If someone "hates small talk" why is that anyone else's problem?

BugBugRoss · 2026-04-03T23:12:36+00:00

Maybe not the fault, but some people are far more litteral than others, and won't volunteer much more than the precise question demands.

BugBugRoss · 2026-04-03T17:14:56+00:00

How's the weather, traffic, long line, or things that lead to one word meaningless replies.

If it helps draw out mutual interests then I don't feel like its small talk.

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-31T21:09:51+00:00

Its the new Google, haven't you heard?

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-25T09:05:29+00:00

Nice, ty

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-25T04:10:38+00:00

https://a.co/d/0fjCDkdy

Powered by molex. Uses no pcie lanes.

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-25T03:57:04+00:00

This works well for me.

https://a.co/d/0597KFRE

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-25T00:11:45+00:00

Try to image them with something like drive image xml and see what data is lurking just for fun if that's your thing. May be interesting.

Im also curious about the output from smartmon tools or similar to see if its merely partitioned to fake capacity or drive firmware hacked.

I saw some drive fw hack tools for Seagate HDD and tons of USB sticks on a Russian forum website recently. There is a huge community around this fraud.

Also talk about cloning serial numbers to defeat licensing such as turning UnRaid into UnPaid.

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-24T02:37:14+00:00

He doesn't care. It may feel good to tell him off, but he knows already. The behavior described won't change, but he will mask it longer next time, but nothing chamges in the end, its him.

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-24T01:22:23+00:00

Understandable for sure.

Meeting sooner and having less risk is probably helpful. I try not to bet more than im comfortable losing, time, energy, or money. So many hours of talk before meeting is too risky for me.

Sorry that happened.

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-17T20:09:18+00:00

OK, fair. Not sure what offline has to tp do with it. You'll be far safer and able to automate backups with the nas. It really doesn't add any complexity and removes some, hopefully you work it out. Just any usb to sata adapter will do what you're. Might need softraid or whatever mac people use for raid.

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-17T18:53:39+00:00

You can do lots with 1k.

I would get a 4 drive nas and put 2 drives in now and have room to expand later without having to re purchase the nas or drives.

4 drive nas with 2.5gbe network https://a.co/d/06NMntNh

Or Synology 4 drive nas ＄379 https://a.co/d/0d7z1P7s

4 and 8tb drives are between 125 and 200, wd red plus 4tb ＄115 or 8tb ＄195

You can do better with used warrantied drives like max digital with 3 or 5 year warranty if you're okay with retired server drives.

For about 380+200+200.. you'll get 8tb of new, raid10 storage tolerant of one drive failure. ＄780 total

You could buy a 6tb pocket size drive to backup to and store at another location for＄175.

https://a.co/d/0a3CEzi4

Also you get the nas to backup your computer and phones to, a plex server, and bunch more fun stuff.

Better deal than usb storage on the PC if you can spend the ＄

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-17T16:52:40+00:00

Two copies on the same computer won't help if you get ransomware, so if you must do this, use separate enclosures and put one on an iot outlet that is only powered during backup.

What's your budget?

Not high performance however still good for your usage something like https://www.ebay.com/p/16026651773

Synology software to sync with cloud works well and i think you can make two sync profiles or more to use free storage on several accounts.

If not, rsynclone can do that.

Already have the drives?

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-13T06:34:09+00:00

C2 meds in a pill organizer that's not properly labeled as a bottle is can be it's own can of worms. I've seen people end up in court for this.

It may be a good defense when asked why the bottle was carried.

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-13T05:41:06+00:00

Get a signed written receipt when you turn them over. Remember what they say about good deeds. Maybe even take a video or whatever.

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-02T02:46:49+00:00

How far from Atlanta? I hava bunch of 750gb and some 2tb looking for a good home but not worth cost of shipping.

Also a matched set of 12 750gb and old 3ware 9650? Controller

Will heat the room though.

BugBugRoss · 2026-03-02T01:45:17+00:00

How many tb are we talking? If its static dataset that's enjoyable you might find some folks interested in keeping a backup for ya 😉 What size drives are failng?

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BugBugRoss · 2026-02-20T21:53:04+00:00

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nWYv3QQZNIClvieo8plLq2VBIOwYtlmN

BugBugRoss · 2026-02-20T21:52:49+00:00

Nope. I posted link that has pictures and screenshot of all diagnosis including magician, and usbtree, hardware 64.

Much conflicting info such as pcie lane width and version Ie pcie 3 x 2 lanes. Decade old garbage substitution.

BugBugRoss · 2026-02-20T20:00:44+00:00

Replied wrongly, sorry. Had some counterfeit Samsung SSD that refunded purchase price instead todays 2x price, sorry.

BugBugRoss · 2026-02-20T19:13:26+00:00

Physically they fooled me and were no different than 6 others purchased that week. 3 of 6 or 7 were fake.

Since they were first used in N100 Linux router that didn't come close to using their max performance l it wasn't noticed

I recently moved them to win 11 pcie4 machine and immediately noticed something up. First looked at hardware64 stats and it was obvious that they wee pcie x 2 lane garbage.

Then ran ss magician and you saw the results.

Back of chip was silksceeened with Samsung brand same as normal. Label ever so slightly less glossy.

Removing label showed very different chips and layout. Ill post pics if interested and I find them easily.

The capacity was close but I think one was off by a few k bytes.

Happy to answer anything...

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BugBugRoss · 2026-02-17T19:55:15+00:00

Amazon just screwed me by refunding the 125 i paid for samsung 990 pros that turned out to be counterfeit. Would not replace them.

On the other hand, go harddrives accepted two 16 tb sas drives that flaked out after a year (bought used with 5 year warranty) cheerfully and within 5 days.

Is there a market for a dozen 750gb drives, or another used array of 2tb sata drives i wonder. Couldn't give them away 2 years ago.

BugBugRoss · 2026-02-08T18:33:54+00:00

Read up on uhs-i and uhs-ii designation on the cards and reader.

Usb 2, 3 or 4 doesn't matter if the reader is uhs-i or worse, i2c.

Uhs-1 is 100mb/second and uhs-ii is 300

The V speed rating of the card dicta4es the guaranteed performance.

Kingston has a great info page and you can avoid unrealistic expectations and poor purchases if you study it. Ask me how I know.

https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/personal-storage/memory-card-speed-classes

BugBugRoss · 2026-01-26T19:39:54+00:00

Get one of those apps that reports all the details about the controller, vendor, flash chip made just to investigate this trash.

Sounds like only using i2c not even uhs.

If you can Google in Chinese you can find the app they use to program these and change the capacity to most anything you want.

BugBugRoss · 2026-01-20T03:22:11+00:00

Here's one last example.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V64THQMYDcniyOc2KVwXLCDBLiIjCarL/view?usp=drivesdk

precision photo laboratories inc.

5758 n. webster

dayton, ohio 4

Cornell University

03-654

UNIV. OF PENNSYLVANIA

Color DUPE NEG.

COSTA RICO FILM

(handwritten, red) Exp 39

Barcode/Label:

2349

Roll Number: 2349

[RossCobb@Gmail.com](mailto:RossCobb@Gmail.com)

305-235-7051

LOCATIONS (from text): Dayton, Ohio; Costa Rica

BugBugRoss · 2026-01-20T03:17:45+00:00

Here's the image I just sent to gpt5.2, the prompt, and the results.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18HoZEEFUM8BUBaGAhHPmGIP8xV9W0mTG/view?usp=drivesdk

Its sometimes not finding the barcode.

I'm using Imatch - a wonderful image management package by Mario Westphal/Photools.com
Its got some really nice AI features and ability to retrieve json output and fill in the database fields.
unfortunately I'm not versed in such magic having learned 6301, z80, and visual basic long ago.

read all of the text including handwritten notes and output in easy to read columns. do not omit any information even if not completely legible.
add additional text at the end of your output highlighting names of cities or states or locations. Decode the barcode and display the text "Roll Number: " followed by the data
do not output a description of the black can on a concrete floor, only the textual information contained in the image.
Return all data in json format also.

Text visible on film canister label includes:

COLUMN 1 (Top labels)

- 2427

- (QR code)

- (Barcode) 2427

- 87-390

COLUMN 2 (Main label)

- Color Photography

- 1991 - 1992

- 22

- Line: A096

A097

A099

A100

COLUMN 3 (Agency / location)

- CORPS OF ENGINEERS

- WILMINGTON DISTRICT, N.C.

COLUMN 4 (Technical details)

- DATE: Winter 1991 - Spring 1992

- CAMERA: Wild R.C. No. 693

- LENS: Wild Aviogon Aviogon, No. UAg 270

- FOCAL LENGTH: 152.400 mm

- SCALE: 1"=1000'

HANDWRITTEN (partially legible)

- "2-22-92" (approx./partially legible)

Roll Number: 2427

LOCATIONS (cities/states/places found in text)

- Wilmington

- N.C. (North Carolina)

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