HiTekRedNek
@HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 day ago:
I have just shy of 8TB of data on my home file server.
That’s not including my NVR (for security cameras) which has a single 6TB SATA drive sitting around 40% capacity.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 day ago:
I had a single red 2TB in an old tivo roamio for almost a decade.
Pulled out this weekend, and finally tested it. Failed.
I was planning to move my 1.5T music collection to it. Glad I tested it first, lol.
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 1 day ago:
I know. Isn’t great? When there’s no party in true “control” then whoever wants to think it’s the other guy’s fault can easily do so.
I was already an adult in 1996. It was definitely a bipartisan thing. Despite many tech insiders warning how it would cause the exact opposite of what it was intended to do, Clinton didn’t just sign it. He and Al Gore, for years, claimed it as their own.
Hell, it was this exact act Al Gore was referring to when he claimed he “invented” the Internet.
- Comment on US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP 1 day ago:
The deregulation in the 90s is what killed the local ISP. Thanks, Bill.
- Comment on Tape drive backups 1 day ago:
My folks had a tape backup system in the late 1990s. It used 250MB tapes.
They’ve been around for decades.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 2 days ago:
No, but I have downloaded yours.
- Comment on Truenas deleting smb files every night 2 days ago:
zfs list shows datasets.
zpool list shows pools.
mirror is a type of pool.
- Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses? 5 days ago:
Or T-Mobile.
- Comment on I am working on a turn-based wargame, influenced by the old Win3.x era WinWar 2 game 5 days ago:
Winwar 2 was based on a dos version of it, btw. I played it all the time with some friends back in the early 1990s.
- Comment on Truenas deleting smb files every night 6 days ago:
You sure that’s what is happening, and it’s not just mounting a different snapshot/dataset being mounted “on top” ?
I’ve seen it happen, which is why I ask. Assume the root dataset is named pool0 and has set0 set1 and set1/set2 as child datasets.
Their mount points are as follows:
/pool0/set0
/pool0/set1
/pool0/set1/set2
Now, if somehow, say set2 gets unmounted.temporarily, and you save files to /pool0/set1/set2 while the data set is not mounted, it’ll actually put those files in the set1 dataset, under the set2 directory.
But, when you mount the pool0/set1/set2 dataset again, the files under the set1 dataset are hidden by the set2 child.
Am I explaining it well enough for you to follow along?
Make sure you don’t have some similar situation by temporarily unmounting any nested datasets and ls’ing their mount points.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 6 days ago:
Very. It’s like molasses.
- Comment on The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) 1 week ago:
Which is why I said “in theory”
- Comment on What network hardware should I get for my homelab? 1 week ago:
My network actually ran better when my OpnSense was virtualized on a Proxmox server running atop a Dell Optiplex 790 MT from like 2013, than it is currently on a bare metal Sophos SG-135v2.
But that is because the sophos has 8 ports. And all 8 are a separate interface, so to use them as a switch requires bridging 7 of the 8.
And that slows things down tremendously. I really just need an 8 port switch in there, I guess.
The upshot is, the sophos came with rack mounts.
- Comment on The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) 1 week ago:
Well… in theory, that particular line is just saying data shouldn’t be political…
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 week ago:
cries in broke
I have 4x3TiB drives in a currently-degraded RAIDZ1 due to a hard drive failure. I have a replacement coming, and my fingers are crossed that I don’t lose another drive beforehand.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 week ago:
I tried tdarr, but have issues using more than one node. I may just wind up installing docker on my more powerful desktop specifically for tdarr, instead of on the proxmox server I have without a real gpu. (It’s a Xeon Supermicro board with their onboard VGA)
- Comment on FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse 1 week ago:
sings The cirrrrrrcle of liiiiiiiife.
I mean, the computer folder icon is modeled after a real folder, sooooo
- Comment on ‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing 1 week ago:
By your logic then, capitalism is great, because that means no one would’ve engineered these crazy locks but instead just used the tried and true ones.
Wait. That’s not what happened?
Oh.
- Comment on Immigration Crackdowns Are Booming. So Is the Digital Resistance Fighting Them. 2 weeks ago:
Oh no. Of course not.
We can’t actually show ways to defeat government overreach, we can only allude to its existence!
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 2 weeks ago:
Good.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 2 weeks ago:
Hell, windows itself does it.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 2 weeks ago:
I can tell you that Mediacom cable will cut your service off for it, and you have to call in and get scolded before they turn it back on.
And, if it happens 3 times, your service is disconnected permanently.
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 2 weeks ago:
What’s crazy is that Trump claims to be against the current ruling in Sony’s favor, and is siding with Cox.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
We have a choice between T-Mobile 5G, 3M ADSL, coax docsis and Starlink.
Of those, the most reliable is the DSL, then Starlink, and it’s a tossup whether the T-Mobile or the Mediacom DOCSIS is the least reliable
I worked for Mediacom for 5 years. It wasn’t reliable then either, but at least then, I didn’t have to play the “first we have to send out a tech that may not actually show up the first time because it’s working at the exact moment he checks before he cancels the call” game.
When I left them, we switched to DSL, which was … painful, but we managed for a couple of years. Then the pandemic happened, and the kiddo went to remote schooling, and the DSL just couldn’t handle it. So we used the “reduced cost” internet plan for going back to Mediacom.
Except after months of fighting to actually get the reduced price plan we were supposed to be getting, we were told the T-Mobile now serviced our area, and switched with glee.
And for almost 3 years it was GREAT. But in the past year or so, we began having horrendous service issues. Speeds were no better, and sometimes even worse than the DSL we had previously.
Finally, I had enough, and bit the bullet and switched to Starlink.
Now, our service is great. The bill isn’t, because let’s face it, $120 a month for 200ish Mbps down and 50ish up is nuts, but at least we have fast, reliable service now.
- Comment on Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band 2 weeks ago:
That’s less of a defense of AI slop than it is a condemnation of the entire music industry.
- Comment on Senate GOP budget bill has little-noticed provision that could hurt your Wi-Fi 2 weeks ago:
Eh, IoT devices typically use 2.4ghz, or even 933mhz…
- Comment on Sinaloa cartel hacked security cameras to track and kill FBI informants, US says 2 weeks ago:
No shit? The thing security geeks have been warning about for years with all the cameras everywhere actually happened?
No way! Whodathunkit?
- Comment on 7 year old PC. CPU is getting WICKED hot (up to 100 C) while playing games. is there any software that can underclock/undervolt it? 2 weeks ago:
Why is it that so many people do absolutely zero maintenance on their computers, and think that’s completely normal?
Clean that bitch out at the very least. Allowing dust to build up in all the little books and crannies means it’s not getting enough air flow.
It’s typically common sense that when your AC isn’t working well, you clean/replace the filter(s) to keep it operating at peak efficiency, and if you don’t, you risk burning up fan and/or compressor motors.
Same thing with your car’s cooling system. Keep that radiator grill clean of mud and dirt, or it’s more likely to overheat and burn up your engine.
Why the fuck don’t people think of that when it comes to their computers just blows my damn mind.
A tube of Arctic Silver thermal grease is less than 10 bucks. A can of compressed air is like 20 bucks, and will typically last for months.
Once a month, take the PC case outside, and blow out all the damn dust.
Every year or so, replace the thermal grease/paste.
“My computer runs slower and slower as times goes by!” Yeah no shit, it’s trying not to burn itself up. Clean the fucker.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Because why have 3 devices when one can do it for less cost?
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 2 weeks ago:
You did WHAT with them?
They don’t GO there…