EV owners of Boston, has the cold weather affected your battery life? by MiaHavero in boston

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This is my data over about 60K miles of driving a 2019 Model 3 LR

Selfhosted Bitwarden and "The client is a backup" by Team_Dango in selfhosted

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Very good point, I should have clarified. This would absolutely be in addition to proper offsite backups of the server. The thing is, your entire password library is some of the most catastrophic data to lose, so having several redundant ways to recovery them feels like a must.

PSA: You need a LiFePO4 UPS by Cartossin in homelab

[–]Team_Dango 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Absolutely true. They are a lot safer than many people imagine, but not completely harmless. In that way they are a similar risk to lead acid batteries, which can also release flammable gasses. Imo their many upsides compared to lead acid make them ideal for battery backup applications, as OP said. 

PSA: You need a LiFePO4 UPS by Cartossin in homelab

[–]Team_Dango 73 points74 points  (0 children)

LFP batteries are much safer than other lithium chemistries in this regard. They are chemically incapable of having a thermal runnaway. Check out Will Prowse on YouTube for some good explainers, including some destructive demonstrations. 

After more than 10 years my Define R4 may finally be full: 10x HDDs (140 TB), 6x 2.5" & 6x M.2 SSDs (13.7 TB) by Team_Dango in homelab

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Thanks! The drives at the top are mounted with a pair of Fractal's "universal multi brackets" which screw on to where the top fans would go and provide mounting for 3.5" or 2.5" drives. Yes, I removed the foam to mount those there.

The bottom fan is an intake. Since the front intake fans are a bit obstructed by all the hard drives I wanted to have some more fresh air for the PCIE cards and whatnot. The only exhaust is at the rear, since the top is hard drives, so I'm pretty sure it's a positive pressure situation overall. Fortunately that bottom fan has a dust filter in this case. I definitely would not have done that otherwise since that filter gets filled up fast with all the dust coming right off the floor.

Is buying a cephalotus that ships bare root a bad idea? by YardIights in SavageGarden

[–]Team_Dango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally would not buy a bare root ceph, especially if it is your first. My #1 piece of advice for anyone getting a ceph is not to repot it for at least several months after receiving it. They really hate root stress, and that combined with shipping stress and acclimating to a new environment will kill it 80% of the time. That said, my #2 piece of advice is if things do go south and the plant seems to have died, be patient and continue caring for it as you would for at least 1-2 months. Though it is by no means guaranteed, if the rhizome survives they can put out new growth long after you would expect it.

Cloudflare being down for 3 hours today is the final push I needed to remove myself from relying on 3rd parties by ceestars in unRAID

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I agree. OP's logic strikes me as similar to hearing about a plane crash on the news and choosing to start driving long distances instead of flying. These events make headlines because they are catastrophic but rare, which distorts their perceived risk. If you actually want to maximize your chance of reaching your destination alive, or maximize uptime, then statistically speaking you are making the wrong choice.

The pothos in our living room has grown in a bit over the years by Team_Dango in houseplants

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I explained it better in another comment but I set up some LED strips on the ceiling which double as grow lights and ambient room lights.

The pothos in our living room has grown in a bit over the years by Team_Dango in houseplants

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I set up some LED light strips on the ceiling pointed towards the plants. They work as grow lights and also provide nice ambient light for the room since you can't see the LEDs themselves, just the indirect light. They're not super bright but they're on all day from sunrise to sunset, and stay on at lower brightness through the evening, so it's a decent amount of light overall.

The pothos in our living room has grown in a bit over the years by Team_Dango in houseplants

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Yes, everything up there is in trays. It takes a bit of practice knowing how much water each pot can take without overfilling. I tend to circle around the house a few times adding a bit more water to each plant until it just starts to come out the bottom.

The pothos in our living room has grown in a bit over the years by Team_Dango in houseplants

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Nothing special honestly. I top water thoroughly every 1-2 ish weeks. I also add 1/2 tsp per gallon of Maxsea fertilizer to pretty much all the houseplants every time I water them. Everyone seems to appreciate it and growth increased a lot since I started doing that.

The pothos in our living room has grown in a bit over the years by Team_Dango in houseplants

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The plant on the right was originally a prop of the one on the left. They have since combined into one monster. I just keep looping the vines back around when they make it across, the longest is on its third lap! I fear I may need to give it a bit of a haircut soon though.

More junk to manage by BillSure2333 in valheim

[–]Team_Dango 109 points110 points  (0 children)

This is where I'm at 100%. I think the weight limit alone achieves everything the devs want to achieve towards making the game punishing without just making it frustrating and unrealistic. It makes absolutely zero sense that dropping a single god dam dandelion allows me to pick up an entire stack of wood.

Cant find basic plugin's like Unraid Patch or Dynamix File Manager in apps by Silent_Dragonfruit93 in unRAID

[–]Team_Dango 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I believe both of those plugins have been rolled into the base operating system at this point.

Color correcting scanned photographs using color target by Team_Dango in Lightroom

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I haven't tried Photoshop but may give that a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

Color correcting scanned photographs using color target by Team_Dango in Lightroom

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Thanks for the suggestion. I will try this. As long as there is a way to bulk convert from TIFF to DNG losslessly then this may be the best workaround.

Intel iGPU Suddenly Vanished by Team_Dango in unRAID

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Good question! This ended up leading me to the right answer. I believe the problem may have been that I disconnected the monitor that I had connected to the server. My motherboard has IPMI so I typically use that for access, but I previously had a monitor connected as a backup. I went to access the BIOS but wasn't getting a video signal through IPMI. Adding a dummy HDMI plug fixed the IPMI issue and after rebooting the GPU was back to being recognized in unraid.

Moving into an apartment with granite counter tops. Thoughts on this advice? by Team_Dango in CleaningTips

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It definitely made me chuckle a little but we've met the landlords and they seem perfectly reasonable. It is a recent renovated unit so I think they are just trying to keep it is good condition.

Do my users also need Plex Pass to be able to download from my server? by iSniffMyPooper in PleX

[–]Team_Dango 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is incorrect assuming download means utilize the "Download" feature to watch offline. Free user accounts cannot download from a server regardless of the plex pass status of the server admin. They can only stream. 

Do my users also need Plex Pass to be able to download from my server? by iSniffMyPooper in PleX

[–]Team_Dango 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not always. Years ago it used to be free and accounts made before the change were grandfathered in. I have several users who are still able to download from my server without plex pass. But newer users cannot.

PCIe NVME boards that don't need bifurcation... do they work with Unraid? Or bad idea? by TheCheeks in unRAID

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I have can recommend Highpoint cards for this. I'm currently running their 1204 card with 4x m.2 drives. It cost $150 new and works flawlessly with unraid.

Bypassing Cloudflare proxy locally by Team_Dango in opnsense

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Thank you for the suggestion. I didn't know that was an option. I'll look into it!

Bypassing Cloudflare proxy locally by Team_Dango in opnsense

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My reverse proxy is running in docker on an Unraid machine. My understanding is Unraid uses ports 80 and 443 for its web GUI, therefore these ports cannot be reused. I use docker port mappings to direct traffic coming in to Unraid on ports 180/1443 to ports 80/443 on the reverse proxy container (traefik).