Flamekebab
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- Comment on Om nom 1 day ago:
- Comment on Prime Minister Farage? He’s serious about that – it’s time the country was too 5 days ago:
It'd be good if we could get something a bit more left than MOAR NEOLIBERALISM. I'm so done with neoliberal capitalism but it seems that large chunks of the populace still think it's the damn '80s and greed is good.
A party that could seriously offer a decent future could do well. Redistribute some wealth and let's get this shit going. You know what happens when more money goes to the bottom of the pyramid? It goes straight back into the economy.
I don't really get what the point of gargling billionaire balls is. Ruling over ashes doesn't seem like it'd be particularly fun and being able to be bought off with shiny things is frankly embarrassing.
- Comment on TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools 1 week ago:
What's so WTF about it? I'm repurposing old hardware and testing out the concept. I'm not shelling out a pile of cash on something that might not work for me.
- Comment on Revealed: Banking giant threatened to leave UK over mooted tax increase; JP Morgan Chase wrote to Rachel Reeves to lobby against rumoured banking surcharge rise ahead of autumn budget 1 week ago:
Won't someone think of the poor bankers?
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 2 weeks ago:
Surely it's a clone given that it clones the game mechanics?
- Comment on Opinion: Britain needs an alfresco dining revolution to bring life into its cold city centres 2 weeks ago:
Our towns and cities centres are dying because there's no realistic way for most businesses to bring in enough to make the numbers add up when factoring in premises. The costs are insane. Trying to get enough trade to cover that and wages is a non-starter for most businesses. Commercial premises have essentially priced themselves out of the market.
- Comment on TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools 2 weeks ago:
These are internal drives connected to a desktop PSU wired to a USB interface to connect to the laptop.
- Comment on TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools 2 weeks ago:
Haha, yeah. It does make me wonder whether I should bin the whole TrueNAS approach entirely. It seems like a tremendous faff when I could just have the files mirrored to another disk as a backup.
- Comment on TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools 2 weeks ago:
The hard disks are on a separate power supply. The TrueNAS software is running on an old laptop so it effectively has UPS protection.
- Comment on How to reverse proxy? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, another vote for Caddy. I've run nginx as a reverse proxy before and it wasn't too bad, but Caddy is even easier.
- Comment on TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools 2 weeks ago:
Which logs specifically should I be checking?
zpool doesn't see any pools to import. The system does see the disks but I'm not sure why the disks aren't being checked for pools.
- Comment on TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools 2 weeks ago:
I'll give it a shot. I was asking here in case it was a common thing that everyone else knows about (i.e. "Oh you're running TrueNAS without a UPS? That's a non starter, everyone knows that".
- Comment on How the UK’s ‘free speech’ government banned protest 2 weeks ago:
Is there anything we can do to push the needle back? I'm so sick of this authoritarian bullshit.
- Comment on TrueNAS Scale, hard disks, and pools 2 weeks ago:
It seems to either be completely fine and a power cycle makes no difference - or it loses the whole structure. I don't know how I'm supposed to pull the disks back in. It doesn't seem to detect that they're already setup as part of a pool.
The pool I've created doesn't vanish but it seems my only option for it is "manage devices" which takes me to the "Add VDEVs to the Pool" menu where my three disks show up as unassigned. The only presented option seems to be to wipe them in order to add them back to the pool.
Trying to search for this stuff doesn't seem to give me anything useful. I don't know what the intended behaviour is and what it is that I'm doing wrong. I would expect what should happen is that the disks come back online and get automatically added back to the pool again but no, apparently not?
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- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #16 2 weeks ago:
Ooh, The Precinct looks rather fun!
- Comment on Listen and 2 weeks ago:
Synecdoche, New York
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 2 weeks ago:
Star Citizen still exists? I started when I was in my twenties and now I'm pushing 40!
- Comment on Sony considers further price rises, as it braces for £500m tariffs impact 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn't buy at the current price, raise it as much as you like.
There's just not enough USPs to justify the cost to me, regardless of how shiny the graphics might be.
I want to want it, but it's going to have to do a lot more than it currently is as a platform.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 - Rockstar Games 4 weeks ago:
It'd be interesting to see a developer create a slightly prettier version of Vice City. I appreciate the visuals of the later GTA games but doing more with less seems like it'd make sense. The gap between these games is getting rather nuts.
Then again, "forever" games seem to print money, and that's more important than creative expression. As I get older I have a greater appreciation for games that don't try to outstay their welcome. GTA V seemed to struggle with this - on the one hand it was huge, on the other the story seemed to be about half the length it telegraphed itself as. What's the point in being able to level up the stats of heist crew if there's not enough for it to matter, etc..
(In my opinion, obviously) GTA IV was too long, San Andreas was a sprawling mess, but Vice City was the sweet spot.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if the next one will take so long that the world it satirises is long gone. Facebook being parodied in GTA V no longer makes much sense, for example
- Comment on Fly-tippers’ vehicles to be crushed in bid to save England from ‘avalanche of rubbish’ 5 weeks ago:
There is something deeply wrong with people who litter.
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 5 weeks ago:
I don't hate it but it does occasionally feel like a burden. As in knowing that I could solve a problem that people are struggling with and whether it's ethical to not help because I don't feel like it.
Hating "knowing stuff" seems bizarre to me though. There's so many interesting things in our world - wanting to know less sounds awful. Like opting into a lobotomy.
- Comment on Caution urged as UK supermarkets check out facial recognition 1 month ago:
I wear a custom-fitted mask whenever I'm out in public so they can have fun with that.
- Comment on What Nextcloud document service setup would you recommend? 1 month ago:
What are your requirements?
- Comment on Keir Starmer does not believe trans women are women, No 10 says 1 month ago:
I can't decide whether they're awful or just saying awful things to pander to the awful bits of the electorate. Both are terrible but they're different flavours of evil.
- Comment on A Rare Shigeru Miyamoto Interview About The Making Of Mario 64 Has Just Surfaced Online | Time Extension 1 month ago:
I'm glad it's not just me that has these thoughts. Shigsy did loads of interviews back in the day.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 month ago:
Regardless it's an insult I wouldn't throw at anyone other than a fascist.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 month ago:
Ye gods, I'm not reading that wall. I tried to make it clear that I was not interested in continuing this interaction but let's make it a bit more explicit: this conversation is over.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 month ago:
...it's not an actual apology, it's a rhetorical device. Was that not clear?
I don't really understand why you feel the need to second guess my own assessment of my own mind. I'm not interested in an explanation either, just to be clear. Each time you keep drawing comparisons that paint me as naïve and childlike. It's perhaps not intentional but the end result is tremendously insulting, hence why I'm not interested in further talk on the subject.
With regards to learning new things, the world of human experience is vast. I am not shutting the door on chess out of petulance. I do so knowing the journey I would need to take is incompatible with my own preferences for discovery and growth. To my mind it is a distilled competitive logic puzzle. I don't like logic puzzles of any complexity, and I particularly don't like pared down ones with no set dressing or storytelling.
I am actually quite happy to engage in puzzle solving - it's one of the things I do for a living. However there the puzzles are more cooperative and with many, many more facets to them. They can be solved in a huge number of ways and with a variety of different skills.
I'm explaining this because it seems you need it spelled out rather explicitly. Particularly as you seem to have rather strange ideas about who you're talking to. I'm nearly 40 and your comment about not recognising past versions of myself could not possibly be further from the truth. The various iterations of myself have been built atop the old ones. The eleven year old boy is still in there, as is the teenager, twenty-something, and the several versions of me from my 30s.
I don't necessarily know everything I like, but I've tried a great many things and have a firm understanding of what kinds of activities I dislike. I can also extrapolate fairly well, and it's not like chess is an obscure interest such as shin-kicking. The journey and destination both look rather dull to me, whereas many others do not. I cannot do everything in one lifetime and must choose. Chess has had its chance with me. It blew it. The same is true for gambling, as it happens. I have tried it in various forms and found it universally dull. I also don't enjoy ales, gloomy literature, tennis, or horror movies. There's much about those things I don't know and I intend to keep it that way in order to explore other potential interests. Things that I hopefully won't be bored by, or at least I enjoy some element of the journey.
Otherwise I might as well just be working - at least then the boring bits result in a paycheque.
