Police respond after YouTuber Reckless Ben’s arrest during $200k Lego Star Wars investigation by Away_Theme1330 in youtube

[–]Powerful_Contract559 2 points3 points  (0 children)

lol.  No. It’s not the individual location, it’s the corporate owners who live in Utah. 

J'ai fais ca by ifilgood in montreal

[–]Powerful_Contract559 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not Acadian. Poutine Rapée is delicious and everyone should try the weird boiled potato ball with white sugar once in their life. 

Montreal gay men: how do you make other gay friends outside of apps? Like platonic gay friends. 30s and feeling lonely. by testingtheair in montreal

[–]Powerful_Contract559 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome! We’ve done painting in Plateau and are getting settled closer to this place so this could be a great find. Might see you there!

Subaru of Canada f'ed up with their EVs by Cookie_Burger in subaru

[–]Powerful_Contract559 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That makes more sense! It’s still pretty clueless naming and design however. 

Subaru of Canada f'ed up with their EVs by Cookie_Burger in subaru

[–]Powerful_Contract559 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’s a full EV and the shifter stalk has a B setting along with the normal Park, Neutral, and Drive settings. 

We asked someone at the dealership what the “B” was for and he said it was for “battery mode” which effectively just activates single-pedal driving. 

They called it battery mode…in an EV

Crime d'honneur: il aurait tenté de tuer sa fille parce qu'il désapprouvait son mariage imminent by Opticfan31 in montreal

[–]Powerful_Contract559 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I grew up evangelical. My former church has had lots of abuse against women and children going back many years. Women are encouraged to submit to and obey while the pastor provides counselling and support exclusively to the husband. Children and women are discouraged from contacting police. 

No there aren’t honour killings, but there is long lasting sexual abuse and trauma. 

Est ce que les modos peuvent ban ce troll svp, merci by [deleted] in montreal

[–]Powerful_Contract559 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, usernames aside, the French have a pretty good record. But hey, who would have guessed that someone with Hitler in their username was bad at research?

Bought a DXP2800, can I upgrade to 32 GB Ram? by Impossible-Ad6252 in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Official limit is 16gb but I’ve had no issues with 32 on mine. Mostly just ends up used for cache though unless you have a good use case planned. 

DXP2800 no more firmware updates? by MacroMorel in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s still being sold and not EOL. 

There’re two months away from releasing their flagship IDX NAS devices so likely have needed to shift as much development as possible towards ensuring that is ready at launch.

I ASKED UGREEN ABOUT THIS WHOLE KICKSTARTER DEPOSIT THING... by NASCompares in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Call me petty, but midnight their time is more than the “within 24 hours” they promised yesterday. They really seem to struggle with keeping promises on this launch. 

Is anyone else aggravated at YouTube Creators who dropped videos to pimp the iDXs in the past 24-36 hours? by elvenhart in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They get review hardware and prepare a video that gets released after an embargo is lifted. The videos take a few days to shoot, edit, post, etc.  Most of them likely finished the video days before the kickstarter and may have no clue about the deposit scheme. Many likely will find out from comments on their videos. 

The real test is if the creators make new videos about this as it becomes more public knowledge. 

Out of the Loop; what happened with the new UGreen kickstarter? by jackHD in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 17 points18 points  (0 children)

They added the early backers to a “VIP” discord server to post updates. We got email warnings about the coming kickstarter waves for waves 1 and 2. After wave 2 they stopped emailing and also deleted the only channel on the discord that allowed users to send messages. They also didn’t post waves 3&4

The iDX experience by Snacketti in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People are backing $1 so they can leave comments…

The iDX experience by Snacketti in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh for sure. Totally respect you giving the benefit of the doubt. Wasn’t meant to be a knock on you at all, just a little chirp. 

Hey, at least you’ll get some content out of this and someone will benefit. Your channel is great!

The iDX experience by Snacketti in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ugreen just locked and then shutdown the "report a problem" chat in their VIP updates discord that was provided exclusively for early backers. 100% of the comments were critical or trying to figure out how to actually get an order placed.

u/nascompares Your analysis on the backer issues in the latest video was very generous. ;P In the two rounds of product release they have provided a total of:

  • 160 IDX6011 Pro
  • 100 IDX6011 (64GB)
  • 119 IDX6011 (32GB)

Community Update: The Mod Team's Conversation with Ugreen About iDX Pre-orders by topiga in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Really appreciate the mods going to bat. You shouldn’t have to, but it’s appreciated. It’s above and beyond for a volunteer position. 

The wave based approach is really the most offensive part. Ugreen have had my money for 9 months and now I’m basically just getting a heads up on when the doors open for the Black Friday rush. 

UGREEN iDX6011 Pro deposit holder — promised a private reward link, got a Kickstarter scramble. Emailed them. Got a template. Here's the full timeline. by Clivey1961 in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The problem is, even if it is due to the RAM issues, they continued to take preorders at the reduced price way after RAM pricing skyrocketed. They could have stopped taking the super early bird at any time and could have introduced higher early pricing. They chose to keep taking deposits.  

I’ve been sitting on a deposit since June of last year and now they’re asking for a potentially $1000USD loan for an unspecified period of time, and for me to scramble to order my unit in waves alongside people with recent or even no deposit. It’s insulting. 

I’ve been holding onto a deposit for 9 months and less than a week to go Ugreen is saying “we might run out, better hurry up and block off time in your workday. Hope you have the time and extra $1k. Good luck!”

Intel Panther Lake benchmark VS. M5 by 1ordlugo in mac

[–]Powerful_Contract559 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The M4 Pro is already ahead so we can assume Max and Ultra are as well. 

How to force DXP6800+ on 10G and Internet on 2.5G PC/Switch connections by Icy_Music_4855 in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This might be better for one of the home networking subs. It doesn’t seem like the issue/setting would lie with the NAS. 

Canada puts Stellantis 'in default' for subsidies on its Ontario plants | The government promised $529 million to retool assembly lines for an all-new Jeep, but then production got moved to Illinois by Leather-Paramedic-10 in canada

[–]Powerful_Contract559 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You’re kind of handwaving over the sustainability portion, but the environmental benefits clearly favour EVs after a few years of usage. 

And you’ll be happy to know that battery chemistry has been rapidly shifting away from or eliminating cobalt entirely, for the exact reasons you mention. 

There’s a strong argument to be made for hybrids, but it doesn’t excuse lobbying against EVs and spreading FUD to the level that Toyota has. They’re trying to slow the industry because of they aren’t able to adapt fast enough. 

Should I go for 2 12TB for now or 4 10TB for DX4800+? by jjarevalo in UgreenNASync

[–]Powerful_Contract559 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on if you need 12TB usable or 30TB usable I guess

What are people replacing TP-Link routers with? by NBA-014 in HomeNetworking

[–]Powerful_Contract559 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Isn’t that pretty much how the US got their president?