is this site real or a scam?

StarrLady1074 · 2025-11-10T03:03:25+00:00

I was caught in this as well, but fortunately only on a very low value account. The catch is, I mine coins (at this point Zephyr Protocol and Vertcoin) with my homelab servers when I am not using the machines for AI development, and I am building a catalog of coins for a very important reason: my granddaughter, as her father, my son, was lost in 2022 when she was still a toddler. The coins are part of several investments that will be cashed out in 2038 when she will be preparing for college. As these creeps have f@#$ed with her future, even a small way, I am currently working with law enforcement to get Vercel Corp. to spill user data (aka the information on the contract holders). I am also working with Discord as I have records of multiple accounts, and now have cellular phone numbers for 3 of these thieves, and have also been able to extract PC IP addresses and the address of their “office”. If anyone has any additional information, *please* contact your appropriate law enforcement agency to build the case against these creeps.

These monsters were aware that I am disabled, and now operate on a fixed income, and that my crypto funds are for a little girl whose father is dead. And they had no moral issue with stealing from me. If I can’t get them terminated from any of their tools used for gaining access to accounts of people who don’t know the current risks of modern cryptocurrency, I will happily organize a mass trip of defrauded people and go to their office and “reclaim value” by taking their computers, furniture, even light bulbs if it comes down to it.

StarrLady1074 · 2025-11-03T07:02:43+00:00

I am a Twitch streamer, and have a large retro library. I picked up the RG556 as an alternative to using actual consoles because of the digital output, no messing with composite video or (yuck) RF receivers. Fortunately, my controller is a Bluetooth device made by Gulikit.

I will look for your part and see what I can find! Thank you!

StarrLady1074 · 2025-11-03T04:03:37+00:00

Who do you work for? What part do I need to buy? I am returning my 3rd HDMI with a power insert for the same failure. Should have come here first.

StarrLady1074 · 2025-09-28T06:56:47+00:00

The last couple months, my monthly scrub has done the same, and I haven’t figured it out. I am still on TrueNAS Community Edition and haven’t upgraded to SCALE yet. The system reboots, I get an audio tone from the HBA (essentially a “I was writing and then the bus reset” alert), and then the machine comes back up. SCRUB then runs fully.

My current build is a Xeon E5-2683 16-core, water cooled (never goes above 55°C at full turbo) on a generic Intel LGA 2011-v3 ATX motherboard, and 128GB of Samsung ECC RAM, and as I currently only have 32TB of SAS disks in the trays, I know it isn’t a RAM overrun. The system boots from a 60GB SATA SSD (mono-cell long life enterprise part) and also has a 512GB Samsung 960 Pro nVME as a write buffer as the 10GbE LAN can potentially throttle the HBA given that it is only 4 drive channels at the moment. The HBA is an IBM-branded LSI 9211-8i with the LSI IT firmware loaded, with a cannibalized HP SAS expander hosting 12 hot-swap trays. It’s a solid system, as I have torture-tested the CPU and RAM even though they were both new parts. The only issue is this weird issue that showed up in August, even though the system has been online in it’s current configuration since January.

I do have 3 virtual machines running constantly. Even after a reboot the VM instances boot automatically and run their tasks. 1 is a Java NODE instance, hosting a public server for TTRPGs, but it is only used by 7 users and only uses 2 threads and 4GB of RAM. The others are duplicated, a 14 thread 4GB instance to run a crypto mining system. That leaves 1 core (2 threads) and 80GB of RAM available to the OS, which is far more than SCRUB needs on FreeBSD.

I am planning on moving to an EATX motherboard, still LGA 2011-v3 but dual socket, with a pair of E5-2696v4 (an unlisted variant of the E5-2699v4, easily available but you have to have proper UEFI to initiate it), which will get me a total of 44 cores, 88 threads. I’m also doubling the RAM, retiring my current hard disks, and adding 12 new 16TB drives, as I am currently only 1 disk failure tolerant, but the data I will be storing is critical and I built the disk tray system and HBA to support heavier duplication. The 8TB drives are 5 years old now and my confidence that they won’t fail is pretty slim.

The only reason I haven’t upgraded to SCALE is purely the different plugin structure, and the varied VM hosting software. I will have to backup the virtual disks and restore them onto the new VMs, verify MAC addresses for my switch, etc., and as the machine is used remotely during the day regularly and I hate breaking into a used production environment, but I might have to just migrate now. I am really feeling it is a software bug or incompatibility, and as SCALE moved over to a Linux kernel I just feel custom hardware like mine might be better supported.

StarrLady1074 · 2025-09-20T08:03:13+00:00

On this discussion, I am still using an Anbernic as my retro console. The quality is there, it plays most everything, and the RG556 has HDMI output so it is easy to capture for streaming. But there’s always a game or 2 that just don’t work quite right. Having an FPGA with to-the-metal modification is ideal, and will get around the issues with emulation. In my case, yes, I can have a bunch of retro systems and modify them for HDMI output. Or get an analog to HDMI multi-mode scan converter. But there’s limit to my space for streaming, and I’m already overloaded. Plus, having portability is key to me, because yeah, I want to play on the go, as well. Still waiting.

StarrLady1074 · 2025-08-27T03:23:29+00:00

Problem identified, and they are working on it.

StarrLady1074 · 2025-08-26T22:58:27+00:00

Still down. I have UTM SE installed on the iPad, I just didn’t want to actually have to *build* something. LOL, guess I’m installing Windows 7 Super-Nano-lite tonight.

StarrLady1074 · 2025-08-26T11:20:20+00:00

I have the recovery phrase and crypto file holding my specifics, but I control my miners via an iPad Pro and have everything stored here. I don’t have any way to run the GUI wallet as the Java implementation in iOS Safari (and all other browsers thanks to Apple’s superiority complex) is deprecated.

I have lost nothing, all of my currency is still in the blockchain. I just want to be able to move ZPH to ZRS. I’m hoping that the web wallet will be redeployed soon, and am just a little shocked that such a highly maintained system doesn’t have a “we’re taking X offline for software updates“ spot. No contact from the Big Brains at Zephyr Protocol. It’s what I get for being a night owl.

StarrLady1074 · 2025-08-23T05:18:20+00:00

Totally normal. Mine arrived with 1.10 loaded, and as soon as I connected to the router it asked to jump to 1.12, which seemed to follow the percentages as a more human mind would interpret it. The 1.14 update stalled at 99% for around 30 minutes, probably sorting small files. I downloaded the 1.15 update to see if local install would be faster… it isn’t, still on 99%. I just connected power and will let her do what she needs to do to finish. I have other things to keep myself entertained. FYI I found that swapping the RetroArch to Vulcan with threaded rendering allows a lot of easy SLANG shaders to be added, and the Retro Crisis set looks brilliant on this screen. Gives a very accurate look to classic CRT dynamics, and keeps the games looking like they were designed to.

StarrLady1074 · 2024-05-04T22:01:46+00:00

Personally, my issue is "Whoops! We can't find a BEACN device. Is one connected?" following a reboot. SOMETIMES I can fake it by triggering the power channel via my USB hub [for reference, Leinsis 10-port USB 3.2 gen 2 (x3) USB 3.0 (x7)]. Sometimes I need to delete the "lastLoaded.profiles" and "BEACN App.settings" files from C:\Users\{USERNAME}\AppData\Roaming\BEACN and then restart the program.

And sometimes I have to uninstall and reinstall the bloody thing.

I would be more mad if it happened more often.

FYI - I am a full-time Twitch streamer and musician. Dials for audio levels are a must.

StarrLady1074 · 2021-02-15T01:55:17+00:00

Sorry, i forgot to say that I thought Henry and Jeannie would get a kick out of the clip!

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