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Better input is DEFINITELY a good way to ensure that YT's recompression causes the least possible harm. (although it will of course greatly affect you, no question) Relevant MKBHD video

Hey guys, so I took a little stroll through the Google Play Store and... Well what do you know... Here's an app promising root on any Android phone through the power of a second Android instance contained in a VM. ? Reviews are mixed, some mention the app is slow, some praise... At 1M installs I wonder how my YT binge career has never unearthed this before... And I'm afraid it's vapor ware at best or sketchy mal/spyware at worst. Anyone of you guys who tried it already? VMOS on the Google Play Store I wonder if that environment passes SafetyNet. ?

DO NOT USE RAID-0. Especially not for a simple setup like that. There is ZERO reason to use RAID-0 here. Just add it as second drive with the drive letter D or whatever is free and keep Windows and other stuff on C, moving some easy to move programs to D and add anything new to D as well. RAID-0 is great for making YouTube videos showcasing ridiculous speeds and stuff like that. For productivity... It's just asking for trouble. And yes, there are SOME use cases for it that are legit, but they are far away from what OP wants. Edit: But since we're here to learn more than might be necessary. IF you were to setup RAID-0, you'd need a motherboard supporting RAID configuration or a RAID card. (that'd plug into the PCIe slot.) And I would strongly advise against using crap cards, there are real quality differences and if your RAID card dies you want to be able to easily obtain a fitting replacement to be able to get your array back online. So the cheap Chinese offers you see on eBay might NOT be the best buy. But again, don't use RAID-0. I just added that to entertain the hypothetical thought. The major problem with RAID in general is that the controller might recognize a drive as bad when in reality it just took a little too long to respond. This isn't such an uncommon problem and whilst with normal RAID configurations (RAID 0 strictly speaking isn't even a RAID, because there is no redundancy) you might be looking at wasting an otherwise good drive and replacing it with a brand new one and keeping your array and all its data intact (BIG ASTERISK), with RAID 0 you'd be losing all your data without major headaches and troubleshooting. You don't want to deal with that and frankly speaking not even very very tech savvy people want to deal with it. RAID 0 would typically be found in use cases where the two drives combine their speed to become a very snappy cache. Now of course you'll be backing up all your important data so even a RAID 0 turning belly up wouldn't get the best of you, at least I hope you keep backups, but still... You don't need everything staying one drive [letter] (logical volume), so why introduce another point of failure and adding more maintenance once you need to replace drives? No need. Two volumes, keep it simple buddy.

Making up excuses based on GPDR. As if they really can't tell us how their backup application communicates with a locally deployed server. (btw, it's nothing I'm wondering about, I know it's SMB because I set it up and it sees it) Or also the bit how they will not support the storage target because they aren't the maker of the target device. Like.... Chances are way on Huawei's side their software is buggy, because this issue exists across many different devices and it will create the initial folders fine, but it will not start the transfer claiming full space. Classic clueless tech support cop-out. "Call the other guys"

I myself went with the Surface Pro 6, the better equipped 256GB model can be seen in quite a few discount promos, the 128GB i5 model is more commonly discounted. 128GB means slower storage, if that isn't a concern, at least go for the i5 instead of the m3 CPU. I think in terms of bang for buck you're not that far off from a device that will do anything you want in this form factor than can be done comfortably and reasonably. I have an iPad myself and I was initially even considering going iPad again, but despite the wealth of apps available at the end of the day the Surface can be laptop and tablet and for the tablety things a Surface is MORE than enough, I don't need a selection of 20 different f2p games that all copy each other. Okay that's a snide remark, the iPad IS all about an incomparable tablet app ecosystem, that's undoubtedly the one thing Apple has no doubt going for them. Apple knows, you know it, Microsoft does, Google does... The question is: if the tablet tasks you need are just reading and OneNote, does an iPad really make sense? Say you're also in the market for a laptop upgrade like I have been. Surface is a no-brainer if all you ever touch on your iPad is YouTube, Prime Video, note-taking app, browser and the like. Also... the Surface Pen is an absolute godsend and back- and forward-compatible. As is the keyboard. With the iPad you'll be spending money again when Apple says the body length needs to shrink by 4mm. Go figure. That being said I think all individual factors have to be filled in by you, the only two main pointers I can really give you: iPads are gonna iPad. That they do really well, but they don't really scrape their hardware's capabilities realistically. Windows tablets are gonna Windows. They will behave like Windows and if you don't like that, well.... Not good, however: both of these will get updates and security patches for a long time. Don't bank on super old devices and if you wanna make the purchase last a long while you won't even be looking at the Tab S4 anymore, since it too is due for a refresh soon, the S5e is an obvious hint at a new gen of the flagship tablet launching soon. In the end your options end up being on the pricier side, but only you can make a call on that. iPads are less pricey indeed, but the new Air gets maximum processing specs with an OS that doesn't really need it and they skimped on areas where you would FEEL the difference a lot more as reader and note-taker like less bezel or a better version of OneNote.

Hey guys, so at the moment I'm in the process of setting everything up with my unRAID server and I remembered that Huawei has a nice function in their backup utility: storing your backups to a network share! Bit grumpy I can't select a subfolder, Huawei Backup just wants my share's name and manage everything itself... Booo! But okay... Well and despite it seeing how much free space the share has it errors right away. Well known bug apparently... But do read it all, the punchline is amazing.