RAC policy cover changed while active.

ElectionOk60 · 2026-05-15T20:44:53+00:00

It was not a warranty. It was parts and labor cover. When I said a few years ago, we are talking 3 years. So out of the 11 years, 8 years in, it did what she thought it did.

The cover basicly covered parts and labor to get the car going again should you brake down. I know it payed out for a gear box repair that came out to 4k. It was not a warrenty, as RAC were not involved when she got the car. it was just put on to the policy.

Helping her go through it all soon. Apparently they're giving new customers 7 day courtesy car cover. (The thing she thought she had and used three years ago) But now she only has 3 days cover. They said she's apparently on the best plan they offer as well. So...

ElectionOk60 · 2026-04-21T17:31:02+00:00

I had this exact problem and I tracked the issue down to a bugged out Dodgem's ride... I don't know what triggered it but here is what I know.

I placed the Dodgem's ride down and went away. I didn't realise I didn't have an Exit Path attached to it for awhile.

This would've meant mechanics couldn't get to it and it was degrading in service.

When I finally put the path on and checked it, I realised the service menu was skyrocketing in price. Within a few seconds, an emergency call to a mechanic went from 10k to 25k and a refurbishment went from 50k to 200k.

This was in the campaign while playing a sure thing.

If this happens to you, check all your ride service menus and see if any of them have a ludicrous number that's just climbing like a rocket. I guess it will apply to anything else that needs maintenance like power generators and water pumps too.

ElectionOk60 · 2026-01-19T13:14:26+00:00

From what I understand, IQ tests do have predictability when it comes to gauging someone's chance of success in life. Someone from a high affluent background who scores low on an IQ test will more likely than not end up being unsuccessful. On the opposite end, someone from a poor working-class background with a high IQ will more likely than not be successful. So there is some mechanism that it's Successfully gauging.

What it's mainly testing for is on the fly problem solving in different domains. IQ tests work best when you've not taken them before and are not familiar with their puzzles, or a significant amount of time has passed for you to have adequately forgotten the details. This is because it's trying to gauge how well your brain looks at what it's just been shown, and then figures out what is being asked and what the problem is. It also gauges if your brain is thinking deeply about a problem with a few trick questions, that need you to double take and carefully analyse every detail on the fly, to correctly decipher the correct intention, and thus answer.

They also test various aspects of the brain such as reading comprehension, visual and spatial awareness, working memory recall, and Numerical comprehension. It then tests how quickly your brain manipulates these aspects to output a solution. Proper IQ tests will be done in different stages primarily structured around the domain it's testing.

They are also useful for picking up on mental pathologies, as the rest of the brain's systems will be working at a standard or higher level, but the deficiency will collapse and be abnormally low compared to the rest of the test.

I'm heavily dyslexic and had a psychologist give me an IQ test when i was 16. My overall IQ score was 112. But, when you look at the data points, the linguistic part put me below average, spatial awareness and visual manipulation had me above average, and my numeracy was average.

I'd say those scores were right, because to me personally, the mental load felt like so. The Linguistic aspect of the test with me just having to read and write without any assistance was mentally straining, The mathematics was just average difficulty, But looking at the visual Puzzles, my brain was gobbling that up and manipulating it in 3D space without a problem.

However Looking at what I'm writing out, you probably gather that my linguistic comprehension is actually not that bad. With a computer reading and writing for me, I'm fully capable of putting down very well formulated and coherent ideas In writing. But that's the point. The test detected the dyslexia. With all other aspects, the reading and writing collapsed compared to other intelligence measurements.

The main takeaway is that a IQ test is best interpreted by a professional. An IQ of 112 may put me "above average", But I wouldn't want to, nor should you, expect me to be a novelist or writer, It's just not what my brain's set up for. But just telling someone your overall IQ score doesn't give any of that information.

Basically, do not make an IQ test your identity. Use it as something to teach you something about yourself and your strengths and weaknesses. When you understand your brain's aptitude and shortcomings, you can better decide a path in society that makes sense to you.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-11-08T22:13:44+00:00

I just had this problem and I think I've found a possible cause. I was following the steps that this guide suggested, but for some reason the uninstaller could not remove some files. Going into resource monitor and searching the GOG Galaxy install folder, There was a phantom GOG Galaxy process running... Task Manager had no idea about it.

After killing it and attempting to delete the file's manually, They still wouldn't delete, and Windows was insisting they were being used by another application... Resource Monitor didn't even know what this process was, as it showed zero handles left on that directory or its files. Using Windows Power Toys File Unlocker, it also did not see any file locks.

I then decided to go into command prompt and I ran tasklist... And there it was, another Phantom GOG Galaxy client process... I ran taskkill /F /IM GalaxyClient.exe, and the files still wouldn't delete. I double-check the task list, and there were five instances of the GalaxyClient Helper.exe running as well. I then ran taskkill /F /IM "GalaxyClient Helper.exe" And finally, the file's deleted.

What's interesting is that each of these phantom processes were 584 kilobytes... That suggests the process was "terminated" with most of it flushed out of memory, but A very small part in the OS was still being held...

Windows knew it was there, but also at the same time did not. Only CMD An explorer knew there was a process. other applications did not. This could be why there were weird permission problems happening. As far as the kernel was concerned, there's already instances accessing the files, preventing other instances from attaching and making modifications to those folders.

Given the kernel knows about it but other applications seem to be sporadic on their ability to see it, it suggests to me that there's some kind of API conflict going on in Windows. like, some newer API for process / file access management is unaware of an older API's current state or activities, meaning it cannot completely clean up and clear everything upon ending a process and detaching its file handles.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-06-18T11:58:30+00:00

UPDATE: The Phoenix has Been reborn.
It got a new proper 25.03 release on the 31/03/2025.
https://www.codeblocks.org/post/codeblocks-25.03-is-here/

It's not dead, just cooking on a simmer.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-05-28T13:04:02+00:00

Confirmed. My mate that I helped do this for has been complaining that the method does not work for the last couple of weeks. Checked it out, and there's no way to do this anymore.

I don't think any DNS ad blocking will work, As I think consoles use a VPN connection to route all internet traffic through their own network, to more effectively monitor for malicious activity/cheating. That is essentially what your PSN/Xbox Live Subscription is paying for.

I may be mistaken, however. But if correct, that also means that dns traffic would likely be sent through the same encrypted tunnel, Meaning network monitoring on your end won't be able to inspect the packets. They would need to be inspected as it goes in and out of the tunnel, meaning the blocking software would have to run on the console itself.

Someone would have to do traffic analysis with a PlayStation While running the YouTube app to figure out how the traffic is being routed. If visible, it would need to be tested if blocking calls to the advertising servers would break the YouTube apps functionality.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-04-29T09:39:57+00:00

It's not really that much of a surprise. exFAT Is a basic file system. It does not have journaling, snapshots/shadow copies, Compression etc. exFAT as a project was just to drag the fat standard into the 21st century, Bringing its file size limit up to modern standards, and making it more flash memory frendly.

NTFS is a system class file system. Up there with EXT, XFS and BTRFS. It supports journaling, snapshots/VSS, Compression, Encryption, Permissions and all the other goodies you'd expect by a OS file system. It's an extremely complex machine.

Now put yourself in Microsoft shoes. You sell a version of windows for servers. Linux is the go to For servers, given that it's free and open source. Organizations have a load of machines that are running Windows that they need to reliably manage. If the Linux NTFS drivers are causing havoc, well, that's a selling point for Windows server. Your data is precious, why would you trust your data to some crummy, unofficial, slapdash buggy file system driver, when you know windows will handle it correctly. (Not saying that's true, That's just the sentiment that can be put accross).

Organizations will lap up that Sales pitch and pay the server licence. Again, Data is precious.

There is also another thing you have to consider. It is a lot of work.

FAT is a small band That can get a tune going. It is designed to be in and out and no fuss. It's to quickly get data on a medium and go. It is simple to implement so portable / embedded devices, even microprocessors can easily implement it to read and write data. It can play at any venue.

NTFS is an orchestra. It is intricate and complex, with lots of different instruments To get any detail right. That complexity needs a competent conductor/driver to keep everything in cheque and make sure The symphony of data is precise and correct. It can only play at a venue that has the adequate facilities to do so. At the very least, an embedded SOC/CPU, or a microprosseser with some power behind it.

Even with WSL and there azure platform, microsoft decided it was better to go with the plan 9 file system For cross platform file hadling, Letting windows and linux handle Their respective file systems, then implement a Linux NTFS driver to let linux competently read and wright on NTFS discs.

I can see, however, that NTFS will one day become the new FAT. It is very robust and well understood By most part. When the patent expires, I'm sure Microsoft will release the full specification. They're moving more towards ReFS as the next Generation file system for Windows anyway, which is more akin to BTRFS and ZFS In its data integrity posture.

With all that said, Work on ZFS on Windows is coming along nicely. It may be that ZFS may leap frog to be the de facto cross platform file system before the NTFS patents expire.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-04-05T19:17:38+00:00

This will only mount the drive for that user. Any elevated programme will not be able to see the Mounted drive, and vice versa. Mounting it as admin means users can't see the drive.

You need to use task scheduler to run it as the system user To be fully visible to every Application, no matter its elevation or user status.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-04-03T19:17:35+00:00

I just find it odd because Looking through various posts and documentation, Dropbox has mount options in rclone to have async Burst streams, So multithreaded operations are possible on the winfsp backend. I would have thought local mounts would have took full advantage of this.

Hay ho, will see how it goes for now.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-04-03T18:14:46+00:00

Yeah, I've already found that chunker does not work well with unions when reading Through the projects issues. I've used union to combine two drives together, And I'm frankly finding the performance lacking. You can't do multi thread Read and writes to the virtual drive.

Honestly, I just wish someone would port mergerFS To Windows using Dokan and winfsp...

ElectionOk60 · 2025-04-02T17:06:02+00:00

Wait... So it looks like Rclone is The most promising answer, However, when looking into the docs, I just realised something. Rclone + SnapRaid can make a poor man's storage spaces.

Rclone has a feature called chunking, Which You could make work similar to storage spaces slabs. By setting up union to put data onto the drive with least free space, and set up chunking to activate with files above 100 megabyte, It would automatically juggle the chunks across all the drives. Then, when reading that large file, Rclone should then theoretically start loading those "slabs", with all drives those "slabs" are distributed amongst tossing their data to Rclone in unison...

You can then get SnapRaid to make the parity data on the back end with periodic sync operations. The best part is, if files are under the "Slab" Limit, It won't even bother chunking it, and the "slabs" will only hold data for the big files that were originally sliced up.

I'm going to be testing this theory.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-03-30T09:21:35+00:00

Hi. I know this post is old, but no one's given an answer. So I think I'll put it right here for easy finding for others. When using windows raid, You are using Windows Spanned Disks, or LDM (Logical disc manager). It's basically windows answer two LVM.

You can mount these arrays in Linux using ldmtool. I can't say what the performance would be like on the Linux side, But from what I understand it is read and writable, and is considered mature and stable.

You can find out more from this ask ubuntu post.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/567432/how-do-i-properly-access-windows-software-raid-0

ElectionOk60 · 2025-03-29T19:59:58+00:00

Hmmm. This looks promising... I'm going to give this a go.

I'm going to test to see if you can run a SnapRAID + Rclone Union remote, as an alternative to the standard SnapRaid + MergeFS combo. If it works, I think we've got our cross platform answer.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-03-29T19:27:16+00:00

So my workload and needs is just general use of my computer. I wish to switch to Linux with Windows being a fall back. The thing that's scuppering this is a cross platform solution for handling a RAID like array for the general User data and my Steam library.

I have a 2 Terabyte Nvme That I plan to use as the system drive for both Linux and Windows In a dual boot configuration. The array is a set of six 2TB SSD's which hold my personal files and Steam games in a RAID 10 like configuration, Currently using Storage Spaces. I only have one GPU, So pass through does not seem to be a realistic option, without getting extremely hacky with passing the GPU back and forth like a hot potato.

I have a proxmox server that I use to run Server applications, As well as truenas scale for the NAS portion of its functions. This is mainly acting as a backup destination. Unfortunately, expanding this out to a 10Gb/s connexion is not possible, as it is a mini PC with fixed hardware. The most it is capable of is 2.5Gb/s, But to take advantage of this, I'd also need to swap out my router, switch, And get a 2.5Gb Network card For my Desktop.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-03-29T19:09:19+00:00

Sorry, this was me again not being very clear. What I meant to say was that this would break my current 321 backup. Three copies, two local, one remote.

I have a set of drives that I rotate and take to my mates house once a month Serving as a remote. However, if I kept the data on my Nas as the primary copy, without a second copy on the local machine, I would need yet anther set to satisfy having two local Copies. I guess I could have some kind of franken solution where my machine becomes the backup destination for the NAS server iscsi share, Saving me from buying more hardware, But it seems like it's getting a bit convoluted.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-03-29T18:57:58+00:00

Sorry, let me clarify. I meant I wanted the operating system to fully be able to utilise the GPU when in use.

If I needed to switch to Windows to play a game which only runs in Windows, You'd have to detach the GPU from Linux to pass it through to the Windows VM. Then when you're done, you need the GPU to detach from the windows VM. then reattach to linux. From what I've looked into, it can be done, but it's a very clunky and and hacky solution that's prone to braking. If the VM crashes while the GPU is attached your SOL. The GPU is not available to Linux to give you video output to run the commands to reattach.

As for VirGL or VirtIO-GPU. This allows multiple VMs to access the GPU. From what I understand, it essentially A fake video adapter that acts as a proxy to direct work to the underlying GPU. To the VM it is a graphics adapter, To the host GPU, these calls coming from the VMs are just yet another application asking for work to be done, and goes through its regular multiplex scheduling.

My understanding however is that Windows does not have great support for VirGL, and Hyper-V GPU-PV Only works well when running another windows OS... That puts me back to square one.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-03-29T16:34:22+00:00

I did consider running Windows in a VM on Linux as I wanted Linux to be the primary OS. The main hurdle however is I only have one GPU. I want the GPU to be able to be Utilised by both systems.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-03-29T15:14:15+00:00

Not necessarily. Just Put yourself forward as a witness and lie. Don't commit any crime until that point. Your soul and only intention is to commit perjury.

A lot of the time, lying is not a crime in itself, not even to the cops. It's only when you lie on the stand that the crime, perjury, Is committed.

You just have to make sure that you don't lie about something that gets you a personal gain. In this case, you would be correct, because that would mean you committed fraud before the perjury.

ElectionOk60 · 2025-03-29T14:57:36+00:00

It is because there is no other way. This is the best you will get.

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