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I was also surprised how little difference "default selection" and "extended selection" makes in disk space usage - "extended" is taking up only 1GB more of disk space.
I’d like to pick the brains here on HN. I’m looking to do something like autoinstall for my office but is there an easier way have my employees do their own thumb drive (remote users) and get the config they need from me? I’m looking for an MDM Intune like enrollment that’s easier and configured it a certain way. I’m not in a position to use and manage Puppet.
For long term management/enrollment you'd need to look at something beyond just putting stuff on the installer USB/ISO. Ubuntu has Landscape for this but there are some alternatives. Just depends on what you need to manage long term and what you can realistically do (e.g. you note you aren't in a spot to manage something like Puppet).
Will I finally be able to use a bluetooth headset's high quality audio output and its mic at the same time without significant changes in the terminal? It's getting embarrassing that every other mobile and desktop OS has no problem doing this but not Ubuntu.
I think this is the result of how bluetooth itself works for bi-directional voice headsets, no? I do get bad quality on every OS when I have to do this, unless it has to do with the audio codec.
Interesting observation, that in 20 years installer iso size grew almost ten times: from 643M CD to current 5.7G image, that won't fit even on single layer DVD (not that someone are still using those). I was also surprised how little difference "default selection" and "extended selection" makes in disk space usage - "extended" is taking up only 1GB more of disk space.
Ah good times. I started out with one of the early ones, maybe 4.04 or something like that. Ubuntu was my first Linux, and then Mint. Unfortunately, for work purposes, I had to switch to MacOS (not a bad OS), but I still miss Linux from time to time, especially reading about that story on the frontpage about people losing access to their Apple IDs. I think I'll give it another shot soon...
Will I finally be able to use a bluetooth headset's high quality audio output and its mic at the same time without significant changes in the terminal? It's getting embarrassing that every other mobile and desktop OS has no problem doing this but not Ubuntu.
Will I finally be able to use a bluetooth headset's high quality audio output and its mic at the same time without significant changes in the terminal? It's getting embarrassing that every other mobile and desktop OS has no problem doing this but not Ubuntu.
You can't work around the fundamental limitations of Bluetooth protocols like A2DP without cheating and using another microphone somewhere else. You can't use the headset mic when receiving high quality A2DP audio, ever, no matter how hard you try. It is a limitation of the Bluetooth standard.
When you switch the device into headset mode the quality turns to potato because it uses bidirectional audio codecs from the stone age in HFP/HSP mode with mSBC or (god help us all) CVSD.
Will I finally be able to use a bluetooth headset's high quality audio output and its mic at the same time without significant changes in the terminal? It's getting embarrassing that every other mobile and desktop OS has no problem doing this but not Ubuntu.
Apparently, the upgrade path isn't quite ready yet. If you're installing now, do a fresh install.
I’d like to pick the brains here on HN. I’m looking to do something like autoinstall for my office but is there an easier way have my employees do their own thumb drive (remote users) and get the config they need from me? I’m looking for an MDM Intune like enrollment that’s easier and configured it a certain way. I’m not in a position to use and manage Puppet.
Deploy a gpg signed public script to periodically download and install updates from a public server. i.e. anyone that has to update knows the package is from you, and the machine role is pre-defined by you with a config file in "/etc/example/myhost.conf". If secrecy is required, than publish host specific encrypted public payloads named for their primary interface MAC.
This is how to handle clowns pulling drives in colocation data-centers.
Cheers =)