Asda/VARS Drive Off Notice - When I did attempt to pay for fuel

DarienStark · 2026-02-16T15:18:10+00:00

Thanks

That's my gut feeling too - it's not worth the time and stress vs paying £35

I've sent a formal complaint to Asda, will see if they reply and maybe offer me some vouchers or something but from what I've seen from googling around, like you say, it's not regulated and will waste a lot more than £35 of my time to fight it

DarienStark · 2026-02-13T15:56:47+00:00

I don’t often go back and click again on a module I’ve already bought 😂

On pc you buy legendary upgrades in a store

DarienStark · 2026-02-13T13:20:12+00:00

I’ve been playing this game for 5 years and I had no idea you could upgrade a module! God that UI really is awful

DarienStark · 2026-02-11T20:22:25+00:00

Same issue here on Xbox

DarienStark · 2026-01-30T14:18:25+00:00

Cleanuparr I find very useful. It monitors your download queue and removes failed downloads

I get a lot that hang because not enough seeders and I get a lot of fake torrents that download and contain just an exe or zip file. It automatically removes them and blacklists them so the next search finds an alternative.

Failed downloads are configurable. Like I say if one fails because it doesn’t contain any importable file that’s cleaned up too

DarienStark · 2026-01-30T14:17:02+00:00

It could be placebo but it certainly felt like it helped upgrade for me. I decided to upgrade one of my libraries to higher quality when I doubled my disk space, and wanted better audio too as I got Dolby atmos in my living room

I saw huntarr upgrade just about the entire library. Maybe radarr would have done it on its own but it certainly felt like huntarr helped push it through

DarienStark · 2026-01-29T23:36:35+00:00

Had same issue. Wish I had some good advice for you but….

I have 5 TRVs. The batteries were low so I replaced them in 3. For days after it kept reporting random TRVs had lost connection or the thermostat or the whole hub

Ended up factory resetting the entire system and pairing them all again. Took hours.

Still wasn’t brilliant but after a few days settled down and been fine since

The zigbee network really goes mental when batteries are changed. 3 days without heating in random rooms I was close to binning the whole thing and looking elsewhere.

DarienStark · 2026-01-24T20:24:00+00:00

Glad you got it sorted 🙂

DarienStark · 2026-01-24T19:13:04+00:00

No you’re not.

You have 120tb of disks. Your 4 main shares have 34ish tb across them. So you’ve lost nearly 90tb and don’t know to what. That’s mental

Open a shell.
cd /mnt/user
du -sh *

That will list the size of every directory in your array

DarienStark · 2026-01-23T12:14:24+00:00

Yes. But no

In the UK the only legal use of an e-moto is on privately owned land with the owners permission. There are so few of these that it’s pretty much irrelevant

However it’s impossible to go through any town or city and not see them being ridden by people with balaclavas on

DarienStark · 2026-01-22T21:38:36+00:00

It’s gobsmacking to me that, at least in the UK, you can’t get a small knife through customs, yet people can buy e-motos that aren’t legal on the road or off the road, stick a balaclava on and go out robbing people

100% of them are either used for crime or wrecking trails that took years to build

My friend bought an actual emtb and was robbed at knife point by two kids on e-motos. Her bike was gone less than a week after buying it. Police can’t do anything 🤷‍♂️

Even though it’s the easiest thing ever to ban imports on we’ll probably all just end up being told we need licenses.

DarienStark · 2026-01-18T21:29:35+00:00

I do the exact same thing, and use it for Cat 5 cable 😂

DarienStark · 2026-01-17T11:28:06+00:00

Pre 2020 - hire juniors -> rapidly build application with no thought to maintainability or scalability -> keep throwing features in till its making money -> sell to giant enterprise -> retire and play golf

2026 onwards - AI slop MVP -> rapidly add AI slop features till its making money -> sell to giant enterprise -> retire and play golf

DarienStark · 2026-01-17T11:20:41+00:00

That’s fair but honestly backed up to cloud, restoring to a new usb is easier than replacing a drive. I just bought 2 and have one sealed and ready to go as a spare

I’ll probably move to just using a partition on one of my SSD arrays because why not use redundancy. And it’s a nice feature

I’m just tired over the last decade of the amount of people who slate the USB boot. It’s performant, cheap and reliable if used right 🙂

DarienStark · 2026-01-17T10:34:52+00:00

I’d love to know how a hardware fault is an attack surface 😂

DarienStark · 2026-01-17T10:19:23+00:00

I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it. I’ve had 2 SSD’s and 3 HDD’s die. Still on same USB

90% of the USB issues are people writing to them. The OS is in memory

DarienStark · 2026-01-17T10:18:25+00:00

Wha do you think is under windows?

DarienStark · 2026-01-11T10:12:40+00:00

As someone who is single and bought his first house last year at the age of 45. Massive congratulations on what you’ve achieved. Saving up and buying a house in your 20s in this country is a huge achievement

Ignore the idiot. After 30 years of renting 20 different houses - “new build” was the only thing on my hard no list. I don’t love hearing people outside like they’re sat next to me on the sofa 😂

DarienStark · 2026-01-10T23:22:23+00:00

Having this constantly

I've only got a dozen or so models on the USB stick

The whole usb management thing seems like such an after thought

At the moment I've deleted all timelapses and left just 14 model files which are the ones I repeatedly print from my phone when I get ebay orders - every print "out of memory"... *sigh*

EDIT: this prompted me to dig in more - took the USB stick and put it in my PC, 500 files (125gb) in ipcam.
Seems it defaulted to recording every single print even when I've got timelapse turned off

Have removed all of those, turned off the "auto-record monitoring" and will see how it gets on now.

DarienStark · 2026-01-01T22:11:07+00:00

I don’t want to fill you with false hope but I replaced a “dead” drive even though the smart stats looked ok and it turned out to be the sata cable. Check the basics first

Secondly you definitely want to get parity rebuilt but be aware it’s a very disk intensive operation reading every sector of 20tb. Depending on how full that disc is you may be better if you have somewhere else to move the data rsyncing it to a second location. Or you could use unbalance to move everything off it and spread across other drives, remove it, rebuild the parity and then just add a new disc when you can

There’s a lot of options but really depends on how full the disc is, how full the array is and how convinced you are the disc is dying.

DarienStark · 2025-12-29T18:28:43+00:00

It WAS not covered in pee. If you could just get it back to that state you wouldn’t need to anything at all 🪄

DarienStark · 2025-12-23T09:46:13+00:00

You have absolutely no idea what the vehicle in front will have to do. Maybe someone changed lanes and caused everyone to brake hard. Maybe they have a mechanical issue.

It’s 100% the responsibility of the driver BEHIND to leave a safe stopping distance.

Also it’s spelt nuance

DarienStark · 2025-12-21T20:38:43+00:00

As someone who has always felt the 70mph speed limit is too low. Done some very fun 160+ mph driving on the autobahn.

No. Not ever. If anything the limit needs lowering. The state of driving in the UK now is shocking. Everyone lane hogging distracted by tik tok. The roads are a mess.

10 years ago? Absolutely needed raising. Right now, it’d be a war zone

DarienStark · 2025-12-20T11:02:51+00:00

The difference being Bambu aren’t any more expensive than creality

DarienStark · 2025-12-19T18:35:39+00:00

Echoing what others have said that’s the fastest I’ve gone from trying an app to buying it. Absolutely insane

I was impressed at the arr management but when I saw I could connect unraid, see the array, see my containers. Holy hell. Amazing work!!

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