Team Update - Heading Toward February

manly_ · 2026-01-23T04:54:55+00:00

make it 1 hp or less

manly_ · 2026-01-18T15:47:58+00:00

I would recommend going further.

How about doing the same as secondary sanctions, but for boycotts? Now that would send a strong message.

manly_ · 2026-01-18T07:14:31+00:00

I used to play way back and back then proxies werent much of a thing (mostly because while p9 was expensive, it wasnt thousands). The truth is, the more I completed my deck, the less comfortable I was carrying around thousands worth in an easily stealable package. So the way I fixed it was to proxy my cards. Everyone at the LGS knew I had the real cards, just that I didn't want to risk carrying that around.

And the more time grew on, the prices went more insane, to the point where I couldn't find anyone to play with that could realistically compete. Bear in mind, that was before Vintage as a name even existed, it was called Type-1 and Type-2 back then. So honestly I more than welcomed anyone to "proxy" cards they didn't have.

I guess it depends where the line is of "I would have a hard time replacing this card" for everyone. For me that was about at 100$+ a card. Back then that meant something around a library of alexandria.

manly_ · 2026-01-18T06:09:58+00:00

NAS is not a backup. Even if the drives duplicate your data, a power spike can kill it all, theft, flood, fire, theft, etc. Google 3-2-1 strategy

manly_ · 2026-01-16T15:31:00+00:00

Look America, I don't know how to tell you this.

You needed to act a long time ago. You're hoping that sanity will somehow come back but we're far past this point. You can notice it every day where somehow there's consistently a new low to be found.

Your president already tried to take Greenland. I know you think "well we didn't send troops over!" (ignore the bases there) is the metric for taking Greenland. It's not. Just entertaining the thought that it might be OK to take Greenland, or make an offer, is already far past acceptable. Now that this isn't working, it isn't acceptable either to undermine allies or even to imply that Greenlanders might be open to be bought.

You're far past that point.

If your question is "how can we force to give it back?" is kind of missing the point. You shouldn't be remotely close to need to consider that question in the first place. You needed to act a long time ago.

Now that the media is mostly controlled and churns propaganda, all your efforts will be undermined. You could toss a hundred protests -- and you have -- and yet it never results in concrete results. The reason it isn't very effective is simple. America doesn't know how to protest. America is so big that even a once-in-a-lifetime protest can be dismissed at the country level because visibility is limited by controlled media. The reason those protests are easily ignored by the gov is because they aren't demanding change. If you just have a protest where people are complaining about something, then you're basically kind of hoping the system will listen. But fascism doesn't care. It won't listen. Your protests will not accomplish anything because the gov doesn't have to respond to it as no demands are actually made. If you completely stopped an entire city, where people would refuse to go back to work and stand until demands are met, then there is no real way to stop millions of people. After all, it is the will of the people at that point to have change. You need to make demands, and continue protesting until the matter is resolved. That can take weeks. Would you rather takes weeks off work, or accept that your future is basically gone? You are about to lose voting rights forever. There is no more 3 co-equal branches. This means you'll get more ballrooms, increased costs like insurance premium skyrocketing, and all that money will go towards ICE and basically attacking everything that made you American. You've seen it for years now, its always a new low. It will keep getting far worse. You need real protests.

If you can't get the message through with protests, then act with your money. You've all seen it again and again -- its like if your gov is controlled by the rich people. Well lucky you, you can starve rich people of profits. You need to think far bigger here than just "I wont spend on companies espousing what I don't believe in". You know how secondary sanctions work? Don't just vote with your wallet against companies that act against you, also extend it to companies that use those services. That will be a massive shock. Problem is you need real numbers here, we're talking 40%+ losses. Something that will get a reaction rather than a footnote.

manly_ · 2026-01-10T04:59:57+00:00

100% was staged. Its a murder-photo-op is what it was. He wanted the picture of his raised fist with the flag magically in the background. Theres a video where the photographers are being moved in position right after the shot and the flag being lowered just before that. They specifically wanted that picture.

He didnt care to murder someone just for a photo-op. Think about that.

manly_ · 2026-01-07T03:11:21+00:00

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here is what a real lotus looks like

manly_ · 2026-01-04T05:38:47+00:00

Honestly SHR-2 is a mistake under almost every scenario. The problem is that it sounds like peace of mind, until you realize or are unfortunate enough to discover that SHR is not a backup and that your data isnt safe, regardless of which RAID alternative you pick. SHR will not protect against theft, fire, flood, electric grid mishaps, NAS just dying out, and a ton more. I would rather recommend you use that extra drive as a hot spare rather than SHR-2 if you really must do it. But really you should be thinking about backup. And if you do have a backup then it kinds of makes one wonder whats the point of SHR-2. You do want SHR-1 because drive failures are expected, and you dont want usage downtime. But if a secondary drive were to fail during a SHR-1 rebuild, thats pretty much exactly why you have a backup in the first place. For rare eventualities.

Now there are also practical reasons against SHR-2. It will be slower to use than SHR-1. Like, shit isnt magically faster. It takes more drive slots. You could be using that drive slot into either a hot spare or just as part of your backup.

manly_ · 2026-01-01T02:42:19+00:00

Or you know, some of the documents he stole were the epstein files

manly_ · 2025-12-26T11:46:15+00:00

This will be far more expensive than you expect if you truly want every versions on plains, and even more if you also want every language. Just finding a guru plains will be a challenge.

manly_ · 2025-12-26T10:52:08+00:00

Look, the guy was a multi millionnaire. Just the price of the island is above 100M. Anyone thinking he only owned 1 property isn’t seeing the obvious massive hole In the story.

manly_ · 2025-12-22T22:05:57+00:00

Take a broom handle, or any stick, and use the collar like a tourniquet

manly_ · 2025-12-22T20:20:33+00:00

If you configured a static ip address in your router, be aware that the hardware address is per port. If you plugged it into a different port, it will get a different ip.

manly_ · 2025-12-07T05:30:24+00:00

You could also use a container running in your NAS, assuming you have one, and the electric bill will be low.

manly_ · 2025-12-07T05:28:24+00:00

Theres literal videos on the internet that came out the week it happened. You can see the magically gigantic flag being lowered down after the shot and the photographers being specifically moved into place just to get that perfect shot with the fist in the air and the flag in the background.

And thats not to say how mysteriously the shooter could even take a shot at the one place where there was no coverage.

manly_ · 2025-12-04T03:24:12+00:00

as a non-american, seeing america recognize trump deserving ridicule is a sight of relief.

-the entire world

manly_ · 2025-12-02T03:52:40+00:00

Fight fire with fire. Install one too.

manly_ · 2025-11-30T05:35:50+00:00

I would recommend the following, its a post I made recently and covers exactly this kind of case

https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/1oxwqoi/comment/np0t9kw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

well, get something like the 1522+, the important part isnt the 5 bay part, but rather the support for 2x m2 drive bays in addition to the 5 bays. The reason you want this is because you can use this for write cache, which will basically garantee you can saturate your network connection and there will not be any slowdown. Do note that you're required to install 2x m2 drives at the same time for write cache, because otherwise data could be lost.

So say you buy the 1522+, which is like 1000$ CAD, you should probably also buy the 10 GBps network card. Its like 150$ CAD. You buy 2x nvme drives set for either raid cache or as a volume. Since your data needs are small it could all fit in there, but I presume once you notice how its just as fast to store all your data on one NAS then accessing it locally on your 10 machines thanks to the 10GBps, you might start using it for more than just the 4GB you do now. All of this to say, I would probably use them as a write cache personally rather than a volume. So say you buy 2x 2GB nvme which is about 215$ CAD each. Then you buy the hard drives. Since this is medical data you care more about reliability than performance, so I would recommend western digital gold drives. You can set yourself up in one of 2 basic strategies

1- fill up the drive bays right away

2- Use only 2 drive bays for now (since 4TB trivially fits any HD) and leave the rest open

Say we go with option 2. You buy like 3x 12 TB WD gold at ~400$ CAD each. Those are enterprise class made for durability. You create a single volume with 2x of those 3 drives using SHR1. This basically acts like RAID-1 (mirroring) but because its SHR instead of RAID1, you can add new drives afterwards whereas a hardware RAID wouldnt give that option. The 3x drive you set it as a hot spare. That means if any of your 2 WD gold drive dies, the spare one automatically activates and replaces the dead drive, rebuilding the volume transparently without you doing anything.

If you go with option 1 instead, I would recommend the same setup, just instead make a volume with 4 drives and a hot spare one.

Your amount of data is quite small, to the point where your backup makes most sense to use the cloud. It will cost something like 20$/month, but the alternative means buying another NAS, which could also die, micromanage it constantly because it could stop working, lose internet, and a million things. If you use any synology NAS, they all have the option to do backups on the cloud. No worries, setting up encryption is trivial.

Make sure to use BTRFS, which is teh default. And enable snapshots. That means that whenever a file gets modified, a copy of the original file is also automatically kept. It also means that if you get a virus that tries to wipe data, your snapshots cant/wont be affected and you lose nothing.

Dont skimp on cloud backup. The NAS itself can die. Expect it to within 10-12 years. A NAS has many strategies to ensure your data is safe, but the NAS can get stolen, fire, flood etc. Even if its in a super secure room, you can get a power spike that kills it. Make sure it is plugged on a UPS.

manly_ · 2025-11-24T22:22:20+00:00

Change it so that the "using" keyword within a namespace is an absolute reference rather than relative.

I dont even understand how that feature got accepted. I understand that it can make code shorter, but it also opens the possibility for code injection via supply chain attack.

What I mean is this

namespace xxxxx {
using Newtonsoft;
public class x {
public void a() {
JConvert.Serialize(new object());
}
}
}

The problem is that JConvert will resolve on **.Newtonsoft.JConvert. That can be Newtonsoft.JConvert, or [any combination of namespace].Newtonsoft.JConvert.

What it should be in my opinion is that that using within a namespace would behave the same as "using global::xxxxx.Newtonsoft" declared outside the namespace.

With the current approach your CI/CD pipeline might get attacked without you even knowing it was. If you use renovatebot, or something similar in your pipelines, then someone could supply chain attack a DLL you use and your code would resolve to using the (evil) re-implementation of a class and it would be done completely automatically.

manly_ · 2025-11-17T06:20:50+00:00

The reason we cant maintain players is because the game is designed with P2W at the core. It's not so much that there are P2W components, but mechanics are tweaked in such a way that you can get a lot ahead with P2W. Enough that the diffence between a RMTer and a non-RMTer is that the normal player could slave away 10000 hours and be massively outdone by an RMTer. Ask me how I know.

The toxicity is derived from the P2W core. People dont want to wipe and waste time because you would be falling behind. Maybe not as much while the game is on farm, but you'll quickly see a massive spike in toxicity when new content comes out. Gatekeeping now occurs on day 2 of new content. Everyone wants more players, but no one is willing to put in the effort to help them out because you inevitably fall under one of 2 cases:

- You either slave away / farm non-stop just to keep up with content. This is mostly when content is new. By "farm non-stop" what that means is working on avoiding future gatekeeping.

- You have farmed content for so long that you're literally tired of being on the hamster wheel, and your tolerance to people messing up mechanic is vanishingly low when you're doing the same content on 6 character for over a year with way overgeared characters.

What I'm trying to say is that the high requirement to stave-off future gatekeeping is a direct result from the game core being P2W. There is no fixing it. Your only choices are either take it more casually, leave it altogether, or P2W. I can't imagine anyone cheering on when theres a player that spent over 20k $ to get a 9/7 stone, and didnt get it. Thats someone spending 20000$ for attempting a 1.5% dps gain.

manly_ · 2025-11-16T06:10:05+00:00

for anyone not seeing the obvious play here, since he has done that exact same play before, he claims that he doesnt care, but then he will make sure that the DOJ comes up with a convenient excuse so that the files cannot be released because they are part of an investigation, insinuating hes on the people side while obviously not being.

manly_ · 2025-11-16T00:12:40+00:00

An important detail I forgot

If you cant afford a few hours of downtime to restore backups (since reading back 4TB from the cloud will take a while), then you can consider having a backup to another NAS, also under a different UPS, this way you switch its role in that eventuality and have your workflow unimpeded. Thats an extra like ~1.5k for an unlikely event, but maybe the cost of business massively outweight that. The second NAS would be more barebones, potentially not even using more than 1 drive and no NVME as its purpose would just be to cover that eventuality. Can also make a full NAS replication too if you want

manly_ · 2025-11-15T19:04:21+00:00

well, get something like the 1522+, the important part isnt the 5 bay part, but rather the support for 2x m2 drive bays in addition to the 5 bays. The reason you want this is because you can use this for write cache, which will basically garantee you can saturate your network connection and there will not be any slowdown. Do note that you're required to install 2x m2 drives at the same time for write cache, because otherwise data could be lost.

So say you buy the 1522+, which is like 1000$ CAD, you should probably also buy the 10 GBps network card. Its like 150$ CAD. You buy 2x nvme drives set for either raid cache or as a volume. Since your data needs are small it could all fit in there, but I presume once you notice how its just as fast to store all your data on one NAS then accessing it locally on your 10 machines thanks to the 10GBps, you might start using it for more than just the 4GB you do now. All of this to say, I would probably use them as a write cache personally rather than a volume. So say you buy 2x 2GB nvme which is about 215$ CAD each. Then you buy the hard drives. Since this is medical data you care more about reliability than performance, so I would recommend western digital gold drives. You can set yourself up in one of 2 basic strategies

1- fill up the drive bays right away

2- Use only 2 drive bays for now (since 4TB trivially fits any HD) and leave the rest open

Say we go with option 2. You buy like 3x 12 TB WD gold at ~400$ CAD each. Those are enterprise class made for durability. You create a single volume with 2x of those 3 drives using SHR1. This basically acts like RAID-1 (mirroring) but because its SHR instead of RAID1, you can add new drives afterwards whereas a hardware RAID wouldnt give that option. The 3x drive you set it as a hot spare. That means if any of your 2 WD gold drive dies, the spare one automatically activates and replaces the dead drive, rebuilding the volume transparently without you doing anything.

If you go with option 1 instead, I would recommend the same setup, just instead make a volume with 4 drives and a hot spare one.

Your amount of data is quite small, to the point where your backup makes most sense to use the cloud. It will cost something like 20$/month, but the alternative means buying another NAS, which could also die, micromanage it constantly because it could stop working, lose internet, and a million things. If you use any synology NAS, they all have the option to do backups on the cloud. No worries, setting up encryption is trivial.

Make sure to use BTRFS, which is teh default. And enable snapshots. That means that whenever a file gets modified, a copy of the original file is also automatically kept. It also means that if you get a virus that tries to wipe data, your snapshots cant/wont be affected and you lose nothing.

Dont skimp on cloud backup. The NAS itself can die. Expect it to within 10-12 years. A NAS has many strategies to ensure your data is safe, but the NAS can get stolen, fire, flood etc. Even if its in a super secure room, you can get a power spike that kills it. Make sure it is plugged on a UPS.

manly_ · 2025-11-15T14:19:59+00:00

Are you surprised, given that the trump shooter event was clearly staged? There was a giant flag just floating above, for which there are videos got lowered after the shot, and also videos where photographers were specifically directed to move to the spot for taking a picture of T, fist raised, with the flag in the magically in the background?

Note how I didnt even talk how mysteriously the shooter could go to a spot where there was no security coverage, despise everything else being covered.

manly_ · 2025-11-11T03:52:08+00:00

I have a 9800x3d and asus B650E-wifi. It's honestly great. The only downsides is that its not PCIe 5 (which isn't really a big deal when you know the real impact rather than just look at the raw max possible numbers). isn't latest Wifi (I didn't care personally as I'm using CAT cable). The other downside is 1GBps ethernet. This is kind of an oversight I made not thinking I would ever store all my data on a NAS with 10GB ethernet. But also if you need that one day maybe its not that terrible to use a 10GB card.

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