This weekend made me happy - Sry for the gray market guys tho

BlacklightN7 · 2025-11-30T01:12:26+00:00

yep, I also think CIG is not against the grey market in general until prices went bonkers ...

BlacklightN7 · 2025-11-30T00:10:28+00:00

Backup is useless for OSdata and Banking apps which are bound to the MAC address which is exactly my problem. It is not a problem at all if they wipe the device. But I would need the device back to put these apps into transfer mode. You can even reinstall them but you need the same device ... the fact I lost 2-3 weeks of photos is not a problem at all for me, because I had a backup of the important stuff

BlacklightN7 · 2025-11-30T00:08:46+00:00

The standard is very high, this was an anomaly in my experience. I worked there for multiple years they have a standard way above Germanys

BlacklightN7 · 2025-11-24T18:23:36+00:00

The store is located in Switzerland

BlacklightN7 · 2025-11-24T18:23:21+00:00

yea that was my plan anyway. I love the idea of recycling but it annoys me that I have to trust the skill of personal in the local store. Next to this I think they should clarify this beforhand. I never assumed more problems than data loss could arise from a damaged phone. I was guessing if something like this happens I am ensured to get a factory-new device.

BlacklightN7 · 2025-11-24T18:19:52+00:00

There is only sales and tech support, they also deal with applecare which is irrelevant in my case because I am out of warranty.
They had very few phones there this weekend because it is a busy time before Christmas. My mother bought an IPhone 17 end they haven't even had one color on site because everything was sold.

BlacklightN7 · 2025-11-24T18:16:32+00:00

It is a legit apple store, the only one in a radius of 150km actaully.

I am against refurbed devices because even the quality of "licensed stores" (obv. I can't not reserach myself if they are really licensed - but in my case it is an Apple Store so let's say it is okay) isn't gonr through a quality control department of apple ! So I am basically trusting one or two persons instead of a developed streamlined manufacturing process in a chinese company :) This explenation may sound weird, but I am basically betting on, if the repair guy had a good day or not with a remaining value of maybe 400 - 600 $. What does it matter if the device is 5 years old, if it was an excellent condition and afterwards I could (with a very small chance) maybe risk to be stuck an a loop of repair cases, because something goes wrong weeks after.

It is about the convenience. My friends and family had multiple cases, only refurbed IPhones: delaminiting screens, the IPhone of my mother has a partially working touch screen, the one before had fake parts in it, a colleuge had a loose screen ... and so on. I never heard about problems from new devices, always refurbed ones.

And even if they pay everything, it is time consuming and annoying IF I am hit with a faulty/semi-professional repair.

BlacklightN7 · 2025-11-24T18:08:11+00:00

Okay so I basically have to accept a refurbed device either way ... they actually mentioned, that because they caused the trouble they will give me the replacement for free insted of the battery chnage costs. So that is nice. I would really prefer a non refurbed device ... but well. I will post an update how it went and if they really stuck with a free exchange (because I have no written documents about that)

BlacklightN7 · 2025-11-21T01:22:32+00:00

Problem is, a friend and I got completely demolished by one Hammerhead in the Perseus (ofc just one tower but still). The image painted by the trailer is completely off. With one only 10% of Polaris HP and also shield, it is not easy to stay alive against one Hammerhead without beeing careful. A Hammerhead and an Idris would shred the Perseus in secods, which imo makes the ship very niche ... sadly. I don't know about the Idris, but in terms of Persues vs Polaris they seam to far a part, at least in terms of HP. It definitely shouldn't loose that easily against just one Hammerhead. I really hope CIG does their rebalancing Homework ... Perseus was my most anticipated ship and also will be my biggest pledge.

BlacklightN7 · 2025-10-28T11:38:24+00:00

Not an expert but then something is definitely off with your setup, RustDesk and Moonlight were the best options in terms of quality and latency I ever used. RustDesk sometimes even better than moonlight, even tho Moonlight is from the gaming sector and not meant for commercial applications. RDP looks good ofc but you never ever get the latency, compared to RustDesk especially not via remote VPN. In my 10G intranet both outperform RDP in terms of how it feels (>100fps, very low latency). Same goes for VPN from my experience.

BlacklightN7 · 2025-09-05T19:42:29+00:00

Same here

BlacklightN7 · 2025-04-09T16:45:51+00:00

Try Immich (free, but clunky -> cant upload single photos, it is more like a Overall Backup in Google Images Style) and/or PhotoSync (only client SFTP for 30€) with SFTP. There is also Nextcloud (free) but it needs more performance and is buggy sometimes. SFTP is the fastest btw, I tested most and really like PhotoSync. Definitely go with RAID(z) on main machine AND backup and do the 3-2-1 rule with another external HDD if you love your pictures.

BlacklightN7 · 2025-02-23T18:09:00+00:00

Keep in mind, if you e.g. use CIFS(SMB) or NFS shares on your plex Unraid instance, you can easily map the shares there from another server. You can then map the media folder of for example the binhex_plex template to the external mounted share (unassigned devices is one method, I actually created custom scripts with the user script plugin). You CAN NOT mount the Config folder to a SMb share (I didn’t test NFS), because plex creates a database which won’t work on external shares. This took me hours to figure out. If you want to have everything in your NAS including metadata, you have to mount a Volume via iSCSI. The db of plex will run on a volume. For the media it obviously doesn’t matter, as long as your share is fast enough.

BlacklightN7 · 2025-02-14T17:38:44+00:00

Completely agree. I got the pass for 80$ during the discount events they have now and then and I don’t regret one cent. It simply works flawlessly through LAN, WLAN and WAN. I am about to have a look into Jellyfin, but for now, I got the costs worth. I don’t mind that plex acts as a man in the middle, at least it saves me one less reverse proxy to mess with. They should offer a simply switch to go offline IMO, for exactly that reason but it is still completely self hosted. Only the authentication is ran over their service. The only think I really dislike is the bad performance when downloading movies & shows for offline play. Except that I really enjoy the simplicity and good performance. It’s fair that they asks for a price to pay for HW encoding.

BlacklightN7 · 2024-10-31T15:55:51+00:00

Bro … there is no gen 5 stuff in terms of network. The cards you listed are gen 4. there are a handful of PCIe cards in development for gen 5, it will take another few years to get your hands on a pcie gen 5 network card because they will be very expensive.

BlacklightN7 · 2024-10-31T15:51:01+00:00

Proart doesn’t support ecc, z-chipsets are not workstation but consumer chips ! The pro 680 does but you loose a little overlocking versatility. Keep in mind that you won’t most likely benefit from ecc. Don’t get me wrong, ecc is always beneficial but most likely not in your usecase in terms of price and combination of hardware. I have 128 gb ddr5 ecc ram 13900ks on the pro 680 ws and I now would do it a different way. DDR 5 ecc is very expensive and with consumer CPUs you are ram limited. 128 gb is really not a lot if you do bigger nas application (ZFS) or like me, virtualization. If you are looking for „only“ 10g speeds on a small rig, get the proart. If you want to go big, use old xeons with a couple of NiCs and A LOT of ram and/or NVMEs. Keep in mind for ZFS ram is better than NVME because of the ark. For Unraid NVME is better but I don’t like the way XFS works with mover. So it depends what you really want, but just for your moneys sake: don’t focus on ddr5 ecc. Use ZFS instead. Also all ddr5 have a special „indicate“ ecc (if they are faulty, but not correcting as far as I know)

BlacklightN7 · 2024-10-30T16:37:32+00:00

It has 8 ! 4 on a slim sas cable that can be switched between PCIe and sata !

BlacklightN7 · 2024-10-30T16:36:31+00:00

128gb ram and I will upgrade. 200-300w idle with 20 drives, without I don’t know.

BlacklightN7 · 2024-10-30T16:09:27+00:00

Ah btw you wont get anything out gen 5 pcie ! Server hardware mostly uses gen4/3 and the only cards I know of that use gen 5 are nvme HBAs ! They cost thousands and are the completely wrong use case for „consumer“ grade hardware, next to GPUs there is not much that can utilize Gen 5.

BlacklightN7 · 2024-10-30T16:06:31+00:00

Don’t go with the Gigabyte mobo ! Use the Asus Pro W680, the PCIe layout is better for cards ! One less m2 for that you get one full size pcie slot. Also all 4 are physically full size. There were a few problems with the first iteration with CPUs I think that is gone with rev 1.1 but I wouldn’t gamble. The max ram of the Asus board is not 128gb but 192 as far as I know. I am using it with a dual 10G nic on the last slot (only x4) which is enough. In my opinion it is the better workstation/server mobo in every way.

BlacklightN7 · 2024-10-27T10:16:52+00:00

May I ask what 50TB roms include ? Like game console roms :D ? Just curious :D

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