SapphironZA
@SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 day ago:
They need to make (most favoured nation status) illegal. Sellers should be free to set the price they want on any platform. If a seller can offer it cheaper on their own site, or on another platform, they should be allowed to.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 2 days ago:
Its that way with many technologies. The lead time on such research is long enough that market factors alter the viability by the time it is ready to get commercialized.
Quite often innovations from prototype technology can be transplanted into existing tech for part of the benefit, without having to build new production capacity. So the new technology does not commercialised, but the learnings from it does.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
I am referring to voltage drop consistency over distance.
Say you are running two 15 cable runs for rear surround speakers. If you run very cheap cable, the amount of voltage, and thus volume, will not be the same across the two channels. In short runs, not enough to notice, but on longer runs you can.
But there is no need for super expensive cable. You just need something durable and consistent enough.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
Spite is the only reason I would.
- Comment on BMW’s Newest “Innovation” is a Logo-Shaped Middle Finger to Right to Repair 1 week ago:
Or grind a slot in the screw and you can use a flat head screwdriver.
Be sure to upload the process and tag BMW with a FU.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 1 week ago:
The only reason for reasonable quality speaker cables, is so that you get consistant volume between left and right channels if the volume is the same. That and so they don’t break when you pull on them.
- Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? 2 weeks ago:
In my case, I setup a ZFS pool of my disks in my old desktop PC running Proxmox. Then I allocated some storage to an LXC container running Debian and Samba for file sharing.
In your case, since the QNAP already runs Samba, it would be best to run it directly on the NAS.
But if you want to do it for the learning experience, you can setup an NFS share on the QNAP and link it to the Proxmox. The Proxmox can then use the NAS for storage and you can have VMs or LXC contsiners use for virtual disks.
- Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? 2 weeks ago:
I am quite satisfied with the unifi ecosystem so far as networking and CCTV systems go. They are cloud enabled without being cloud dependent. Since the early 2025 networking update, their routers are pretty good now. The UDM SE is a pretty compelling router/POEswitch/NVR in the home context.
Their NAS ecosystem is still very new and I would not it a viable option yet. They are also leaning towards the vendor lock-in direction with drives. Its the same reason I would stay away from Synology and QNAP.
Personally, I run a old desktop as a NAS/homelab running Proxmox(FOSS based hypervisor). I run ZFS on it and its “fine”. It performs fine even with a mixed bunch of disks, provided you have them in pairs or groups of 3 that perform close to identically. I just run a Debian container on the Proxmox as my fileserver and a few VMs for homelabbing.
One player that works well in a home environment is UnRAID. It a Linux distor that runs on commodity hardware and handles redundancy with “just a bunch of disks” better than most. The UI is friendly to non technical users. The catch is that UI is commercial software. Many consider it a fair exchange for the convenience it brings.
- Comment on Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority" 3 weeks ago:
Its was also Epsteins priority for his clients.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
I think 50 inch is about the upper end for what can fit on a desk, but a 42 inch is the upper limit for most. I used to have a 42inch 4k monitor, but it broke and got discontinued.
I still miss that display.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
Gaming would be done at 4k. It’s 8k for productivity.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
Its a step in the right direction.
Not quite the aspect ratio I am looking for and the price is too eye watering.
What I want is an 8k 16:9 or 16:10 display for around double the price of a 4k display at the same price as a high end 4k TV (OLED or mini led)
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 3 weeks ago:
Not on desktop use. Which is a market segment that is under served.
Would love to replace my 4x 1440p monitor setup with a 50 inch 8k TV setup.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like he is reading too much into the observer effect and now has been reclassified himself as an astrologer.
- Comment on LE TITS NOW 4 weeks ago:
In Canada they get hard nipples in the cold. In the US it hits different.
- Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life 1 month ago:
Basic documentation does not equal open source.
Toaster ovens from 40 years ago did better. They came with a technical diagram.
- Comment on 🏳️(TrueNAS) Is my drive dying and should be replaced?🏳️ 1 month ago:
In addition to other advice, with only hardware, have 1 cold spare drive for every 2 years of remaining life of the hardware. It gets difficult to find similar spec drives the older they get. So if you want to use the drives in the NAS for another 4 years, get 2 spares. After that you start getting into the territory of replacing the drives anyway.
- Comment on 🏳️(TrueNAS) Is my drive dying and should be replaced?🏳️ 1 month ago:
My rule for older hardware, before trusting the ZFS fault reporting, I would follow the following steps.
(Note these are homelabber steps and not what I would do in the enterprise, where time is a lot more expensive than replacing hardware)
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Check the Smart data of the drive. If it reports the drive as faulty, replace it.
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Zpool clear the error and see if it comes back. Sometimes drive errors are not cause by the drive itself
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Reseat the drive and the cables between the motherboard and the drive. Clear errors after this step. Especially with older hardware and it having travelled from its previous owner to you, something might not be seated properly.
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Move the drive to another drive bay, or swap it with another drive. If the errors move with the drive, the drive is faulty. If the errors move to the bay, you probably have a good drive, but a faulty drive bay/cable.
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- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 1 month ago:
So you are saying you have a future in goverment.
- Comment on Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI 1 month ago:
Only if corporations lose all rights as individuals in Law.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 month ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 month ago:
Its not just GM, but their are certainly a good example of Enshitification.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 1 month ago:
But its very unfamiliar for people coming from Windows. That said, ZorinOS does a very good job of reworking it to look and act like Windows, KDE, cinnamon or previous versions of Gnome.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 1 month ago:
Damn, I keep forgetting that the iphone X was already 5 years ago. 10 years ago then. There has been so little improvements in phones in the ladt 5 years, it all just blurs together.
I think the point is, we used to have phones that were 9mm+ thick. Iphone 4s and iphone 5c from Apple and Samsung Galaxy S3 and motorola G phones were all that thickness. They even had replacable batteries and expandable storage. Some of those were even waterproof despite all of that.
I think the main driver of impractical thinness has been marketing, planned obselecence and cost savings.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 1 month ago:
But their thickness can accomidate todays cameras.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 1 month ago:
No thicker than very popular and successful phones from just 5 years ago. They can use the extra space for a larger battery, so they dont have to nerf performance to maintain stability in older phones. They can also use the space to restore repairability.
But probably not for a folding phone, since making both sides that thick will probably be too much.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 1 month ago:
I think there is a strategy in what you are pointing out.
For the general public, its not that we should advocate for the use of software, but for the use of a package of hardware+software.
People dont say they want iOS or MacOS or even Windows. They say they want an iPad, Macbook or ASUS Strix Laptop. The software is not a primary consideration for them.
The Steam Deck is the prime example. Its about making the package attractive.
If we can do things like have Bazzite make a deal with Steam for “Steam Machine” accreditation, that can be packaged and marketed to be sold by the hardware vendors. Probably starting with the gaming system integrators.
We need a similar brand and package for general purpose users, but I dont know what the set of hooks would be to make it marketable. Maybe its right to repair, maybe 10 years of software support. Maybe a 10 year warranty. Something the community still needs to figure out. Linux Mint is probably one of the most suitable for this package.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 2 months ago:
Nvidia is already diverting “midrange” gaming GPU production to AI.
CPUs and motherboards might become cheaper, but I doubt it. Companies are much more willing to sit on inventory these days.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 2 months ago:
Too late already, pricing on those went up within a week or two. Best you can hope for is second hand market from sellers who dont know what they have.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 2 months ago:
Amd 9070xt and 9060xt options are probably the best you are going to get for the next 2 years.
Dont buy Nvidia again. They just end of lifed the 10th most popular GPU used with Steam.
