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    • RE: Non-IT News Thread

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      No room to do that here. Just look at the map of keystone, correspond that with Buffett's railway line, add that to the realization that some of the oil will only go by rail and some will not leave Canada. In Canada it will likely travel by rail up north. Now hop over to gurufocus.com, look up the investors to find the companies they own.

      This sounds like a theory to me... but may actually be facts. I'm unsure at this point because you are so unbiased and factual that my brain doesn't know how to proceed. I will consult Q, please hold.

      Just so we are on the same page at this moment.

      Three facts I thought we were disputing:

      1. Keystone Pipeline XL Permit cancellation - Fact is, jobs were lost.
      2. My comment you posted from yesterday about Impeachment. - Fact, Impeachment is a charge only (aka Indictment). No trial, no one has been proven guilty, nothing other than a piece of paper the House drew up with charges on it.
      3. Comment of Pipeline "Causing an insane amount of environmental harm is an unknown but possible." It is fact that the pipeline XL is not built.

      If any of those are not facts please explain.

      As for the money flow, that is theory and never stated that as a fact. Highly probable though and investors are linking it too.

      Facts are just so difficult, man. Maybe I think it's a fact that the Earth is roundish, your facts might say it's flat, so whose facts are actual facts? I can't believe I'm biting... again... but here goes

      1. The vast majority of pipeline jobs are temporary. Thousands more jobs may disappear the minute the pipeline is done; the construction jobs, the supply chain jobs AND people that have been transporting the oil thus far. If the pipeline didn't streamline the process they wouldn't do it to begin with. So facts? Meh. I don't believe you have real supporting evidence to show that even 100 jobs were lost as of this minute. For all we know a thousand lawyers just got hired to fight the order...

      2. Impeachment is just charges, which no one was arguing, but "nothing else?" Meh. I disagree. I think there's more to it than that. Tangible things? Maybe not. It's still on Trumps record for being the best, most greatest, highest impeached, ever, in the history of ever... But yeah, if the mob owns the jury, charges mean nothing. I'll concede this one. Kudos.

      3. Define environmental harm. Maybe global warming isn't real. Or maybe bulldozers through sacred land doesn't count. If you do an image search for "Keystone XL Construction" one might construe that as "insane environmental harm" and that's not even considering all the potential things that may, or may not, go wrong once it's functional. So facts? Meh.

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    • RE: Non-IT News Thread

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      No room to do that here. Just look at the map of keystone, correspond that with Buffett's railway line, add that to the realization that some of the oil will only go by rail and some will not leave Canada. In Canada it will likely travel by rail up north. Now hop over to gurufocus.com, look up the investors to find the companies they own.

      This sounds like a theory to me... but may actually be facts. I'm unsure at this point because you are so unbiased and factual that my brain doesn't know how to proceed. I will consult Q, please hold.

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    • RE: Non-IT News Thread

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

      The Keystone pipeline also cut through national parks, causing an insane amount of environmental harm.

      It will cut through parks, yes. Causing an insane amount of environmental harm is an unknown but possible.

      Still nice that Buffett and Gates will get more money in their pocket while 1000's have less.

      So Gates/Buffet win instead of somebody else? It's a wash.

      Sounds like thousands truckers will be keeping their jobs now :man_shrugging: You must be in oil pipeline IT to be so torn up over this.

      Nope. I'm in medical. There are a bunch of workers at many pipe manufacturers in the country. Truckers would still have their jobs, just delivering different materials.

      Ok, so why are you pretending to care about them? Just needed something to be outraged about?

      I'm not outraged at all. I'm just pointing out a fact.

      Ah yeah, you're big on facts. I almost forgot. You certainly pinned down every aspect of the oil industry and thoroughly detailed every consequence of the executive order for us. I should be thanking you! Take your trolling over to 8kun

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    • RE: Non-IT News Thread

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

      The Keystone pipeline also cut through national parks, causing an insane amount of environmental harm.

      It will cut through parks, yes. Causing an insane amount of environmental harm is an unknown but possible.

      Still nice that Buffett and Gates will get more money in their pocket while 1000's have less.

      So Gates/Buffet win instead of somebody else? It's a wash.

      Sounds like thousands truckers will be keeping their jobs now :man_shrugging: You must be in oil pipeline IT to be so torn up over this.

      Nope. I'm in medical. There are a bunch of workers at many pipe manufacturers in the country. Truckers would still have their jobs, just delivering different materials.

      Ok, so why are you pretending to care about them? Just needed something to be outraged about?

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    • RE: Non-IT News Thread

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      Causing an insane amount of environmental harm is an unknown but possible.

      This genius comment is on par with one of your comments from yesterday:

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      Just charges and nothing else.
      
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    • RE: Non-IT News Thread

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

      The Keystone pipeline also cut through national parks, causing an insane amount of environmental harm.

      It will cut through parks, yes. Causing an insane amount of environmental harm is an unknown but possible.

      Still nice that Buffett and Gates will get more money in their pocket while 1000's have less.

      So Gates/Buffet win instead of somebody else? It's a wash.

      Sounds like thousands truckers will be keeping their jobs now :man_shrugging: You must be in oil pipeline IT to be so torn up over this.

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    • RE: Non-IT News Thread

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

      Biden to sign 10 executive orders to tackle Covid-19

      President Joe Biden is set to sign 10 executive orders to boost the fight against Covid which has ravaged the US.
      Vaccination will be accelerated and testing increased. Emergency legislation will be used to increase production of essentials like masks. In a break with former President Donald Trump, the policy stresses a national strategy rather than relying on states to decide what is best. The moves comes a day after Mr Biden was sworn in as the 46th president. The Trump administration was widely accused of failing to get to grips with the pandemic. In terms of total deaths from coronavirus, the US is the worst-hit country with more than 406,000 lives lost according to Johns Hopkins University. Nearly 24.5 million have been infected.

      Biden did some good work so far. Made his buddies Buffett and Gates richer while taking away some good paying middle-class jobs. Excellent start I say... Can't wait for what's to come...

      Please elaborate...

      @pmoncho said in Non-IT News Thread:

      Grabbing my

      Nevermind. You're clearly trolling.

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    • RE: Nextcloud Desktop Client Windows 10 - Change Domain

      @VoIP_n00b said in Nextcloud Desktop Client Windows 10 - Change Domain:

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      Report an issue on Github?
      https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/new/choose

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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      @bnrstnr said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      I did read another article that says it's possible to use a home phone to register it... so maybe that's still a viable solution?

      It's not when the whole goal is privacy! The fact that they ever used phone numbers just makes you wonder what the makers were thinking when they claimed privacy first - yet you have to have this absolutely tied to you thing (Well, perhaps they were Americans and we can still get burners without showing ID, etc - but much of the rest of the world can not), but really, what good is a burner in this case - it's still going to be attached to YOU. You can't give up the number tomorrow to someone else and still have access to your Signal account.

      https://freephonenum.com/

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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      Did you read the article?

      No, I skimmed it and thought I saw an answer 😢 Sucks that you need a phone number to register it.

      I did read another article that says it's possible to use a home phone to register it... so maybe that's still a viable solution?

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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      @bnrstnr - do you know why the public moved to WhatsApp so heavily? Was SMS so expensive and mobile data by comparison so cheap that the financial costs pushed people to another platform?

      Or did all mobile operators install Whatsapp by default, and make it the default texting app?

      I don't foresee the US moving away from SMS because of "tyranny of the default"

      Most people won't move away from the default until they run into an issue that really drives them to something else, and then they will only move to what appears to be the simplest thing.

      Just look at IE, it reigned supreme for ages, even though it was crap! Only real reason it was replaced was that people couldn't do work in IE any more because it was lagging so far behind.

      I think Scott has talked about how expensive SMS is and how it's not an option in the 3rd world. I really don't know. I've never even really thought about it. If you can afford internet to use WhatsApp, surely you can afford SMS? SMS is god awful though, unusable in my opinion, so maybe that contributes?

      I'm an iPhoner and I really don't have any experience with Android based phones, but I'm not aware of any manufacturers that push WhatsApp or use it as the default. Most of the people I talk to on a daily basis use iPhones, so iMessage is the default and it works awesome for us. The few people that I talk to that use Android phones we struggle to communicate efficiently. I've convinced a few to switch to WhatsApp, some try to use Messenger.

      Signal was better for one of my Android friends because he was able to use it as his default messaging app. That was the sole reason we preferred it over Telegram.

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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      It was so heavily used in Brazil that the gov't there shut it down because they didn't allow the gov't to tap it.

      I've been to Brazil a few times and every single person I encountered while there used WhatsApp, so I'm not sure where you're getting your info. I was just talking to somebody there last week on WhatsApp.

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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @Dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      Signal has a huge disconnect for me personally since they REQUIRE a phone number, heck, not not sure it can even run on a computer(device that has no teleco connection) because it requires a phone number, though they might have changed that.

      https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/05/22/signal-secure-messaging-can-now-identify-you-without-a-phone-number/

      Looks like they don't require a phone number anymore. I believe I used a pin to set it up on my phone (even though I obviously have a phone number there)

      I've been using the Windows app quite a bit also.

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    • RE: Miscellaneous Tech News

      @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      @mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      WhatsApp extends 'confusing' update deadline

      WhatsApp has extended the deadline by which its two billion users must either accept its updated terms and conditions or stop using the service.
      The original cut-off date was 8 February, but users now have until 15 May to take action. The firm was criticised for sending the notification, which seemed to suggest changes to the data it would share with its parent company Facebook. It said there had been "confusion" about its message. Since the announcement and notifications went out across its platform, millions of people around the world have downloaded alternative encrypted messaging apps such as Signal and Telegram. In a blogpost, WhatsApp said personal messages had always been encrypted and would remain private. It added that its practice of sharing some user data with Facebook was not new, and was not going to be expanded. "The update includes new options people will have to message a business on WhatsApp, and provides further transparency about how we collect and use data," it said.

      Who now? Sorry, don't know what this "WhatsApp" is any longer. I have some vague memory of that being an app, but I don't think anyone uses that anymore.

      Is there a consensus on which app is going to succeed it?

      I use WhatsApp to talk to customers in Mexico and Brazil, but they haven't seemed to make a move yet. I've tried both Signal and Telegram with friends and we liked Signal better, but I think their servers were overwhelmed and it wasn't working for us at all last week.

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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      About a month ago I was cleaning out my grandparents basement with my dad and one of my uncles that I rarely see because he lives out of state. We came across an ancient desktop PC with a Windows XP sticker on it. My uncle got super revved up when I went to throw it away because "he has a friend who is a dev at MS, and he says that Windows XP is the safest operating system out there because it's so old that hackers don't even target it anymore." He ended up taking it home with him to "setup as a server." Okie dokie then... I couldn't believe it. He didn't want to hear anything I was trying to tell him.

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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      You guys need a coffee tracker so we can add a sort category on the users page for most coffees

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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Building an updated XOCE tiny template to host on GH so people can perform direct install's from SSH on their XCP-ng servers.

      Just now saw that Ubuntu isn't building a mini.iso any more. I may have to rebuild this with Debian instead to keep the size of the final XVA as small as possible.

      I've been running my XOCE on Debian for over a year now. It seems to work better for me for whatever reason

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    • RE: I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs

      @AdamF said in I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours, Home Labs:

      So I'm curious... Who is doing on premise home labs these days in 2020? I have an R710 that I use for Plex, and other projects. But recently acquired and R630. Maybe its time for an upgrade.

      I'm seriously considering updating my home lab once we move into our new house.

      I keep looking at an HP DL20 G10. I want to move the drives from my super old Synology box to the new server and get rid of my power hungry DL360 G7.

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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @nadnerB said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      left a word out.

      would free/truenas run AS a vm in hyper-v?

      trying to keep myself busy, it's quieter than a cemetery at midnight atm

      The general consensus that I've seen here is

      • a NAS OS is redundant and hampers efforts to repair things.
      • You're better off using something like Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu Server, or your favourite flavour

      so do you mean, just build up another server consisting of an OS that support staff are familiar with, fill it with disk and use that?

      Yep, that's been the consensus around here. No real value add in having an appliance manage SAMBA and/or NFS for you. If you really really want a GUI interface, use a RedHat distribution for cockpit.

      I haven't tried Cockpit in a while, but I don't believe you could manage shares there last I tried. Do you know if that's changed?

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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Moved from Jellyfin to Plex tonight. Wife approval factor +100%.

      I've never heard of it. Looks very similar to Plex though.

      What do you guys like about Plex vs. Jellyfin?

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