(2020-02-22) Postlight Meta Computers And Passive Billing

Meta Computers and Passive Billing: Paul Ford and Rich Ziade on Various Things. So, remember our last episode where we said we were gonna make an intranet for Postlight?

Turns out that we have one

Yeah, it’s Basecamp and everyone’s organized all the documents and critical docs

PF Yeah, and we get yelled at a lot cuz we don’t use Basecamp that much, where everybody else does.

RZ I don’t like it.

PF I don’t either.

90% of YouTube should be an [sic] FAQ.

We have so little time in this world and everyone is like, “Hey, take a half hour and listen to us,” much like this podcast.

PF I bought Network Attached Storage (NAS) over the weekend

So, first of all, I did buy 40 terabytes of Seagate IronWolf, I think Pro, [chuckling] 7200 RPM

And you get four of em and then you put ‘em in a little box made by a company that I believe is Chinese.

QNAP Thunderbolt Four-drive NAS.

You connect to it through WiFi, and it’s a web server that has apps on it. And it says, “Here, let’s set this bad boy up for you.”

PF I can have—my 40 terabytes actually becomes more like 26 terabytes when I got ‘em all RAID optimized

So, here’s one of the apps: it’s just called Download Manager. So, you just put a URL in and it downloads it. But you could also put a link to a torrent file and it’ll go get that for you too. That’s built in at like the OS level with this bad boy.

Virtualization and container stations so I can run five different operating systems simultaneously on this thing

It was like, you know, 22-hundred bucks when I was all done.

RZ I mean, I thoroughly enjoy Google Photos. I have my stuff mirroring between Google Photos and iPhoto for some reason cuz Google Photos does some fun things with the stuff.