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I think that's just called 'entropy'.
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USB Connectivity issues on Dell WD19TBS Dock
AbydosOne replied to SetOutMode's topic in Troubleshooting
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Baader-Meinhof Effect has to be a real thing:
There's a PA speaker in the trash at work. I proudly told my boss that I had resisted taking it. He explained it would be pointless because they're 70V driven. I did not know this.
Ten minutes later, this post was made:
This keeps happening to me. This is stuff I would recall if I already knew it or if I encountered it often.
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Actually, I saw this exact MO a week or two ago: make a simple post, get a few responses, make another post later that day, then go nuclear without provocation. Just saying it's a pattern, not an incident.
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That still requires a DisplayPort input. My initial question is "why not just use an DP MST hub and two active DP->HDMI adapters?" The only usecase I see is for Macs, which don't support MST (for some reason)... I'd get a DisplayLink adapter (not a knockoff one). They actually work pretty well for 2D stuff (I can even watch Youtube without issues on mine).
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Doesn't exist (practically). HDMI can only support one "display" worth of data at a time; HDMI splitters will just mirror one display onto two (identical) ones. A USB-A to HDMI adapter may fit your needs if you aren't doing anything graphically intense on one of your extra displays.
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Trying to set up a VPN server on my NAS
AbydosOne replied to Aleph256's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
Make sure your port forwards are both UDP and TCP. I don't believe you need a domain, but I think is somewhat integral to having a "true" crypto cert (which isn't really necessary for personal use). To the credit of the PiVPN devs, it really does just work (much to my surprise, since the last time I tried to set up a VPN, it broke TrueNAS's VM IP configurations horribly). -
Explaining to my coworkers that they are, in fact, just script execution engines with very advanced natural language processing capabilities and universal API access.
Which is to say, it's easier to tell you to do the repetitive task on the computer than it is for me to figure out how to tell the computer to do the repetitive task. And if that doesn't sum up the economy for the last forever, I don't know what does...- soldier_ph, Levent, Average Nerd and 3 others
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Burning out the amplifier.
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I've had extremely bad™ experiences with bridging amplified outputs together. I strongly recommend against this.
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Hey, uh UGreen, I think your article writer bot is a little off: https://www.ugreen.com/blogs/usb-cable/how-to-charge-laptop-with-hdmi-cable
- Lurick, soldier_ph, Average Nerd and 2 others
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I have a couple ancient OCZ drives that are 9mm. The switch to 7mm didn't happen until maybe 2013/2014.
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To XFX's credit, they took my RMA on the last possible day, so they get my business for the time being. Doesn't hurt that their design aesthetic is more pleasing to me than most/all other AIB brands (and have been since like the HD 6000 days).
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Now that Lent's over I have somewhere to complain about this again: STOP TYING GIVEAWAYS TO XITTER. I refuse to support that platform and its owner. Your (Nvidia and AMD too) contestants are not your private viral marketing army, so stop treating us as such with the enticement of free stuff. LTT needs to take them to task over these requirements/rules. Either they want to give out stuff to the community for free (no strings attached), or my participation in their "marketing schemes" must be materially compensated; none of this "chance" nonsense. Protip though: you can just put @LinusTech (or any other big name you think of) in the box and it happily accepts it. Sorry not sorry.
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Raid performance with HDDs
AbydosOne replied to Commander_Dork's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
VDEVs are a part of ZFS, for clarification. You could configure your OS to run periodic backups, but there isn't an inbuilt ZFS layout for that. In spirit, it's like RAIDZ1/2/3, which have 1/2/3 disks of redundancy and read performance similar to pure RAID-0 (roughly scaling with (N - n), where N is number of disks and n is RAIDZ level). For more info, read up on Parity disks. -
I wonder if this works with Plex...?
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Raid performance with HDDs
AbydosOne replied to Commander_Dork's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
Each individual drive gets 6Gbps; the total bandwidth would be limited by the controller's link to the CPU. ZFS can spread this bandwidth over multiple controllers. -
Raid performance with HDDs
AbydosOne replied to Commander_Dork's topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
You can saturate 2.5G with two HDDs in a mirror (assuming the mirror is smart enough to read as if it's a striped, i.e. read data blocks from each drive in an alternating fashion). 10G would take a little work, but could probably be done consistently with 10-12 (modern, fast, CMR) disks in a RAIDZ2 array (ZFS, which gets you at least a little redundancy). RAID-0. I don't understand the people who want their NASes to run at 1GBps for any task. NASes (outside of multi-user video editing workflows and a few other) are usually used as glorified external HDDs and content vaults. Most uses of NASes other than moving data around for the sake of moving data around don't need anywhere near 10G ethernet speeds. I have a pair of mirrored NVMe SSDs in my server for funsies (and 10G networking), but all the mass storage is done on HDDs, and I can still get >200MBps for most tasks. -
This one is one of my top 5, too
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*whittling, just FYI
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The number of uploading files exceed
AbydosOne replied to PSP.'s topic in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab
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Other Lenten tech issues I've dealt with:
My phone (Pixel 4a 128GB) started draining its battery >2x the normal rate, causing me to have to charge it before the end of the work day (usually I'd get home around 60%). I chased several leads including Adaptive Connectivity, my Fitbit, and bad cell service, before I (accidentally) discovered it was the USB-C magnetic charging adapter I have in it.
The weird thing is that those aforementioned tasks were listed as having had huge battery usages, but eventually it settled on the "Android System" task. Based on the phones eventual reaction to the adapter of "Unsupported analog audio device", I suspect something shorted-with-resistance internally to the adapter, and Android either was prevented from sleeping or otherwise was spending most of its time trying to figure out what to do.
Switched adapter, battery life back to normal. Happy camper.
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It's the motherboard, I'm pretty sure. The BIOS that's on the sticker says it should support the 5800X from my desktop, but it still doesn't POST. Ordered some USPS Flat Rate boxes so I should be able to ship it back to them next week.
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AsRock sent me the info for RMAing my board about two hours after I bought a ("Used-Like New") replacement. At this point, I still haven't confirmed it's not the CPU... so I might end up with 2 motherboards and 0 CPUs...
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I may have impulse bought another Fractal Node 804 last week because it was >40% off on Amazon. I suspect that the model will be discontinued soon, so I want a spare for... reasons? I dunno, I just think it's a nice NAS case.
- soldier_ph, Levent and da na
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