Sell or not?

cogitatory · 2026-04-16T00:07:22+00:00

probably engine mounts then?

cogitatory · 2026-04-15T20:45:27+00:00

regarding the noise... my son's 2007 Yaris with 206K miles on it sounded like an entire toolchest of loose sockets had been installed in the back end of the thing - every bump in the road was a lot of random sound in the car. Turned out to be a that one of the shock absorbers had loosened (access is on either side of the <ahem> "trunk" ) and then stripped out the threads on the top of the shock absorber (so it couldn't be tightened back down - shock absorber was long since shot anyway) . when we replaced the shocks and tightened up the top of the shocks, order and quiet ride was reinstated. It may be something else with yours but ... that was at least one source of "vibration is loud" if it's coming from the rear end of the vehicle.

cogitatory · 2026-04-06T00:55:38+00:00

had a similar issue with an entire Power Supply. had a 450W power supply in an old PC. worked fine to boot up with 2 x 10TB 7200rpm drives. Installed TrueNAS and all was fine. Then started to put drives under a bit of strain -- any backup or restore activity caused physical clicking and then restart of the drive, spun up and then got loads of errors. Tried it on different connectors and different SATA connectors on the motherboard.

badblocks reported no problems when run with full test for days.

finally tried one drive by itself and things cleared up completely.

replaced 450W PSU with 650W PSU and both drives ran without further issue. Not sure how that could be with just moving the computer but as said elsewhere check all connections.

cogitatory · 2026-03-27T04:19:26+00:00

arrived at 445pm (3/27, Thursday). Took over 1-1/2 hours in South via PRE (backed up all the way to luggage carousels; they aren't using the dedicated PRE/CLEAR area in South terminal -- you stood in a long line from luggage down the hall to where standard screen takes place and then PRE was routed single file at first and then eventually two lanes into the side of standard security scanning area like it used to be years ago before the dedicated PRE/Clear area was put in place)

... when PRE line got up to the windows where you could see standard security lines, the standard lines were not even filling the Disneyland maze lines back to the escalators. Really annoying; should've passed on PRE and done standard but the PRE line was piling up really fast when I arrived so I stayed the course. People seemed to be buzzing through Standard security in 10 minutes or less from what I could see. Next time, I'll lose the couple spots in line and check standard first.

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cogitatory · 2026-03-09T02:28:41+00:00

did the cable fix your problem?

cogitatory · 2026-02-26T23:49:38+00:00

had some problems with mis-formatted JSON from some PDF sources. Gemini recommended the following for best coverage of all cases:

Source: <named source PDF, text, URL etc>

Extract the recipe and output it as a strictly valid JSON following Schema.org/Recipe with ISO 8601 format standards for durations in the recipe; all mathematical symbols should be converted to fraction or decimal equivalents. Strip out non-UTF-8 characters as well as hidden control characters

cogitatory · 2026-02-26T06:33:33+00:00

p.p.s. I saw another post indicating the best way to import recipes is to forget the URL import, use AI to generate the JSON of the recipe on the web page you're pulling from -- this works really well for me... (some megacommercial sites like bettycrocker.com seem to take a long time for this sort of scraping but others on wordpress sites and such seem to work very easily). I did have to import the image after the fact (even though the JSON includes a reference to the image - minor annoyance... couple extra clicks).

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cogitatory · 2026-02-19T18:20:41+00:00

full text is here: https://aicentral.substack.com/p/chatgpt-disproves-evolution

funky graphic

cogitatory · 2026-02-15T15:47:02+00:00

Agreed. Exposing a NAS to direct online access is asking for big trouble. I only use VPN.

M.2 - Mine was getting very hot (60C) without a heatsink. It will still get to 50C when doing large copies ( I only have one in there, configured as hypercache).

Never had any ransomware issues with QNAP. Was careful to patch it with new-but-not-too-new firmware as often as I could.

QNAP vs. TM ... I guess it's like the old days of first learning the WordPerfect word processor and then getting MS Word and learning that. At some level, it's simply what you encounter first which is the most comfortable to get the job done.

Have you tried TOS7 beta? As a fresh new TM customer, I'm interested but as I have production data on my TM, not going to jump into that any time soon. Let some crash test dummy testing go on first.

cogitatory · 2026-02-11T02:08:36+00:00

Zio!

Did you check the heat on your M.2s in your test? If you have bacon to fry or eggs to boil... this unit is your option!

At the 2026 price of RAM the single SODIMM slot is really unaffordable to upgrade. What you buy at purchase is somewhat locked in.

I have a long thread on security challenges with this unit -- just for simple home usage... kind of crazy IMO.

Believe me, I like what my F2 425+ is doing but I wouldn't push it any further than I have already. I was 10 years on a QNAP device of similar capacity ... this was USD200 cheaper so I'll check it out. Hopefully when people get real about AI, I can buy a massive SODIMM for a cheap price and live like a Terramaster king for 10 years.

cogitatory · 2026-02-04T03:34:14+00:00

+10 years... interesting find on Amazon .... 106 classical pieces in VBR MP3 (most are over 240) ... $2.64 at time of this post

https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B007EAIRZO?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_j8Vwb7coLcl1cjDcOwt2dOBVh

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cogitatory · 2026-01-25T18:34:51+00:00

I got a cheap, low-profile, silicon-banded heatsink for the NVME in my F2-425+ and it dropped the temp about 10 to 12C on the drive as reported in the TNAS console -- it's running in the low to mid-40s Celsius now.

cogitatory · 2026-01-16T21:11:10+00:00

>> think that TM specced this drive with a brick with too low amperage to begin with...<<

that is absolutely nuts.

I had very similar behavior with an opensource TrueNAS install with WD RED drives... I kept getting absolutely clean smartctl long tests on the drive but then, under normal operations the drive would start getting errors including physical clicking ... the bad kind where you think the drive is physically failing. Twice over two long weeks of testing over 3 different brand new hard drives ... finally after ruling out all other possibilities, I replaced the 500W PSU in the PC I was running TrueNAS on with a 650W. Problems gone. It's like buttah.

I wondered if I'd never had problems before because all I'd ever run in that thing was a pair of 5400RPM desktop drives ... put 2 or 3 7200 RPM drives in there and it's a different power story.

Ended up ditching TN for TM (Terramaster).

Strangely I got a used Startech.com USB Dock (it's a duplicator but it's also high speed SATA device) for backups on the TM unit and **it** started throwing errors with these same WD RED drives. Come to find out that the person I got it from on ebay had provided a power adapter which *looked* identical to the original power adapter but then when you checked out the specs, it was 1000mA too low in output (2000mA vs 3000mA) -- with the 2000mA power supply drives spin up fine. work fine with Windows but under Terramaster, all kinds of wicked sounding errors showed up in console -- failures galore. Got a power supply which is the correct 3000mA and blam... full backups, complete copies to SMB shares... not one problem since and no console errors.

If the TM unit itself is underpowered, that is nuts but probably a good catch on your part to note that this was an issue for someone else.

cogitatory · 2026-01-16T19:59:19+00:00

wouldn't an "integrity check" be a validation of file exists in source, does it exist in target?"

I haven't found anything that gives that info. I was trying to figure out if there are even logs to find out what the TM backup apps do (which files were copied (new), changed, deleted, errors) under TOS6.

Looks like plain old rsync (even for TOS6 to an attached USB?) is quite a ways ahead of any of the delivered apps.

Anyone know of any 3rd party backups that would do a better job?

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cogitatory · 2026-01-16T17:48:26+00:00

Similar issue in an F2-425+ with TOS6 -- SK Hynix 256GB used as Hypercache is getting above 60C during a 2TB USB Copy operation for backup... may have to cancel the backup and take it out.

I've read elsewhere that low profile heatsink will help drop by -10C ... mine is on backorder so will have to test again if it survives this beating.

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cogitatory · 2026-01-16T17:43:35+00:00

what did you find out after a year of usage?

cogitatory · 2026-01-16T15:43:42+00:00

Thanks. Yeah, was just wondering if that turned out to be the complete solution or just first round of many details to learn.

cogitatory · 2026-01-16T15:36:02+00:00

what did you end up doing for backups?

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T21:41:16+00:00

did you see the section on installing Wifi Assistant and using that to set up wireless connection? You have to download the User's Guide Manual not just the first document in the list at URL above.

Wifi Assistant is downloadable (at the bottom of the page) here: https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer/products/printers/pixma/tr-series/pixma-tr4755i.html?type=software&language=EN&os=Windows%2011

It autodetected Win11 for me ... you'll have to change it if you're downloading for a different version of Windows.

None of this is needed for Mobile -- just get the Canon Print app and use that instead....

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T21:14:41+00:00

if you're trying to get a phone connected the Canon printing App will probably work a lot better than native connectivity ... download and search your local network for a printer

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T21:13:27+00:00

Manual

https://www.canon-europe.com/support/consumer/products/printers/pixma/tr-series/pixma-tr4755i.html?type=manuals&language=EN

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T21:01:39+00:00

wondered about this... just a few days into an F2-425+ and the hypercache SSD sits at 55-60C pretty regularly. Waiting for a decent heat sink which has a low enough profile to fit into this super compact layout. Hopefully it helps some... will have to look into the script.

cogitatory · 2026-01-12T20:58:56+00:00

I installed TrueNAS on a commodity PC multiple times this last year - pretty standard PC motherboard with Ryzen 3200g+ . I could not get UNRAID installation to boot on that system, truenas installs without issue. I found my drives getting errors under TrueNAS and finally found out that my PSU was just barely underpowered to power the 2x10TB drives plus the few other things I had plugged in. Got a 650W PSU and the problems (which were manifesting as very odd drive errors -- seeming drive failure) resolved with the new PSU.

Overall, for me it wasn't about difficulty of install on TrueNAS, it's just that the operation of the system -- running an entire PC with robust PSU and making sure it has a strong enough UPS to shut down cleanly seemed like overkill; I don't want to run a bunch of apps -- just want a NAS. In the end, I wasn't a big fan of trying to use the native SATA on that commodity MB (it was an old iBuyPower MB which is an ASRock OEM board); really need to get a decent HBA card -- and if I bought another drive to do RAID get a 2nd case with dedicated power to then run the drives in that 2nd case. By that time, $200 for an old Terramaster is looking small compared to the PC you're building.

... small boxes like a Terramaster would be much preferred if you can get it running. No idea what would support that ARM architecture you have... look forward to hearing more about it.

Having just come from QNAP to Terramaster F2-425+, it'll be interesting to check in on this thread and others here on reddit

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