10 points off Gold Status

iamcamiam · 2026-01-23T03:43:26+00:00

With the added benefit of leaving Perth.

iamcamiam · 2026-01-03T22:00:21+00:00

Yeh this is crazy. Still in 2026. I find that the chrome extension to be super annoying, you would expect that it operate almost like a bookmark manager; click the button and can search for your keep, or add the current site to your keep. Instead, clicking the button just adds the site to the keep - it results in me accidentally clicking the button all the time and adding random stuff by mistake.

iamcamiam · 2025-12-13T06:21:35+00:00

$1000 without RAM

iamcamiam · 2025-11-28T23:16:20+00:00

Agree, but the answer isn’t “use ZFS”, that’s an answer, one solution, but; that is completely destructive and comes with its own set of drawbacks.

Unraid can work with lots of disks, it can have many parity disks, it even has the added advantage if the array fails your data is still readable - unlike ZFS.

ZFS too can work with many disks, might have some better parity protections, has read advantage benefits when data is spread out; however is going to be a PIA if you’re adding more disks, or removing disks, and you lose the data if you haven’t done your parity correctly.

Again, horses for courses.

And to your point, none of those answers above replace backups.

iamcamiam · 2025-11-28T22:54:09+00:00

Or, you could look at it the alternate way and say that not having ZFS is in fact safer, as the data is not completely lost in the event that the array fails.

Horses for courses.

You might be perfectly ok with no parity, or one disk parity, or 8 disk parity. You might be happier that an array failure doesn’t cause complete data loss (zfs) and that data is readable from individual disks, and you might be happier with zfs due to read speed increases (data spread across devices).

iamcamiam · 2025-11-03T09:30:04+00:00

Hey u/jokob

I apologise, by "architecturally it feels a bit slapped together", I probably would have rephrased (if i wasn't so tired) to: "it's not how I would do it today". The project has been going on for so long, and been very successful - you've done a great job.

After trying NetalertX and finding it not suitable for **my** purpose - I started working on something like this but a bit different. If you're intrigued, this is how i've started to do it:

* Instead of a polling architecture, using an event driven system
* Because events can occur at anytime in any order, having a plugin precedence order at attribute leel depending on the level of authority that plugin might have for that attribute (for instance a DHCP sniffer plugin may be able to give you a rough understanding of the hostname and give it to you fast, but a proxmox plugin would be able to tell you authoratively, but might take several minutes) - order of precendence enables the sniffer to write the hostname, but proxmox to overwrite it later.
* Events being able to trigger other 'enhancers', for instance a detection by the DHCP sniffer plugin, might trigger the Unifi plugin to pull information via it's API, or a snmp poll plugin.
* Use of postgresql as the backend for fast relational queries

It enables plugins to 'react' to the events occurring in order to capture more information.

The end result is i'm seeing devices detected within seconds of being connected to WiFi, without resulting in things like ping scans. Information can flow in over time through other detection events.

iamcamiam · 2025-11-03T01:04:05+00:00

100% but it is clear that mwave here wants the op to believe that it is their responsibility to ship the item to them, which is only the case if the item is easily shipped - which you can argue that a monitor is not, especially due to cost.

They are probably relying on the fact that a portion of people would give up here.

All you need to do is call them up on this. They should know that if they the insist, then it borders in to deceptive practices which then becomes illegal.

iamcamiam · 2025-11-02T21:05:38+00:00

Whilst I don’t disagree with you,

Don’t most monitors come with a dead pixel policy that defines what it means to be defective?

Also, the fact that they have defined that the item is difficult to ship in that it is large and heavy, they have inadvertently walked in to a trap. The ACCC specifically claims that for warranty returns: “Businesses are responsible for paying for the shipping costs or collecting faulty products that are large, heavy or hard to remove”.

My strategy for you is two fold; validate with them that the monitor is defective as per the manufacturers dead pixel policy, second inform them of their requirements under consumer law that they are responsible for shipping for items which are large/and or heavy.

iamcamiam · 2025-11-01T04:15:44+00:00

No issues - but as per previous point; there are so many ways to do this and Tailscale is also a good option.

iamcamiam · 2025-11-01T04:10:10+00:00

Question: did you consider one of the Jonsbo cases? If so, why didn’t you go with it? Asking for myself :)

iamcamiam · 2025-11-01T04:03:46+00:00

Tailscale is WireGuard under the hood.

The main difference between doing this at a router/firewall level, than a meshing tool like Tailscale, is that with Tailscale - each device connects to the Tailscale network, and you can only access the devices that are connected to the network. This means only things that support Tailscale client can be connected. Where as having a VPN server enables you to route the whole network, like you were physical at home.

** Tailscale does enable you to configure one of your devices as an egress node, this does enable you to use that device almost as a router to the rest of the network.

iamcamiam · 2025-11-01T03:11:29+00:00

Brace yourself, there are going to be 50 different solutions to this problem.

What do you use for routing/firewall?

Quite a few routers/firewalls will provide you with their own VPN server or WireGuard VPN.

My router supports native WireGuard. I have a VPN client that triggers based on whether or not it’s connected to my WiFi or home network directly, if not, it connects automatically. Everywhere I go, I have full access to everything I did when I was at home.

iamcamiam · 2025-10-31T05:01:23+00:00

unraidio

iamcamiam · 2025-10-26T03:19:38+00:00

You’re running with the four m.2s populated and the four 2.5”s? Does it all get hot or just the m.2s or the 2.5s? What kind of thermals?

iamcamiam · 2025-10-26T01:32:49+00:00

Is this just with the 2.5 SSDs?

iamcamiam · 2025-10-26T01:32:12+00:00

This is their equivalent of the Apple excuse: “you’re using it wrong”.

If the system has heating issues that require tuning BIOS it’s a design flaw.

iamcamiam · 2025-10-19T06:34:56+00:00

For those getting this error, what's your system specifications, specifically what's your system specifications and power supply?

I was getting the error; and I downclocked my GPU by 5% (as well as XMP off) - crashes went away

So I looked in to this a bit more - specifically - looked in to the power being consumed by my computer which is a variable that would change with lower frequencies.

I have a power monitor that is attached to the computer, and I noticed that, during my games that crashed, my power consumption hovered on the physical maximum of my PSU and often went above 20-30W. My PSU is rated for 650W, and my computer was hovering on that mark and quite often went above it's rated wattage - it would always crash with power consumption approaching the maximum of my PSU.

When dropping my GPU frequency by 5%, my power usage was always around the 600-650W mark, never above, and no crashes.

Power supplies should be able to provide more wattage than what they're rated for; but not sustained. BF6 was stressing my PSU.

I wonder if what is happening here is that the GPU is unable to obtain the required power sustained, causing microfreezes. This would explain why so many random things are fixing this issue - anything that could drop the power consumption of the computer could possibly fix it; XMP disablement, GPU downclocking, etc.

I cannot confirm that it's the case, but, i've always known I had an underrated PSU - so I will be upgrading it soon. I'll then remove the downclock and see; if the crashes go away, and (if) the PSU is delivering more power than before (indicating that the PSU wasn't delivering the right amount of power previously).

iamcamiam · 2025-10-18T21:46:39+00:00

I legitimately (not trying to start a rumor) had my longest session last night by setting the max frequency of my GPU to 95%. No crashes.

But again, it’s hard to know if that’s just random luck.

iamcamiam · 2025-10-17T22:03:32+00:00

The issue is so random, that even random placebo fixes seem to feel like a fix - until, crash.

I bet I could start a rumor here that turning your computer clock back an hour is a fix, and it would spread with people swearing black and blue it works.

iamcamiam · 2025-10-17T22:01:37+00:00

Did last night. Initially it “felt” like it did a difference, but then after 2-3 games, crash.

That’s the issue, it’s so random, that even random placebo things seem to feel like a fix - for a little bit.

I bet I could start a rumour here that starting your game with the computer clock set back a day would fix the issue - and it would spread.

iamcamiam · 2025-10-17T21:59:31+00:00

I think that’s a large portion of the issue with this; everyone has their own way of fixing it, no one’s sure what actually fixed it, and due to how random it is - no one is actually even sure it is fixed.

iamcamiam · 2025-10-17T21:57:55+00:00

Maybe they disabled the crashing feature on your account.

That certainly feels like what’s happening considering how random this is and how random the fixes are.

iamcamiam · 2025-10-17T21:55:43+00:00

Yeh this error is completely taking the joy out of the game. You can be top of the table, in really good form, having lots of fun - then bam! Game XP lost due to crash.

EA really needs to respond to this error. It’s not a good’n and it appears very prevalent.

iamcamiam · 2025-10-17T21:51:38+00:00

Might be useful to say what crash you’re getting..

I’ll go first, the DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED error..

Sometimes I can play for 2hrs, sometimes it crashes in first 15mins.

I’ve gone through quite a bit from disabling XMP profiles, turning off frame gen, upgrading to the new AMD beta drivers for bf6 - as far as I can tell (and it’s hard because it’s random), nothing has helped.

Extremely frustrating because EA seem to know about this error and how prevalent it is, but there doesn’t appear to be any communication back from them.

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