Yes, the Ubuntu XFCE version I just erased to use the stick for Bookworm had a connect to server interface that worked fine. I pulled all the themes and mods off the Truenas server to make it look like an AmigaOS.
The Raspian connect to server GUI offers only SSH, FTP or WebDav, autofills port 21,22,80 and wont let you enter anything else. No smb option.
So xfer stuff to her new iPhone. Doesn’t bring charging cables, doesn’t know her apple ID. WIll call back. Calls month later, never shows up again, Calls again 2 months after getting it, still hasn’t manged to set it up.
Told her to leave old iPhone on, put new one beside it and follow instructions. Texts to sat friends is helping her. Calls says she’ll be there next day. Doesn’t show. Shows up Sat at 9 am while not even up.
No cables. But has Apple ID. Old phone never backed to iCloud… start proceeding (oh we needed Internet?). Forever to recognize sitting beside old iphone… new one needs upgrade
F&^&ing home Internet dies, don’t notice for an hour. Both phones blank out every 5 secs and need passwords reentered… Net comes back… STALL OUT
Restart both, restart setup… new phone needs to download OS update from scratch.
Seven hours later, an hour to go for update,
5 mins later… 3 hours to go for update…
BTW the Pi OS does not come with Samba & cfis setup. Gotta use CLI. Dock them 10 points, it’s 2023.
My hoarder friend was back for a week, Brought me an unopened pack of 5 1/4" floppies. Just what I need… 40 years ago for my Commodore64. Anyone with a Computer Museum? Shut mine down a decade ago.
For Apple enthusiasts. Apple has released iOS 17.1. Updating my phone now. Will see if my Apple watch has an update afterwards. 
Edit: WatchOS 10.1 is out.
Updated the Mac mini to Sonoma. After a week, i thought of my old Italian uncle.
Sonoma bitch she works nice!
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I’m really liking KDE-plasma on my Dell Optiplex 9020. It’s a smooth ride. Being addicted to technology is kind of stupid at times. There’s nothing wrong with my Series 8 Apple watch, it functions perfectly. However, I find myself lusting for the recently released Apple watch Ultra 2. I have no words. Heh.
I was about to order a new M2 MacBook Pro for work. Had it in the cart and everything. Just waiting for approval that someone else would pay for it
Received the approval Monday afternoon.
Then went back to the Apple Education site, and it was down because of their event. When it came back, the M3 MacBook Pro was there, and it was almost $1000 cheaper. So I ended up ordering a Mac Mini and a MacBook Pro for the amount that was approved.
This stuff is stupid expensive, but it’s great when someone else is paying. It also lasts a long time. I still use my 2011 MacBook Air 11” daily.
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On the Linux side of things, I’ve been messing with live distros on USB drives (USB 3.1 thumb drives and external SSDs).
Been messing with MiniOS and with Ventoy as well.
Cool. I’ve been messing with Aeon Linux in VMs as of late. It’s an Alpha release of openSUSE; I like it.
Ventoy is great. Made a Medicat repair tool USB using it.
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Well here comes another one. She sae my card w the phone number e-mail & address on FB so she can ONLY contact me on FB. She bought a laptop on FB and ‘it doesn’t work’.
Actually got mad when I asked what was wrong. How should she know, it just doesn’t work.
Does it turn on? Is it asking for a password? How should I know, the lady that sold it to me said it worked.
After 2 days of FB (I only look at it a few times a day) I was about to tell her to bring me the f#cking thing, when she asked just that. Sheesh!
I hope she’s not like the last one who gave me a laptop to recycle. She looked at me like I was an idiot when I asked if she had the charger for it. It’s laptop,. it didn’t come with one - they run on a battery
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New toy. Set it up yesterday. I still love and use my Apple Watch. The Garmin syncs well with my iPhone and receives notifications. It has good connectivity although I give the edge to the Apple Watch, that is, I can be very far away from my iPhone and receive notifications on the Apple Watch. The graphics are better on the Apple Watch. The Garmin shines with battery life, it’s nuts. The Garmin is my new outdoors watch. I think it is a maxim that you can’t have too many computers, phones, or smart watches. Haha.
My Internet speed today is as good as it gets for my plan. It’s not bad. However, my web pages which are hosted on CityWest are down. Their Apache or AIX server in the data center is offline(day 3). The friendly telephone support guy from CityWest was very vague as to an ETA for restoration. I’m thinking of paying for hosting.
Time to consider either renting a VPS (for when things need to stay up all the time no matter what), or if it’s something that’s not mission-critical, you can host in your house
Take an old laptop or computer and put ESXi on it, then you can do virtual machines and serve your stuff that way.
Great way to learn about virtualization, snapshotting, hosting, etc. And you can either open a web port on your router, or use something like Cloudflare Tunnels to be on the web without opening ports.
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Today is a great day to rent a VPS as well. Big sales going on at:
For me, I host my personal stuff at home on a couple of ESXi servers (including HTMF). And I host anything else on Linode or Oracle cloud. Those are the things that need to be up 100% of the time, though. Stuff hosted at home goes offline if my internet connection goes offline for some reason.
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Thanks for the helpful replies, MiG! I appreciate that a lot. Linode looks good. CityWest returned my call again today. No ETA on when web service will resume. The very nice tech support dude said that they’re in the middle of a maintenance window. He did say he’d elevate my request as no one calls about personal web pages hosted at CityWest.
Hmm… I have only about 4 customer websites as addons on GoDaddy that cover the cost now. Went to them 10 yrs ago as their yearly cost was less than the monthly hydro fee for the server bank and that was too much PITA to run all by myself.
Nickel & diming by them every year since has made it barely worth my while. My alt hobby sites I’ve been thinking of moving to a Pi server at home, but all Internet choices here are far too unreliable for fortstjames.com or customer sites. Went to cable when DSL was out 10x a day, it was out all last Thurs and sputtering on an off all this week.
I’ve been out of the loop so long, don’t know half of what you’re talking about.
So after a little under a week CityWest got their webserver back online. It’s very comforting to have my pages back online. I learned how to write HTML in notepad on a 486 and Windows 3.1 on dial-up in the 90s. My HTML writing skills have not progressed much since the 90s and it shows. Hahaha. I’m a happy nerd today.
The good old days… we’d have contests to write the smallest html to deliver the required content when the downtown core could get a whole 33K dialup. In the later days everyone else still got 9600 to 28.
And horrible web page programs abounded. Front Page… and know-it-all managers using Word. Made Page1 and FTP’s it. Made Page2 next day and uploaded it. Then called us screaming that “our dialup” screwed up the photos because the next day’s Word upload saved it’s pics as img0.jpg and img1.jpg overtop of the previous day’s upload…
people uploading 1 Mb pics and coding their site to display a 320x200 gif complaining their site was too slow. Sawmill that didn’t want our web designer cuz his grandson was learning html in school.
I did lots of ‘hand bombed’ html/php sites using Wordpad and nano on early Ubuntu. Netscape Composer was a handy tool too.
Don’t forget those hacked within a minute sites with Joomla and PhpBB 2.