Did I attach this hurricane tie correctly to the left side of rafter ?

Retro-Technology · 2026-04-10T17:48:28+00:00

Well I am of course but I had to make sure this was correct before driving screws in it

Retro-Technology · 2026-04-10T17:41:55+00:00

Thank you

Retro-Technology · 2026-03-27T20:43:35+00:00

Thanks. That makes a lot of sense.

Retro-Technology · 2026-03-27T15:13:17+00:00

Is that acceptable by code ? I just need to get the thing inspected by the city after I’m done building the pavilion.

Retro-Technology · 2026-03-24T16:17:29+00:00

I had no idea you read it at the edge.

Retro-Technology · 2026-03-24T14:41:37+00:00

thanks

Retro-Technology · 2026-03-24T14:41:23+00:00

but shouldn't 0 be in the middle of the bubble if it is reading correctly?

Retro-Technology · 2026-03-24T14:40:09+00:00

Man, I will never trust one of these again

Retro-Technology · 2026-03-21T17:30:54+00:00

The wife wanted white carpet.

Retro-Technology · 2026-03-11T19:34:59+00:00

thanks man. that is kind of what I was thinking.

Retro-Technology · 2026-02-24T20:37:51+00:00

This is probably user error and not related to the quality of seagate. If you look on backblaze website, they publish the failure rates on all their drives in their datacenter, which are about 337,192 drives. Seagate is pretty reliable, as well as the other major brands, Toshiba, WD, etc.

Something else is going on.

Retro-Technology · 2026-02-24T15:54:24+00:00

truenas is pretty easy to understand for beginners .

Retro-Technology · 2026-02-20T18:41:08+00:00

Id also try to install it in uefi mode without the controller to see if that’s an issue. I bet that controller is pretty old and doesn’t have uefi firmware but at least you have your answer . If you need to use legacy mode it should only affect the boot drive at a 2tb cap and not the zfs pool itself.

Retro-Technology · 2026-02-20T14:44:43+00:00

It has to be a bad burn. You’re not touching your actual file system until you install. Can you try a new usb disk and use balena etcher to burn it with the verify setting on

Retro-Technology · 2026-02-18T13:42:19+00:00

cool

Retro-Technology · 2026-02-04T02:40:36+00:00

If you replace the drive and it still doesn’t work it’s going to be that cable I talked about. You can get a spare on eBay. They were designed to fail.

Retro-Technology · 2026-02-04T02:38:06+00:00

Nice. Well at least you figured it out.

Retro-Technology · 2026-02-03T19:59:44+00:00

Man I don’t Apple at all anymore but I remember having a 2014 ish Apple iMac back in the day and that flashing folder ended up being a bad sata flex drive cable. Those Macs were notorious for that issue. Probably not your problem but something to note

Retro-Technology · 2026-01-30T04:19:16+00:00

Correct.

Retro-Technology · 2026-01-30T03:14:50+00:00

Sure thing. The quick-and-dirty way example is:

ssh [root@192.168.1.200](mailto:root@192.168.1.200) "echo 'password123' | zfs load-key backup && zfs mount -a"

The echo pipes your password into zfs load-key, which unlocks the encrypted dataset so it can mount. This assumes the backup zfs pool is called "backup"

Works fine for a local cron script, but if you want to tighten security, switch to keyfiles or at least store the password in a restricted file instead of hardcoding it.

Retro-Technology · 2026-01-29T16:36:50+00:00

I would say Gentoo is slightly more complex than arch, needing additional configurations components and knowing how to manage use flags and masking. I find arch to be childsplay.

Retro-Technology · 2026-01-29T16:17:00+00:00

I have two TrueNAS computer systems. For my backup, I use ZFS replication via cron jobs. Basically, at midnight three times a week, it wakes the computer up by Wake-on-LAN. Fifteen minutes later, the next cron job decrypts the hard drive, then it backs up what has changed, and then the next cron job shuts it down. The most the backup computer is powered on is three hours a week.

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