Continuing from previous post, I looked around a bit more and discovered that rEFInd – which I skipped before – is simpler.
Continue readingNVMe FreeBSD boot, take 2
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NVMe FreeBSD boot with Clover EFI
As mentioned yesterday, I’m upgrading (?) my main server storage to NVMe. The adapters finally arrived today and I set up the thing right away.
Base system is an Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 CPU on an Intel S1200BTL motherboard.
Continue readingEven more SSDs
Earlier this week I noticed the two mirrored SSDs in my main server is close to dying.
One of them has started reallocating sectors even though it’s only got a bit over 150 TB written. It’s specced at 150 TBW warranty though so I guess it’s just about time.
That said, the other one has over 220 TB written yet it still has no problem. This one is rated for 204 TBW so it also already passed its specification.
The reason for those stupid write number is because I probably have used them as ZFS cache drives. I think I killed two other drives in similar fashion last year. I stopped doing it a while back but it was a bit too late.
I haven’t installed them yet as the server doesn’t have NVMe slots and the PCI-e to NVMe adapters I ordered have not arrived. Thanks, Amazon 😐
I don’t actually know if they will work at all. I don’t think the BIOS supports NVMe boot and I’m not sure if the commonly suggested method of using Clover Boot will work for FreeBSD. It theoretically should be fine but who knows…
A new PC
I haven’t build any new one from scratch since previous Ryzen. Even that one was only CPU + Motherboard + RAM. This one is almost full set except GPU (and optical drive).
Continue readingWeekly FGO vol. 10
Oh hey, double digit of this thing.
JP
It’s new year. It means GSSR. It’s per-class summon this time so I went with Caster hoping for Skadi.
As can be seen above, I’ve got no Skadi. At least I got the second best result and now I’ve got the whole Prillya set.
More Asclepius is welcome as I only had NP1 of him before. NP2 is pretty much all one really need for that extra gauge bar and 2000 HP. NP3+ isn’t really useful.
Those extra Caster Cu are also welcome though I still need one more for NP5.
Now I think about it, I still have no Caster Gilles. Not that he’s useful at all but it would be nice just to complete my collection.
I’ve finished almost all of existing Interludes and Strengthening Quests and now back to mana prisms as the New Year’s Da Vinci Store items cost over 2000 mana prisms total.
NA
Meanwhile GSSR here, I got the worst result 😐 Even Ozy or Medb would be better.
The thing is, I have enough ST rider already. Rider Kintoki, I’ve also got Maid Alter. Heck, even Ushiwakamaru is a pretty good one as well.
Oh well.
On the farming side, I’m still farming exp cards as usual. I think I need to farm some QP sometime later though. Maybe after the half AP campaign is over.
Weekly FGO vol. 9
Late post due to various reasons.
JP
No events and I probably should be finishing EoR or reading Lostbelt 4 so I can continue to Lostbelt 5. But nope, I’ve been grinding dusts and shields for a while now.
NA
I’ve finished all the basic stuff for Christmas event. Only some pieces and monuments left and then boxes. Currently at my 12th boxes and as it’s ending in two-ish days I wonder how far I can go. I’m also still grinding for the shop so it’s not as “fast” as it could be. However fast a few months old account can be, that is.
I also finished the challenge quest. It sure was rather easy with Merlin.
Weekly FGO vol. 8
JP
Christmas has ended. I think I redid the challenge quest. No command seal but I think it was with double Merlin or something stupid like that.
Atlantis will be the last “event” this year so I guess I’ll try finishing reading Yuga before starting that one. I still need to finish Shimousa and Salem as well. One of these days maybe.
Otherwise I’m currently trying to finish free quests and interludes as they’re half AP until Wednesday. I checked it just now and apparently I have at least 15 interludes I can read…
Only three nodes for the free quests though so I guess I’ll rush the interludes tonight.
NA
Christmas has started! (?). I didn’t know it will only last 9 days until a while ago. I didn’t remember it was 10 days in JP before as well. This weekend will be fun grinding.
Oh and I did 10 rolls and that caster gil above is the only gold servant I got. Whee.
Before the event started, I made good progress on Agartha. Finished Colombus Heracles stage with a bit of difficulty. Using Merlin and Kintoki Rider sure made stuff easier.
FGO Babylonia ep. 11
Psycho-Pass S3 ep. 8 (end?!)
And here’s the last episode for this season.
Continue readingMusic CD – Weathering with You complete version
And lastly WWY complete version songs. Five tracks are included and they each extend the version used in the movie and included in the soundtracks.
My main interest, Grand Escape, sure felt a bit different with the extended version. It’s no longer slow buildup and end in high note in single run but instead with ups and downs and finally peaked at nearby the end with a bit more cooldown afterwards. The impact is reduced but still good regardless.
The rest are simple improvement over the soundtracks version.
Karaoke/instrumental version isn’t included though 😔
Music CD – Soraao OST
Soraao – or the full title Sora no aosa o shiru hito yo, the soundtracks. I’m not actually sure why I wanted this. I guess I’ll figure it out by listening to it 🤔
Music CD – Hello World OST
It’s a thing. Except full version of the one song I liked most is not included in here: Yesterday (by Official Hige Dandism) is only in movie version. Whoops.
Oh well that means another 3k expenditure because the song is only available in their latest album.
I didn’t use to buy soundtrack CDs (except Tenmon and Shinkai-related) but the last few movies I just felt like I need to buy them as well.
That reminded me I should check when the blu-ray of this (and the following two CDs) will be released.
Weekly FGO vol. 7
FGO JP
Barely hitting 25 boxes, maybe will do a bit more though I kind of want to redo the challenge quest. But no time =[
FGO NA
Slowly going through Agartha at the moment. Still the easy parts. I remember having some difficulty with later battles like against a ruler demon god and a pair of Colombus and Heracles. That was with low rarity only servants though so this one should be easier (especially the ruler).
Lupin The Third The First Movie
It’s a thing. It’s pretty fun. It’s Lupin (the 3rd).
The 3D is fine. It still has the Lupin feel.
FGO Babylonia ep. 10
Psycho-Pass S3 ep. 7
So we’re down to one last episode ;_; Is there even enough time to solve everything.
Continue readingWeekly FGO vol. 6
FGO JP
Christmas is over! Or at least the main story. “Cleared” challenge quest as well. Just need a lot of adjustments for the correct clearance.
Still no 5th event CE drop though 😔
FGO NA
Nothing~
Farmed a lot, strengthened whatever can be strengthened. This one’s Christmas is in two weeks, I guess?
FGO Babylonia ep. 9
I guess I remembered stuff right. The tsundere-ness and gems-loving-ness of Rin Ishtar is way more fun in animated form though.
Psycho-Pass S3 ep. 6
Things started heating up. And explodes.
Continue readingTunamayoza – Comitia 130 doujinshi
Uh, it’s Tsunako’s circle. Apparently this is their first actual doujinshi ever? No lewd inside, just cutes. Also some interesting background story on how this book happened.
Weekly FGO vol. 5
FGO JP
Nothing much apart of occasional hunting quests. New event is coming in 18-ish hours though so there’s that.
Free archer servant this time. I have about 110 exp cards for archer which, with enough luck, should be enough for maxing her level.
I don’t think I’ll have enough tickets for 10 rolls this time so I won’t be rolling anything this time around. Maybe next time though I think there won’t be any more events until next year? Considering it’ll be a release of new chapter mid next month and I don’t really want to roll on non-events.
The box content seem pretty useful as I’m currently running low on some of them. I only have 26 gold apples though so that kind of sucks.
FGO NA
Half AP grinding quests are still going so I’ve been doing that. It’s quite useful as I’m currently really lacking exp cards. I’ve final ascended Saber Alter, leveled up Saber Alter Summer, and grailed Kiyohime up to level 96. Just 4 more levels to 100.
Next coming events should be just Salem release and then followed by Altera Santa event.
Which reminded me I need 200 more archer exp cards here to max Altera. She’s a pretty good single target archer though I don’t really like her design and dialogue lines much.
FGO Babylonia ep. 8
Spoiler after the break
Continue readingPsycho-Pass S3 ep. 5
That was some explosions. And it looks like there will be more involvement with Foreign Affairs for this case?
Not sure how long this will be. Could this be the final case?
FGO NA – Okita pickup
Okita pickup was up! Rolls were done! No Okita showed up.
214 total rolls, 0 SSR servant. Full log here.
1% rate… I’m not even getting half of it.
Psycho-Pass ep. 4
That was a lot of fight. And we’re getting closer to Bifrost. Only four episodes left! Quite a few hints here and there about (in)dependency on the system.
This commentary is very low effort and I should’ve kept memo or something when watching it.
FGO Babylonia ep. 7
That was a rather huge Gorgon. Also Ushiwakamaru next week ;_;
Not sure what the dream about Solomon was for.
Weekly FGO Vol. 4
FGO JP
I spent a bit more SQ and still ended up with 0 Skadi. Oh well.
And then I rushed through lostbelt 4. And still got no Skadi. At least now I’ve cleared the main quests. Needed to use Merlin for first Arjuna fight after trying for over 3 hours with just low rarity and Karna support.
There are still Shimousa and Salem remaining though. I’m kind of rushing it but not really.
FGO NA
Finished event quests including the thankfully easy challenge quest.
Still need to farm a lot of cakes though.
Pickup Okita coming this Friday. That will be exciting. I just hope I can pull at least one. I have 186 rolls available at the moment which I hope will be enough? I need at least twice that to be on safe side but that’s all I managed to save so far after the initial spending. I’ll find out in few days…
FGO JP – Skadi banner
136 pulls and 0 Skadi in sight. Not even any ☆5 servants. I did get 4 ☆4s – Nursery Rhyme, Heracles, Vlad lancer, and Fionn.
My current overall stats on 1503 pulls:
| Type | Rarity | Total | Percentage (difference to base) |
| Servant | ☆5 | 16 | 1.06% (+0.06%) |
| Servant | ☆4 | 40 | 2.66% (-0.34%) |
| Servant | ☆3 | 654 | 43.51% (+3.51%) |
| CE | ☆5 | 59 | 3.93% (-0.07%) |
| CE | ☆4 | 243 | 16.17% (+4.17%) |
| CE | ☆3 | 491 | 32.67% (-7.33%) |
The numbers seem quite different to the promised rate…
Update: I missed some single pulls whoops. I guess it’ll be a while until I get another ☆5 servants…
Update 2019-11-23: I missed two GSSR not excluded correctly so the actual number is a bit worse than the table above indicates.
FGO JP – Prison Tower cleared
Finally finished this after unlocking it weeks ago. Most of the quests are relatively easy without needing any higher rarity servants. The only exception is the last one which apparently is doable with double Mash and Euryale but I had problem making it work with the closest one being Euryale, Mash, and Andersen. Except Andersen died pretty early and replaced by backup Merlin and the screenshot above is the end result (Merlin died one or two turns before).
Music CD – Melty Blood OST – Promised Dawn
A rather old sound track CDs. It’s Melty Blood. It’s got Sion for the cover. And Arcueid. Good stuff.
I already have rip of it in some form but the first track sounded a bit weird and it’s only 192kbps mp3. Found it cheap in Suruga-ya so I grabbed one to find out myself.
Well the result is it sounded mostly the same. At least I finally legally have this one now. Only took a few years.