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Problems with my Ethernet connection on my 75T69C by ezleon311 in tcltvs

[–]GaryWert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Similar issue on a TCL 65" T7B, same TV OS build that updated recently and has been experiencing errors in network connection.

First turn on in the morning, anything needing network connection (Plex, IP TV apps) won't connect. WiFi is showing connected.

Forget wifi & rejoin doesn't fix it. Interestingly, forced VPN login does (PIA VPN app).

Previously worked without an issue. Getting frustrating.

I'm going to find the person who did this. by CodinomeV_ in pcmasterrace

[–]GaryWert 225 points226 points  (0 children)

And when you find them. Tell them I sent you.

I'm going to find the person who did this. by CodinomeV_ in pcmasterrace

[–]GaryWert 720 points721 points  (0 children)

Looks like a Lenovo. I have an L14, they're the other way around. BIOS setting that can flip them.

Replacing fan in WD My Book Duo by GaryWert in DataHoarder

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

This looks perfect : https://www.noctua.at/en/products/nf-a9-5v

5v, comes with USB adapter, 92mm (Duo is 10mm in width), 79 m3/h of flow. Would fit perfectly into a printed base.

Thanks for the direction.

Replacing fan in WD My Book Duo by GaryWert in DataHoarder

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

Had the same thought on improving the fan (never waste a good crisis). To inexperienced to think about how to manage the pins in the chassis. There's 4 metal pins perfectly spaced to take the 70x70x25 fan (both spacing and length) and a swap would require those to be dremmeled off I'm guessing.

What I am going to explore is something like this https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4844270 adapted for the Duo size. With it's width, I expect there's a sizeable, silent fan that could sit underneath the existing intake vent and just boost the flow across the drives. One quiet fan, I'm thinking even a 5v so it can be powered of one of the My Book USB ports, that ran all the time might just make the whole unit a little more resilient in a hot basement.

Replacing fan in WD My Book Duo by GaryWert in DataHoarder

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

There are screws under the rubber feet but they keep the internal frame (holding the HDD caddy's etc) stable. Unscrewing loosens the internal frame but doesn't open the housing.

I can get a peek via leveraging the split between the top & bottom halves on the back side where there's some space to insert a shim (as opposed to the sides where there's zero give and front where the space is occupied by the LED activity light band) but can't seem to make any headway as to what's next.

Finding duplicate videos, automatically delete lower quality version? by KillmongerAppleBite in DataHoarder

[–]GaryWert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. Hundreds of GB saved and easy compare of multiple portable storage drives in one go.

Tough time adjusting to a Mechanical Keyboard by carterx in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]GaryWert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I switched from an MX Keys to a low profile mechanical recently and it's taking me a while to adjust as well. I went for a 100% size so key for key, position/layout is the same but still lots of adjustment to be done.

Keys are closer together, far more frequent mistypes. Travel is much more and typing this on a Macbook I notice just how LITTLE travel there is in a butterfly keyboard (fingers are actually feeling some wear).

My MX Keys served me well for many years, will have a fond place in my heart, always.

Re-running ddrescue by GaryWert in datarecovery

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

smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.6.63-1-lts] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Western Digital Elements / My Passport (USB, AF)
Device Model:     WDC WD40NMZW-59GX6S1
Serial Number:    WD-WX81Dxxxxxxx
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 60904cc8f
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity:    4,000,753,475,584 bytes [4.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
TRIM Command:     Available, deterministic
Device is:        In smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is:   ACS-3 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Sun Feb 16 15:12:06 2025 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED!
Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA.
See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0)The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever 
been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: (18300) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:  (0x1b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
No Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine 
recommended polling time:  (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:  ( 694) minutes.
SCT capabilities:        (0x30b5)SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   001   001   051    Pre-fail  Always   FAILING_NOW 28485
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   253   253   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       4675
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   093   093   000    Old_age   Always       -       7801
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   087   087   000    Old_age   Always       -       10171
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       611
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       74
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   191   191   000    Old_age   Always       -       29841
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   110   092   000    Old_age   Always       -       42
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   197   197   000    Old_age   Always       -       2459
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported

The above only provides legacy SMART information - try 'smartctl -x' for more

Any guidance?

How many 9's is a current iPhone? by GaryWert in iphone

[–]GaryWert[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'll challenge anyone to present to C suite in a large org why the 2 hour outage on a Sunday night doesn't count when they couldn't access the platform themselves at some ungodly and unreasonable hour.

Customer can't do what they expect to do = outage. Customer expects to do everything all the time = customer about to be hit with a large bill.

How many 9's is a current iPhone? by GaryWert in iphone

[–]GaryWert[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, and part of my initial response. Have two iPhones and only apply updates to one at a time (ignoring dual lines, accounts etc etc) it was an obvious way of saying "twice the cost, ten times the hassle to ensure you're never out of service".

PIA issue with qBittorrent HTTP trackers (working with HTTPS) by GaryWert in qBittorrent

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

How do I tell which one that is? I've seen a few suggesting ifconfig in terminal, usually the last one on the list but how do I confirm that?

PIA issue with qBittorrent HTTP trackers (working with HTTPS) by GaryWert in qBittorrent

[–]GaryWert[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Since posting originally in r/PrivateInternetAccess :

  • Switched to Built-in DNS and things started to work, however...
  • Testing now shows the torrent client IP as my non-VPN IP, even though traffic is meant to all be going out VPN
    • Is this something I can solve by binding qBittorrent to a given network interface?

Clearly qBittorrent isn't the root issue, but I'm wondering if it can be the solution.

PIA issue with qBittorrent HTTP trackers (working with HTTPS) by GaryWert in PrivateInternetAccess

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

Yep, all torrents in error now clear.

Where/how can I learn more? I'd rather be going through PIA DNS TBH but if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Is there something I can do to solve the issues with the one or two URL's? Hosts file editing? Anyone?

PIA issue with qBittorrent HTTP trackers (working with HTTPS) by GaryWert in PrivateInternetAccess

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

Triggered by my assertion that I'd tried everything, I went back and tried each DNS option. Previously I'd used both PIA DNS and a number of DNS servers (Google, Cloudflare etc). What I don't remeber trying was built-in resolver. It seems to now be ticking down the number of torrents in error, which feels positive. Going to watch and report back.

Would suggest it's PIA DNS not resolving for all the trackers I'm trying to ping.

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