jo3shmoo

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[–] jo3shmoo 8 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Lots of good advice here. I've got a bunch of older WD Reds still in service (from before the SMR BS). I've also had good luck shucking drives from external enclosures as well as decommissioned enterprise drives. If you go that route, depending on your enclosure or power supply in these scenarios you may run into issues with a live 3.3V SATA power pin causing drives to reboot. I've never had this issue on mine but it can be fixed with a little kapton tape or a modified SATA adapter. It's definitely cheaper to shuck or get used enterprise for capacity! I'm running at least a dozen shucked drives right now and they've been great for my needs.

Also, if you start reaching the point of going beyond the ports available on your motherboard, do yourself a favor and get a quality HBA card flashed in IT mode to connect your drives. The cheapo 4 port cards I originally tried would have random dropouts in Unraid from time to time. Once I got a good HBA it's been smooth sailing. It needs to be in IT mode to prevent hardware raid from kicking in so that Unraid can see the individual identifiers of the disks. You can flash it yourself or use an eBay seller like ThArtOfServer who will preflash them to IT mode.

Finally, be aware that expanding your array is a slippery slope. You start with 3 or 4 drives and next thing you know you have a rack and 15+ drive array.

[–] jo3shmoo 101 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Aaaaand yes, this judge was another Trump appointee.

[–] jo3shmoo 3 points 6 months ago

It seems a lot of the new ones have a cellular modem. On the surface it's to let you remotely access the car or do a remote start. Even if you don't pay to subscribe and use it for your purposes they can utilize it to transfer out the data.

[–] jo3shmoo 1 points 6 months ago

Ditto. Mine was stolen out of my car 9 years ago and I still miss it.

[–] jo3shmoo 19 points 6 months ago

I don't think I realized that was a limitation because I've been using the Vaultwarden fork. https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

[–] jo3shmoo 2 points 6 months ago

Same, though I've got a couple Decepticons sprinkled in. They all connect to the Allspark ssid.

[–] jo3shmoo 2 points 7 months ago

I've been using the Killswitch since the non-magnetic version came out. It makes the whole system a little larger, but has a nice grip for holding and protects it well in my bag. It also takes up a lot less space in my bag than the stock case did. I haven't had any issues plugging in USB-C cables into what ends up being a recessed port with the case on.

[–] jo3shmoo 2 points 7 months ago

You'll be thrilled. I've got many many hours logged playing this game on my Deck after buying it on Switch and only playing a few minutes.

[–] jo3shmoo 4 points 7 months ago

Now they've even started offering this at the check-in counter! Critically it's after the "pay us $35 to check your bag" screen. It says it's a one time special offer but I've done it a half dozen times now on American and twice on United. Bag just is supposed to be carry on sized. I don't even have to take it through security when this option is available.

[–] jo3shmoo 2 points 7 months ago

Can only go back to when you started operating the device. So, basically the Primer time machine, except the math says it has to be done at galactic black hole amounts of energy sort of scale.

[–] jo3shmoo 15 points 7 months ago

IIRC There's an issue with the retiming chips that retransmit the USB4 signals over to the A style and how they're able to interact with the rest of the system. It causes the chips to stay awake and waste energy. The same issue is present on the AMD 13 framework; something to do with the AMD USB4 implementation. The 3.2 ports don't have the same issue.

Basically the port will still work in that configuration but the battery life will suffer.

[–] jo3shmoo 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Seconding the Shield, for all of the above plus Nvidia's update commitment to it. IIRC the 2015 Shield is the longest continually updated Android device ever. I have a 2015, 2017, and a 2019 at my house, and a couple of 2017s at my parents' place. I upgraded the older ones to the toblerone remote last year. All are still working great, and continuing to receive regular updates.

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