Ah, I see, just using the truenas software, not the hardware - fair enough! I have a zfs-based fileserver at home too, sounds similar to yours but I’ve been using Ubuntu. Very happy with it, no data loss in 12 years.

Sounds like a pretty beefy NAS for home! We have a truenas M40 at work, it has been pretty solid for the last 4 years.

Comments like this really don’t add anything to the conversation

Thanks for sharing, it’s good engagement with the online public, even if it is through Reddit. Hope more politicians do stuff like this in the future.

Dang, that’s a really cool phenomenon, thanks for sharing!

Yeah it’s been a big change. I was watering the garden every day a few weeks ago, now it’s wet all the time. I hope we have some dry days over Christmas.

THUPERTHELL!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-28/supercell-storms-threaten-eastern-australia-weather/103159860

Finally got my roof fixed too, so I don’t cringe every time it rains.

I’m sorry you had to go through that. Reddit really is a shadow of its former self these days.

I have a few Callistemons in my garden, hoping for some flowers one day, but for now I’m just happy they’re growing :)

Australian native plants are beautiful, I hope to have a fully-native garden at some point.

I’ll put the kettle on

Damn, those are some fast times, I never got below 25 minutes. Well done!

Exactly right! Thanks, and enjoy your winter, I hope it’s not too cold!

Fair enough! I used to live in st Lucia and run from guyatt park to the bridge and back for my 5ks, never joined the park run. Three turnarounds sounds frustrating. Hope you had a good run this morning!

Does anyone know of services where you can hire someone to be a personal assistant, organise repairs, bills, help with planning and general organising?

I am getting overwhelmed by things breaking right now and can’t deal with the stress of talking to another tradie who will lie through his teeth to sell me crap I don’t need.

Is there a UQ parkrun? Lots of people go running along the river there, and it’s extremely flat, although the path is a bit gravelly.

Hi beeple,

I wanted to get my hot water heater fixed with a $50 thermostat, but the plumber wouldn’t touch it and wanted $3000 to replace it. Ouch! I might try to find a replacement thermostat via Google, but it’s an ancient model and the part numbers don’t turn up anything. Really don’t need more bills right now!

It is starting to heat up in Australia, and the bushfires have already killed 2 people in my state in the last week. I’m not looking forward to another black summer. However, on the bright side, there seems to be a shift in the views of our Nationals party regarding climate change - they’ve always been conservative but now it seems they’re getting on board with climate action, since they’re being affected by the heat, droughts etc. I wish people would take action for things before it affects them personally, but hey, I’ll take what I can get.

I hope everyone gets through their struggles and has some time to relax and enjoy themselves this week.

I feel you on the Christmas tradition! My family sets price caps on presents and I think it saves a lot of stress. Ever since I was 21 or so, the best part of Christmas was the food and the celebration, not the presents.

Sleep is so important and it’s great you’ve got a solution with a cpap machine now. Well done!

As for your techie child, it may be part of an ongoing trend in tech that things are getting worse instead of better - I feel that myself, and I know my friends do too - but they could also just be growing out of their hobbies and exploring new aspects of life. After working at a tech job I don’t want to spend my evenings at a computer any more, so I’ve started riding motorbikes and getting into photography, gardening and other outdoorsy stuff in the last few years.

Man, what the hell.

Libvirt is great, been using it at home to run VMs for ~10 years now.

The ACCC website offers some tracking on this: https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/petrol-and-fuel/petrol-price-cycles-in-major-cities#toc-petrol-prices-in-brisbane

I’m never organised enough to plan around the cycle, but it’s good to keep an eye on the chart if you’re like me and only fill up every 3-4 weeks.