Xyz

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[–] Xyz 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (15 children)

How do I stop someone from stealing it? I'm for it but I live in suburbia and the stores don't have bike racks for anything other than a parking lot. It's not a "bad" area but it has people. A $500 bike is one thing but a $1500 bike is another.

I don't think there is any secure bike parking as mentioned in the article and I'm not talking daily commute to work. If anyone has any tips I'm open to ideas.

[–] Xyz 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

P6P is a solid phone and I've had great luck with it. I haven't maxed anything out so wondering why I should get a faster chip with more memory so I can take photos of my dog and message my friends. Google Fi is doing just $400 off a 8P which I may take because I don't want their watch or buds. I'm not sure what I'll do.

[–] Xyz 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Unless there are some circumstances that switching will protect her then no. My opinion of course. I learned a long time ago that nontechnical people, young or old, need to value and want to use the tools or it will only cause frustration and less trust in your opinion on other things that may be more critical.

You can explain why something is better or worse but let them make their own choice without being pushed or they won't be invested in the change.

[–] Xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I definitely need a good beans and rice recipe in my life. I've tried so many but the consistency in that photo looks perfect.

Care to share?

Also i make some pickled red onion and put them on top. I am not sure where I got that idea but it breaks up the flavor a bit!

[–] Xyz 9 points 2 years ago

Only politically convenient ones that could "help him" because they have some sort of power.

It's a show to make it seem like he's not the problem.

[–] Xyz 37 points 2 years ago

I wanted a newer car, so I rolled my existing auto loan into the newer vehicles loan. So easy right?

I was upside down on it for years and years. It's so disheartening to drive a vehicle that's falling apart and stranding you everywhere but still owe $10k on it. It was an awful decision that took years of pain but that was my lesson on buying things I can afford.

[–] Xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Pixel pass is the most recent service they've cancelled on me, my movies I bought on Google TV after being moved to YouTube but that service is gone too.

Their assistant devices have slowly gone crazy and barely understand anything and half the features for them have been removed for one reason or another.

Also the transition from the Nest app for my cameras which was amazing to the shitty Google home app which had half the features and didn't work with all my cameras so I had half on nest and half on Google home.

Also their WiFi app is now also in Google home and it has less features than the original stand alone. So it's not all free services, it's things I've paid for and been burned over and over again.

I had a lot of their stuff over the years and it's always great at first until... it's not.

[–] Xyz 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Discovered, reported and fixed shortly after. The headline is catchy but the article is more about the process of how it all went down last year.

Also found this noteworthy:

"We would like to thank the Proton Mail team for their fast and professional handling of our report. They also awarded us with a $750 USD bug bounty, which we happily donated to charity."

[–] Xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The DAS seems limiting because it's USB. I'm limited on speed, and configuration. It works fine for what it is but it's basically just a giant USB drive.

I purchased the TR004 because it was cheap and I needed storage. I don't know what I would have done differently but I feel as though I'm limited by this device instead of enhanced.

A normal HBA/Controller with attached drives in a server would be my ideal I guess. Not possible at this time so I'm working with what I have!

[–] Xyz 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I did that with this giant server I have, but I hate running that thing. This computer I'm using now is honestly a pretty small, proprietary computer and it has no extra headers, it's pretty packed inside. I will be testing unraid after i'm done with OMV. Thanks for your help and suggestions.

Having a normal HBA would have made my choices a lot easier. Dealing with the DAS complicated it but everyone was pretty helpeful so I think I'm on the right track now.

[–] Xyz 3 points 2 years ago

"why fix what isn't broken?" are words to live by and if I were a smarter man I'd listen.

I'm joking, kind of, I think we all have to fight off that "grass is always greener on the other side" type of thinking because my life would be better if i just had...or if i just did...or if i only changed...and then i'm back on selfhosted asking for advice again.

[–] Xyz 1 points 2 years ago

The data import will be a challenge all on it's own. I'll end up probably splitting the data onto a drobo nas and some 4tb hdd's I have laying around to give myself some redundancy. Bring the DAS online, format it with the new file format whatever that may be, and reimport the data. PITA but doable.

It's part of the reason I'm asking because as my data grows, this import process is going to be the most difficult part so I'd like to lock something in for a while.

I am interested in home assistant too so your experience is valuable. Thanks!

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