 Finally caught a live. There we go. Another Pete today. Absolutely. What time does it start in USA? Well, we have... I'm out of focus. Hold on. Why am I out of focus? There we go. We have numerous time zones and we also have the wrong branding on here. There, we can fix that real quick. Anyways, let me get to where it focuses on me and not back-focusing. Those little details. It is currently 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, so middle of day here in EST. The region area I am in is Detroit, Michigan. But unless you live in Detroit, then you're going to correct me and say, Tom, you're on the suburbs of Detroit. So, you know, we mentioned that last time. There's the banter back and forth about whether you're in Detroit. The suburbs of Detroit really depends on how far they are. So, nonetheless, good evening. So, as Simon's pointing out, it is 8 p.m. in the UK. So, yes. Backing up the VMs to a storage culture, exporting back-ups to a Synology and testing back-ups tomorrow. Yeah, it's a lot. You know, going through your full disaster recovery testing process and plan and making sure you can restore your virtual machines is really important. Untested back-ups are wishful thinking. You know, just one of those things. You got to go through the plan once in a while. It is tedious. But that's actually what I was working on. And I can, let me see if this works today. Oh, look at that. Recursion. And so, we get some recursion going on, but we can show the video Tom was just talking about. Actually, let me remove comment. I had comment. There we go. When you do everything yourself, you see the behind the scenes on all of this. But this is the video I was working on. It's just talking about data, data back-ups, making them more resilient. This video is rendering right now. As a matter of fact, if I slide down. Yeah, it's still rendering. You can't see the other screen. Well, you can if I do this, if I do this and do this, video editing going on behind me. And well, the video editing part is done. It's just doing the rendering part now. But if we switch over to here, then we scroll up to this. So that's the video I was working on talking about back-ups and making sure you separate how your shares are versus your web interfaces for things like TrueNAS. I use TrueNAS as an example, but I also mentioned in the video that, yes, this applies to more than just TrueNAS. It's a popular topic because you know, you always hear and people start with the words immutable back-ups. I'm like, I'm not sure you're defining it properly because it's usually just hardening back-ups to have something set up as in right once read many for your back-ups, creates a problem of making sure you have a mechanism to handle all of the revisions of back-ups. Unless you have infinite storage, then ignore my comment there. Most people don't have infinite storage. So if you have a backup that can accept writes but does not want to delete, you have to have a delete mechanism so the old back-ups can get purged away. So I just went through and kind of explained that. I explain it a lot to people, a lot in emails, people opening tickets and wanting help configuring things. So when I have a video on a topic, sometimes I'll just reply, I have a video on this topic because what you want isn't exactly how it works. Here's my video to explain it. Let me know how you'd like to proceed and go forward. So lots of fun. Let's see. Is there a reliable GPU in Kaden Live? No. I just, I moved to DaVinci Resolve. That's what's rendering in the back row right now. And I moved to DaVinci because Kaden Live, I didn't want to deal with it anymore. I didn't want to deal with any of the problems. I didn't want to deal with any of the rendering issues and I'm really regretting not moving to DaVinci Resolve sooner. I think Kaden Live's great. I still recommended people starting out, but once you need some of those advanced features, DaVinci really just is so much better than Kaden Live. Boss wants to meet all back-ups on a shoot-take budget. We are keeping one or two copies and after finished just shutting down the Synology. Yeah, I mean, and that's what I talk about is people just think you can just flip a switch. Isn't there an immutable button? That is a more common than you would think question that comes up when people engage with us for services. Well, I just wanted you to show me where the immutable box is. I'm like, there's not an immutable box to check. There's a process to create resiliency and make it difficult to get to your back-ups, but that's a process and there's steps. So that's definitely, it's not that it's difficult. It's just making sure people understand it, but then they realize that some of these steps I mentioned do make things a bit difficult. Like I talk about going as far and TrueNAS is shutting down the web interface and locking it down. Sure you can. That makes it harder for someone to get inside your TrueNAS and delete your back-ups. That also makes it harder for you to get inside your TrueNAS to do administrative functions. So it really comes down to what's your risk tolerance and setting it appropriately. Putting management to TrueNAS on a separate interface, great idea, at least having separate passwords, huge idea. That's where if you spend time reading through reports of how they got into the back-ups, you'll frequently find common password usage all the time. Matter of fact, a huge amount of support with TrueNAS. People when they upgraded, hey, the upgrade broke my shares. What password user were using for your shares? Root. Really? You were using root and the password to get into your TrueNAS as your share password. TrueNAS disabled that and people thought that was a terrible thing that really aggravated them. And I'm like, why were you using root and not setting up another user? This is where the problem is. So that's a yes. There are times rotating back-up drives works quite for, yeah, I mean, yeah, physically taking things out of service or out of a connection like this right here is a solution to that. Will it focus? There we go. This little sand disk is one of the places I keep some data. I keep it encrypted at rest using locks, but this is offline and then goes into a safe. And when it's in a safe, now it's protected from potential fire, makes it more challenging to steal. I never say impossible. I mean, spend a little while watching the lock picking lawyer and you'll realize there's really not too much. I mean, it's once again a security mitigation, putting things behind locks, traditional physical locks, not a bad mitigation, but boy, the lock picking lawyer makes it all look so easy. I think there's probably a lot of people here who also watch the lock picking lawyer. If I had to guess, the audiences are a big crossover of them. So Grayson, thank you for the donation. I backed up all my data home server using SSH, BZip, tar file, simply pipetart SSH and SSH for the cat backup Tarzy. Yeah, that works in a simplicity standpoint. How do you avoid bit rot? Use ZFS. That is the really good answer to that. That's one of the big things is obviously when you keep a lot of backups or just a lot of data that you have sitting around is having a sort of ZFS Array will protect it from bit rot. This is built into the scrubbing functions of ZFS will go through and make sure your data still remains with full integrity. That is a problem bit rot with lots of things like this. I wouldn't just assume that I would never lose data that's on here and it will always be readable. That way, anything critical, if it's important to me, is on more than one of these. Because yes, I have a few of these and I make sure I've got multiple copies of it. That's the only way. I mean, it sounds, it's funny, I've been doing this for years and it sounds eccentric. And then years later, people are like, that sounds practical. I'm like, yes, anyone who's experienced some data loss finds all these steps very practical. They just seemed inconvenienced at the beginning. Oh, yes, another boy. Yeah, you watched all the lockpicking lawyer. There's really, he's got this new series of kind of exploring and looking a little bit more detail, covering the different details of lockpicking in terms of like he's got that cutaway lock. Those have been fun to watch. My wife watches him with me too. She's like watching him get into locks. I'm so looking forward to whatever he releases tomorrow. If you have not watched the April 1st videos of lockpicking lawyer, they are my favorite. Lockpicking lawyer knows how to do a video for April 1st. So I won't spoil anything. Just watch them. Not just EFS, make sure you scrub regular basis. See what happened to Linus. Well, yeah, he did not have ZFS scrub turned on. That's what happened to Linus. So TrueNAS doesn't re-silver unless you replace a drive. The scrub process is not the same as a, is not the same. Are there still scenarios not to use ZFS? It's not real helpful with single drive. It's not bad. It's not terrible with single drive. But there's, I think the only exception might be, if you have something a little powered like a Raspberry Pi, that may not be the most optimal place to use ZFS, especially if you're using any of the ZFS with encryption or anything, there may be certain overheads ZFS has that may be less favorable. So maybe IoT devices and things like that is less ideal. And it's still, I don't know, but I've heard there's some performance that may not be 100% there under Linux. So it's really good under BSD. I'm not 100% if the performance is at the same level under all, all Linux situations, but it's still pretty good. So there's those little considerations. So there's not a whole lot of reason not to do it. Any plan for video release tomorrow? Yes, I am working on something else for tomorrow, but probably not an April Fools video. I don't know, I haven't decided on that. Would you please do a vid on Wazoo? It's complicated, and I don't know if there's enough demand for the time and effort it takes to do a video on Wazoo, a good video. There's plenty of how to install it videos. And that's not what you're asking for. You want it, the tuning video, and that's the harder part of Wazoo. So everyone likes it. But when you realize it's a lot to get, it's all those easy to install, easy to learn, lifetime to get it right type things. It's one of the reasons I haven't done a video on security union. The install process is easy. The tuning and setting up and configuring process is where that can get really more in depth. I like ButterFest because I'm cheap and like to use whatever drives I have hanging around. ButterFest is not bad. Nothing wrong with that. I think it's a great idea that PF Sense move the ZFS. Can you talk about application traffic shaping in PF Sense? Because you can shape the application like Sophos and Make or Take, but PF Sense so hard. Yeah, it's not great. If you have a use case that says that's what I need, use a firewall that supports it better. Because PF Sense isn't that firewall. This is one of those, I start with use case all the time with people. And it seems to be lost frequently because they're like, well, wait a minute, you just recommended not to use PF Sense. I'm like, uh-huh. If it doesn't do something well, like you need web filtering. I say use different firewalls. They're like, but I want to use PF Sense. I'm like, yeah, but it doesn't do web filtering well. That's where I, that's, you know, you suggest other firewalls. That's the solution to that. I only have a single driver for my backups. Maybe I'll get to TrueNAS. However, I'd like to go ButterFest, RAID10 storage backups. Yeah, yeah, get more drives when you can. It comes down to budget, of course. I'm using PF Sense. My inner provider gives me a dynamic IP. It is safe to use Adidas function, PF Sense, traffic, PF Sense box. Uh, I don't understand the question. Bruh. Do you even shout, Seth? I don't, you know, this is one thing people ask a lot and I, it's these type of, uh, I know you're being silly here, I hope. Um, but this comes up quite a bit and I'm working, I'm going to be doing a video with the team over at 45 drives. And we're going to talk about why not to use Seth as at least part of the conversation because some people over complicate things. It's not like you need Seth for every situation. It seems to me once people learn something new, they want to add an extra layer of complexity to their networks. You always build your structures, whether those are networking, storage and everything in between and all the intersections of those things. You build them only as complicated as they need to be and no more. Adding more layers of complexity has to be justified from a benefit it may have. So not everything needs to be done with Seth. Not everything needs to be done with a clustered storage solution. It's not always the right solution or even the right budget for clients. If you're just setting things up in a lab, it's fun to play with. It's fun to learn when you're dealing with the real world. You try to build things as simplistic as possible because you have to support them over the long term. That's a really important thing to think about when you're doing these. I found a dilemma when selling Trudance on Gen 8 MicroStayware because I have a P222 with RAID 5 and 4-Stats Drive Trudance and CFS requires several single drives. Yes, it needs to talk directly to the drives. My solution is get something that talks directly to the drives. I don't know what the workaround would be for that. We have to use Cisco. Why? We don't know. We just use Cisco. Yeah, that happens a lot. You, Seth, if you need Seth, or like me, plan on being certified in Seth. Yeah, I mean, we deploy a backup box to a client site, polls backups from NAS. No SSH, can't say can we run these on zero to network support? Seth cannot access users from lockdown labs. I'm not completely unsure of the question you're asking, but you could set up zero tier on these things. It's a popular way to get data moving. It was a bit of a joke, but that was a very good answer. Not everything needs Seth level complexity. Yeah, it's all it is. I mean, great if you work at a job that does it, but that's, you know, hmm. So hopefully that makes sense. And sometimes things don't make sense. So we just do that. There we go. All right. Nobody gets fired for buying Cisco. That's why people buy Cisco. And that's not true at all. Man, that is definitely not how things are in 2022. Okay, not a question. That's what you do. Yeah, this is, I mentioned this when me and Jay did the podcast yesterday, the, the homelab show, it's also a video you can find in yesterday's video is about zero tier zero tier is a good way to use it as a transport layer for, you know, moving your backups around. It's whatever you do to get your backups in more than one place is good. That's, um, that is the big part. Oh, look, it's my son. He has joined the live stream. Greetings, son. He's upstairs playing video games. You know, I think it's silly. The, for those of you who didn't know, there's the Krebs on security. And it's a, it's a sticky situation. I briefly read through the docket and I, I'm not going to do a, I just don't see a reason for me to do a video. I don't, I'm not a lawyer and I don't pretend to be one on YouTube. Lots of people though online like to pretend to have more legal knowledge than they do. But there's a couple of things that at least from a United States standpoint, and the way the laws work is interesting. They also made sure they filed in a, in a jurisdiction that would be more favorable to ubiquity because it's, it's kind of like a slander case. And the problem becomes if Krebs reveals sources that you're not required, by the way, as a journalist, you know, I'm not an expert on this, by the way. I'm not claiming it or, you know, hashtag this ain't legal advice. Uh, but if you're in journalism, you protect your sources. This is something that is part of the journalistic rules, essentially that we don't have to reveal sources. Uh, you're supposed to verify them. And I mean Krebs verified undoubtedly that this person worked for ubiquity. They were just a weird situation because they were also the one extorting ubiquity as we learned later. So they're kind of mad that Krebs didn't redact it. And so now they're saying, you know, he didn't do, he didn't put the best effort forward on redacting and revising, uh, knowledge that came out later. I don't know. That's going to be sticky for judges to decide it's also part of Krebs going journalistic integrity of protecting sources becomes a weird thing because now he would have to admit that exactly was his source. I don't think he said exactly who his source was because Krebs doesn't say the names of sources on there, unless there's someone who wants to be known. So it's a weird problem. Like I said, not a lawyer. I don't know how that's going to pan out. Uh, you know what, I do know there's a bunch of lawyers are going to make a lot of money on both sides because that's how some of these cases pan out. Lawyers, they win, not necessarily the sides, but the lawyers, there's a lot of money going to be involved in the lawyers. That's why you mostly avoid them because it's not one, it's not the winning or the losing side. Both people spend a lot of money on lawyers. Yeah. ZFS, you're not relying on specific however. Ah, Lawrence law. Yeah. New, new side channel, right? I have three here. Can we swap out some old us Gs was UXG pros next week. Hmm. Oh, there. Now my daughter has joined a live stream. Is there an issue with Cisco's these days that I'm not aware of? Yes. People who find out about contracts and things like that. Um, I have known a few people in the enterprise world that are extremely unhappy with some of the Cisco contracts. Um, I wish they could be more public about it, but these, these are, you know, large deals. It's just friends I have that work in industry. Cisco changing the wording of perpetual licenses that they sold. That was such, we, my friend had the craziest story of him in dealing with enterprise Cisco stuff. There was a local place we dealt with that Cisco screwed up some licensing on and told, well, somebody told someone something. It was a lot of confusion with the Cisco licensing. And once again, Cisco said, Nope, you can't have any of these licenses that we told you you could have. And then the lawyers got involved and Cisco backpedaled and gave them the licenses. There's a lot of times when people were Cisco is all about the money. And that's the one thing about them. It matter of fact, that's, uh, I've seen a lot of anger. If you look up like, uh, Maraki, now this is not something I have direct firsthand, but I know enough people have complained about it. So because I'm not a Maraki dealer where Maraki has gone around the supplier and violated partner agreement. So there's plenty of people with plenty of anger at Cisco. Um, yeah. So well, P of sense have zero tears of package. If enough people ask for it and someone in the package maintainer submits it to, there's a process. You could be an external package maintainer. You submit it to the team at neck gate and they will vet it and allow it to be in a package repository. So I'm not the one maintaining the package. So I don't know. Uh, progress on the business channel. Yeah, probably next week I'll have it done. Greetings from Tunisia. Awesome. Well, this is a funny, what do you think about unified controller of networking features like OSPF and BGP in 2022? You're optimistic. I would say never. I don't foresee them getting into that market. I just don't see it. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they'll prove me wrong, but, um, I just don't see them as the, uh, company as a go-to company for, uh, doing that. Sorry. No. Perpetual. What's that? Yes. Get pricey news. You've chosen to make sense, but you make me think they are the apple of networking and wifi. Yeah. Ah, yeah. Cisco licensing is a mess. I actually have, I have numerous ex Cisco friends. Like they used to work there and they left because they hated being some of it. They're, they're like the company just makes bad decisions. There's, there's so much when you get to know some of the people and who used to work there and there's even the joke that, uh, Cisco's where products go to die and get monetized. You know, Cisco makes an acquisition. You can almost a lot of people joke. Like the product will not get any new features, but it will get new licensing that it will be really hard, really hard to configure and really hard to understand and will only end up costing you money and time sorting out. That's the, um, Cisco way. So, hey, whatever, they're making money. And if you're a shareholder, bill them. I mean, if you got, you're holding stock and you're looking for a profitable company, they're turning in a profit. Have you reviewed the, your plan review, the high point MVME rate cards? Um, I have, uh, I took a picture. We were, we're actually playing with a couple things and I'll pull it up real quick. I don't even know who makes this one. I don't know the brand, but you get the idea what this is. Hey, look, it's a raid card with four Western digital blacks in there. I don't know. Um, so we were doing some testing with this. It doesn't really like my Dell server that much. That's, that's what our testing has really taught us. It doesn't really like the Dell server. Um, it works. The bifurcation works. It recognizes the drives that we're not getting the speed we want out of it. Um, we don't know why. And we're trying some other motherboard. So kind of, uh, I plan on building a true NAS MVME system. Um, so they're pretty cool. Uh, let's see. They also make full size PCA carries that will hold for you to MVME drives. Yeah. Is that a neck gap? It's something new with it. Yes. That's the 4,100. We've been testing it for a little while. I just been busy and not finished the review. They were thinking, uh, because I got the box already and they were like, Hey, time to get a review done this week. I'm like, I've got a lot of things scheduled. Um, I still do a decent amount of consulting myself with storage servers. There's been kind of a lot of it. We've got some really big bids and really big companies we're working with right now for designing storage. So I haven't had the time to finish the review on the 4,100, but there's no problem with it. It works as expected. We've been using it for testing and all the testing we've done with it has worked perfectly well. So, um, I'll have the review done probably by next week, but it's, it's a great, it's a great product so far. Everyone asked this, how's everyone dealing with network equipment and client demand with all the chip shortages? We have another project we can't do. That's what that's how we just tell people, um, no, you can't have the thing you want. Here are some substitutions. That's it. Those are your options. Uh, yes, even for the service of my home, I create them a basic spasso to maintaining a service range run 24 seven. Yes, that's probably, you're probably catching up from earlier conversations. Yeah, ordering things months in advance. Yeah, that's part of it too. LTT is not for everyone, but they've been discussing implementing, uh, high speed NVMe storage and the challenges it has. Yes, they've got a couple good videos on it. Wendell's helped them out with it and they've talked about that almost a year ago, um, because you can build this, you keep building the storage storage faster, but then you start need to hook up the data feed to it, you know, 100 gig connectivity and then you go, Oh, the software is not quite there with some of the hundred activities. So it needs some specific tuning to be done. Uh, Wendell from level one has talked about this a little bit more in depth, but yeah, that's definitely a challenge. Um, I, I don't know. I'm not the best person to ask. You see, maybe you've been off topic, but what search do you recommend getting a networking in 2022 CCNA? I don't have any search myself and I don't look for jobs. So I'm not the best answer for that. Um, I don't think it's bad necessarily to get CCNA, but look at what the job postings are looking for. And is that the, is that the qualifier they need? Uh, SAS drives from eBay by extra. That's my thoughts on that. I mean, you, it's a, it's a random rolling of the dice. You don't know if you're going to get good ones or bad ones. We actually had a weird eBay experience. Um, well, me a while ago, I bought for a project I needed to put together is actually for a server for my friend. We ordered them. They sent us the wrong drives. So I complained on eBay and they sent us another set of drives, but they were, the wrong drives again, but they were bigger drives than the original ones that they said they were going to send in the ad. And I said that you sent us the wrong ones. And they said, we'll send them all back and we'll send more. And I said, well, no, you got to pay the shipping to get these back. Just send me the right drives. And it never heard back from him again. And I'm like, well, whatever we have drives, I mean, I was being honest and letting them know they sent me the wrong ones. They were only slightly bigger, but whatever we got bigger drives out of it. So sometimes you don't always know what people hello from Scotland beer and chips on you. Ah, you know, um, what you call chips, we call fries. I think that's interesting. So these comments, I'm just going to call you out on this. This is not a, I canceled a big order because ubiquity suing Krebs. Please tell me you use no Microsoft at all ever in your life because at any given moment Microsoft has so many silly lawsuits going on. Um, I, I mean, yeah, sure, I'll complain about it. But oh yeah, let's boycott ubiquity and go spend twice as much money somewhere or eight times as much with Cisco. Because you know, it's not like Cisco's never had a silly lawsuit or anything like that. I don't know you complain about it. You vote with your stock price because that's actually what they're mad about is their stock evaluation price change. So I don't know. It just seems like, oh, cancelling orders for it. I'm not, I'm throwing it out there. I will call it out and say it's stupid. I don't understand it completely, that whole lawsuit with Krebs, but I'm not running around cancelling orders. All the ubiquity orders we have in place are still going because it's the right product for the solution we're trying to provide. Simple as that. Search can be good to get your foot in the door. Otherwise, you probably don't need them unless you're working for a value added reseller. Yeah. Oh yeah. And what we call chips, they call Chris. Yes. North Wales. Awesome. I won't be canceling anything. Ubiquity works well. You know what, Matt? Cody's got the best answer right here. Please cancel all of your stuff because we're having shortage problems. So all of you angry at ubiquity, cancel all your orders right now. Show your anger because I really need a lot of stuff that's out of stock. I think this is, you mean, let me get everyone rolling. Everyone, please cancel orders. I need a few more devices and I can only get five of something I needed. There we go. I think Cody's got the best idea yet. Fun times. What else do we have in here? So the, I see more people seem to like this. I'm telling you, man, Cody, you're on to something. Please cancel it. This is, you're in the same boat. I am. We have just lots of stuff up in the air. You know, we're doing substitutions is the answer because if the customer has to get something done and they can't get that part or they have their heart set on a specific thing, yes, the only solution at that point is substitution. So the chip shortage is really a fries shortage. Yeah, we don't have enough potatoes. So we need more potatoes to make more french fries or chips as some places may call them. Yeah, so confusing. There we go. Same thing. Cancel as much as you can. We need more stuff in stock. This is, you know, and I turned down a job today. Someone, I mean, it's, it's not that we don't want to turn it down. It's just one thing. It's going to be expensive to set this up. Someone wanted to set up a unified dream machine, but because they wanted to modify the JSON file, get the wire guard working because then tie it to another PF sense and everything else. And I'm like, why don't you just use PF sense and solve the problem and do wire guards. So south to south, site to site. So Brett Chittum. Hello from Southgate, Michigan. Yeah. It's very difficult to get any wireless equipment, even more so outside the US. They cancel orders. Maybe I freak forward her. Yeah. That is a, it is a tough situation right now when it comes to that man. It's, it's, I don't know. The, uh, we'll slowly, one thing is going to happen. It'll, I don't know. It'll, it'll catch up eventually. It just takes time. Um, oh, it's getting cold here. I'll press, press magic button, warm up car. So let's see. Oh, I got to figure out how charged my car is because I got some driving to do. I do have a hard stop. In like 10 minutes, I have a hard stop because I'm supposed to go somewhere. So that's a, that's the thing. My car is almost charged anyways. I didn't have it plugged in this morning because, uh, where'd it go? I like the little animation. So 25 minutes remaining. It's, it's got charged enough to where I need to go. But the, uh, I, we had a really bad windstorm this morning and the power is flickering and I, whenever the power's flickering, I think maybe I shouldn't plug my Tesla in in case there's a big power surge. I don't know. So I have, oh, people ask where I'm going. I have a board meeting. I belong to different, uh, groups. So sometimes you'll see that I go to board meetings and I'm on an advisory, I have an advisory position for an educational institute. Um, I won't give all, I don't know, I don't talk about all the details of it, but essentially, yes, I do stuff like that off topic. Do you see YouTube as a business opportunity or just a way to share knowledge with your interests? Has that changed since you started? Um, no, I like sharing knowledge. I've been doing public speaking for years in a long time. I've been doing, um, it's, I'm not new to the going to Linux conferences or whatever and speaking. YouTube is an extension of that. And it, um, I mean, we still use it because I can't, I have to make money. So we advertise my services on YouTube channel. Yeah. But, uh, that's also because I hired, like Brett, I hired last year, so I could spend more time creating videos. So as I spend more time creating videos, uh, gotta have some way to get paid. I still own the business, but you know, you kind of have a circle of life here. So I still give away a lot of knowledge, but I also, um, the advantage I have, if you may notice this for me as a YouTube content creator, is I'm not driven by selling whatever ad sells the most because I'm self sponsoring most things. And I'm not driven by just getting the most views all the time to get the most ad sponsors. I still talk about the things I want to talk about. Uh, if, if you are a YouTuber full time, the only focus you have, if your goal is to make money at YouTube is to do the things and optimize YouTube to make the most money, which means reaching the broadest audiences and going less in depth. Uh, I will not get the views, uh, that you would get if someone, um, going in depth just doesn't get as many views because it's niche content. Being broad topic means you're going to get more views on those videos. So that's a lot of it. Board or board, I choose to be on these committees, uh, of when I'm on a foundation. So I'm not bored at all. I'm helping advise to help, uh, bring forward education. It's a volunteer position. Um, I do, I volunteer to be on charity boards and non-profits before. This is something I've been doing for a long, long before YouTube. Um, doing things like that is just another way I give back to the community. If you, I don't know, the more you kind of know some of the things I do, I'm not just a YouTube give back to the community. I do public events or participate in charity and nonprofit boards. Um, where I just have advisory roles to help, uh, get charities going or help education institute. This is a nonprofit education institute. Um, and make sure things are the way they need to be. So hopefully that makes sense. Pizza. Uh, there's a pizza in the, I don't, I have to drive somewhere, Marcus, my son. So I have to tell you to go get the pizza out of the freezer. YouTube is the primary advertising for my business now. Yeah. Um, we still go out there. Matter of fact, Brett just got back. He went on site, uh, somewhere we still do in person. We still go to chamber of commerce events. We still do all the things we used to do. So YouTube is, um, the primary income or primary leads, I said not income, primary lead generation, but we also still do all the other things that we need to do going to events. Well, let's see. I did a video yesterday on the UXG pro. Wife is an educator. Great. You do what you do. Ah, yes. The education institutes sometimes need help. They, they want, they want, sometimes they want me to be an instructor and I was like, no, I will advise and help. I don't have time to be an instructor. Um, my son schools remotely. He's schools online. Yes. My son is researching pizza consumption for sure. Besides P a sense, what are firewalls? You guys use tests. I'm looking to go away from Rocky possibly go up for 40 net or pf cents. Um, untangles the other big one out there that we like untangle makes a really solid product. And untangle is the answer for people who go, Hey, I need application filtering or, uh, or specifically web filtering. That's a feature of untangle is sold as a subscription. And if you say the word subscription, the majority of the pf sense people go, no, not a subscription. I need free, but I need all those really fancy features and those feeds that untangle has that allow for those fancy features to work and those come at a price. Um, so my problem with 40 net is they have a horrible track record in the past with security of hard coding credentials. Look up the magic packet with their VPNs with the back door they put in from bad coding practices of oops, we put a back door in the VPN. Like I, their history of bad coding. Now they haven't had an incident lately, which is good, but that's my problem. I've had with 40 net. We've also from dealing with their, um, the, what do you call it dealing with some of the problems like with their support people were aggravating. Uh, we had some IPsec problems. Turn out we found a flaw in their IPsec. Uh, and then they wanted to charge the client for the firmware update. And I, it was stupid. Um, we've only had a couple of interactions with their support people from when we had to integrate with them. I wasn't blown away by them. Now where they are aggressive is their reseller programs are aggressive for people to make money with them. So, uh, that seems to push a lot of people towards them more so than the quality of their product. I feel, uh, my friend used to admin a lot of checkpoint firewalls for really big medical conglomerate. Uh, he liked them. I never used them. He said they were fine. Does untangle use open app ID? They have their own, I have a video on untangle, watch it, or go to their website and read up on untangle. They, they cover, they're like the other firewall companies. They don't give you all the nuts and bolts on the backend. They have a good system. They'll tell you, we have application filtering. We have filtering. They, you can dig in. It's an open source firewall. You can dig into what the back end is. It's just not, it's not like PF sense where it's all implicitly telling you what the back end is because you have threat management and untangle. And in PF sense, you can load snort or seracada and fine tune the rules. You can still fine tune the rules and untangle, but it's not like they're calling it the same thing. They're not, they're not exposing the same level of detail you might get with something like PF sense. Um, it, but it's still a good system. There's a reason we like untangles. Uh, have you preferred site to site from IP sec to wire guard or do you have a preference? Um, slowly remove into wire guard, but not all the time. Um, so it's getting there. Uh, just if, if I'm going to do something new, it's, it's going to be probably there, but for the most part, if it's all set up and configured, I'm probably not going to swap it because there's not, there, unless there's some reason or push to doing it, uh, we won't. So, uh, nope, haven't really deployed any to protect at least we don't really get a lot of those, um, not in years. We did like on 2016, um, lately, so far as long as we can find the neck gates in stock and we just been putting in higher and neck gates. We, there's one of those substitution supply chain problems. Uh, the higher end ones were more available than the lower end ones. So the option when you're finishing a project was just to put the higher and neck gate device in, um, whatever, that's just part of it. So hopefully that makes sense. What do you think of piehole? Uh, I would never consider piehole an enterprise web filter at all. It's a project, but not a, not a web filter. So, all right. I will say five more minutes and then there's my, uh, stop. So five more minutes of questions and, uh, we'll go from there because I gotta go do what I gotta do. Um, let's see, smash the like button. That's what we should do. Go over here. We got 173 concurrent viewers, but 59 likes. Let's go ahead and, uh, we'll watch that number go up. There, I can put myself on this one too. I gotta look at this camera. Oh, let's see. Five minutes time is 15 minutes time. Yeah. Not this time because I actually have to physically be somewhere. I am actually, uh, if, if it's something business related, I am on time. I'm rather prompt. So I will, um, I will be going to where I need to be. I gotta read, I have an agenda I have to read and, you know, notes and then forms. And that is the one part that I never look forward to doing these safety things is, uh, having a fill out paperwork. But I know they, they are aware of my, um, how I feel like it. No update yet. Next week I should have the business channel done. I keep saying next week, I need to hire someone for this. Um, I just don't know who to hire. So this is something that I need someone to just do social media stuff and like put graphics on channels and, uh, update shirt stores and things like that. I'm, I need to hire someone to do that. That's something, you know, I don't know if, uh, great if they're local, maybe I can consider a remote position for that. That is definitely on my to-do list. That way it's not me doing it. That's, um, uh, definitely one of the challenges. Oh, let's see. Can't you just push them to digital instead of paperwork? I mean, it's, I say paperwork. I don't mean physical, right on paper. I do mean fill out a form. I refer to as paperwork because I'm old, but you're right. It is all just a, it's just going to be me putting stuff into a, um, form. Uh, hoping to get some microtik here. Taking writing drive images. I don't really do drive images. I've talked about doing, um, using, uh, clonezilla. Clonezilla is good for that. So if you're looking for drive imaging, but I don't, it's not something I really ever do. Can you ask vendors to sponsor giveaway? I don't really have anyone who does certifications is in my sponsors list to do that. So you're running in checkpoint art sense and home looking with PF sense due to some features they don't have. Does PF sense have a manager for multiple firewalls? Nope. Each firewall is on its own. And sometimes I miss questions. Uh, so I see you said this isn't a technical Q and A. It is, um, I, I, most of these are pretty technical. I'm answering a lot of technical questions, but nonetheless, uh, a more in depth as I put it all the time, a more in depth discussion is over in my forums because there's only so many questions and answers and people looking for something more articulate to, for me to talk to the forums is where I answer things there. Although I, I try not to leave anything unanswered in the forums, but some questions are so off the wall. I'm not sure what to respond with. I've seen a couple of them, like people will ask me about something unrelated I've never talked to. And I'm like, I just don't have an answer for this. And I'm always wondering if I should answer. Like I've never used these products before. So I don't know. And I'm trying to do that more. So people know it's not like, you know, you ask something that's off topic that even the other forum members may not respond. Um, and there's a lot of people in my forum, I think, you know, a few thousand people that visit there. Um, I think it like 5000 hits a day and there's about 1000 active users logged in any given day. And I think there's 2000 plus users. But either way, um, there's a lot of response there. But sometimes people ask questions and it's because there's not really an answer to the question. Um, or, or people who do the, um, you know, overly long questions that it's harder to answer as well. So hopefully that all makes sense. But I'm going to wind it off here. I don't have an answer for this one either. I need to find a new hot sauce and resharps, have an air a little too sweet, uh, which Linux just sure are using pop O S and a new version should be out soon. Pop O S is awesome. So Hey, thank you very much. Have a pleasant board meeting and safe journey. Yes, much appreciated. So thank you everyone who joined. I will have that video done soon that I was doing about the backups and, uh, all kinds of more fun videos coming soon. So, uh, yeah, let me know. And as always, if you're looking for a more in depth discussion, head over to forums.laurancesystems.com. Let me just throw that on there. I mean, this is, I also, you know, hit, you can say hi on Twitter, but I don't do tech support on Twitter. Um, but forums right here, there's a reason I, I take the time to maintain and curate all of this. So people have a place to discuss things. It's a, I get it. There's, YouTube is not always easy in, they don't let you post links and things like that. That's why I run the forums. So nonetheless, that's my little rant on that. Thank you everyone and take care.