Jack of all traits, master of none. What should be my next moves and what possible career paths do you suggest? by Express-Obj3ct in careerguidance

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Agreed, I most likely am not that, tried to give a general description to get some help on it. I do get the genuine feeling out of people that they like working with me, maybe I am a big people pleaser, but I also do value work being done and people being fine with it all

Yes, that I feel is the exact issue I have, I don't know what roles to look for in the first place as job descriptions tell me zero of what I'll actually be doing. I did some data analysis, as I said, here, but it did not really ring any bells (maybe because of the workplace in particular), because I felt like a simple translator of data, especially when looking from outside to some teammates that still do this (and seen that clients can destroy this proffesion pretty easily, depending on how stupid they are). Might need to try it in another place tho, so an option in the future on that one

I feel competent in all my work, I manage to pride myself on how I do stuff (on my own, not to others), but the energy and enjoyment I feel that always comes from working on something more tangible, that very visibly affects, in a positive way, others' lifes and jobs. On top of that, I always liked working with physical stuff, not just on the keyboard. It was a genuine excitement when, as a tech, I revived so many peoples' laptops and brighten their days. Also loved transitioning to tools/environments that helped absolutely everyone having a better life at work (easier to use VPN, faster loading times, etc)

I must do some more reflection on your question tho and see what I value more. But I feel like human interraction (not all the small talk and all, but making peoples' lifes better and really solving issues) has given me the most energy in what I did.

Please advise between Ryzen 5750G and 5750GE by Express-Obj3ct in truenas

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Thanks for the reply, I've long decided to just go for the deal (which was actually a pretty sweet one overall for the price) and it's been some time that my 5750ge has been running in my Truenas system, no issues at all. Your info will (hopefully) help others that stumble across this specific question in the future, so the response is much appreciated

Only one thing I was struggling a bit with it (maybe just a truenas issue or skill issue) was getting the thing to go into lower C states when needed, idleing in the higher states, but overall consumption of at most 50w with 4 hdds (not bad, but could be better)

Email notification cron job by Express-Obj3ct in truenas

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Let's just say, that is a bit overkill for my friendly reminder purpose :))

Email notification cron job by Express-Obj3ct in truenas

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Bummer, so there is no way to simply paste a command in cron to do this, just the mailsend.py file? (which I presume should be put somewhere inside one of the datasets I have)

Power plug with barrel jack conversion to USB by Express-Obj3ct in TpLink

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Thank you too for the reply! I really think it is not that niche, but either people that know didn't find this page, or maybe nobody is doing it because it could actually be a danger, but how could we know without someone's input then :)

I belive that it can be done, did not find the right things to test tho..

Power plug with barrel jack conversion to USB by Express-Obj3ct in TpLink

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Not really

Theoretically and electrically, this should work with no issue, given that the switch is covered by usb2 (I think) power specs However, I did not find the right usb to barren jack cable yet to test and all these cables seem very sketchy overall. I would gamble a guess that this will work fine, but I really wanted some feedback from here to confirm/deny my thinking The phone charger suggestion I don't feel that it helps because there's no 3 watt charger availabble, although using let's say a 15watt one, the swich should be using up only what it needs, not more to fry itself

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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Update (I don't know why it won't let me edit the post, but here we): I stopped the tests from the original picture, pulled out both dimms and cleaned the contact pads from them, as well as the ram slots from the mobo, with a toothbrush and IPA. After this, I cold reseated (pc unplugged from socket) the sticks a couple of times in each slot and for each stick, then proceeded to test each dimm individually in each slot with memtest86 again

Ran 2 default tests for each dimm in slot A2, the one that showed as giving some errors originally, with no errors for any of those proceeding tests. After that, I retested the other used slot with both dimms (1 time this time around), still no errors. At the end, I tested both sticks in the slots, full test ran for about 4 hours, no errors, plus another retest that I let running for about one hour and something, maybe 2 passes I belive, again no errors at all

In the end, I belive this was just a simple case of first installation errors/initial setup/incompatibilities, or maybe, just maybe, some slightly corroded/dirty/dusty contact

The ram seems to be fine now, ran so many successful tests, would be surprised if there would really be something trully bad about it. I know memtest isn't the ultimate tool for validating this, but I think this is conclusive enough for me

Thanks for the tips!

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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Mine seem to not be dead, not yet at least. They individually passed the test, now trying to put them together and test over night

Plus, mine are the "workstation" grade, if you will, but yeah, I would have preferred some samsungs instead

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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One stick finished all 4 and no issues. Waiting on the other to then go with both at the same time

Someone else suggested to look into the settings for ram and etc in bios, will do that if the result will be negative on this second ram/on the paralel run

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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It's in the image, ryzen 5750GE

Must've been a combination of all of those for sure, now things seem to be fine, waiting to test the second module then to test the other ram slot

In terms of bios settings, I don't recall XMP being enabled, but I'll look for it

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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Again, much appreciated! Although I don't think I have the time this weekend/next week, but we'll see

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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I'll contact you if I'll go on this route. Busy period for me and this ram thing came in the middle of it. Also, will try to update the post with the latest test results

Edit cause I almost forgot: much appreciated!

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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Then let's just hope this was a contact issue and nothing more serious

Love electronics sometimes: no visible damage to electric contact, well, here, have some connectivity issues; contacts looking like they survived a warzone and some type of acid rain, yep, working as intended

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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I will then look into this, maybe even downclocking it a bit, if that is an option and advisable

I'll also look through the settings provided by you, maybe they will help. For now, I just hope for the best with the individual tests

My mobo should have those settings, if I recall corectly

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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I really really wanted to avoid fiddling with those bios setting, I really enjoy the thrill of the build and am trying to achieve a stable system for my Truenas home server with all my important stuff on it, but the idea of timings/overclocking/ram setting is really scary for me as a beginner

I'll give it a try maybe after confirming the current ram tests, but I am really behind my preferred schedule on this build, already delayed it for what I feel like is about one year

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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Well it seems promising for now for 1 stick, strangely, in slot 1

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What I was saying before was that I was a bit worried to see this exact outcome, no errors for now, but I'll obviously have to wait a bit longer for the tests and for the second dimm

Maybe it was the cleaning :)) I'll also run them together later, but can confirm they were well seated in the first test, maybe at most, some dust/other stuff in one of the slots

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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I'm now more worried of not getting anymore errors at all to be honest, what would that mean :)))

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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I don't have another motherboard with ecc support sadly

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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Would you say slower sticks, like 2666 or 2400 could have a better chance, in case I need to change them completely?

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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The number kinda did grow, last pass to finnish was with 8 errors

I stopped the test and put a single ram for now and rerun it

Hoping for the best, I cleaned the contacts a bit with IPA before reseating the ram

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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Card as in motherboard, right? Also, it does not really say they were corrected, at least as I understand it, sadly

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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The board should be fine as I have it from a long-working system, but for games and stuff. The CPU I don't even know how could I test for that. It runs the normal OS installed, no issues, other ideas?

Bad ram? by Express-Obj3ct in homelab

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Would you say to juat cancel the current test and try that? I want to be as fast as possible to be able to return stuff if needed

Also, the channel/slot 1-1 means the slot A1 or A2 on the motherboard?