Midnight Wolf

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.

video for beginners

“why is this not available for my niche viewer? smh those beginners need to do some research on their own and hopefully find the same niche instance that I use so they can start calling themselves beginners. They are, uh… beta beginners? alpha? nightly beginners! posers!”

Viewership 101: go where your audience is.

heavily opinionated

Is that of itself not an opinion…?

outdated

Tbf I haven’t looked at the source material but I don’t think two points make it “outdated”. It’s like calling Debian outdated.

If only there was a way to… freeze media playback so that one can… oh shoot, we need a word for that next step, too, maybe… ‘resume’ could work? Yeah, resume it at a later date.

Such a shame that this idea has never been possible.

It’s constantly-buying-additional-hard-drives-for-balooning-storage all the way down!

Those screenshots, the edges for the top image, remind me so much of Vista/7.

If you know, you know.

Ew, no. Nobody uses phones for voice communication, dad. We are all shut-ins and any calls must be regarding an immediate life-or-death situation.

UwU!

Ehh, traditional porn is a dime a dozen though, and is boring. I want to bang a room full of furs, and throw normalities out the window immediately, ya know?

Maybe I’ll open up my own studio or something. There’s tons of amateur stuff if you know where to look, but having a safe place, with trained staff controlling the production, and just letting raw, passionate, kink-friendly action happen between the participants, is an idea I could get behind. Or in front of. Gotta take pride in your work, y’know?

I’ve heard this saying many times; if only I could figure out how to get paid for railing other furs, and cuddling them before the real fun starts and the other 13 canines enter the room…

Oil: hey kid, you want some money

GM: why my pp so hard

Afaik honey was acquired by PayPal, they were an independent startup until then. But yeah.

card provider will withdraw

Dubious, as I regularly see gas stations with separate cash vs card prices. I’ve seen small businesses offer discounts for cash, too. And it’s not like visa is going to stop processing cards because walmart started offering cash prices. It’s just scare tactics. And for big companies, people who pay in cash offer bigger profit margins, so it’s not like they are incentivized to help the situation.

But that’s not important right now

“I nutted in a girl once, I’m better than you”