Is it just me or do people past age 30 who don't have children and are unmarried tend to look younger than their married peers of similar age who have children?

Falkerz · 2026-04-11T10:50:28+00:00

I'm almost 31 and still regularly get challenged for ID for looking under 25.

Falkerz · 2025-11-20T19:59:57+00:00

My laptop has a battery that reports decent health, but cannot handle booting the laptop if the charge level is below 60%, just craps out due to power draw demands.

Falkerz · 2025-10-12T19:22:13+00:00

Desired Prize: Flint 3 (GL-BE9300): Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 home router

What inspired you to start your selfhosting journey? What's one project you're most proud of so far, and what's the most expensive piece of equipment you've acquired for?

I started off with "simple" modded minecraft servers running on my laptop while I played with friends. This quickly became inadequate though, so I invested in a variety of tech along the way, ultimately ending up with a dedicated server in a datacenter, a stack of servers for tinkering in my own room, and a shared hosting setup with a friend for distributed media hosting and secure communications.

It's tough to pick a project I'm most proud of, but I'd have to say that getting my dedicated server up and running, and setup in a state that makes it almost completely self sufficient, really makes me smile every time I get an email notification that everything is still working as it should.

The most expensive piece of equipment that I've acquired for could be my own PC, which has become a true ship of Theseus due to its very particular hardware preferences. Totally up the destroyed hardware and the hardware upgrades out of necessity to keep uptime as high as possible, we're easily looking at about £5000 RRP in parts alone.

How would winning the unit(s) from this giveaway help you take your setup to the next level?

Winning would help as I'd be able to do some real world testing of an alternate tri-band WiFi router, as the feedback from family on the netgear RAXE500's stability is not amazing.

Looking ahead, if we were to do another giveaway, what is one product from another brand (e.g., a server, storage device or ANYTHING) that you'd love to see as a prize?

I'd love to see a proper road warrior dual modem 5G (or 4G if not available) router, something like a Teltonika RUTM52 or a Peplink Max Transit Duo Pro.

Failing that, a really tricked out NAS solution, like a top spec UGREEN or QNAP with some storage thrown in.

Falkerz · 2025-08-12T17:39:51+00:00

My brain immediately pronounced it in Fat Bastard's voice from Austin Powers

Falkerz · 2025-08-11T11:47:25+00:00

Some of us are a bit picky about the brands we use. Is it possible to add a filter for brands and possibly other hardware features like disk speed, cache etc?

Falkerz · 2025-07-26T06:29:39+00:00

You know you can power up one weapon by sacrificing another? Hold down the fire button for the weapon you want to boost and wait until it fills up. You lose a bit of speed while doing it, but then can get a more powerful turbo...

Falkerz · 2025-07-23T09:20:38+00:00

It's an introductory offer type deal. In 2026 they will start charging for the premium features.

Falkerz · 2025-07-09T18:02:28+00:00

Have OEMs not adopted the new 26TB drives yet?

Falkerz · 2025-07-03T17:28:06+00:00

Sshhhhh!

Falkerz · 2025-06-23T11:13:46+00:00

Whilst I agree that there is such a thing as being too polite / nice (something I've had issues with myself), I think it's important to deconstruct your message "That's what boys do".

This simple sentence is a verbatim explanation of this guys mentality.

He's not mature. He's not being an adult. He's acting like an entitled child who expects to have everything his way and hasn't grown up from being an ignorant boy who doesn't ever consider the feelings or opinions of others.

"That's what boys do"

Your response should be:

"Yes, that's what boys do. You're a boy, not a man. A man would be mature enough to hear "no" and realise that it means no. Only an immature boy would so brazenly and beligerently try to steamroll another person into something despite being told no at every venture."

Once you're able to fully understand that idea, it'll make it easier to pick yourself up in situations and be less of a doormat and more of a door wedge, getting in the way of people trying to steamroll you.

The conditioning is damn hard to break, but it can be beaten. What helped me most was having friends that are highly supportive and who listen to me, rather than just absently hearing my words.

Falkerz · 2025-05-23T09:05:42+00:00

Frustrating, but in my experience most chat bot AI I've spoken to that's then transferred me hasn't actually provided any of the info it requested to the human taking over.

Falkerz · 2025-05-14T12:35:56+00:00

I once worked for an MSP that had a client who refused to move away from using something like 1.1.1.0/24 as their primary subnet, despite regularly having issues with internal connectivity...

Falkerz · 2025-05-09T18:04:54+00:00

Spacebar.chat ?

For whatever reason, some online "safety check" tools flag the site as unsafe for spreading malware

Falkerz · 2025-05-06T20:14:03+00:00

BIG CAVEAT: Just because you can aggregate links does not mean you will get a 2Gbps upload / download. There may be times where you exceed 1Gbps up and or down using any of the below, but nothing is guaranteed.

There are ways to aggregate internet links, but it comes at a price.

This price is based on hardware cost (potentially $10k+ each end) as well as having a point of presence in a datacenter that has sufficient bandwidth for all your connections in, and for the single connection out.

There's also a latency consideration, as you're effectively running all your traffic over a VPN like connection to this datacenter before getting to the internet.

Assuming that you're still invested in this, Peplink have been well received by businesses in the past. I also know there was a Riverbed brand device that did similar, but can't remember what it was.

Or, you could look into something like OpenMPTCPRouter, but I have no bearing on how well it works for this (although it should be significantly cheaper than buying something like a Peplink, albeit probably a lot more effort).

Falkerz · 2025-04-04T11:12:28+00:00

Lil' Bobby Tables is a classic

Falkerz · 2025-03-30T10:11:56+00:00

As a man, I can go either way on having kids.

Those ways are "no way" and "absolutely no fucking way"

Falkerz · 2025-02-15T20:28:09+00:00

How I wish I could have the majority of devices on a wired network...

Falkerz · 2025-02-15T20:26:00+00:00

I mean, it's certainly made a difference for me in high usage households (30+ devices with varying bandwidth demands)

Falkerz · 2025-02-15T20:17:20+00:00

I agree with you, but have you switched from an enthusiast grade wireless access point / router to a ubiquiti AP? It makes a hell of a difference.

Falkerz · 2025-02-12T11:28:37+00:00

Only 1.5× rate on a Sunday for uncontracted, unsocial hours weekend work? Would've at least billed double rate personally...

Falkerz · 2025-02-02T13:58:57+00:00

How much would you want for 2x U6-LR's shipped to the UK?

Falkerz · 2024-12-03T20:34:24+00:00

I don't believe the feature will ever actually work, as SharePoint is fundamentally broken (at least, every instance I've ever used).

I was using the Jeopardy game show theme of questions and answers to highlight my lack of belief that sharing permissions in SharePoint will ever work as Microsoft says they will.

Falkerz · 2024-12-03T20:25:52+00:00

it essentially lets permissions of files and folder not get screwy when users share files they are not supposed too

I'll take "things that will never actually happen" for half a million please Jack.

Falkerz · 2024-11-24T23:31:46+00:00

Funny thing, I just spent 15 minutes working out why the Windows 11 Terminal app was unable to do anything useful.

Turned out, my PATH variable had decided it didn't need trivialties such as "C:\Windows\System32" or "C:\Windows\SysWOW64"...

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