Conor Keating

So I finally managed to get my 2 new Seagate 8TB drives configured as a RAID 1 array and got it formatted while on my Win10 setup. However, despite loading the rcraid-dkms module, Arch doesn’t seem to be appropriately recognizing the array. Any ideas on what might be going wrong/misconfigured? (Yes, yes, I know mdadm > on-board, but it needs to be accessible to both OSes in my dual-boot config, and VMs aren’t an option as I’d need a second GPU for PCIe passthrough)

I seem to remember @LinusTechcomplaining about this fairly recently in a video (WAN show or another stream possibly?). Any comments from LMG staff on the subject? I imagine you guys with your 10M subs would have a bit more weight behind your recommendation to Microsoft to fix their shit compared with a nobody like me.

Well GPOs and the registry are a bit different, but fair enough.

Also, @dual290x saw that your profile said that you run Win10 Pro too. Is the "Disable Web Search" GPO bugged for you? 'cause I still get web results in the start menu despite enabling the damn things. I made a thread about it but it's just been gathering dust since I posted in September.

I don't plan on swapping drives in and out all that often, but it's nice to have the ability to do so, and I do wanna keep one of them free in case I need to help someone out getting files off a disk they didn't back up despite my telling them to or some such scenario.

Like 80-90C (The way its configured right now the 2 SSDs are in 1x3.5"->2x2.5" adapter, with the 2TB Black RE below them) Edit: also looking at HWinfo in Windows I'm not seeing that issue, might just be something screwy with psensor in Arch. Right now I'm in Windows to run the Clock Tuner util as soon as the CPU Work Unit for F@H finishes up.

I most definitely will now that I've seen them Well I meant more from a convenience standpoint: re the drive sleds, but the cat fur & carpet & dust etc was another part of the reason to get it off the floor.

Between living with 2 cats & having carpet on the floor, & the fact that I want to use the front drive sleds it's got, I've got it up on my desk rather than squirreled away like Linus has with his home rig in the server closet lol. The Arctic ones are a good suggestion. Really I just want something blacked out that's not too noisy. As far as the 80mm fans go, one of my SSDs that's in there currently is supposedly roasting according to its sensor (though that's probably partly due to the rat's nest of cables from the non-modular Antec TP-750 Blue in there), so I didn't want to leave anything to chance on the RAID 1'd 8TB drives.

Yup! All the stuff that's been "purchased" was either a holdover from the FX-8350 system or from my upgrade back in May.

Budget (including currency): ~$1500 Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: General purpose workstation Other details: Semi-recent upgrade (~6mo) to 3700X from FX-8350 in a kinda crap Corsair case with no front bays. There's a few things that aren't on here, mostly from Monoprice (a Mechanical KB, pseudo-KVM-USB, wired headphones, and a pair of desktop speakers to replace these 10+ year old Dell ones, SATA cables etc), but also a Blue Yeti Mic off Amazon. PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor Purchased For $0.00 CPU Cooler Noctua NH-D15 CHROMAX.BLACK 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler $99.95 Motherboard MSI X570-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard Purchased For $0.00 Memory G.Skill Ripjaws V 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory Purchased For $0.00 Storage Inland Professional 120 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Purchased For $0.00 Storage Kingston A400 240 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Purchased For $0.00 Storage Corsair MP600 Force Series Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Purchased For $0.00 Storage Inland 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive $194.99 Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 8 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive $154.99 @ Amazon Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 8 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive $154.99 @ Amazon Storage Western Digital RE 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Purchased For $0.00 Video Card Gigabyte Radeon RX 470 4 GB GAMING Video Card Purchased For $0.00 Case Cooler Master HAF XB EVO ATX Desktop Case Purchased For $0.00 Power Supply SeaSonic FOCUS 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply $139.99 Optical Drive LG WH16NS40 Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer $57.99 @ Amazon Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM 64-bit Purchased For $0.00 Case Fan Noctua F12 PWM chromax.black.swap 54.97 CFM 120 mm Fan $22.90 @ Amazon Case Fan Noctua A14 PWM chromax.black.swap 82.52 CFM 140 mm Fan $24.90 @ Amazon Case Fan Noctua A14 PWM chromax.black.swap 82.52 CFM 140 mm Fan $24.90 @ Amazon Case Fan Noctua A8 PWM chromax.black.swap 32.67 CFM 80 mm Fan $19.89 @ Amazon Case Fan Noctua A8 PWM chromax.black.swap 32.67 CFM 80 mm Fan $19.89 @ Amazon Monitor Monoprice Zero-G 27.0" 2560x1440 144 Hz Monitor $189.99 Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $1105.37 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-10 17:57 EST-0500

I inadvertently burned myself buying my last case (Corsair something) not even thinking to check that there were indeed front 5.25" bays available to use.

Yeah, I only saw that this was up about when I commented, I only just got to the bit where he got around to mentioning the part about the giveaway.

If I had to guess? Shipping.

Kinda cool to see the case I use featured for a change, I'm used to seeing the fancier RGB cases with tempered glass and whatnot featured.

Yeah, it was just a random thought that I'd had, I figured if it hadn't been done already there were probably reasons it hadn't been. Out of curiosity, how do ya have so many machines working on it, a homelab set-up I'm guessing? My "lab" consists of my "workstation" and a Pi4.

Oh yeah, I didn't mean like an actual fomally normalized number, I mean like when people sign up for the folding month maybe say have another field for "how many machines do you plan on contributing with" or something and then just using that to average out the number of points per "client" (not necessarily breaking it out into X for GPU1, Y for CPU1, Z for GPU2, etc). I mean even for me the number of clients listed on the F@H page would be somewhat misleading as I've only got my workstation folding, but because it's a dual-boot machine it counts the Windows and Arch clients separately.

I think it'd be kinda nice to see a normalized "points per machine/client" number so those of us with outdated hardware can see just how much ground we could potentially make up next time with better hardware. I may have a 3700X in here, but the RX470 is definitely keeping me down in the 200's lol

So last night after reading the Arch Wiki article on getting UE4 up and running I decided to make an account with Epic and link my Github to it. I never received an email invite to view the repo, so the URL 404s for me. I tried the "contact us" link on the Epic/Unreal page (they both led me back to the same place) and was basically told it was the wrong place to ask and fobbed off with this: Followed by this after asking if there was an email I could direct my question to:

Man I knew I wasn't gonna be in the lead but man I was hoping for being more than barely being above the 99th percentile point-wise lol

I actually wouldn't mind having to rent my modem if it meant that Comcrap owned up to taking responsibility/ownership of the screwy firmware on it. (also, actually renting just the modem, not modem+router+AP AIO) I meant I hadn't bothered to look 'cause of the privacy and other concerns mentioned at the beginning of the video.

Ah well, that's about what I figured.

The way I see it it's less than a $10/mo subscription would be for 2 years, and it's your own hardware for the foreseeable future (Edit: I should mention I've never considered using Ring so I have no idea what their rates are)

While there's a dedicated thread for open source equivalents of proprietary programs there's no real FOSS hub for the LTT community as far as I can tell, would be nice to see a subforum section wherever you think would fit best, whether programs and software/maybe a dedicated Linux section in the OS section, I dunno. (or with how Linus was complaining about Discord last night on WAN show, perhaps an LTT Matrix server is in order )

Some things I'd love to see: Vivaldi (the browser) on LTT or Short Circuit Matrix/Element as an open source (& optionally self hosted) alternative to Discord & IRC I'd even enjoy seeing a FOSS series or spin off channel/podcast 1usmus's Ryzen Clock Tuner 1.0 release video

OK, so I'm trying to set up my Google Domains records so that *.ddns.mydomain is privately resolvable inside my network and publicly to the A record associated with the bare ddns.mydomain FQDN set up with Google Domain's DDNS synthetic records. In theory, all I should need to do is create an appropriately formated CNAME record for the * subdomain right? 'cause I've done that and I can't get it to resolve from querying the Google Domains nameservers. Fixed: had to have the CNAME for *.ddns to point to ddns.mydomain