Wait, what is Spam then? I thought that was the whole thing… Sp(iced H)am.

I’m going to be disgusted by the answer, aren’t I?

I use thiscomputer.info

It’s just text. It shows a bit more than just your IP. And it’s easy to remember.

At this point I trust them more than the US.

Lodged a police report and they were there within the hour! Was crazy the response for such a small dollar crime.

Not that they’ll go after them real hard for this specifically, but it’s a nice bit of ammunition for them if they pick him up for something else. A little 4K video of copper theft on top to make sure something sticks.

Got a charger installed on 01-04-2026:

Got a charger removed 09-04-2026:

🚩 Marked safe from nuclear fallout overnight

We live to see another day.

I fully agree. Two days is insufficient.

Perhaps we can compromise and get 3 day weekends / 4 day work weeks.

I rounded up spare hard drives I’ve got laying around… Turns out there’s a few.

Almost all 4TB for the 3.5", 750GB and 2TB for the 2.5", 256GB and 512GB for the SSDs, 256GB and 512GB for the NVMEs.

Also found a 32GB kit and a few 16GB kits of DDR4, and around 128GB of DDR3.

… And a 16 port HBA card with SAS/SATA combination breakout cables.

Going to use some of that hardware to turn my old work PC (i3-7000 series CPU of some kind) in to an unraid server to replace the current 4000 series powered box.

The current box has 2 x 10TB drives as parity disks, but all the storage drives are only 4TB so I’m going to replace them with 4TB and stick the 10TB in my JBOD (which are all 4TB SAS drives currently except 2xSATA which works out well) for a sneaky extra 12TB of Plex storage.

The rest of the 4TB drives can just be spares for the JBOD. I’m sure the disks will start to fail eventually.

Anyway, yay public holiday!

😥

Wait, why are YOU on the roof? I feel like the birds have an excuse… what’s yours? 🤨

Which Jesus event was meant to happen today?

I can’t remember what we have the public holiday for, but I know we’re supposed to eat fish so we had beer and prawns for lunch.

Guess who’s getting to go to heaven now? 😎

I want more fuel pain so we actually implement proper long term solutions.

Improve public transport - gets cars off the road 5ever,
Force more cargo on to more efficient rail transport and use electric trucks for last mile delivery - reduce road freight permanently,
More EV subisidies - transition more people to cars that dont burn oil.

A temporary reduction in Government income just kicks the can down the road and doesnt solve anything.

Pretty sure they just preauth your card for the amount you put in to make sure you’re good for it, but then only charge the amount you owe once the transaction is complete.

Some cards are just crap at dropping preauths quickly.

Yo De Los Mentos, the tree is a Tuckeroo, aka Cupaniopsis anacardioides

It’s one of those trees that grows like 3 or 4 “trunks” from one base… and one of those “trunks” snapped off in the storm so its already got a little bit of root action (more than some of us, amiright lads? 🥲). Fingers crossed it springs to life!

I’d tell you what sort of tree it is but I don’t know. My memory thought it was an Ivory Curl we planted there, but the leaves are way too wavy.

That drizzle kinda just turned up in the middle of a decently sunny morning, and then… never left?

Stuck a broken off tree branch in an outdoor pot yesterday so a bit of water is a great thing.

How do you figure I don’t understand that?

Also, needed some fuel on the weekend for the mower so took up our 2 x 20L fuel containers we keep in the shed for the mower / whipper snipper to fill them up… Could feel the eyes as we dared fill up a couple of jerry cans. Obviously hoarding. After turning up in our EV…

Really surprised at the lack of anger at old Trumpy over this whole thing. Everyones so quick to blame “Albo” or “Labor” (“labour” usually) rather than… the bloke who is literally the one who initiated the conflict??

Anyway. Will certainly be delicious irony if this is the turning point for electric adoption.

Will certainly take the wind out of the sails of the usual conservative bogan types who have been making a big song and dance about how the gubberment needs to save them from our own over-reliance on oil.

Time to get yourself one of those EVs I reckon!

A little Nissan Leaf for the island will be perfect