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Papa Maccus Primus<p>As <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/HDD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HDD</span></a> tech change over time and the market is full of shit drives, using slower and less reliable tech to increase data density, I'm a bit lost. I used to use WD Red (the cheaper consumer version), but they fucked that whole product range up (with SMR I think?) and tried to pull a fast one on their customers so I don't trust WD at all anymore. I'm looking for NAS drives to use in a storage pool. What's a good resource to use for finding proper, good quality drives?<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/computers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>computers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TechSupport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechSupport</span></a></p>

Hate browser Notification requests when visiting a website?

Did you know you can stop them from even asking? (I did not haha)

Verified on both Chrome and Firefox

Settings->Privacy and Security->Permissions->Notifications

there will be a checkbox or radio button to prevent future notification send requests.

More help… Media and file server filesysyem advice.
I’m now investigating mergerfs, which apparently just sprays regular files across standard file systems and then presents a single view.

A failed drives loses all its data, but mergerfs-tools seems to have a script feature that will “keep at least 2 copies of files”, while still presenting a single merged directory structure across multiple disks.

Help with file storage required…

Serious question, anyone who runs RAID 5. Has it ever saved you?

I am provisioning a household NAS and I’m trying to decide on RAID vs JBOD (with scheduled sync of important directories).

I ask because I have run probably dozens of RAID configs since the 90s, in different environments from personal to enterprise and in almost every configuration and it has always been a useless pain in the ass (for anything other than speed).

I accept the risk of RAID-0. That’s fine. But, for backup I have run RAID 5,6,10 and they’ve all screwed us at some time.

Other than RAID 1 (mirroring) it has never been anything other than a pain in the ass. Almost every serious failure we’ve ever had has been raid controller related, or sometimes file system related, which resulted in an unrecoverable spray of crap across many drives.

I have been out of the game for about 10 years, so does anyone have experience with modern RAID-5 that has actually been positive?

If so, what controller/devices/config?

Thanks.
#techsupport #tech #nas #server #selfhosting

I really need some help. I managed to #softlock my #Lenovo #Ideapad #Laptop, please help me!! 🙏

Details:
Ideapad 15 15ALC05

Tried enabling debug/advanced BIOS: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Lenov

It didn't work, just a black screen. Now turning it back on normally, it won't post. Esc, power and NumLock solid on + fans spin up slowly.

I have tried: holding power, leaving it to sit with CMOS (?) + battery unplugged, NOVA button (gives double beep when held)

Please Boost 🔄
#askfedi #techsupport

wiki.archlinux.orgLenovo IdeaPad 5 Pro 14ACN6 - ArchWiki

Has anyone got experience with Intel Optane memory?

The hard drive on my HP laptop is a regular SSD with a smaller Intel Optane drive integrated into it. The Optane is where the OS (Windows 10) is installed and is used to quickly retrieve files from the SSD and so forth.

The Optane drive recently malfunctioned and became unreadable. The SSD portion (where all my files are stored) seems to be intact—at least, it's reading error free when I run a disk check. But with the optane malfunctioning, when I turn on the computer it tells me there is no operating system installed, so I have no way to access the "good" part of the harddrive.

From what I've read online, the only way to get the computer working again is to switch off Intel Optane and install a new operating system directly onto the SSD. But if I do this, the entire hard drive gets formatted, and I lose all of my files.

I'm not good with this stuff. Is there any way to recover my files? Unfortunately my backup system failed too and I've lost 6 months of art and academic work 😢

Một người dùng MacBook đang gặp vấn đề khó hiểu sau cập nhật MacOS: máy nóng bất thường và báo lỗi quá nhiệt, dù thiết bị thực tế rất lạnh (thậm chí sau khi cho vào tủ đông). Ứng dụng theo dõi hiển thị nhiệt độ GPU/CPU lên tới 190-200+ độ F, khiến máy chậm và không thể đồng bộ. Người dùng đang thắc mắc vì sao lại có sự sai lệch lớn như vậy.

#MacBook #MacOS #LỗiNhiệtĐộ #QuáNhiệt #HỗTrợKỹThuật #MacBook #MacOS #TemperatureIssue #TechSupport #Overheating

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

news.ycombinator.comWill President Obama have a computer in the Oval Office? | Hacker News

Why software product support is (sometimes) a terrible job

I get this email about my Send Later Thunderbird add-on:

I tried to to set up a Send every month, but I cannot finish it as the window is too big, i can’t see the last few lines.
I tried zoom in and out that don’t work tried to drag it up that don’t work either.

I respond:

Sorry for the trouble. I’ll do my best to help you get to the bottom if it.

Do you mean that the scheduling window is taller than your screen?

What do you mean when you say that zooming in and out “don’t work”? I am able to zoom in and out with ctrl-plus and ctrl-minus.

What OS are you using? What Thunderbird version? What Send Later version?

They respond:

I have sent a screen shot, I use MS Edge, Windows 11

[the enclosed screenshot shows that “the scheduling window is taller than your screen” is indeed the problem they are experiencing]

Then they send a second email before I can reply:

I just tested it with Google Chrome, and the bottom of your send later window appeared for a split second, I couldn’t catch it with screen shot.

I reply:

Your browser version (whether it’s MS Edge or Google Chrome) is irrelevant. I asked you what version of Thunderbird you are using not what browser / browser version you are using. You can find out your Thunderbird version by selecting “About Thunderbird” from the “Help” menu in Thunderbird.

You did not answer this question: “What do you mean when you say that zooming in and out ‘don’t work’? I am able to zoom in and out with ctrl-plus and ctrl-minus.”

You did not answer this question: “What Send Later version?” You can find out the Send Later version by selecting “Add-ons and themes” from the main menu in Thunderbird and then clicking on “Send Later”.

I need you to answer my questions for me to be able to help you.

They reply:

Ver 10

[no joke, that was the entire contents of their email]

My final reply:

I cannot help you further until you answer all the questions I asked you. Your response below answers none of them. There would be no point in my asking you the same questions over and over, so I will be ignoring any further emails from you until you actually answer all my questions.

If you honestly cannot understand what I am talking about when I say that you haven’t answered my questions, then you will need to get someone else on your end to help figure it out. I’m at a loss about what to do from my end since I’ve repeatedly stated my questions clearly and explicitly and you’ve repeatedly failed to answer them.

I’ve been supporting free software (as a volunteer! nobody pays me to do this!) for decades, and this happens occasionally… Someone writes to me asking for help, who is either so unintelligent or has such poor reading comprehension skills that they can’t handle the basic task of answering clear, explicit, straightforward questions. How the heck am I supposed to help people like this? It is incredibly infuriating. I assume it is infuriating for them as well! But I still have no idea how to help them.

Furthermore, they rarely show any self-awareness about the fact that they are not answering my questions, even when I repeat the questions several times and tell them explicitly which questions they haven’t answered. More often, they get angry at me for not helping them. When, sincerely, all I want to do is help them solve their problem, but I simply can’t.