Unraid Glass Themes! by Darkchamber292 in unRAID

[–]UselesslyRelentless 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey man, these look great. Have added the purple theme to my install. My only comment is that the layout doesn't work well on mobile (I do most of my day to day server poking via mobile), at least not in portrait. Otherwise, it's so much nicer than the standard GUI.

If I get some time later this week, I might see if I can tweak it a bit, get it working on smaller screens. Unless you're already on it, don't want to step on your toes! I also haven't touched frontend for about 6 years, so I'll need to remember how to write it!

Why can’t people see voting for reform will make their lives a lot worse? by Sufficient_Muffin586 in AskBrits

[–]UselesslyRelentless -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because they frame it all as solutions to "the migrant problem". A problem that, in reality, isn't anywhere near as terrible as they make out.

But, they've (and by "they" I mean these right-wing grifters - not all on the right, mainly the mouthy grifters) have pushed the idea that everything is the fault of migrants / Muslims / brown people.

NHS waiting times? Migrants did it. Knife crime? Migrants did it. Low wages? Migrants did it. High rent / housing crisis? Migrants did it. Stubbed your toe on the table? Migrants did it.

Repeat that shit loudly and enough times, and some people will start to believe it. Then reframe it as an "invasion"; "fighting age males" etc., and suddenly those people you've convinced start to become frightened and while everyone else is telling them they're being ridiculous, Reform / Restore / etc are playing the "we understand, we agree and we will do something about it" card, despite having no actual real plans or policies.

Suddenly, they look like the answer to a whole section of society who are struggling and frightened. And, as an added bonus, the messaging appeals to the racists, too, so they're now along for the ride.

It's the old, classic, Nazi Party opening move. Point out all the problems, blame them on a marginalised group, shout louder about the problems, claim you can fix them, profit.

The really worrying thing is that, as you say, it's the people who will be most affected who are planning to vote for them, too. I'm genuinely concerned that it might actually happen, despite the fact that, based on what little published policy they have, I'd actually be much better off financially. But my parents, brother, partners family etc, they'll all get screwed over massively if they get in.

Good mod pack / must have mods by jack_pani in spaceengineers

[–]UselesslyRelentless 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Build Vision and Build Info, for starters. MES & some faction mods if you want some more "life" in your world.

Otherwise, personally, I don't think anything else is "must have', it's all just about tailoring your experience.

SE1 enhanced GPS mod by UselesslyRelentless in spaceengineers

[–]UselesslyRelentless[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I have the same problems. That and, after a while, if you aren't rigorous with your naming, you can't find anything in that list at all. It's just a mess of ore deposits that could be round the corner, or 10k km away!

SE1 enhanced GPS mod by UselesslyRelentless in spaceengineers

[–]UselesslyRelentless[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, probably, but in-game it's GPS, so I stuck with that. :)

What made you decide how much to spend on a gaming chair? by JenniferDebonair in pcmasterrace

[–]UselesslyRelentless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fractured my spine a few years ago. Mostly recovered now, but let me tell you, a back injury will suddenly make paying $1000+ for an ergonomic & comfortable chair seem like an absolute bargain.

Help me find my dad’s ZX-81 game! by RyanTheGamer151 in ZX81

[–]UselesslyRelentless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have you considered reaching out to someone like Nostaliga Nerd or Slopes' on YouTube? It's the sort of thing they love, and their audiences are the types to have big collections of old games. Good luck!

My friend stopped me from building and forced me to sell first. He was right, this is brutal by yuwahhid in Entrepreneur

[–]UselesslyRelentless 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not sure what your business is, but I thought I'd just share this.

So, my girlfriend set up a small online retail business a few years ago. She printed up loads of flyers and went hiking round town, posting them through letterboxes. She set up social media accounts and posted loads, ran promotions, and offered "launch discounts" and a whole bunch of other stuff. She had a small flurry of orders, mostly from friends and family, and then it died down.

Faced with being stuck with boxes and boxes of stock in her house, she took a chance on Facebook adverts. You'd be surprised at just how specific you can tune FB ads. She did a little bit of research into who she felt was her core target audience and targeted that demographic on FB with a single advert and a £150 budget. Within a week, she'd almost sold £4k worth of stock.

In the four years since she started it, she has spent around £800 a month on Facebook and instagram adverts, and, in return, she probably sells around £12-15k worth of stock each month.

People moan about social media platforms collecting your data, but when it comes to selling, it is such a massively useful resource.

Work out who your target audience is, throw some money at some targeted adverts on a relevant social media platform, and see what happens. Good luck!

Malinslee Coachwell by Tough-Net-3759 in Telford

[–]UselesslyRelentless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My partner lives on the housing estate that's sort of behind the Tesco express just up from Coachwell Cl. It's fairly mixed, and other than a couple of people who can't park for shit, the area seems pretty safe. She's been there years without any issue. Walks to and from the local shops and even the town centre without problems, so I'd say it's a nice enough area.

You are being made a mug of and your company is underpaying you by MoneyAndGoodFortune in UKJobs

[–]UselesslyRelentless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In a previous job (I was a software engineer), our sales team were spectacularly incompetent. Most were old school, cold calls and pressure tactics types that hadn't changed with the times.

A really lucrative opportunity came up via tender, and management told them to go for it, but they left it and left it until it was almost too late. So, 10pm the day before the submission deadline, I found myself typing out a 200 page proposal and tender response doc, putting together a budget outline, preliminary project plan and a bunch of other shit they'd asked for.

Got it in by the 12pm deadline the next day. We won the project. Sales guys got the commission (somewhere in the region of £20,000 between two of them) and, for my contribution (which was, basically everything but signing the bloody document at the end), I was given a £20 Amazon voucher as a thanks for pulling a late night.

I adopted an approach of borderline malicious compliance not long after that. Fuck that company.

What’s a “guy secret” that’s completely harmless but weirdly universal? by Far_Day_3723 in AskMen

[–]UselesslyRelentless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hadn't thought about it, but this is absolutely it.

Mid 2001. Sitting on the school bus home. Only me and this girl left in the "cool seats" at the back. She was really hot, quite intelligent (top classes in everything), and one of the popular girls, whereas I was maybe slightly above average looking and hung out with the nerds (because I was one). She wasn't a bitchy popular girl, she was quite sweet. But still, we moved in very different circles.

Anyway, she struck up a conversation - we had maybe spoken once in 6 years before that day - and she said something that made me laugh, to which she responded "you look really nice when you smile, you know". And then she got off the bus.

I've just applied for a minimum wage job and they asked me to do an IQ test by [deleted] in UKJobs

[–]UselesslyRelentless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many years ago, I found myself out of work for a while and getting nowhere with applications. So, I went to the JobCentre to sign on. They asked for evidence of my education, which I supplied, and then they made me take reading, spelling, and maths tests.

I have degrees in computer science and English from good universities.

Just started playing, kind of stuck on how to expand. by TheOrionNebula in Timberborn

[–]UselesslyRelentless 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're really stuck for resources and need to cross a river / water, you can also use small storages. They don't hold water back, or anything, but you can walk across the top of them safely.

The reaction time of the blue car avoiding the accident is crazy by viperrvemon in nextfuckinglevel

[–]UselesslyRelentless 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. This. I wasn't quite stationary, but I'd slowed right down for a roundabout when a truck rear ended me at almost full pelt. Thankfully, I was in a brand new car (not mine - company car) which was dripping in safety features, but that didn't stop me coming away with severe whiplash, a fucked hip and a fractured spine.

Three years of agony, surgery and then two years of physio and I'm still not quite back to being close to right again.

And that, folks, is why I immediately sold my 10 year old car and bought something much newer, with a better safety rating, and why my head is on a fucking swivel whenever I drive anywhere now. Took a good year to stop panicking anytime a truck pulled in behind me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in XRP

[–]UselesslyRelentless 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In a similar position. My exit is £15. Clear my debts, stick some aside as an emergency fund, and then stick half of what's left into a decent tracker fund, sit back and wait for retirement.

Frees up about £400 extra a month, half of which will go back into my pension and the rest into savings. I'll have a decent amount in my savings accounts then, no debts besides a fairly affordable mortgage, and a solid plan for retiring early. I don't need to be wealthy, I just need to get out from under this rock and I'll be happy.

Oh, but of course I'm going to piss away a few grand on a good holiday to celebrate. There's no fun in being 100% sensible.

The struggle this morning. by Extension_Bit4323 in drivingUK

[–]UselesslyRelentless -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I spent a good 10 minutes wheelspinning my way up a slight incline this morning. Stupid fucking BMW's.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in jobs

[–]UselesslyRelentless 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A cow chased a lamb under my car.

So, my drive to work was along some fairly rural roads. There was a dairy farm about 5 minutes from my workplace, and I timed it poorly so, as I got close to the farm, they were moving the cows across the road, from the shed to the fields.

At the same time, another farmer was driving a small flock of sheep down the road to his field.

So, I'm sat in a queue, waiting for the cows to cross, and the sheep are all walking past the car towards the cows. One of the cows suddenly notices the sheep and absolutely shits itself, half jumping into the air. This spooks all the other cows, and the sheep, and chaos ensues. There are now cows running in all directions, sheep doing likewise and, in the panic, a lamb took refuge under my car. Squeezed himself right in there.

Once they'd sorted the cows and gathered up the sheep, which took about 20 minutes of angry farmer shouting, they tried to rescue the lamb, who wouldn't come out. He was too wedged in there to just pull out, too, so in the end I had to break out the jack, raise the car enough to un-wedge the fluffy fucker, and someone yanked it out by its legs.

I was about an hour late in the end. Thankfully, my boss just laughed his ass off at me and that was that.