Midnight Wolf

gestures to the ‘great firewall of China’

gestures to lawmakers banning software and websites

soon

Ah, so we have a happily willing participant! Just fill out this form with your name, dob, ssn, address, fingerprint of all 10 plus your penis and/or clitoris, salava and sperm sample (if possible), banking details for our constant analysis and records, and send it via registered mail to Do You Fucking Get It Yet, 1 Washington Is Fucking You Road, Washington DC.

Imagine filling out an application with this sort of shit, just to buy beer or bang a prostitute. But nooooooo, it’s fine! This is different! We are protecting the children! We are just keeping people safe! The next step is to ban porn as a whole, just like prohibition. Fuck off with your bullshit. I have - checking my notes here - 63GB of my own personal library, and that’s rather small I’d say, only been collecting high quality content for about 21 years. Someone somewhere has TB in their collection, and the smart ones will be relaxing in bliss while everyone else is blue-balled and nutting to the lady on a can of soup.

Oh, most definitely elevators. They have rather sophisticated safety measures, and I’ve been told the safest place involving an elevator issue is in the box, it’s just the wait for aid to arrive. I’ve actually walked by a collapsed escalator, so uh, put me in the box suspended in the air any day.

I told my partner at a convention this year to just take the escalator with me. While I’m in my wheelchair. He didn’t find it humorous, but I mean we were going up, c’mon. Just a little fun, pleeeeeease.

Elevators are WAY fucking easier. Although when a building has a corridor with several, and the doors only open for 315 milliseconds, and so you’re racing as best you can to the door, just for it to close and you have to push the fucking button again…

Looking at you, Hyatt Regency O’Hare. Make the shit stay open longer, jesus fuck. And why the hell are the accessible rooms not on the ground or lobby floors? And why the hell are they all 2x doubles, and no 1x king config in the entire hotel? And another thing…

We got a tictactoeologist over here

“why do I have all these parts left over?”

Just stop paying them! Simple.

I know it’s a sub-brand, but as I don’t own any products by them…

It’s like “do you use windows at work? lol you are an Xbox lover” like ???

One-time, where I risk losing 8TB of data that, at the time, I did not have a complete backup of: abso-fucking-lutely. That they handled my situation with speed and without any further bullshit is why I remain a customer.

I have a list of companies that I will not do business with, because of their fuckups, because of shady business tactics, etc. For example, I haven’t bought anything from Nvidia in… 18 years? iRobot, in 7. Haven’t given Hilton any funds willingly in almost 3. Intel, 19 years…

I don’t purchase any SanDisk products so 🤷‍♂️

If the nas dies but the drives are fine, I just grab a new (synology) nas and stick the drives in. The OS will see that it’s in a new model, and start the process of migration (anything that needs changing, enabling, or disabling vs the prior unit, hardware and software capabilities, etc). It’s super easy; I’ve done it myself when I upgraded units a few years ago. If the drives die I have local and remote backups.

I believe it is possible to extract data with a standard Linux system, though it’s been several years since I looked into it. I don’t run raid on my usual machines (well, I have a wd black pcie card with 2x nvme drives running in raid0 on a hw raid chip onboard, but the system is oblivious and thus so am I), so I’d have to do research again if such a situation occurred. I’m not planning on moving away from syno so currently the hypothetical would end up just buying a new unit and being done with it.

Not to advertise but that’s one of the reasons I haven’t moved from synology. They have some special sauce version of raid that allows different drives and sizes without any fuss. I’m mostly attached to the UI but it’s nice to know for when one drive dies, I don’t have to match it or anything.

So I’ve wanted to try Toshiba drives (for both typical use and nas) but it seems impossible to source them. Their official website is a nightmare and I think (?) I’ve seen them on Amazon but nowhere else. And I couldn’t find warranty details either. They seem to be very business/corp and totally oblivious to the consumer/prosumer side.

Where did you get your drives? I’m stateside, if that matters.

Ehh, this practice has stopped - they now label their drives properly on their website/tech specs. I was one of the affected users when I went to raid1 for my 10tb disk (bought ~6mo apart, second drive affected) and I was fucking pissed, as I’ve read mixing CMR and SMR in raid is a recipe for disaster. I straight up told the CS rep that ‘you send me a CMR drive and take the SMR, or I will join the class action lawsuit and never be a WD customer again’. I received a CMR model next day, and they received their SMR drive back.

They pissed me off, but they did the correct response and resolution. I have continued to buy WD since the incident.

The phrase is incorrect

It will actually be on film, or saved digitally. The camera is merely the tool to capture it.

You can’t tell me what to do!

taking notes

resturaunt staff are some wild freaks

MFW it was a move operation, not a copy 😵

You can’t, but I sure as fuck will