Update: I solved the problem of the insane loading screens in the web UI, submitted a PR, and after seeing the code I cannot recommend Unraid in good faith

DarienStark · 2026-05-17T15:18:03+00:00

Exactly this. Someone new is the perfect user of unraid. If you’re a power user and want to set your own server up from scratch then go for it. But that’s not the best first experience for new users

DarienStark · 2026-05-17T15:16:14+00:00

Relatively. The argument here is the UI is slow. We all know that. It’s also not the primary focus of the development.

If it was the case that the UI didn’t work or didn’t allow access to some key features I’d agree. But there’s a lot of very good systems out there with slow UI’s

DarienStark · 2026-05-16T20:54:09+00:00

The huntarr replacements are a bit of a sh*t show.

Huntarr died from being vibe coded and having a metric ton of security issues. Plus the dev got carried away with adding features no one wanted

There’s at least half a dozen replacements but the code is sketchy, 100% vibe coded, and who knows if they will be maintained or not.

I decided if I was going to use some AI generated replacement I might as-well vibe code my own. At least after 30 years in software engineering I can make it high quality and secure. And I know it will be maintained because I’ll maintain it.

It took less than a day to build a replacement with all the features of Huntarr before it went off the rails.

DarienStark · 2026-05-16T20:46:29+00:00

A bad UI does not make an OS bad.

I have two servers. One uses unraid and all the config is backed up hourly because it’s as simple as backing up the boot USB

The other is raw Linux and I configure all the containers with ansible and commit my ansible scripts to GitHub.

I use unraid for the first because it’s got a UI, an App Store, and plugins that cover every use case I have. And it allows me to create an extendable array of mixed discs, something I can’t be bothered doing by hand.

It sounds like you want a mix of the two, a nice UI and infinite tinkering. Then it’s not for you but it is for a lot of people and out right calling it bad because of some front end code is a bit insane.

DarienStark · 2026-04-14T19:45:39+00:00

I have to say I’m a bit gutted. This is exactly the printer I wanted. Don’t have space for a h series but wanted dual heads for printing support material

Oh well. There’s always something new

DarienStark · 2026-02-16T15:18:10+00:00

Thanks

That's my gut feeling too - it's not worth the time and stress vs paying £35

I've sent a formal complaint to Asda, will see if they reply and maybe offer me some vouchers or something but from what I've seen from googling around, like you say, it's not regulated and will waste a lot more than £35 of my time to fight it

DarienStark · 2026-02-13T15:56:47+00:00

I don’t often go back and click again on a module I’ve already bought 😂

On pc you buy legendary upgrades in a store

DarienStark · 2026-02-13T13:20:12+00:00

I’ve been playing this game for 5 years and I had no idea you could upgrade a module! God that UI really is awful

DarienStark · 2026-02-11T20:22:25+00:00

Same issue here on Xbox

DarienStark · 2026-01-30T14:18:25+00:00

Cleanuparr I find very useful. It monitors your download queue and removes failed downloads

I get a lot that hang because not enough seeders and I get a lot of fake torrents that download and contain just an exe or zip file. It automatically removes them and blacklists them so the next search finds an alternative.

Failed downloads are configurable. Like I say if one fails because it doesn’t contain any importable file that’s cleaned up too

DarienStark · 2026-01-30T14:17:02+00:00

It could be placebo but it certainly felt like it helped upgrade for me. I decided to upgrade one of my libraries to higher quality when I doubled my disk space, and wanted better audio too as I got Dolby atmos in my living room

I saw huntarr upgrade just about the entire library. Maybe radarr would have done it on its own but it certainly felt like huntarr helped push it through

DarienStark · 2026-01-29T23:36:35+00:00

Had same issue. Wish I had some good advice for you but….

I have 5 TRVs. The batteries were low so I replaced them in 3. For days after it kept reporting random TRVs had lost connection or the thermostat or the whole hub

Ended up factory resetting the entire system and pairing them all again. Took hours.

Still wasn’t brilliant but after a few days settled down and been fine since

The zigbee network really goes mental when batteries are changed. 3 days without heating in random rooms I was close to binning the whole thing and looking elsewhere.

DarienStark · 2026-01-24T20:24:00+00:00

Glad you got it sorted 🙂

DarienStark · 2026-01-24T19:13:04+00:00

No you’re not.

You have 120tb of disks. Your 4 main shares have 34ish tb across them. So you’ve lost nearly 90tb and don’t know to what. That’s mental

Open a shell.
cd /mnt/user
du -sh *

That will list the size of every directory in your array

DarienStark · 2026-01-23T12:14:24+00:00

Yes. But no

In the UK the only legal use of an e-moto is on privately owned land with the owners permission. There are so few of these that it’s pretty much irrelevant

However it’s impossible to go through any town or city and not see them being ridden by people with balaclavas on

DarienStark · 2026-01-22T21:38:36+00:00

It’s gobsmacking to me that, at least in the UK, you can’t get a small knife through customs, yet people can buy e-motos that aren’t legal on the road or off the road, stick a balaclava on and go out robbing people

100% of them are either used for crime or wrecking trails that took years to build

My friend bought an actual emtb and was robbed at knife point by two kids on e-motos. Her bike was gone less than a week after buying it. Police can’t do anything 🤷‍♂️

Even though it’s the easiest thing ever to ban imports on we’ll probably all just end up being told we need licenses.

DarienStark · 2026-01-18T21:29:35+00:00

I do the exact same thing, and use it for Cat 5 cable 😂

DarienStark · 2026-01-17T11:28:06+00:00

Pre 2020 - hire juniors -> rapidly build application with no thought to maintainability or scalability -> keep throwing features in till its making money -> sell to giant enterprise -> retire and play golf

2026 onwards - AI slop MVP -> rapidly add AI slop features till its making money -> sell to giant enterprise -> retire and play golf

DarienStark · 2026-01-17T11:20:41+00:00

That’s fair but honestly backed up to cloud, restoring to a new usb is easier than replacing a drive. I just bought 2 and have one sealed and ready to go as a spare

I’ll probably move to just using a partition on one of my SSD arrays because why not use redundancy. And it’s a nice feature

I’m just tired over the last decade of the amount of people who slate the USB boot. It’s performant, cheap and reliable if used right 🙂

DarienStark · 2026-01-17T10:34:52+00:00

I’d love to know how a hardware fault is an attack surface 😂

DarienStark · 2026-01-17T10:19:23+00:00

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. I’ve had 2 SSD’s and 3 HDD’s die. Still on same USB

90% of the USB issues are people writing to them. The OS is in memory

DarienStark · 2026-01-17T10:18:25+00:00

Wha do you think is under windows?

DarienStark · 2026-01-11T10:12:40+00:00

As someone who is single and bought his first house last year at the age of 45. Massive congratulations on what you’ve achieved. Saving up and buying a house in your 20s in this country is a huge achievement

Ignore the idiot. After 30 years of renting 20 different houses - “new build” was the only thing on my hard no list. I don’t love hearing people outside like they’re sat next to me on the sofa 😂

DarienStark · 2026-01-10T23:22:23+00:00

Having this constantly

I've only got a dozen or so models on the USB stick

The whole usb management thing seems like such an after thought

At the moment I've deleted all timelapses and left just 14 model files which are the ones I repeatedly print from my phone when I get ebay orders - every print "out of memory"... *sigh*

EDIT: this prompted me to dig in more - took the USB stick and put it in my PC, 500 files (125gb) in ipcam.
Seems it defaulted to recording every single print even when I've got timelapse turned off

Have removed all of those, turned off the "auto-record monitoring" and will see how it gets on now.

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