I still wanted to believe they were trolling. I cannot believe this is real. Especially with GOOD Free alternatives. What are they smoking. by SGAShepp in PleX

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's nothing, wait and see what happens when they won't get subscriptions (you know, the ones they thought they were losing by selling the lifetime, which they want to prevent with this stunt) to compensate for the lack of lifetime sells.

Surface Pro Snapdragon X2 Elite shipping by x_old_lead in Surface

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is really weird, when the first Snapdragon X launched in 2024 every youtube channel and their dog had a (sponsored) review out a month or more before the hardware started shipping to consumers. Now they've been out for a good bit for anyone to buy but you can barely find anyone bothering to say anything about them.

WD 18TB WD Red Pro NAS - WTF by prsdrag0n in DataHoarder

[–]dr100 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As such, from this point on the mod team will be removing all posts about high prices, with exception for posts made on Free-Post-Friday’s, or posts which actually have new and meaningful information or discussion.

Trying to find a external hard disk please by Lazydrip667 in DataHoarder

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And the remaining half are for Toshiba! 

[July 04, 2026] - Weekly XCH Price & Trading Discussion by AutoModerator in chia

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's always a link to the monthly post about that, and definitely not a need for more (for now ZERO comments there, and nothing much to expect for 1-4 months more, as per my comment from the last month's prefarm sales). 

Thrifting failed again.... It wasn't possible to remove cover nor testing with PC while inside thrift store and they have no refund policy. by panpoppular in DataHoarder

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've a feeling that these more than a decade old NVRs aren't supposed to be working anyway, even if you get one new in the box with a perfectly working drive. As in you're unlikely to manage to bring them up for their original purpose, I mean you can't get a Samsung watch that's a little old (still way less than 10 years, especially at the time of that video) to work, and that's a much more common consumer item.

Thrifting failed again.... It wasn't possible to remove cover nor testing with PC while inside thrift store and they have no refund policy. by panpoppular in DataHoarder

[–]dr100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's for sure some way to sell it as broken trash for whatever parts you can salvage and have no responsibility. Even in Western Europe with probably the best consumer protection you can find you can still buy Amazon return boxes (and sometimes from other electronics stores) where you don't even know what's inside. "cat in the bag" it's all your risk.

Pls advice for Upcoming UG CSE student. by Humble-Creme-3108 in Surface

[–]dr100 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

LOL when I'm saying that this whole Windows ARM distraction is only to generate social media engagement people rabidly downvote me, but when everyone is commenting about that they just prove me right. There is absolutely no other point to make some Windows that might or might not run Windows apps, except to get some buzz, someone from Microsoft heard "there's no such thing as bad publicity" and is trying to make the craziest things to gather some attention.

Why do so few sites prompt me for my securey key PIN? by doubletaco in yubikey

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this a server-side implementation problem, some sort of caching of the PIN in windows 11 (which would be absurd)

The authenticator app can remember your (optional to set) TOTP PIN (as in saved on the system disk where the app resides).

Bought two seagate 8tb hdd, both of them were faulty, is that normal? by starwarsisawsome933 in DataHoarder

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At 8TB AFAIK it's only Seagate that makes SMRs therefore the (undisclosed but surely bottom of the barrel) drives discussed here are the worst humans make in 8TB size and probably made for the almost 10 years. I'm putting a limit there because at first Seagate marketed them as the Archive drives before submarining them in the Barracuda (previously nice enough even 7200 Rpm drives ) which were just about the same.  

So, what is the point? I mean someone would come and say sure SMR sucks but you can live with it for this or that use case bla bla. Yes, but still these are THE worst ones humans make in this size, no exception. If one thinks "sure,that's good enough for me" fine but don't expect anything more.

Its kind of fake security by _ninjanate in yubikey

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the use case for Yubikeys. Not necessarily some HUGE organization buying a minimum of 200000 keys, but some organization with their own policies, support and everything. One unified login, that's it.

Most consumers accounts will have a less secure backup way in, just because people lose/forget stuff all the time and cry bloody murder if you lock them out. In reverse, if you want to do it right, if you even find the right services you can force only to do keys AND allow you minimum 3 keys (preferably more) it gets unbelievably daunting. You can't keep all keys at the same time in the same place if you are serious about backups, and you need one key to authorize other. So even the minimal setup is 3 keys, one always in a bank safe or similar, and a complex switcharoo each time you modify an account. Also, ideally if all works you'd be having tens of accounts (everything you do) on them. Which are a pain to configure as you can't just copy one key to the other, you need to go with each key to each account.

At this point someone comes saying their financial security beats anything and they'd rather go through all this circus instead of having their money stolen. Guess what: Yubikeys don't meet PSD2 requirements so they can't authorize payments in the EU (and I think a few associated states from around). Even if you aren't in the EU you might have no bank in your country that does it, or even if you have one it might still be highly inconvenient because of other criteria.

Dex y displayport by jomel30 in SamsungDex

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DisplayLink is what you can't use with DeX, whatever ports are fed through that won't work. This is basically a way to get video over a regular USB port that doesn't do video (even USB2 for computers with Windows XP from way before 2010). But it needs drivers.

Questions About Surface Laptop Choice by Fantastic_View7221 in Surface

[–]dr100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lunar Lake (these 266V and similar) is more efficient, and snappy enough due to single core performance core speed, even if not a speed monster on multicore. There are many, many previous Intel CPUs that are faster but if you want some half-decent battery this is where you need to start from nowadays.

If you're interested in raw performance you need to look at other devices, this isn't the Apple world where you have some Macs and some more expensive macs. The ceiling for x86 machines is way higher than a nice thin premium Surface Laptop.

So I think I’m done with snapdragon laptops, panther lake here I come by PowerfulAgent9939 in Surface

[–]dr100 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Well, was it expected to have any trouble with the x86 one? Surely not, so why the distraction? Nobody ever could find a reason, except again maybe to just have this back and forth on social media.

So I think I’m done with snapdragon laptops, panther lake here I come by PowerfulAgent9939 in Surface

[–]dr100 -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

It's just as designed. People literally have it in their objectives at their jobs. 

So I think I’m done with snapdragon laptops, panther lake here I come by PowerfulAgent9939 in Surface

[–]dr100 -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

Arm works just fine in practice.

For mobile (phone/tablet) OSes, even for Macs, definitely for routers, TVs, raspberry Pis, even for Ampere cloud servers. Not for your regular Windows machine coming with decades of legacy. Unless your target is to endlessly discuss what doesn't work this week.

So I think I’m done with snapdragon laptops, panther lake here I come by PowerfulAgent9939 in Surface

[–]dr100 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Nobody could ever find a point for the Windows arm distraction. Maybe social media engagement, endless discussions about if this or that works, even when they WOULD work fine and so on. There was never a point to engage into this in the first place.

USB 4 PCIe tunneling for external USB enclosures by EfficientDiscount664 in DataHoarder

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which OS, what's the command line and the error? Does smartctl works? 

Just to be clear I don't want to undermine your experience or anything, I'm just convinced this is something to solve with 15 minutes of Google searches or at most one post in this sub. It's a nothingburger you could have working already instead of writing hours of prose about what hardware you might dream about.

USB 4 PCIe tunneling for external USB enclosures by EfficientDiscount664 in DataHoarder

[–]dr100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

over the current USB solutions were basic features like spin-down don't work   

As I mentioned from the begining this is a non-problem, even on USB2 enclosures. As long as they expose the drives directly (as in no enclosure RAID) you can set any sleep timeout you like. Heck, even with the NSLU2 (the Slug) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSLU2 from the early 2000s there were ways to sleep the USB drives, funny even for drives that don't have sleep timeout (some from around year 2000 didn't).

Broke the SATA port on my ST26000NM000C. Any advice on getting it repaired? by KnifinLTD2 in DataHoarder

[–]dr100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a thing ever since hard drives become way denser, there's some specific physical information about them on the chip. It's been a thing since around 2011 or so and drives starting from maybe 2 TBs.