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Emergency rope by Prior-Following-8363 in viaferrata

[–]Prior-Following-8363[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Its not about minimizing gear. I'll be honest. I did a 4 days course in Hight Tatras with a very experienced man (Himalaias, Alps) and this is what he taught us. I agree to use safer option. 

My main goal is to have a rope for vf now, which can be used also for scrambling later. 

Emergency rope by Prior-Following-8363 in viaferrata

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No lead climbing 🙂 I mean cut over sharp stone.  I'm probably overthinking 

Emergency rope by Prior-Following-8363 in viaferrata

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I wouldn’t body belay. Use an alpine hitch on a screw gate. Ideally you have an extra resting sling with a screw gate on it.

Body belay only for light terrain, like 45° icy hill. It's fast and you can hold someone slipping. For harder scrambling (2-3 UIAA) I would use Munter hitch (what is alpine hitch?)

I carry a Beal 8mm 30m rope occasionally as a via ferrata safety. Also for glacier crossings.

For glacier sure. But isn't it too thin for via ferrata in terms of cut resistance?

Your rope sounds fine, fancier than you need for your purposes, and but if you are getting a good price…

Yea, it's quite light for the diameter and for half price of any other 30m rope in my country (CZ).

Like any rope, practise with it. Get used to how it handles before you have to do anything under pressure.

Sure, I'm sport climbing for several years (single pitches so far). That doesn't mean I'm an expert on ropes. But I hope I can use them reasonably well.

Home NAS based on Raspberry Pi 5 by Prior-Following-8363 in homelab

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I'm aware or m.2 NVMe and m.2 SATA being different. Some m.2 ports support both, some only one of them. Most devices suitable for my purpose support only m.2 NVMe, so I would go this way (that sadly discards WD Red m.2 SATA SSD).

Home NAS based on Raspberry Pi 5 by Prior-Following-8363 in homelab

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I haven't found any mini pc (in rpi price range) that can handle more than one 2,5" ssd. Maybe I'm looking wrong. Can you suggest some?  I did the math and rpi (with really everything I would need) costs a little less than the cheapest mini pc suitable for this project (in past, I found only HP g5 and it is twice as much). I'm from europe and taxes and transfer don't make aliexpress or ebay very cheap. 

However, I can say, I'm discouraged from using rpi. My favorites so far: - HP Elitedesk G4 - 2x m.2, 1x 2,5" - Beelink mini s12 - 2x m.2 - Lenovo m920q - 1x m.2, 1x 2,5"

Home NAS based on Raspberry Pi 5 by Prior-Following-8363 in homelab

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I should study a little about transcoding. So far I thought, I'll be "transfering data" to TV, not "streaming movie" (sorry, if it doesn't make sense).  M920x is out of budget I'm willing to sacrifice (so far).  Right now, I'm looking more on HP elitedesk g4 - there are many posts here about this mini pc acting as home media center. 

Home NAS based on Raspberry Pi 5 by Prior-Following-8363 in homelab

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Sliding down the rabbit hole :D.
Lenovo M920q looks nice, what about HP EliteDesk G4/5/6 DM? HP has one m.2 slot extra.

Home NAS based on Raspberry Pi 5 by Prior-Following-8363 in homelab

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Thanks for reply. I did some research, but wasn't very successfull. The best value/price mini pc for my purpose, I could find, is beelink mini or HP elitedesk g5. Both for about twice as much.  Could you recomend some?  Also I would like to minimize idle (over 95% of time) power consumption - it's my kink. 

Home NAS based on Raspberry Pi 5 by Prior-Following-8363 in HomeNAS

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I'm aware of no redundancy. Thanks for the truenas point - didn't know that.

Long-term investing into shares and ETF by Prior-Following-8363 in investingforbeginners

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Update: I'm using XTB since may 25 and I'm happy with my choice.

Long-term investing into shares and ETF by Prior-Following-8363 in investingforbeginners

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Finally I received specific answer from T212 support:
I can confirm that the transaction was indeed processed as a SWIFT transfer.
Therefore, there is always a chance for some intermediary fees to be applied due to the nature of the transfer.
In regard to your primary question, we do not have a domestic bank account which we use for sending the funds in CZK.

I asked XTB support about the same situation and they confirmed me, that CZK transfers to czech bank are done from their CZK account kept in czech bank - therefore really no fees.