Nyxon

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[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Do you have anything for the qbittorrent app on a Mac that would make it dark mode? Because last time I used it the app didn’t have a dark mode.

But what about the ads on the website, the site might be dark mode enabled but are the ads?

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yep, gottem… it does not have dark mode… but hold on here…

Do the ads on torrent sites adhere to dark mode standards?

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago (8 children)

qittorrent has a search function where you input and save the associated plug-in/address of the torrent site/feed you want and then you can just search within qbittorrent for whatever torrent you are looking for and select whatever you want for download without having to go to an website or another app/protocol.

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Avocado oil is what I use. It has the highest smoke point of the readily available cooking oils, is supposedly healthier than other oils, has a clean flavor and doesn’t peel once polymerized for me. Olive oil works, and so does various other fats; bacon, tallow, butter etc.

I use my cast iron more than any other pans because it is more versatile than my carbon steel or stainless steel pans. Each have their own place but cast iron works for more of what I do. The cast iron absorbs heat and works well for doing high heat cooking so having an oil that doesn’t burn until higher temps gives more temp ranges to operate in. When an oil/fat goes past it’s smoke point it becomes a carcinogen and is unhealthy to breath/eat. So avocado oil’s smoke point just over 500° is better than olive oil at around 300°-350°f.

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Ah ha! Thank you, this was one of my worries with increasing the capacity, I was worried that even after replacing the 4TB drives with larger capacity drives that the new drives would still only be limited to the lower capacity partitions. I wasn’t sure if there was a way to increase them.

My work around for this was to back up all the data on the NAS currently (only ~7.2TB) onto an external drive. Put the new larger capacity drives into the NAS, format them properly and setup the RAID as needed and then transfer the data back onto the new fresh larger capacity drives in the NAS from the external drive.

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
  1. Cool, thank you for you input on using larger drives. I figured it could but wanted to be sure before spending the money.
  2. I know the PR4100 will rebuild itself if you remove a faulty drive and replace it with a new one, I am just not sure how it would work when upgrading the size and if there would be a better way to go about doing so than just letting the PR4100 do the work itself.
[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Thank you for your thorough response!

I figured there wouldn’t be an upper limit but I’ve been burned before in the past with trying to use too big of a drive in various applications over the past 3 decades of computer use so I wanted to be sure before dropping a lot of money on new high capacity drives for the NAS.

When I replaced the one drive a few months ago I just removed the faulty drive from the NAS and slotted in the new drive in its place and the NAS copied everything and was up in running again in a few days. It was only 4TB but it took awhile. I know it should be able to if I replace like for like sized drives but I wasn’t sure how it would be have if I start replacing 4TB drives with 20tb drives.

I do have a drive cloner already, buried in an old tech box in the garage that I could use but it is several years old (6 maybe?) so I am sure it isn’t as fast a a newer one. Maybe I will pick up one or two of the ones you suggested to speed the process along.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Nyxon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Hi all, long time listener first time caller,

I have a WD PR4100, old equipment but it suits my needs, I maxed out the ram when I first bought it 5 years ago and it has 4 drive bays. Right now I have four 4TB WD Red Pro/Premium drives inside in a RAID1 setup. One of the drives is more recent and the other 3 are from when I bought the PR4100 5 years ago.

It is time for me to replace the drives, one started failing awhile back and that is why it was replaced, but in anticipation of the other 3 failing eventually I would like to upgrade them all and to take this opportunity to replace them with higher capacity drives.

First question, is there an upper limit for capacity on the PR4100 and can I just drop new 20tb+ drives in there and expect them to work?

Second question, do I replace them one at a time and in doing so would the system rebuild the RAID 1 setup or is there a better way?

This is for local backups and a self-hosted media library, not commercial or professional use.

I am not looking to build a new NAS system right now as the PR4100 is working as intended without much hassle but in a year or so I may need a more complex and professional NAS/server depending on if I get back into video production more fully.

Thank you for your time and for everyone posting and providing help in this community.

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I get your point too. Kevin Sorbo was the name that came to my head first, for some reason, and Kevin Costner followed. TBF though, Kevin Costner has won 2 Academy Awards, one for Best Director (Dances with Wolves in 1991) and has been nominated for a best actor award. He does have a long list of industry accomplishments in various roles. Kevin Sorbo doesn’t have anything close to that. I’m not a big fan of Kevin Costner but objectively speaking he is accomplished in his career.

Kevin Spacey wouldn’t have been better though, with his rapey background and all that, wouldn’t feel right putting him forward as something to aspire to.

Maybe Kevin Sorbo and Kevin Kline would have been a better comparison.

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have both and the Quest 3 is definitely not capable of the same stuff.

Kevin Sorbo and Kevin Costner are capable of the same stuff too but there is a clear difference in performance and value.

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

For myself and someone else to use at the same time and in conjunction with each other for work purposes. I explain it a few times in other comments I have made here.

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

Read some of my other comments here, I have used pretty much every headset out there and these work better for my needs, by far, than all the rest.

[–] Nyxon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I cannot put into words how much I appreciate your kind reply but these will have to do, thank you!

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