u/100Kinthebank

We had 5 large bushes separating our property from the neighbors that we inherited with the house 20 years ago. We have changed all of the landscaping except those bushes which we finally pulled today.

My wife wanted on replace them with Endless Summer hydrangeas but I'm confused about when to buy/plant.

The internet suggests waiting for the fall but well before the frost.

I called two local nurseries - one has 3# or 5# and one only 3#. The one with the 5# said they are showing some summer stress.

I imagine whether we buy now or a month from now, we would be buying the exact same plants.

So does it make more sense to buy those plants now and get them in and with drip irrigation or hold off and let the nursery care for them? And if the latter, do we risk the roots becoming more and more set for the container?

Thanks!

This is a long shot so please bear with me... My daughter just started at Auburn and her best friend is starting at Clemson in a few days. They are hoping to see each other during Fall Break for the Zach Bryan concert. Her friend won't have a car at school so me (dad) being the one on Reddit decided to post and ask about options since her friend won't know anyone at Clemson for at least another week or so....

I've already looked at travel between Clemson and ATL and/or Auburn and it seems like slim pickings.

Since Zach Bryan has no other tours planned in the area, I'm guessing some Clemson students will travel for the show. Is there anywhere I can direct her friend to reach out and see about carpools?

Thanks!

I have only visited Singing Beach once and vividly recall a greenhead taking a bite out of my cheeks as we pulled into the parking lot and I immediately made a U turn.

Daughter and friends were hoping to go tomorrow and I wasn't sure what the situation was this summer.

I posted here a while ago as LRc 15.3 was awful on my M3 Max MacBook Pro. Frequent hangs to the point I had to downgrade to 15.2.1. Several comments noted similar behavior on PC and Mac.

I just checked the changelogs and see LRc is now at 15.4.1 but there is nothing in the changes to suggest a reason/fix for the hangs.

Wondering if anyone has had issues on 15.4.1 with hangs.

I bring a salad to work 3 days per week and always enjoy it more when I can pick them from my garden. However, as we live in MA and I have a very small 2x4’ raised garden, the yield is small and short lived.

As my lettuce all just flowered after a prolonged heat wave, I just pulled them up and am now wondering about growing year round inside.

I found several companies on a quick search but would love to hear about the simplest option for growing lettuce and cherry tomatoes (love the orange ones but don’t see that option anywhere). Cucumbers would be a nice bonus too.

I’m not sure on the basics of ones like Lettuce Grow which does seem dead simple - would I only order 3 lettuce pods at a time then get 3 more every week and, starting at week 4, begin to harvest? And would that produce enough for a single person lunch sized salad reliably?

Thanks!

I have two external HDDs in a single OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual enclosure. The enclosure is set as Independent disks. I have two Hyper Backup routines set to copy certain files from the DS918+ to one drive or the other.

For the third time (this one due to power cycling the NAS), the externals came up and USB1 is now labeled as USB2. That effectively ruins the entire Hyper Backup sequence.

I have tried to swap cables inside and ejected the drives but it keeps coming up 'wrong'.

Is there any way to force or change which USB is labeled as 1 vs 2?

My DS918+ began yelling at me about running out of space as I hit 25.9TB used and only 5.6TB free. I first checked prices for drives thinking I would finally upgrade my 4x12TB but then decided to try other methods when I compared the 24TB prices to what I paid 4 years ago...

I did a little pruning of my Plex collection first.

Then I realized I had turned on Snapshots at one point and had used up 5TB there. I was very excited to find that, turned off future Snapshots and deleted them. I also changed the threshold for warning to 10%.

After all that, I was still at 25.8 TB used...

I left the machine overnight thinking it would do its just restarted the NAS but it is Space Reclamation or something. But woke up and saw no change.

I just restarted the NAS for the first time in months and it is still stuck at 25.8TB.

Is there a way to force the machine to reassess how much is stored?

Thanks!

[Update - just ran Storage Analyzer and manually added up entries to get to around 20TB used but Storage in the bottom right tab with Resource Monitor still sits at 25.8TB used]

Ever since we hit late spring, I have found that my SQ8 is not maintaining 9kwh speed with the Tesla wall connector (get 2 I think). The Tesla connector shows 3 red blinking lights indicating throttling due to heat.

I followed another thread that led me to an app called Wall Monitor and I saw that the Tesla was reading 135F at the connection to the car when charging even though ambient temps today were 75.

On my wife's Volvo XC90 plug in hybrid, the max charge is 4kwh and the Wall Monitor shows car tempt is 85F. That car makes a lot of noise when charging so I'm wondering if it actively cools the battery as it does so.

I also considered the adapter but I bought a good one from Lectron (250V/48Amp).

Would love to know if anyone else's SQ8 throttles charging or if I need to chase things on the Tesla wall connector/adapter side of this.

Thanks!

Very last minute question. I’m cooking a bunch of stuff for dinner (in an hour). Chicken breasts, shrimp and 2 burgers.

I was considering doing the burners solely on the IR sear station but maybe not at max as I would steaks.

Tried searching to see if anyone has done it. Not sure if it’s a bad idea with ground meat and not being sure of getting inside to medium/med-rare.

Purchased 4 Prime NY steaks from Costco (1.5-2” thick). Salted Saturday night. Seasoned and put into the Grilla smoker set for 250 with target of 110 for medium rares and 125 for mediums. Took a little under an hour to reach those temps. The Combustion probes showed ambient closer to 200.

Pulled at those temps and then seared on a Napoleon grill IR sear station at 30 seconds x 5 (top, bottom, flip top, flip bottom, non-fat side) then rested for 10 minutes.

The 110 pull came out very much medium. The 125 made it to medium well. The steaks were very juicy but I was very disappointed.

I had Googled temps and medium rare kept being listed as 130-135. I have a hard time believing there was that much carryover heat to pull 25 degrees more after pulling and during searing.

Appreciate any advice on how to avoid this in the future.

Since moving to 15.3 on Tahoe with am M3 Max MacBook Pro, I have had issues with basic stuff like moving files and, just now, importing from my DJI connected via USB-C. LRc wouldn't even import after I copied files from the DJI to the internal Mac SSD.

I see in CC that there are Older Versions listed. Can I simply Install LRc 15.2.1 and be fine?

No issues with the current catalog??

Runny DSM 7.4 on a 918+. I have two externals (usbshare1 and usbshare2) connected and use HyperBackup to make copies of the NAS just in case.

It seems that Hyper Backup will sometimes (happened last week due to power outage longer than UPS could handle) switch drives. This previously happened in June 2025 but again last week.

So while usbshare1 should have two folders (PBS and Plex) it now had a third (DataRAID). DataRAID is supposed to only be copied to usbshare2 but that drive now had all 3 folders as well. Both ran out of space.

If I go to settings in Hyper Backup, I see the destination folder but just a name and there is no way to set the drive location. Currently, the two are reversed so that PBS and Plex are designated for usbshare2 and DataRAID is usbshare1 despite the opposite being the norm.

I can't rename the USB drives as far as I can tell (looked in File Station and External Storage).

I'm guessing there is a hidden file at the root of each USBshare but not sure:

1. how to find it and clarify which is which

2. how to sort this out other than deleting all tasks and redoing the settings. But I'm afraid it'll just happen again in the future.

Thanks!

I was tired of the notifications about the recall on my 2024 SQ8 for the rearview camera (though never had an issue with it). Scheduled an appointment with my local Audi service center for 9:30am on a Thursday and dropped it off promptly.

I was informed there were actually 3 recalls - rearview camera (90TV-03), high voltage battery switching unit software (93PG) and the brake issue and that all would be taken care of. Received an arranged Uber home.

I called to check on the car at 3pm and was informed it was 'next in line'. When I called at 5pm, I was informed it was now in the bay and wouldn't be ready til tomorrow.

Took an arranged Uber to work the following morning. Called for an update at 10am and was told it would be 'end of day'. I explained my day ended at 4pm and I expected it to be done by then. I was also informed that they weren't able to address the brake recall as they needed a special part for that.

Finished work at 4, called and told 'not til 6pm'. Took another Uber home and my wife dropped me at 6 on our way to dinner.

Checked the invoice and confirmed - 2 software updates. That took 2 days from the original appointment time. They weren't even considerate enough to charge up the car.

When I go back for the brakes I'm going to demand a loaner.

For a software update to require the dealer's time and take 2 days is insane.

Came from a Tesla Model 3 (owned from 2019-2024) and every single software update/'recall' was taken care of at home. There's not much I miss about Tesla but they definitely figured out the computer part of EVs. Or at least the updating aspect...

I ordered the new 96m head from BestBuy where it was listed correctly with photos to match but just received a 94m in the padded mailer instead. I checked and my printed order in there said 96m...

Does anyone have a reliable place to purchase the new head in the US?