Welcome to vlog. There's a number of 308 Unify ubiquity updates Synology errata and some Q&A and I pulled this first comment up because apparently it might if I caused a stir It wasn't really my intention to cause a stir but it was more about hey when are we gonna get this update and That's just I don't know kind of you know We keep seeing ubiquity say they're going to but it just put some timelines on it is what we're asking for with the unify OS 3.0 upgrade. So for those you that don't follow the ubiquity Things that are going on related to this what happened is and actually I'll call out McTelcom network Cody. He's done some videos on this I'm excited that they finally have the new wire guard available Well a proper or more proper implementation of wire guard Unless you were one of those people who bought a unified dream machine that update doesn't come for you yet It's coming eventually and it's just a complaint of what does eventually mean We believe they will do it because they keep telling us they will but then again We're all familiar with things I know you know coding's hard and factoring the code and all the things are gonna go into it And it's a lot of architectural from a software standpoint differences in the unified dream machine se versus a unified Dream Machine Pro, but that doesn't mean we can't be like putting a team on it You know ubiquity is a well-resourced company I know programmers are hard to come by no matter how big your resources may be but there's they'll throw some timelines on it Or just be more public other than saying coming soon and that's all In a lot of us, you know, and I'm not a person. I actually I have Been more of a person preaching against most of the routing equipment, but these they're they're only Highlighting my reasons for doing it as opposed to you know It's just a it's just a lot of silliness when it comes to all this is how I really feel about it I did my video about what I refer to as the weird way unify does VPN and to me some of this could Avoid it just by not being weird about your VPN From the get-go if it just when you included wire guard supportive. It was just normal wire guard There wouldn't be a need to change it later.  Maybe I don't understand the vision someone has an idea they're gonna do things differently and Sometimes that works out really well and there's other times that does not work out really well So that may be one of these times. I gotta mean I've done things different myself And sometimes I'm wrong about it so that's Travis is getting paid to moderate. Yeah There's that too Lots of hey, hello's hello's hello's Morning from the land down under. Yes. I love I actually my goal is usually not To cause a stir I it my goal is to enact change I want to see progress made on these things. That's actually my goal. Like I want to see The system work better the platform get the updates the users have the things the users want out of the platform and so My goal is to enact change. There's plenty of people who Pathologically just can't keep themselves out of the news So they're always having to do some type of shenanigans to find themselves in the news But I'm really not that person. I my goal is really hey Can we do this now the fact that ubiquity directly addressed it is actually something that makes me happy going? Hey, look, I got a reply directly from ubiquity on it But unfortunately it replies the same thing we've seen in the forums And I think it's the fact and ubiquity could go a long way with just having roadmaps. So that's the change Yeah And that change just what they're calling it now. We'll go with that. We're trying to invoke a change I Don't know but that's not all we're here to talk about I mean, I figured I'd bring it up right at the beginning here. I've already made videos about it I don't know what more can really be said it's you know Someone says I'm just you know spreading fun that they're not gonna do it, but the user base. I'm echoing Probably with a louder voice and a bigger audience what the user base is saying in the forums is when are you gonna do it? So Now that that controversy is out of the way. I do like now My opinions are not the same as everybody else's apparently I've learned I like to do UI leave hate in the comments for me Fight me there. That's fine. I'm okay with it. But I Don't know. I haven't really had any problems I don't know it to me it doesn't seem It doesn't seem like that big of a deal let me go ahead and share my screen here present share screen Yeah, share here we go But I I don't know I like the new UI the way it lays everything out to me it looks pretty cool um I Think though someone did point out like You I don't know they didn't like the way you filtered things for the offline. So let me see is offline one of the columns I Think it's probably Uptime last scene up down status Channel I think people maybe they don't realize that you can Go put the model back in there Yeah, status online offline Someone said you couldn't see which was offline and I was kind of confused because You can like right here now. I gotta admit this is strange. Oh, I see it's grouping them So the group these Wi-Fi, but you can filter and show offline devices as a filter. So you you can say hey List the offline devices or don't list them or you can invert the list But someone said was too hard with the new UI to do this and I'm like, I don't know It seems relatively easy to just click on this and go Hey, here's all the ones online or offline or mix them and sort them by that sort them by model sort them by IP address Sort them by connection, which why do I have connection in there? That seems like a Column I don't need I Don't need the network in there. Can I take that one out? experience network Experience status up to date. No, and I don't care about 24 hour usage. So you can probably take that out There we go Looks a little cleaner. I Don't know like I said, I find these Relatively easy to use. I think you big reason a nice job on that Just upgraded to you know us unify OS 3.1 cloud key gen 2 seems good so far I mean if they did it on the cloud key seems like they should be able to do it I know I know it's gonna become more complicated on a UDM Pro But you know you take on a complicated task of building network engineering tooling. So yeah Does it work as if feature parity with you I so we don't have to switch back and forth That's what I care about. Well, I think so. I I don't know what's you know, well, I'll hold all I'll hold this at least one comment I don't think I have any feature problems with it from the standpoint of using this UI For managing switches and access points I don't know if there's problems using it for managing routing, but I don't manage routing with unify Which I've repeated many times. So I don't find myself switching back and forth anymore setting these up I can't drill down as far as I like show if a client is connected with WP3 or WP2 hmm so we go over here to client devices and See is that information in here? Why five five, but yeah Yeah Yeah, I guess it doesn't say I don't see that in there, but that's such as life That's usually not the biggest problem. I think it's usually not an issue that I run into at least How can we get ubiquity to give a supply forecast to vendors is a real struggle That's actually a struggle. I mean if you look at the lead time for Maraki Rocky lead times So here's just so I'm pointing it out that it's not it's a supply chain issue We have others have been experiencing delivery times have experienced another with another 90 days for about a year Placed 13 months ago, and this was submitted two months ago. So September of 2022. I've seen a lot of people People saying hey, I've ordered these since January and it's not just Maraki It's other companies too, but you know the consumers are now starting to see what is happening in the commercial space as well So this is not I Don't know I don't think there's really any good answers for this because I don't think the suppliers have the best answers So there it's not that they know and aren't telling you they're trying to sort it out because The demand for product far exceeds its availability right now. So it's catching up, but it's still a big challenge So I don't think there's really any answer that's going to be good or helpful on that one I Rather be able to use a shared Mongo D shared networked my go set around dedicated for Unify. I don't know that's I Don't know. I don't really have an opinion on that one. I generally I keep the Unify to itself I don't think I'd want to run it and other things for security reasons I keep it it's its own VM dedicated to just doing this for all of the systems that we manage on there. So The 3.0 but a ton of great features Unify protect EA version has license plate readers for the AI line of cameras That's really cool, too. So the Unify OS 3 sounds like it's got a lot of great things in there They probably don't know themselves when we're getting the chips probably true that say I don't think it's we're selling a union pro over If you cared about the VPN the other thing too and I've told people this just in general This is like my concept on technology don't buy something for the features You hope it will have in the future you should at the minimum be you know buying it for What it has today and maybe you'll get lucky and it'll get whatever feature they claim they'll get done in the future But if you bought one of these hoping they would put features out Like a proper implementation of wire guard. I mean it's kind of on you You bought a product that you hoped one day would get better But yeah, that's kind of a pipe dream. So you bought the product for what it is. It's great when the products do get better I will celebrate that but I don't know that it's a No, I'm not just all about you equity just in general. I don't know if it's always a realistic expectation that oh, yeah, these things will just get better Doubt I I Like to think they will But I don't think they will that's how I feel about a lot of them Let me go and log into something else. I'll pull up here in a second There we go. Oh We got a log in the Synology too. So I'm gonna pull the Synology up in a second But I also I didn't have this turned on last week because we were swapping too many things So share this tab instead, but I've been playing with the new 45 drives They've done a lot to this and one of the cool things I like the new animations and the disc viewer that they have here This is the Houston OS. So I'm getting ready to do a new review of this But this is just nice. Let me see if I can make it, you know, zoom in a little bit Make it look nicer But it shows the different how the rate erasers set up. You can look at the different disc Has a serial number on there The thing I was impressed with is this right here Is when we pull up this I added now these cards were not all in here When I got the system this is a card and it found the card It says hey look you've added this card in here and it shows which slot the cards in so here's your two HBA controllers, but then we also have this card I added in afterwards and it picks it up and says hey look you've got this in this card He gives me all the information on there which connections are up which connections are down processor information memory information It's just nice the way they lay this out Like 45 drives did a great job on this Even if I scroll well, I gotta actually zoom out a little bit But there's the se does that are mirrored it even tells me that information on there So I really think that 45 drives is just on a nice job of Integrating all this UI and this is all running on standard Linux So Yeah The houston os is what I'm looking at for this. Yes. This is the new 45 drive 45 drives houston os So the native to 45 drives is going to be this here The display because it's their motherboard. Well, it's a super micro motherboard But this is part of their chassis that they put together So it's got awareness of where their systems are but the other pieces that are in here They'll be talking about like the zfs management. Yeah, this is all um You can download this you can set this up yourself and you can um Get this all configured. This is I think this is really slick just the way they put all of this in here And did a nice job on it because we even have the replication configure files as a replication tasks um All the different like, you know features all controlled to this UI and it's nice because if you're gonna start running a linux Zfs install you kind of want some ability to manage it.  They even have replication set up in here So you can do zfs send. I mean you can still do it from the command line But it's nice that they give you a UI to take some of those tasks and make them a little bit easier to do So they're doing a great job on it We like speeded it up. Those are 10 g cards are nice Yeah, some of ours are running the 25 g's too Hey, time.  We do not um Nope, I I don't I don't think uh I don't I don't know I don't see the benefit of running it on my linux servers So For now the answer is no Oh, actually the second part of your question is interesting Uh-huh Your thoughts on chat gpt and how will impact msp. I don't think it will I I we're way too early in the ai stuff. It's it's a great entertainment tool and That's where it kind of I mean I was impressed with of all things I've heard from Uh chat gpt. I want to say John green had one of the funnier ones. Uh that well good ones as far as to it. So if you look up, uh John green vlog brothers and his Let me find it on youtube. It's also a link in there for people want to watch it So let me find it real quick. It was a lot we would have uploaded Uh There we go Share i'm gonna just show it in the links here though. This is a fun one to watch Um And it's john green talking about that Chat gpt told it says, uh ai tells me if ai will write novels and uh, he did a fun writing prompt and it's an it's an interesting watch So but I don't I still see it as an ai system It is just another tool that we have it is not a replacement now. Um, there's probably some users that are not as Uh Not as smart as the ai chat bot because you know, uh human intelligence is a broad spectrum So maybe it'll it'll help us with some of those people Um, it'll ask them if they turn it on or off again. Like that's all it really needs to do That's all the chat bot needs to do is did you turn it on or off again? Is it plugged in? You know the usual uh questions we have to ask Does husa cockpit? I have good eyes because the fc target management Liar negation couldn't find it when looking. Uh, they have not wrote any ui for the ice because he doesn't have ice because he Yes, they have a ui for it. No, they haven't Done anything for that yet, which is I think it's under to-do list. I don't know I don't have an eta for that. I've I've asked them about it. I believe they told me that something They're working on is that I toured a gl yesterday. It had so many ubiquitous access points because of all the steel and concrete everywhere Yeah, you have to put a lot of them in a dense situation like that Lots of challenges for sure Anyone impacted by the rack space exchange shiver mishap? Who I think uh, um, they had a decent user base. I mentioned at least a few people are impacted by the rack space outage It's quite the mess uh incident Who had a good article on it probably tech princh Yeah, rack space blames ransomware attack for ongoing exchange outage I Have been saying this for a while and I said it before in I posted some I linked in and The the term I use and I allegedly I I can't quote this because I don't know the person who said it allegedly even microsoft is Not publicly but people who are high up saying exchange has become in an indefensible position Microsoft's not dedicating any resources to security. So do I blame rack space, right? Blame the people that won't get off exchange or I blame people that won't force people off of exchange if you're on the exchange server It's it's not a matter of If it's a matter of how many times like it's not even a when we know it's happening constantly And the what makes me even crazier is the fact that you look at people like um Was it kevin bowmont What is a double pulsar Which is blog We'll pull this up too So one of the problems with the whole exchange breach in the industry To show how broken the industry is um Which is the thing that he talked about it would have been proxy not shell But the problem is and let me all right now they're pulling all this up if you follow kevin bowmont he posts a lot of good stuff on there, but Where are all these problems the story of the of the claims zero day and microsoft exchange the Thing that drives me nuts and he had a lot of stark and humor about this about microsoft's mitigations because they weren't good they were inadequate uh And this is something that really drove me nuts and this is he had a lot of stark on his twitter About microsoft not getting it done properly and it's almost crazy to think about it that Let's see if I can find it microsoft failed to acknowledge mitigation bypass. This is fighting with microsoft to try to get them To actually understand the risks in their own software and he we're relying on like one security researcher to Show us how to get an entire multi billion dollar trillion dollar company to fix their product Basically microsoft doesn't care about fixing our product.  You will laugh. That's for sure Tortoise y'all, did you get out on bail tunnel your way out with a spoon? Yeah Fun stuff Microsoft's preferred solution is they have everyone migrate to 365 for 10 to 50 dollars a month the user's weak revenue Not much to worry. You should fix installs that don't give recurring revenue And that's it microsoft will still keep selling licenses because someone's buying them Like that's microsoft's answer like yeah, this product's garbage, but you want to pay for it So we will take your money happily even though we don't plan on actually doing any proper security with it. So Yeah, it's just such a disaster right now So I don't know what to do. Like if you're on exchange It's eventually going to be one of these incidents And I think that's why ragspaces answer is move to office 365. We're not fixing this thing It's too broken. It's too hard for us to defend against it And just let it let it ride let it go away. Um, so I that that's her answer Uh, the company is currently moving host exchange customers over to microsoft 65 to limit disruption. Yep The issues affecting our ongoing as of this writing. What day was this posted? december 6 It's probably still go ongoing. I don't think they had a good way to recover from it. So Yeah, the I don't know the microsoft It any and it goes with any vendor if any vendor is not supporting it get away from that product Uh, it's just the writing's on the wall with some of them and it might be a hard business decision It's probably an expensive business decision. Um, but it's one of those things like it's going to cost you x to Figure out how to migrate off of it, but it's going to cost you some Multiple of x and exponential times x to deal with the outages The security vulnerabilities having all your information dumped on the internet or whatever else may come of it It's just one of those big messes right now How long until ms mishandles is badly enough so we can stop having to maintain our servers I don't know it's a matter of time before they decide they don't want to do that anymore. I don't know when I don't know when that is They're doing it. They're doing a horrible job with windows not because there's another solution But because you don't have another solution Um, they they don't have a way to try to turn windows yet into recurring revenue So their security has been kind of a dumpster fire on windows for years They're just Why would you what are you going to do not use windows all your enterprise applications depend on it? so microsoft slowly and methodically well, I'm not even methodically kind of half acidly Pushes out some updates that may break a few other things and cause all kinds of problems Even more concerning is the hybrid ad exchange on-site management. The stances still they have to patch exchange Uh for need hybrid how to get away from exchange entirely Yeah It's it's a mess Oh, yeah I as a share point so Uh, it isn't going anywhere. I don't know share points another pile of hot garbage There's a lot of weird things in share point. I don't do much with it Myself I have people that work for me we do because our businesses we support do it But there's never look at it. I'm like this is just broken like who designed something this It not intuitive to use. I don't know What are you going to move linux, uh What are you going to do with linux and you have none of your programs work now slowly as modern companies are Starting up and building things everyone builds, you know, nice web applications Web applications kind of solve a lot of the os problems of trying to run something natively on an operating system So as we do things that are more web application based, we kind of solve the problem. We just solve it differently Um, I'm always impressed with you know looking at pull-up zen orchestra But when you look at zen orchestra here, you're like, oh look I can do all these things manage all these all through web interfaces and uh, the xo system works really really well for this And I don't need to run some tool on my computer to talk to my hypervisor to build things And then the things that are running on it and you know, for example, um We go over to here and we go over to like my unify server There's my unify server that runs the unify interface that I have over here And now I'm managing first the virtualization stack and then all of the network infrastructure all through a series of web interfaces With no applications loaded. So now my operating system doesn't matter I can do this from any operating system of the browser. So it As the future moves towards that not to mention all the features you get with google drive Or microsoft's online version of office 365 or next cloud for those you're looking for the open source version More and more things are just moving to web applications. That's where people get things done um off topic Shortcomings with ninja one um I yeah, not really a topic for here Um, I don't really have any I mean, we're working with them. It's we always see ways to improve ninja one. I like it Uh, we work with them and meet with them for improvements on topics But there's not like, oh my gosh, I I don't know what to do because I can't do this thing you know, like we're Modifying and making some of the policies easier to manage and things like that ways to propagate it But they're not really I don't know the shortcomings are just product improvements because no one thought to do it that way Or no one thought this is the way that you should lay out this particular area Like the granular permissions They were granular but after some ideas and this comes back from when we started with it to where to say It has way more granular permissions It was like, hey, these are the use cases that we think we need to do this There's not really I can't really say there's some shortcomings that it has compared to We came from enable so moving to ninja one. It's got everything enable had but more So there's not Saying the shortcoming wouldn't be um A fair assessment. It's not like it's the I don't know of another product that has Any feature I may also want inside of it The amount of duplicated features between cheer point teams outlook is maddening Each image product needs to take course on uniclosly do one thing and do it well Microsoft does a lot of things poorly like there's that's That's how we're like we're gonna do a lot of things and none of them well Exactly the time said we are very working very close with teams at ninja on a weekly and monthly basis Yeah, my team and people I'm on the ninja um What do they call it customers can they call it cab customer advisory board The customer advisory board we meet with the project managers and we talk to them or product managers On different things and we you know, we actually interact with them. They're very easy to talk to and because we are understanding of how to get things done In in certain ways because we've you know got a lot of endpoints. We got a lot of customers We have a lot of businesses. We're supporting so we can look at it and you know Have good conversation on also their product managers are pretty much all former Large-scale msp's so they know what the market needs. That's why the product works so well They didn't design it in a bubble and try to solve a problem They have a lot of expertise accumulated in there. So that's one of the reasons that we you know, like the product so much over at ninja They understand us. We'll just say it that way All right, what else? Oh, let's talk about the Synology system i'm playing with too Let's see. Where is that? I can pull that up and yet another tab We haven't done anything with it other than like Plug it in and set it up but we got Nine terabytes of flash storage in here Look at all those ssds in there. So Going to do some tests on it loads a few things. You know, I haven't loaded anything on it really yet I could probably load some packages on it Why now we'll install Ooh active backup dsm What else can we put in here? Document viewer dns trying to think of the things i'm going to run on here Probably some virtualization stuff Virtual machine manager. Sure Why not install that too? Get all the things on here, but yeah, this is the new uh, Synology Um, what is this thing called? I'll pull it back up in a second. It's their new flash station one Uh, we're gonna be doing a whole series of speed tests on it and everything The uh doing a lot of testing. It's pretty sweet Yeah, switch from homelab to lts. We can so under the branding we can actually put business technicalities Home lab. There's a streamier logo, which I never use so we can actually switch things and I can also switch the backgrounds um So I can change what's around me like that Which one do I like? That one looks nice Going and they got more I can add custom colors. They don't have animated backgrounds. I don't think Yeah, I don't see any I can do overlays too. I don't really use these much Oh, there's the homelab show one. I forgot about that one Cool, I'll leave that one there. I will see the ssd sounds you make some feel sal especially when compared to a samsung ssd Yeah, they're nice It was already food food actually came before today. So fs 3410 3 1 petamate flash storage arrays. There you go Yeah, the fs 3410 let's pull fs 3410 Yeah, this is what the device looks like specs on it Xeon d 1541 16 gigs of ram maximum up to 128 24 drive bays in it Yeah, these synologies are actually pretty performance. They you know, they don't have the absolute craziest specs on them, but they've proven to be very reliable out in the field and they um We've not really had any of them that I would say over the last few years and Hopefully we are far enough in the future, but someone will leave a comment I'm going but tom didn't you see that video from 2016 where? Synology had a few of their units with bad power supplies Yes, I'm aware and that was the thing that did happen. So Uh, do you have any comments on x-penology never used it? So I don't have any comments on it. Um, we I've never tried loading or building A synology that wasn't a synology and most of the features I want To my knowledge won't work in x-penology. For example, you know We do surveillance station and things like that. I don't I don't think you can use surveillance station in x-penology one Because there's no g video stands. Would you recommend over unify protect? Yes, I think you have a lot more flexibility and diverse options compared to unify protect I don't think unify protect is a bad system But it's kind of reminds me of the apple ecosystem because unify protect Exclusively works with unify cameras And if you decide to go away from protect because you don't like some feature You will have a hard time getting those cameras. It's not impossible But they don't work as well with other solutions versus with the synology system Use all the different cameras you want. They got a large variety of support. So I'm really um, I love the surveillance station system It's it's a it's a really good setup which also I have one running at my house here. So I've been using I'm going to do a follow-up video and this pretty soon But it works really well. So I'm I have no complaints about it. And it's been this system's been running over a year We got an amazon package a couple of them And I have the amcrest cameras on there if anyone's wondering I have a video I have videos explaining The camera systems on here I've just invented i'm not going to do anything else product today unless the customer decides to actually email me back with what they want me to do We wait a lot on customers who are excited to get something done But we don't know what it is because they don't reply. I need this thing that isn't working What is the thing that you said isn't working dead air? Customers are customers um You know the problem of blue iris might my problem with it. It runs on windows I don't want to have to have a dedicated windows box for my camera system that being said The blue iris system has a lot of functionality. They have a lot of Things you can do with it lots of plugins. So it's kind of neat. I'm not going to take the time to learn it We are not going to deploy it commercially It seems to be really popular for home users that want to tinker with things so because I've seen some people Do some really neat tinkering setups where they got all this extra functionality tied to their cameras That they did with blue iris so cool that they've extended all this functionality Also, the write-ups on it are kind of extensive. It's not just like a drop in plugin click here and get this feature There's a lot of integrations, but the cool thing is if you like tinkering with stuff build integrations And this is a big part of it here too Um, like travis is saying we put a lot of synology surveillance system in place So we're not about to start building a very large-scale system using uh Yeah, and we are about to start using a dva for units for the ai So there's um those other features here and I see this analogy is it's very reliable And if you're throwing these in businesses, you kind of want a nice reliable system on there Uh, but tom didn't you see that time everything had an issue while creating a new project every time in history? Oh, yes, exactly Um See you need you a full review. I've got reviews already on this sound you vanilla station. So that's There's there's numerous videos I have on those Yeah, I have one at um, yeah tom runs at his house watch the live stream. So yes Because I have one I've got one on the dva system, which is there which is actually what this one is I also have how to set up the uh action notices in the camera Go here we'll go to the cameras I'll go to my uh driveway one But this has the options for This moved up Human or vehicle in the driveway This is not a feature of this particular Synology, this is a feature of the camera being able to pull that information in So if we go to the camera and it's the amcrest camera here Let me go to the setup. I'm actually using the event detection in the camera To be able to Uh, where did it go? You build the regions in here to have it allow you to figure out The actions and events of how you want things to be done for the video detection So the camera sends a trigger to the synology to be able to do this and none of this Requires internet access So if you follow the latest debacle with some of those cameras that allegedly were local but actually were uploading things Well, there's that so Can you set it to you when you have a package? I have it tell me um When someone crosses an area so if we Let me switch to the figure out the ip address of that camera We go into the cameras And we go into my a where's my front porch We'll log into another camera You build your event detection in here So it lets me know if someone was on my front porch And so someone's on my front porch I can get a notice sent to me or if it's a um Is it on this one here? Here we go Here's the different rule sets in here. I have it set up for an intrusion on my front porch So you see where it's intrusion. I've got this area drawn. This is the way it crosses So someone crosses in here. It lets me know um And that will That will alert me to hey look someone left something on a porch for you Who is your family smallest be and have some Requestors fans. I think I'll get it set up in my house before customer installs Uh, can you view your cameras on mobile phone when out of the house? If so, does it depend on being connected to vpn alert for camera viewing? So this system I have opened up to the internet so I can view it without a vpn A vpn will be probably better, uh, but it's on a separate network So I don't worry about it as much and it just makes it easier So I don't have to open up the vpn, but Synology will do push notifications to their app So because it will do those push notifications I'm able to um, you know get a warning on my phone Based on certain triggers that I may want and It works. It works quite well. Well, it works as well as you tune the cameras Uh, if you don't get the cameras tuned well, they go off a lot more because they detect certain things in there. So Uh, how does people vehicle detection work this not like Synology does it but some cameras itself do So you have to choose Or both work. So it depends on what you're trying to accomplish. You're trying to do Um vehicle and people detection the and chris cameras will do it Without having a Synology that does it if you want to do license plate collection or face identification That's a Synology built-in feature of the dva models Hey, did you know uh that you got brought up by one of the biggest gaming packets next slander They just brought you up in the latest episode Who's next slander and why they bring me up because i'm curious I I don't follow some of the gaming stuff But um, if you want to message me DM me on twitter or get that information to me I I don't or just tell me what video it is. I'm interested. I didn't know they brought me up So cool that they did So you're also going to be selling first-party cameras. I assumed uh to distance themselves from the now banned to who hick vision sales um I don't know if that's really why I think they're just getting into the game themselves. Uh, but yeah We'll never get motor vehicle alert on your front porch camera. Yeah, we really hope not to get one there um Surprise you have a system open to the internet Eh, I wanted this one. I wanted to try it. It's on a separate network. So I don't really worry about it It doesn't present as big of a risk It's very locked down to a very specific network and only one ports open to be able to make it easier to view So Any ideas for diy camera encoders somewhere to unify viewport so they can pull up our tsp not really So I i'm trying to figure out how I should do How I should cover a video on this, um And here I'll pull up the article for people that Haven't seen this US government bans wall ways et and hick vision tech over unacceptable spying fears um, this is actually Not surprising at all and It's just that these companies are terrible at writing code So we already know and someone pointed out and I think this is right that It's not a Where it's made problem It's a who wrote the firmware problem And I can't tell If the firmware is so bad because they're trying to make it bad. They don't care to make it good They're basically microsofting it because there's very few competitors in the market space So they're like, yeah, what are you gonna do by? Someone else's camera that costs eight times as ours And the reality most things and many electronic things are made in china It comes down to who wrote the firmware now with these firmware being absolutely terrible Spying is a potential issue. Uh, what is that? It's called like a camera What is that company yufi? eu f y So we have the most recent debate on this and They made promises Where's the news? Oh good. There's so more response to all this But ufi security app ads cloud disclaimers should have had all along that they're actually uploading things and This is just one of those typical disasters of these companies. They're extremely poorly written They're not secure. Someone found all the api keys all, you know, they got their hacker fingers out and pressed f 12 Could see everything. I forget the security researcher that poked at it Uh Where's that gentleman's name that did the research? There we go Reach to discover security flaws in ufi cameras again I don't know. I just kind of expect these cameras to be awful. Um And and to no one's surprised that when they poke at them at all, they're awful So yeah, and then same thing goes with the hick vision or any of those they're terrible on security My answer is never give them internet. The problem is if you give people a network cable And and tell it to get on a network somehow will get on the internet because a lot of the lowest bidders aren't always um The the best high quality installers To police your camera that's directly accessible to the internet behind atree prox you just port forward Uh, I have no cameras accessible to the internet. I have a synology accessible to the internet Much like requiring synology hard drives for some models requiring synology cameras might be a thing No, I don't think so. Uh, synology actually prides themselves on it But I'm willing to bet and I got to look this up. I think synology if you buy their cameras You don't need to buy their licenses. So their cameras are going to come with a license But they'll still let you use the other ones Should do a demo of your setup of cameras where you make a dedicated camera set up open the internet They put a room in your office or something that has low security so you can try it No Uh, are you planning to make a video on how you added technology unified to your zavik's monitoring? I do not have synology in unifying my zavik's monitoring. So I um, I'm not going to make a video on it Yeah ufi in the cloud gate um The hookup did a video on it I want to watch it because linus said he was wrong in the video if I'm right So I was going to follow the back and forth and I didn't want to get I don't I didn't want to just watch it In video form. I actually prefer to read um, but I've seen Linus blasted ufi, but then if someone correct me for own didn't linus say the hookup was wrong Um as well. I was going to find the whole um Back and forth on there Can you get license plate detection? Yes, uh, the dva models have license plate detection If you type in synology dva on my youtube channel, you'll find a video I did on it But yes, you can do license plate detection Too many things open Actually, I think I can I've erased them Oh license plate report When did I do the video? I probably saw some data in here Maybe not. I must have erased it all Because I can't remember when I did the video I have a whole video where I show how the license plate detection works on here Oh, yeah, keep the texture results for 28 days. So I've already purged them out of uh, this system But yeah, it does it Linus did two videos on the land show clips Linus did me seeing if you messed up then hook up correct then hook up corrected linus and linus You spun it back and corrected some more stuff. Okay. Like I said, there was a lot of corrections going on I would have been fine to read all this, but I don't know where to read it at And I didn't feel like watching a bunch of videos so Interesting though my answer like I said And Is don't put these things on the internet like I never trust these cameras to be on the internet That's just my opinion. Like they shouldn't be on the internet like that's That's where I see the problem If these things are on the internet, you're gonna have a bad time Uh There we go So let me Share this tab instead. I've talked about this before I've got videos on this Look, here's the one IP address That's allowed We blocked the firewall ports and services 10 22 10 04 or 3 3,080 We allow the Synology the one device on there And that's it those that's all that's allowed to be on the internet um that allows access to my Synology and Or allows the Synology to get online and none of the cameras can talk to the internet. It's a simple rule Um, and it's it's how I think any nbr should be set up Whether it's a it whether those cameras are amcrest because amcrest wasn't on the list But amcrest and hick vision and uh, what's the other one? They don't look much different from each other and I'm willing to bet They're all made and the firmware is written probably by the same companies in china writing all of these so I mean Yeah Did you place the analogy to expose the internet behind hg prize here just port forward with the acl Or did you do a different security approach? I just port forwarded the Synology port and let the quick connect Um do work now you can do it without port forwarding and Without a vpn, but it goes into relay mode They actually support relaying with Synology the downside is relaying is painfully slow So watching videos off of a relay It kind of sucks. So is there a security problem with this? Yes. If if and this is the prerequisites if Someone finds my open port for Synology and Also, there's a flaw that Synology Doesn't patch or it has a patch and I don't patch it if someone finds a flaw And is able to inject something into that port they could possibly Break my Synology or get into my network where would they get well? They can't get any further than a Synology and the Synology doesn't have access to go anywhere else.  Probably a good idea access point recommendation for a 10 age square feet house small family Um, I like the lr's But it all depends wait what's in the I like the unify access point lr's, but they're all they're all pretty good Um, it all depends what's in your walls. You can you can have a Really small space, but if there's something in your walls blocking the wi-fi then you got something in the walls blocking your wi-fi Cut it is more about what's in the walls or anything else So many things we talked about here. Let me search closing all these windows. Yeah, the ufi stuff though. Wow Actually, I should pull this up This is the uh Actually, we'll pull it up here This is the security researcher That actually showed the problems Well, they were showing how they were Things from the cloud And access them with the keys that he's able to find in there Yeah, you could you can read all this. This is the original security search that let everyone do it I I'm almost surprised. I think this is the big thing with a lot of these cameras Not a lot of people have poked at them because they're they're really common and everyone just kind of knows they're bad There's also no bug bounties Listed on them So if you ran around and go tom, I found a security bypass on all these hick vision cameras people will go Okay You're surprised like what would people really do with that information? So that's um That's uh, one of the reasons that I don't know. I just expect them to be horrible. Um, and when people act surprised that they are I'm like, uh, why? Uh, I do realize and no one pointed it out yet Uh, I I was working on things and I did not fix the rules for that sonology technically a sonology has access Partially to another network. Um, I will feel free to leave that comment down there Is I know someone may be watching this Afterwards that we'd be pointing it out. So The oopy stuff reminds me of the business practice of every isp in social media We're not doing it until we're caught doing it. Is that what you're trying to say? What was that other company that got sued over that? All your networks. Well, there's a series of rules on my other networks that stop other things from coming through But yeah, I that I actually had just changed that rule. Um, because I was testing something and I need to change it back I'm aware I there's a reason that was pulled up Uh, it's because as it came out of a question. I was having a challenge. I was having with hyper backup I built a min io server Locally and then I used that system to do a backup because I wanted to see how the surveillance backed up So I opened it up for access to do that That was a project I got I get caught in these little like figuring this out type things And I'll just turn a bunch of things on then I later back them all back out to the way they were But I will point out that I'm aware So if if that Synology problem exists at this moment and then you could figure out a way to pivot then you can figure out a way to at least ping Some of the other subnets and see some of the other devices But there's a lot of security, uh on top of that in there. So Oh, I do not like vpn sponsors. Yeah, the I I'm not a big fan of a lot of them. Everyone gets excited about them. I don't know If you're hiding your torrenting, that's one thing, but I don't know about the rest of it What else do we want to talk about? I think we're in the irata part of it I've talked a lot about cameras today and everything else. What are some of the other topics Because if not, I I have I'm going to go play back to playing with the 45 drive system And uh, I actually need to finish setting some things up on it I I have some actual things I have to get done. Uh, so I can finish the videos so I can ship these to where they're Final, uh destination will be. Uh, what was I going to do? Is it permissions? I think it's 777 man Well, let's go there apply recursively update Okay, it doesn't save them like that. That's what I was curious about Hmm Oh snapshots. I need I need a plan Some replication tasks retention time Five days retention I will just say Interval time One hour Yeah So we did this We'll do it every five minutes. There we go So retention time three days every five minutes. We try to change it to one. I'm destroying all this anyways This is all just stuff I'm playing with Day That's a lot, but that's okay That's the goal Have it doing a lot and then we'll start building some snapshots down there All right, so that's doing something When are we getting to 45 drives videos? Probably by Saturday Uh, what do you consider a decent lifespan protect devices? It varies by the devices Uh, do your large business accounts use password managers? Yes Oh, I didn't set the one bit for owner. Yeah Yes, I've heard of uptime kuma, but I don't use it. I mean I'm aware of it I've played with it. I just don't really have anything to monitor with it Uh active backup business fail silence should we get on nas expires any suggestion to attack that could make a small program The parse the login user, uh, but not ideal. Yeah, I've noticed that I I think that's something they should fix I don't have an answer for it. Um, you just know because the backups aren't working I My one of the problems I've had with synology and I've told them this this is something I've talked to Synology engineers about I don't use their backup system commercially Because we can't monitor it all the client sites. So we have too many client sites It's it'd be too much of a headache to try to do that.  Let me switch to one of the screens here Um, I just don't understand why they don't have A better notification system in it. Um, or a way to manage it in our cloud service. So you can see like multiple sites, uh Running it. I I don't know It's one of those weird things like here's the success This one was backed up on 12 6 my computer system my gaming system has not been on since 11 30 So I know that's why this one hasn't backed up But you're right if it fails it fails quietly and you just got to go back in and say yes to certificate But it's kind of a kind of an annoying problem To have to go do that on the end points They also don't have any like auto update for the agent you have to go in there and go to update agent like you select the device Then say update the agent if there's an update I I don't know why they can't just automate that like check a box and make it do it Um, yeah, they last a long time hard drives 50 000 hours. Yeah It really depends on just how much hammering there was on the drives Yeah, they're working a monitoring via active insight. That's what I told them. They should be doing I I I met with them like Oh, man It's pushing a year ago that I met with them And and told them like I laid out how which how I thought it could be best done. So Uh, what are your thoughts on white label drivers for refurb? Uh, either a better risk I generally because we're doing commercial installs. I go with the better drives But if you don't have the budget for it, I don't really have a good answer for that one So I haven't tested them to tell you Uh, do you run anything to do image deployments? We really don't do image deployments Not directly network related but have you been following new feet drama security trauma cloud drama Yes, and I I brought your name up because you got mentioned on Linus. So I'm assuming this is the actual channel to hook up. Uh, but yeah, I I was Confused because I noticed I'm back and forth. I did not watch your video on it I did not watch but I seen people talking about Linus's video What I did do was read the security researcher and the short video that they did So I understand where the problem is with the cameras With the ufi and how uh bad they are I just didn't have time to sort through the other videos that you do That you did and Linus did talking about it. So yeah, I mean the disaster of it's pretty bad. That's for sure Um, but I don't know Yeah Uh, that that's what it's all supposed to be as part of an msp dash purpose analogy This is what I kept telling him. I said, you know, I said, if you want me to sell more Synology boxes, um, I got to have a way to monitor them and they have active backup or the active dashboard We have a lot of clients using them But I their dashboard doesn't allow me to watch the backups on an individual basis That's where the problem is. I don't know when they're gonna get that All my drives are shook to easy stores. Yeah Hey, it works for a lot of people it fits your budget because for a while there Shocking drives man got you some really good deals One of my favorite cases was someone removed the x bits from the permission directories and they couldn't figure out Why they couldn't access files in the directory. Yeah, that's fun I know the hookup his ears must have been burning because he's like, oh, yeah No, and that's the thing, um Linus saying port forward is not a security risk That was that I don't have time to watch all the videos as much as I'm a video creator I'm a voracious reader. I read a lot of the things that I consume Um, like security stuff. It matter of fact, what I actually was laughing I posted a video on reddit. Um, and someone said That tom guy all he does is read manuals and make videos about it. I was like, I replied right away I'm like you found my secret. That's literally what I do a lot I just i r t f m and then I make a video Uh Permissions are best managed in file sharing in houston Yeah, a few minutes ago. I'll go back and check once the term. Yeah, I didn't say anything bad about you I just said I was confused because I don't know who was right and who was wrong I just know I seen like I think I was reading it on reddit and flipping through it and there was like There was like this controversy back and forth and all I know is the security researcher That I read that and said wow, that's a mess. So How it sounds you back up verification uh screenshot might upgrade Uh, there is no backup verification screenshot that I'm aware of Uh, I lock forwarded address the source ip. Um, it's highly secured at mess I said earlier don't give your cameras access to the internet Give me to you carefully instruct drive you have to issues uh some nas units You know, I'm curious. I'm strolling back a little bit because I'm just curious what something someone said Yeah, I should screenshot it someone said I was mentioned on a gaming channel And it made me think is my son plays a lot of games. Maybe he knows or maybe he's the reason I got mentioned Anyways, it just popped in my head. I forgot to look at what the gaming channel was that someone mentioned But they also didn't say why I was mentioned that which also made me curious Oh, well Oh, well not too worried about it Uh, is true nas scale ready for production awareness? What are you doing with true nas scale? That's the question. Um The fact is with true nas scale to this day and we'll log into it real quick So true nas scale running a virtualization Here's my Ubuntu running on it For whatever reason you still can't ping the ip address of the machine. I don't know why so that part's not ready for production um I'm I well nothing's changed dramatically, but the way you rebuild and reset up apps in here I thought that was strange Ooh update available. So let's go ahead and update this See how this goes But I don't run we don't have any clients that need Applications running from a storage standpoint seems to work fine So from storage. Yes, but I don't know about the rest Uh air versus helium for long-term usage. I don't know. I don't I haven't read any reports on that Okay, next slander is three four Giant, okay interesting Let's see active backer business has the option to do a screenshot when testing it back up in there for a couple months Interesting. I didn't know they added that I agree with this statement completely It can't be done securely, but I think generally people not Uh, are generally have people setting up vlands. That's the problem with a lot of the consumer stuff Even the enterprise stuff people putting all the cameras on the same network as everything else is not an uncommon thing Uh next standard was the podcast a sheet and message the link to the video. Cool. Thank you Uh setting up a lab, but if it's still only uh beta I'd like to be sure. I mean it all depends on what you're going to do if you just need it for storage It works. Uh, I don't know what you're trying to do in your lab That's the big that's really what it comes down to because like This seemed to work that update worked. So let's open up. Um See that's wait, what did we just update? So this update worked. I think this is why I just clicked update on Yeah based on the gap So the I mean It didn't break it didn't explode cool Uh, but I guess that varies with the application and the applications are only as good as the people supporting it Greetings from germany and thank you for liking the videos. That's awesome I just realized I have the streamer logo at the top there put my logo back Oh fun stuff What else are we talking about in here? Lots of true nasty stuff lots of true nasty stuff Share this instead. Let's uh, what else needs to be updated? Oh next cloud. Let's update next cloud upgrade Will it explode will it work? I actually don't have any I have it set up, but I'm not doing anything with it I just have it set up so I can see if it breaks if one of these updates Kind of a curiosity My foreign employer had it all on flat network selling internet access. I'm taking to production servers clients camera locks. Yeah there's There's just so many things that are Broken places it takes a long time uh security Was so much an afterthought with much of the technology developed that Bring it it all forward Securing and locking it is hard And some of the people still don't like they started in tech and they plateaued pretty quickly on how much they were willing to learn And that's where they stayed And they still work in tech at the same knowledge um, yes Totally not tech related, but what is your favorite band? Um, I think it's an interesting question because the Music I listen to is just random. I don't even have a favorite band. I don't go to concerts Uh, we we were joking. No, I was at an mi sec meeting Last night, uh, which is michigan security. Uh, they're doing some things. I want to help out and participate with them, but uh Back to what was said there. We were talking about like what was the last concert and the last concert I even been to was 20 more than Yeah, about 20 over 20 years ago now Uh, and I was joking because I still have ringing in my ears because of being at osfest and being at metallica Back when I was like 18 years old and it was too loud and I didn't wear earplugs, but I don't really Um, listen to a lot of music. So it's not There's there's usually some random repetitive sound going in the background like some random techno with no lyrics that I just play Not because I love it, but it stops the ringing in my ears So or it overrides it. It's kind of like the equivalent of turning your radio up In a car that makes some weird noise that you don't want to take the mechanic to get fixed That's I don't know how to fix the ringing in my ears. So I just make sure there's some ambient noise going on I use the combo of videos from tom cross talk and hook up to decide what cameras to go with and isolate I'm going to be landscape me some equipment isolate the cams complete. That's awesome Yeah, hookups got a lot of great videos on the different cameras. I believe I did watch some of those videos They did or he did regarding Which ones I ended up picking so they're It there's a lot to do in cameras. It's a it's a lot of work putting all that together I can I know as a content creator The effort that goes into putting all those videos together Any biking as of late now it's a little cold here in michigan So with the winter being here not as much motorcycle riding Was they did yeah, I thought I had a picture it was snowing the other day I thought I took a picture but no snow pictures But yeah, it's winter so It's not it's not been pleasant enough out to do any of the other stuff The outdoor activities that I like doing If you had a 60 plus camera system needed to run on a windows server Uh She buy one big gel server and drives inside I wouldn't run a 60 camera system on a windows server. Um, I wouldn't even want to support that project I mean, I guess if you're running exact vision So I can't say we don't exact vision is probably one of the way we I think we have at least one It's a co-managed deal the internal it team babysits it But I think you can run exact vision on a windows server, but it also runs on a linux server Which is probably better separate and ask for storage. I think it might be um I don't know it depends if you get a big dell system of the uh good delirium but separate and ask for storage Probably not a horrible idea Everything on one network with upnp. What could possibly go wrong as Steve Gibson would say you are correct Good answer. Yeah, the music one's kind of a weird one for me. I'm not hey when I was younger I liked it, but I don't know it somehow just fell out of my head and never I never think about it I don't I don't have an interest in going in a concert or anything. Which is weird I mean, I I don't have any problem with people who do lots of my friends are really into it I see I'm still going to concerts and I'm like hey cool that that band's still playing But have fun Are you involved with the local hacking competitions high school teams are becoming uh popular here in Florida, you know Yes, is what I'm trying to do with some of the local ones. We've had trouble getting groups together Uh, it's not been easy. We started to get a couple dc 313 group We started putting it together. That's the def con and in the area code. So def con 313 group We started that in 2018 and 2019 Uh, and after the events of 2020 till today it kind of fell apart and it was it's just been really difficult finding a tech community here in Detroit It's just a gap we have And we've not been able to for whatever reason Like put a strong Regular meeting community together. So the goal is yes, but I haven't really found the group yet But that's we were trying to do last night There's a lot of people that showed up at this event for mi sec last night Probably 30 or 40 people there and I said, hey, I'd like to help participate. So that was cool. And uh, you know We're just kind of gonna see where that goes I don't understand.  So yeah, I get it Can you do a complete nasa tutorial scratch including this items needed based on what setup is not overkill Yeah, but I want to wait for the new churnas scale That'll be released in december because I will do the video with churnas scale. I've done one on core Um And the video will be interchangeable between scale and core So you can you can do either one But I'll probably focus on scale because I know that's where more people want and I have so far to like the Uh, what is it called here? Uh, throw this back in there. This is the Does it have its name in there? Oh, I think it's called blue fin Uh, this is the churnas scale blue fin version They have the version number here, but not the name, but it's uh, 22. I'm at rc1 on here. I don't think there's any updates yet Yeah Churnas scale blue fin release candidate I test release candidates and give you guys information Because I back everything up and if it explodes, whatever I can restore Uh, that's why I always have a fan running so I can't hear the ringing. Yep I need to update my churnas 12 13 for my next project. Yes Uh, what bikes do I have? Where's that? That's my motorcycle. I ride it's a uh Yamaha super tenor a that's really I have another smaller honda, but um It's not that my usual is that super tenor a Retailers that use access cameras on access software, uh needed hardware Yeah The access the access ones at least aren't on the band list. So If I remember correctly to hook up showed amcrest tool camera, which is really nice for coverage, uh, but along more zoom. Yes 1200 cameras and 14 servers awesome You should check out, uh, afa cyber patreon is very popular around here. Oh, cool Does unify have an option to place wireless devices and stick them be some access without the need for a radio server? It's not natively built in. Um There's no Native option for it like built into the unify controller You have to use something if you want to do the whole vlan switching you'll have to Add more to the unify to get that working We have trouble getting traditionally introverted people together and at the truth Core scale performance, uh stability core if you aren't able to figure out how to run your own docker It's not under vm By a good pair of earplugs, especially in concerts clubs often. Yeah The dual cameras I looked at are the uh, dahua oem real link interview in hick vision oem. I prefer hick vision over the dahua And I'll agree with this access cameras are good. People ask me about them a lot. I'm like, they're good They're just like four times five times more expensive, uh, than you know, like a hick vision or an amcrest So, uh, it comes down to price That's that's really what you're asking is, you know, how much and uh, the how much is quite a bit different with those. So it's a, uh Quite a bit more What was I else something else I was thinking about? I already forgot what that is I have the pictures of that that that I don't know. I think there's something Hey, awesome. Thank you for the donation, michael Update on business technicalities. Yes. Good news. We're waiting. Um by probably tomorrow soon We've recorded the videos the editors processing them more videos are coming on business technicalities Uh, that is happening. We're putting people together. I I put plans in motion. So yes, that will get updated soon Um, so yes, I'm excited to say that that's Today, they should have your plug filters look in the 90s. We were just We weren't thinking about earplugs or anything like that. We're just going to the metallica concert. Man. It was fun The cameras produced by the access powers over the ally companies. I get the joke Uh, yes Greetings from switzerland True nas versus analogy nas which one do you recommend for your clients starts with use case I have to know the use case before I can do a recommendation Um, I need to know if you need to use any of these technology apps or you just need The storage only true nas is a wonderful box when it comes to storage only for ice guzzy for nfs. It works great, but If people need all those different applications like active backup Which is I think a wonderful application if you want to use all those well It's kind of a no-brainer if they if if you're looking for a backup solution that you want to manage yourself internally I think you have to backup is a great choice Which means you're gonna end up buying a analogy for that because sometimes people say hey My goal with my nas is to backup all the work stations here at my office. I'm like go with astrology It's a better solution than true nas because with true nas you'll have to find a third party solution now If you find some third party tool you want to use insert name of your favorite tool that can connect to the shares on there That does make a good solution, but now you're buying two different things So it always starts with solve for the solution That's how we look at those So we end up recommending a lot of both and we sell a lot of astrology. We sell a lot of true nas It starts with the question of you know, let's talk about what your goals are and that's how we come up with the solution that we'll start recommending You know some of those Debates I've had a few times. I brought this up the other day people are talking about like b c i o and things like that Which is the idea that you as an Outside it vendor you're a virtual chief information officer for a company, but i've never liked that idea from the concept of Your v c i o But do you recommend anything that you don't resell because if you're also the one selling the solution You're not exactly impartial We have been brought in on occasion Specifically to never resell something but only consult So this is something i've done from time to time over the years where people bring me in I'm not the one that's doing anything other than consulting on the solution to me That is a v c i o because i'm not the one that's making a commission So my product recommendations are product recommendations not something i'm going to make a commission on selling Obviously, my product recommendations are going to be biased by I don't recommend things I have never used because I may not understand them very well But i'm a reasonably well read individual when it comes to all the different technologies out there Obviously, you can't know them all but I know enough of the popular ones out there that I can make decision points on there But if you are working in that position and you are also the one selling the solution It suddenly seems like a deep conflict of interest if you're doing that. That's just the way I see it I don't really see a big way around it. So Uh, yeah, there's one little things Uh Active backup over wan seems to work fine any counter arguments I don't know that I would run it over wan. I would run it over a vpn Uh, so as long as you're running over a vpn. I think you're probably fine as long as you have the bandwidth I mean anything really comes down to bandwidth. So Hey, your channel brought me into it t s y m Is that did you misspell my name or is there someone else you tried to say? Because I don't see someone with that name. I don't know if you're talking to me or someone else Is there another person in here? I don't see it Thank you if it's me and uh, well, I'm happy if it's the other person too. I I'm happy to see more people in it We'll just leave it. We'll leave it at that. I'm just happy Oh, what else what else what else am I gonna poke at here? The senology, you know, one of the other things about the senology is the uh Can I pull this up here? There we go Try to see if it shows anything personal Actually, it just shows our first names. That's cool I like this feature of senology a lot too. I probably should do a follow-up video on this. Um Oh t s m. Thank you very much All right, I'm you young kids these days using these weird acronyms and stuff Uh Good day. I'll show you been watching your videos for a while and now I'm finally but the bullet built my own psense box Well, congratulations and take ring with the following along with your videos have been so much fun. Awesome. I it's Fun to get the passion involved in it because you get more excited to do it. It just becomes this constant curiosity you end up Obsessing over like how this rule works or how you can get this implemented and that just makes it kind of fun What I was mentioning with senology though is this feature here Uh, I think this is just really slick. Um, this is the active backup for all the different things we have in our uh google so This is uh right now. There's 47 gigs backed up. I'm I'm the largest because I don't delete emails Um, actually me look what how many emails are in my inbox right now, but I should probably delete more of them, but there's 321,000 321,000 emails in there so With that being said, that's why tom's got uh, 47 gigs of mostly emails LTS office. We got 11.3 gigs of our office documents Brett's the sales guy kyle eric and steve. So yeah, there's There's a lot of uh backups But this is it works really well Uh for doing all the backups for your this backs up my google workspace Uh, it's what neat feature that senology has I like quite a bit I got my job first job because of you today. I set up two new servers. Well, congratulations. That is awesome Definitely that is great. I have no idea how they're giving away active back without licensing I don't need there, but it's amazing because it works really well Uh for backing all that up So that's that's one of the things I think is really neat is the fact that they have that is uh that ability to Back up either office 365 or backup some uh all of our google documents and everything else and You know, even though google has not suffered The same fate even though they're cloud and everything else I mean globally they have not had an outage or a takedown that has caused a mass deletion of data I think google's got some of the um best security engineers out there working on a lot of this stuff to help prevent it Um, that doesn't mean there couldn't be something individually happening to an account that I shouldn't have a backup of all my emails All my documents and all the important things that we use google google business for um, so Senology makes that easy to do like it it's It also I have lots of storage on my senology. So i'm not worried about it Like I have enough storage that as I grow my google cloud I think about how much my cloud bill might be But I don't have to think about how much my senology bill or whether or not I'll be able to backup all of that data Because storing it again in another cloud service is uh compoundingly expensive As it's just in when you do videos about cameras. Can you show them up and Running especially at night? Uh Yeah, I do. Um, I even do that when I'm talking about My senology system. I will make sure I and I covered this in some of the videos that I did So let me go ahead Which one is it? Like I and I made sure when I played back the recordings. I actually made sure I played back the night recordings as well So people could see How things looked even if it's a night recording It's even right here. I mean this is This is actually right now. It's just a few minutes ago You can see my truck is really dirty But yeah, because you can't see that this is there's no lights on that's why these look so bright Uh, this is just the ir from the camera doing that But something kind of novel is my front porch Uh, this is the night vision color camera and I cover this in my review of this Uh, this is the night vision color. So there's The ability it has to see color in the dark is really impressive What is it front porch? Try to find if there's one of these or something interesting But these night shots are actually pretty impressive. How uh, How good they look Yeah, anyways, I'm gonna probably do an updated video on it just to say it's been another year. The cameras are still working great Excelsior iron wolf, uh, it depends which one's on sale Ah, yes, the unify video days The actual camera mounted and running I Yes, I usually I think there's pictures of them. I have Get a hard-coded timestamp on that file time. They are required in some districts to be used in court Oh, that's a good point. I wonder what uh, our rules are here in michigan form That's an yeah That's uh, that's a fair point I probably should have brought that up because I actually don't I turned it off because I don't like it But you're right. I'll have to find out what the rules are in michigan. Um, that's a really good point You made there I've added two really uh, two really 202 synology only take one license. Which is great because itself. I have two cameras that stitch together smr cmr Yeah, like that's even a debate That how long does that debate that happen? That was a little while ago, wasn't it? I am laughing about something that um, I just got an email about the I just Someone argued with me on october of 2020 and I just got the notice in today is december 8th of 2022 This is a dispute from 2020 and they're just now solving it This is I remember this person. We've only had like one person dispute our charges uh, it was so dumb and I don't know. I think it's funny that they finally they finally, uh Took it off of my account as a dispute apparently they found the person as crazy as we did Um When did that article come out? Man, I'm trying to remember how old that article was when the cmr incident happened. Was it only 2020? I feel like it was before 2020. I'm trying to just find the um Articles from it someone members the year the first article came out on that that'd be interesting Uh, the wdb was two or three years ago. Now whether it's all the driving for sure are clear about what they're buying Yeah, was it two or three years ago now? I can't remember exactly how long ago it was I wouldn't use a q-nap because there are security problems. So I I tend to steer clear of the q-naps Um, if there's any further videos on open stack, they're going to be on jay's channel not mine Jay uses some of the open stack stuff. So I don't Hi, big fan from spain. Do you think technology camera licenses are worth their price? You know, I don't know what it costs in spain, but the us dollar of it I think is reasonable uh compared to some of the other systems like if you use some of the commercial systems The licenses are not just one time like the artificial analogy. They're perpetual or I mean they're not perpetual They're renewal. Uh, so you have their subscriptions that you're buying for licenses The synology ones are perpetual. So they're a one time purchase and they're transferable To new synology. So if I were to take the licenses I have and move them to a new synology I can do that. So I find them worth it. Um But I don't know if there's an exchange rate problem getting them in spain that would make them less worth it to you And I don't also don't have a lot of alternatives. So Yeah, the the the whole q-nap nasty boggles are funny They're just Poor security on them. Uh, don't expose your q-nap to the internet. That's just That's just where the problems come in I don't have any other advice beyond that I have too many things open.  Hey, I will wind us down. I am gonna go do something else. Um, as much as I enjoy live streams I don't know. Should I just keep marathoning the live stream? I kind of want to go get a beer Because my my voice will start giving out because I've been talking so much. I love answering questions. So don't get me wrong here Um, don't the synology surveillance agents come with four? No, they come with two out of the box So you get two licenses by default with them except for the dba models the dba models coming more But I don't remember how many more that is Live streaming makes you tired. It's a lot Beer and a new hot sauce You know I wonder if I can get my son to bring me a beer Go get a beer we'll wait get that beer and keep talking Yeah Let me message my son And see what he's doing. He's upstairs. He can bring me a beer If he he's not on my live stream. So he's probably doing something else. He's probably playing a game See if he'll Is my I'm almost out of water. So Jane animation is doing a pressure live stream of charity. Maybe you should do the same Um, I don't know I don't mind donating a charity. I don't know if I want to do a perpetual live stream for charity I don't do well. I just get loopy after x number of hours There I messes my son about bringing me a beer Is there any hot sauce? Uh Worth having other than that one. Oh Yeah You know, that's the thing I'm not gonna lie, man this, uh This black truffle sauce is really good So if you haven't found that one, that's another go in you can see the the firewall behind me for all the different things Uh, here's another question because do I have a way To open the beer because my son probably won't know to open the beer I thought I had Because it's I'm looking for this. I should have just ran upstairs and got the beer I have the perfect thing I have the perfect thing here. Hold on I have a 45 jazz beer opener You paying me for this? Sure. How much you paying me? I don't know I have I have a question though for you. Yes Do you know? Do I know? Who um, hold on Uh Next slander show Uh the cbsi games giant bomb went Wet Yeah, oh, I don't know if you knew who they were. No, okay. Okay. All right. Cool. Never mind. Never mind. Yep We'll do the craft competing thing, right Like Jeff does I love that I have a 45 drives one handy for this. This is this is perfect Hahaha, thank you Marcus. Yeah, you watch your gaming thing. It's not on yet. Okay. It's not yet. It's only 640. Okay. We watch it in a little while All right. Well, cool. Thank you very much. Cheers All right Let's see. What do we have? I'm gonna catch it up on the comments here Uh, if I pull old sound mouse on you and ask from put into anyone, uh, does it keep the data? I'm not 100 I think so but I'm not 100 on that one craft competing beer stream I just get loopy said so did chaden. It's half the fun Synology dated uh data sheets mentioned max vpn connection for that cap can be edited through ss station and more ram sport vpn I don't know. I've never used a analogy for a vpn Linda's makes good stuff all the way back. Yeah The all the melinda's has a whole good collection of sauces that I really like um Try to think because these are Like we have a few of them like this is the melinda's um I've seen this one here This is the honey habanero Mango habanero We were having a sauce day at my office and we just started lining them up. Um That that's the thing we do sometimes So many sauces What else uh And of course, this is where I go you go to the pepper palace to get all kinds of new sauces I make my pilgrimage there to go try new things If you got a strong table you can use the edge of your table as the bottle opener I do this is a uh, I think I've showed my office before but yes, that's definitely a thing Nice hoodie. Uh, yes My son and his colorful hoodies Do you know the muffin man? What beer are we drinking this evening? I didn't really show that did I uh, this is the Uh, I put it from my face. There we go A let elitian space dust. I really love this is a personal favorite They don't make a dedicated two and a half dry chassis. They don't make uh, sass chassis and they're priced like new enterprise routed and used They priced her like new enterprise server routed and used I don't know. I like them and I haven't found those to be limitations of them And I think they actually have now a two and a half inch, uh drive chassis I think they they do make one Uh, you have to count. I think it's I don't know if it's on the website, but they make one that is two and a half inch Did you show the sauce fridge? Oh I don't know if I have a picture of the sauce in our maybe I do Oh here here's a Picture there's the fridge um This is the morning aftersauce that someone sent me from australia, but you can see our whole door at our fridge is nothing but sauces Yeah, we we have a lot of hot sauce on here Uh bell's brewery. I don't uh That's in kelma zoo. That's roughly an hour from me. I knew it wasn't too close But it's about an hour away to get to bell's I love bell's too hearted Huge favorite of that one too. Uh bell's too hearted in this uh, elitian space dust Both are a couple of my favorite beers that like I try other ones But I my default is I just go back to those all the time These I typed in sauces in my google and this is what came up There's a lot in here There's my sauce wall Which has all the dry powder stuff on it too You could probably tell there there might be an addiction problem. I have right And there's me and my son doing the extreme regret Dr. Asperns. This is good stuff too I finished that one that one's empty now So is this one This was a really good one. That's why I took a picture of us. We can order some more Uh chairman yowl score scorpion pepper sauce So that was uh, that was a tasty one I think we put in everything these are good for potatoes. I make potatoes with uh, the ghostly garlic That's potatoes behind me, man Just pour it on there and anything by bravado spice spice company all the bravado spice company sauces are really good I just got back into uh Beer once was in bahamas. Now I need to trial the new craft beers. Yes Yeah, once you get into all the uh, there's a lot of good ones out there I mean, I was never a beer drinker when I was younger wasn't really my thing Um, I got into craft beers when I was older and I'm like, oh, this is my thing Like I like this this tastes good. I like scotch like whiskey and I like, um Really hoppy or IPA beers or smoky ones. I don't like sweet or fruity beers as much Like I'll take a sip and I'm like, eh, but I don't I wouldn't go out of my way to buy one Oberon is good too Uh, sonology photos or google posts. I use both um Google photos just kills it when it comes to their AI detection I backup anything that's important to me on my sonology backup like vacation photos and things like that Or maybe if I don't want things on my google photos If if I ever do anything personal, I wouldn't use it on my google photos My google photos for the most part I can share with people because It's just that it's impersonal So I use sonology for personal photo storage if I take photos of things Uh, and I use google for I mean, I don't want it public, but if it got public it would not be Uh damaging matter of fact if you looked at a lot of what my photos are in google photos Um, it's me taking 20 selfies that are for youtube thumbnails so It's and I don't bother backing that up to sonology. So Yeah, the sonology stuff is like, um, my my important things on there My personal things go on to sonology Although I did see something I didn't know these were still in existence I found I was I was like, wait, those are red boxes. I thought those were gone apparently or not, so Uh, that's the thing still anyone was wondering They still have red box dvd rentals Oh here Someone'll laugh about this. Oh, I'm at Ohio linux fest, which actually was a great time. I'm sure I brought it up One handful of you came out and said hi that you know knew me from the channel awesome meeting you It was really cool talking and interacting with people the hyal linux fest was a little smaller than I remember But it was still great people there and that's the part that matters But then these people happen to be staying on the same floor as me. Does anyone recognize these people? Um So and if you need a hint, I mean I You can't help it as soon as you see him. You're like, were you even supposed to be in this elevator today? Like I'm at a linux fest. There's also a uh another festival going on I think it was called galaxy count or something. Um, but those guys Uh We're there and I was like I got in up in an elevator with him and it was just funny Cracking up and I said, well, can I take your picture? So I didn't want to be rude. I don't know the rules So I was like, can I take your picture and you're like, can you?  So Uh, it was actually kind of interesting. So if you're not familiar with who these people are It's uh Dante and Randall from clerks. So it's that a donut Uh Yeah, so that was that was my um celebrity run-in I had so I see this the the call the the watchers are slowly kind of wandering off Uh I am way off topic 45 drives. They do have a stornado a stornado now It looks like they finally did sass features to replace the md1 2045 drive system. Yeah, they have one. Um, when they get it done There's a good chance. I'll get I'll I'll have one It the minimum so I can be playing with it In doing some videos on it. So that's part of the reason I I didn't look to see when it was I was pretty sure it's uh on there Um on their site now though. I mean, I mean it's been in development for a little while There's my son Joining us again Here's the uh, I didn't ask really why I don't really care We put the drives in an unusual pattern because it doesn't matter But that's where this is what it looks like here And then when you go to the disc It displays on the same way here So I think it's kind of neat how it uh all matches up. It's like There's that's what it looks like physically and That's what it looks like in there where you can see the different drives That's pretty slick. I I'm really happy with the 45 drives ago. We've been um Installing a lot more of them and people just they just work like they're they're pretty trouble-free and their support is really good You're keeping me entertained as long as I'm entertaining at least one person Even if there's 15 people that left and I don't blame them for leaving because I don't feel bad I'm like, hey, you know if I'm not if we're not covering the things you want to hear about So what was the mislabeled cable when you try to hop? On this box in your last vlog. Hmm. I honestly can't remember Mislabeled cable. I don't remember what it is I don't remember what it is Your drive distribution uh spreads more evenly in a chassis interact more important in small deployments in large Yeah, I think that's what their idea was they uh in my employees did this not me I couldn't access it. Oh, yeah I plugged the cable in the wrong spot and I couldn't figure out where Yeah, I just I that's why I couldn't I wanted to pull the 45 drives up last last vlog thursday But I couldn't because it wasn't plugged into the right spot now that it's plugged into the right spot Here we are I actually see because those are more little things of I I didn't hook it up right but It's working now and that's the part that matters I actually have two of them at my office. There's uh, I take a picture of them probably not There we have two of these units Um for a project Yep, no pictures of them Oh, there's so many So many photos and things like that Trying to find I'm trying to make sure I show you only the tech related photos. Oh, there we go. No, that's just one of them That's oh well I'll see if I can find more I used to support aware also states way later almost more often not the culprit when you gotta go check yourself. Yeah Uh, what size drives or any says a good question? I think we can answer that So these are well, where does it show the drive itself? There we go 14 terabyte drives seagates Seagate 14 terabytes And there's 16 of them in each unit Um, and the rest is for maybe expansion later. So this gives us an effective usable amount of storage of um It says it right here 160 terabytes 116 Uh raw Yeah 160 terabytes available. So It's it's going to be for a whole bunch of backups It's just a landing spot for a project total storage raw is going to be the 232 terabytes I used to have sonology photos should tell them both ran out of space and our phones while on vacation Yeah, it's sonology photos is nice for that. So I have all my you know vacation photos and Uh things like that. I really like sonology photos like it's just it works well um Let me I shall log into it for those of you. I did a video on sonology photos. It wasn't a very popular video I think like people asking about it. I did a video and no one really watched it That I don't remember how many music got not a lot um I gotta log in as my other user Would you believe I actually practice principles and of least privilege and have separate users that I don't just log in As admin all the time on my sonology system um Let's see. Oh, I have um I have some deer photos I can where's that at Share this tab instead. So it looks a whole lot like I was up north for Thanksgiving and sonology photos looks shockingly like the um Google photos doesn't really have any of the editing features uh info features and and It pulls some geolocation information gives you a general area about where it's at Um, northern Michigan's a broad area where this was where I took a picture of a deer standing outside Um, but sonology photos works well like I I do like it I'm seeing if I can show you all the photos. Oh, ha someone will get a kick out of this um So I'm driving And I see this I happened to be behind this guy on my way up north and I'm like, wait a minute That's a truckload of ubiquity stuff.  This guy's riding on the freeway.  So you see you enjoying Houston Uh You see you enjoy. Oh you Houston our teams put a lot into the user experience look forward advancing function Yeah, oh, I didn't realize you were one of the people on the team. But yeah, the houston os is awesome Uh, definitely. I'm really liking it the from when I used it a year ago to the day Feels a lot more polished and I that that's a big improvement So, um, if you're wondering what my video is going to be like that I do tomorrow that record tomorrow It's going to be positive 16 terabyte dry as 14 is drive makers. So 16 drive maker terabytes. Yeah What's the benefit of a synology photos or drive currently use drive? I also backup my photos to my iphone. Um Well, the couple reasons I do it and then Cody me want to chime in there as well the Advantage is going to be, um food. Oh, I guess I do have to feed my son. I thought he was already fed must be pizza time Um, one of the things about the The what do you call it? Um the So now the Synology photo system is you're in control of all the photos and it's you Not just letting or surrendering everything to the google cloud Uh, so that's one of the nice things about the Synology photos like you're in control of it You're you're also responsible for backing all of them up at that point as well But I I actually really like it. Um, it's also, you know, if you're a little bit more privacy oriented Or you're worried about things like hey, maybe I don't want those in the cloud It's a nice thing to do and this particular Synology system Uh that Is set up in here because I have more than one Synology. This one's locked down It has access to the internet to go out, but no ports are opened or anything. I keep it locked down I keep my photos on there. I'm just trying to mitigate or minimize any potential risk of doing it I mean if someone got a hold of my dad's dog and his cone of shame I mean, I've already put it on the internet. So I guess it doesn't matter I'm just saying I this is this photo is a keeper because The uh, you know the dog staring at me with his cone of His cone on was just I don't know amusing to me But any of my personal photos that I want to keep are there the techie Photos that mostly end up on whatever social media platform i'm posting them to i'm much less worried about Hey, this is covideos coming. I started mine and it's man. Not sure how I feel about it I feel man about it too. We and you should probably uh, I'll message you on on twitter. Maybe maybe you should have a conversation about it. Maybe we'll do like a Video together like a collaboration on it because I feel the same way I'm not impressed with those ciscos. I don't did you get the controller set up yet and test it from that aspect? I'm I had I got to see if they have firmware updates to solve some of the bugs I was having in it, but maybe we should before we do the videos and uh, you know In full display of the public me and cody, you know, if he's interested I'm willing to collaborate with you on it so we can swap some notes and make sure we understand the product because I don't understand why the product is not that great So but nonetheless, um, yes Let's uh mess you can DM me on twitter or however and we can chat about that My truck has same color Yeah, I think I can do that to feed my son Marcus will be brought enough food for the whole stream Yeah Well, it's coming up on two hours. So I guess it's time to go. Well, you know I I'll bring this up if my son's even paying attention to my live stream anymore I got you that pizza with the double pepperoni on it.  I don't feel like leaving again, uh, because I already got a beer Yeah, send me a deal tomorrow. We can talk about it. Um, like I said, I'm I have a lot of problems with uh, it's really weird because my wife's Lenovo Or yeah, her Lenovo won't connect to the repeaters. Do you have the repeaters? Uh, I don't know if you do or not, Cody Um, but I've tried them and I can't get the stupid things to work with my wife's laptop and I don't know why Um, it was like weird quirkiness. I had with it that I wasn't really I don't know. It's kind of like it. Why isn't it better? And I talked to the Cisco people and they're like, oh, make sure you update the firmware and all the usual things I'm like, I did and even one of my things said like, oh, that's a problem. We had before we thought that was fixed. I'm like Ah, why? All these streams are good catch on me, but when you need to go, uh, don't let us keep you They only sent me one ap and a switch. Well, I tell you what this might be fun Um, I actually have a couple of the repeaters So maybe I will send one to you so you can test that aspect of it as well Because that's the part I had problems with I actually used it for my network and it worked fine Like I just to connect all my devices The actual Cisco device worked. It was the extenders that I kept having problems with Um, and I kind of forgot about them for a little while and just kind of set them aside But no, let's uh, let's talk about doing a video together on it and you know, we can probably even, uh Do something kind of back and forth about what we like and don't like and make a list And we can do our individual videos on them as well I've not really used any of the ruckus equipment people ask me about it, but two problems. I have a ruckus one's expensive Um Two it's confusing like their product site is not Maybe it's me last time I looked maybe they got their website up to date It was a little confusing trying to pick through their products on there So I don't really have any deep opinions on them as I haven't really used them But they do appear to be kind of pricey That'd be cool. See if we can have some of the same experiences I also have and maybe I'll give one away Cisco gave me a few switches So, uh, I want to do some more giveaways of my channel with some of the hardware I have because we're starting to get too much of it again And I would like someone else who could use it because I only need um when it comes to equipment I like to keep some things available So we have them if I want to do testing, but I don't necessarily need two or three of those things So I may want to do some giveaways of hardware or you know, maybe cody would like to Review some of it and if I can send some more hardware over to you Um, why not? I wish I had the budget for ruckus. Yeah, so you've pretty much said the same thing But I guess we're saying no unified. What was your recommendation instead of a uh Instead, you know, I've actually uh had reasonable experiences with the aruba stuff We've we've actually worked in some larger aruba environments and it seemed to work fine Uh, so I didn't have any complaints. I think they're really basic, uh with their web interface, but it functioned So at least I've had some experience that said hey, this wasn't hot garbage Uh, so probably a ruba would be the next in line Now maybe ruckus is really good, but their pricing is not good So that that's kind of the first problem with ruckus is when I look up their price. I'm like Why is it so much more expensive? I mean, I think it's even more expensive than some of the cisco stuff If the cisco pans out and it gets better, I would like to start deploying Uh, not all I like deploying it, but like I would like to have the cisco on a recommendation list I'd like to think cisco could be a reasonable small business deployment, but so far They haven't really wowed me now. I like to switch. I'm only talking about their wireless the switch I've used I like it because it's the first cisco switch that has a nice web UI and a vlan wizard um, that made me Think a little bit differently going. Hey, this is actually a decent like I could give this to someone who's not a cisco engineer And they could set it up that that's a bar So it's not a matter of whether or not the switch functions How hard are those functions to do? Matters and if you only make a switch that's harder where you go Oh, of course, you need a you know, cisco Certified guys to be able to do this. I'm like, well, I want to be able to hand it to someone and say Hey, you can go through these settings and not have to run around on the command line. So Linus probably has some sponsored videos by ruckus Correct me if I'm wrong. But if I had to guess are they sponsored by ruckus? Just curious Oh, let's see I hear tp link came out with a new ap that's not gigantic. Yeah, I'm Unclear on the security of them So that's Yeah, I don't really trust tp link to do a good job of security I don't think they have a good listing for how long a life cycle is for their product either Without a good listing of how long the life cycle is your it's a hard sell because I I can't just set it and forget it. I can't just deploy and run I actually have a phone that customers contact us a matter of fact We want them to contact us again. So I'm very picky to some extent probably to a lot of extent of the products we choose Because I don't want to Have a bad relationship going forward the clients. So Yeah, if I'm not mistaken and I've said this a couple times but Call me out if I'm wrong. It took them a long time to patch log for j That you know, we haven't seen a whole lot of security issues with the software That unifies on there, but you look at unify For better or worse there, you know, they may have their flaws on some things But when it comes to security, they've really ramped up. They got a bug bounty program I actually have chatted you you can follow on twitter one of their security people And I've interacted with them a few times like they seem to be really on the ball with it. So Uh, I you know, I may not know when they're going to release unify os 3.0 But I feel like they'll patch a security bug that comes on matter of fact, they were extremely on top of the log for j stuff is you know, a pretty big issue and they were right away on top of it releases to patch that so Oh, no, now you do have some uh Cheap trick ringing in my head. I want you to want me That's how I read that I forgot to picture with the clerks guys. This should be great if it weren't for all the customers. Yes Yes Ah, yes Oh, here's the problem People go I want my product to cost this much I want my support to be this good and I'm going right off the screen with the support I'm raising my hand completely above my head. Um, the problem is Support is expensive And that's why they don't have it. They they have made the product less by skipping the support because China's support users is hard. I know from not just doing it I know from running a youtube channel that we offer consulting And because we have a phone number people can call Uh, we get people who call And it can be interesting. We actually I'll I'll tip of the hat to the First person though tip of the hat they um, they had a new one. They threw one of my uh, the sales people for Not a loop, but a pause to think about the logic they used and I'm not one to complain I'm happy that people book us for consulting and things like that I'm not you know, but this particular person called us and was angry that we would not give them free consulting And their logic was usually I've had people say why watch your videos You should help me and I'm like, I don't have time to like log in sort out your entire network Or you know a true nasty storage problem. You created for free. We have a fee We're open about how those fees are charged. You can go to the website. We have our prices posted We don't there's no shenanigans. We're very upfront about all of these uh things But this person actually said something I hadn't heard before and they said you give away consulting for free online You should give it away free to me and I'm just like That's a new twist. I know Oh Yeah, so I'm just like, I don't know dealing with the general public is we're unifying. Um Yeah, the dealing with general public has a cost and I wish there was a way to do this But I don't know an easy way. Do do we make people take a test before they get to the support line like Do you run them through a basic version of network plus like here? Fill this out and you get to have a phone number if you fill out you pass this exam Like show me your your at least certified in something before you get to talk to support. Um, it's just one of those things It's just Is what it is. Uh, i'm not trying to be mad about saying it's a big problem. They have no support But that's what happens when you want to make a product for less money Support matter of fact, if you look at where my money goes each month When we do our monthly p&l's and profit and lawsuits labor hiring a bunch of people Um, it has a expense to it people want that good customer service I have to pay all those people. Uh, those people are my biggest expense. That is all the money going out. So Yeah, it's always, um Yeah, if they There should be a test to get past the lowest tiers I Yeah Yeah I I don't know it's it's a challenge running a support thing. Um, I I participate in other forums besides my own forums and i'm always puzzled because The number of people that post unrelated problems if you go into the it's not horrible, but sometimes it's it's head scratching So xcp and g has forums for supporting the hypervisor xcp and g and for supporting zen orchestra But the questions in there When people are trying to tag other people like the developers. Hey, I'm having this problem with windows I'm having a trouble with a hard drive in one of the virtual machines One person even had a whole post about how their hard drive kept making clicking noises about it going bad and like No, like people just wander right off the Product topic and into help me with just generalized problem. I'm having and uh, yeah, it's just it can be tricky I went to the Cisco business and they have different tag teams and different levels of network engineers.  Yeah I'm reaching back, but uh, but someone did that years ago if you were certified in a product You got a different number.  I think that's one of the easier ones because why we don't hold They know when they're done with their ticket. Uh, I've actually like google 5 does this you get you can schedule callbacks I'm always I'm always like cool schedule callback that works. Uh, that works great The number of people asking general os questions on the truenas forum is also ridiculous. Yeah, it's it's by far not exclusive to the xcp And g forum. It's a problem People go. Oh, look people reply to comments or reply to posts on here. Let me post About my thing, you know, can you help me with this windows problem? I'm having sir.  Hey people hire me for unify support all the time It's fine that unify doesn't offer it. It's kind of matter of fact because we don't sell the product It's easier to sell people on the support because you're not complaining about a product I sold you you're complaining about a product that someone else sold you and now you have to pay me to support it. That's fine It's it's it's the way of things I worked the main chat uh on msn during launch the number of people that came there for support for windows Oh, I imagine Yeah, Comcast I know people that are like Comcast or cable installers in general But um they always have the worst stories working with the general public They always have a lot of stories working with the general public. So I hope you know, I hope unify never has support. It's the biggest part of my business See I knew kody would have the same opinion as I do. I know it's self-serving. Um, it's it makes up a percent I think it's like one-fifth of our our, uh, consulting Uh calls that we do like our bookings when I I did that video the other day talking about It and I think it's it's like 20 percent. It's a pretty big number for us. It's not. Um, it's not the biggest part, but it's It's a lot. Well, yeah, I mean it's it's a lot Back in the early 90s I managed a AST advantage support lines We got asking how to format text and word and crap like that. Yeah Um, I told them you can't call g e and get instructions on how to bake. Well, that's probably a good point there. Yeah So what does it mean? You're not going to help me with my clicking hard drives They actually replied. I thought it was nice of the people in the forums to reply and kind of, you know, let them know There's not a lot you can do the when the hard drive starts singing the song of its people Is it is going to be laid to rest soon I get a lot of crazy questions in my forums too They're not I mean not crazy. Um Uh, see if there's any weird ones in there So I didn't hear I have my forum. So, um Uh, cleanest all seven three six seven back up so close. I still need to make the following changes 14 switches Do I still need to make the following changes? I don't know Oh, probably So, yeah Yes, actually this this is a good question this person asked right here. So I'll reply to him This is why I do a lot. I reply to my forum people all the time. Yes those settings Are not not part of the backup And this is the, uh, tuning How to tune controller for that so Yes, you still got to make those changes. I see I like the forums for things like that and My forums, you know, I've been running them for a while. So Um, hold on make sure I don't have anyone's email just exposed in there There we go But this will give you an idea. I can pull it back up now. Um I've been running these for a while. I mean I'm getting I mean, it's about 8 000 I mean granted 3 000 are just crawlers indexing it, but I'm fine with that too But yeah logged in users each day Really weird for only 428 that day But you know anonymous users hitting the site What was that? 3 to 4 000 a day it's a Pretty good Consolidated page use up every day for it And when I release videos, there's always a lot more sign-ups on those days And topic posts and things like that, but I think forums is one of my preferred ways to, um You know helping gauge with people and Talk to them I don't mind doing my forums are kind of like anything if I've talked about it on a channel My forums are probably placed to post about it. That's why the reasons I say that the end of my videos It's just a way for people to interact with me. I don't market anything out there I don't use your email address for anything people always sign up with um I always love the ones that when people have their own domain You'll say, you know, like laurence forums at their domain.com Which is fine. It's probably a good tracking method to to keep me honest to make sure No one ever tries to use that But also it someone can always guess it because you're just calling it laurence forums and all kinds of random things like that I like the people who have gibberish the people that make up an email address at their domain Those are the ones. I think I have the most respect for when you just make up gibberish at your domain.com So that is a true tracking because it's pretty unguessable For things I don't really know many other people in canada who support ubiquity. Hmm Started to started two hours ago. Sounds like I showed up at just in time for the end. Yes Is the forums based on something self-hostable or self-made? Yes, it runs on a tool called Discourse it's open source. It's I manage it and host it I was running my own company I had a client who said they were going to go new pc's place because they were cheaper got called because they were slow per And per hour was cheaper, huh? Whatever you can always the goals to try to charge for outcome That's always what i'm trying to do is do a for outcome charge. That's Business recommendation I have for people now my consulting is hourly because people are throwing problems at me and I have one tomorrow. That's just basically This don't work. It was working It broke and they're like how much to fix it. I'm like, you don't even know what broke You broke a database connection somewhere So that's hourly because I don't know. I'm gonna poke at it until we figure it out but when you can Charging for outcome is always the best way to do it because it's you know, the client knows It's going to cost x to accomplish something No one's going to be timing you on how long it takes Uh, you you're being charged. You're setting a bill or a proposal to do it for a exacting outcome But yeah, but sometimes you have to charge hourly troubleshooting is just an hourly thing It's like and then people just debate about what's your worth per hour You know how that goes through you walk through the door and suddenly they have you working on half the network Oh, no, scope creep is a real problem. So you have to define what is in scope. You have to be very clear about that Yes price per outcome requires very careful clear wording Absolutely So tom manages a lot of stuff for his home and his family if something happens to tom It's hassle for a month. Do they have a continue me? How does that? How does he plan out for loved ones? Um No one Uh, the contingency plan for any stuff here Is like if you know, someone needs access to the camera systems, and I'm not around My staff has access to these things. So it actually falls inward to my staff to Manage things. Um, just like my business my business doesn't require me to run Payroll does not require me to sign a single thing I've automated all those processes and put more people in charge of them. Um, as a matter of fact I don't even do a lot of them anymore I, uh, I have a business manager and an external accounting firm that Does everything from pays to taxes make sure employees are paid and everything else so there's a lot of automation and Externalness that I built in To mitigate the need for me. So I I'm not a micromanager And one of my goals in how I work my business is to try to work myself out of being important Too many people think the goal of being the business owner is to be the most important Important person all the time or the head of tech now Sometimes you can't avoid it and you just don't have anyone you can hand all that information over to Um, that has actually happened Quite a few times where you know, someone's loved one died And they were a tech enthusiast and I've actually had to come in and help I had to help someone Whose partner passed away and I had to help them sort everything out Um, because they just weren't tech savvy their partner was their partner died and now they didn't know how anything worked in the house So I've had to do that. We've had it more than once because we deal with so many businesses Where the tech guy one of them was killed in a motorcycle accident and the owners never thought To have a contingency plan because the death was sudden and surprising And the sudden the surprising death bent nobody knew the passwords to anything Or were even any of the backups were so when this person Literally, you know and tragically died Though one really knew what to do and everything became this big mess to try to sort out because it was like well One person was just trusted. They were a good IT person, but they weren't good at documenting things Um, so yeah, that became an interesting client to take on I started charging 150 four-hour men if I travel 30 million because I'm too busy with other work Engineering hospitals, uh, and don't need the headache. Yeah, it all comes down to where you are what the market rates you can charge are That's gonna vary from area to area, you know If you're in california, your cost to living is substantially more than it is here, for example in michigan, so There's your rates have are going to be influenced by some of those factors Michigan's actually um, well, I mean compared to new york compared to california compared to a few other cities, you know, michigan's a pretty Inexpensive place to live even living where I live in michigan Where is the suburbs if you go to rural michigan further out like where uh, my family lives Um, it's it's even less expensive because it's just there's nothing else out there So there's the housing pricing and the land prices are a lot cheaper Um, yeah, that's one of those, you know considerations that drive a lot of it What it costs you to have a building what it costs you to even Have a house go to the store all those things. There's a there's so many price factors in there that drive all of this It's not um, it's not a light switch. It's not like hey the market rate is this No, the market rate is the market of that market that small microcosm ecosystem in this particular area Uh in yeah, that that'll drive your rates quite a bit Which is our market rates are driven by our global reach now with Um, there we actually are priced too high for some of our local people. They find our rates kind of expensive That's fine. The people in california think our rates are cheap. So I think it's competitive Police department that was all 10 base 2 coax. They had been fiddling around with the teas. Oh, yeah. Yeah Had no idea how to do it properly the little bnc connectors man those things The uh b ins um actually Let me find the network ones Try to find the right one. Ooh There's the old Try to find the old uh There we go. Now I can share a screen those connectors who who dealt with these for a while The bnc rj45 connectors that were on these these were so popular I Love these ones. These were the cool ones the ones that you could do all of them. You had you had all three connectors on one bnc rj45 aui That's a throwback the dual ones When I first got into networking, this is what I used to set up was these devices never forget to terminate Back in the day Yeah, lots of us all started on these bnc's or at least if you're my age you did I mean there's people obviously that worked on stuff older than this but Classic if I find more of them. There you go Um Can I open up? There's the bus topology. So you see how these terminators on on the end of it to make it all work The vent thick net Vampire taps. Yeah Oh, yeah, fantastic Yep That's been wow I like some of the old vintage stuff and everything else too That's uh, where is it? Hold on. I'll pull it up here Here we go I like this. This is uh, I'll drop a link here for you guys Tom's guilty pleasures of going all this stuff here I always flip through the vintage computing stuff on reddit I always I don't know It's always cool to me Look at that 3dfx man. Who had one of those? Who had a set of these speakers? You know, maybe I should just do a vintage hardware live stream Like who had one of these it's always fun and engaging, right? You guys have till my beer's over in case you're wondering how much longer I'm going to go there's there's a little There's some beer left in here But uh, no the vintage computer stuff man. There's all kinds of neat things in here meetups and It's funny because like now this is vintage the beige box stuff And beige box is like, you know, I mean it's old, but it's My lifetime here I like all this old. So it's just kind of novel. What if I got a picture? I had that set of speakers This is the computer.  Oh man I I spent a lot of time typing on that IBM with the five and a half Our first personal computer. Yeah All these old cards. I don't know. I I like all of this. It's just Novel I worked at a place used to fix some of these the old Giant IBM 286's I like that they got the lamp on there That's cool What is that? sd usb ID, huh? That's actually interesting an isa usb adapter So much vintage hardware. Oh the old radio shack batteries I that's one thing is I said earlier and I don't watch a lot of videos to learn things I do watch vintage computer videos. Those are great Those are just pure entertainment for me I think I have a couple of these floating around in my office somewhere So much vintage cassette games Oh, yeah, these were I had I had a cassette when I had a tiara Sadie cassette Trumpet windsock. Yep I know what trumpet windsock is Started programming on a c64. Yes Atari 1024 st awesome Yeah, I like some of the vintage stuff. It's just cool. I mean, it's neat talking about it I don't really want to start collecting it because I'll become obsessive and have a lot of it So I'm happy to look at it and watch other people collect it I you know, if you watch my studio, Toria realize my studio is pretty minimal I'm a minimalist like I try to do everything in a very minimal way because I don't want to Have too many things I'm distracted when there's too many things See if I watch a video on things I just turn the video off and or I can browse reddit And I'm happy to see all the things who had a libretto. Those were awesome I remember the first time I got to play I could never afford one when I was really young when they were They were thing I couldn't justify the price on them But those were really neat later. I could afford them when I got a good job at tech Uh, was the counter 64 involved in the sixth part uh south park episode? I don't know Oh wind modems, man Wind modems were so difficult. I used to help an isp do tech support years ago and wind modems were always the pain in a butt wants to set up game awards after so I see my sons in here and uh Cody wants to know what are you looking forward to on the game awards? Just just warm your dad's heart and say you're looking forward to washing him with your dad I don't really play many games. So I don't even know what's gonna be on them Me and my son just finished Breaking Bad though. So there's that Actually, we um What is it? Do I have a picture of it? We were live we got a new couch. So this is what me and my son Are we doing is saying on our new couch and watching uh Breaking Bad This is uh, I'll throw I'll throw this up here because now I'm finishing my beer and I'm gonna go upstairs Plus I have to pee so um There's the couch that we have now that we sit on and watch because I bought a new TV and a new couch I people asking about the tech in my house is really not I mean, I just bought an OLED TV So I'm pretty excited about it. Um, because it's cool, but it's off topic of my channel So maybe I'll talk about it in a live stream if people are interested. Um, but we just bought a new couch That's my that's my internal exciting things that I do but um Um It's or we'll probably sit out in the living room watching whatever it is my son wants to watch Oh, let's see plenty of space. Yeah, we want to have some movie nights I have a 77 inch OLED TV I bought and we have a couch big enough for like six or eight people So depending on how much they like each other It's an Ikea couch too. Yeah, this uh, this is um It's really comfortable. It's all from Ikea I don't think I have a picture. I don't have a picture of the new TV. I haven't actually I haven't taken one yet I might have just got all the Christmas stuff everywhere. So There's that But yeah, this couch is actually pretty huge But that's what we usually sit in there Uh, oh, yeah, uh, I I am downstairs. Um, that's where my office is where my studio is I think I have Uh, let me see. I have a pretty picture of my old TV. So let me pull that up Somewhere I'll find it my house. Um Actually if anyone's curious, I think I have this Now this TV I'll share this tab instead. Uh, this TV was the old TV Um, that wall is really big. That's a 60 inch TV. So I went from a 60 inch TV to a 70 77 so it's even bigger. So I got to do an update. This wasn't the finished video, uh, finished, uh, product We actually had done a few other things on there. So Movie night at time's house. Time has a dungeon. Um Yeah, if you're curious though, the I this is a this is what here This was my house before it was built. Um, I have all the photos of it from Start to finish like, you know, assembling everything Um Putting the bricks up building the shower like This uh, this house is done in 20 we moved in in 2020. It was all built in uh, 2019 I have pictures of my attic in here. This is the basement. Um, when we first got it So that's what the basement did look like. Here's a wide angle. My studio is over here. There's the furnace My rack actually sits over here. Um If you're wondering how my sunrooms looks like that's where my son sits But yeah, and it's changed again since we did this because we've added more things. That's my old couch I didn't I got to put a picture of the new couch in there But then we uh, built the studio the basement there's You know all the wood when we framed it in we stained all the cement black But every step of the way even I even did all the electrical work I actually built all this like we swing in a hammer. I put this all together. I didn't build the house originally um But we built all We built all the extras like all the add-ons But this is my studio just before it was finished. You can see the ceilings in That's the desk I sit at infos you watch the studio tour There's the rack in the beginnings of it getting slowly installed The studio getting built. This is the other side for my studio. This is uh another living area Where we built so this is another big room It's uh 32 by or 36 by 28 And then this is my this is the desk i'm sitting at right now And then we did a bunch of work in my backyard too.  Sorry about she wouldn't let it happen Yeah, she wouldn't let it happen so Look at that tv nix those little ebony clip speakers those are actually kind of big clip speakers It's just a big room But I give what you're saying on that But yeah, I built a gazebo. I built this uh we we got a barn and my wife bought a hot tub So I took a picture sitting in the hot tub. That's uh Oh, it's actually a dutch oven not a not an oven. There is a sign on my door that says that Looks bigger on the inside my uh the upstairs of my house is only 1800 square feet I we built a house to be the way I wanted it and the way I didn't want it was big Um, I'm on the side of my life when I only have I have several kids, but they've all moved out except for my son So there's not too many people living here. It's just me and my wife and my son. So I don't have uh my other house was actually my previous house was slightly uh bigger than this one So my backyard looks like though But yeah, my other house was um What's with the dutch leave this out of this? Uh Put a lot of effort to finish. Thank you very much. And yeah, it was all uh, there's a lot That went into finishing all of it. That is for sure. It's it's not the building It's all those details that take so much time Um to get all this little all these little things on you know even you know Painting because they didn't send me the right one So I had to paint the vents for the h-fax So they all blended into the ceiling because you see them here. They were white when they sent them to me So now that they're you know, they're black they match the ceiling so everything blends in And I did all this electrical work is something I did. Um, I put all this in wired all of it It was there's so much Uh memories of doing all that Like I would work create my videos and do all this and then do a swing hammers There there's a view of my living room my living room. This is how it looks out in my backyard Actually, this is a more recent picture because these are the new chairs we bought I put a bunch of led lights in my kitchen too Because you know you got to go rgb in the kitchen There's us installing it fishing all the wires and everything else We had to move this whole junction box down We actually repatched the wall. Um, but yeah, we pulled everything Uh to get this all through there it was Like you said, it's a lot. It's it's this constant lot of getting it all done fun stuff In the end I have my own parody sure. Yeah It's it I'm comfortable here. That's my biggest thing is I'm you know, it's uh, it's really close to everything and I don't really have any home automation a lot of people ask this but I don't go crazy with the home automation because Uh, it doesn't interest me that much like I want lights to turn on and off and that's it. So I have um My home assistant. So this is as close as I get to home automation. So I have some things tied to this Uh, but not a lot I'm I'm pretty minimalist on a lot of the home automation Thank you Yeah, uh, you and I'm answering that question right here I have these are the only things that are smart in my house You know, I have a analogy tied to my home assistant so I can Take a quick look and see You know the last videos that were played. So if there's an alert, um These will pop up to let me know someone's someone's been there Yeah, just no home animation. Just the lights that I'm in the same way. I don't really I don't want to put too much I mean like my studio stuff, for example I can turn this on and off like that's the light that's just shining in my face right now The fill light for this this camera right here Um, but yeah The rest of the studio I can turn this on I can turn my studio computer on but that's really it Uh Yeah, I I like the amp crest cameras a lot about it being a lot of work I believe you we just moved into a ready move in place a couple months ago And we have not had a chance to sit down and enjoy. Yeah, you're just non-stop There's like just so many things that need to be done all the time until you get them done and our yard was like that too because the I don't have a ton of pictures of it. I think but the somewhere Yeah, if you look through like these are my yard photos We dug up the whole backyard to re-level it because that was not something they did so my yard looked like this It was just messy. Um So we laid down I mean An incredible amount of mulch Brought a bunch of dirt in re-leveled everything it was just Oh, there's I I f