[Rant] Tech Whine Like a baby thread

Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Technician came and went. He was surprisingly competent. And accommodating. He went up into the attic to disconnect the Dish and reconnect the cable to the house lines, though they're not supposed to do that if the temps are over 90.

The company itself, though? Bleh. This is what "gigabit" internet gets you in Tyler.
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GasBandit

GasBandit

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Tinwhistler said:
Oh Suddenlink...how much do you suck? Let me coun't the ways.

Today's rant: I now have 2 Suddenlink accounts, 1 at the apartment, 1 at the new home. I cannot see both accounts on one login. I have to create a separate login for the 2nd house. How dumb is that?
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This is my "Gigabit" suddenlink speed this afternoon.

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I'm supposed to be getting 1000 down 50 up.

And this is to the SUDDENLINK speedtest server, which always lies to make itself look good.

Here's my speedof.me test results.

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Come onnnn Metronet. Finish trenching that fiber already, I'm already signed up.
 
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Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler said:
Technician came and went. He was surprisingly competent. And accommodating. He went up into the attic to disconnect the Dish and reconnect the cable to the house lines, though they're not supposed to do that if the temps are over 90.

The company itself, though? Bleh. This is what "gigabit" internet gets you in Tyler.
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finally replaced the crap provider-supplied router with my Netgear setup. Things are....better. But I'd prefer more upload speed.
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Edit: Chatted with an agent and said that the upload speed seemed lackluster for the tier I was paying for. They fiddled with something on the back end and got me up to about 15mbps. Still not awesome, but hopefully will be enough for me to stream my Plex when I'm out of town, or do FB Live videos (both of which I've had problems with here)
 
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Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

got me a nice 32" curved 4K monitor when I moved to TX. Since I'd gotten rid of the big desk & hutch that my wife had gotten me for christmas one year that didn't fit anything bigger than 22", I was able to upgrade.

So, now that the carpet's in, I'm moving everything out of the living room to the office. Dropped the monitor--about 2 inches. Which was enough to crap out a big portion of the screen. There's $500 down the drain. Back on the old 22" monitor until the new one gets here.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Tinwhistler said:
finally replaced the crap provider-supplied router with my Netgear setup. Things are....better. But I'd prefer more upload speed.
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Edit: Chatted with an agent and said that the upload speed seemed lackluster for the tier I was paying for. They fiddled with something on the back end and got me up to about 15mbps. Still not awesome, but hopefully will be enough for me to stream my Plex when I'm out of town, or do FB Live videos (both of which I've had problems with here)
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Plex can usually do 720p fairly well with 5 mbit. 1080p depends on the quality and file encoding method, and could be anywhere from 1.3mbit (h.265) to 20mbit (h.264 high quality). Fortunately it will transcode to different bitrates on the fly, to fit what you've got.
 
Tinwhistler

Tinwhistler

GasBandit said:
Plex can usually do 720p fairly well with 5 mbit. 1080p depends on the quality and file encoding method, and could be anywhere from 1.3mbit (h.265) to 20mbit (h.264 high quality). Fortunately it will transcode to different bitrates on the fly, to fit what you've got.
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Before switching out the cable modem, I was sometimes dropping below 2Mbps--and FB Live wouldn't even accept it lol
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

My work PC just decided it was too warm or whatever and has crapped out on me. Had 4-5 unsaved documents open, a dozen applications running, and suddenly Windows Blue Screen. Huzzah.
Reboot...."no bootable device". pre-boot assessment: no HDD found.
Again. last time I had this error I fixed it by reconnecting everything and resocketing some stuff....I asked for IT to look at it then, but nooo, it's working again.So now here I am again. And beyond what's uploaded automatically, I CANT take backups from anything on my hard drive because of InfoSec. So we'll see... Grr.
 
ncts_dodge_man

ncts_dodge_man

As a (former desktop, now VDI/server) IT support person: "Save early, save often..." - especially if it's failed before. If it's super important, make a backup saved copy somewhere else (preferably Cloud) if at all possible periodically.

Even when things look like they're working normally, hardware is prone to just failing and there isn't anything to do about it - as is software.

Now, that's no excuse for the IT department to not at least look at it to see if anything was in a failure state, even if it's working "now" as there could have been indicators of a potential failure.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

I know. But I literally can't even plug in a USB drive because it's in violation of policy. Can't access private cloud options. Backups outside of the company network aren't allowed, anyway. But I don't get the server space to keep everything, so :confused:. Most of the important stuff is backed up, of course.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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Nothing like opening up chrome on my work PC this morning to find it has deleted all my extensions and forgotten all my pinned tabs. I should be grateful I still have my bookmarks, I guess.

Wish I could switch to firefox at work, too.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

GasBandit said:
Nothing like opening up chrome on my work PC this morning to find it has deleted all my extensions and forgotten all my pinned tabs. I should be grateful I still have my bookmarks, I guess.
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My wife accidentally answered "yes" to "Close all tabs?" on her tablet a couple days ago. She literally screamed. I showed her the menu item to reopen the tabs that were just closed, but she had already opened a new, blank tab by then so they were still gone. She's had some of those tabs open since two entire tablets ago.
We were fortunately able to go through the history tab and find and reopen them, but for a moment there, she was lit.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

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Well, I guess the good news is I don't have to reinstall windows after all.

The bad news is one of my SSDs died. As it was a SATA drive, when one thing is screwed none of them work. So I had to do a lot of sleuthing to find out which of my 5 drives was dead and unplug it.

I suppose it could be worse, it was a drive that basically was entirely devoted to a steam library, so nothing irreplaceable was lost. But the shitty part is was a 2 TB samsung SATA that wasn't even 2 years old, and now I'm going to have to blow 200 bucks to replace it.

Unless I can jump through the hoops to have it replaced under warranty... maybe...
 
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AshburnerX

AshburnerX

GasBandit said:
Well, I guess the good news is I don't have to reinstall windows after all.

The bad news is one of my SSDs died. As it was a SATA drive, when one thing is screwed none of them work. So I had to do a lot of sleuthing to find out which of my 5 drives was dead and unplug it.

I suppose it could be worse, it was a drive that basically was entirely devoted to a steam library, so nothing irreplaceable was lost. But the shitty part is was a 2 TB samsung SATA that wasn't even 2 years old, and now I'm going to have to blow 200 bucks to replace it.

Unless I can jump through the hoops to have it replaced under warranty... maybe...
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I'm just going to say it: I've had terrible luck with Samsung SSDs and I doubt I'm going to buy their brand again, if I can help it. My "Windows and Everyday Programs" SSD was acting up only a few months into my use of it and I've basically decided I'm going to replace the entire thing when I get the cash to actually fix my desktop.
 
GasBandit

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AshburnerX said:
I'm just going to say it: I've had terrible luck with Samsung SSDs and I doubt I'm going to buy their brand again, if I can help it. My "Windows and Everyday Programs" SSD was acting up only a few months into my use of it and I've basically decided I'm going to replace the entire thing when I get the cash to actually fix my desktop.
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They've been really good to me up until now. I lost this one due to a power flicker. A rather inconvenient way to learn that my UPS battery needed replacing.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Expect that to continue until USB-C and Thunderbolt finally stop trying to be just sliiiightly different from each other and finally go ahead and converge already.

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

NVIDIA is certainly in a position right now.
-They sold uncounted bunches of cards to miners and forgot to keep track of how many.
-Mining stopped needing GPUs.
-NVIDIA now has uncounted bunches of unsold 3xxx inventory and their 4xxx series is just about to burst.
Not a great time to invest in NVIDIA is I guess what I'm saying (they're down 30% since a month ago).

--Patrick
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Been following the story through the released videos and all this has really done is lower my already low respect for NVIDIA.
EVGA has been exclusively NVIDIA since they started making GPUs twenty-odd years ago. They never made GPUs for ATI, AMD, SGX, 3DFX, or anyone else. Just NIVDIA.
This is not the way you reward that kind of loyalty.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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So guess who missed that Sonarr went from v2 to v3 TWO YEARS AGO and v2 doesn't automatically update to v3?

It's amazing mine kept working as well as it did this long. But I finally found a feature that works in V3 that doesn't in V2.

There's no way for me to automatically migrate settings for mine because it's on my seedbox and it can only treat them as two separate applications ;_;

So here I am manually configuring Sonarr V3 from scratch.

Not like I had much else to do I guess.
 
GasBandit

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I very much do not like waking up to blinking yellow lights on the status indicators of my Poweredge >_<

Apparently one of the drives in my system RAID went down overnight. It's hotswap, though, so I ejected and reseated it, and it looks like it's come back up ok... but now I am doing a LOT of reading on how to use the PERC 6/i SCSI controller so I can know more about what I'm dealing with >_< I wish I'd written down the drive's model number before I stuck it back in so I wouldn't have to pull it back out to look for a replacement.
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

There has to be some way to read that data directly from the RAID management interface. That's what it's for, after all.
If you keep getting stuck, maybe plug that 2009-era link into archive.org and see what you get?
If your server is an R710, you can go through the dizzying array of download options here.

--Patrick
 
GasBandit

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Managed to find a version of OMSA that works. This is nice, I have some very detail-rich logs now about things that were formerly just a black box on my server, like my RAID status and configuration, and I can see exactly when the drive flipped over to failed, why, when I disconnected it, when I reconnected it, and the process it went through to rebuild the drive over the subsequent 45 minutes.

I ordered another SAS drive from Yobitech of the exact same model, so if it starts to act up again, I've got a spare to put in.
 
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