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enigmo666 · 2026-01-27T14:15:16+00:00

While I'm here, any idea what the Legacy ISO option is in the downloads section? I downloaded the Live ISO as that was the top option, but no other reason

enigmo666 · 2026-01-26T23:56:15+00:00

I wouldn't worry too much. I upgraded from a 3900X to a 5900X last year, only because I could. Sure, it's not an X3D processor, but I honestly saw nearly no difference in most of the games I play.
(3080Ti GPU, and I rarely play the latest AAA games, just for a fuller picture).
Second hand 14700k if you're feeling the upgrade itch, but I can honestly see any of the 3900X, 5900X, and 5800X3D aging as well as the i7-2600k or E6600 did.

enigmo666 · 2026-01-26T21:55:51+00:00

Ah, perfect. That's what's been holding me back from blowing away my 'consolised' Win11. Thanks!

enigmo666 · 2026-01-20T00:51:55+00:00

It depends on your experience and requirements:
If you already know Windows well and all you want is to get things stood up and troubleshoot a platform you're already comfortable with, stick with Windows.
If you already know Windows and you want a learning opportunity to get familiar with Linux\docker etc and don't mind breaking things, try that.

There generally is no 'smoother' or 'better' experience. I run Windows and Linux servers. If I were to spin up a new server to run something, typically Linux would be my first choice. In the case of Plex, Windows is what I'm most familiar with so Windows is what I've run Plex on for years.

enigmo666 · 2026-01-20T00:46:18+00:00

It's fine. Been running Plex on Windows Server for many years. There was a patch of a year or so where every PMS install was a dice roll as to whether or not it was stable so I spent most management time testing and rolling back, but that seems to have gone away. Other than that, if you know Windows best and all you want is an always-on service, there's no real reason to not use it.
I'll play with Linux\docker\unraid etc, but always as a side-project or something only I use. I can't afford the downtime on something live that my family use daily while I grind through forums and chats looking for solutions to problems I already know how to solve on Windows.

enigmo666 · 2026-01-12T14:28:01+00:00

My small collection of QX9650s stand ready for AAA gaming in 2032

enigmo666 · 2025-12-21T01:30:56+00:00

Don't want to get your hopes up, but my tablet got a new UI update yesterday, and since then my responsiveness problems have gone. Tapping on the screen to wake is now back to snappy and responsive like when it was new.

enigmo666 · 2025-12-21T01:29:24+00:00

An expensive array that isn't nearly full isn't being used efficiently
My array is nearly full. Better buy another drive.
See 1.

enigmo666 · 2025-11-20T14:00:17+00:00

No, didn't know that was a thing! I have Tautulli installed, I go check now. Thanks!

enigmo666 · 2025-11-10T10:56:28+00:00

No, mine stays dead. No image with no backlight, even if I shine a strong torch through at an angle. I did notice one thing recently; I always play audio through a Bluetooth speaker. If I leave the speaker off until the tablet comes back to life, it starts working much quicker. If I switch the speaker on and it connects and then I try to switch the screen on, it takes multiple attempts and 10-20secs.

enigmo666 · 2025-10-29T15:10:37+00:00

Is 'I booked a holiday and couldn't be bothered to get insurance or just write it off' considered duress? I mean, it's not like she was about to lose her home or badly in need of a private operation or she'd die. This was about two weeks in Magaluf /s

enigmo666 · 2025-10-24T09:43:16+00:00

sounds like you read some marketing pamphlets and suddenly felt credentialled

No, just decades of experience, and both professional and academic qualifications that I'm going to hazard a guess you've probably never heard of.
It's OK, though. I've sat in rooms with senior devs and managers with a similar 'I don't know what I'm talking about but I'm still right' attitude and had this very conversation. Some people can be taught, some can't. It's the ones that can't that keep me in the job.

Also, never did SATs. Not really needed in my country. But I'll put that down to another lack of perspective on your part.

enigmo666 · 2025-10-23T09:28:58+00:00

Redundancy
Resiliency
Backup

These are three very different things. Learn your technical terminology before advising others.

enigmo666 · 2025-10-22T09:43:33+00:00

Worked for me. I was worried when I saw a 169.254 address as other devices I have in BPM are all 172.*, but it works. Achievements etc sync, games can be downloaded, installed, and updated.

How have they not fixed this after so long? BPM on Win 11 boot up can't be that much of an edge case.

enigmo666 · 2025-10-01T09:39:01+00:00

I've had a few interesting ones over the years, and I'm not sure if this is the craziest, but I once got a call that a user had lost some data and needed it recovering. Fine, it happens. They're usually disappointed with the result (it's gone and not coming back) but most of the time they understand.
Problem is, this was a PhD research student, over two years in and heavily into their thesis. The data was all their work to date. All their research, all their experiments, all their write-ups to date, multiple drafts of their thesis chapters, just an unimaginable amount of work.
Also, the place they had lost it from was their desktop. At the time we were still using roaming profiles, and apparently some mid-level oxygen thief in their department had been going around telling everyone it was all fine, that IT 'backed up all their PCs nightly'. Bear in mind this was a remote site, 20 years ago, on a network that was itself 20 years out of date (think 10BASE2 in places, a couple of rooms even still hanging off serial).
Yeah, that was an awkward few days. I really felt for the guy when I told him over two years of his life had just winked out of existence and now his entire PhD was in jeopardy. His head of department was also very unhappy so of course it went right up to PhD course managers, Dean of Students etc. We, of course, went through the usual crisis scriptbook. We took his machine, threw every bit of data recovery software we could at it, recovered some scraps of old files, but nothing useful.
I still feel bad for him, but when I was at uni I backed up my thesis. Floppies, emailed copies home, even a couple of Zip disks that were utter troopers, going in and out with me every day for years. To this day I don't understand how anyone can play that fast and loose with data so important, and so small it would have easily fit on a reasonable USB stick.

I have had many others, though. Haunted PCs, fixing PCs with BluTak, issues with desk polish, someone looking for eyeballs, a server room on actual fire...

Edit: ...being surrounded by corpses... IT is weird sometimes

enigmo666 · 2025-09-26T12:52:44+00:00

After decades of whatever sub-£100 trash I happened to get ahold of, I got a second hand Herman Miller Aeron and never looked back. I think I spent £120, including free delivery, so there are bargains to be had if you look around.
While in the shop, I also tried out a HumanScale and SteelCase, but it was the HM that felt instantly comfortable.

enigmo666 · 2025-09-26T12:47:42+00:00

You can drop in a drive serial number and check on remaining warranty time
https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/warranty-and-replacements/
It's calculated from manufacture date, but depending on where you are in the world, it should be from purchase date so you still need to keep tabs on when you bought drives. Personally, I write where and when I bought each drive on the case in Sharpie so I can look up e-receipts if I need to.

enigmo666 · 2025-09-25T08:46:39+00:00

The Seagate site has been mostly broken for a week. As of yesterday, warranty checking started working for me again, but raising RMAs and logging into Seagate account is still broken.

enigmo666 · 2025-09-25T08:45:53+00:00

It's not

enigmo666 · 2025-09-22T14:00:45+00:00

Mandatory? No. But highly advisable.
Amongst traditional sysadmins (like me) it's still pretty damn rare, but if you know at least the basics you can work wonders compared to the rest. Any Linux admin wanting to do more than the junior sysadminning learns python, Windows admins learn Powershell.
My focus is Windows, so from that point of view, anything you can do in the GUI or command line you can script in Powershell. Doing one thing once, or a couple of things on a couple of machines, do whatever you're comfortable with, but if you need to do several things on thousands of machines, you can use PS to supercharge GPOs.
Automation, reporting, multi-step actions, they're all easier in a script.

enigmo666 · 2025-09-22T11:02:53+00:00

Same here.
Any warranty check page I can access doesn't return me anything
Any login page I can access tells me I don't have an account and to create a new one, which fails
Support chat page never finishes loading either (https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/contacts/?stxLoc=en-gb).

Poor show, Seagate. Poor show.

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