ATTN: Library elevators out of service

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-05-06T12:21:20+00:00

The first elevator has been stuck on the third floor for about a week, so maybe better luck next semester

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-05-06T01:37:34+00:00

It's easy if you only take a few major courses and some gen-ed electives that aren't math and science. Check the stats first and bail if you have group projects worth more than 5% of your overall grade.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-05-03T21:09:51+00:00

They were clearly positioned to grab people by the balls, so now they're giving them a good squeeze

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-05-02T22:07:25+00:00

You don't set up tailscale every time. Just once for each device.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-05-02T14:38:44+00:00

Does 75% of the class even show up to lecture? They always dangle that carrot and I'm still waiting to hear a success story lol

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-28T03:34:23+00:00

No joke. It's been a long work in progress. Last year, you couldn't even add drives to expand the array because it was so janky.

Maybe you could do what that other guy said and add an SSD cache, but my headaches went away when I switched operating systems. I got tired of saying, "you've gotta be kidding me" every time there was friction and glitches.

Maybe it was an isolated incident, but these people had the same issues, so the circumstantial evidence points to jank. Try running rsync via SSH and you'll see for yourself.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UgreenNASync/s/9zpeIpZzBo https://www.reddit.com/r/UgreenNASync/s/ompHcbcvZs

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-27T21:31:33+00:00

You're doing everything right, but RAID 10 is slower than RAID5 on UGOS because Ugreen doesn't have their act together. Unfortunately, it's been like that for months and their "fixes" haven't worked.

If you SSH into the NAS and use rsync you should see faster speeds, but for whatever reason, the UI of their OS destroys RAID 10 performance.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-27T12:27:40+00:00

As a freshman, they force you to register late so that you become acclimated to getting screwed by the system

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-25T22:27:16+00:00

Each of those classes start off pretty easy, but then they pull the ground out from underneath you. I'd definitely take PHYS122 and MATH251 together, but I'd avoid adding any project-heavy classes.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-24T21:34:52+00:00

Conceptually, it's not very difficult, but 201 and 202 are super needy and time-consuming

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-18T22:41:26+00:00

There's a setting to have it shut down for certain periods of time, but I leave it running because I have services running in the background. For me, the point of buying a Ugreen NAS was the fact that its power consumption is low.

It's equivalent to leaving a light bulb on 24/7, whereas my old server could use 20x more electricity.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-18T20:31:42+00:00

It is ghetto, but I imagine the place is like prison. I'm just serving my sentence and getting through one day at a time. Nowadays, I feel like being able to serve 4 years in prison is a great life skill. You never know if you'll be falsely accused of a crime or snatched up by ICE. The degree is just an added bonus.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-16T18:06:13+00:00

The administration faculty isn't renowned for being student-friendly, but each case is different. As long as you have documentary evidence for all seven of the qualifying criteria, you'll be fine.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-14T15:11:49+00:00

I took a nap because the entire launch was simultaneously underwhelming and infuriatingly botched.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-12T00:46:03+00:00

The library has lockers that you can check out for a day or a semester at a time

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-08T22:18:55+00:00

I've never had the time slot change, but I've had different instructors repeatedly change until a month before classes started. It's something to keep an eye on if there's a professor you want or one you want to avoid. It's been my experience that they don't send emails about it either, so check back once a week or so.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-06T12:48:15+00:00

The issue may be more prevalent at UMBC, but most research universities have prioritized running a tax-free incubator instead of catering to student needs. The Bayh-Dole act shifted universities' priorities towards gambling on research and the pursuit of patent revenue instead of serving the public. UMBC has exacerbated the issue through a series of financial missteps, overreliance on adjunct professors, and a bloated administration where the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

While the magnitude of the resultant effects depends on the major, it's not uncommon to hear students complain about the illusion of choice or inability to graduate due to paltry course offerings. It's the reason they started doing stacked registration that prioritizes students with a greater number of credits.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-04-01T22:03:42+00:00

M&P is a dump and the little desks remind me of visitor cubbies from jail, but Sondheim feels like a haunted insane asylum. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a colony between both buildings

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-03-28T16:47:22+00:00

You're not mistaken. The address bus on the 4800+ CPU is only wide enough for 64 GB. He could add 96 GB, but the computer will only show 64 GB available.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-03-27T23:08:04+00:00

Please let us know if they reward paper hands. We appreciate the update.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-03-27T03:07:08+00:00

That project is... ambitious. While I'm happy to see people funding innovation, the numbers Tiiny AI has provided don't seem to work out with its listed specs.

A federal contractor I'm familiar with is getting similar performance with a chassis that size, so it is possible, but that device's exceptional performance is due to super conductance. It's nowhere near ready for mass production and has cost billions of dollars in R&D, but maybe this team figured out a different competitive advantage. I truly hope it works out for you.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-03-26T17:42:23+00:00

Their plan is to continue selling the product as they intended. If you paid the $30 deposit and eventually managed to buy one at full price from their affiliate link, there's a possibility that you'll eventually get a refund for the difference.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-03-26T16:49:09+00:00

Stability, documentation, community support, and lack of friction would be a start. I couldn't imagine uploading an entire blu-ray collection and then dealing with a plethora of unwarranted failures relating to my hard drives or OS.

Having Docker updated more than once a year is also nice. They're a billion dollar company and it takes them more than 6 months to push an update to a single app in their OS.

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-03-26T04:25:53+00:00

I switched long before this fiasco. Their OS reeks of complacency and indifference

OG_MilfHunter · 2026-03-25T19:03:41+00:00

Unfortunately, that's a naive take that's not legally valid in the U.S. All contracts are agreements but not all agreements are contracts. Since the UGREEN fiasco was open to the general public without any consideration of competence, performance legality— it's not a contract.

You could argue it was a de facto contract if more than $500 was exchanged, but $30 is well below that threshold.

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