u/ArchmichaelBishop

So I bought an LG Wing from China on eBay and apparently it was used but when it arrived it actually seemed like it was brand new (the shrink wrap on the box looked factory-applied). I took it out, set it up, but for whatever reason it just randomly shuts itself off and has to be repowered by holding the button down. It was even doing this during the setup process.

Is that the sign of something?

I can't seem to get my watch to synchronize with my phone and I'm wondering if it's because the watch is on watchOS 26 and the phone is using the iOS 27 beta.

I downgraded it from Android 12L to Android 11 but I was always uncertain what I'd do if it tried to auto-update to 12L again and that seems to have happened. It downloaded the update and says it'll install it the next time I restart my Surface Duo 2.

If it does end up rebooting and forcing me to take the install, if I re-downgrade it to 11 how do I keep it at 11?

I want to replace the music from the GameCube version to get around its annoying shortened versions of the songs (since we're not bound by disc size limits when not running from a mini-DVD).

I've screwed around with this "MW_MUSIC.MUS" file and, while the game doesn't break when I take this file from a different port of the game and rebuild it, it won't play any music (presumably because the music in those versions isn't encoded with the same format). So the only way is to extract, sub out the music with properly encoded versions of the full-length tracks, then rebuild the file.

Has this ever been done? I've found utilities in that realm - such as a music-swapping app that seems intended for the PC version - but it either can't interpret the GC version of that file or it doesn't work right in Windows 11.

^(I dunno, Reddit suggested I crosspost this here from the NFS sub and...I guess it seems kind of apt.)

I want to replace the music from the GameCube version to get around its annoying shortened versions of the songs (since we're not bound by disc size limits when not running from a mini-DVD).

I've screwed around with this "MW_MUSIC.MUS" file and, while the game doesn't break when I take this file from a different port of the game and rebuild it, it won't play any music (presumably because the music in those versions isn't encoded with the same format). So the only way is to extract, sub out the music with properly encoded versions of the full-length tracks, then rebuild the file.

Has this ever been done? I've found utilities in that realm - such as a music-swapping app that seems intended for the PC version - but it either can't interpret the GC version of that file or it doesn't work right in Windows 11.

I set up my Nextcloud server with a subdomain and I was planning to configure a reverse proxy but after I got it stood up...it was just working. The subdomain correctly pointed to it without any further setup.

This is nice and convenient but I can't help but think that was too easy and maybe I'm overlooking something. Do I need to put my Nextcloud server on a different network segment away from my home network? It's inside a VM so I can just define a separate virtual network and I even have a separate network adapter in my home server that I can send external traffic down outside of my home network. Would I need to have some sort of edge protection to prevent my home network getting flooded with unwanted traffic (I guess that's what fail2ban is but I'm not entirely certain)?

I don't seem to have any issues with SSL certs (it does https without needing any further configuration), was that also taken care of during the Nextcloud setup?

Right now I have a Portainer instance running and it's supposed to monitor a Docker instance on a VM within the same host server. On the server I mapped port 8000 to 58000 and port 9443 to 59443 in Docker and generated a new Edge Agent deployment to be put onto the VM. I ran the Docker commands on the remote server to deploy the agent and, once done, the agent is able to send heartbeat updates to Portainer but I can't get Portainer to jump into the agent's environment to manage it.

When I look at the logs on the agent's container it says it's trying to hit my main server over port 8000. Is that actually port 8000 or does it know that it needs to be sending data to the mapped port so the server knows what to do with it when it arrives? Do I need to remap port 8000 on the agent's container to 58000 as well so it sends out data on that port or is that not what's actually happening?

Since Portainer can get a heartbeat from the agent I assume the problem isn't with the port 9443 communication/mapping, just the communication on port 8000.

My Docker Desktop instances (server and agent alike) are both running in WSL2, in case I need to address firewalling matters.

Does your HDD have a separate power supply that isn't coming from to the Wii U? Or are you just using a Y-cable for the hard drive and run the Ethernet out the front of the console?

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I had to settle for a VA LED for this combination of size and resolution. There are 27" 1440p OLEDs and 32" 4K OLEDs but no such thing as a 32" 1440p OLED.

My local glasses outfit says they can't and this is a new product so I don't think there's anyone doing these sorts of lenses yet as an offered product.

On the upside, since the Z1 Pros' diopters actually work, this isn't 100% necessary or urgent so I can wait but I wouldn't mind getting it just that much more perfect (since I bought the things anyway and they wouldn't do much otherwise).

What is it waiting for?

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These things are pretty disposable so I doubt I'm going to get any kind of positive response but one of my 120mm case fans (from EZDIY-FAB) seems to have seized up. It's got a lot of drag when I spin it by hand but it's still receiving power because the white LED ring is still operating. I'm not sure what caused this to happen but when I went looking for a replacement fan of a similar type they no longer seem to exist, being replaced across the board with ARGB fans. I'm not against ARGB, exactly, but this particular motherboard doesn't have any RGB headers and any of the remaining single-color LED fans on the market are also 3-pin while my fan is a 4-pin PWM fan.

So at this point, if I want to have a uniform look with illuminated case fans that are also PWM, it seems I have to either install a standalone RGB controller (and have to maintain a remote just to color all my fans white) or go with non-speed controlled fans unless I can fix this fan. Is that doable?

Apparently they did one round of shipping then never communicated again. I haven't been keeping track of it myself but I only now noticed that the backers have been getting really irate.

They are SO QUIET. Easily the worst aspect of this laptop (which has otherwise been pretty good to me).

I helped my dad reconnect a bunch of Sengled Zigbee bulbs to our Amazon Echo hub after they all dropped off for one reason or another (I think a hurricane knocking out power or something) but within a week they stopped being responsive again.

Is this something that's known to happen or am I just unlucky?

I signed an offer letter for this new job back in February but acknowledged from that point that there was a process that they had to go through on their side to clear me for the role I accepted. Roughly the time that I started the real process to being fully cleared was at the start of March and they said around two months from that point should be the time I should expect to go into full onboarding (I've done some pre-screen stuff in the immediate aftermath of the offer letter being signed, like drug tests).

I asked last week for an update and they said from that date they would estimate another four weeks before they can give me a start date. I like working where I am right now but frankly I'm also checked out (the main reason I wanted a new job is because this job just doesn't have enough going on for me, even if the pay is fantastic - new job is better on every metric, though; pay, drive distance, and workload/challenge) so I'm ready to hand in a resignation letter. The possibility of getting a start date after those four weeks isn't guaranteed but I assume with how large their company is and how often they do this that if they say four weeks based on what they've evaluated thus far that it's probably reasonably accurate.

If I resign next Friday (May 8) with a target departure of May 22-27 (since I would like a chance to do a farewell party with my coworkers and May 22 might be too busy for that), that's being reasonable without being too stretched out, yeah? I'm willing to leave here without a start date in hand simply so I can make a clean break from this job, reset myself, and settle into a more productive frame of mind with a couple of weeks to realign.