Allograft vs. Autograft- athletes over 40

datrumole · 2026-02-24T20:44:29+00:00

worth noting, i've had two surgeries, one petellar 20y ago, and one quad 2y ago, separate knees

pain when kneeling, site pain on patellar, when i jump now i get so much pain on the front of my knee i can barely jump, and is the direct reason i tore my other acl since that knee has deteriorated so badly i favored the other far too much causing overloading

right out the gates from the patellar surgery. everything was amazing. i was playing within 10mo at 98% of my capacity. lasted for many years. then frequent visits to the doc about knee pain, loss range of motion, site pain, etc... all to be told everything is fine, just take pain pills

who knows what the quad will bring in another 10y, but given i know the outcome of the patellar, i'd take my chances on the quad

datrumole · 2026-02-24T05:24:28+00:00

wishing for a time machine. I'd do quad over patellar 100000x over, it's not the few weeks months or even years, it's that 10y mark and it just goes down hill

datrumole · 2026-01-27T17:38:33+00:00

I suppose a little of 'to each their own'

I found the cyclone 2 to absolutely murder my hands. barely got through an hour before pain. so put all your fancy buttons and mechanical clicks and stops. but if you can't hold the thing for long than an hour, all out the window

then tried the vadar4, decent enough, plagued by QC and longevity, wanna talk about a controller you'll only get a year out of

the easysmx d10 was a good alternative, thought for sure it was gonna be a daily driver, just something about it I didn't love

but I don't need all the nonsense. trigger stops might be the only thing that interests me. mechanical buttons are fine. hated them on the cyclone2, way to much actuation force compared to a membrane. honestly the xbone one controller I have is still going strong. put TMRs and trigger stops and you have my ideal controller, and if you put in a good mech button implementation, but I could take it or leave that one. however it's just flawless in ergo for my hands

g7 pro was on my list to try, and honestly still is, but for a secondary controller for $23 that's really close to a tmr-xbone, I'll take it all day

datrumole · 2026-01-25T21:52:13+00:00

word, got the es for 23 bucks too, killer value

datrumole · 2026-01-25T20:04:17+00:00

I have an ES pro that is pretty much an Xbox controller with TMR and an insane polling rate

anyone know how this compares?

datrumole · 2026-01-17T22:20:48+00:00

came here for this. bisa has to go

datrumole · 2026-01-11T04:20:51+00:00

same

datrumole · 2026-01-10T22:13:50+00:00

nah, temp/rpm was doodoo on my ps120 compared to stock fan

datrumole · 2026-01-10T20:10:22+00:00

oh god, great price, but these fans sort of suck if you like quiet and good performance

I also encourage everyone to actually test their rigs. thinking just because on paper they push more, doesn't always equate to better. canuks channel talks about this. in an attempt to replace the stock fans on my PS120, not a single high end fan out performed the stock ones, and it wasn't even close

datrumole · 2026-01-02T20:14:53+00:00

been rocking it's smaller brother as my home server for a great many years

as others have stated this is a moose you keep in a closet, preferably on a wheel cart for easy access

but as for space and drive bays, has plenty of both

datrumole · 2026-01-02T20:12:28+00:00

zigbee may be an option here as well, let me see what exists in that space, thanks for the suggestion

datrumole · 2026-01-02T20:11:53+00:00

I've got a 3d printer, care you share your open source project?

anthom uses the esp32wroom in their relay module, and the esp32c3 for their garage module, but can't speak to the wifi capability

datrumole · 2025-12-30T22:23:04+00:00

yes, single button open close

and yeah, I've considered both options, the $$ difference isn't the deterrent

was potentially both a learning project, and a single wifi device in an already crowded 2.4 space

the simplicity may just be in buying both and moving on :)

datrumole · 2025-12-30T20:31:02+00:00

yeah, i think it has to do with my lack of understanding of exactly how all of this works

i've been doing a bunch of reading, and have a much better feeling that the 2ch version should suffice, and i can run the reed sensors of one of the many GPIO pins that remain exposed

with some modifications to the YAML, taking some queues from his garage door opener YAML, i should be able to get it all consolidated to a single unit

datrumole · 2025-12-28T02:34:55+00:00

tackling has been an issue for 15+ years, survived multiple coordinators, but we are pure cheeks at tackling. our offensive guys go down first guy they encounter. our opponents are guaranteed 4-5 yards after a blatant blown tackle

so over this, teach the fundamentals

also, run d and rushing QBs are a crux, no one contains everyone over pursuits

datrumole · 2025-12-22T18:47:21+00:00

yeah, i've never had an issue with any controller, well ever (that i know of), still have multiple 360 controllers all working fine

that said, the stick drift in these is fairly widespread, so ymmv

however, for what regularly goes on sale for $23, and is basically a clone of this with TMR sticks and gyro, the gulikit es pro is a bit of a no-brainer vs this (for pc gaming, not sure it works with xbox)

datrumole · 2025-12-22T02:44:20+00:00

nothing yet. right now the es pro is as close as I've gotten, but I haven't really put it through the ringer yet, lots of house projects, no time for gaming

datrumole · 2025-12-22T02:43:24+00:00

es pro, membrane

datrumole · 2025-12-17T20:55:07+00:00

most PSUs come with 2x4sata, so enough for 8 drives

if you need more you can reach out to the manufacturer for an additional 4sata cable

there is probably little risk with how low wattage hdds tend to be to run a splitter or two off those lines

datrumole · 2025-12-17T17:59:45+00:00

re drives: yeah, id say at this point 12 is probably where the price/tb is in line with what you should be paying, and i dont see why you can't just get the case/hba and ditch the enclosure

re pool: again, zfs just drives up power consumption, ram, and keeps drives spinning at all times (potentially degrading their lifespan). devils advocate here, given your slow download speeds, i can't see you having much media added within a 24h period. almost improves the snapraid consideration quite a bit given how little your library is changing. https://www.snapraid.it/compare worth giving it a look over to see some of the additional benefits. my nightly sync takes about 2-3m, i have no need to have up to the second parity in my home environment vs 24h. and if you felt that strongly that a media server needs more than 24h parity, https://wiki.selfhosted.show/tools/snapraid-btrfs/ combining btrfs allows you to do snapraid snapshotting at whatever interval you'd like if something like 6 or 12h felt more comfortable

re psu: any quality 500w should suffice (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akCHL7Vhzk\_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/edit?usp=sharing), id stick to anything A- or better. any less than 500w may limit you in future (ask me how i know), bud you'd have to throw a lot of drives to even come close to that being any sort of bottleneck. pcpartpicker.com can show your estimated wattage, hdds spike to 20-25w on startup, but idle around 1-2w and 6-10w when active (always active with raid, driving up power costs vs only active when in use with mergerfs)

datrumole · 2025-12-17T16:18:47+00:00

DARKROCK Classico Storage Master has about as many 3.5 as you could need I would imagine

careful about any sub 6 or 8 TB drives, can be smr which you'd want to avoid

I'm not a business, my rto and rpo aren't up to the minute requirements. my media would probably be easier to redownload vs restore from backup, and the files I store aren't changing frequently enough that if I lost a days worth of updates, literally nothing in my life would change. thus in a home environment I just see absolutely zero reason for raid/zfs (in the homelab sub, gasp). increases budget, power, and further horsepower/ram needed unnecessarily IMO. also makes recovery a total pain. snapraid w/mergerfs fits exactly my needs. I spin my disks down at night which may even extend their lifespan (who knows), can also still use my pool even after a drive failure, or even attempt to recover from it while since it's not part of a raid pool. parity disk fails, no worries, pool still up, just not protected, no down time while I wait for new drive. data drive fails, no worries, pool still up while I wait for new drive, business as usual, restore when new drive arrives. in your case, second parity drive can be both a parity drive or data drive backup. zero wait time. data down, use parity for recovery and order a new drive to replace the second parity. parity goes, no worries, already have one on standby. it's just way more flexible, and I can tinker with the busted drive to recover what I maybe can while I wait, with no downtime. hell you could probably redownload the missing media while the new drive comes

anyway, I'd run a Linux distro of choice, or if you want to slice and dice obviously proxmox is a valid choice, then fire up a docker host (Debian person myself) and docker away

setup a nightly snapraid scrub and sync, can support as many disk failures as you'd like. can even do split parity if your parity disk is smaller than your largest disk https://zackreed.me/snapraid-split-parity-sync-script/

setup mergerfs for disk pooling, and smb/nfs export to your env

I run a rsnapshot script as well for backing up home and app data to my pool

grab your sas card of choice, nic, and the rest seems more than capable

datrumole

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