Dravinian

That is not really the only issue though. What if something breaks - worse, what if you break something putting it together? Don't act like that is impossible, Jayztwocentz put up a video today, admittedly he was just repairing his daughter's laptop, but he broke the case...How many times has Linus dropped stuff? Didn't Linus drop a $10,000 CPU once? I have said before, buying a machine built by a company off the shelf? Worst idea in the world, you might as well go into your garden and just burn your money. Having a company build a machine you configured? The more you spend, the more this makes sense. Building yourself? Sure, if it is low value, not important if something breaks.

The thing to look out for is the 'crap' they try and sell you, don't be tempted, just stick the parts you have been told are good (not necessarily these ones, go ask about it in the Building and Planning part of teh forum you will get more feedback. READ THE STICKY POST!!! Operating System: None - FORMAT HARD DRIVE ONLY Gaming Chassis: CyberPowerPC ONYXIA Mid-Tower Gaming Case w/ USB 3.0, Front & Side Tempered Glass (Black Color) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6GHz [4.2GHz Turbo] 6 Cores/ 12 Threads 35MB Cache 65W Processor CPU / Processor Cooling Fan: AMD Ryzen Premium Wraith CPU Cooler for Socket AM4 Motherboard: ASUS TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (Wi-Fi) ATX w/ RGB, Realtek LAN, 2 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x1, 8 SATA3, 2 M.2 SATA/PCIe RAM / System Memory: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR4/3200MHz Dual Channel Memory (Corsair Vengeance LPX) Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER™ BLACK GAMING 8G GDDR6 (Turing) [VR Ready] (Single Card) Power Supply: 600 Watts - EVGA 600Watts 80 Plus Gold high-efficient Power Supply Primary Hard Drive: 480GB WD Green SATA-III 6.0Gb/s SSD (Single Drive) Secondary Hard Drive: 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 256MB Cache 7200RPM HDD (Single Drive) Is the build in detail.

If you don't want to build this, you can just go to a builder website and configure it with these parts. You will pay about $200 - $300 more for the PC For example, I went to Cyber PC and this exact build was $1,387 (different case - but meh) That was with exactly the same components, except the RAM, you can pick 3200mhz, but you can't say it will be CAS 16. You won't notice the difference between CL18 and CL16 so I wouldn't worry about that. However, I would shop around.

I think PSUs definitely have protections, but I would have thought they were one connected to the ground plug, and two kicked when there was an 'excessive' load, bit like those switches in your electrical cupboard that blow...oh yeah, they are called fuses lol my brain was about a minute behind my hands there sorry.

Wouldn't that cause a serious shock? Not an electrician btw so geniune question. My first question would be, what type of shock are you receiving? Are we talking static shock here or something that throws you to the floor where you writhe in agony before dragging yourself back up to come post on the forum? Where are we in this range? Also, what type of flooring/carpet/rygs do you have? What type of PSU do you have? What case do you have? Do you get shocks of anything in your house? Then try walking around for a bit and touching a radiator (assuming you have one) and see if you get a shock, if not, try doing the same and touching a tap they are usually grounded (at least in the UK).

Thank you, not sure any amount of tinkering would have found that. Does appear to give a number of numerical values as an ID, hopefully one will allow me to identify the disk I have 'replaced'

I am doing a replication task at the moment and finding it a bit difficult to move around within FreeNAS and do anything - so unable to just tinker til I find something which is the usual way I find things out. If no-one knows (or no-one who sees this post and can be bothered to reply knows the answer) I will have a tinker this evening when the replication process is complete and if I find an answer will post it for anyone doing this in the future.

So you have some context. I have a pool of three identical small drives (2tb), I am going to expand my storage by removing one drive at a time and replacing that drive with a 14tb drive. The pool will resilver itself, and then I will replace the next drive. When all three are replaced it will resilver itself and then go poof into a 28tb pool, instead of a 4tb pool (give or take a few) - at least according to the world wide web and the manual - to a certain extent. My issue is this, looking at the manual, it has a process for removing a 'failed' drive, which is to right click on it and do 'replace' and then physically replace that drive. My drives are are all named within FreeNAS: "ada1, ada3, ada5". So if I click on ada1 and choose replace...how do I know which one of the drives that is in my machine? They are all identical, same brand, size etc. Is there a way to identify the drive somehow? To gather a bit more info, like the serial number of the drive so that I can know which one it is in FreeNAS and know which one I clicked 'replace' on and therefore replace that drive, rather than the wrong one?

Sorry didn't quote you when I thanked you, because i am a dumbass sometimes.

Ahh thank you kind sir.

My concern with that is that when you create a pool you format your drives. So, I was thinking, if I left the pool intact, but took out the drives (no doubt causing an error or two in the software) then I could replace them later and the machine would go, oh I can see the drives again. You seem to be saying, I can simply put them in another machine capable of reading ZFS, so a different FreeNAS entirely. I am just wondering, how am I going to get the FreeNAS to recognise that there are drives without putting them in a pool, and thus formatting them?

I admit, I am not going to read through 99 pages, so apologies if this has been suggested before: My suggestion is: A Peltier Radiator Is it cost efficient? No Is it better than a radiator? Probably not. You did a video before, where you tried to mount a Peltier tile to a CPU. I don't think that was the best way to do it! Not when you can have a Peltier Radiator! Not that hard to do, I think, you have 3 Peltier tiles mounted together, with a long (you can make your own now) "water block" mounted to each Peltier one after another. Since this is not a "cpu" block where flow is so important, you could design your water block to be a bit meandering in the plate, so it is gaining the cooling from the Peltier for a little longer. Essentially your loop would go like this: Res/Pump > Peltier 1 > Peltier 2 > Peltier 3 > CPU > Res/Pump You could also make it semi-edumactional by trying it with 1 Peltier first, measuring the water temp into the Peltier, out of the Peltier, trying different designs of the Peltier flowplate, before moving on to building the "Peltier Radiator". I think this would be getting back to some of the videos I loved the most pre-human malware, where you guys were building really interesting things and making slightly longer videos testing out the crazy ideas you were having. I miss those videos, I understand why you are not making them, but thinking, well this really could be done with social distancing intact, just one person working the machine, collaborative thinking over skype etc. Could be doable?

If I pull drives out of my FreeNAS that have data on them, will the data be retained, will I be able to gather the data off of them at any time in the future? Would it require me to remove all drives and then place them back, should I need the data again in the future, to the same FreeNAS with the same pool set up? Or could I plug them into any FreeNAS at any time and retrieve the data? Is that even possible? Or is the data on these drives just a write off if I want to remove them from FreeNAS? It is not hte end of the world, I have copied the data anyway, I just wondered whether I would be able to keep these as a backup, of the backup I have on FreeNAS.

The point was that people create content and don't get paid, which negates your point that people who create content are somehow deserving of payment for it. If they are deserving, then they are all deserving, what does it matter the amount of views? Wouldn't a better metric be time you spent working on the video? Why should some young idiot or some thot earn thousands for sitting at a desk 'reacting' to crap, and spending no time creating anything, whilst other creators who spend hours researching, drafting scripts, setting up B-Roll and presenting well documented content get nothing? That is a crap model. I won't support it through adverts. I would rather subscribe and allow that content creator to demonstrate to sponsors that they have a viewership. I don't mind baked in adverts.

This is the main reason I set up Pi-Hole to be honest. The TV was becoming quite irritating. It isn't perfect and you have to keep the lists up to date, but when you do, and 60% or so of the traffic is blocked, it is a better experience. Also works on more than just Youtube.

In exactly the same way as the people that upload videos with few views don't get paid? You mean like that?

Yeah, but you haven't really beat it yourself, you watched someone else learn how to beat it then copied them. I would rather fail to be honest; which I am clearly doing exceptionally well. I did look for it in the sale, but it wasn't there. I bought the first one, in hard copy, way back in the day, could have been last light. I think I will grab it though it was only £35, I am sure it was more the last time I looked.

Can I say, I am still rubbish at this, and my understanding is extremely limited. However, getting that VPN running and getting Pi-Hole up and running actually took me in total about 10 hours of tinkering around with code. This time....only took an hour...I am getting faster!

Ok, I followed this process and it now works: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS does not ship with /etc/rc.local so rather than creating it manually yourself I ran this code: printf '%s\n' '#!/bin/bash' 'exit 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/rc.local Then, I created the service as I did in the previous posts: sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service Then I gave the execute permission to /etc/rc.local (something I believe I had been missing) sudo chmod +x /etc/rc.local I was then able to 'enable' and then 'start' rc-local.service. I did sudo systemctl status rc-local.service Got a positive result and rebooted the virtual machine. And bang! VPN start automagically.

I did create my own .service in /etc/systemd/system/ as I wanted to try and keep things as simple as possible to see if it would work: startvpn.service [Unit] After=network.service [Service] ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/restart.sh [Install] WantedBy=default.target Within /user/local/bin/ I put the following restart script that I run on start up each time: #!/bin/sh sudo bash /etc/openvpn/iptables.sh & sleep 10 sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" sudo bash /etc/openvpn/connect.sh & exit 0 Which is ripped entirely from rc.local - as you can see. The problem is, since the service is inactive on start up...it doesn't run. I clearly need some code to run something on start-up, on a virtual machine, which appears to be a bit different?

I always feel like that is the same as downloading a cheat code. Can't get pleasure beating a game if you didn't actually beat it. Not that I know how that feels at the moment anyway....

I keep meaning to grab it, but trying to grab it on a deal, as I didn't really want to pay the asking price because I am a cheap bastard.

Hi all, I have an OpenVPN running on a virtual machine with a kill switch enabled. It would be great if on reboot the virtual machine, which starts automatically, would just start OpenVPN and not need me to shell in and run the 'restart.sh' script that I wrote for it - I don't have any internet til I do this and it is a pain. Now I used a guide to get me through the process of getting the virtual machine up and while there were some issues, I got everything to work...except the last bit of code which has the OpenVPN run automagically. The code was written for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and I am running 20.04 LTS - the guide writer spoke about changes to RC-Local being made between 16.05 and 18.04 and I am wondering whether further changes were made. [apologies missed a part of the guide - not from the process but from this post] Create an rc.local service /etc/systemd/system/rc-local.service [Unit] Description=/etc/rc.local Compatibility ConditionPathExists=/etc/rc.local [Service] Type=forking ExecStart=/etc/rc.local start TimeoutSec=0 StandardOutput=tty RemainAfterExit=yes SysVStartPriority=99 [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Create rc.local script, /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh -e sudo bash /etc/openvpn/iptables.sh & sleep 10 sudo sh -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" sudo bash /etc/openvpn/connect.sh & exit 0 Enable/Start rc.local service sudo systemctl enable rc-local sudo systemctl start rc-local.service enable works fine. start throws up this error: Job for rc-local.service failed because the control process exited with error code see systemctl status rc-local.service I look at systemctl status rc-local.service and I get: I am running as root, with the root password and I shouldn't be denied permission and I am using sudo, so I am a bit lost on what is happening, and I am wondering whether rc.local has changed in 20.04 and if I want to run this thing I need a different piece of code. So if anyone happens to have that code and wouldn't mind throwing it my way I would appreciate it.

I am pretty sure I have them on low, that is terrible isn't it... I think the decade or two I took as a break from gaming anything outside of MMOs probably didn't help either.

You appear to have picked the best part from every list available, what do you want us to do? Applaud There you go.