Posts made by bnrstnr

@JaredBusch said in Fedora 33 upgrade time:

But the current Gnome is clean, and with two plugins it works well for me.

Which two plugins make it work well for you?

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

No, that would be infinite latency because anything that they send never arrives. That's the opposite of zero.

Apparently it went right over my head, too... I thought the same exact thing :man_shrugging:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I'll need atleast 3 AP's one per floor (basement, Main, and Upstairs).

How big is the house. This is almsot certainly overkill.

1216 Sq Ft.

I had an AC LR in my last home, a 1600 sq ft colonial, and it worked good everywhere. Mounted on the ceiling of the main floor.

@DustinB3403

@Dashrender said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

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@Dashrender said in Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020:

I'm with Wire - it's definitely not a clean... I just installed a new power plug myself behind my TV... though not an outside wall, not that that should be that big of a deal...

Yeah, unless these walls are filled to the edge with spray foam, feeding a few power cables down isn't going to be an issue. With fiberglass you'd just push through the insulation in those specific paths and it still wouldn't be that big of a loss.

Yeah, It's a new building so I hope there is spray foam. But even then it might not be that difficult. Might just need a wire probe.

No one around here does spray foam by default.

It should be. But yeah I don't think it's the default where @wirestyle22 is either.

I wonder what the price difference is? I'm guessing it used to be huge, but perhaps today, not so much??

Now if you were renovating and doing this yourself you can pick up spray foam kits that cost ~$770 which while still pricey, would save money compared to fiberglass.

That's it? We need to replace the insulation in our attic. Might have to do it ourselves if the DIY spray foam is that cheap now.

Yeah, that's per kit, each kit covers ~200 sqf at 1". It wouldn't be unexpected to need 2 or 3 kits to cover a single crawlspace attic.

1" - HAHA, so it's $770 for 57 square feet in reality.

I've also watched it being done (online) - it's an art, like spray painting cars... it takes a good amount of practice to not over spray the amount needed and end up with a ton of waste... in the attic, if it overflows, not that big of deal, but in walls, you don't want to waste a bunch that you're cutting off and discarding.

I purchased a 200ft kit, for like $350 I think, to do my rim joists in my crawl space. It's super easy. I believe once you're spending ~$1000 on materials (depending on local rates) it ends up being cheaper to hire somebody to do for you.

For closed cell foam you can only apply so thick in one pass before it's cured, so to get the R rating you would need for an attic in a colder climate zone, it would be insane to use a closed cell kit. Not only is it stupid expensive to do yourself, but waiting for curing between layers and crawling around in the attic multiple times in a poor mans hazmat suit? No thanks. Typically if you're doing foam in an attic they do a single layer of closed cell, then open cell on top.

When I did my attic I pumped in ~20" (R60) of loose fill fiberglass insulation for like $200... most home improvement stores lend you the machine for free if you buy enough bags, 10 bags in my case. I only used 6 bags and returned the rest with no questions asked. I will definitely go this route again on my next house.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally extended the Root partition on my FreePBX, which has been giving me hourly emails for being at 78% capacity for like the past year... :man_facepalming: Nice to have my email back in check lol

You could not do any cleanup? The email threshold is 75% I believe.

I've been doing cleanup for a while and that would usually buy me a week or two without the onslaught of emails. The last updates I did pushed me up to 78% though. Not sure why I only gave it 15GB to start with, so another facepalm there.

Unless a system has some stupid large requirements, I go with 64GB minimum for the OS drive / root partition.

It's amazing how this varies. I do 20GB, used to do 24GB. Find that I almost never use the 20.

20GB seems to be a good spot for us. 15GB worked for years.

https://link.ui.com is pretty cool. You select the locations you're trying to link and it estimates the performance you'll get from whatever products it recommends.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Finally extended the Root partition on my FreePBX, which has been giving me hourly emails for being at 78% capacity for like the past year... :man_facepalming: Nice to have my email back in check lol

You could not do any cleanup? The email threshold is 75% I believe.

I've been doing cleanup for a while and that would usually buy me a week or two without the onslaught of emails. The last updates I did pushed me up to 78% though. Not sure why I only gave it 15GB to start with, so another facepalm there.

Finally extended the Root partition on my FreePBX, which has been giving me hourly emails for being at 78% capacity for like the past year... :man_facepalming: Nice to have my email back in check lol

I'm thinking about picking up an August Smart Lock. I don't NEED it... butttt yeah...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089ZYW5TP/

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Donald Trump 'paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017' - NY Times

Donald Trump paid just $750 (£580) in federal income tax both in 2016, the year he ran for the US presidency, and in his first year in the White House, the New York Times says.
The newspaper - which says it obtained tax records for Mr Trump and his companies over two decades - also says that he paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. The records reveal "chronic losses and years of tax avoidance", it says. Mr Trump called the report "fake news". "Actually I paid tax. And you'll see that as soon as my tax returns - it's under audit, they've been under audit for a long time," he told reporters after the story was published on Sunday. "The IRS [Internal Revenue Service] does not treat me well… they treat me very badly," he said.

And?

That means his claims of profitability were false.

Not exactly - not if he had old losses he could still use to reduce current profits...

Seriously? I've paid more than $750 every single year since I worked part time in high school making minimum wage.

So his losses were so dramatic that he paid $750 one year, and nothing at all 10 out of the previous 15 years? Sounds exactly like his claims of profitability were false...

What a joke that people like you still defend this clown.

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Donald Trump 'paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017' - NY Times

Donald Trump paid just $750 (£580) in federal income tax both in 2016, the year he ran for the US presidency, and in his first year in the White House, the New York Times says.
The newspaper - which says it obtained tax records for Mr Trump and his companies over two decades - also says that he paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years. The records reveal "chronic losses and years of tax avoidance", it says. Mr Trump called the report "fake news". "Actually I paid tax. And you'll see that as soon as my tax returns - it's under audit, they've been under audit for a long time," he told reporters after the story was published on Sunday. "The IRS [Internal Revenue Service] does not treat me well… they treat me very badly," he said.

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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Debating getting lifetime PlexPass while its on sale

Last year, I only paid $75 for my mine.

I just checked mine, I got it in 2014 for $75. Probably the best $75 I've ever spent. We use Plex SO much.

@wirestyle22 said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller terraria just seemed like a better game

I agree. I've also never tried minecraft, but I have played a little Terraria.

Do you have a spare computer/old laptop or something laying around? Just plug into the HDMI port there and play whatever content you have available?

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Two of our closest bars just closed, forever.

That's sad even though I don't drink.

Going to lose a lot more now that we are closing up again. Texas is in for quite a battering.

Give people an inch and they take a mile... In MI we got a new executive order from the Gov. that they're closing restaurants indoor areas again.

Is buying another QNAP box out of the question?

I know with Synology you can move the drives to a new Synology box and restore everything from the drives. Assuming it's the box that went bad and the drives are still good, of course.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bnrstnr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking at installing FreePBX in Vultr for some testing. I had a local install in my lab but never connected any trunks to it. May even use the server after it is all set up for "production" for my family.

Why? Does everyone not already have a cell phone?

For personal service, I never recommend VoIP.

I haven't thought about it much yet because my kids are 5 and 2, but eventually I feel like I'm going to have to get a home phone? Maybe? Not sure what people are doing these days. If I can get away with having just a home phone for the kids for a few years, I'll take it.

By five my kids have cell phones. Works for far more than them just being home. Its just so broadly useful for safety.

The company provides home service for employees. So we have that too.

lol I just can't see giving my son a cell phone right now. It doesn't even feel like an option. Maybe one of the GPS/Phone watches? Definitely not a phone. Even if it only had one button to call us...

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking at installing FreePBX in Vultr for some testing. I had a local install in my lab but never connected any trunks to it. May even use the server after it is all set up for "production" for my family.

Why? Does everyone not already have a cell phone?

For personal service, I never recommend VoIP.

I haven't thought about it much yet because my kids are 5 and 2, but eventually I feel like I'm going to have to get a home phone? Maybe? Not sure what people are doing these days. If I can get away with having just a home phone for the kids for a few years, I'll take it.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Looking at installing FreePBX in Vultr for some testing. I had a local install in my lab but never connected any trunks to it. May even use the server after it is all set up for "production" for my family.

The problem is the cost of the phones. would love a no frill VOIP phone for say $30 - OK entry level Yealink SIP-T19p E2 https://www.amazon.com/Yealink-YEA-SIP-T19P-E2-Entry-level-phone-Lines/dp/B013GUGP7M $40.

Now to find a portable where the base and 1 handset is $99 or less.

Have you considered purchasing used phones? Looks like ebay has some decent deals. $40 doesn't seem unreasonable for a device that's going to last you 10 years, but I understand that everybody has their circumstances.

The $140 for a portable phone is a little harder pill to swallow. If you already have a cordless phone, maybe just get a $40 ATA?