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DrMacintosh

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  1. If a Tesla never updates its remaining range, that's a problem. The car should realize that as it ages it will loose range (which I believe they already do) and the car should also realize that based on speed and the use of cabin features, it will loose range. Since I'm 90% sure a Tesla will do both of these things, I'm cautious to blame the car. Maybe their range calculations can be updated to check the voltages more often. On the other hand, It is well known that people are stupid and will ignore their gas gauges in regular cars and get stranded on the highway. I don't see any reason why those same people would not also own Teslas and are simply ignoring what their vehicle is telling them. As I'm getting older, I'm realizing more and more that users are the vast majority of the problem.
  2. I have to wonder, is Tesla actually lying about the range of the EVs or are they doing what literally everyone else does when it comes to phone/laptop battery life? Sure it can last 18 hours watching videos. But once you fire up Final Cut Pro the battery is going to drain pretty quickly. Car range is determined by speed, temperature, and if cabin features like AC/Heat are on. Gas cars have this same problem, though on a less dramatic scale.
  3. Just got the Affinity V2 Universal License bundle. I guess they are having a summer sale, got all 3 apps on Mac, Windows, and iPad for $124. Not bad.

  4. That may be precisely why they aren't. HomeKit is already marketed as the secure smart home platform from a big tech company. HomeKit Routers can already be configured to block absolutely all outgoing or incoming traffic for HomeKit devices, so there really isn't anything to left to secure or protect users from at that point. A lot of smart home vendors aren't signing up with this. For one, I don't see Home Assistant anywhere. Lots of security oriented people actually use Home Assistant with a HomeKit backbone.
  5. Synology's Active Backup for M365 is a killer feature imo. Easily the best bit of equipment that I have had work buy.

    1. FloRolf

      FloRolf

      Generally synology has some very easy to setup backup solutions. 

  6. Hello all, I'm setting up a DS923+ to store my jobs cold files. Mostly pictures, finished reports, excel docs, old invoices, etc. We can remotely access this data via Synology Drive/QuickConnect fairly well. I also completely forgot that Active Backup for M365 exists which really takes this NAS to the next level for us. I'm waiting to start the first backup job until I've moved our cold storage files onto the NAS. We are trying to operate with less than 1TB in SharePoint to get our bill down since additional SharePoint Storage is like $0.20 per GB per month which is insane. As a first time Synology and NAS user and the only extremely non-professional IT person at the company (we only have 8 people) I'm looking for any advice or common mistakes to avoid for this use case. Also, I'm moving our data and configuring Active Backup for M365 at home since I have faster internet than our office and I currently don't have a car, so I'm wondering what kind of issues there may be from moving the NAS to a new network once I do get it in office, thanks!
  7. Can I introduce you you to Apple Music? The Android app is great.
  8. Ok, but how many power on hours did the drive have?
  9. What exactly would L1 and L2 techs be doing over the phone for Seagate? Is the drive plugged in? Is it making some clicking sound? Seems like a large expense for nothing beneficial for the user.
  10. Hi all, so I was about to pull the trigger on a NAS for our small office. But I noticed that the drives included in this B&H Photo bundle w/ the DS923+ and 4x8TB Seagate IronWolf NAS Drives (SEST8000VN4) are not on the "approved/compatibility" list, and in fact there are almost 0 drives that are on this list. So what gives and what will happen by not using "approved" drives? Thanks!
  11. Try Lubuntu. I run Lubuntu in a VirtualBox VM on my 2018 Mac mini home server. All it does it torrent Linux ISOs all day. It only needs like 1GB of memory to run (I give it 4GB) and I only give it 2 cores but I believe it could run on 1.
  12. If it didn't outright die, that probably means the OPP/OCP protection did its job and actually not only saved the life of the system components, but of the PSU itself.
  13. If you do just line out audio from your PC directly, do you get the same result? It very likely is an issue with USB. I used to run my game audio through a USB DAC, but after some game instability while using it I decided to stop. I rarely use that DAC now since Apple has still not released the Apple Music app for Windows 11 fully.
  14. Thanks, after some digging I found this site: https://www.synology.com/en-global/compatibility?search_by=category&category=upses&filter_brand=APC In that I found that the APC UPS that I have at home is compatible with the DS923+: https://www.synology.com/en-global/compatibility?search_by=category&category=upses&filter_brand=APC
  15. Hello all, I'm going to be deploying a Synology DS923+ in our office to act as an archival server to accommodate our old/unused SharePoint files. One thing I'm curious about is getting a UPS for this NAS. I know it is possible for a Mac to connect to a UPS via USB and auto shutdown when the UPS kicks in and the Mac will gracefully shut down. I would like to know if the DS923+ has this capability as well? A UPS does not really do us much good if someone has to be there to quickly shut it off if we lose power.
  16. DrMacintosh

    Do quality 2.5" HDDs exist anymore? Like if I w…

    Its a 2.5" HDD. Nothing about that is going to be quality.
  17. DrMacintosh

    Do quality 2.5" HDDs exist anymore? Like if I w…

    They do, Toshiba makes them still. They are mostly OEM only, I have a few putting around from newly purchased work laptops that I upgraded.
  18. Ah ok, this might be possible using power automate. But it's going to require a script of some sort and I don't have the skills to create scripts for M365 so I'd recommend going over to the Microsoft support forums to see if you can get more insight there.
  19. A Sharepoint document library is essentially a glorified shared HDD. You would typically access it by synchronizing the document library to a computer via OneDrive or online via the SharePoint Site url....that being said Excel is not a dynamic database and should not be used to store this type of data in this way. Also, it cannot be used in the manner you describe for various reasons. However, there are better data logging systems available built into in the M365 suite if you need this level of documentation for some reason. A simple search of "get a log of all changes in a shairpoint document library" lead me to this: https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/186093/how-to-track-all-changes-inside-a-sharepoint-site and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/query-sharepoint-change-log-with-changequery-and-changetoken Somewhere along this path you should be able to get the functionality you want. If you have higher-ups to report to, please kindly tell them that excel is not a magic bit of software and cannot replace an actual database.
  20. As stated above, if you can download the songs locally, yes, the spotify app will run offline.
  21. https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/track-your-sleep-apd830528336/watchos
  22. Is that slot enabled on the motherboard BIOS? What storage mode is your motherboard in? Have you checked your owners manual for info on how to use the DIMM.2 slot?
  23. So I ran the macOS Ventura 13.4.1 update and updated VirtualBox. Once everything was booted, I went to launch my VM only for it to say the machine was inaccessible. Upon further digging, it appears that the entire drive was corrupted. I think that somehow, VirtualBox did this because my other 3 drives, which are in the same enclosure, were completely fine. The Mac mini not wanting to eject the drives because it was a shared volume could have played a part in this.

     

    I didn't loose anything thankfully, the drive was only being used for my iCloud Photo Library backup, and my VM for downloading Linux ISOs. Sadly BackBlaze was not backing up the .vdi file for the VM so I had to start fresh. Lost my seed ratio 😞

  24. DrMacintosh

    I like the "Dave's Garage" video, but outside o…

    How many people with autism do you know? Staying on topic and addressing what the other person is saying tends to be difficult for those on the spectrum.
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