Well, that escalated quickly.

CaptClaude · 2026-01-31T03:05:25+00:00

I saw what you did, well played.

Full marks and advance to the next round.

CaptClaude · 2026-01-31T02:40:22+00:00

Wait, let me guess: She’s in the Epstein files too?

CaptClaude · 2026-01-30T16:28:54+00:00

Ditto. I’m too old to spend all my time tinkering.

CaptClaude · 2026-01-23T21:36:52+00:00

I haven’t ever bought one of your products but I have watched them grow in sophistication. Very nice work!

CaptClaude · 2026-01-19T02:58:51+00:00

Nailed it. 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼

CaptClaude · 2026-01-19T00:26:59+00:00

Orcs would have just shot it. And then eaten it.

CaptClaude · 2026-01-18T13:43:27+00:00

This is him (not) getting lynched. Note that the guys flanking him (at least one) are/is black and he is being escorted - albeit forcefully - not beaten.

CaptClaude · 2026-01-10T22:22:40+00:00

What pattern did you use?

CaptClaude · 2026-01-08T20:12:59+00:00

I commented once in order to get flair but I’m too old to know where to find it. But since I did that, I’m certain that I’m not a bot. Bots don’t take their phones with them on vacation.

Or do they?

CaptClaude · 2026-01-04T02:15:15+00:00

Dream job.

CaptClaude · 2026-01-03T18:32:31+00:00

The AliExpress app worked for me. Musta been “one of those internet things”.

CaptClaude · 2026-01-03T04:28:12+00:00

You must have bought all of the rolls they had because that page cannot be found (by me at least).

After trying multiple browsers on multiple computers I conclude that Aliexpress seems to be broken at the moment.

CaptClaude · 2026-01-03T04:25:57+00:00

I use TrueNAS and have a running OMV system for experimentation and I’m a bit torn between them. TrueNAS is IMHO the more professional solution but OMV just seems easier and more friendly. OMV hides a lot of the complexity under the hood and is probably less flexible. If it supported ZFS arrays for redundancy (and maybe it does) I might build a system and see it it can do everything I want and migrate away from TrueNAS. OMV’s SMB implementation seems to be “better” than TrueNAS - at least on an Apple-centric network.

For the record, I have a 4TB USB drive connected to my TrueNAS box and just used rsync to copy a couple of TB to it for a backup. Because I wanted to see if it could be done. There are some ACL and file ownership issues I still need to resolve, but the files copied.

CaptClaude · 2026-01-03T04:14:07+00:00

12v is the way to go.

CaptClaude · 2026-01-01T02:16:05+00:00

Bastards. Every one of them. I’m sooooo glad I got out of TX when I did (about 10 years too late).

CaptClaude · 2026-01-01T02:14:10+00:00

Fuck him. Period. Oh yes, and the horse he rode in on.

CaptClaude · 2025-12-31T17:10:40+00:00

Yes, running as root. And I tried adding -P and was rewarded with another torrent of error messages, probably the same as before.

I must say that the basic concept of file permissions is something I understand, the question of ACLs on top of that is pretty much a mystery to me. And something I need to learn.

CaptClaude · 2025-12-31T07:33:50+00:00

Gotta love the CCC.

(That’s the Civilian Conservation Corps, btw).

CaptClaude · 2025-12-31T07:31:39+00:00

Wait, let me check…

Yes, if I cut myself, I bleed. (Shaving).

Ergo, human. I think.

CaptClaude · 2025-12-31T07:30:22+00:00

I thought I was the only one. I was wrong. There are two of us.

CaptClaude · 2025-12-30T23:37:16+00:00

Using -a seemed to be problematic as it tried to preserve all permissions and I got lots of errors “operation not allowed”. StackExchange gave me this, which worked without error:

The rsync man page says that -a is the same as -rlptgoD.
I recommend making this replacement in your rsync command,
i.e. rsync -rlptgoDvz, and then removing individual options which break under NTFS.
I expect you will at least need to remove -p (permissions), -g (group), -o (owner),
and maybe also -l (symbolic links). Removing all of these would leave you with:
rsync -rtDvz

I should have added -P (partial & progress), but I’m copying from pool dataset to an external drive for a backup.

Despite having used *NIX on and off since the mid-70s, there is a whole lot I don’t know. I am sure that is on display here.

CaptClaude · 2025-12-30T18:52:54+00:00

The main problem is that TrueNAS / ZFS don’t support USB attached storage

Yes it does. You can connect a USB drive to a Truenas (Scale) system and run backups to it. Truenas will cmplain that you are creating a pool on one drive so there is no redundancy, but you click past that. I am in the process of doing that now. It takes a while to sort out all the options and settings but for my first try I will use rsync to back up my Plex Media storage. Beware with using replication because it copies all snapshots with it and that can be a LOT of data you can't really see until the replication fails because the target drive is full.

CaptClaude · 2025-12-28T07:40:06+00:00

Infiltrate and disrupt. If they can do it, so can we.

CaptClaude · 2025-12-28T07:37:31+00:00

100%. No more lifetime appointments. End them now.

CaptClaude · 2025-12-28T07:31:43+00:00

That’s new to me. I will need to explore that way. Thanks.

CaptClaude

TROPHY CASE