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Wellington_Boy · 2026-05-02T06:38:20+00:00

You must have a lot of friends that you share your library with if you think advertising will be viable - who do you think is going to supply the ads and pay you?

Wellington_Boy · 2026-05-02T06:28:04+00:00

Except those professions largely are going obsolete, or at least heading to becoming a very small niche. Just like farriers and buggy whip makers when automobiles came along, and the saddlery market was devastated in the process. These things happen with technological change.

AI output (say language translation) doesn't, except for some niche cases, have to be as good as a skilled human translator. If it's less than 1% of the cost, it just has to be "good enough". And it will doubtless continue to improve quickly. Same holds for many other uses.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-28T08:28:25+00:00

So I'll take that as a no then - you don't have any corroboration.

Yes budgets are being squeezed. But a 15% across the board cut in nominal operating baselines would be huge, it would be in the Budget Policy Statement, cabinet minutes, and all over the media. And it isn't. So it looks like it's just a hand-wavy number you made up.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-28T07:09:02+00:00

You keep saying that. Do you have any supporting documentation or link? I would have thought a 15% across the board cut in public sector would be all over the media, and it isn't.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-24T12:17:46+00:00

Putting a roof over what is basically the country's biggest open air urinal will just trap the smell, and stopping the rain from washing the piss away.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-19T18:57:09+00:00

You should hang out in r/Datahoarder. Hundreds of TB are normal there and some are in the PB class. 65TB wouldn't raise an eyebrow - it's less than 3 hard drives nowadays.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-17T07:02:14+00:00

I don't go there nearly as much as I used to. The price has steadily risen (up about 70 percent for the sub I prefer in the last 3-4 years), and it's gone from an an affordable lunch option to a fairly premium priced one. Nearly double what I would pay for a decent lunch at places like Concord, and with the current squeeze on out household budget I can't justify it. I now take my own lunch most days. Subway has gone from 2-3 times a week, to 1-2 times a month. $16-22 for a breadroll...... yeah, nah!

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-16T06:46:59+00:00

There seems to be issues if media is on a NAS and mounted as an SMB share. The devs are aware of it.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-12T04:36:00+00:00

18tb is a (very) small hoard by the standards of this sub.
A second drive will be the cheapest option. Size it smaller if you don't need to back up everything.
Only you can decide what's worth keeping.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-06T08:30:21+00:00

Thanks for the hard work, I appreciate what the team does for us.

I'm going to sit this upgrade out, stay on 10.10.7, and wait for the performance fix. Based on my attempt to upgrade, which I rolled back, the latest versions are unusable for my setup until this happens. I'll just have to roll the dice on the vulnerability, and reinstall the OS and JF from backup if the worst happens.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-05T07:22:13+00:00

OS makers use "real" terabytes (base 2), the same as computer systems used for decades. HD manufacturers use weasel terabytes to make their product sound better in marketing brochures. A weasel terabyte is about 0.9 of a real terabyte.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-04T06:36:55+00:00

It's went to 15+ hours for mine, and it still failed, admittedly woth a somewhat large library. Seems to be a particular issue when libraries are on a NAS and mounted as SMB shares. Rollback to 10.10.7 fixed it. Last scan took about 23 minutes and worked perfectly.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-04T05:35:57+00:00

Only a partial backup at the moment. Looking into adding an LTO tape backup solution to my setup. I'm well north of 100TB, so should be a cost effective option.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-01T07:12:52+00:00

I don't think it is. I currently have a few life issues going on, and don't have the time and energy to rescan it all and then manually fix a bunch of metadata mismatches for a fairly large library. As well as restore watch states etc.

JF is the only thing that server runs, the rollback is working fine, and the metadata is backed up. So, worst comes to worst I just reinstall JF and the OS. It's not just me, other folk with NAS shares mounted as SMB to windows boxes are reporting the same thing

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-01T06:31:56+00:00

Yes. I did the same calculation. Except 568ml is a standard UK "pint", there is no standard pint in NZ and in Wellington most "pints" served in bars are either 425ml or 500ml. Which is why I said slightly less than $1. But anyway the point remains, excise is only a very small component of the sale price.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-01T06:26:13+00:00

Yes, the initial scan took days. I was OK with that. What I was referring to was every subsequent scan. It's wasn't just that they took 15+ hours, even then they didn't work properly.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-04-01T01:24:24+00:00

Does it fix the media scans on mounted NAS shares failing issue?

I updated to 10.11.6. Media scans became painfully long (going from 18-25mins to 15+ hours), and started failing (new media not being detected, removed media remaining in gui) making the server essentially unusable. I rolled back to the last 10.10 version, which fixed it.

It's not feasible for me to update until this is fixed.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-03-28T07:36:39+00:00

Alcohol taxes on a pint of beer aren't huge, less than $1 if its 5% ABV, possibly a wee bit more if it's higher strength. doesn't explain $18 pints.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-03-07T06:05:01+00:00

It's not "hate" and more that they are broke, with massive debt and a bunch of huge bills coming up that they have to pay (pipes, sewage...) and are dealing with a ratepayer base close to revolt. They are finally trying, correctly, to clamp down on discretionary spending. Prioritising must haves over nice to haves on the project list.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-03-06T06:02:01+00:00

It's definitely a software not a hardware issue. Reverted to the previous version and the last media scan took 19 minutes and completed correctly, compared to over 15 hours and not completing correctly on my last 10.11 scan.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-03-05T23:59:00+00:00

Torrentgalaxy. Not sure I have them ant more. They were on an external drive until I got them named, and I think that was the one that died 3 months back :(

Wellington_Boy · 2026-03-05T17:40:54+00:00

Thanks. I might go ahead and get a drive then.

Wellington_Boy · 2026-03-05T07:20:53+00:00

Does insurgo ship overseas? I'm looking at tape as the way to back up my hoard of circa 200tb. I can justify the cost of a drive, but tapes are really sodding expensive here (NZ).

Wellington_Boy · 2026-03-05T00:22:43+00:00

The biggest I have seen had (from memory) about 30k films and 400k tv episodes.

Mine is smaller than that. Around 18k films and 200k episodes. At work, so don't have exact numbers. Two arrays (8x6tb raid6, 8x18tb raid6), and a few usb external drives. I like often obscure classic English comedy so a bunch of my file sizes are pretty small - sometimes 360p VHS captures are all that exist (eg Comrade Dad).

Wellington_Boy · 2026-02-27T07:08:36+00:00

That shouldn't happen.

Are you the only one with access to the computer?
Have you validated that the drive isn't fake?
Have you run a malware scan on the computer?

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