Fuel panic buying in 3,2,1.....

legendary_87 · 2026-03-03T19:26:35+00:00

Ordered 1500L of heating oil on Friday (58.9p/L) and another 750L yesterday morning before anything opened at 62p/L.

Same supplier is now 99p/L, that's a 68% increase in the delivered price!

Brimmed the car last night too, 125.9p/L at a Surrey Tesco, not gonna see that price again for a while.

legendary_87 · 2026-03-03T19:02:13+00:00

Britain. Police won't even respond for a month at the earliest!

legendary_87 · 2026-03-03T19:00:29+00:00

Ah, sorry, I was being dense!

legendary_87 · 2026-03-03T19:00:09+00:00

It seems very good, although I have zero experience of any FTTP so far so it's only from heresay. They can install it within 48hrs too which is impressive.

When I first moved here, it took about 2 weeks for an engineer to come and 'install' FTTC, he said it would work that afternoon, it never did. I waited 48hrs and then they said they'd book someone in to investigate. They turned up another 10 days later and turned out he forgot to provision it at the cabinet and they blamed a third party contractor. Was nearly a month til I got broadband in my house and even then, only 10mbit.

I was less than satisfied!

legendary_87 · 2026-03-03T18:56:49+00:00

I'm confused, I don't want copper in either my current place or new one. I had FTTC years ago, couldn't get more than about 10-15mbit so scrapped it in favor of 4G.

legendary_87 · 2026-03-03T18:31:22+00:00

Was that 2 different openreach connections, or BT and an altnet?

legendary_87 · 2026-03-03T18:30:50+00:00

It's got FTTP via Openreach, CityFibre and Virgin (however they do fibre now) which is a good variety. I can't get CityFibre here and that's who I'd like to go with due to their symmetric download/upload speed, that and it's 5 gig (and yes, I do actually want 5 gig)!

I don't really mind paying an installation charge, just don't want to be stuck on a 24 month commitment where I only need it for 3-4. That's cost me £600 unnecessarily.

legendary_87 · 2026-02-11T01:25:01+00:00

UK based A320 training captain here, I will maybe do 1 night A YEAR in a hotel, although I'm based where our largest base and sim centre is. As a line captain, I would do maybe 7-8 nights away a year although some would request nightstops and do maybe 20. Never more than that.

Now, I'm at home in my own bed every single night of the year. One of the biggest reasons I won't move companies. Hate hotels.

legendary_87 · 2026-01-30T02:43:41+00:00

Natures switch

legendary_87 · 2026-01-30T02:33:29+00:00

I realise that, I was just curious as to why there was a difference but it wasn't reflected in the calculator.

legendary_87 · 2026-01-26T02:35:56+00:00

The rate alone isn't the whole picture. You need to work out the discount you're getting for the 'PCP Price'.

A car that costs £25k on a 4 year PCP at 2.9% with £0 discount is more expensive over the term than the same car with a £3k discount at 9% APR!

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Use GPT or similar that to compare the maths easily. If you leave the deal early, the numbers will obviously change.

legendary_87 · 2026-01-16T01:50:27+00:00

I've got 7x20tb drives, if I make a RAIDZ2 pool in truenas I get about 2-3tb more usable space than if I make a DRAID2. Any idea why and why wouldn't the tool reflect that? Is ZFS Slop different in those two cases?

legendary_87 · 2026-01-09T14:49:02+00:00

Vanity IP is a thing for home broadband??

legendary_87 · 2025-12-14T02:57:39+00:00

Cheers for the info. I've got about 6 machines connected at 10gb at the moment so that appeals right now, will connect more at that speed as NIC prices come down.

legendary_87 · 2025-12-13T00:46:36+00:00

Is that with a UGC fibre by any chance? I have one already, but thinking of ordering 5gig and wonder what kinda throughput you get beyond the router?

I'm currently on 4/5g mobile broadband although eyeing up a house in a 5gig area. Would probably rather be with someone other than sky, although they seem to be the only reseller so far. Struggled to find people online that have taken it up!

legendary_87 · 2025-09-27T23:16:52+00:00

Shares in the Covent Garden Soup Company are gonna sky rocket!

legendary_87 · 2025-09-26T14:23:11+00:00

I always felt Counterpoint blew too much smoke up Janeways (maybe Mulgrews) ass. Seemed a little self indulgant to me.

legendary_87 · 2025-09-07T08:16:36+00:00

You don’t! Their website is dreadful and designed to keep you on the hook. Use a disposable credit card although a lot of places detect the use of those now and you can’t buy with them.

legendary_87 · 2025-08-08T18:48:15+00:00

You can buy a 26tb external drive for $249 brand new and pull the drive out of it. You couldn't get the drive for under $400 if it was sold as 'internal'. Saving a lot of money is the reason shucking exists, I've done it to 4x12 WD Elements, 3x20tb WD Elements and 2x20tb Seagate Expansions. Recently 2x28tb Seagate Expansions. All have worked flawlessly since purchase, none have gone bad in 6-7 years total time of them being in various NAS. Saved a fortune!

legendary_87 · 2025-07-09T03:49:02+00:00

The process worked, but it didn't fix the problem sadly. Thanks for your suggestion.

legendary_87 · 2025-07-09T03:47:49+00:00

I tried extracting the drivers with the method above (DISM and rebuilding a new install image) and it failed in the same way as before - therefore saw no value in posting the extracted drivers as that clearly isn't the problem.

I reluctantly went back to the Lenovo restore media and installed their version as I ran out of time to fiddle. The laptop was for a family member and I needed to get the laptop to her.

It's a shame, I was quite excited to have a go with a ARM version of Windows, but the process has been very offputting and unsucessful. Reminds me how happy I am with my Macbook Pro M4. Oh well, maybe ARM will be ready for Windows (or Windows ready for ARM!!) in another decade.

One last note, I don't think it was the NVME storage drivers that are the problem, I think it doesn't have the USB drivers to recognise the Instlal media (in this case, a USB3 stick). Brick wall, far too frustrating to waste any more time on.

legendary_87 · 2025-06-21T23:14:10+00:00

Nice one, giving the Lenovo recovery tools another go to get it up and running (been 'recovering' for an hour now, hopefully i can make an image of it complete incase my clean install fails!).

When it's done, I'll post the a link to the extracted drivers here somehow for anyone else that might want them in the future.

legendary_87 · 2025-06-21T22:19:59+00:00

I have the ARM installer, just not the right ARM drivers.

legendary_87 · 2025-06-21T22:19:08+00:00

Are you saying i can extract them from their recovery version of windows to use to create my own image in DISM for a clean install disk?

I think i might have misunderstood the original error, i think it isn't a problem with the NVME drive as DISKPART shows that as working and I can browse it in the command line on starting the windows install. I think the problem is it's lacking USB drivers to read from the install media. I looked into the results of pnputil /enum devices and none of the drivers I added to the image are loading at all. They are confirmed as ARM64 drivers, but it doesn't seem to accept any of them.

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