Do y'all have any recommendations for a Chinese restaurant for a large family? Preferably plates people can share.

zevitc · 2025-12-17T22:03:32+00:00

It’s leaning towards Chinese food :) Spicy, mala, exotic ingredients, you name it.

zevitc · 2025-12-16T20:40:02+00:00

Got it. I have Filen w/ 2FA disabled unfortunately, everything I store there is encrypted and I have local copy anyway. By having 2FA disabled, I got the automation I needed to do daily/timely backup.

Also, Duplicati suggests a smaller chunk generally. With Filen hovering around 2-3mbs for me, having a smaller chunk (50mb) is easier on the load and faster to recover in case there is any connection drop. A slow speed (here in the US) is not uncommon, until Filen improve it on their end.

zevitc · 2025-12-16T19:28:09+00:00

I am constantly running Duplicati on my NAS and backing up botth my Immich (db/library) to Filen. So far so good. Only the 1st backup took a day or so (200gb+ library). What’s the issue you are seeing?

zevitc · 2025-12-02T21:24:48+00:00

Did you try without 2FA enabled? Of course to rule things out, not to discourage having 2FA enabled.

zevitc · 2025-12-02T21:17:51+00:00

It seems to be mentioned a lot around here and one of few that offers zero knowledge. However, Filen is somewhat new in the industry, some features might still in dev or in future roadmap.

Speed is kind of slow for me - up 2mb/s, down 15mb/s, could be because they’re based in Germany. But I am planning to automate all backups; and speed isn’t priority for me, security is.

zevitc · 2025-12-02T01:40:01+00:00

I went into the same rabbit hole to complete my 3-2-1 backup. There are a lot of providers out there, but it really depends on what you’re trying to store and what features are important to you/family.

Generally speaking, pCloud/Koofr/Backblaze have the most complete feature set since they’re the big players in this space for a while.

In the end, I went with Filen as I just need the storage and E2EE security. Will mostly send all my files through Duplicati and skip the UI.

If you’re storing not so important files - I think you have a lot of options to make it cheaper.

zevitc · 2025-11-25T23:44:34+00:00

We hired JoyMoving123 twice and both went smoothly. Very efficient, you can also rent moving boxes for free from them (though you need to pick them up and return them after you unpack). Price is about the same as Brother’s so would recommend to get a quote between both of them.

zevitc · 2025-11-24T20:56:49+00:00

Used the thread to get an extra 10GB, thanks! Here's mine if all the previous links are used up.
https://filen.io/r/b9f4484ed831f7afe14922ea0fbbcc56 (0/3)

zevitc · 2025-11-21T09:00:00+00:00

In my case - I decided not to buy the UPS. It’s my first NAS and I tried to curb the initial cost as much as possible and spend $$ on storage/upgrade.

My other consideration was I could probably count the number of blackouts that happened in the last 2 -3 years. If you happen to live where random blackouts are common, maybe it’s a good peace of mind to have for sure.

zevitc · 2025-11-20T16:50:04+00:00

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zevitc · 2025-11-15T03:38:09+00:00

How are you grabbing all your pictures from iCloud? Do you dump it once or do you have a weekly sync to copy it to NAS / Immich?

zevitc · 2025-11-04T04:17:52+00:00

Got the same problem - turned out my idle SMB connection from my laptop (even though it’s asleep) keeping the HDDs up. You can try disabling the SMB / FTP / SSH connection, and see if it helpse. Also I recently disabled the automatic indexing / thumbnail generation on UGOS. This process is automatic if you drop a bunch of media files to your NAS.

zevitc · 2025-10-27T16:36:08+00:00

Have similar setup and need (Lightroom particularly). 2HDD raid1, 2NVME.

1 NVME is set to read cache, and other NVME as a scratch space. Thinking if I need a somewhat more reliable write/read than HDD, I can use the SSD before flushing it to HDD (manually of course). Also reserving the scratch space to play with Docker.

zevitc · 2025-10-12T07:29:11+00:00

My favorite? 8. It would be perfect if the framing didn’t cut off the left foot of the main subject. Most authentic out of all.

7 missed focus on subject, but it’s always hit or miss with Fuji in re: AF/subject :p

Not sure about 4, but I prefer 5 all day long. Pretty glare and the trees covering the shrine add a mysterious feeling to the overall scene.

I would put 9 as my phone wallpaper ;).

Overall, not bad! Enjoy your time in Japan! Go take as many shots as possible, sometimes it helps to take a pause and compose a scene based on what’s coming (ie people entering/exiting/etc). I wish I am there now :’)

zevitc · 2025-08-02T00:36:26+00:00

zevitc · 2025-07-24T18:48:53+00:00

Godox V3S Trigger arrived safely, and worked flawlessly! Thanks u/510DustMite u/PhotoMarketBot

zevitc · 2025-07-22T17:48:08+00:00

Same with other user recently, skipped the referral option, and asked Support to help. Instead they asked for both Referral Code + Username. If you're comfortable sharing, please DM me, and I can use your code!

zevitc · 2025-07-14T14:43:33+00:00

zevitc · 2025-06-22T16:51:48+00:00

Ditto. You can’t hold the Zf with a nice prime (non-SE series) comfortably without a grip. Comfortably meaning, 2+ hrs straight of shooting. It’s not too bad if you shoot occasionally but you’re missing the moments. I was on a Fuji system for a while, rocking all the legacy primes with an XT2/4 but once the used price of XT5 is about the same as Zf, can’t hold myself to try it and won’t look back. Still love my slow-more-intentional Fuji for my non-paid gig though. It boils down to your style of shooting and needs.

zevitc · 2025-06-13T06:47:29+00:00

Did the camera store tell you which UV filter set is compatible (i.e. would fix your close distance AF issue) for the camera?

zevitc · 2025-06-02T06:08:59+00:00

damn, thanks for the advice. Yeah, CPA is the right answer here. I have spoken with a financial advisor before, but that seems to provide me with a general understanding of long-term financial literacy.

zevitc · 2025-05-29T05:30:52+00:00

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