u/sunrise2209

so I have four apple devices - an iPad 9, an iPad 2, a 2011 iMac I installed windows on, and a 2006 Mac Pro I installed windows on. I have a lot of photos on my iPad 9 since while still being an iPad camera, is the best camera I have. then one day I noticed that most of the photos where uploaded to my poor 16gb iPad 2 using up all the storage. so naturally I find out it’s some iCloud thing which i try to disable but of course apple makes it as hard to do as possible through their poorly designed os so I think it’s disconnected but I still don’t know. either way I start deleting the photos from the photos app since I have them on my iPad (also I never wanted to use iCloud for anything Apple just forces it on you) and then realize that deleting them claims to not only remove them from the iPad 2 but also remove it from iCloud and all devices meaning that supposedly through deleting photos from one device that never should have been on said device it removes them from every device. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS CONFUSING NONESENSE APPLE. IF I WANT MY PHOTOS ON ONE THING WHERE I COULD ACCESS THEM EVERYWHERE I WOULD UPLOAD THEM TO MY NAS.

I own 2 stock original stampedes I thrifted for around $5 each and both seem to work but when I try to use af waffle darts, if jams the first five or six rounds and then works fine in both units every time. I then tried regular ’elite‘ darts and they worked about as well as elite darts in a stampede should. is this a known problem? are there darts better than elite darts that do work with the stampede?

I have an old dell optiplex with windows home server but I built a new system with more storage to replace it but could not install windows home server due to drivers not existing for the hardware. I have tried several Linux based os for this such as Debian, proxmox, and openmediavault and while I did successfully install these I couldn’t figure out how to make it actually work as a server to access in my lan. And so I ask if there is some magical operating system out there that will work on modern hardware without me having to do any hard work that I can just go to in file explorer just like windows home server.

I am trying to find a case that works for my needs and am making this post to see if anyone has any recommendations that suit my needs.

my needs are:

fits full atx motherboard

fits many pcie cards

fits a good amount of fans

fits 4 hard drives (ssd isnt important i will be using an m.2)

fits to my budget (not extremely expensive)

fits at least two disk drives

I don't care about having a windows or not since my pc will look awful (function over form) a window is more of an optional thing

fits on my dest (several folding tables so almost anything fits)

I don't plan to liquid cool anything due to getting a good deal on a air cooler

I might be doing sli if i can find a second gpu

the reasoning behind all of this: I am using older components due to budget, I need disk drives due to owning hundreds of cd-rs and dvd-rs which i use a lot for, well, games I obtained through methods I cannot mention and file transfer (I dont use them for file transfer as often any more thanks to my server) I dont care about noise, I care about temperatures. i need a lot of drives to fit because i have a lot of 1tb drives i pulled from old systems I thrifted (I get pcs for like 1-15 dollars normally to fix or salvage just for fun) from the looks of this i am worried i may have to find an older pc case but am curious if there is a new option that works.

knowing the internet posting this may be a bad idea.

I got the xshot insanity motorized rage fire for cheap at a flea market working but without the chain and the only chains I can find online near the original chains capacity cost a lot of money $20+. if I had a 3d printer I would just make them but I don’t and I don’t know anybody with one. currently I am trying to make one from one of those other designs of xshot belts but it’s very difficult. if anyone knows where I can buy one thats actually not very expensive please let me know

so on most of my computers and devices the Wi-Fi speed is around 15-25mbps which is fine but for some reason on my desktop (technically a gaming laptop hooked up to external monitors) it only gets a download speed of around 0.97mbps. in fact recently the network adapter seemed to have died and I replaced it with one I pulled from my spare parts laptops and the speed is still slow. literally my 2010 iMac sitting next to it has a faster Wi-Fi speed than this Msi gaming laptop from 2017 (the device with the issue)