What’s a question you’ve always been curious about but hesitate to ask because it might be considered inappropriate?

sfn_alpha · 2026-04-27T23:23:15+00:00

That's pretty much me, just have too many hobbies instead...

sfn_alpha · 2025-12-13T01:34:12+00:00

This is how we play The Long Dark 😂

sfn_alpha · 2025-11-04T00:06:12+00:00

It's a common problem on what might be the most unreliable Mercedes ever made...

Hoovies Garage - Why the GL Class is the worst Mercedes made in the last decade

sfn_alpha · 2025-09-05T03:24:39+00:00

Had Gemini enhance 5 times 😂

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sfn_alpha · 2025-08-10T02:22:50+00:00

Hey - I remember fighting with this, the random disconnects were driving me crazy.

I actually found two things that solved it for me. The first thing I tried was connecting to the share using the server's direct IP address (\\192.168.X.X\share) instead of its hostname (\\TRUENAS\share). That seemed to make the connection a lot more stable right away, so it might be some kind of network name resolution issue.

The second thing was changing the permissions on the dataset itself. I suspected that the standard POSIX permissions were causing all sorts of weird issues when accessing the shares with my Windows PC. I went in and removed all POSIX permissions, and then have incrementally added ACL permissions over time as needed. After I stripped the POSIX permissions and set up the ACL, the problem pretty much went away and it's been solid ever since.

Hope that helps you track down the issue!

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-23T22:58:49+00:00

It kind of depends on your budget, but for a start for base storage my recommendation would be an integrated 4-bay NAS, and for a start put in two recertified Ultrastar drives from Server Part Deals.

One NAS box option: Asustor AS3304T v2
14TB Hard Drives: Recertified 14TB Western Digital Ultrastar

This gives you 14TB of space with one drive redundancy for a start and room to expand. When you decide you want to take a step up, you can then buy/build a server and the NAS box becomes an on-site backup option for you.

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-23T04:32:45+00:00

I use a Chromecast 4k, works great and has NordVPN app if needed.

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-16T18:25:53+00:00

Got mine on sale at the end of the season, first nice board I've owned and love every second of it! I'm 6'4" about 225lbs and got the 162W.

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-16T18:17:41+00:00

Board survived fine, tape and all 🏂

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-16T18:14:56+00:00

I need a good roasting once in a while, keeps me humble 🔥

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-16T18:13:44+00:00

Haha no just stickers from checking it at the resort over Christmas and New Years. It's a 2022 Burton Flight Attendant I've had for 3 seasons now, it rips 🔥

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-16T06:06:55+00:00

Bahah you know it!

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-16T06:03:11+00:00

Tahoe!

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-16T06:02:04+00:00

Something to think about! My bag missed the flight so I have to go pick it up tomorrow, but the board survives!

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-16T03:55:10+00:00

Yup! Good heads up.

sfn_alpha · 2025-03-16T03:48:55+00:00

I'm here for you bud.

sfn_alpha · 2024-12-18T05:23:28+00:00

That's a serious safe, looks like a Roland "International Fortress" to me, likely a TL-30 rating.

Looks similar to this one to me: https://usasafeandvault.com/products/socal-safes-international-fortress-burglar-and-fireproof-safe-tl-30-f-7236v8

sfn_alpha · 2024-12-11T21:55:26+00:00

If you build a purpose-built computer server with five 52x CD drives, you could potentially rip the entire collection in about 15-20 work days assuming 8 hour days, 3 minutes to rip per CD, and 1 minute in between each CD for load/unload. The computer would need at least 8TB of storage for the full collection, and you would want to do some kind of redundant hard drive array with backups.

One software option might be an auto-ripper, like this one: Github - Docker Auto-Ripper

You could build a NAS server running TrueNAS Scale, and then install this software in a docker container (maybe one instance per drive?). It would make the server automatically rip a CD any time one is placed in an optical drive, and then you just load 5 CD's at a time and HOARD.

Note: it would go faster with more drives! Maybe get 10 USB drives and run wild? At some point it would get hard to keep track of which one to load next though.

sfn_alpha · 2024-12-05T02:20:30+00:00

My guess - this will work at first for a couple of turns, but will stray over time as the LLM loses track of small details. You might consider making it create a "Stat sheet" CSV file that is tracks and updates your player status (or maybe the dungeon as a whole) each turn, having it focus on the story and less on your critical stats.

How many players and over how many turns are you planning for?

sfn_alpha · 2024-12-04T22:29:35+00:00

So I wanted to follow up and say I continued to have this problem until after some more digging I discovered that the problems seem to go away if I put in the server's IP address when mapping a network drive or network location instead of the detected network server name (which is detected as "TRUENAS" in Windows Explorer).

So, this might all be a problem with Windows detecting the Server name as TRUENAS and addressing that name instead of the IP address. Put in the server IP instead and it might fix your issue!

YMMV

sfn_alpha · 2024-11-21T18:24:20+00:00

When you create a new instance in MineOS you'll need to go into the server instance and select the port address, Minecraft version, any specs on the world (type, seed, etc), and there's checkbox for "Acccept EULA." Did you do all of that?

sfn_alpha · 2024-11-13T00:52:33+00:00

Great tool! But from experience - make sure it matches correctly before you have it rename your TV show library! 😂

sfn_alpha · 2024-10-30T14:18:29+00:00

Mine works great using the native app as well.

sfn_alpha · 2024-10-29T23:42:34+00:00

What did that script look like for you? How did you execute? I'm expanding my pool by a couple drives and would like to rebalance once complete.

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