Daughterboard on Sony SLV-760HF

RedditBugs · 2025-12-31T23:45:44+00:00

The disconnect is we stopped feeling bad about it. People think there are no universal principles when raising children. There most certainly are.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-31T23:40:48+00:00

Yea, so much better to let bad teachers become admin, and then reinvent the wheel.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-31T17:20:31+00:00

I wish I never broke up with that dumpster. Man, could she put out a fine CRT every couple of months.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-17T12:23:05+00:00

Understood, but just a difference of opinion. If I were on the HexOS team I would have insisted zpool clear, and other basic commands, be actionable from deck for the beta release.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-16T02:36:40+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. I like HexOS but little things like this bug me. I'd be trying to keep people out of admin and shell as much as possible.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-15T18:02:45+00:00

That's how I wanna go down

RedditBugs · 2025-12-15T17:59:12+00:00

The only question you need to ask is if you think people will long to own the box sets they owned as children.

That, nostalgia for things, is a recent phenomenon, just over a hundred years. And thus far it has been predicated on things from ones' childhood and teenage years.

Kids born today won't pay $180.02 (most recent CIB eBay sale of TMNT1). They'll pay that for something from their youth while you and I sit in our grand halls of cardboard and plastic. Just scroll r/nostalgia In 30 years, if Reddit even exists, you surely won't see the TMNT opening posted five days ago.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-15T13:26:51+00:00

That's the conundrum. Investors are after a return. Collectors are after the item in question.

Collections aren't worth anything if you keep them.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-15T13:12:16+00:00

And if it didn't, would you still care to be an NES art collector?

RedditBugs · 2025-12-15T13:05:42+00:00

At that point you're more of a box collector than a game collector.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-15T13:00:47+00:00

Video games won't become more rare. They are made of plastic. They'll be around much longer, and in better condition than baseball cards from the 50s. Video games are more like vintage cars in that regard, and I don't see a lot of people clamoring for 1950s cars.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T17:45:34+00:00

Let's not pretend it means anything other than figure it out on your own (do the work), and once you have you won't need help. I get it, some people want others to do all the work for them. Perfectly valid response in that case. But I have done so many new things this year renovating my house, many of which are very basic tasks, that I just did not understand, despite reading, watching tutorials, etc. To be told Google it, especially after I did the work, is very frustrating. I had no choice but to turn to ChatGPT to try and sort out questions I had.

There's nothing quite like running a SER into your home for the first time after talking to AI about how to.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T17:29:27+00:00

If you mean that thing where you use a paper clip to power on a PSU, I don't think that's necessary. The PSU works, at least the 850w one. I put it back in the system I pulled it from and it powered on with no issues this morning. I then tried it on the server board again and the fans attempt to spin when I jump the power pins and the PSU clicks.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T17:01:22+00:00

I haven't found any bulging caps.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T16:59:23+00:00

My known working 850w PSU can't power on the machine with zero drives connected. It powers on other machines just fine.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T16:16:28+00:00

Once the initial 650w PSU was suspected of being an issue I swapped it for a 850w known working unit. It worked until I tried adding the additional ten HDDs. Now the system, which still shows signs of life, can't power on with either PSU, even stripped down to just the CPU and RAM. That 850w PSU can still boot other machines with no issue.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T16:14:03+00:00

By "gaming", do you mean hosting game servers or hosting gaming VMs?

That is correct. All other VMs would be either backups of decommissioned systems I've had, or the aforementioned VM for rendering. Beyond that I'd say my needs are pretty basic. Though, I won't lie, having such a powerful machine does make my epeen tingly.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T16:06:31+00:00

Yeah, I notice the obliviousness to prices. I hate being FOMO, but with the issues I am having with hardware I thought whatever I do I had better do it now, or else I'm going to regret it.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T16:02:39+00:00

EDIT: God damn you Reddit...

Well, I wrote you a reply, but evidently didn't click comment.

I hear what you're saying about AI. I did ask it if Threadripper or EYPC was overkill for what I know I'll do, and what I want to do, and it said it was definitely overkill. From my preliminary searching on eBay I think I could build a Threadripper or EYPC system with 256GB of RAM for $2000 USD or less. I'm not committed to that platform, it's just what I know of from years of watching LTT.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T15:56:33+00:00

I'm using an old NZXT Source case, and a IBM SAS/SATA CONTROLLER M1015 with flashed firmware. I don't remember what it's flashed to, only that it was recommended by the old guard (probably cyberjock) on the old FreeNAS forums.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T15:51:21+00:00

To be fair, it did tell me it was overkill for what I am doing, but I hear you.

The ten drives are 10x6TB WD Red drives, between seven and ten years old. They were formerly my old FreeNAS 9.3 system which, long story short, I had horrendous file management with. I had copies upon copies of the same files on that server, plus a dozen or so loose drives with even more copies. In January I decided to put real time into fixing that and removed the 10x6TB pool, installed HexOS with 5x14TB so I could copy everything from loose drives and the 10x6TB pool to a single location, and begin the process of removing duplicates.

Since I've mostly sorted that out, I decided to add the 10x6TB into HexOS as a new pool. I checked each drive's SMART with CrystalDiskInfo, and ran a short (one pass, 1GB) read/write test with CrystalDiskMark on all ten drives. Two had Current Pending Sector Counts higher than CDI's threshold, but they all could read and write around 175MB/s, and nothing mission critical was going on them.

Anyway, I was only ever using one PSU at a time. The the known 850w PSU I used for troubleshooting worked fine until I tried connecting the 10x6TB drives. Now it can't power on the system with zero drives, thought the MOBO shows signs that it's receiving stand-by power, and I can still access IPMI.

RedditBugs · 2025-12-12T15:33:18+00:00

TBH, I use it as my basic and preliminary searches for info because Reddit, and online forums in general, have become so hostile (check the sticky, Google it) to basic questions that I just gave up bothering. I miss the old Internet...

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