00:48 < BotoX> Hello mates, which ones of you use Q-tips for cleaning your ears and which don't? Thanks mates. 00:55 <@matricks> q-tips rules 00:56 < Savander> o.O? 00:56 < BotoX> got into an argument with friends about it 00:56 < BotoX> apparently doctors say that they're bad 00:57 < BotoX> probably because of too many people that use them wrong and jam them in lol 00:59 < Savander> im using 00:59 < Savander> weird doctor 00:59 < Savander> maybe he can't use q-tips 01:00 < BotoX> well he isn't using them 01:00 < BotoX> and said they're bad and you shouldn't use them 01:01 < Savander> o.O 01:47 < Pathos> There's also this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_pick#East_Asian 01:48 < Pathos> "Some individuals find ear-picking to be highly pleasurable, thus contributing to the popularity of this service being offered in Asian establishments such as massage parlors, spas, and salons" 01:48 < Pathos> Anthropogeny at work 21:05 < BotoX> are there any Li-Ion battery experts in here (I can't think of any other channel I am in to ask this question) 21:06 < BotoX> I have three Li-Ion 18650 batteries in parallel pulled from a Xiaomi powerbank (NCR18650BF) 21:06 < BotoX> And I'll put two of these in series, how important is balancing actually 21:07 < BotoX> Or how important is balancing for the same type of brand new cells 21:07 <@minus> they might blow up! 21:07 < BotoX> I doubt that 21:07 < BotoX> What can happen as far as I know that one of them will get discharged more than the other 21:08 < BotoX> but I'll charge them through a balancing connector 21:08 < BotoX> aka. won't charge them in series (8.4V) but in parallel (4.2V) 21:09 < BotoX> And the three batteries in parallel are already welded together by xiaomi and will be discharged and charged together 21:09 <@minus> just put all three of them in series, then you'll have 12.6V 21:10 < BotoX> Also it's pretty amazing that it's cheaper to buy a powerbank and rip it apart to get the batteries then buy the batteries themselves 21:10 < BotoX> Also minus I need a 2S configuration :V (8.4V) 21:10 <@minus> no, i don't have anything to offer aside from silly comments 21:10 < BotoX> And I have six in total 21:10 < BotoX> :(((( 21:11 < BotoX> two times three in parallel and these in series 21:11 < BotoX> 2S3P 21:11 <@minus> so, 3 parallel in series with 3 parallel? 21:11 < BotoX> https://i.botox.bz/1437505900.png :3 21:12 < BotoX> the small connector will be used to charge the cells in parallel to 4.2V each instead of charging the entire pack 21:12 <@minus> what's the middle thing 21:12 <@minus> ah 21:13 < BotoX> but yeah if any of you need really good _and_ cheap 18650 cells -> http://www.gearbest.com/mobile-power-bank/pp_187685.html 21:13 < BotoX> 3 x sanyo ncr18650bf in there 21:15 <@minus> what are you gonna do with that? 21:15 < BotoX> power some highend flashlights haha 21:15 < BotoX> http://www.gearbest.com/bicycling-gear/pp_182282.html 21:16 < BotoX> or maybe http://www.kaidomain.com/product/details.S024281 21:16 <@minus> "and god said, let there be light"? 21:16 < BotoX> Riding my bicycle at night 21:16 < BotoX> using two XM-L2 torches right now with about 900 lumens each 21:16 < BotoX> but my selfmade mounts suck and idk having a dedicated light is cooler 21:18 < BotoX> sadly most of these chinese lights have rather bad thermal performance, these two are probably the best 21:18 < BotoX> either the case is too small to provide enough heatsinking or the thermal path of the LEDs to the case is awful 21:20 <@minus> can't have good shit without proper engineers after all 21:20 < BotoX> can't beat cheap though 21:21 < BotoX> also most of these are clones from expensive bike lights 21:21 < BotoX> which also have these kind of problems and throttle down lol ... though they cost $300+ 21:21 <@minus> cheap doesn't help if it's shit 21:21 * minus glares at seagate 21:21 < BotoX> lel 21:21 < BotoX> nah these two are good 21:21 < BotoX> spent two days researching lights 21:24 <@minus> BotoX: you surely know where to acquire cheap, good HDDs (WD or HGST). was looking at 4x4TB, 650€ tho 21:24 < BotoX> most of my HDDs are actually used 21:24 < BotoX> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 21:25 < BotoX> why do you need that much storage though 21:25 <@minus> store all the things! 21:25 < BotoX> (have fun rebuilding with 4TB drives lmao) 21:25 <@minus> i'll be rebuilding my 8TB RAID (2TB disks) tomorrow hopefully 21:25 <@minus> it's full though 21:25 < BotoX> damn 21:26 < BotoX> I have a new empty 3TB WD HDD in my server 21:26 < BotoX> old one died -> got new one 21:26 < BotoX> I don't even think it has an FS lol 21:26 <@minus> inb4 WD green 21:27 * minus actually ordered a WD green as replacement 21:27 <@minus> because the other disks are already old and have tens of thousands of power on hous 21:27 <@minus> hours* 21:28 <@minus> those samsung spinpoint ecogreens are good, but apparently samsung no longer makes HDDs 21:28 < BotoX> 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 080 080 000 Old_age Always - 18146 21:28 < BotoX> yeah samsung HDDs are ded 21:28 < BotoX> SSDs yield much more profit kekeke 21:28 < heinrich5991> kekeke 21:28 < heinrich5991> ? 21:28 < heinrich5991> what deos that even mean? 21:29 < BotoX> google image greedy jew 21:29 <@minus> 17714 ← failed seagate one 21:29 < BotoX> Mine are all seagates 21:29 <@minus> 26940 ← samsung ones 21:30 < BotoX> https://i.botox.bz/1437507016.png 21:30 < BotoX> Should do another scrub maybe haha 21:30 <@minus> linux or freebsd? 21:31 < BotoX> linux :-) 21:31 < BotoX> archlinux even heh 21:31 <@minus> the kernel or FUSE one? 21:31 < BotoX> kernel ofc. 21:31 < BotoX> with linux-lts 21:31 < BotoX> EDIS is using that in production actually 21:31 <@minus> what's a raidz1? 21:32 < BotoX> RAID5 21:32 < BotoX> so are a few other companies that I know 21:32 <@minus> they're using arch linux-lts and zfs? 21:32 < BotoX> no not arch haha 21:32 < BotoX> Debian I thnk 21:32 < BotoX> With zfs on linux 21:32 < Learath2> buying some new drives in a week seagate or wd ? 21:33 <@minus> WD 21:33 < Learath2> always had seagates, they are cheaper but somewhy everyone keeps suggesting me WDs 21:33 <@minus> well, depending on what you're gonna be using them for 21:33 < BotoX> I don't even know what I'd get 21:33 <@minus> seagate certainly is cheaper 21:33 < BotoX> I had more WD drives fail on me than seagate 21:34 < BotoX> just go for whatever is cheaper and keep backups lol 21:34 <@minus> this isactually the first seagate that's failing on me 21:34 < Learath2> I had many seagate drives and only one is failing right now and its around 30000 power on hours 21:34 < BotoX> But if you really need reliability go for Hitachi 21:34 < Learath2> backup drives are expensive when ill be getting 2x2TB 21:34 <@minus> failing one month after warranty expires 21:34 < BotoX> which is expensive as fuck 21:35 <@minus> HGST is hitatchi, right? 21:35 < BotoX> I think so 21:35 < BotoX> Actualyl no 21:35 < BotoX> That's WD 21:35 < Learath2> oh i guess ill be going WD as local shop doesnt seem to be stocking 2tb seagates :D 21:35 < BotoX> they bought hitachi right 21:36 <@minus> HGST, Inc. (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital 21:36 < BotoX> So there's only WD and Seagate left 21:36 < BotoX> lole 21:36 < BotoX> Seagate bought Samsung and WD bought Hitachi 21:36 <@minus> WD is actually an american company, wow 21:36 < BotoX> like it matters haha 21:37 <@minus> ofc 21:37 < Learath2> \o/ hdds are twice as expensive as they were last year 21:38 < BotoX> again? 21:38 <@minus> not twice, but some more 21:38 < Learath2> euro-dollar parity went to shit then turkish liras went to shit so around 2.5x actually 21:38 < BotoX> https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/internal-hard-drive/ 21:40 < Learath2> minus: idk what all these models are targeted at what is the normal WD 21:40 < BotoX> just hope there won't be another flood in asia lole :D 21:40 < BotoX> What will you be using them for Learath2 21:40 < BotoX> If they're just cold storage then get WD Green 21:40 < BotoX> If not then don't get WD Green 21:40 < Learath2> storage for my make-shift NAS 21:40 < BotoX> So in a RAID? Get WD Red 21:41 < Learath2> hoping to get them in a RAID but will be more of an investment then i thought it would be initialy :P 21:41 < BotoX> also what's a make-shift NAS? 21:42 < Learath2> its just a computer i put together to have a NAS 21:42 < Learath2> not like the fancy NAS things you can get with the special firmware and stuff 21:42 < BotoX> how much RAM does it have 21:42 < BotoX> yeah fuck these anyways 21:43 < Learath2> it has 8gb of ram 21:43 < BotoX> Get FreeNAS on it 21:43 < BotoX> or some linux and zfs on linux 21:44 <@minus> we have a (consumer grade) buffalo NAS at work 21:44 <@minus> it's beyond turd 21:44 < Learath2> well i was hoping i would get some 2x2gb ram on it and get my 2x4 back 21:44 < Learath2> i just put it together with parts i had laying around 21:45 < Learath2> freenas actually looks nice 21:45 < BotoX> then forget ZFS haha 21:45 <@minus> my NAS/file server/whatever you wanna call it runs arch, 5x2TB RAID5 (well, currently 4x2TB) with ext4 21:45 <@minus> on 2GB RAM 21:45 < BotoX> ewwwwww 21:46 < Learath2> thats around 1000$s worth of harddisks wtf 21:46 <@minus> and athlon ii 64 somethingsomething 21:47 < BotoX> wat Learath2 21:47 < BotoX> no it's not lol 21:47 <@minus> those disks are mostly from 2011 or so 21:47 < Learath2> with the current price here it is 21:47 < heinrich5991> BotoX: what about btrfs btw? 21:47 < BotoX> turkey price != 1st world country prices :p 21:48 < BotoX> not stable heinrich5991 21:48 < BotoX> at least the RAID feature 21:48 <@minus> 3 from 2011, 2 from 2013 21:49 < Learath2> oh its the new electronics tax of %40 thats throwing me off 21:49 <@minus> re hdd prices, 4TB WD reds went from their lowest point at about 140€ to about 160€ now 21:49 < Learath2> ill just smuggle hdds :/ 21:49 <@minus> 40%?! 21:50 < BotoX> just order them from somewhere else then Learath2 21:50 < BotoX> lol 21:50 < Learath2> then the shipping kills me 21:50 < Learath2> ill buy it when im in Paris in fall i guess 21:50 < BotoX> good idea 21:51 < Learath2> for now ill claim some old hdds and put them together in a RAID 21:57 < BotoX> https://i.botox.bz/1437508675.png 21:58 < BotoX> damn 22:18 <@minus> what's that 22:54 < BotoX> google search history