@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So many meetings today.

For the last 3 weeks, I've been in meetings all day every day... Not multiple meetings... just one long stupid meeting.

Also, if anybody recommends an Ivanti Product to you... Run. Run as far and as fast as you can. Then, when you think you've run far enough, run some more. Then, find a deep dark cave to crawl into and never emerge from again. Just ugh...

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch Yes, everyone has a cell. My thoughts were if I am going to set it up, it may as well get used. My parents still have a house phone as cell service isn't great.

One reason for me was to have an IP phone in my shop as well as the house. I have this now as an "intercom" of sorts. I can get called from the house and get my cheap Grandstream phone dirty and not care.

Definitely not a "must have". Figured if I set up a new lab instance in Vultr, I may as well actually use it.

Its how i call my dad still. In fact everyone. I cant hear people on cell calls.

Need to get you one of those cell phones for old people with some extra oomph in the speaker department.... that, or a set of hearing aids. Amplify All the sounds!

and then you can turn the hearing aid completely off when you're tired of people.

This works equally well with my implant, ha ha!

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brandon220 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@JaredBusch Yes, everyone has a cell. My thoughts were if I am going to set it up, it may as well get used. My parents still have a house phone as cell service isn't great.

One reason for me was to have an IP phone in my shop as well as the house. I have this now as an "intercom" of sorts. I can get called from the house and get my cheap Grandstream phone dirty and not care.

Definitely not a "must have". Figured if I set up a new lab instance in Vultr, I may as well actually use it.

Its how i call my dad still. In fact everyone. I cant hear people on cell calls.

Need to get you one of those cell phones for old people with some extra oomph in the speaker department.... that, or a set of hearing aids. Amplify All the sounds!

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Last night a new friend of mine pointed out I'm growing grey hair. .
I'm 23 man. This is not okay.

I blame my dad.

Don't feel bad. My grandfather's hair was completely white before he hit 25.

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

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

Currently trying to find a gaming PC for $1200 or less (I will probably go over a little). I'm not a gamer so a little out of my depth.

Based on my past readings through old posts here to get a sense of what is out there, just wondering what order the money should be spent, 1. CPU, 2. GPU, 3. RAM, 4 SSD or SATA or should it be 1. GPU, 2 CPU, 3 SSD, 4 RAM?

When spec'ing a new desktop what do you look at first to spend your money?

I would go gpu, storage, memory, then cpu

Hmm... For a gaming rig, that could be an interesting thought.

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

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

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

Currently trying to find a gaming PC for $1200 or less (I will probably go over a little). I'm not a gamer so a little out of my depth.

Based on my past readings through old posts here to get a sense of what is out there, just wondering what order the money should be spent, 1. CPU, 2. GPU, 3. RAM, 4 SSD or SATA or should it be 1. GPU, 2 CPU, 3 SSD, 4 RAM?

When spec'ing a new desktop what do you look at first to spend your money?

I like your first order mostly... I go:

• GPU
• RAM
• CPU
• STORAGE

Thanks,. I notice many configs from the big boys offer 256GB SSD and then 1TB SATA. Most with an i5, 16GB RAM and RTX 2080 (high end) and GTX 1660TI on lower end.

Is the extra $2-$300 worth it for the RTX? I have no clue in the GPU segments.

That part, I'm not sure about. The beauty of a desktop build is that if you have a hard budget of $1,200, you can start with one of the GTX line and upgrade to the RTX down the road when you can afford it.

I'm not one of those guys that obsesses over playing everything on Ultra quality. I just want it to look decent and not skip when things get busy in a game. My current laptop plays Jedi Fallen Order on default settings without a hitch, and it both looks great and plays great.

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

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

Currently trying to find a gaming PC for $1200 or less (I will probably go over a little). I'm not a gamer so a little out of my depth.

Based on my past readings through old posts here to get a sense of what is out there, just wondering what order the money should be spent, 1. CPU, 2. GPU, 3. RAM, 4 SSD or SATA or should it be 1. GPU, 2 CPU, 3 SSD, 4 RAM?

When spec'ing a new desktop what do you look at first to spend your money?

Great question, I’m in the same boat right now.
Where does the mobile sit in here? And cooling?

If you want mobile, make sure you get something that has a hardware switch to run your fans at full speed, and don't get one of those stupidly thin laptops -- not for gaming.

I have an MSI GL73-8RD and it has a hardware button for that. I rarely have to use it, except when gaming and my house is hot.

I think $1,200 should be a reasonable amount for a gaming desktop (I don't know much at all about liquid cooling and such though.

My current laptop ran me about $1,500 3 years ago. (Intel Core i-5, 32GB AM, 1TB NVME, 1TB SSD, NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti). Still going strong.

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

Currently trying to find a gaming PC for $1200 or less (I will probably go over a little). I'm not a gamer so a little out of my depth.

Based on my past readings through old posts here to get a sense of what is out there, just wondering what order the money should be spent, 1. CPU, 2. GPU, 3. RAM, 4 SSD or SATA or should it be 1. GPU, 2 CPU, 3 SSD, 4 RAM?

When spec'ing a new desktop what do you look at first to spend your money?

I like your first order mostly... I go:

• GPU
• RAM
• CPU
• STORAGE

Just started Jedi Fallen Order last night. Pretty fun so far.

@Obsolesce said in Windows 10 1909/2004 and Samba File Shares:

So, wtf do the logs say?

Do IT pros not look at logs anymore or do they keep trying to guess the issue for days until one sticks?

Why not? That has worked so well for me in the past!