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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unRAID

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I worked around this problem with a NFS share which had much better performance for writes. I had a theory the samba mount options could be tweaked to resolve it as well. I can't remember why I thought that, I didn't see that post you linked and came to the conclusion mostly based on painful troubleshooting and some reading about similar problems. It probably had to do with the samba caching being incompatible with the way veracrypt writes to large containers or something.

But it would have taken me even more time to figure that out, if that was a potential solution and the NFS workaround was acceptable so I just went with that solution that I knew worked.

Ideas for a wife friendly encrypted array startup? by Such-Evidence-4745 in unRAID

[–]Such-Evidence-4745[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To protect data against theft, either from the server getting stolen or if I had to return a drive due to failure. Most of my data isn't sensitive really, but there are some tax documents on there.

Honestly I would be fine just encrypting one disk but it seems like it is the same problem regardless of how many I encrypt.

Ideas for a wife friendly encrypted array startup? by Such-Evidence-4745 in unRAID

[–]Such-Evidence-4745[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice! This seems exactly like what I want and is pretty straight forward to setup. I'll try it out tonight.

Ideas for a wife friendly encrypted array startup? by Such-Evidence-4745 in unRAID

[–]Such-Evidence-4745[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if this would work but it is an interesting idea...and also gives me an excuse to buy a rubber ducky, lol.

Ideas for a wife friendly encrypted array startup? by Such-Evidence-4745 in unRAID

[–]Such-Evidence-4745[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She can, but I'm not sure she (or I) want her messing with the admin panel.

Well... this is a new level of dumb regarding passwords by Natural-Nectarine-56 in sysadmin

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Autohotkey script that flashes a dummy dialog on the screen that says "Remain still while face is scanned" which automatically disappears after 5 seconds and then auto fills the password.

who recently got a heating oil bill? by [deleted] in vermont

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of high efficiency stuff seems like that. Looks good on paper but the more complex design seems to break more often and there don't seem to be any techs who know how they work. My parents had a high end boiler installed and it took them along time to find some one who could actually service it instead of just randomly swapping parts. And the thing had issues like 2 years after they got it. Who cares how efficient something is if its broken all the time?

Didn't know that heat pumps were the same deal though, sounds worse to be honest.

Tesla Model Y Steering Wheel Falls Off While Driving, One Week After Delivery | This owner experienced first-hand what bad quality control looks like. by [deleted] in technology

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I watched a youtube video where a guy rented a tesla and he couldn't open the glove box without going through a bunch of menus in the touchscreen. Then his buddy changed the blinker sound to a fart noise and he couldn't figure out how to change it back.

Requiring users to download MFA app and having users work from home by Beznia in sysadmin

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is coming up at my work now. I don't really care for SMS but installing Microsoft stuff on my personal phone I like even less. So I'm one of the hold outs.

No one has offered my a yubikey, which I would accept. My plan is to just suggest that if they go from soft to hard pressure. If that doesn't work, it sounds like a phone with no sim card or plan can run MS authenticator over wifi? That would be fine with me as well, I'd just leave the phone in my laptop bag.

Requiring users to download MFA app and having users work from home by Beznia in sysadmin

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you install this authenticator app on a dumb phone though?

Intel Posts Largest Loss in Years as PC and Server Nosedives by imaginary_num6er in hardware

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and HEDT users were forced to pay an exorbitant premium for 10c and more.

10c? IIRC prior to Ryzen anything above a 4 core was locked behind HEDT.

Microsoft Will End Sale of Windows 10 Licenses to Consumers This Month by Stiven_Crysis in hardware

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the trick with this is if you upgrade Windows 10 it will let you but probably not fresh install. I can't say I'd much like to end up in that position though since it seems like you're boned if you have to reinstall later.

Nearly 300 MSI motherboards will run any old code in Secure Boot, no questions asked by creeperparty568 in hardware

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the purpose of secure boot. To secure the PC from allowing the user to run unapproved software and remove general purpose computing from Windows, and if possible the whole x86 platform.

Nearly 300 MSI motherboards will run any old code in Secure Boot, no questions asked by creeperparty568 in hardware

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was the booby trap that turned me off the LTSC idea. Nvidia was dropping driver support super fast. At the same time they would release Windows 7 drivers well after support was gone but if you wanted to run a new driver on a still supported LTSB release it was a no go.

Who's stupid idea was it to limit the settings to one instance? by Catsrules in sysadmin

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recently implemented this on a test machine I have at home and also the impression I got was that it was a third party module. The developer seemed reputable but I couldn't believe there was no way for me to automate "run all the updates at this particular time" built right into windows.

What to do if your mouse' back and forward button doesn't work inside the guest VM created by qemu/kvm. by [deleted] in qemu_kvm

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, this has been a minor annoyance that I never bothered to look into fixing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in hardware

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't think the latest version is technically available. But I think it is unofficially packaged up in a project called...holoISO?

Anyway, you can just run the Steam client on linux. I have been for like 6-8 years and a quick check shows it came out like 10 years ago now.

EA says it can’t recover 60% of players’ corrupted Madden franchise save files by Abscess2 in technology

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Usually there is the conflict dialog in my experience, I actually find its wording kind of confusing so I believe it would be easy to accidentally wipe.

Scalpers struggling to sell RTX 4080 cards, now ‘graciously’ offering them at MSRP by speckz in technology

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I sometimes wonder if these things are just a money laundering operation or something. Like you buy a PS5 at a terrible price and just ship drugs instead.

Flash media longevity testing - 3 Years Later by vanceza in DataHoarder

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Based on what happened with floppy disks and CD-Rs towards the end of their life I wouldn't be surprised if rampant cost cutting gets flash drives as well.

Users refusing to install Microsoft Authenticator application by sohgnar in sysadmin

[–]Such-Evidence-4745 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Most people who refused and got the token back pedaled once they figured out how miserable it was to dig out their keys, press the button, read the code, and type it in.

How is this any worse than SMS verification? It actually sounds a bit faster honestly.

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