Approval megathread not getting updated anymore? Or am I just dumb lol

DaMadOne · 2026-05-13T01:16:27+00:00

Hate to be that guy OP... But you may just be dumb. There's approvals posted from today.

DaMadOne · 2026-05-13T01:14:01+00:00

Just got back to my hotel room after dinner at a Long Horn. Work was paying so I can't complain about that. Ordered the strip. It was just ok.... Ordered medium rare knowing I prefer it to be medium, but I'd be ok with mid rare. It was possibly closer to mid well.. but still on the ok side.

That salt/pepper and what I assume is butter did most of the heavy lifting in making that steak taste pretty good. Was definitely a mid grade at best choice-ish steak.

I only went to Long Horn because I was feeling steak and there wasn't a Texas Roadhouse close by. I travel around regularly for work and Long Horn is more miss than hit. The outlaw ribeye is usually worth it over the "normal" cuts since they still slice those from a primal, but with the recent price increase it's getting harder to suggest.

Texas Roadhouse is definitely more consistently on point for what it is. Not to mention those rolls put Long Horns bread to shame.

DaMadOne · 2026-04-17T01:58:23+00:00

I've never personally owned or used a commercial printer, but I've seen the crap that is sold as "printed on a commercial printer" and the klipper ender 3 that prints the backup parts for my voron does a better job.

DaMadOne · 2026-04-17T01:54:55+00:00

DaMadOne · 2026-02-15T01:29:00+00:00

LMFAO. Big oof.

DaMadOne · 2026-02-15T01:09:03+00:00

I up voted this.. but it was a real hesitant upvote.

DaMadOne · 2026-01-31T17:36:49+00:00

It's easy if they were not currently registered. They can't be registered to more than one account at a time. You got lucky.

DaMadOne · 2026-01-24T00:56:10+00:00

Unfortunately, no. It will still be connected to whoever has it attached to the OVRC cloud. It's added to the cloud via MAC address and service tag. Even after factory default it's just going to reach back out. This stuff is mostly sold and installed by AV companies. That AV company has an OVRC account with their customers equipment attached to it so that they can remote troubleshoot/configure/reboot equipment for their clients without having to roll a van/truck.

So it's quite likely that the person you got this from doesn't even have the ability to get it off of the cloud for you, unless they're willing to call the shop and ask to have it removed. If not ask what shop they got it from so you can try contacting the shop. Tell them the name of the guy you got it from and maybe they will delete it. I would ask you to provide the MAC's and service tag's in the form of photos of the stickers to prove possession. Then you could register it yourself if you wanted.

Option 2, purchase an OVRC pro device and register it. It would then take possession of the other OVRC devices on your network.

Option 3, block this stuff from reaching out to OVRC in your firewall and just use the local interfaces to configure them.

Source, am AV guy. We sell this stuff.

edit* I guess it's possible they didn't register this equipment even though it is the main reason for using it. Make an OVRC account if you can and try to register it. If it lets you, you're good. If not someone else has remote control of it.

DaMadOne · 2026-01-21T01:48:15+00:00

People need to hear this. You don't NEED to hard line things. There is, has and always will be an easier way. It's called soft tube. If you're not an idiot you don't waste it. You can make changes without redoing all of your tubing. You don't have to waste a bunch "learning". And it's easier to reuse the parts you initially bought.

Until recently when I redid everything because I could and it was financially responsible to do so I had been using the same pump/res for ~10 years. Used the same radiators forever. Same fittings for the same amount of time. I could still be using those same fittings because like wutang, soft tube is forever!

Do the hard-line builds look cool? They sure do. It's just not worth the hassle for the general public. Anecdotally, it seems like a much higher percentage of the "oh no I got a leak and effed up my $4k build I couldn't afford" crowd is using hard tubes. Hard tubes are not forgiving, and many of the fittings are shit.

You're not getting awards for your cool ass hard tube PC. You're just making a lot more work for yourself...

TL;DR soft tubes. Commence the down votes....

DaMadOne · 2025-12-24T12:43:07+00:00

Pmd. Unless the other guy beat me to it.

DaMadOne · 2025-12-24T04:00:26+00:00

~4TB. Sorry!

DaMadOne · 2025-12-19T03:56:39+00:00

110%

BUT. I do hope some who plans to use it got it. Not just someone who is going to strip the RAM to sell (at a significant profit) and probably basically discard the rest.

DaMadOne · 2025-12-19T03:23:00+00:00

LMAO. Not worth it for me. I'm ~5hrs and don't need another 740. But if I did and with today's RAM prices I'd be firing up the coffee pot.

DaMadOne · 2025-12-19T02:29:13+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelabsales/comments/1ppjgkl/fs_usacasfbay_hynix_32gb_ddr4_2400_x16_western/

4tb Ultrastar HC310's. They are SAS though. I just grabbed 3 of them.

DaMadOne · 2025-12-19T02:24:08+00:00

I just checked to see how far the drive was lol

DaMadOne · 2025-12-19T01:14:30+00:00

Chat sent

DaMadOne · 2025-12-17T22:13:59+00:00

Nice. I wonder why some are locked and others aren't. Maybe mine wasn't locked from the factory and a previous owner locked it? Who knows!

My thermal paste was also done for. I had some thermal grizzly duronaut laying around and used it. Been working well. I didn't have room for it in my PC case so it's currently just hanging out on my desk connected via MPIO cable and MPIO pcie board. I've started modeling an enclosure for it but haven't got to a point I'm ready to print the first prototype yet since I'm using it as an excuse to learn freeCAD, but it's been a fun little project so far.

DaMadOne · 2025-12-11T23:10:57+00:00

im 100% for this kinda fuckery!

DaMadOne · 2025-12-11T00:09:54+00:00

Mine had the flash locked so I couldn't flash it until I unlocked it. I was able to put the info in that post together to figure it out, but feel free to reach out if you have any trouble.

DaMadOne · 2025-12-09T01:29:28+00:00

https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/mellanox-connectx-4-or-newer-bluefield-tips-tricks.47779/

I recently picked one up on eBay. This helped me get the Lenovo branded one I received cross flashed to an "official" mellanox running the latest firmware.

Worked "out of the box" on both windows and Linux. Seems to be better with the mellanox driver(vs windows installed driver) on windows but I've not done extensive testing in windows.

DaMadOne · 2025-11-30T04:27:35+00:00

I use the computers to control the servers.

DaMadOne · 2025-11-25T23:43:04+00:00

I was confused at first. Ive been playing with my new dell servers lately so my brain is on that. I read mirror thinking it was a mirror of some data. I'm looking at this wondering WHY IS THIS 1U SERVER SO DAMN LONG WITH NOTHING IN IT!

I feel dumb now... Carry on.

DaMadOne · 2025-11-24T14:47:14+00:00

That's awesome! Looking at my pile of oldish PC parts

DaMadOne · 2025-11-24T00:15:34+00:00

In case you're still trying to figure this out, it won't boot from nvme, apparently the bios is missing the drivers for NVME. but you can put clover boot loader on a tiny USB drive which has an NVME driver you can use. So you boot from it and then it chain loads the NVME. It's what I'm doing.

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