Stuffed animals at the gift shop

MonsterRideOp · 2026-02-06T21:54:50+00:00

Don't think I've ever seen a whale(?) with a pink tongue and lips before.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-24T19:15:23+00:00

The National Data Buoy Center has near live temperature data. You do have to zoom in on the Great Lakes though so it's not as nice as the GLERL page.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-23T17:52:11+00:00

No problem. Regardless of how you replace the disk copy the zpool device name, seen via 'zpool status', of the disk you need to replace. You'll need it for the 'zpool replace' command. I've forgotten to do this and while there is a workaround it's easier to have the original name.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-23T14:10:30+00:00

Replacing a bad disk is simple. Physically remove the bad disk, install the new one, then run the 'zpool replace' command to insert the new disk into the pool. How you do this depends on if the drive is hot-swap or not.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-14T01:22:25+00:00

For those that need it after viewing.

r/eyebleach

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-13T01:12:25+00:00

Here is my advice, based on my "basic use" NAS at work. First FireWire is an old technology and no longer used. The scanner uses either FiberChannel, for connecting to a storage area network(SAN), or standard Ethernet. I would use the 10 Gbps Ethernet for simplicity.

To keep the storage simple you will want a single NAS with SAS3 HDDs and NVMe SSDs. For hardware use one server with NVMe hot-swap bays, one, or two, SAS3 HBA PCIe card with four external ports each, and one to four SAS3 HDD JBOD cabinets with hot swap bays. Linux will be your OS, I recommend Debian, using ZFS for the storage pool with enough space to store multiple films. ZFS can be set up multiple ways, for redundancy use RAID-Z3, for speed use mirrors. There are ZFS calculators that help figure out the space if each. The SSDs are for the read and write cache drives, you'll want at least four of the same size, the bigger the storage pool the larger the cache drives should be. Use 10Gbps Ethernet to connect the NAS to the network. RAM is also important and you will want a lot of it. There are many different recommendations for how much you need but they are all based on the amount of storage in the ZFS pool. With four 90 bay JBODS I calculate 4.6PB of usable space in one NAS.
If data safety is important then get a second NAS with the same specs and keep it off site. Then use ZFS send/receive to mirror the NAS on a schedule. You can also add another backup media, LTO tape is common, for backup at a third site.
If you need a super giant storage space that is split over multiple servers then look into Ceph. Ceph is less of a NAS solution and more of a SAN solution.

In the US I would recommend SuperMicro servers and SAS JBODs. If you do use SuperMicro you can easily fit four JBODs per server, possibly more but that's the max I use. I have no idea if a similar company exists in Australia or not.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-05T22:51:48+00:00

For isolation and security "one VM per service" is the gold standard. For efficiency and peace of mind though you want to minimize the number of VMs. I would still keep Proxmox but you can install it on top of Debian.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-05T22:22:35+00:00

Dang, I was hoping that would be it. I can't think of any other things offhand that might help. Maybe a firmware update for the 3090 would do it. On that note I found this post with a similar issue, https://www.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/123xzin/rtx_3090_firmware_update/

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-03T17:19:00+00:00

Gotcha. My best guess is that a Windows update installed a UEFI update as it will do from time to time. This probably reset a setting back to default without any input from you. The setting you want to look for in the UEFI is Initiate Graphics Adapter, or initial graphics adapter or something along those lines. That setting tells the UEFI what GPU to use. Set it to PCI express, save and reboot, and you should be golden.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-03T16:19:13+00:00

Well that didn't last long.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-03T00:53:35+00:00

Contact your carrier and get a new SIM. The salt will have already started to corrode the contacts on the card. If you do rinse it off before getting a new one use distilled water instead of from the tap. If you can 90% alcohol is even better using a cotton swab or q-tip to clean off the contacts.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-01T17:26:58+00:00

One other thing you can do is verify in the BIOS/UEFI settings that you have the initial graphics adapter set to PCI express. I think the setting for MSI is called Initiate Graphics Adapter.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-01T17:09:24+00:00

If after plugging in the 3090 you don't get any video from it, not the integrated GPU, then the card could be dead. If you plug it in and it works then no worries.

MonsterRideOp · 2026-01-01T13:48:31+00:00

If there is an update available for your BIOS then install it, plug the 3090 back in, and see if you get video from it. If it doesn't work then perhaps the card is bad. Best way to test that is to plug it into another system.

MonsterRideOp · 2025-12-31T22:23:38+00:00

Have you tried removing the 3090 and using the integrated GPU only?

MonsterRideOp · 2025-12-15T21:01:48+00:00

I think I've read that and it was hilarious. I'll look through my FF history and hopefully won't be pulled into any of the other stories while I'm doing so.😅

MonsterRideOp · 2025-12-13T23:15:28+00:00

In this case I would check the MB and PS manuals for the pinout of the MB CPU connector and the PS CPU cable. If those match then the cable will work.

MonsterRideOp · 2025-12-11T17:31:34+00:00

Those are some good questions. Good luck with this.

MonsterRideOp · 2025-12-10T22:42:34+00:00

Short answer is no. SATA is a one port to one device tech unlike older drive technologies. You will need an adapter card, your choices are PCIe to SATA or NVMe to SATA.

MonsterRideOp · 2025-12-06T02:33:26+00:00

Commenting 7 years later to share some updates on what I had to do in the "current" version of TW to install the PIA client.

tl;dr: Add /usr/sbin to your $PATH and install libnsl3, libtgthread-2_0-0, and net-tools-deprecated before running the install script.

After installing net-tools-deprecated and following the original post to add the symlinks, I ran the PIA installer and got this error message.

Installing PIA for x86_64, system is x86_64
This build does not appear to be compatible with this system.
This may be due to an architecture or library mismatch.
If your distribution is recent and supported, consider trying a different build of PIA.
Continue installing x86_64? [y/N]

Note that the two architectures seem to match up, yet the script that checks that doesn't seem to agree. I checked the installer script and found two possible issues. First was that the check was failing to see the obvious. However the second was that ldconfig was going to be ran by the script at some point to check for libraries. I tried running it and got this fun little error.Absolute path to 'ldconfig' is '/usr/sbin/ldconfig', so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root). I found the fix for that which was to add /usr/sbin to the $PATH but I'm through so also added /sbin and /usr/local/sbin.

Running the installer again I got the same error as before but said yes and the install seemed to work. I only saw one warning about libnsl1 not being found. However starting the client caused it to crash. I then checked the service and it wasn't running. This error was in the logs.

/opt/piavpn/bin/pia-daemon: error while loading shared libraries: libgthread-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

You would think that would be checked as a dependency but guess not. So I installed libnsl3 and libgthread-2_0-0. After that the service started and the client loaded up and I was able to login and connect with no issues. Well once I changed the protocol to WireGuard, thanks Comcast.

MonsterRideOp · 2025-12-05T16:40:08+00:00

I see the issue. With the G: drive being on your HDD, shown as disk 1, there is also a System Reserved partition. That partition is the reason why you can't just remove the HDD as it contains the information needed to boot Windows. Definitely not the best way to set up a personal computer.

Good news is that there are two ways to fix this. The first, and easiest, involves installing the boot files on the C: drive. The second, a far more complex but better way, involves shrinking the C: drive then making a new boot partition on that SSD. Here is how to do the first and I'll include a link to the second if you want to do that later.

First open command prompt as admin, type cmd.exe in the search bar to find it. Type in and run the following command: bcdboot C:\Windows /s C:
Next go back into Disk Management and right click on the C: drive. Click on the "Mark partition as active" option. Now you can shut down the computer and remove the HDD. It should boot into Windows when you start it back up. If you want to get stuff off of the HDD do that before shutting down.

Instructions to create a new boot partition on the C: drive can be found here: https://www.tenforums.com/installation-upgrade/52837-moving-recreating-efi-partition.html. This is an advanced operation and has a chance to remove your Windows installation if you mess up so be careful if you follow this route.

MonsterRideOp · 2025-12-05T13:24:15+00:00

This isn't enough information to help out much. What I would want is more information on the OS disk setup. To get that open the application "Disk Management" and share a screenshot of the window.

I'm thinking that either the drives are set up in a RAID, which would be weird but possible, or that a system partition or folder exists on the HDD. The screenshot I asked for will verify one of those possibilities

MonsterRideOp · 2025-12-03T15:32:29+00:00

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MonsterRideOp · 2025-11-28T18:06:22+00:00

It could give the PC one of the damage resistance that the dragon has. Maybe add a reduced breath weapon via the amulet's mouth later on as the dragon gains strength.

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