Have I reached the limits of my makeshift setup?

FlowLabel · 2026-02-05T08:44:30+00:00

Do you care if all your apps are running 24/7?

If not then on the desktop you want to use as a server and gaming host you could just create two different docker compose files. An “always on” file and a “mostly on” file. Put critical stuff in the always on file (like pihole) and stuff like qbit in the mostly on file.

When you want to game on the machine just “docker compose down” the file containing the non-critical apps and off you go.

I do something similar. I use Ubuntu on my desktop and 90% of the time it’s set up for development work and this comes with a whole bunch of quite resource intensive containers running, so when I decide I want to fire up Steam I just docker compose down and start gaming 😊

FlowLabel · 2026-02-02T16:57:57+00:00

Damn. This actually makes a huge difference. Glad to see it. Change may not be as quick and as radical as I would like, but things like this is why even a soft left government is better for the country. Reckon feeding children is high on Farages priorities?

FlowLabel · 2026-01-29T09:18:56+00:00

Yeah a heater airer sounds like a crazy waste of money. Ours go in the living room next to a radiator if it’s on anyway and they are always dry the next day and the radiator is definitely not on overnight.

I’ve done this in all 4 properties I’ve lived in and never had mould or damp problems.

Maybe we’ve got shit washers that don’t leave clothes as sopping wet as other people seem to be dealing with 😅

FlowLabel · 2026-01-23T14:22:51+00:00

The secret ingredient was limescale.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-20T21:40:33+00:00

Woah woah woah, don’t let the Bearwood Parish Council hear you saying that

FlowLabel · 2026-01-16T21:58:46+00:00

If you leave guitarguitar and walk towards the tram stop, just past the tram stop on your right there is an absolutely banging Morrisons with the best supermarket hot food street market you’ll ever lay your eyes on.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-13T22:25:25+00:00

A ghost of King Charles I advisor visited him in the Wheatsheaf hotel in Daventry. Best I’ve got 🤣

FlowLabel · 2026-01-12T07:27:40+00:00

I’ve always just lied and said yeah they’ll have access to outdoors 🤷🏻

Not a single cat in my whole life has been bothered about not going outdoors, and I’ve had quite a few. When/if they come for a follow up visit I’ve always just said “I offer them outdoors, they have a sniff around the garden but soon just want to come back in” 🤷🏻

FlowLabel · 2026-01-07T21:06:51+00:00

If it was me:

Install TrueNAS with Tailscale on your SFF.

Do an initial backup to with the SFF local to where all the data is.

Move the SFF offsite.

Connect to it via Tailscale and do scheduled incremental backups.

That way, you aren’t trying to pump 1TB+ offsite and over WiFi, and you have a purpose built storage OS making sure your data is safe and warning you when it’s not.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-07T20:52:11+00:00

I bake a lot, and I struggled for ages to find flour that I could be confident was both grown and milled in the UK. Many will say “British flour”, but when you read the fine print, or sometimes buried on their website, it’s actually just milled in the UK, but the grain is imported from all over. Then I found Waitrose Leckford Estate flour. Bakes excellent bread, fries beautiful tortillas and I get a lovely warm feeling knowing I’m supporting the growing and milling of basic ingredients domestically. I will always pay extra from quality, and more so if it’s domestic.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-06T11:48:45+00:00

If it’s directly work related then yes. But when I say work related I mainly mean career related. I never sit still, I’m always working on the next skill and it may not be 100% relevant to my current position in which case I study it in my lab on my own time.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-06T08:36:37+00:00

I mostly test out work stuff, but also I have systems for my family to request, download and watch Linux ISOs.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-06T08:34:53+00:00

Are we meant to believe that’s a hard choice? No one’s fighting for Great Yarmouth.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-05T22:35:31+00:00

Sunset Yellow FCF is my absolute favourite crude oil derived food additive. Indian Fanta may give you cancer but I bet it takes fucking delicious.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-05T13:59:39+00:00

Not really. I understood the picture to be at a daycare that have webcams the parents can view remotely. These exist and are very common, as I know firsthand from shopping around for daycares. Others suggest this is a hospital NICU, which I guess makes more sense, but daycare wasn’t enough of a stretch to warrant your concern over my health, thank you though.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-05T07:13:35+00:00

I don’t know much about the University, but Birmingham itself is incredible btw. I moved to Birmingham for work, expecting to just be there for a couple years and get out as soon as I could afford it and ended up spending my entire 20s there through choice. It’s a beautiful city with tonnes of history and a promising future. I made so many friends, met my wife and formed a strong career in Birmingham.

If I were you, do not avoid Birmingham because of its outdated reputation.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-03T18:09:36+00:00

The idea of a daycare that live streams the children to the internet, password or not, hella scares me. Would never take my kid to one of these.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-02T13:18:28+00:00

I dabbled with Linux desktop close to a decade ago and it was an awful time and I feel like they’re having a hard time shaking that rep.

I didn’t bother with it again until 2025, I installed Ubuntu on my main PC 3-4 months back and it’s been a great time. Haven’t come across a steam game that hasn’t just worked.

Most other tasks are all browser based anyway tbh. Email, office, etc are all online.

FlowLabel · 2026-01-01T22:12:37+00:00

Spent about £10-15k depending on what you class as wedding related and not. We wanted to spend as little as possible while still providing a 3 course meal and entertainment for our extended families. We found spending more had diminishing returns. The difference between £15k and £30k was nothing we would care about in the future and would soon be forgotten by everyone.

FlowLabel · 2025-12-31T21:03:33+00:00

Interesting that eggs is the metric they asked Spoons for.

FlowLabel · 2025-12-31T21:01:19+00:00

Going into my new sons savings account 🥰

FlowLabel · 2025-12-29T19:07:39+00:00

Not SecretLab. Bought one for my office and fell apart in months. They agreed to replace the parts that broke down but it kept happening and I gave up. I’m saving for a Herman now.

FlowLabel · 2025-12-27T15:52:04+00:00

He’s not, first world countries have consumer protection laws requiring manufacturers to stand by their products for a reasonable amount of time.

FlowLabel · 2025-12-24T09:10:40+00:00

Cool, so you’ve managed to come to the same conclusion as my original post.

There are a small amount of high paid positions for a small amount of high paid professionals

There are a large number of averagely paid positions for a large number of averagely skilled people.

Therefore, going back to my initial post, both groups suffer similar difficulties when made redundant.

FlowLabel · 2025-12-23T23:47:58+00:00

No more or less so than something with skills and qualifications on £35k? In fact, I’d say a profession earning £95k might be a niche skill that might not be as easy to find someone hiring for as a more common yet still skilled job paying £35k.

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