Nogami

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Nogami,

I went down the unRAID rabbit hole.

I never came back up, I’m happy here.

Bought a couple of Exos 7E10 8TB drives, warranty status says "initially sold as part of a larger system, contact seller". It means I can't take advantage of their five years warranty, doesn't it?

I admit they were way too cheap for what they are (like 15% cheaper than same-size Ironwolf), so I gambled it haha there were no indications that these drives were OEM or similar....

Nogami,

I’ve been buying used 8TB HGST SAS drives on eBay for $50USD each, so far no issues but I really don’t care if they die. Basically disposable at that price point.

Nogami,

You’re sort of a one trick pony aren’t you? All full of Apple hate. Must be a bitter life you lead.

Nogami,

Ya it’s not at all controversial. Aside from the techno crane, everything else I could see is MSRP at prosumer pricing.

So it really is Apple lowering the barrier to entry. Even if you only have a few of these goodies, your footage will look fantastic if not cinematic.

Nogami,

And it’s not even that much. The crane is probably rented.

Staff costs aside you’re probably looking at $40,000 tops which is cheap cheap cheap for production costs

And if you don’t have $40k, rent everything except the phone and make your movie. Easy.

Nogami,

Everyone rents gear, from the biggest Hollywood films down. The biggest blockbuster you can think of was shot and edited on rented gear.

Nobody buys a techno crane and just puts it in a storage room in Apple HQ.

Nogami,

Doubt it will make a difference that anyone except benchmarkers will notice.

I run a homelab and have no trouble finding enthusiasts who go super in-depth about how to use the hardware and software. Where are the good Apple ecosystem enthusiasts?

So as the title says, I run a homelab with various technologies — Proxmox, Home Assistant, a reverse proxy, lots of Ubiquiti equipment, and so on. Over the years I’ve consumed countless hours of articles, stack overflow posts, youtube channels, and knowledge bases to keep myself up to speed on how to use this equipment and...

Nogami,

You’re basically running a BSD Unix system with an actual nice GUI. Any Unix resource is fine if you’re ok digging into the guts a bit.

The anti Apple gang will be salivating with not terribly relevant Apple stuff to say though.

Nogami,

Agreed. I made photo yearbooks that way. They’re amazing. Guess they just weren’t in demand enough to keep the partnership going with their print service provider.

Nogami,

If you say so.

Nogami,

If you’re in it for the long haul buy a “cheap” used server off of eBay and upgrade it.

If you want something more inexpensive buy the cheapest case you can find with the most HD mounting points. Then get yourself a SAS controller from eBay and connect everything up.

Then go look at installing unraid. Done.

Nogami,

I have 120TB in my unraid server so far and it grows every year.

Running a supermicro chassis now which is amazing if power hungry and a bit loud.

And at over 100lbs, a thief is gonna blow out their back trying to steal it.

Nogami,

Really wish Apple would launch a service partnered with an audiology company to make custom moulded earpieces. I’d buy a set in a heartbeat.

Nogami,

Fully customized earphones with perfect sound isolation?

You’ve obviously never tried them. They’re exactly for their target demographic. Custom and comfy but expensive.

I had a pair from another manufacturer but lost them on a trip.

Best headphones ever. Perfect fit, amazing comfort and total sound isolation. Crying babies, gunshots, you name it - total silence.

Nogami,

Proving you really don’t know what you’re talking about. Ok.

Nogami,

At this point I don’t really care that much.

Pretty much all of Canada was on fire this summer and the entire country was dumping carbon into the atmosphere at record levels, far greater than anything man made in a year, so some watches that are being offset is pretty low on my list of anxiety inducing items.

Global warming is a thing but we may already be well past the point of no return when countries like China and India don’t care in the race to industrialize everything.

Nogami,

Shrug

Nogami,

An impractical goal might as well be a fantasy.

Nogami,

Not really that high no. I mean they’re expensive but worth it.

Nogami,

Did you see the lineups of people buying them? Even locally here they had to have security people and queues to keep things organized. And people in some countries were lined up in the hundreds to buy and resell at even higher prices than what they paid.

There are lots of people with enough disposable income to buy them even at current prices.

Nogami,

I don’t see it changing if the price is below $2000 a unit.

Nogami,

already in the news: Apple is dumping China as fast as they can without majorly impacting their products. Manufacturing switching to other countries already.

Nogami,

Looks easy enough to make your own.

lookanotherblog.com/diy-adc-adapter/

Determine Charging Speed

Now that the 15 has USB-C, I’d like to see if it correctly supports USB-PD. Is there any way to tell the charging speed when you plug in your phone to charge? With my Android it would say “Charging Slowly”, “Charging” and “Charging Rapidly” or I could use some apps. I haven’t found anything with my iPhone though.

Nogami,

Probably matters more on less efficient devices.

Nogami,

You mean that some youtuber who makes money off of views and clicks may not have done an entirely accurate portrayal of real world use?

I’m shocked. /s

I’ll trust CR’s testing methodology over “bend it with your fingers”.

Nogami,

When it generates revenue things change. I get it.

Fortunately I can also think critically so it won’t influence my choices as much as those who may not be able or choose to think for themselves.

Nogami,

To be clear they said it did bend but kept working so it passed. The bend was only cosmetic and they said it still outperformed other phones that bent.

Source:

www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/…/index.htm

Nogami,

You mean that some youtuber who makes money off of views and clicks may not have done an entirely accurate portrayal of real world use?

I’m shocked. /s

I’ll trust CR’s testing methodology over “bend it with your fingers”.

Nogami,

Think you missed the sarcasm.

But if you’re not trying to break it it’s likely not going to be an issue. He may have also just been unlucky with a defect. Oh well. AppleCare+ here.

Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups

Good afternoon all, I have half-assed my backups for 15 years, and it is not sustainable, and I need your help! I have the following setup: 1x Raspberry Pi 4 with a WD USB3 MyBook 4TB as a NAS target using OpenMediaVault. This works well enough, but is not in my mind a long term viable solution. 1x Apple Airport TimeCapsule...

Nogami,

Look into unraid.

One upon a time I might’ve suggested FreeNAS/TrueNAS but now that unraid supports ZFS there’s not a really compelling reason except if you can’t afford the license fee (which is very reasonable $59-$129 for a lifetime license depending on the license you want. If you don’t want ZFS you can run a standard XFS file system that can be accessed by basically anything. Parity expansion and all the good stuff.

Just saw your additional comment. You can run dockers for Plex and more or full VMs.

They also sometimes do Black Friday discounts to buy a basic license and fully upgrade it).

Look at videos by spaceinvaderone for some examples of what it can do. I have two pro licenses and it’s easily the best computer purchase I’ve made in the last two decades.

Nogami,

It’s awesome to have FU money on a scale of billions I suppose.

Oh well. I always disliked it anyway. Too self-important.

Nogami,

Highly doubt they’ll ever allow filtering on the important stuff:

  • filter out paid apps
  • allow paid apps but filter out IAPs
  • allow IAPs. but filter out subscriptions.
Nogami,

Awesome. Will make network troubleshooting a bit easier than lugging a laptop around.

Nogami,

So… unimaginative….

Nogami,

That’s your homework not mine.

Nogami,

Ya pretty much what I figured. All talk.

Nogami, (edited )

Just a few idiot YouTubers looking for easy clicks. I treat my devices properly and know that I’m carrying a 2 grand tiny computer in my pocket. I just don’t drop them or have accidents with them.

Nogami,

It doesn’t really matter anyway. I have 2 years of AppleCare+ and by then I’ll have a newer phone. I’m always covered.

Nogami,

Don’t be salty you can’t do it too. 🤣

Nogami,

You could’ve stopped after you.

Nogami,

Yaya. Whatever.

Nogami,

Ok I’m gonna be that guy. I wanted a silicone case but they were sold out for 15 PM, so I went for finewoven. It does feel very nice even if overpriced and not that durable.

No im not expecting a crazy lifespan but I can deal with that. When it starts to degrade I’ll be buying a leather case from a 3rd party, but wanted it cased from day 1. Partly because I love the look of leather and partially because I’m annoyed by the PETA types so it’s a double-win.

iOS 17 voice dictation very slow

Since the update to iOS 17 the voice dictation on my iPad 6th gen is very slow. It lags several sentences behind and even when I tap the microphone icon to stop it, it needs another five to ten seconds to finish the text. The longer the text, the longer the time to finish the text. All was fine before the update. Have you...

Nogami,

But has the accuracy changed at all?

Nogami,

It’s fine and not a big deal for me. I rarely charge by cable anyway. I wouldn’t have batted an eye had Apple removed the port entirely and said to do everything wirelessly.

Being able to connect accessories to it will be kind of handy though. I plan on plugging my usb c multi-dongle from my laptop into it and seeing how many things work. If it supports a usb c Ethernet dongle for networking that will be handy for work when I need to check ports for connectivity and speed.

Nogami,

Any big company that doesn’t do this is doing it wrong. You may not like it but that’s the way things work. But all big companies will eventually fall given enough time and management changes.

Nogami,

Fair enough. Scotchgarded mine. Didn’t change the colour at all.

I like the look and feel of the case. Will see about lifespan. Will likely get a leather case when it eventually fails.

Nogami,

I went out to get something from my car and in the 5 min I was gone the UPS guy decided to show up.

“Fortunately The in-laws are staying with us”? and when I got back I heard grandma yelling at my wife if she was expecting a delivery.

Got there just in time.

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