u/bigchease

I have a few WD Reds I have as backups in case of a RAID failure. They’re currently in an anti static bag, dark dry door, at room temperature. There’s no data on these.

Do I need to do anything else to make sure these aren’t bricks when I want to use them in a few years?

I get this seasonal depression every Summer. I’m going to therapy for it.

But I find myself getting so angry. It’s only when I’m alone, but I scream and break things sometimes. I hate it.

I get so full of rage from my daily life. I’m having a hard time reminding myself what to be grateful for.

I’ve been telling myself lately that I feel trapped. In my job and where I live. I still like in my hometown and I really don’t like it. The weather, the people, the industry that drives my city.

My job really boring to me and I wish I could get rid of the golden handcuffs. But I don’t feel like I can make the same wage elsewhere or really what I would find pride in doing.

Comparison is the this of joy and I try to remind myself that but it’s hard. My peers and siblings own houses while I struggle with credit card bills.

I really do love my life and like where I am. I just don’t know how to shake this depression and anger.

I do deep breathing and other exercises when I can but it doesn’t solve the underlying issue.

I hate flipping so much. It’s so stupid I wish I never got into it.

My garage is full of junk that I don’t even want. You hear online that things like video games, comic books, CD’s, electronics, etc. sell well.

They don’t sell well. Not if it’s actually something people want. People want a rare and pristine comic book. They don’t care I’m selling a He-Man comic that’s not even graded. Or no one is buying video games anymore because half of consoles don’t even have a disc drive now. CD’s sell only if it’s a well known artist.

My profits went into inventory and now I’m sitting on junk.

I just want to be done with this.

Flipping makes me feel like a bottom feeder too. There’s no honor in it.

I really like the idea of making a nostalgic Cartoon Network channel on my server that includes old commercials. I’ve seen a few people do something similar.

How would I source the commercials and play them between episodes?

I can put all my cartoons in one collection and have that play on shuffle. Getting the commercials in there is where I get stumped.

I’ve been selling on eBay on the side for a few years but now I want out of it. This business is a grind and it’s harder than my day job. It’s been nice to make a little side money here and there but when I consider hie much time I spend sourcing, posting, and shipping this quickly becomes a real time consuming gig just to makes no sense.

I’d rather spend my time creating than feeding into the system of reselling.

I have computers and computer parts, video games, and comic books I want to get rid of. I’m thinking of selling my stuff in FB Marketplace as a lot or finding some Reddit communities and seeing if I can post there too. I’m just trying to get this stuff out of my garage I don’t really care about profit at this point.

What apps do you use for reservation reminders? I’ve just been using reminders on my phone but I’d like to have something more.

Is there an app where I can search national park campgrounds and get reminders to make my reservations when they become available?

Edit: found one called Campflare that’s exactly what I’m looking for. You can search parks and campgrounds in the app and create push notifications for them.

I recently picked one of these up for $50. It has an i7 processor and I upgraded to 32GB DRR3. I put in a slim 4GB GDDR6 AMD GPU that fits in the case.

I only get like 30 FPS on my games and I can’t overclock this thing. I’ve tried so many programs and I cant figure out how to get past the system voltage restrictions that’s stopping me from overlocking.

Did I get the wrong kind of Optiplex? I’m not expecting anything crazy here but this should be able to run games like Silk Song with no lag.

I see builds with full size GPU’s in the SFF cases. Are there any good tutorials on how to do this? I’m considering putting a full size 1060 in one of these.

Are you able to overlock your GPU or am I missing something?

Edit:

Lenovo AMD Radeon RX6400 4GB GDDR6 Low Profile Graphics Card - new from eBay

SSD is running the OS. I put my games on a HDD. Samsung 256GB SSD, 2TB WD Blue of mysterious origin and age but health checks say it’s ok.

i7-4790 CPU

I’ve been wanting to get into a meshtastic project for a while.

I’d like to use these for music festivals or camping. I’m looking for something that can do both messaging and GPS tracking while being pocketable.

There’s so many builds out there and different
antennas to use. It’s a bit overwhelming. Where are ya’ll getting your build tutorials online?

I’m debating buying a premade pocket sized mesh unit or building one myself with 3D printed parts. I can print for free at my local library. But I’m not sure if it’s worth it when I can buy a ThinkNode M1 that is exactly what I need.

I’d like to make a larger car node too. What are some wikis or blog pages that go through build tutorials that you like?

I have a pretty strict set of block lists and I thought they my network was doing great.

But I just got a message from my sister saying she can’t FaceTime me for weeks. I had no idea this was happening. I’ve missed so many calls.

I feel like I got my blocklists dialed in but it’s overdoing it with Apple things and is obviously blocking FaceTime.

I know it’s my network because I can FaceTime on 5G LTE.

Does anyone know what I need to specially allow to have FaceTime work?