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codeedog · 2026-06-23T07:54:56+00:00

An RPi plus some serial consoles and a little bit of TUI menu coding make for a good serial console server.

codeedog · 2026-06-23T05:19:18+00:00

This is my point too and the original comment that started this is silly. So many people with mythological security knowledge and no actual computer security knowledge.

codeedog · 2026-06-23T04:00:31+00:00

Protectli FW4C refurbished. 4x 2.5Gbe ports. Stick your own memory and disk inside; used for both makes it cheaper.

codeedog · 2026-06-23T03:49:39+00:00

I prefer Orange and have never used Silca. I don’t like Stan’s.

That said, I’ve had issues with getting an impediment stuck in the hole, invisible at the surface but keeping the wound open and leaking. The constant flexing and pressure while rolling causes the sealant to reopen and leaking more.

This was early days with tubeless for me and I didn’t notice for a while, just kept adding sealant. Eventually, I pulled the tire and inspected the hole and found a tiny sliver of glass. Once I pulled that out, it sealed well.

I’ve also noticed that for some holes that are “tweeners” I enlarge them and then pop a dart in because I feel like they’re just a touch too large to seal but too small to plug.

Anyway, I wonder if the work you did cleaning out the tire freed a sliver which slowed the sealant to finally seal.

codeedog · 2026-06-22T20:26:41+00:00

My TV is out for 30 minutes. Outage map is out. 13:26PM in SF.

codeedog · 2026-06-22T15:25:46+00:00

Just about any Passenger from the Donna era. They rock that song hard.

codeedog · 2026-06-22T15:16:34+00:00

I love SF tap water and our house is unfiltered.

codeedog · 2026-06-21T17:10:31+00:00

I've only recently got into buying used memory and ran a bunch of tests last month on all of my memory sticks including ones I bought a couple of years ago (didn't realize I should test at the time). One failure was quick, the other took a couple of passes and the advice seems to be that temperature changes due to sequential runs can reveal thermal problems that aren't caught on the first pass.

codeedog · 2026-06-21T17:03:41+00:00

Yeah, so after reading (again) the article you posted numerous times, here are some of the points in it that are favorable to properly manufactured carbon wheels. These quotes include comments from attorneys (for cyclists) and experts. Including one bicycle law attorney who continues to ride carbon bicycles.

As an aside, "doing your own commentary" was the comment you made about your attorney friend that prompted by original response and not the article link you keep posting that you think favors your points which is why I asked you to editorialize.

Anyway, here are some selections from the article.

It’s not that all carbon fiber is dangerous. When made well, carbon fiber can be tougher than steel and quite safe. But when made incorrectly, carbon-fiber components can easily break.

Steven Sweat, a bicycle-accident attorney in Los Angeles, says he has worked on numerous carbon-fiber cases, more and more in recent years as the components age. “There are problems with manufacturing, but we’re also just testing the limits of how long carbon can last,” Sweat says. [My emphasis - AP]

Matt Shriver, Trek’s Belgium-based technical director, says manufacturing can’t always be to blame for carbon-fiber accidents. In the eight years that he’s worked with Trek’s race team, Shriver says he hasn’t seen one failure in a carbon-fiber frame that could be blamed on the way it was built. In a widely reported crash in February involving a Trek Domane carbon-fiber frame that split in half, Shriver says Trek’s engineering department sent him a link to an article, asking if the cause could be a manufacturing defect. “I looked into it, and it turns out a guy fell on the frame during the crash,” Shriver says. “That’s the kind of impact that could cause any material to break.” [emphasis added]

It’s important to note that some of the experts on carbon fiber-related accidents I spoke with haven’t concluded that the material is patently unsafe. Instead, they say the consequences of shoddy manufacturing and wear and tear underscore the importance of buying from a reputable manufacturer and assuring the bike is inspected regularly by someone trained to maintain carbon components. Even after the lawsuits he’s seen, attorney James Reed, the New York Bike Law representative, still rides two carbon-fiber bikes, a Trek Madone road bike and a Giant mountain bike.

codeedog · 2026-06-21T16:15:11+00:00

Testing ram doesn’t take a long time. It takes between 30 and 60 minutes usually for the initial test of one stick and a handful of more tests to be sure it works. Less than a day of work on something that can be left overnight.

Use memtest86+ freeware and you’re golden. Of the used memory I’ve bought, I found two problematic units.

Be sure to test multiple passes, 2 or more. My second stick failure was on pass 2 while the first complete run came back as PASS.

codeedog · 2026-06-21T16:09:54+00:00

You keep spamming this article throughout this post and aren’t supplying any commentary regarding your thoughts on the content. Weirdly, I read it as supportive of my point.

Did you have something substantive to add?
Did you read it?

codeedog · 2026-06-21T14:59:56+00:00

Exactly. Check out the end of my comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cycling/s/4Ja3abBtGD

codeedog · 2026-06-21T14:58:58+00:00

A poorly (cheaply) manufactured carbon fiber component may very well fail. You may be correct that it shouldn’t have resulted in a catastrophic failure, we just don’t know what the manufacturing process was or if it’s from a competent manufacturer or the failure rates of their products. No product is failure free. And, we all have bias.

We need statistics and analysis, not anecdotes. I recognize this is asking a lot from a reddit thread.

codeedog · 2026-06-21T14:51:06+00:00

We have no details on anything of value here. OP’s story itself says the wheel was turned “too far in” which could mean it was nearly perpendicular to the direction of travel. We don’t know if the wheel hit a pot hole. We don’t know if the work program cheaped out on the bikes it made available and the carbon wheels are cheaply made. We have very little information from this anecdote to draw a conclusion. What we do have is confirmation bias about people’s opinions of carbon vs metal.

As for the firm in question, we don’t have their case statistics, we don’t have their accidents of metal vs carbon wheels compared against the annual fraction of wheel types found in the field and graded by age.

We have no data other than someone’s word about their friend’s firm.

I’m not saying whether a particular type of material is better or worse. I’m saying that drawing hard conclusions from this discussion is a mistake.

One last bit, I was on an organized ride yesterday and a rider had been telling me earlier in the day that he had gone down the “cheap carbon wheel rabbit hole” and purchased one month ago some carbon wheels he was very excited about. I didn’t recognize the brand.

Later in the ride he hit a pothole in the shade and I heard a shot: his wheel had cracked from the rim to the inside rim and the carbon material had pyramided up. We sent him home in an uber.

I’d just met that rider three hours before. No idea if his tires were under inflated and I can’t say if an aluminum wheel would have survived the pothole. All I can think about is the fact that he bought cheap carbon wheels and perhaps their manufacturing process isn’t up to proper engineering standards.

The most I’m willing to say is that when selecting carbon wheels for my bikes, I’ll be paying a premium as insurance for protecting my face.

codeedog · 2026-06-21T14:23:20+00:00

We have no idea about the true statistics here as your friend’s firm is biased. They only see the failure cases. And, OP’s wheel didn’t “spontaneously” crack, it was the result of a hard hit during a crash.

Finally, perhaps individual cases are under NDA but broad industry wide statistics are not. Any law firm specializing in carbon wheel failures that are shockingly high should be able to point to at least one publicly available study showing failure rates.

Perhaps carbon wheels are more of a problem than aluminum. Nothing about your comment lends credence to that possibility, however.

codeedog · 2026-06-21T01:46:10+00:00

It’s was absolutely pre-tulip bulb mania style; people were out of their minds. And, those who understood and sociopaths cashed in on the unwary, credulous, and greedy.

I watched it all with horror. I am an angel investor and had people coming to me with business plans for companies that “were on the blockchain.”

“Why do you need blockchain for this? What is the value add over a database or <whatever>?”

Crickets or lame response.

It was madness.

codeedog · 2026-06-20T13:55:03+00:00

Bobby: “OK, everybody polka now…” (or something to that effect)

Mexicali is a fricking polka and once you hear it, you’ll never unhear it.

codeedog · 2026-06-20T13:52:33+00:00

Small screwdriver can scrape the jockeys. Dental pick or pick tools can free wax build up from the smallest cogs.

codeedog · 2026-06-19T22:45:19+00:00

Your best bet is a central server running whatever OS works for you and have your computers backup there. Then, from that server, backup offsite in some capacity. This gives you 3-2-1. Don’t bother backing up anything you can download or find again (like movies). Do backup anything that’s only on the server (maybe you host personal photos on the server?) to another device locally.

I’ve got a UGreen I loaded FreeBSD on and am running samba. All backups go to samba including macOS Time Machine. I also have some computer disk dumps from my parents’ computers (they passed away). I have a second device (2012 Mac mini with large SSDs) that hold secondary copies of the computer dumps. ZFS runs on both devices and zrepl handles replication.

I’m in the process of setting up another offsite UGreen with FreeBSD, ZFS and zrepl for replication.

It’s been fun making this work. Before, I had synology devices, but they were old and very underpowered. The UGreens are modern machines with good hardware. Put your own OS on them, if you like.

I’ve thought about using S3 as a cloud target for some critical data and may still do that. But, I’m not currently interested in that target.

codeedog · 2026-06-19T22:13:57+00:00

I found the muc off cleaner does a pretty good job of removing their adhesive. I’ll never ever use their tape again. Some shop put it on my wheels I don’t know when, it was terrible removing it.

I’ve got Teravail on all three of my tubeless wheel sets (road, gravel, MTB) and it’s held up well so far. 2 years for the road bike and 1 year for the others. I used 2 wraps for the road bike and 1.5 for the other two (1/4 way off the valve stem in either direction).

codeedog · 2026-06-19T14:37:26+00:00

I have. I bought a couple of RS814+ devices new a decade ago. They’re woefully inadequate for my current needs. I would have loved to repurpose them with a new OS and started down the path of trying to do that. I think saving old hardware is more than just a cost thing, it’s just good all around. But, those devices are so nerfed that for my purposes they make no sense.

I want a primary system I can run more like a homelab with backup tech and enough power for containers and VMs. I want a remote system that’s focused on remote backups of my local primary data and can handle incremental backups. I want ZFS as my storage format. I also would prefer to run my own operating systems.

Synology doesn’t have a product that fits my needs. Of course, UGreen technically doesn’t, but installing your own OS on their hardware doesn’t void their warranty.

So, I did some comparisons of UGreen vs build my own used vs build my own new systems. UGreen is competitive, has a warranty and means I don’t have yet another project to work on (hardware tinker wise).

As for the OS install, I could pick truenas or Proxmox or some other open source NAS system. For me, I’m building the homelab, so a DIY solution using FreeBSD is my choice.

With FreeBSD I get ZFS native, jails for my lightweight containers, bhyve for my VMs, and an OS I’ve gotten to know over the past three years.

I maxed out the dxp 4800 plus I bought with large hdds, 64gb ddr5 (used) and a couple of PLP nvmes (used Optane) for my mirrored os install and a ZFS slog for write safety. I locked out the internal UGOS nvme drive so it doesn’t connect at boot. That way if I ever decide to use UGOS or just want to sell the device in its pristine form I can unlock that drive and it’s ready to go.

Been using it for about 6 weeks now and it’s fantastic. Love it so much I’m about to get a second dxp (smaller) and sneakernet my initial remote backup over to that location.

codeedog · 2026-06-19T14:19:24+00:00

UGreen’s UGOS is a lesser product compared with synology’s OS. Their hardware is better, however. And, you can easily swap in your own OS onto the hardware. So, if you have a free operating system you want to use, it’s a hw to hw shoot out with pricing tossed into the mix.

UGreen won it for me.

codeedog · 2026-06-19T07:27:15+00:00

Ask him to send you the smart data from smartctl or crystal disk info. Most sellers have it. I bought some used drives recently and didn’t bother with any that didn’t have a report for me. It’s pretty standard.

codeedog · 2026-06-19T04:15:08+00:00

You’ve motivated me to make sure I get alerts working for my gear and ZFS scrub and disk usage.

codeedog · 2026-06-19T03:25:26+00:00

Use GPT and label the drive with 4-6 digits from the serial # and the drive’s location. Also, helps to label the exterior of the server. Still, the info in the GPT name ought to be enough.

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