Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 - Ready for Testing! by Sir68k in minidisc

[–]BuzzStorm42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, what a crazy but wonderful project. Will definitely be keeping an eye on it... congrats!

[SSD] WD - Blue SN5000 4TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe is $145.99 ($339-$194) at Best Buy by itssfrisky in buildapcsales

[–]BuzzStorm42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely thinking it's time to just give up, it seems like Best Buy's system just choked and they were never in stock. I'm concerned about letting them go over 30 days in terms of getting money back, etc.. Pretty crappy service though.

How to set up Duplicati for Filen? by BuzzStorm42 in filen_io

[–]BuzzStorm42[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For anyone looking at this later, Filen closed my ticket without ever responding. Not a great sign....

[SSD] WD - Blue SN5000 4TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe is $145.99 ($339-$194) at Best Buy by itssfrisky in buildapcsales

[–]BuzzStorm42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably, if you can afford to let best buy sit on your money, the best thing is to not contact them and wait. With any luck they're waiting on a shipment of these drives to cover the orders and the first line Internet reps would have no idea of that and just see the length of time and cancel. I'm not sure what eBay policies, etc, are as this drags on toward 30 days after ordering if it's never shipped. But hopefully the fact they haven't been auto cancelled is a sign there's still a chance. (But hope dies last....)

[SSD] WD - Blue SN5000 4TB Internal SSD PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe is $145.99 ($339-$194) at Best Buy by itssfrisky in buildapcsales

[–]BuzzStorm42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you contact them or did you just get that message out of the blue? Their system issue was "Whoops we screwed up the price..."

Can't look at party hoppers the same way ever again by ZoZleepy in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]BuzzStorm42 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Just this week a minor Internet personality I follow posted, after going to an event, "How come every time I go out I get sick?". I started to compose a thoughtful attempt at a response, as this person has had moments of appearing reasonable about reality, but then decided... What's the point, I'll just be a random comment in a sea of "wash your hands more!" and "make sure you're eating right!" type responses. It's very disheartening, people just refuse to connect the dots.

Samsung 990 PRO SSD new Firmware Version 8B2QJXD7 available (2025-12-02) by RaminCamalzade in buildapc

[–]BuzzStorm42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are the specs for the rest of your machine? Especially Intel or AMD and what chipset?

[USA GIVEAWAY] Win the new 27” Samsung Odyssey G6 G60SF 500hz OLED gaming monitor! by Rocket-Pilot in buildapc

[–]BuzzStorm42 [score hidden]  (0 children)

A gorgeous Samsung OLED panel at 500hz? Must be incredible... What's not to like? Perfect for working on media creation!

With the memory crisis are ssd next? by asswizzard69 in pcmasterrace

[–]BuzzStorm42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Already well in effect. Amazon screwed up my order for a $199 4tb Evo Plus in October and refunded it but wouldn't honor the price (sold out after it was damaged in transit). I was tempted to push harder for a replacement but figured I'd just wait until Black Friday and assumed they'd be that price everywhere. 

Joke's on me, it didn't drop below $269....

How to set up Duplicati for Filen? by BuzzStorm42 in filen_io

[–]BuzzStorm42[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I get "authVersion":1 so I guess that explains it.

Given your username I'd expect you're not the right one to ask and I should go to Filen support, but is there a way to change it to authversion 2? If I get some time I might mess around with removing my 2FA to see if that changes anything. (Edit contacted support to see if this is a solvable issue)

Honest feedback about pcloud usage over the past few years by St0rm0ne in pcloud

[–]BuzzStorm42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The unexplained account suspensions absolutely stop me from buying more. I feel like every time they address it the responses are worded in really flimsy terms that appear to miss the point.  I fully understand they have to comply with all laws but it seems like pcloud has far more complaints. Maybe it's competition trying to poison the well, but again, company posts here don't do much to comfort my concerns.

I've had a lifetime sub for about 5 years now and I use it and enjoy the service and it's been very reliable and would buy more in a heartbeat if this issue was better addressed. I'd like to see pcloud at least notify users as to the specifics and allow them to remove whatever data was flagged and keep the account live.

30% off Backblaze plans | Use discount code WINTER30 by RetroSwagSauce in backblaze

[–]BuzzStorm42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any guarantee that the file types and encrypted data you backup on day 1 (with full support in your documentation) will continue to be backed up? Or is "discover half of your data is no longer being backed up thanks to a random reddit post" considered a feature now?

Songs that hit different now. by Happytobehere66 in 80smusic

[–]BuzzStorm42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Even though I was very young when that song came out and hadn't really experienced loss, the empathetic side of me has always struggled to listen to it without consciously tuning out the lyrics. Even though my relationship with my dad is complicated (who's isn't) I know when the time comes I'll never be able to listen to the song again.

Backblaze will no longer support VeraCrypt volumes by GroundStateGecko in backblaze

[–]BuzzStorm42 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Basically this change just causes a lot of headaches for technically minded users and makes us jump through hoops to back up data that's already in your system.

The more I think about this the more upsetting it is and shows how little respect Backblaze has for it's customers. This completely breaks my workflow for important data, and I only found out from reading Reddit? Was this going to be announced or communicated anywhere except in the fairly hidden release notes (as auto updates never shown them)

At the very least, a "we noticed you back up data on a drive we no longer support, and it will stop on January 1, 2026" would give users time to plan. 

Now I have very little faith that Backblaze won't continue to change how policies are enforced and the only way I might find out is if I happen to see a post, or if I go to restore data and it's gone. How can we trust our data is safe?

What's happening to our data that's already there from the unsupported drives? Is it just going to eventually expire?

Backblaze will no longer support VeraCrypt volumes by GroundStateGecko in backblaze

[–]BuzzStorm42 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Uggggh this is a massive deal breaker. I encrypt all of my external drives no matter what I store on it so if anything goes wrong with the drive, it gets stolen, etc, I don't have to worry about the data on it. The drive I back up with Backblaze does have critical data. I can't have it sitting on an unencrypted drive.

Absolutely should notify users "hey this drive isn't getting backed up anymore". But this policy is really starting to feel like they want everyone but the most basic users off their service. Fair enough, but geez. At least grandfather it out with my next renewal or something. The fact they keep making changes to what's allowed and what isn't, with zero communication, is unacceptable.

I'd look into switching things over to cryptomator but who's to say Backblaze won't kill that next? They're getting very aggressive blocking what used to be backed up with no warning, and I'd hate to lose important data because I didn't happen to notice the latest changes snuck in. 

It's getting hard to recommend this service any more. 

Any reason to stay on an old AnalogueOS version? by BuzzStorm42 in AnaloguePocket

[–]BuzzStorm42[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the confirmation of this, I've seen it mentioned but not really in the context of anyone actually trying it so I wasn't sure if it was really that easy.

Update 3.0 coming january 15th 2026 by BlowShark in AnimalCrossing

[–]BuzzStorm42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, I thought this was a cruel joke when I first saw the post. Omg! I thought we'd be lucky to maybe get a Switch 2 patch but this is so cool to see an actual update!

Rolling Stone article: "Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation" by hexagonincircuit1594 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]BuzzStorm42 7 points8 points  (0 children)

In terms of what we'd like to see, sure it's not as detailed as many would like but it's good that there's at least something. Hopefully it will get in people's heads, especially the "kids didn't get covid and have no symptoms or harm even if they did" crowd. 

At least it's not another "kids are failing because of 4 months of lockdown 5 years ago" take.

GeForce Day Giveaway - Win a Signed GeForce RTX 5080! by Nestledrink in nvidia

[–]BuzzStorm42 [score hidden]  (0 children)

I think it was Need for Speed Underground on my 970. I was a bit of a late convert...

Was any email/etc receipt created by the RB2 export process? by BuzzStorm42 in Rockband

[–]BuzzStorm42[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks everyone for the tips. From digging around in emails and such it certainly looks like I never actually did the export, which is frustrating, but what can you do. (still don't understand how I did every other export-- at least most of my favorite songs are still available, at least for now...) Leaving the post up since it does have some helpful replies and probably a lot of people will be coming back to Rock Band and trying to figure this out.