I addressed that in a few ways:

1. I bought a quality SD card to start with. A 1 TB card is a lot of eggs in one basket so I wasn’t about to cheap out on that part.
2. The board has 32 GB of eMMC which is where the OS is installed
3. There are very few writes to the SD card during normal operation (after initially loading content onto it). Running data (DBs, caches, log dirs, etc) for most applications is stored on the eMMC rather than the SD card or in some cases written to tmpfs (logs).
4. The subset of content I loaded onto this from my main media server was all chosen because it has the most re-watch potential, so re-loading close to a TB of media isn’t something that’s going to happen too often. The largest write it sees is the semi-annual refresh of the full ~130 GB Wikipedia ZIM dump, but I may push that back to once a year. I’ve only updated it twice so far.
5. Armbian assumes it’s going to run from SD card and does a pretty good job about minimizing the number of writes. Logs are all written to zram and only occasionally written to disk, it has no swap file, etc. If those are good enough to keep an SD card happy, they should keep an eMMC even happier.

Basically, I tried my best to configure the SD card so that in day to day use it’s WORM (write once, read many) without actually going so far as mounting it read only. The data that gets synced daily from my main servers is incremental and usually has few changes.

I’ve had PIs running for years without issue with the SD card mounted read only and retired them from service before the SD cards ever started showing issues. My Meshtastic EAS Alerter project is using one of those Pi Zero W2’s I retired from an older project and its 6 year old SD card.

This is actually the second iteration. Originally I attached a 1 TB SSD via a USB->NVMe enclosure. That worked, but also made the unit sprawl which was something I wanted to trim down in the final version. It worked but had random glitches and instability that I initially chalked up to the board and/or Armbian. I didn’t realize it was EMI from the Wi-Fi coming in through the USB cable until after I switched to the 1 TB SD card. That’s why I added some ghetto shielding to the power cable for lack of having ferrite beads on hand lol.

Should the SD card prove problematic over time, I can always go back to the USB->NVMe solution and lose its “keychain” form factor.

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 v25.11.2 for BananaPi BPI-M4-Zero running Armbian Linux 6.12.58-current-sunxi64

 Packages:     Ubuntu stable (noble)
 Updates:      Kernel upgrade enabled and 52 packages available for upgrade 
 WiFi AP:      SSID: (BananaAP), channel 6 (2437 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 2437 MHz
 IPv4:         (LAN) 192.168.5.1, 10.10.10.15 (WAN) 192.168.1.12
 Containers:   postgres_postgres_1

 Performance:  

 Load:         4%           	 Uptime:       18 weeks, 22 hours, 49 minutes	 Local users:  2           	
 Memory usage: 45% of 3.83G  	 Zram usage:    74% of 1.91G  	
 CPU temp:     63°C           	 Usage of /:   35% of 29G    	
 RX today:     6 GiB  

Ha, yeah, that UPS board isn’t going on any plane. I’d just use an approved power bank in that case.

I have that same remote/keyboard and love it.

Had the same problem and similar solution with some LED candles since I kept losing the little mini remote. I taught C1 from the power button on the candles’ mini remote. It would turn them on, but not off. So I had to make C2 the “off” command by learning it separately.

I have absolutely no frigging clue why that works the way it does. You’d think it would be the same signal either way, but something is definitely different.

So far, that’s the only device that acts like that. I programmed the power and directional buttons to control my Eufy robo vac, and those work as expected. The buttons above C1 and C2 work to toggle power (left button) and cycle thermostat settings (right button) on my electric fireplace correctly as well.

Had to go out of my way to find the Betty White one.

Yep. The QR code is only the encoded BT address to make connecting in the app easier than…selecting it from a list.

I thought about that, but one of the safety features of these batteries is an active fire suppression system that fills the interior with some kind of fire-extinguishing foam. I’m terrified to try to take these apart for fear of somehow triggering that. Plus, they’re hella expensive lol.

My house batteries for my PV system are also susceptible to this. Ugh.

They’ve both got Bluetooth for monitoring and configuration. Some config changes require a PIN but not the settings to enable/disable charge and discharge. Someone could just get within range of them, install the official app, and set discharge to “off” and shut down my house.

I’ve also not found a way to disable bluetooth on them. Gonna have to put them in a damn Faraday cage if I decide to worry about that possibility. :sigh:

Lol, that would certainly make the station regulations much more concise.

I watched the whole series and did enjoy most of it, so keep that in mind because this is going to sound really, really critical.

Liked the premise but I feel like it just jumped the shark multiple times, kept going, and jumped the shark again every following season.

That said, yes, you’re right that it does explore some interesting topics, but the way they did and kept raising the stakes every season just kind of ruined it. So much of it was just completely implausible even by TV science standards. And they basically rebooted the show in the last few seasons except with Space criminals replacing the grounders as the antagonists.

Conceptually, my favorite season was the first because of the survival theme, though the teenage drama kind of annoyed me (granted, it was a YA show and I wasn’t exactly the target demographic). In practice, my favorite season was the one with ALLIE. It explored ethics in AI while being a bit of a mix of The Matrix and Invasion of the Body Snatchers with a touch of zombie movie. For better or worse, it also provided the backstory of much of the series.

Best character arc? Probably the authority guy from the beginning. Forget his name, but he looked like a young, store-brand Dustin Hoffman. (Edit: Kane?) Started out as the bureaucratic jerk, went through hell and stuck to his principles when refusing to take the ALLIE chip (and they even crucified him), and became one of the few level headed characters toward the end of the show.

Worst character arc? Probably a toss up between Clark and Octavia. It’s like their worst attributes got turned up to 11.

Favorite character overall? Raven. She was basically a live-action Gadget from “Chip and Dale’s Rescue Rangers”.

It’s disappointing there are no resident cosplayers in that lounge area. Would be amazing for recording some low-budget fan works.

Basically, yeah, if you include all of their memories and experiences. The EMHs in the dilithium mines were EMH copies but weren’t The Doctor. I’ve also wondered if they were sentient or just good facsimiles. Part of The Doctor’s story arc was growing beyond his original EMH programming (plus B’Elanna expanding his matrix in some pretty hacky ways). So that leads me to believe that they weren’t sentient, though they had the potential to become so.

Anyway…

That said, the Doctor from “Living Witness” was, if I recall, the Backup EMH and had all of the The Doctor’s memories and was fully sentient as a result.

Essentially it would be the Will / Thomas Riker transporter accident equivalent for holographic beings.

But then what happens if you Ctrl+Z?

VOY S5E11: Latent Image

Sadly plausible :(

I run Synapse currently but last I looked at Conduit it wasn’t at feature parity with Synapse (granted, that has been a while). The other two I wouldn’t touch with a 50 foot pole because of their stupid-ass names.

If it’s a relatively recent laptop, it should be fine.

Many of them will let you set custom charge limits. If yours supports that, limit it to like 60% or thereabouts. Long enough that you can get some UPS use out of it but not full enough it’s ever gonna go spicy pillow on you.

If it won’t let you set a charge limit, they’ll still kind of float around full charge but not stay at 100% all the time. Even plugged in, mine will drop down from 100% to eventually 92% before it will start charging back to 100 again. That’s over the course of several days to a week.

If the laptop is older than about 2017 or so, or still has a removable battery, you might want to just take the battery out and use an external UPS as those typically don’t have the extra charge management features newer ones do.

To run them full time, you either want to remove the screen or “tent” them because a lot of heat is dissipated through the keyboard, and it’s normally expected to be open while running because of that. By “tent”, I mean open it halfway and put the screen facing down so it’s standing up and shaped like a tent.

That, and they’ve clearly never watched DS9. I think the (mostly) dark and seriousness of it is why I like it so much.

I was initially hesitant about DS9 because I was like “how are they, on a stationary space station, going to compete with the Federation flagship?” Was never so glad to be proven wrong.

I loved PIC S3 and definitely seeing Ro Laren again, but yeah, I did notice the makeup was a lot more subtle than in her TNG appearances.

Now I wonder if it was always supposed to be that subtle but had to be “exaggerated” a bit back then to show up on older TVs. Kind of like how the Addams Family set was mostly pink so it appeared correctly on old black and white TV sets.

At least there’s precedence for Vulcan selfishness. Gestures vaguely at ENT

I feel like Betazoids are in a bit of a glass house when it comes to throwing around rocks labeled “horny tantrum” lol

At least Vulcans don’t make everyone else join in.

Benjamin Sisqó

It had to be done. I apologize for nothing.

Also nice pun!