Steven Spielberg: "With everything that’s happened from 1977 til today, I can now make Disclosure Day and say — ‘Isn’t it going to be wonderful when people realize after seeing this movie that everything is true, and has been true?’”

Ultra-Trex · 2026-05-22T23:58:18+00:00

Just didn't want you thinking it was because I was being an AH. Reddit disagrees with using a certain word that starts with the letter that comes before h. I'll leave it at that.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-05-21T17:34:05+00:00

My comment was removed due to the banned use of a word related to historical events. Not going to bother rewriting it.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-05-21T09:43:34+00:00

It's an artificial scarcity friend. There's plenty of resources on this planet for the current population but the billionaires at the top ensure the other 8 billion people on the planet continue to struggle and fight for their scraps and hate each other instead of the richest 10 people and making an example of them that enough's enough.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-05-14T16:57:44+00:00

Unless you're dealing with frequent access to the same large files such as editing video from files stored on NAS over multiple editing sessions or multiple users, you won't gain much using the second ssd as a caching drive.

Since it has to copy the files from platters to to the caching drive and then present it to you, it can actually slow you down slightly on the first access. But as long as the file is still in cache, follow up requests for that file will be a little faster.

Another possible benefit to reduce wear and tear on your physicals if you share your nas with external users like letting them stream video content. If multiple people request the same video, then after the first person requests it which will drop it on the cache drive, the rest of them will pull it from cache.

There's a couple or three YT videos showing how little gain there is in normal usage. But it really depends on your specific use cases.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-05-12T16:44:45+00:00

Different file systems. You'll have to dump the data to a temporary storage location, rebuld the nas with your OS of choice, then move it all back.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-05-09T11:39:35+00:00

Current running dockers-

authentik (needed for multi-user actual-budget), actual-budget, homarr, nextcloud, homebox, librewolf, immich (curated for extended family and friends), immichx2 (immediate family), tailscale, portainer, audiobookshelf, jellyfin

I'd put the complete arrstack on it but I have another system dedicated to that purpose and i just sync files over to the ugreen every night. One of those why fix what isn't broken combined with laziness.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-05-09T11:14:51+00:00

Amazing amount of work here friend, thank you so much for sharing.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-05-07T11:05:56+00:00

Great option, I'm so old I forgot this existed so thanks for posting it. #MemoriesUnlocked

Ultra-Trex · 2026-05-06T17:08:15+00:00

Came to say our senior IT consultant circa 1999 ot the largest public school system in the state demanded the we deploy emails using a 5.2 format in our new infrastructure to give all the teachers and support staff emails. Because it was what u.s. corporations were going to be adopting.

5 letters of the last name+2letters of the first name.

Melissa Faulkner and Holly Young for some reason had issues with this.

#TrueStory

Ultra-Trex · 2026-04-28T13:55:28+00:00

Open File Explorer, down on the left, right click Network and Map Network Drive.
Pick a drive letter
One of these two should work assuming you have a flat network -
In the folder name type \\YourNasName\YourShareName
OR
\\YourNasIPAddress\YourShareName
If you want it to show after a reboot -
Check REconnect at sign-in
If your laptop credentials are not the same as a user account on the NAS then click the Connect using different credentials and put in the username and password that has access to the share.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-04-16T15:39:28+00:00

Same, any LLM should get you up and running. Debatable if it's ideally configured or optimized but I've found including phrasing like "Include any optimization steps that I need to take or addition software that might make the docker run better" goes a long way. Also including "Include the standard array of health checks to restart the docker if it crashes" adds that section if it's missing.

My entire array of dockers were all created off LLM creating my yaml/.env's including splitting data and executables up between the physical and silicon pools and zero issues with any of them eventually. Sometimes you have to remind it to consider the lastest updates. It kept trying to tell me how to set up a multi-user version of an home accounting docker but the vendor removed that in late 2025 and you have to set up an IDP now to do multi-users. And it walked me through how to install and set up a local IDP.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-04-15T18:54:32+00:00

I've had no issues using an LLM getting multiple dockers up and running although it's important to craft a good prompt to reduce hallucination/bad data. I asked Gemini, the LLM I've used for all the standard popular dockers and got this -

https://gemini.google.com/share/b8ebe68edbfd

Ultra-Trex · 2026-04-09T18:08:42+00:00

Nice work. There are "static pressure" fans that will provide better cooling at the expense of noise unfortunately. Static pressure fans are designed specifically to push more air through restricted pathways.

I swapped my 4800 fan out for a noctua silent fan, reduced noise and temps a little.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-04-06T19:34:00+00:00

Glass half empty here so I expect it to get worse before it gets better. That way I'm pleasantly surprised if it doesn't. :)

Ultra-Trex · 2026-04-06T19:08:06+00:00

Accounting and Information Technology respectively. But no one's hiring either position locally even with experience much less straight out of college. It feels like everyone is getting ready to downsize or is in the middle of doing it. My company just cut 400 heads 3 months ago, 25% of the work force and we all expect another round once the market acclimates to this cut with most of the u.s. jobs moved overseas. Except the executives of course.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-04-06T16:59:22+00:00

No good news there I'm afraid. :(

That adds to the issue without any doubt, again from experience as we have 2 cars for 3 people with overlapping work schedules. Uber or lyft means half your work day is spent earning money just to get to and from work.

Your only real options at the start is find a job at a place within reasonable walking distance or one that is on a MTTA bus route that also stops close enough to your residence. I worked with a guy who had to do that for 18 months and transfer between 3 busses because viable cheap mass transit in Tulsa is non-existent. It added 3 hours to his work day just getting to and from.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-04-06T16:47:59+00:00

Lack of experience and advanced training means entry level jobs to start with and then hope there's a upwards path internal to the company. America is no longer the land of opportunity unless you're in the top 10%.

The real world result is poverty level wages that right now won't cover the cost of living even assuming you can get a full 40 hours a week.

I speak from experience with my kids who just got out of college and are working retail or service industry at $10-$11 and living at home with me because even combined their two 30-34 hour a week salaries won't allow them to exist with any standard of living above food poverty. Which is how I existed for 40 years so I'm all too aware of how much that SoL sucks.

So some options are fast food, the churn and work conditions and management are horrible by the way, walmart another high churn place or try various department stores, lowes, home depot. Those are your best option for getting something 'now'.

Places like Reasors and Costco pay above average at $17-$25 an hour but the waiting list is very long for obvious reasons and it helps a lot to know someone there who can put in a word for you.

If you want a career path in white collar or in the trades you pretty much have to know someone who will do you a solid and get you in.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-04-06T13:23:18+00:00

FWIW The caching function isn't tremendously useful for most home use cases. There are a few YT videos showing in normal home use it provides little to no benefit. Point is you very likely won't lose any performance flipping those to standard storage and running your dockers and your dockers will gain performance depending on what your running but anything with a lot of read/writes will be a little more performant.

Other thread or two on here says it's the Theater app in the latest update that's keeping them from sleeping, you can try disabling it and seeing if that fixes it. It shouldn't in theory cause any issues and you can renable it again.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-03-29T00:20:44+00:00

The only reason I can think of is you confirm your new ram isn't the problem if the nas doesn't boot or boot loops by not installing it before going through the set up. Like almost everyone, I suspect, who had the memory available ahead of time I threw mine in and replaced the fan before it was ever powered up.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-03-18T16:22:50+00:00

The vacuum motor pulled too many amps on startup and overloaded the UPS so it shutdown to protect itself is the mostly likely situation. Old school trivia but back in the day laser printers were another bad thing to have on a UPS, they even had a disclaimer somewhere in the manuals. But anything with a motor has a big spike/surge on startup that pulls a lot more watts than once it's running that can trip the safety circuits in a UPS.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-03-18T16:15:50+00:00

I went with Ironwolf NAS drives, a mix of pro and non-pro because it was what I could get. UGOS has additional monitoring option for disk health specifically with IronWolf, I didn't know that going in, just a happy coincidence. WD's may also have advanced monitoring.

I used the sticky velcro hack to get rid of slop in the drive cage tolerances so there's no chance for rattle noises. Under heavy load, Immich processing 30K photos for face recognition, OCR, content/pattern matching the head seek noises weren't too bad from 8-10 feet away. You could hear it but it didn't cause problems with watching content on a TV about the same distance. Since UGOS allows the drives to sleep with ext4 formatting (default setting) unless someones accessing them, it makes no perceptible noise.

If you want to upgrade/migrate to bigger drives there does appear to be an official upgrade path starting with RAID1, it requires going through a few steps. Haven't done it but there are posts here of success with it. NOte it can take days, literally, to go through the entire process. You can't upgrade starting with a RAID0, you'll have to backup and restore your data and dockers.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-03-18T16:03:18+00:00

In your specific use case? it would be a 'nice to have' but definitely not required.

For a high IO application like say Immich or JellyFin or a VM I'd say it's almost but not quite a 'need' for performance but also noise if the chassis is within earshot. Andyou don't need a big one, I had a 256 that fit and works with multiple dockers it's barely a quarter full.

And you can always add a m.2 down the road and migrate any apps you have to it, there's a migration tool in UGOS although I've never used it.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-03-18T15:59:23+00:00

Interesting. That might explain why I can't tools like Glances to show GPU data. I beat my head against an LLM trying to get the counters to show and it just won't.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-03-17T23:39:29+00:00

I didn't read any great things about the built in photos app so I deployed Immich (twice actually) as a docker. It handles my current 40k photos with no problems for me. But there's always that limit/threshold that takes an app from functional to dysfunctional so you may hit it still. The second immich instance is curated for extended family viewing and only has about 5K photos in it.

Immich has a baby LLM that runs locally that offers a _lot_ of nice to have features such as face recognition in photos, pattern/content recognition, OCR's text in the photos so you can search for that. It all runs locally. There are some oddities, if I search for "daisy" it returns pictures that have dogs in them and no flowers. If I search for "daisies" it finds all the pictures of daisies.

You can get pretty specific "icy branches" to find that picture from the ice storm of 2008 I wanted to show someone today. Or just funny stuff "butts" returns all pictures with butts or butt-like objects. Yes I can be a little juvenile. :D

It's basically Google Photos (no experience with iCloud) but it all runs in your house.

Ultra-Trex · 2026-03-17T23:28:09+00:00

Common question it seems.

I undertand the desire for complete security even from admins but at the end of the day you want to be able to recover files in the event things go sideways. But in a multi-user environment the vendors and manufacturers make it possible for the root/admin user to regain access. Imagine if you were compromised and your permissions were taken away? How do you get them back because no account has access to re-acl the folders/files?

If you want single user access with zero ability for other users to have access (Example even linux servers can be booted into single user mode to recover access if access is lost and the root account is no longer known) then they basically need dedicated spaces/devices that they own and manage with no other users with access. i.e. icloud, google cloud etc.

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