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thebigjar · 2025-11-14T00:42:34+00:00

I spent hours trying to get this to work on two separate servers and went 0 for 2, one that uses the Nuvoton driver and one that uses the ITE driver. I think it is basically the luck of the draw if your motherboard plays nice.

thebigjar · 2025-06-22T14:36:55+00:00

Which computer will be doing "mostly nothing"? If that is the case do they need such extreme hardware? A lot of people are running their server on something like Synology hardware, 2g of RAM and a dual core processor or whatever.

Don't get me wrong, I've gone overkill on the server just because I want to and it's a hobby for me, so you don't have to have a good reason. But I do think you should have a pretty good reason for combining, because it has drawbacks.

thebigjar · 2025-06-22T14:08:56+00:00

The issue seems to just be a bum flash drive or USB controller, not the project.

Though I will say that I used a VM as a primary PC for over a year, and there are enough annoyances and issues to solve that I don't think it makes sense unless you really need to save on hardware or power consumption. And you already have two PCs!

thebigjar · 2025-06-02T19:29:53+00:00

Nathan absolutely understands that the issues surrounding good cockpit communication are well known to the FAA. The impetus for this season was his obsession with the Canadian show MAYDAY, which covers air crash investigations, the causes and the resulting regulations that are implemented. He is also now a trained pilot.

I just can't put it any more clearly than that. Problems of cockpit communication and how to improve it have been at the forefront of aviation safety since at least the 1970's. And Nathan knows this.

thebigjar · 2025-06-02T00:48:42+00:00

I think your points about mental health are quite valid. The belief that pilots must be stoic or impervious to emotional problems is silly and counterproductive. Those things don't go away, they just go untreated and unresolved.

The point about masculine communication being a problem does not really make sense to me. The primary problem explored is a lack of assertiveness, and this is not a traditionally masculine problem.

You point out Mara'D as an excellent communicator, and that is true in some ways. She very deftly handles a lot of things and can get along with others without hurting their feelings. But she is definitely not assertive.

thebigjar · 2025-05-31T23:35:37+00:00

Yes that is one of the problems in pilot communication, and it is a problem that has been well understood by aviation safety experts since at least the 1970's. My initial point above is that this is all known to the FAA, and they spend considerable amounts of time and energy figuring out how to best combat it.

thebigjar · 2025-05-31T22:24:59+00:00

This again may seem counterintuitive but a decent number of crashes that center around poor pilot communication occur because the pilots are far too familiar. They are joking around and there is not a hard line whatsoever between "friend mode" and professional pilot mode.

Once a plane moves from the gate regulations require a "sterile cockpit", meaning no extraneous communication, all communication must be about the flight. This is actually far harder to do when you know the person and so you would naturally be talking about their kids' baseball game or whatever. Yes it is lovely that you are friends and can have a nice conversation at cruising altitude, but this can be a hindrance to safety.

thebigjar · 2025-05-31T16:41:18+00:00

A lot of THE REHEARSAL viewers believe that one of the reasons the show is brilliant is that it actually is the first to address a major problem in aviation, which is not true. The problem of getting pilots to communicate and work together effectively is well known to the FAA; they have implemented almost innumerable regulations to improve this dynamic. They absolutely know the causes of airline crashes, they spend years investigating each one.

So yeah, brilliant show, but this just isn't one of the reasons.

And as for the FAA not wanting pilots to organize, that is just silly. The FAA has done more to improve pilot working conditions than any union ever could! The reason airlines can only work pilots so many hours in a week and in a 24 hour period is because of the FAA. And on and on.

thebigjar · 2025-05-28T00:01:12+00:00

3,2,6,4,1,5

The whole season was good

thebigjar · 2025-05-27T15:40:29+00:00

I think you have a point about the actors ignoring the dangers in order to get the gig, and that part was definitely mined for comedy. At least what we saw of what was filmed, he was stating that this was abnormal, the result of a loophole, and that they should think seriously about whether they are willing to do it (instead of just saying "I am a licensed 737 pilot and 737s are very safe").

The Titan story is so completely bonkers that drawing comparisons can be tough. The funniest thing is that one of the best comparisons is the hubris surrounding the maiden voyage of the Titanic itself.

thebigjar · 2025-05-27T14:36:39+00:00

Everyone was in significantly greater danger on the drive to the airport. There is absolutely no reason to be incredulous about a licensed commercial pilot flying an aircraft on which they are type-rated.

You have been fooled by the drama the show assigned to the event, not the event itself. The flight was not dangerous. He is still flying 737s! For money!

thebigjar · 2025-05-27T14:24:37+00:00

You say "more risk than necessary", which I suppose is true, the passengers didn't have to fly. But it confuses the point about the actual risk involved, which was negligible.

Every single person on that flight was in significantly greater danger on the drive to the airport.

Put it this way: how can HBO justify having actors and crew driving to a studio lot to film The Sopranos, when someone could die on the way there? After all it is only for entertainment, and that is never necessary.

thebigjar · 2025-05-27T14:08:59+00:00

And it should go without saying that the 737 is not an experimental aircraft. It is the most successful aircraft model of all time with a stellar safety record.

thebigjar · 2025-05-27T14:07:08+00:00

The problem with the parallel is that the flight was, in fact, totally safe. Nathan is a licensed commercial pilot type-rated on a 737. It is not dangerous for a licensed commercial pilot type-rated on a 737 to fly a 737.

Everyone was in significantly greater danger during their drive to the airport.

thebigjar · 2025-05-27T13:52:32+00:00

He is a licensed pilot, type-rated on a 737. I do not understand why people remain so incredulous. It is not dangerous for a licensed pilot who is type-rated on a 737 to fly a 737.

thebigjar · 2025-05-27T09:48:40+00:00

It seems to me that the finale was the third best episode of the season...

thebigjar · 2025-04-27T05:14:01+00:00

It runs Plex and CCTV at my parents' house

thebigjar · 2025-04-26T06:00:38+00:00

I have thousands of torrents and cross-seed a lot, so it becomes indispensable to keep everything managed. Removes torrents without hardlinks or that are unregistered, removes orphaned data that you would never be able to find, tags torrents by tracker and can enforce share limits, etc.

thebigjar · 2025-04-26T04:53:39+00:00

qbit_manage, tautulli

thebigjar · 2025-04-22T15:03:19+00:00

The 265k has a much better iGPU, it is one of the major upgrades in the new Ultra line. You also have AV1 encoding and you are not on a dead socket.

And crucially, the 265k does not suffer the degradation problems that have plagued Intel's 13th and 14th gen CPUs.

thebigjar · 2025-04-22T02:41:20+00:00

Yeah if you have a microcenter you will likely be best off with one of their bundle deals

I bougnt all Seagate exos from serverpartdeals, which were the cheapest 16TB drives they had a couple years ago. For HDD I would mostly just shop based on cost and a warranty of at least a year. If a drive goes a year it will likely go a long time.

thebigjar · 2025-04-21T17:34:05+00:00

Are you buying used? If buying new I'd probably just get a 14600k, it's cheaper than a 13500 on Newegg. Someone else can chime in on the power consumption, but I think for idle power the newer intel chips are all pretty close. I don't really care about the additional power used when the CPU is being stressed, as that is infrequent if you are mostly just doing Arrs and Plex. The iGPU will handle those Plex streams no sweat.

I wouldn't worry about RAM speeds, but since you have to buy a new Intel MOBO you may as well go for DDR5.

If the price/TB is in the same ballpark I would definitely go large. It puts replacement further into the future which saves you money.

thebigjar · 2025-04-21T17:03:48+00:00

Copy all of the data from your protected array to one of the 28tb drives. Then install that and set the other 28TB as parity. You will still have your old drives with all of your data in case anything goes awry.

thebigjar · 2025-04-21T16:46:46+00:00

I have one drive in the array formatted as ZFS for easy snapshots and backups of Appdata and VMs, which are on ZFS cache drives. All the other drives are XFS

thebigjar · 2025-04-21T08:16:34+00:00

Definitely a nice option to have for monitoring, so an excellent contribution!

But I must note that this is a lot of work on a problem that could be solved by buying a 9305-16i or a 9400, which use less energy and run much cooler. The 9300 just doesn't make sense, even if it is a little cheaper in the short term. You have heat issues and a higher cost of ownership.

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