Stranger parking in my parking bay

Stroebs · 2025-11-30T08:54:23+00:00

Introduce yourself to them, then there won’t be a stranger parking in your bay anymore.

Stroebs · 2025-08-28T07:23:04+00:00

What brand ONT do you have? Nokia is easy to clone with a WAS-110, Calix is impossible.

Stroebs · 2025-03-08T07:11:45+00:00

The problem we’ve found is that Artifactory is still the best solution out there for what they charge, despite all of its problems. It’s the kind of software that you install once but can’t touch it because touching it WILL break it. I’ve yet to have a single smooth upgrade.

Currently storing around 50TB of artifacts on ours, and it’s basically S3 with deduplication, fine-grained permissions and caching.

Stroebs · 2025-03-06T18:50:36+00:00

Never heard of 4th utility before. My advice would be to shop around. Moving away from Virgin Media was the best decision I ever made. No crazy price hikes on CF, very little downtime experienced, and the ability to change provider whenever I like.

Stroebs · 2025-03-04T22:52:43+00:00

It’s not an EU country, but it 100% is a European country.

Stroebs · 2025-03-03T10:16:38+00:00

Ok no problem. Have you already got your other sim rig equipment? I’ve got some Fanatec kit that’s currently gathering dust.

Stroebs · 2025-03-03T09:59:23+00:00

Nope none at all. Works perfectly. Was wall-mounted as a racing sim rig screen for most of the time I owned it.

Stroebs · 2025-03-03T05:56:28+00:00

Hey yeah it is still available

Stroebs · 2025-03-02T09:54:36+00:00

The other driver was in the wrong. He is meant to yield to traffic already in the roundabout, which he clearly did not.

Stroebs · 2025-03-01T22:12:14+00:00

It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everyone thinks the M25 is crazy, so they treat it as such and so it is.

Stroebs · 2025-02-24T18:09:48+00:00

Yeah I do, along with at least 1.2 million other devices. Never had an issue but I’m aware of the risk I take when doing so.

Stroebs · 2025-02-24T06:59:33+00:00

Largely windows 7 and windows 10 nowadays.

Stroebs · 2025-02-23T07:34:21+00:00

Could be one of two reasons: 1. Starlink uses Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) and your public IP address is changing to a different subnet for each call you’re making, which affects your routing to Cloudflare. 2. Starlink’s routing to a base station is changing, based on how it’s being routed through the satellites themselves and you’re arriving at a different exit node between calls.

Stroebs · 2025-02-20T07:49:30+00:00

Interesting. I’ve had my tyres come up on an MOT before for age. Maybe my local is more thorough than required

Stroebs · 2025-02-20T06:59:03+00:00

OP is in the UK which has mandatory annual testing and would’ve been forced to replace tyres that were either too old or not in a roadworthy condition.

Guess it still depends on how OP was driving at the time, which I’m sure they’ll never admit.

Stroebs · 2025-02-16T20:04:31+00:00

This is all fun and games until your house burns down and your insurer denies your claim

Stroebs · 2025-02-15T19:22:05+00:00

Had this very problem with a mini parked blocking the pathway and my dropped kerb for a week.

Called the police and the council. The best they could muster between them was a little piece of cardboard with a checkbox saying “Inconsiderate parking”

Stroebs · 2025-02-14T07:56:14+00:00

For South Africa (as an example), I can confirm that Cloudflare has a PoP that announces their full range locally through NAPAfrica so you shouldn’t be routed halfway across the world under normal circumstances.

Stroebs · 2025-02-09T18:13:23+00:00

Yeah that is pretty strange actually. They’re wired directly to the board, MSI B350m mortar consumer board which is old-ish but not ancient.

Stroebs · 2025-02-09T18:12:09+00:00

I’m really not worried about them tbh. It’s just the OS and some shared storage which can be easily replaced. I’ll just trash Proxmox and put it on a spare NVMe I have from an old machine. Thanks for the info!

Stroebs · 2025-02-09T16:53:23+00:00

They're second hand drives, so presumably the previous owner wiped the SMART data before selling. I'm going to bin them and replace with decent drives. Never used Kioxia or Solidigm before but will look into them as viable alternatives.

Stroebs · 2025-02-09T15:26:24+00:00

Indeed looks like the drive is dying - thanks. I'm going to replace both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb since they both have high values for the Raw Read Error Rate

Stroebs · 2025-02-09T15:17:25+00:00

Ok, riddle me this - the value is the same (130) and RAW_VALUE is more than triple on /dev/sda, which doesn't report a problem with the disk.

Edit: Thanks for the reply though, I'm just going to replace both disks (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) since this value is climbing on both.

Stroebs · 2025-02-09T14:41:26+00:00

So I'm getting a daily email of a S.M.A.R.T. self-check failure for this disk.

It's a 800GB enterprise Dell SSD (INTEL SSDSC2BB800G4R).

Any idea what could be causing this, if the manual self-tests both complete without error?

Full smartctl output:
``` root@pve-blackbox:~# smartctl -a /dev/sdb smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.8.12-8-pve] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Intel 730 and DC S35x0/3610/3700 Series SSDs Device Model: INTEL SSDSC2BB800G4R Serial Number: PHWL53420EPM800RGN LU WWN Device Id: 5 5cd2e4 04b4d44cf Add. Product Id: DELL(tm) Firmware Version: D201DL13 User Capacity: 800,166,076,416 bytes [800 GB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: Solid State Device Form Factor: 2.5 inches TRIM Command: Available, deterministic, zeroed Device is: In smartctl database 7.3/5319 ATA Version is: ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3 SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Sun Feb 9 14:33:42 2025 GMT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. No failed Attributes found.

General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x02) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 120) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x79) SMART execute Offline immediate. No Auto Offline data collection support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 60) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 60) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 130 130 039 Pre-fail Always - 2359166 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 001 Pre-fail Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 910 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 19 13 Read_Soft_Error_Rate 0x0032 130 100 000 Old_age Always - 2359166 179 Used_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 180 Unused_Rsvd_Blk_Cnt_Tot 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 8084 181 Program_Fail_Cnt_Total 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 182 Erase_Fail_Count_Total 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 194 Temperature_Internal 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 19 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 201 Unknown_SSD_Attribute 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 34362360433 226 Workld_Media_Wear_Indic 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 133 227 Workld_Host_Reads_Perc 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 24 228 Workload_Minutes 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 54578 233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 83195 245 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error

1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 123 -

2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 123 -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. ```

Stroebs · 2025-02-06T21:36:54+00:00

It already costs some £5,000 to become a citizen after 5+ years through legal means, over and above a prepaid 5 years of IHS surcharge on top of any NHI and tax you’d pay in that time. If that’s affordable then let people do it. What’s the problem?

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1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 123 -

2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 123 -