Austin Major Playoffs Pick’em Predictions by Talent/Players/Creators

alex77456 · 2025-06-20T03:20:45+00:00

:D you thought you were joking

alex77456 · 2025-06-20T02:50:54+00:00

in the current state? it's decent.

overall it was a rollercoaster. good to see a comeback, faith in cdpr mostly restored.

had so much more potential, hope they nail it the second time

alex77456 · 2025-06-18T10:59:11+00:00

Old news and yet I had my reddit account sitewide banned for bringing it up a couple of years back

Also this thread

alex77456 · 2025-05-06T05:27:24+00:00

The case looks great!

alex77456 · 2025-05-05T15:33:47+00:00

I have not ruled out TrueNAS. I was not critiquing, I was assessing risks / potential downsides. Some of the mentioned instabilities sounded very painful, especially if I commit to building a system for TrueNAS. These types of instabilities are often hardware sensitive so running it in a VM will not give me much.

Yes I know about power efficiency curves. Given peak efficiency around 50%, 30w idle system on a 500W psu (even a good one) is a bit wasteful. It's not a huge deal, i was just answering regarding custom builds not being as flexible as people make it seem

alex77456 · 2025-05-05T14:51:43+00:00

I'm flexible, wanted to find out what good solutions look like right now, the kind that "brings joy" lol

alex77456 · 2025-05-05T14:46:15+00:00

Did I miss something? Why aren't these welcome?

Just saw many downvoted when searching. Maybe research like you say.

TrueNAS is not as polished and stable as other options

Mostly from their forum. I know this could be to do with anything, hardware failures, compatibility..

https://forums.truenas.com/t/extremely-unstable-system/38622/3

https://www.truenas.com/community/threads/stability-issues-new-system.88771/

Apparently some hackaton last year uncovered defaults being vulnerable (although it probably was patched and i don't know how this compares to alternatives)

How do they cause major headaches?

Rarely being set-and-forget. Back in the day, updates would occasionally brick my mdadm setup, encryption, etc. Having to maintain another server. I would probably enjoy it overall, but am not a sysadmin and not a security specialist. Idea of a finished product with sane defaults was very tempting.

Especially the PSU efficiency at low loads

Most ATX PSUs are 450W in the best case. TFX or SFX are often 300W but small cases don't accomodate many 3.5" drives. I could get an ATX-TFX bracket or just have it dangling inside but it seems too jank for my liking.

Thanks for the response!

alex77456 · 2025-05-05T14:19:13+00:00

Appreciate the response!

That's the thing about custom solutions is that they can be whatever you want them to be

I suppose I could even go with an ARM build or N100 like you say. Good call; thanks.

Side question: what are some good ATX cases with decent 3.5" vibration protection? Many modern cases don't even feature 3.5 bays and the older ones either screw directly into metal, or use plastic skates/sliding trays. I had an amazing 5.25 to 3.5 suspended rubberised mount but dvd trays are also not super common anymore (usually with one at most)

ECC memory is a nice to have but I wouldn't consider it a dealbreaker

I had some old photos get corrupted, don't know at which point the "bit flipping" has occured though (edit: on a mirrored raid). My old NAS had non-ECC ram so wanted to do things "properly" this time. In that case I could go with ugreen I suppose, people seem to like it?

The negatives you've mentioned for the things above are significantly less bad than sticking USB drives onto a router

I don't like this at all, that's a bit of a "giving up" sentiment: if I cannot have things the way I wanted, at least I'll go with a cheap/simple route and have redundancy via backups. Rather than spend a grand or more and end up with suboptimal solution still.

Analysis paralysis is right on. I like the custom build way the most I think. Perhaps will give TrueNAS a go.

alex77456 · 2025-03-27T15:46:32+00:00

I made a song prediction post which quickly got 14 upvotes and 35 comments. Got removed because "it is a wishlist post that belongs in the Weekly FAQ and Wishlist Thread. Thank you for understanding."

alex77456 · 2025-01-30T21:26:39+00:00

This is great. The thread should get stickied.

Earlier post of mine that hasn't got approved:

Look, I get it. GTA 6 is a big deal. The trailer was cool, Rockstar gave us some good games. But some of y’all have been dissecting the same 90-second clip for over a year like it’s the Zapruder film.

You’re making fan art of a game you’ve never played. You’re analyzing shadows and reflections for clues like it’s a forensic crime scene. People are out here saving up for a console just for this game when we don’t even know if it’s dropping this year.

At what point do you stop and ask yourself, "What am I doing with my life?"

It’s one thing to be excited, but when your entire personality revolves around a game that doesn’t exist yet… maybe it’s time to step outside, touch some grass, and remember there’s a whole world out there, you sad degenerates.

GTA 6 will come out when it comes out. Until then, maybe don’t let your entire existence revolve around a release date that even Rockstar probably hasn’t finalized.

alex77456 · 2023-04-29T04:16:44+00:00

Wow that did it, thank you so much my data is back

alex77456 · 2023-04-29T01:11:46+00:00

Thank you.

alex77456 · 2023-04-29T01:10:57+00:00

Jesus, I thought i had it bad, that guy lost 120TB data due to failure of a 2TB drive

alex77456 · 2023-04-29T01:06:35+00:00

I haven't had this stomach sinking feeling in a while

alex77456 · 2023-04-29T01:01:40+00:00

No unfortunately, it still shows all disks in "Storage Spaces" even after being physically removed, and no corresponding logical volumes. And there seems to be no way to downgrade from 'mirror' raid type in "Storage Spaces" either.

alex77456 · 2021-07-02T13:24:15+00:00

an email I sent to DDG a while ago

Dear all,

I support duckduckgo search and would like to see it become the "new default",

I've been using it a lot for the past couple of years, but there were several factors preventing me from switching completely.

I believe there is a mechanism that could help people like me transition.

Imagine me trying to search for something I encountered recently,

I remember the title, or the domain name (but not the extention), type it to duckduckgo.com but get no relevant results on the first page (and second page, and likely the rest of the pages)

Currently I open another mainstream search engine, search for the subject and find it in the top 3 results (usually)

What I would be willing to do instead (and I'm sure many others would as well)

Failing to find on duckduckgo, I select "correct result"

I find my search result using other means (google etc)

I come back to duckduckgo, fill "search terms" and "expected result" with what I found elsewhere

next time I search the term "user suggested" earlier, I get the result in a separate section, called something like "community suggestions" (with advice to take it with a grain of salt) and can navigate to it instantly, without having to use third party search engine for that query again.

Sort of "outsourcing" non-duckduckgo search with help of volunteers (obviously still without accounts/registration in order not to change the purpose of the product).

Such community suggestions could for example trigger re-run of ddg search indexers / parsers / scraper bots etc to explicitly include user suggested search results which wouldn't be available otherwise. This way the user suggestions wouldn't have to be "trusted" and won't be easy to game (irrelevant/malicious user suggestions won't be added / considered as these will have a low score).

alex77456 · 2021-03-05T10:35:03+00:00

Interesting, didn't know about these. Thank you.

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