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414: Devolving Into Chaos

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Topics:

  • Jerry talks about a problem he had shipping a package through Walgreens.

  • Jerry shares five tips of the day today.

    • Tip #1: Don’t ship your package through Walgreens.

    • Tip #2: Clean out your wallet.

    • Tip #3: Don’t carry a lot of money in your wallet.

    • Tip #4: Check in your settings in Backblaze to make sure you update it to more than 30 days.

    • Tip #5: If you create a folder in safari with multiple URLs, you will have the option to open all of the tabs.

  • ACN links that you may have been using on your websites have changed. (Shoutout Jason Golfarb for sharing this information.)

  • The cobbler’s son has no shoes.

  • There should be better tools for web browsing management.

  • The group discusses the Apple Airtags, Sam has used them to track his dog who runs away at night.

  • Both Joe and Sam have a bad time as they attempt to update the UniFi Controller. Joe found his answers online while Sam reached out to Ubiquiti support. In either case, the solution involves an SSH connection and running this command: apt update; apt install -y openjdk-8-jre-headless

  • Note to self, check the release notes.

  • Note 2 to self, don’t upgrade client networks on a Friday night.

  • One of Sam’s one off clients had a gen1 Cloud Key that crapped out. Matt used an old trick by getting into the Mongo database to store a new password and write it back to the cloud key.

  • Jerry talks about the great UniFi LTE device he installed with Joe and the group discusses payments for it.

  • Joe gives a quick tip on how to configure the device.