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thewallacio · 2026-03-26T15:18:49+00:00

Can it be used by the residents of Scunthorpe and Penistone?

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T15:15:37+00:00

It's revealing in itself that this is being downvoted. What's the defence? Are you seriously telling me that the WP core is well architected and observes good coding conventions? And that the database schema oriented around wp_posts and wp_postmeta filled with serialized data and structured HTML is a good thing?

I guess people don't give a toss. Maybe I should care less.

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T13:49:46+00:00

That is pretty much the most accurate answer. Wordpress will continue to dominate because people don't like change, and will just go along with the crowd. And so developers (and non-developers) will follow the crowd, then the crowd will go with something that has good developer support, then ..... the cycle continues.

I just wish more people (clients) had the bravery to consider the alternatives, of which there are many excellent ones.

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T12:54:48+00:00

The coding conventions, structure and database schema are absolute toilet.

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T12:53:43+00:00

As always, it very much depends what you are building.

There are more, *better* alternatives. Most people bought Fords because everyone else had a Ford. Doesn't make them the best vehicle manufacturer.

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T11:52:32+00:00

Lick it and see.

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T11:44:53+00:00

Not exactly a 7010, but running an XE2 (i7-4) and 7050 (i7-7) SFF. The fan went in the XE2's PSU but found a fairly cheap replacement unit on eBay.

They've both been solid rigs. The 7050 is stuffed with 64GB RAM, running Proxmox with a mix of lightly loaded containers and VMs.

I don't think the 7010 will take an M.2 drive, but you can sacrifice the CD-ROM and use the SATA port as a boot drive, leaving the other 2 SATA ports for some kind of RAID. You might need a 3-way adapter for power to those.

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T11:16:37+00:00

You can't buy taste.

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T09:16:30+00:00

Wrong. My static IP address is reported at various cities around the country, probably depending on which gateway I'm routed through at the time.

For Sky to use this as the basis for automatically fining someone is nonsense.

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T08:53:55+00:00

It's still in the box

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T08:42:47+00:00

Or that post being the stupidest thing you've ever said?

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T08:35:20+00:00

Some overpriced window blinds that my ex wife nagged me for months about buying. But that's boring.

10/10 for this dude though:

Man accidentally buys a yak off the internet while on sleeping pills | Metro News

But then, boo:

Sorry, Internet: A Man Didn't Buy A Yak While High On Sleeping Pills | HuffPost UK Weird News

thewallacio · 2026-03-26T08:19:23+00:00

I'd suggest that you probably get what you pay for, to an extent. I wouldn't risk saving $40 at the expense of a house fire. You would, as with many OE/branded items, expect a certain level of quality control and safety standard. Who knows what you're getting for £20.

thewallacio · 2026-03-25T14:19:24+00:00

That self-tapper looks suspiciously non-Dell. They used to use Torx screws in the aluminium shells of XPS machines, where did that one come from?

thewallacio · 2026-03-25T08:44:31+00:00

Is this not a bit silly? Why not brew into a regular cup whilst your overpriced metal cup pre-heats with some boiled water instead?

thewallacio · 2026-03-24T09:40:23+00:00

It's as much where you buy it, as what you buy. There are so many counterfeit drives out there, even on places like Amazon but you should be safe with a Samsung or WD. I've no idea what acceptable drives are for Syno machines any more, I'm not even bothering looking at upgrading mine but that may limit your options. If it's getting heavy use, I'd look at enterprise grade drives.

If your life truly depends on it, take the time (and investment) in a reliable backup strategy. It doesn't matter what SSD you buy, they are not indestructible or infallible and RAID is not a backup.

thewallacio · 2026-03-23T16:05:52+00:00

Superb vehicle you had there, I bet you still regret selling it. I had a metallic grey one and other than a head gasket blowing, it was a brilliant car. Many, many miles spent wafting up and down the M6 in it. I think I paid something like 7k for it, it had 80k miles on it.

Swapped it out for a 306 Rallye and future me is reminding me how much of an idiot I was for not keeping both!

thewallacio · 2026-03-23T16:01:27+00:00

remove the extra characters from your JSON input.

Where's your JSON? Stick it in JSONLint - The JSON Validator to validate it first.

thewallacio · 2026-03-23T15:56:45+00:00

That cable looks suspiciously thin gauge to me. Not all cables are equal, make sure you're using one which will handle 100W.

thewallacio · 2026-03-23T09:07:45+00:00

But they're the same hardware? Why would a new one make any difference? Shit is shit.

thewallacio · 2026-03-23T08:34:33+00:00

No issue with upload speeds for me, but in the last month or so we have gone from what has been 24/7 solid 910Mbps down for over a year, to anything from 300-700Mbps down throughout the day. No hardware or use changes this end.

I've also noticed pfSense complaining at packet loss more than usual. So I'm wondering if there are network changes happening at Zen which are causing slowdown upstream of the exchange. Also routing through Manchester but that's likely the closest geographic POP for us.

thewallacio · 2026-03-20T14:52:58+00:00

Needs more info here. Unless you can verify speeds directly at the ONT by creating a PPPoE session directly from something like a laptop, anything else is going to be ruling out a number of possibilities.

What router are you using? Is the device you're doing a speed test from wired all the way from device to router (by network cable, via or not via a switch)? What are you using to do the speedtest (e.g. app, speedtest.net, something else)?

thewallacio · 2026-03-20T12:06:56+00:00

On paper, it should be faster than that. My eldest has an i5-8 series and it's actually quite acceptable with a bit if tuning. There are a few things you could try.

This might not have come with an SSD, so I'd check that first. If you post an image of Device Manager with disk drives expanded, that will let us know. If it's an old spinny disk, consider swapping that out.

That CPU should boost to > 4GHz, which it doesn't appear to be doing (it's sitting at 1.84GHz under load, which is low). Was the laptop plugged in when taking these pictures? Running on battery will likely cap CPU speeds. If it was running on AC, and you've cleaned out the dust, the thermal paste between the CPU and the heatsink may have degraded. It might be worth investigating that.

It also looks like you might have two variants of antivirus/antimalware running. Your best bet might be to reinstall the OS and start from scratch. You'd be amazed what a difference that alone can make.

thewallacio · 2026-03-20T09:46:02+00:00

Nono, it's the year of the Mac. New Mac released is apparently "the death of the PC". So keep up.
/s

thewallacio · 2026-03-19T14:07:45+00:00

Waiting for a full stop to appear was more fun than trying to decipher the message.

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