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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 20:08:17 JST 
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@lanodan It's hard to see in the image just how stupid it is, but the packaging for Noctua's NT-H1 paste is 157x70x30mm
For reference, a 3.5" HDD from WD is 147mm x 101.6mm x 26.1mm.
Noctua's packaging is so oversized that if you shorten it 1cm and widen it by 3cm it's basically the same size as an entire 3.5" hard drive, and they use that massive amount of volume to ship you nothing but 3.5g of grey paste. (plus the syringe containing it) -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 19:56:18 JST
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@lanodan Depends on product. For most of Noctua's products I guess they need some packaging. For example due to their material choice the NF-A12 fan's blades are quite brittle and could break easily if hit.
But yes, some of Noctua's procuts come in big boxes despite really not needing it.
For example Noctua ships their thermal compound in a stupidly big ass box. While thermal grizzly is doing just fine sticking their thermal paste in a zip-lock bag.
Noctua straight up gives you like a third of a liter worth of cardboard box (multiple of them even, both inner and outer paper) just to transport 3.5g of paste. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 19:44:31 JST
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@lanodan Honestly everything should just be packaged like a computer case. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 19:43:09 JST
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@lanodan You can also take a look at this fan rebrand online: https://packagingoftheworld.com/2023/01/noctua-rebrand.html
I don't necessarily agree with it. Seems weird to stack cardboard rather than fold it and in general the design is way to "gamer-y" for Noctua. But it's still much closer to the kind of packaging I'd expect and want from Noctua.
Personally I also consider be quiet!'s packaging to be better than Noctua. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 19:40:37 JST
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@lanodan In terms of size noctua already makes proper packaging for their iPPC line. And I'm quite certain they could've fit the accessories underneath the fan if they wanted, as under the cardboard sides holding the fan in place there's mostly empty space. Maybe make the packaging a few mm thicker if needed.
I have no issues with the accessories they include, that's great. The problem is that they package things so the inside of the box is mostly air. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Saturday, 07-Sep-2024 19:25:22 JST
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If there's one thing I don't like about Noctua it's their packaging.
Most of their stuff come in comically oversized boxes filled with tons of empty space because everything is spaced excessively and there's plastic windows or doors on their fans as well.
I'm not even someone who cares much about it from an environmental standpoint, it's just annoying. If I order 6 fans or something, the resulting pile of plastic-coated cardboard packaging I have to deal with ends up being as huge as my entire PC.
What makes it more annoying is that other products are already packaged "properly" inside of the marketing-approved box. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 01:21:51 JST
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@lanodan at least it's not degenerate power, you don't want to feed that to your computer, never ends well -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 01:16:19 JST
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the straight ones always fear the wielders of dark power -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:12:13 JST
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truenas really sucks at handling a basic SMB server as a fallback for clients that don't support NFS/SFTP.
I finally gave in and just made a container which handles it instead. should've done so ages ago. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:11:58 JST
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No matter what I tried, setting up a basic read-only SMB server on a share with NFS already set up leads to extremely shit file list and open times. Seeks on already open files seem okay though.
No idea what causes it. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Thursday, 01-Feb-2024 04:11:48 JST
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just mounting the NFS share in a container, then re-sharing it with SMB works leagues better.
Straight up like 10x the performance. somehow. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 18:35:37 JST
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@eal don't give me ptsd flashbacks -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 07:29:46 JST
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@wolf480pl @not_benis like 8 years ago i found a really old router at work that i threw out. It was 4U but only had like 3 or 4 Gbit ethernet ports
Times sure have changed -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 07:28:54 JST
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@dragoonaethis until 2080 when two products somehow collide and the universe collapses
for real tho, when buying stuff in an enterprise setting you usually end up having to memorize all the product numbers, or rather the system of how they work -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 07:28:52 JST
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@dragoonaethis god i despise when everything is just a "contact us" -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 07:28:00 JST
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@wolf480pl It's a tri-band mesh antenna. It has two ethernet ports. I'm pretty sure the "5G-5HP" is supposed to somehow signify that it has two 5Ghz radios. One regular and one higher performance for mesh backhaul. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 07:27:58 JST
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@wolf480pl this is why the 5GHz section contains both D and Q as well. They probably thought 5HacD5HPacQ was too much so they attempted to somehow merge them.
Dunno, Mikrotik model numbers are confusing -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 07:27:56 JST
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@wolf480pl their model names are confusing as heck anyways. Theres no way to tell where the board name stops and port number starts. They seem to just break or change the rules when they feel like it.
For example the RB4011 is an RB4 or RB4000 i presume, with 11 ports. And the RB5009 is one level higher and it has 9 ports.
But the RB1100 sure as heck doesn't have 100 ports. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 03:26:41 JST
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@feld @ignaloidas @lanodan I know it's not unusual. That's the exact part I find so bonkers about this. -
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Quad (quad@akko.quad.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 24-Jan-2024 03:17:53 JST
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@lanodan @ignaloidas Oh no, it's a router.
It has an ARM SoC and runs the same RouterOS as the rest of their lineup. It can be put in passthrough mode but first and foremost it's an ARM router that just happens to pull power from a PCIe slot.
I don't know what Mikrotik are smoking when they come up with their product ideas, but I want some of it.
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