Brain Drain

The Outlands
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Happy New Year!

For real this time.

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Next year or the snake is 2037….

My brain needs to stop doing math.

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So a Limited Run Games release for ps4 is apparently the initial key to jailbreaking PS5. It went from a $59.99 game to near $500.

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Cheers to another Year on TAN :clinking_beer_mugs:

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Did we get an AI TAN feature that I Suggested in my post a ways back?!?!?

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Edit: Here’s my original suggestion post

NEW TAN, FYI, AI Features

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AI?
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Looking at some stuff and this ad popped up for a private nas home server.

This looks to just be a raspberry pi with software and a fancy aluminum case..

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Ah, the ZimaBoard. It’s basically an x86 mini computer. I hadn’t checked out the v2 model, so I didn’t know it had that aluminum case.

You can run normal Windows on it, BTW. Too little built-in storage for that use though. Put on a GPU that doesn’t need extra power ports, and you may have a decently powerful gaming machine for the living room.

If you get a DisplayPort to HDMI cable, you can use it on a TV.

I only know of the first model because this one bit of software basically requires some old hardware otherwise, and this company happened to make something that allow that software to run. As v2 is like all current machines in that they only support UEFI and not BIOS, I never looked into it.

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@Psychopuppet and @miquelfire fill me in on the overall purpose of this nas home server device and who is the device for in general???!!!

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It’s for someone like me who has a Windows Media PC ( 9 GB ), a Raspberry PI Music Server (2 GB) and a 2 GB hard drive on their router just to catch the extra stuff. Then there is the 9 GB of backup storage.

I started doing this just before the 10+ GB External Drives became cheap.

I’ve got over 2000 CD’s, Several Dozen DVD’s & Blue Rays that I have ripped. They can be played on all the PC’s, TV’s and Stereos.

Mark Gosdin

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Oh ok. So it is a device that has to be added / connected with other devices in order to work? :thinking:

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Think of a NAS as an external drive, but you connect to it over your home network instead of USB.

Almost everyone supports Windows network file sharing, so you can use it to share files between devices easily.

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Ok got ya. It’s more like an internet storage home server ? :thinking:

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NAS stands for Network Attached Storage. It’s in the name.

I’m using a 5 drive Synology NAS box (and can buy drive bays to make it bigger) to store local backups of my computer. I use some software that makes an image backup, store it, and if the Windows drive ever goes poof, I can insert a USB stick and tell it to restore my Windows drive from backup, and at most, I lose a day of work. Maybe two days if the reason my drive went poof was in the last image backup. (Assuming it’s a case of random bit rot that killed the partition, or I hit delete on all the contents of the C drive)

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Do you have the DS925+?

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I have a DS1522+

Also, I said I had a 5 drive NAS, the 925 is only four.

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Not sure if anyone is playing Arknights: Endfield but don’t use PayPal. Something the game company did caused it to randomly connect to others PayPal and it’s charging others peoples accounts purchases to others PayPal.

Edit: They removed PayPal until they can fix,

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