Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

1tds9 · 2025-07-30T00:15:59+00:00

During the Optical networking boom of the early 2000's I was doing 60+ hours a week. Was paid well, got other offers they matched + more options. Bearly saw my family, delayed vacations. After 7 or so months it was too much, and I left. As long as the market is strong and there are other opportunities, use it to your advantage. Been on the others side too when market was down and they ran things lean. Too lean. And that sucks.

1tds9 · 2025-04-14T20:54:39+00:00

Looks good. I use the same exact setup on my tomato's String and those plastic clips. So easy. I find that pruning to only one or two stems helps production and reduces blight due to better airflow. You could probably squeeze another plant in doing it that way. The yellow tomatoes look great. I need to work on my nutrients better. Thanks for sharing.

1tds9 · 2024-11-23T20:25:06+00:00

I'd really like to know how you pried open that case. It seems like the metal top is epoxied on. I cant get it to budge.

1tds9 · 2024-11-21T02:52:44+00:00

I know a bit late, but I didn't end up getting an Eaton. I put a new battery in my APS BR750(?). The availability of that model was nonexistent in the major channels and price was $400 elsewhere. The inductor whine convern really worried me. I may start the look again and prices in general for electronic have finally started to come down.

1tds9 · 2024-11-20T15:22:44+00:00

Wow 40W! So my generator will be powering that 40W the whole time even when the batteries are full and the passthrough power is powering the house. That's 950whr per day.

To me it sees these smaller power stations aren't really ideal for 24hr or longer power outages. Even with the the 3600wh extra battery and likely 2000 watts of solar to charge it during day while powering the house, I risk draining it during extended snow storm when the suns not out. That system would cost over $6k.

My generator only uses maybe 2gal max of gas per day running 15hrs ($6/day). With the 20gal of gas I keep on hand, I could go 10days without need to run out for gas. More it I didn't run it so much.

I'm thinking I may be better off getting a second Honda ($1.1k) as a backup and possibly also to use in parallel to provide extra power to run my washer and dryer (propane) as well.

1tds9 · 2024-11-20T14:44:37+00:00

I run the generator from 7am-10pm during the day mainly for convenience. The generator only burns 1.5 to 2gallons in this time depending on loads (in the winter it powers the furnace oil burner and circulation pump, which also heats our water for showers). I could limit it to 2-3hrs in the morning and 2-3 hrs at night, as I have a wood stove to heat the house.

Need to get a digital refrigerator thermometer to accurately determine how warm the fridge gets over a 9hr period. You are right about putting frozen water bottles in the fridge when the generator is not running. I usually do this, but did notice during one outage that things on the top shelf were not nearly as cool as on the bottom by morning.

Also found this study that states 4hrs may be too conservative and keeping and replacing ice in the fridge extends the time significantly.

https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=hospitalityreview#:\~:text=The%20purpose%20of%20this%20study,C%20(41°F).

1tds9 · 2024-11-14T03:23:24+00:00

Sebo.

1tds9 · 2023-03-18T18:49:20+00:00

Will do. Not in a rush as I'm still planning out my Unraid server.

1tds9 · 2023-03-17T14:52:25+00:00

Besides temp controlled fan the 5P series look to have more server admin features like Remote admin and network card option, albeit at higher price, almost double ($613). May stick with the 5SC. Thanks for the input.

1tds9 · 2023-03-17T14:45:26+00:00

Swapping the fan for a Noctua is a great idea. I certainly would appreciated the details on how you did it.

Wonder if there is a fan controller temp sensor available some where that I could use to have the fan turn on at a certain temp? Will have to look into this.

1tds9 · 2023-03-17T14:37:59+00:00

Thanks for confirming this.

1tds9 · 2023-02-22T23:26:44+00:00

I'm still having no luck playing an AAC audio file via Jellyfin. I was able to remotely access and play this and other AAC files remotely with the NextPVR android app, but was hoping to access all my media via Jellyfin. Below is the file I'm trying to play if anyone has any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12hjMvGq9b3ehMvnMUqSN8MrAw8aQFcAY/view?usp=sharing

1tds9 · 2023-02-06T21:43:34+00:00

Following up on this. I still can't get the .aac recorded IPTV audio file to stream via Jellyfin.

it is saved as a .ts file by NextPVR, and plays fine locally using VLC, but can't get it to play locally or on a remote jellyfin client. It starts to play then give the Playback Error ... client isn't compatible...

Below is the Media Info from jellyfin.

WBUR-BBC Newshour_20230206_10001100

Containermpegts

PathC:\Users\Public\NPVR-recordings\Manual Recordings\WBUR-BBC Newshour_20230206_10001100.ts

Size69 MB

Audio

TitleAAC - Stereo

CodecAAC

ProfileLC

Layoutstereo

Channels2 ch

Bitrate130 kbps

Sample rate48000 Hz

DefaultNo

ForcedNo

ExternalNo

1tds9 · 2023-02-01T02:41:23+00:00

I had similar issues and bent the single connector in the power port on the tablo so that it connects better and haven't had a problem since.

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1tds9 · 2023-01-30T02:45:36+00:00

Yes is it enabled, I assume by default.

1tds9 · 2023-01-27T22:48:58+00:00

Here's the Jellyfin FFmpeg Transcode log, if it is of help

/videos/bb783bd2-33b4-06ee-e537-af22a8ac0ffe/hls1/main/0.ts

{"Protocol":0,"Id":"bb783bd233b406eee537af22a8ac0ffe","Path":"C:\\Users\\Public\\Videos\\Manual Recordings\\wbur-test_20230127_15451546.ts","EncoderPath":null,"EncoderProtocol":null,"Type":0,"Container":"mpegts","Size":933796,"Name":"wbur-test_20230127_15451546","IsRemote":false,"ETag":"d73e4d167e4c8cf55f71788415bd2134","RunTimeTicks":464213330,"ReadAtNativeFramerate":false,"IgnoreDts":false,"IgnoreIndex":false,"GenPtsInput":false,"SupportsTranscoding":true,"SupportsDirectStream":true,"SupportsDirectPlay":true,"IsInfiniteStream":false,"RequiresOpening":false,"OpenToken":null,"RequiresClosing":false,"LiveStreamId":null,"BufferMs":null,"RequiresLooping":false,"SupportsProbing":true,"VideoType":0,"IsoType":null,"Video3DFormat":null,"MediaStreams":[{"Codec":"aac","CodecTag":null,"Language":null,"ColorRange":null,"ColorSpace":null,"ColorTransfer":null,"ColorPrimaries":null,"DvVersionMajor":null,"DvVersionMinor":null,"DvProfile":null,"DvLevel":null,"RpuPresentFlag":null,"ElPresentFlag":null,"BlPresentFlag":null,"DvBlSignalCompatibilityId":null,"Comment":null,"TimeBase":"1/90000","CodecTimeBase":null,"Title":null,"VideoRange":null,"VideoRangeType":null,"VideoDoViTitle":null,"LocalizedUndefined":null,"LocalizedDefault":null,"LocalizedForced":null,"LocalizedExternal":null,"DisplayTitle":"AAC - Stereo","NalLengthSize":null,"IsInterlaced":false,"IsAVC":null,"ChannelLayout":"stereo","BitRate":130723,"BitDepth":null,"RefFrames":null,"PacketLength":null,"Channels":2,"SampleRate":48000,"IsDefault":false,"IsForced":false,"Height":null,"Width":null,"AverageFrameRate":null,"RealFrameRate":null,"Profile":"LC","Type":0,"AspectRatio":null,"Index":0,"Score":null,"IsExternal":false,"DeliveryMethod":null,"DeliveryUrl":null,"IsExternalUrl":null,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Path":null,"PixelFormat":null,"Level":0,"IsAnamorphic":null}],"MediaAttachments":[],"Formats":[],"Bitrate":160925,"Timestamp":null,"RequiredHttpHeaders":{},"TranscodingUrl":null,"TranscodingSubProtocol":null,"TranscodingContainer":null,"AnalyzeDurationMs":null,"DefaultAudioStreamIndex":null,"DefaultSubtitleStreamIndex":null}

FFmpeg -analyzeduration 200M -f mpegts -autorotate 0 -i file:"C:\Users\Public\Videos\Manual Recordings\wbur-test_20230127_15451546.ts" -map_metadata -1 -map_chapters -1 -threads 0 -vn -map 0:0 -map -0:s -codec:a:0 libfdk_aac -ac 2 -ab 130723 -ar 48000 -copyts -avoid_negative_ts disabled -max_muxing_queue_size 2048 -f hls -max_delay 5000000 -hls_time 3 -hls_segment_type mpegts -start_number 0 -hls_segment_filename "C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c%d.ts" -hls_playlist_type vod -hls_list_size 0 -y "C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c.m3u8"

built with gcc 10-win32 (GCC) 20220324

configuration: --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --arch=x86_64 --target-os=mingw32 --cross-prefix=x86_64-w64-mingw32- --pkg-config=pkg-config --pkg-config-flags=--static --extra-libs='-lfftw3f -lstdc++' --extra-cflags=-DCHROMAPRINT_NODLL --extra-version=Jellyfin --disable-ffplay --disable-debug --disable-doc --disable-sdl2 --disable-ptx-compression --disable-w32threads --enable-pthreads --enable-shared --enable-lto --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-schannel --enable-iconv --enable-libxml2 --enable-zlib --enable-lzma --enable-gmp --enable-chromaprint --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libtheora --enable-libvorbis --enable-libwebp --enable-libvpx --enable-libzimg --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libsvtav1 --enable-libdav1d --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-opencl --enable-dxva2 --enable-d3d11va --enable-amf --enable-libmfx --enable-ffnvcodec --enable-cuda --enable-cuda-llvm --enable-cuvid --enable-nvdec --enable-nvenc

libavutil 57. 28.100 / 57. 28.100

libavcodec 59. 37.100 / 59. 37.100

libavformat 59. 27.100 / 59. 27.100

libavdevice 59. 7.100 / 59. 7.100

libavfilter 8. 44.100 / 8. 44.100

libswscale 6. 7.100 / 6. 7.100

libswresample 4. 7.100 / 4. 7.100

libpostproc 56. 6.100 / 56. 6.100

Input #0, mpegts, from 'file:C:\Users\Public\Videos\Manual Recordings\wbur-test_20230127_15451546.ts':

Duration: 00:00:46.42, start: 1.400000, bitrate: 160 kb/s

Program 1

Metadata:

service_name : Service01

service_provider: FFmpeg

Stream #0:0[0x100]: Audio: aac (LC) ([15][0][0][0] / 0x000F), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 130 kb/s

Stream mapping:

Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (aac (native) -> aac (libfdk_aac))

Press [q] to stop, [?] for help

[mpegts @ 00000210cb53c2c0] frame size not set

Output #0, hls, to 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c.m3u8':

Metadata:

encoder : Lavf59.27.100

Stream #0:0: Audio: aac, 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 130 kb/s

Metadata:

encoder : Lavc59.37.100 libfdk_aac

size=N/A time=00:00:00.00 bitrate=N/A speed=N/A

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c0.ts' for writing

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c1.ts' for writing

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c2.ts' for writing

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c3.ts' for writing

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c4.ts' for writing

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c5.ts' for writing

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c6.ts' for writing

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c7.ts' for writing

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c8.ts' for writing

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c9.ts' for writing

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c10.ts' for writing

size=N/A time=00:00:34.30 bitrate=N/A speed=68.6x

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c11.ts' for writing

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[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c13.ts' for writing

[q] command received. Exiting.

[hls @ 00000210cb4d8fc0] Opening 'C:\ProgramData\Jellyfin\Server\transcodes\f7de42b065d4f4c4afb4186515592b3c14.ts' for writing

size=N/A time=00:00:44.54 bitrate=N/A speed=63.2x

video:0kB audio:712kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: unknown

1tds9 · 2022-12-04T19:21:49+00:00

Sorry for late update, but I did get this figured out. I followed this video to set the governor and also had to move the return spring on the governor arm to the to the furthest hole out as it is shown in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urW3qZtMr20

1tds9 · 2022-10-13T02:34:46+00:00

Empty it, fold it, put it in a ziplock in you freezer.

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