In my friend circle we will invite each other to stuff and ask “are you up or down?” Then schedule them regardless of response.

I tried AntennaPod but went back because of Android Auto. I just found this showing how to get AntennaPod on AndroidAuto!

https://antennapod.org/documentation/playback/android-auto

I used to work at a company that provided tech support for a few Canadian Tires. They don’t hire nearly enough staff. They try to make up for it with high amounts of automation. Frequently people will come and steal from them because there aren’t enough staff to stop that. This causes the inventory system to think there is more stock than there is. Because the reduced staff, they don’t frequently manually check their stock so it can be quite some time before it becomes aparent.

I tried that one time. I went over budget and sent a really nice gift. I didn’t receive a gift myself. Then my recipient reported that I didn’t send a gift. I got banned.

We have some air gapped environments. VMware have asked us to install vRealize to monitor the CPU usage. Then they want us to export a report from vRealize every month and upload it to VMware so they can bill us accordingly.

My management is dead set on getting off VMware as quickly as possible. I’ve spent a lot of the past year and a half setting up test labs and reporting on these potential replacements:

• oVirt and RHVC
• Nutanix
• scale
• Azure Stack HCI
• VX rail
• Harvester and Rancher
• A variety of qemu wrappers

None of us are very happy about it but it looks like Azure Stack HCI is the winner so far.

I briefly used it. It connects you to all of your neighbors. It’s good for knowing what’s going on in your community.