CactusBoyScout

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm confused by Synology's OS and how you actually view the SMART report but it just says "Healthy" and now it isn't even showing the bad sectors anymore...

 

Hello,

So I've had this janky QNAP NAS for years. It's janky because my apartment got hit by lightning a few years ago and fried one of the ethernet ports.

Ever since then, I had been using it (against my better judgment) because the other ethernet port still worked so I was able to keep using it.

I finally got a new NAS (Synology) and two new drives and migrated all my data over. Whew!

But now I've got two empty slots so I figured I would move over the newer of 2 of the 4 drives from my old QNAP NAS.

But the QNAP has a weird issue... it never shuts down properly, possibly related to the lightning. Any time you tell it to shut down, it just reboots. So I basically told it to shut down and once it seemed close to rebooting, I just pulled the power cord.

Then I moved those two newer drives over to the Synology NAS which is when it told me that one drive has six bad sectors. The drives are encrypted by QNAP's OS if that matters. So I was planning to wipe them anyway.

  1. Is it likely that the improper shutdowns contributed to the bad sectors?
  2. Is it likely that wiping the drives could solve this somehow?
  3. Should I not use that drive?

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

One example I remember... getting an appointment for Global Entry.

If you're not American, you might not know what that is... but it's an expedited airport/immigration program in the US and getting an appointment often takes months.

You can use tools like this to monitor the appointments page for cancellations. I didn't use this specific tool but I used something similar when I signed up for GE and was able to get an appointment 2 weeks after I applied.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I just went through this and tried quite a few Navidrome clients before settling on Plexamp.

I wanted to like Navidrome because it’s more forgiving with your tagging/organization, particularly with compilations. It reads the compilations ID3 tag and puts all tracks with the same album title and that tag in one album, which is super simple.

Plex is far more picky with tagging/structure. But the clients for Plexamp are just so much better, imo.

So I just eventually sucked it up and spent days retagging my MP3 collection and moving files around to make it work with Plex. It sucked but it was worth it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

After a while, you start to get tired of apps and other online services either disappearing or changing in ways you don’t like.

 

On the one hand, if I run Duplicati first, I can roll back to a previous version if there's an issue with an update.

On the other hand, if I run Watchtower first, I'm backing up the latest version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How would you automate the stopping of the containers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Wow people are recommending a lot of things I don’t do and now I’m worried I’m doing something wrong.

I just have a folder on my Ubuntu boot drive called Docker with all of the persistent data from my containers. And I just tell Duplicati to backup that folder to BackBlaze. I don’t stop the containers to do that. Am I doing something wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I first tried out Plex like a decade ago because The Simpsons weren't available online in any way and I hated having to change DVDs all the time. I loved that it remembered where I'd left off too.

I was using it to track which episodes I'd rewatched as I prepared for a Simpsons trivia competition. My team ended up taking second place! We won a case of donuts. :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I just had a strange issue with Watchtower where it somehow failed to update itself. And it left a running but unhealthy duplicate of itself. Just restarting the old container fixed it. But I guess that’s a risk?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There are some third party apps on Android that allow you to upload custom firmware to devices like electric scooters in order to change default settings. Those simply don’t exist on iOS, I assume because they aren’t allowed. I would definitely like to try that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s definitely a niche thing but I’d love to have emulators on my phone.

And there have been a few other instances where I’d like to do something not allowed by the App Store. My electric scooter has lots of unofficial Android apps that let you change default settings by uploading custom firmware. But those apps are not allowed on iOS. So I would have to borrow an Android device to do it.

Yes it’s niche but it’s pretty annoying for those use-cases that are simply banned by Apple.