That’s a bummer. Both as seeing how a new pair of JoyCons costs ~$70 and how most people will go for them, thus adding to the electronic waste. Why fix it for the same price and put effort into it when you can get them brand new without any effort?
That was for the Switch, JoyCon batteries are like $7 each which isn’t too bad and better than spending $70 on a new pair.
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Game-Console/Nintendo-Switch-Controller-Replacement-Battery/IF378-014-1
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Oh, okay. That’s much much much more reasonable.
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Nope. I took a leave of absence. Moderators and leaders know the full reason.
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Updating my backups.
Making the free space shrink a bit on my 2 backup drives.
Could use a new one but don’t want to spend money. Buying another USB3.0 enclosure doesn’t make much sense with only 2 available 1TB drives as that’s not enough capacity and I don’t want to keep adding small drives.
The one 3TB drive in the USB3.0 enclosure I have is my emergency media backup for when I can’t access my desktop so I can still have my most used media ready for access with my laptop.
Guess I have to wait for another sale on ext. 4TB drives (the sale price I got mine for - 100€ - seems to be the standard price now and the lowest ever was ~80€). 100€ is still not a bad price for a backup drive. Especially seeing how int. drives are sold for the same/higher price.
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You would still benefit sooo much from a nas
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I know, I know.
But they’re so expensive. Ideally it would just be a bunch of drives in an enclosure attached to my switch.
I don’t like the idea of running another machine with an OS I don’t understand and can’t get to work when something fails.
No RAID, just the basics.
Use openmediavault. Its dead simple
Scratch that. Just setup a network volume for each drive
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That’s just…JBOD, right?
I back up my most important data regularly…well, not so regularly but mostly cause there isn’t much that changes.
And I want to keep things separate. Having multiple drives showing up as one sounds like a nightmare. What’s lost when a drive dies? Where does one drive end and the other begin? No thanks.
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Then just have each drive or hell even partition be its own network share.
Also this will run on any PoS computer you have. P4 with 2GB of ram will get you by.
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if he wanted to have them all show up as one volume couldn’t just mount all the drives to one master directory and network share that? it would show up as one volume on the network but in reality its all separate.
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The old things I have are mostly dead. That’s usually the reason why I upgrade.
And it would have to be very power efficient, not using much at all. And not take up a lot of space.
Only have 2x 4GB DDR3 RAM (non-ECC) to spare and my old 620W PSU. The H87 mobo is wonky so I can’t even use my i3-4130.
No, exactly the opposite.
Like 4x ext. HDDs plugged into a powered USB hub but the hub being an enclosure that can fit 4x HDDs.
which would be the same if they were in the NAS? the drives will still be separate and you’d have 4x HDDs connected to SATA no raid or nothing but logically they’d show up as a single large drive on the network.
But with more components and an OS attached to it. It adds just more possible points of failure, both with the hardware and software.
I can’t completely disagree with that things happen but the whole reason for a NAS is to make your life easier by having central point of storage that is easy and fast to access from anywhere which in the long run should save you a lot of time and hassle. if its setup right you shouldn’t have many issue and would hardly need to touch it but I’d understand why you may be hesitant on making such a thing.
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Especially given my limited amount of knowledge.
Some day in the future when I have more money to spend I’ll jump at it with a new pile of hardware including a complete new set of drives so I can keep my old drives as a backup in case the NAS tries to fuck me.
If it’s the only hardware you have I see it a bit like changing a tire on a moving car.
The BSOD debacle of last week made that pretty clear to me. Tinkering with a spare system is cool and fun but if it’s your main system/storage, etc…yeah, no thanks.
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well today was brutal at work… i worked out beforehand annnnd then it was slammed at work. got done at 1230am.
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Thoughts on Battery Life:
One thing that has bothered me is the measurement for time a battery can be used for before it needs to be recharged.
They aren’t factoring for heavy streaming.
I think there needs to be a new standard to show what battery life will actually be like in real world cases.
Three pronged approach for measurement:
Light usage - Basic web surfing, stream one or two short videos a day.
Moderate usage - Web surfing, stream about 8 30 minute videos a day.
Heaving - Websurfing, discord, discourse, multi tabs, streaming at least 15 30 minute videos.
Show battery time for each of those. I think this will be a better representation of true battery life. Granted the three prong approach I describe could be tweaked to be better.
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A final report on Mass Effect Andromeda:
I got around to finishing it a year after it came out. Luckily I wasn’t too far from the ending. No one should ever play this game.
Why:
Combat is too unbalanced. There are far too many enemies that soak damage. Just cause an enemy has a lot of health doesn’t mean fun or hard. It is just annoying. Look at Dark Souls III Boss fights. Yeah they have a lot of health but my weapons still deal a good chunk of damage and not all the enemies have large health.
Making it so you can have all the powers was a bad move. It makes each class less special.
You only have three powers… what the hell. That is a step back from Mass Effect three.
You can’t give your companions better gear… or tell them what powers to use.
The story is a rehash of Mass Effect 2 in a way and a very poorly executed one.
The motion capture scenes are terrible.
The game did so badly the studio that made it shut down.
This game will never get a sequel. It may be apart of the lore as a footnote… but I expect the next Mass Effect will be in the Milky Way if Bioware is still around and that is very questionable at the moment.
TLDR: Mass Effect Andromeda is still terrible. No one should play it or buy it.
End report.
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