I removed the 3.3v from my sata cables last night and threw an "I told you I can figure shit out on my own as a man" up at my dead electrician father. That'll show him to not teach me to be proud of myself....

Also, help me. Fractal Node (fits 10). Proxmox. TrueNas. 1 zfs2 VDEV using 5 of 8 SAS HBA

Adding 2nd swath of 5. Using remaining 3 SAS HBA and they're working, the 3.3v fix worked including one disk on a chain with the original swath that didn't require the fix.

The 2 remaining new disks have no SAS slots to use, so using SATA but proxmox won't detect them to even setup the pass through.

Tested cables, disks, slots, etc. Enabled spin up on all sata in bios. Nada. Feels like a software or bus issue but I'm not technical. Need an adult

Supermicro X10sl7-f

[–] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 10 points 3 hours ago

Not audio, but I needed to power some fans with a 12V DC adapter

[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 27 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I can't believe this picture of the "adapter" I made 15 years ago is finally relevant. Think I was just missing a cable extender so made one myself

[–] Janx@piefed.social -2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

No offense, but the quotation marks are on the wrong part lol. Yes, I'm judging your younger self for that extremely blurry "picture". EDIT: It's a joke, people...

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I once saw someone make a video cable by dissecting the strands of a power cable and insulating them with packing table.

[–] Romulon@sh.itjust.works 44 points 6 hours ago

I have done something similar. We were going to play Wii one night but my friend brought the wrong adapter.

[–] derry@midwest.social 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Just use a banana, no one can't tell the difference anyway

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Banana plugs are a thing, and might even have plugged into the hole on the RCA jacks (probably not as they're usually too wide, but it's technically possible... I think - never tried it myself). However, they're single conductors, not dual like RCA plugs are.

Pair of banana connectors colored red and black.

ETA: And, yes - I'm aware of the recent Tom's Hardware article you're referencing.

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 35 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Twelve audiophiles around the world just had seizures

[–] rmean@feddit.org 18 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They wouldn't hear any difference whatsoever: https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

That's the joke. They would claim that ... I don't know.. electrons are going to fall off that copper wire or something like that.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, if it makes good contact and is not moving it is not going to affect audio quality any more than an equivalent length of extra cable would've

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Once someone tried to tell me that the wrong cable impedance to the speakers affected sound. Asked him what is the wavelength at audio frequencies, conversation died.

[–] Nerdulous@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If they were passive speakers being powered through the cables and an amplifier wouldn't the additional impedance of the cable result in a (probably imperceptible) reduction on volume? I agree it wouldn't effect the waveform, and thus, the quality of the sound though.

[–] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Resistance can reduce the volume. E.g. if your wires are too thin for the current you want to send over them. The guy was talking about impedance.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago

There’s a dozen of us! Exactly a dozen!

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 10 points 6 hours ago

Hey, at least it's copper instead of aluminum.

[–] tacotroubles@lemmy.world 11 points 5 hours ago

There is no wrong cable only wrong ports.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 23 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I'm no audiophile, but wouldn't that plug fit into the port right next to it?

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 37 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Headphone jack is an output. The jack they've hotwired is an input.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 66 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Me:

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Before the mid-to-late 1990s, on the other hand...

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Connecting cables was easy, the nightmare was getting the OS to recognise the devices.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, but there were so many different cable standards that you weren't always sure you had the right one on hand. USB has been such a godsend that the young'ns will never fully appreciate.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 4 points 1 hour ago

That's what the Cable Box™ was for. The only time a self respecting cable collector would not have the right cable was the week after getting rid of some of the most "legacy" cables.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago

You better hold onto those driver discs.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Love Grafo.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It's hard to tell with the wire covering part of the label.

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

You can see enough to tell it's an I (in), not an O (out) - plus the fact there's only room for one more letter behind the copper, as demonstrated by the hidden P in "TAPE" above. Having dealt with this sort of equipment enough in my life, those were really the only two possibilities.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Others have already pointed out this is the tape in and that's the headphone jack. To the left is an effects send and return which is after the preamp but before the power amp (it's an in and an out where you'd plug in certain effects pedals). Far to the left is the instrument input. Depending on the specific signal you could probably route it through the effects return which bypasses the distortion of the preamp. I'd have to see exactly what the fuck they thought they were trying to accomplish.

The color of it makes me think of the old Peavey Rage 158 amps but they didn't have an effects loop or tape in. So I'm not exactly sure which amp this is. The far right knob is the master volume and the one left of the effects loop is reverb. That's not important but it's interesting to me.

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 9 points 6 hours ago

It's hard to see behind the copper but I'm pretty sure that is "Tape in", an input, while the headphones next to it would be an output

[–] kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 hours ago

i find this a surprisingly elegant solution!!!

it's nice and simple to put in place, and if you have this class of audio equipment at your whim, you probably have something to scavenge the copper from

copper does oxidize, but so long as it can trade broker enough electrons around, i'm definitely making use of this idea in the future, thank you for the post

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Tbh, I like how it looks so... Gets a pass from me.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

Still sounds at least as good as Monster Cables

[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 0 points 5 hours ago