djames4242

FWIW, you left Washington State stores off the list. All of our stores have been open since last week.

Mike Wuerthele said:

MichaelKohl said:

Would it be possible to run two separate RAIDs. One with regular hard drives and one with SSDs?

Yes. 

In regards to your second question, I don't like the QNAP software as much, and the units I've used have been underpowered as compared to this one. Which unit did you have in mind?

As Mike implied, the Synology supports multiple storage pools, each of which can be configured differently using a group of drives.

Also, QNAP software/interface aside, when I made my decision a few years ago between QNAP and Synology, I found the Synology to be far more capable. If you're just looking for storage, either undoubtedly will be fine. But for adding functionality (running Docker, packages such as Java, PHP, or Python apps, or server applications such as email, DNS, etc), I personally found Synology to offer more capability than QNAP.

Also worth mentioning, even if it’s beyond what most people likely look for in a NAS, is its support for Docker. I currently run a number of containers on my 918+ to offload tasks from my iMac so it can sleep when I don’t need it. One of those containers also has a VPN client running to encrypt very specific traffic in and out without requiring all of my traffic to run within a VPN. 2-4 containers running alongside Plex, Sonarr and SAB, and a few other packages. I did upgrade to 8gb RAM a few months ago because my Couchbase container needed more memory for resident data access.

I love my Synology. 

Najassta said:

Zoom used to let me use my Canon as the cam now since this update it doesn't allow it. The second problem is the app crashes out of nowhere PLEASE FIX IT. I desperately need this for work and my kids for school. I don't want to have to switch to something else when it work fine before. just add it back and fit the crashing.PLEASE!!!

Newer versions of Zoom (those released in the past 2-3 weeks) appear to have disabled the use of "virtual" web cams which I suspect is how your Canon implemented its connection. I've been a fan of iGlasses for years because it allows me to customize my webcam settings, primarily zoom and pan. My iMac's iSight camera is far too wide-angled for proper video conferencing, and iGlasses allowed me to zoom in. I also adjusted exposure and saturation to clean up the poor lighting in my office.

Unfortunately, iGlasses also presents itself as a "virtual webcam" as well and is no longer supported by Zoom. My guess is that adding this back in is very low on the list of priorities for Zoom right now, so I'll just have to move my iMac forward a few feet for my calls, or see if I can live with the browser plug-in.

Meh.

razorpit said:

dysamoria said:

Can anyone explain to me how this previously utterly-unknown-to-me Zoom suddenly became the video conference product of choice before the current round of realizations about how shitty it is?

I'm glad you're saying what I'm thinking. I thought they came out of nowhere. All the blue check marks started suddenly loving this company and I never heard of them. Not that I'm up on all the social platforms, but just seemed really odd. I wonder how many people who use this service are on Office 365 and can be using Teams instead?

My company (which has us all on Office 365) is offering to turn on Teams for us on a case-by-case basis if we have customers who won't meet with us over Zoom. I have two thoughts on this...

1. Much of this is blown out of proportion. I'm not concerned with being Zoom-bombed, nor am I particularly concerned over my meetings being snooped on.
2. I met with a company two weeks ago who wanted us to use their Teams system over Zoom. I found it to be less responsive, more cumbersome to access and use, and its UI was far less intuitive. Basically the same issues I find with most Microsoft products. It also didn't appear to have similar functionality, but that could have been dependent on features the host had not enabled.

I wouldn't even be using Office if my company didn't offer it. While Excel is just fine for crunching numbers, Numbers produces far better-looking tables and charts, I rarely use Word (Pages beats it for almost everything), and never use PowerPoint (because if's a f'ing horrible piece of crap in comparison to Keynote). That leaves Outlook which I use by default, even though I could be using Postbox or Apple Mail and Fantastical.