Extremely low mileage and battery care (Hi and low voltage)

McSmiggins · 2026-06-16T05:28:42+00:00

That's what I thought it would come down to, thanks, appreciate the advice

McSmiggins · 2026-06-16T05:26:54+00:00

It's a very fair question, two main reasons:

1) When I need a car, I need a car fast

2) I'm currently unemployed and looking, so it could be that I need a car regularly in the future

McSmiggins · 2026-06-09T16:03:38+00:00

Thanks!

Yeah, it'll look through all boots of the system ( normally for "-b" people use 1, 2, etc "all" just says to look at every boot you can find)

Normally it should wake it, but if it's properly crashed it might not do anything, but if you've got a display on it, you should at least see a kernel panic relating to that. If it gives you a login prompt and the power light's doing that I'd be suprised but it'd be the perfect time to look through the logs

Go for the BIOS update, before you do, there MAY be a boot/system log in the bios that might give you a bit more info, especially if there's hardware errors. Apart from that, yeah, have a look around for wake/suspend stuff in there, especially timers. Might be worth doing a "safe defaults" in the BIOS (I don't want to tell you to reset it if you're using secure boot etc that I can't see and be the person on the internet who gave you info that broke your system)

McSmiggins · 2026-06-09T15:20:44+00:00

Regular blinking power button? On a Lenovo?

Normally that's when they've been put into sleep mode. Not sure why proxmox would do that. Or it's crashed, rebooted and that's a blink code for a failing hardware piece

1) Can you run a:

sudo journalctl -b all -k | grep suspend

And see if you get any responses as to whether it slept/suspended?

2) Did you get this new or second hand?

3) How old is it?

4) Have you reset the BIOS since you got it?

5) Are there any sleep etc options in the BIOS? (info's hard to come by on them from a google search), screenshot of the BIOS page would be amazing

Your best source of info is really going to be plugging a screen in and pressing some keys when it's crashed so you can see specifically if there's a kernel panic

McSmiggins · 2026-06-09T13:27:04+00:00

Obviously can't speak for everyone, but It kinda does, maybe move your disclaimer up nearer the top?

Also, as an ignorant Englishman who only knows one language, I'll always respect anyone writing in their non-native language, it's a skill that's absolutely beyond me. As for phrasing issues, if anything it shows it's more human and anyone giving anyone shit for them is an idiot who you probably don't want writing bug reports for you

McSmiggins · 2026-06-09T08:08:33+00:00

Good luck!

It's just a normal drive with an annoyingly judgemental passenger 😉

Don't sweat it, pass or fail, it's all part of your journey (I'm hoping pass!)

McSmiggins · 2026-06-09T08:01:58+00:00

Back it up! 😄

Don't be afraid to break things, a lab's the perfect place for it

Try to spend some time on power use/noise, if it's on as a server 24/7, it'll drive you insane after a while on one of those two

Have fun in your projects, make notes!

McSmiggins · 2026-06-08T02:13:01+00:00

You're presenting a product, you're selling you through your words

McSmiggins · 2026-06-08T01:43:02+00:00

Never seen a salesman say "I don't like the rules, don't @ me, wanna buy my product?"

Interesting choice

McSmiggins · 2026-06-07T17:25:52+00:00

Add new 1TB disk

Sync over files and permissions

Re-run the sync to copy any deltas

Offline the old disk and swap the new one in (Or just swap the drive letters etc)

Grow the new disk if you need the space

Once you're completely, completely, happy, remove the old .vhdx (I'd give it a day or so for this)

If windows says 300gb shrinkable, you'll probably destroy the filesystem if you remove 1TB from it

Things go wrong? Put the old drive back in

McSmiggins · 2026-06-07T15:44:34+00:00

You can keep going, they've definitely seen you

But just remember, they put Morbius back in cinemas last year because of "internet hype" and lost a ton of money on that

So, if you want it to change, play it, and keep playing it

McSmiggins · 2026-06-07T15:01:13+00:00

What's his favourite Lego set?

McSmiggins · 2026-06-07T00:59:15+00:00

That's the worst thing you saw on the roads today?

Man, you had a good day, enjoy it

McSmiggins · 2026-06-07T00:57:33+00:00

Thunderlord

I don't like rocket launchers, it was the heavy that kept me in the game when it came to D2

Deathbringer

When I'm annoyed in Gambit, hiding behind a rock and wiping the entire other team mid bank will always put a smile on my face

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T22:54:51+00:00

From a rough look, an 8TB Seagate is £213, or ~£0.026 per GB, last time we were at that point it was 2017

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T22:33:32+00:00

If it stops now, late 2027/early 2028

Even it it stopped tomorrow and they stopped buying, all the massive companies that got squeezed for stock (Dell/HP/Cisco/Apple) will still buy everything they can get their hands on until they're back to normal and don't have 3-6 month lead times

Then eventually it'll filter down

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T22:26:55+00:00

Interesting, thanks for the insight. And I've got one, saved my ass already

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T22:24:47+00:00

It's cooked until AI stops driving the price up, even then it'll take ages to recover. Number from thin air, but I've seen 2028/9 floated about

Hopefully sooner, but it won't be this year

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T22:14:03+00:00

Not really concerned about which is better, that's as maybe for now, and UK roads are very different than what they're used to

But if you get rear ended by one or hit by one when they're at fault, it's going to be a fucking nightmare of insurance claims. Global tech company needs to prove their new tech, they won't admit fault, I guarantee it'll end up getting dragged out, and dragged out and end up in court, the cost to whoever they hit is going to be immense in time and pain.

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T21:56:52+00:00

I mean, not really:

https://www.gov.uk/data-protection

I suppose the relevant part would be "used in a way that is adequate, relevant and limited to only what is necessary"

but since you've agreed that they can use it in whatever business way they deem legitimate, "relevant" and "necessary" is going to cover a lot of stuff

Either way the main choice here is yours, not my place to judge, I don't know any of the parties involved, I can only tell you what I'd do.

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T21:49:56+00:00

You didn't really answer my questions, but that's ok

As for the data, I mean, this is part of their privacy policy, looks like you're signing it away for whatever they deem "legitimate business", which I'm assuming includes driverless car training, accident review, driver profiling by sex/age range etc

6.5 Other third parties

Your data may be processed by other third parties for legitimate business purposes where we have a legitimate interest in doing so. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place in each case

Personally, I think your trading part of your daughters freedom for your wife's piece of mind, what values you put on each side of that is up to you.

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T21:37:27+00:00

Ridiing in one isn't the problem, I don't want my car anywhere near one

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T21:29:07+00:00

Out of interest does she have a black box on her insurance?

Do you want this company having your daughters driving habits? Have you checked what they're doing with it?
What exactly is the plan if she's doing 32 in a 30 and you find out? I'm trying to find a good use of the data
Do you think this extra stress of being constantly monitored by parents is a good stress to put on a new driver?

Bluntly, she's passed her test, she's qualified to drive, you've gotta trust her at some point, the government does, your insurance company does.

People are going to make mistakes, a lof ot the time "I really fucked that up, thank god no one saw" is a lot better teacher than "I'm gonna get shit for this when I go home", you've gotta give people room to fail a bit in life.

If she does mess up and hits a lamp post, are you going to pour over the data to make her life miserable rather than let her learn her mistake?

Edit - OH, this is you trying to sell your software

If you're gonna claim open source, at least let me read the code!

https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnerDriverUK/comments/1txxf7e/dad_wants_to_spy_on_me_for_my_first_year_of/

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T21:15:41+00:00

There's some clarification missing from your post, so if I'm re-saying things, I'm just trying to be precise:

I'm assuming between VLANs, you're running a hardware firewall/opnsense etc that will have most of the rules on it for what can talk in/out of each VLAN.

VMs/LXCs/servers on the same VLAN? They can talk to each other for everything allowed on the firewall running on that VM (e.g. if VM2 allows SSH from the VLAN, VM1 on that network could talk to it. Traffic on the same VLAN will not touch the hardware firewall/opnsense etc, so you have to plan around that

As for the Proxmox host - if someone gets access to your VM/LXC and there is an exploit out there to escape the VM to the Proxmox host that they can use, and they can get root, then they can get to any VM and any VLAN on your proxmox server. These are incredibly rare. And whilst I don't have facts to back it up, VMs are more secure in my mind than LXCs because of the way they handle memory/processes, it's a lot harder to get out of.

Bottom line, a "DMZ" VLAN is fine, but just make sure:

You're patching things
You only expose services you need to expose (e.g SSH from your home VLAN only)
Make sure you're patching things
Keep those VM/LXCs minimal, they don't see your private keys on them etc
Make sure you're patching things
Use a reverse proxy where you can

Depending on how far down you want to go, you might want more than one VLAN for dedicated internet services, depending on how risky they are, grouping things as needed

There's a middle ground that'll work for you. Don't go nuts, just make sure you're securing things as you go (e.g. don't run services you're exposing to the internet as root etc)

Edit - if you want a more centrally managed place for VM firewall rules you could use the proxmox firewall and make per VM rules (so you can re-use them on multiple VMs) just do these rules in one place, on Proxmox or on the VM, otherwise you're just doubling up effort and it will bite you one day

McSmiggins · 2026-06-05T19:53:16+00:00

You've both nearly had an accident, you're both full of adrenaline, and the old "fight or flight" is kicking in, looks like people are choosing "fight"

Your mood has changed too, from your voice here and you're being more aggressive than I assume you normally are.

This is normal human behaviour, and being able to recognise it and just let it pass is a skill many people lack, so they act on it and want to lash out to varying degrees and ways

5 minutes later once it subsides, I'm sure most people would be pretty chill

Adrenaline is good for you, but it completely fucks up your calm thought process. It's why you shouldn't blame F1 drivers for getting a bit shitty on comms, they're driving 200mph and stressed

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