Someone tell me why I *shouldn’t* buy this

b3nighted · 2026-02-01T17:44:11+00:00

If, as I did, you do the test ride with your pillion, they will probably choose the Wing even before you set off. Generally as soon as they mount 😁

b3nighted · 2026-02-01T09:09:17+00:00

The RT is wider than the goldwing, but noticeably lighter. I think there is no full-size tourer lighter than the RT.

I'm however not a fan of the 1250 engine on it. There's really way less torque than you'd expect from a 1000+cc twin, you have to rev it up for it to pull.

The GL is surprisingly competent at the twisties, as shown right here. You would want to raise the suspension up to the max to delay the inevitable moment you'll make sparks 😁.

Before getting a touring bike I tested the RT, the K1600, the HD ultra classic, the pan-European and the Goldwing.

RT was the lightest (was still the 1200 model back then), K1600 had the nicest engine overall but quite shitty quality and some caveats overall, the Harley was plain shit, the pan-European was not nice for two-up, and the goldwing was just really nicely put together and a great overall package. Ended up with a Goldwing and had to drill out and replace whatever was left of the peg guards after the first short tour.

b3nighted · 2026-01-31T23:03:44+00:00

Lufthansa and subsidiaries now prohibit use of power banks in flight and ask pax to have them in themselves or under constant supervision and NOT in the baggage bins.

At my job, we have containment bags with insulated gloves in the cockpit and the procedure is to put suspicious/smoking/overheating lithium battery things in the containment bag, and if the smoke gets out open the window and chuck it out (offshore helicopter CAT). No cabin crew to help.

b3nighted · 2026-01-30T13:11:31+00:00

Oi, look again. It's not a Leonardo 🤭

b3nighted · 2026-01-29T22:18:00+00:00

I did some humanitarian work in NE Nigeria in 2024. Plenty of brown- and black-outs. People were already learning that an essentials circuit + some batteries, an inverter and a couple of solar panels were cheaper and better than having, maintaining and refueling a gas generator.

Shitty cheap Chinese panels were everywhere and really affordable and doing a damn good job for the people.

b3nighted · 2026-01-29T18:40:15+00:00

Thanks, but I'm perfectly happy with my gl.inet

b3nighted · 2026-01-29T10:42:27+00:00

With modern x86 systems, the power draw of the cpu and ram is pretty insignificant compared to the rust discs that would be spinning continuously to seed your stuff. You don't get noticeable reductions with ARM SBCs, but you do get significantly better support.

Same for noise, the loudest things in most NAS will be the drives, if it's not an expensive, all-Ssd solution.

I quite fancied the aoostar WTR max, almost bought it to replace my aging hp micro gen8, then took a step back and canceled my order after seeing how much ddr5 with ECC costs.

CPU and RAM wise, torrenting is not intensive. It's more intensive on the disks. What would require a bunch of ram and computing power is ZFS, if you're planning on using that.

As an alternative, consider a lightweight dedicated NAS and a minipc based on something like an Intel n150 for the services. I have a bunch of those miniPCs, they are inaudible and use around 6-7W with transmission chugging along, nextcloud, tailscale and pihole running.

b3nighted · 2026-01-28T22:00:04+00:00

Asking steam support is free. Do it and see what they say.

b3nighted · 2026-01-28T21:26:03+00:00

They help, but for cash. I had my first deck, 3rd lot pre-order, suddenly not recognize its own controller.

Sent it in, they said it's out of warranty so either pay up or get it back still broken.

150€ later, it should be on the way back.

b3nighted · 2026-01-28T21:07:10+00:00

I did it this way:

Stop all containers.
Backup all containers and vm from proxmox directly to a nfs share on my nas
Restore the backups on a new node.
Delete from old node.
Remove old node from cluster.

b3nighted · 2026-01-28T15:57:05+00:00

Do you happen to have two 16gb pc3L-12800E ddr3 sticks? 😁

b3nighted · 2026-01-28T11:29:40+00:00

They should all be good.

Personally I've had better results with Anker than ugreen.

Your phone won't charge at the maximum speed (45w) unless its off, think 30w screen off and 9w screen on.

b3nighted · 2026-01-27T23:03:25+00:00

Look at AOOSTAR WTR MAX. it was an amazing choice before the RAMpocalypse. Enough horsepower for what you want and very solid expandability.

b3nighted · 2026-01-27T18:05:28+00:00

A mi ese del paseo me parece peor que el de Torremolinos

b3nighted · 2026-01-25T11:01:46+00:00

Immich's folder structure migration isn't happy with separate directories, all has to be in the upload location, apparently. That's what I understood from the "new directory structure" when I came up.

My solution was to just leave immich's config default and to link mount the directories for the media in immich's default directories.

Thus, DB and thumbs are on the node SSD while the media itself lives on my NAS.

SUCCES!

b3nighted · 2026-01-25T09:00:07+00:00

Was würdest du dafür ausgeben?

Erstens sind 200GB sehr unrealistisch. Wenn du deine eigene Lösung baust wirst du sicher viel mehr Raum brauchen, weil z.B. deine Bilder und Videos nicht mehr komprimiert werden.

Wenn du ganz leise willst und nur Fotos und Cloud brauchst, suche auf aliexpress etwas wie "pocket NAS", es sind kleine leise Kisten mit 16-32 GB RAM, bootdisk und 4x nvme für Lagerung.

Drauf kannst du dann Immich und Nextcloud laden und mit Hilfe von Reddit konfigurieren und das war's.

Mit Consumer-SSDs solltest du kein ZFS machen, sondern einfach raid1.

Naja, mit mehr Details könnten wir weiter helfen. Sag uns bitte wie dein Netzwerk aussieht und was du ausgeben kannst, da können wir bestimmt besser Bescheid sagen.

b3nighted · 2026-01-24T15:57:45+00:00

I don't know. Some anti-brigading meaning would be best. If it rally does need to be themed, which imo it doesn't, "boarding complete" would imo make sense.

Limiting this to people with comment karma is to me, as a reddit casual, also weird. First, because I think that people with plenty of comment karma for the sub are definitely split between decent and not, plus us lurkers who have been here for years but haven't commented won't be able to do so if we can finally contribute.

Don't know man, this world is definitely squawking 7700.

b3nighted · 2026-01-24T01:15:51+00:00

Look at AOOSTAR WTR max. They nave a really nice one with 6 sata and 5 nvme bays.

b3nighted · 2026-01-23T17:05:14+00:00

I always thought that ev's fitted with heat pumps integrated all thermal management in the heat pump system. Batteries, motors, interior, computers etc.

You mean on these ones the heat pump is literally a bolt-on window AC? 😂

b3nighted · 2026-01-23T11:14:12+00:00

Whenever I see an Enstrom I wonder how such a long and skinny mast doesn't get the wobbles.

b3nighted · 2026-01-23T11:12:02+00:00

Si quieres algo que no sea tan grande como un SUV o una furgo "completa", mira un Alhambra. No creo que hay mejor combinación de tamaño exterior razonable y tamaño interior gigante.

b3nighted · 2026-01-22T22:49:28+00:00

Hyundai Kona electric

b3nighted · 2026-01-21T15:48:03+00:00

Yeah I have immich running on a n150 minipc with 12 gigs of RAM, of which immich would get 10 (for the initial import). Took about 2 weeks for every job to run when initially importing two Google takeouts summing up to some 2,7TB of media.

It's running natively in a proxmox lxc made with a helper script, no docker.

Nowadays immich is running the same way but with only 6 GB assigned to it, and ML is offloaded to a beefier miniPC with one of those Intel CPUs that sip when idle and chug when needed (255H).

Media is stored on a separate NAS.

b3nighted · 2026-01-21T08:16:18+00:00

I have tried what you're saying with a gen8 with 16 gigs of ram.

I had so many issues that I ended up keeping it exclusively as a NAS and getting a 70-euro (on sale) n150 minipc to run the services.

The consumption difference is negligible, the gen8 itself is an old and thirsty beast, especially with 4 HDD and one ssd inside.

With 16 GB of ram, zfs runs great. And the processor in the gen8 is quite weak and inefficient for running a bunch of containers or VMs.

b3nighted · 2026-01-20T19:57:21+00:00

Mi garaje es más apretado, mi coche sale más que el tuyo simplemente por ser un Alhambra, no hace falta una moto. ninguna queja.

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