They are great little yokes. I used have mine, few years ago when I lived elsewhere, hooked up to the sitting room TV and powered through the USB service port and I would SSH into to both download and watch shows.
Was always fun when out for a few drinks with someone and weād head back to mine for a few more and watch some TV and Iāve already logged into it on the phone from the pub and downloaded the shows we were talking about 
Piās make great media servers and boxes for multi-media. Iāve hosted Plex on them with no real issues that are overwhelming.
Is a seedbox worth the money? Iāve hummed and hawed about getting one for years
Handling is one thing, simplifying is quite another.
It like taking somebodyās Finely honed SANTOKU knife 
from them and giving them a table knife, sure you can use it, but why make it difficult.
I did many years ago, It was not bad, but I guess I am now looking back 
I donāt recall it renaming files though, does it do that now?
Cheers Iāll check those out 
Depends on the day of the week, but I would have to say 
For people like ourselves, that like to hoarde, and I assume you use a ratio based torrent site
It is great, amazing speeds ( but chain is only as stongā¦ 
)
Probably unnecessary, as I can use my Synology ( on 24/7 to seed )
I use https://www.appbox.co/ UK company, servers in the Netherlands. I pay ?? 
10 per month for 1TB ( I use it to keep my ratios up and give back with great speeds )
Topre = Rubber Domeeee
Plus is it really even a mechanical keyboard if you donāt have Zealios switches?
@Amal
Me tooā¦ while mando was a good show, itās still classic Star Wars fluff bullshit. I believe the fundamental philosophical and moral differences between Star Wars and Star Trek can be summed up thuslyā¦
oh yeah, spoilersā¦
Mandalorian, Chapter 4 (Sanctuary); Mando & Cara help peasant villagers ārise upā and fight an AT-ST Raiderā¦ but before that, Cara talks about how a single AT-ST took out tons of trained rebel soldiers in her unitā¦ in modern terms, it would be like pitting infantry soldiers with machine guns against what amounts to a M1 Abrams tankā¦ a bloodbath with no pointā¦ but somehow they ātrain the villagersā in a montage that could have realistically only covered 24-48 hours at mostā¦ lots of great training there guysā¦ and then of course they win with a novel strategy of what? Digging a holeā¦ as if this is something a massive walker from the Star Trek universe couldnāt simply scan and walk over or around, or just stand there blasting the shit out of everyone. Itās feel-good bullshit fluff that is fun to watch, but ultimately is a story-line that is so recurrent in popular culture that it innundates people over and over again with the idea that you can overcome overwhelming odds with no resources if you ājust believeāā¦ and when real people take this attitude into the real world and inevitably fail, over and over, they become convinced itās because they suck and get depressed about lifeā¦ why can everyone else do all the things and I have such a hard time? Well because life is full of impossible, overwhelming challengesā¦ some you can pick away and at eventually win, but some must be navigated around, or simply given up on. In a Star Trek world, youād set off and walk straight up Mount Everest with hardly any training and no gear and after a few struggles youād summit, all because you just ātried hardā. Itās fluff bullshit and a terrible philosophy for lifeā¦ yet kids grow up on this stuffā¦ integrate it into their identitiesā¦ itās just bad.
rant over.
I love my synology rackmountsā¦ put them in a vertical 2U rack and hang 'em off a wallā¦ one in my garage and one in a colo for ālocalā backupā¦ and amazon glacier too.
And here I am just rocking my 4 Bay DS-413 ( Pushing the limits at 16TB- which is almost full )
thatās still quite the rocker!
I have a no-bay non-DS-anythingā¦ 
i set āthe loungeā as an open category, not just for ālevel 3sā and upā¦
aaand this thread now lives in the āLoungeā category.
Hi Jack,
the lounging derailment cat
Completely derailing the thread (although I guess thatās the point), but I passed my ham tech exam yesterday and Iām super happy. Iām waiting for all of the admin stuff to go through and Iāll hop on the air. I know @turbo2ltr has a few radios, do you have any DMR gear?
Nice congrats! I have one of those MD-380 DMR HTs but I rarely use it. Thereās not too many DMR repeaters around here. Honestly I stay on one repeater my friend owns because I donāt like talking to strangers and only listen when Iām in the carā¦which now that I work from home is rare.
Right on. Iām studying for my tech right now. I inherited my grandads old radio and decided to start getting into it.
Itās super easy if you understand basic electrical/RF theory. I studied on hamexam.org.
@turbo2ltr I picked up a 7550e and have DMR MARC in it right now. I feel like Iām cheating when I hear people in New Zealand or Australia since itās all over the internet. Someday Iād like to own a DMR repeater but that would be in the very distant future, sadly I donāt have the $700 for a repeater plus whatever for feedline and antennas, not to mention internet and power
My circle of ham friends all bought these DMR Raspberry PI Zero based hotspots and use those with the cheap TYT HTs. Just not my cup of tea.
Yeah I just took the tests over and over until I was getting 90+% I actually took my extra expecting to fail because I didnāt feel I was ready but somehow I passed. lol. I originally got my Novice back in 1990ā¦ I was president of the ham radio clubā¦because no one else showed up. They actually had a station at the HS. I had some AM gear (tubes!) someone had given me but with a novice you couldnāt do much, and the internet was just starting to come together which was more interesting than morse codeā¦ My ticket expired in 2000, but I got it again in 2010.
Lucky. Where I am weāre lucky if any sort of tech group other than robotics gets funded, funding seems sparse unless youāre athletics or robotics. I donāt know what bands you ran on but for me personally I see very little to no use for anything below 2M other than very long distance contacts without a repeater which is not really my cup of tea. I am more a fan of local repeater stuff.
