodu is the winning technology that cnwr uses and we are using now as well So hoodu is where all that documentation went Delete it. I'm sure you're talking about the data, but that can apply lots of things. Just delete it Can I reach just for an initial home lab? um Whatever you can afford, uh, that's not an easy answer. It's like what what's your budget? What's your goals? Uh, probably one of those two are gonna run into each other So maybe your goals are this big but your budget's this big or maybe you have a really big budget That'd be awesome. Uh, those are usually like a couple of the first questions when I ask a lot of Archiving on tape. Yeah, it could be For some reason mb and jellyfin can't get to work I like I said, I haven't tried jellyfin a few people suggested it I just don't spend much time with media tools to like once I realized mb worked and had a plugin for synology That's where my efforts stopped so I can move on to other things What do you think of the apple vision pro? That is a big dumb hunk of plastic that I'm not strapping to my head I think apple just wanted to try to create it. I don't know why it's stupid Um, that's it. That's my thoughts apple vision pro looks stupid, but someone will buy it There's some apple fanboy that is got it pre-ordered or whatever. I'm sure I don't I don't have much, uh for outside of putting glasses on my head People don't want to strap hunks of plastic to their head. That's a general human condition. It reduces our peripheral vision I don't think there's any time We as human beings are more attractive with hunks of plastic sucked our head So we'll just leave that as why I'm not still doing it and why I don't think it'll ever become a mainstream thing When they can do something as light as glasses and they can augment not replace but augment reality with it I think you'll have a viable product that'll be interesting That's not today's products. That's certainly not the apple vision pro We're deploying our rmm to our customers paying for monitoring it defaults to monitoring a few stats removing them for the order of pain deploying everything Uh, doesn't cost us more Is that a question or statement? Maybe I don't understand Speaking of drive storage in the distant future may be a new job track digital archaeologists to mine all the digital data from our old drives That's actually um, I met in there several companies that do this There's a lot of companies that do large indexing because these large companies that have budgets for storage Like media creation type companies, especially if they're in the advertising space They are able to create media media and store it, but they're not able to index it very well So there's actually some commercial products out there that specialize in that already And you could say that's the inroads to the whole You know archaeology all of it Do you use any cloud backup solutions anywhere three two one backup strategy? Absolutely I'm lucky enough to have multiple buildings for my cloud, but I still despite having multiple buildings I also send it to backblaze backblaze is kind of my go-to for a number of years because it's It's really reasonably priced. It integrates into true nas so backblaze is my answer for that Could u6 lr wired have better performance than a u6 lr wired plus one U6 lr mesh could the two ap's create more noise basically The main one wired is going to perform better than the one that's being backhauled And the one that's being backhauled is going to it's some level, you know, cause a slowdown on it. So It's always better to hardline them in not mesh them When being when being integrated 100 with jpt take over from google. No, it won't at all Oh, no, no, no Uh, yes, absolutely 2.7. I'm assuming you mean pf sense was released a few weeks ago Maybe I should do a video on it, but it works fine jpt 4 is great for answering user tickets, especially if you give it a little guidance. Yes Yes, it is you can give it very little guidance and it will write the nice long wordy step-by-step instructions that you Uh, didn't want to angrily type on your keyboard for how to set that printer up Uh, we use who to work super good both self-hosted and cloud. Yep I got a 3d printer. What would use a 3d printer and homelab for or a consulting business? Um, I let my staff use them I don't use them at all. The staff makes silly things. They're they made these really cool little, um Where'd they go? Well, hold on I I can answer the question of what would my son make with one and uh, my son would make his dad An ass hat award because that's what my son would do if he got a 3d printer I made a virus So we got a virus, uh, so I I don't have any good business use case for a 3d printer I'm sure someone does. Um, I'm not that someone The biggest issue for homelab is where your lab systems live And is it close to where people spend time rec servers or sheep but turning lots of electricity and noise and heat So if you're in an area that's hotter, that is also a problem. But if you're in a really cold area, maybe you want the heat from those Ah, yeah, the google glass. Yep Would you employ the agent to everyone or only customers? We the rm agent for us has a cost We use ninja one therefore if you ain't given us money, we're not loading the agent Love your channel. Appreciate your content. Awesome Sounds like you like some back plays as well. Absolutely What is the best way to protect your true nascale server while giving access outside of your home network cloud fair traffic VPN, what would you choose? I choose tail scale I do not recommend opening things up to the public if you care about security Um, and if you do open to the public, I recommend that you have a plan to mitigate problems that may come up so That's the part a lot of people miss and there are more and more attacks There's constantly and there's great tools for scanning the internet to look for things that are open And if you happen to have something open that also has a flaw in it You're gonna have a bad day. I remember when you did the physical lab office tour Did I miss the logical software tour? I just never got around to it. Um, I need to do that sooner than later I want to do a lab tour Well, the reason for the lab tour is to integrate with cnwr better because they don't have the lab we have So i'm training The goal is to get their staff using our lab and I have to go over how our lab works So why not make a video I can send and why not let the public know too? How our lab works because that way you can copy some of the design Uh glacier backup long-term. I got maybe using aws dumping long-term archives. Um I use back place, but glacier is definitely affordable as long as you in I think it's fine for videos As long as you don't care about getting the data back fast and for the most part if I were to need to Reacquire my videos. It's probably not under duress or something. I need in a hurry Do you have any tips on literature courses regarding network design? Uh, no, unfortunately, I do not You know, the books I read were in the 90s And I'm gonna say the books I read the 90s are not something I mean, they may be novel to look at today or they could even be novell that you're looking at But I don't think any books I have on novell, which I I don't have anymore. I've thrown any of those out The books I read on novell networking and things like that are not relevant here today Who'd integrate with chat gpt? Ah Biggest messes on the career. Uh, probably the one wiring job I've only the only mess I would really say in my 25 plus years of working in tech is that wiring job video It says like worst wiring job. It's you can find it on my channel Your answers are truly educational. I thought uh, I was making a joke when you helped me realize that I need to Learn data indexing Uh, yes that where I'm gonna give this about uh, two more a couple more minutes here That way I can as I have to go to a physical event. I'm gonna be over at the itine d and nancy whiskey that is a um, well one of the One of the oldest bars in detroit. I don't really know Uh How there's always a debate of let's the oldest bar in detroit, but there's an event there Where there's a bunch of it nerds gonna hang out. So I'm going to join them Uh, the rm for us doesn't cost us more no matter how many agents we deploy we would need to disable monitoring Uh, as we want to monetize it. Yeah, I don't know you have a different business model than me You also by the way when you load an rm you you are assuming and you are now Intertwined with liabilities of people you load the rm mod just a heads up on that big fan of deploying huntress for years that he thoughts about huntress versus um I'll let's see. Should we compare? Um a ford truck versus an orange They're two different products. They're two different things. I don't know huntress versus blumera huntress isn't a sim and blumera is not exactly a huntress end point detection tool Or an end point detection tool like huntress is so I don't know how you would compare those two There's some overlap because they have the ability to see some Uh traffic and data on there and alert you on things But that's where they're the Venn diagram is not a circle between those two products are extremely different So we recommend huntress and blumera. It's an and I have seen some concern about ai taking over networking and it jobs Do you think it's actually a concern or will everyone just need someone else to confirm firewalls and reboot printers? ai can't draw hands I think that people who are asking venture capital firms to give them money will tell you ai is great I think this person doesn't think ai is great And uh, so it depends on where you get your news from but we'll just we'll just say that That's also ai. I don't think that's replacing my network knowledge today It's it's an assistive tool one of my slides. Let's actually talk about I actually have a slide on that on that topic And uh, let me present it because I want it to So share this tab instead Will ai take my job actually hold on and the other question is Yeah, will ai take my job probably not But and there's always a but right Someone who knows how to use it might so I am a better network engineer with Chat gpt than I am without it So if you're a network engineer who doesn't use enhanced tools You may fall behind and then someone may take your job But uh it chat gpt on its own probably not Hey, look more people asking about wazoo. We don't use wazoo for any commercial clients But I think it's a pretty neat tool I have wan rules and pf sense enable pf blocker g.o.i.p. Should I see these rules during even though? Unsolicited traffic is blocked. Yeah, I mean You will probably see him but yes by default pf sense unless you open something is default deny on the wan How do you find it a networking events in Detroit specifically, uh, bob waltonspiel is a friend of mine He's run for the last 12 years or more maybe longer Maybe like 13 years, uh the it and a d podcast and they have the it d it and a d networking socials There's not many other events. There's uh start up Detroit and that one So I've now found all the ones i'm aware of are those two if there's more of them. I don't know Uh huntress is in beta for 365. Yes Uh similar to what bloom air is doing similar still not exactly the same but similar But bloom air's function is way more like that's it like by the way bloom air can do host isolation So can huntress but that's not the reason you buy either of those tools as those peripheral functions There are core functions that are the purpose of either one of those tools and that's why you buy them AI is not most most people think it is. Yep Wazoo with or without gray log Why not with I mean if you're gonna do one why not use both? I don't know. I I don't understand the question, but we'll say both Ever done with the DDoS personal clients infrastructure. Yeah, they suck Just look at how lawyers, um got themselves sanctioned submitting a lawsuit file with fake cases. Yep. That is a dumb lawyer for sure Uh if you consider it expanding we work globally So expanding for us does not necessarily mean physically opening up more places. Maybe uh right now We have two locations Detroit and Toledo, but I don't see us At the moment. It's not on the roadmap to build more physical locations But we serve as companies all over the world and I don't just mean the united states But I mean all over the world we do consulting Opinions on software cluster file system for those who need it cluster sef Could be great, but there's a lot of commercial options. Uh, I would use sef if you're looking at a Commercial one that's well tested well proven. I would use sef What is the product software CW is using that you were like wow, why weren't we using that? I don't know Because they used to me the same tools Is us. Um, I'm I'm not they use connectwise manage of which I'm not the biggest fan. I think the interface is Challenging and poorly written, but we also use nillier on top of that Which of course enhances it because connectwise is so bad There's third parties that have bolt-on interfaces to make it less bad So nillier is kind of cool because it makes it usable or more usable or more user friendly depending on how you want to look at it moon or mars, I don't know Thoughts on doing managed it versus same city I What do you mean? I like co-managed it better if you're asking my opinion Co-managed it's easy because we assist internal it teams with heavy lift and technical things that they don't have expertise in So they can do internal things like help desk and uh crap. I don't want to do Connectwise interface is horrible. Yes, it is. Yes, it is I uh I've been learning it and I I It's it's is I don't know if it's worse or better. I don't it's it's as bad as I always thought it would be We do all over the world. Do you hire all over the world? We're just trying to let it At the moment just Detroit and Toledo. We have not really hired outside of that yet Um, maybe one day, but that's not today They uh, and we don't have any tech. We have a sales position open, but no technical ones Uh, maybe I don't know. Maybe I'll I'll look at the changes and see if it's worth the video. Um, I don't know Low on my priority list right now. Uh, unless it's really awesome amazing. I don't know Email vlog thursday at lornsystems.com if uh, if you have a link to specifically why it's awesome But yeah Because before they used to create all you do is you create links internally, uh for it. I mean I don't think there's anything special about the net data stuff But I'm going to wind this down here because I do have to go to the next event and I have a couple emails I'm going to reply to before I go actually Oh look update available for next cloud So we'll go ahead and hit uh upgrade upgrade There we go. We can do it live We use connectwise PSA. Uh, we did halo PSA before connectwise It's so not 23 but integrate with all of our billing systems. Ultimately, that's what it comes down to is all the um integrations So that's that's the big thing. It's just the integrations in it. Uh that and I get it like it it's smooth for all of that So there I I'm not arguing if they shouldn't use it I can just say they use it and it's probably the best solution But it's also Not pretty That's that's where um That's where I say that lies. It's like it's I get it. It's It does everything it's supposed to do. We're doing it. We're making money. It works. It's got a lot of tickets in it We're tracking time well, etc. Etc. Functionally. Yes Ugly yes, you can have both those things Are uh are true See come on deploy. I want to see I want to see we're going to show the new net data interface if there is one But yeah We are forced to use sysco switches on site server We discovered Dell SAP mushrooms are not acceptable in sysco, but unified switches have no problem with them true that Yep Yep, that's true sysco is a pain for a lot of that. That's life. I don't life is pain sysco's pain Come on We want to see the new net data. Is there is it amazing enough that they do Nodes can we add add nodes you are viewing local node only connects to the cloud to connect multiple nodes? So, yeah, I don't see a way to do Unless you're connected to the cloud more nodes Their cloud is where the nodes are I don't know. So if if someone Uh, if someone wants to email me exactly what they're talking about it's vlog thursday at lornsystems.com and I will look at that Any news on net zero? still works Uh, we still use it. It's it's a neat product. I recommend it. Um, there's not enough that I I don't think there's anything I can tell you that would be new so I haven't done a new video on it. So Hopefully that makes sense and I think that's It All right. Thank you everyone for joining. This was awesome. Leave comments email vlog. There's the at lornsystems.com I have to go run to the event and I will talk at all of you later. Thanks