But it could make itself less dependent on Russian oil. Many western countries chose to go through an expensive and painful transition to move away from Russian gas. These are choices Hungary could also make but refuses to do. So it’s only as dependent as it wishes to be and it clearly wishes to be a lot.

How is it in Hungary’s interest to support Russia?

EU expects Hungary to fulfil promises to act like an EU state.

Maybe it’s because Hungary is a plant by Russia and if NATO and EU had any sense they’d show them the door.

Myeah sort of agree if you compare wireguard vs wireguard docker.

But wg-easy has a management interface for creating peers and seeing who’s active so it’s somewhat easier to get set up.

You must be great fun a parties.

I’ve got four kids. I work 50-60 hour weeks. I travel for work. I’ve got a lawn. Yes I’ve got a fucking robot mower. One of the best buys I ever did. Anything that buys me 1.5hrs a week is worth its weight in gold.

Maybe you’re just not the target market for robot mowers.

Also, a hedgehog shredder?!

We’ve got a garden full of hedgehogs. See one at least twice a week. I run the mower during the day, twice a week. If it bumps into the smallest thing it stops. I’ve literally never ever seen a hedgehog come to harm. Do you know how these contraptions actually work?

A kid in our high school went on national news and said he could procure weed in the school in less than 3 minutes. He then proved it. Made national headlines and became a big topic in parliament.

Of course they went looking for the stoner, found him, and then asked him to source the source of what made him stoned. Kinda self-explanatory but the news didn’t seem to think so.

Oh, and in primary school, I think I was “the incident”. I hacked the schools computer network and made all PCs boot into a message that read “Teachers are dumb”. It really wasn’t very sophisticated, at all, but shut the computers down for a week while they had “experts” in to clean them up.

When I told the expert that having the PCs optionally boot from floppy and this allowed me full access to all the PCs, including the control server through which they distributed autoexec.bat updates to them all … well he sold me like I was some kind of sophisticated wiz-kid that needed containment. I got a life time ban from the computer labs. The kid that squeeled on was ostracised by everyone else (I had made up with him quite quickly, I knew I shouldn’t have told him and sort of blamed myself).

Do the government ministers understand that setting up your own VPN is literally a 5 minute operation.

Hire a droplet VM, pre-installed with a server OS. Log in with provided credentials. sudo apt install docker Copy/paste a docker compose file that sets up a wg-easy container. Create a peer. Take a picture of the provided QR code. Connect to the server via a wireguard app. Done.

Are they going to ban VMs?

Generelt enig. Jeg tilføjer Fuel Fit, som binder etanol og stabiliserer benzinen så den kan holde i et par år.

https://www.briggsandstratton.com/eu/en_gb/products/care-products/fuel-fit.html

Hermed ikke sagt at benzin der er to år gammel virker lige så godt som frisk 95 E10 men officielt burde det holde 3 år med Fuel Fit - jeg skifter dog hvert andet år og, ja, generatoren bliver startet hvert sjette måned og får lov til at køre i 10-15 minutter.

Dansker i U.K. her, så ved ikke om det gælder.

Jeg er ikke prepper. Bryder mig ikke om udtrykket.

Jeg er dog forberedt til en krise. Det er rettidig omhu. Det største sted folk tager fejl, i mine øjne, i forhold til at være kriseforberedt, er at de tænker på nogle kritiske ting og glemmer alle andre kritiske ting.

Jeg har med fordel skiftet mit åsyn på forberedelse, så jeg nu tænker “dage”. Hvor mange dage kan vi klare os hvis der opstår en forsyningskrise?

Jeg forbereder mig ikke på zombies, eller total nedbrydelse af vores samfund.

Men vi er klar til 10 dage, ca. 10 dage uden vand, 10 dage uden elektricitet. 10 dage uden madforsyning. 10 dage uden gas-varme (ingen fjernevarme her i U.K.; her bruges der udelukkende gas - 95% - og varmepumper - 5%). Nogle ting kan holde længere, men jeg sætter mit fokus på 10 dage og sikrer mig at vi har det vi skal bruge, af alle kategorier.

Vi er 6 i familien. Vi har tørfoder, vi har vand, vi har batteri, solceller og benzin-drevet top-up generator, vi har gas og campingkøkken, et lager af sorte affaldssække til at sætte i toilettet, presenninger, nødradio, lommelygter, medicinlager osv.

Min store fortrydelse er at jeg købte en benzin generator, i stedet for en gas generator. Gas kan holde sig for evigt, næsten, men selv med konserveringsmidler skal mit benzin lager (det lyder lidt størrere end det er, jeg har to tanke og samlet 20L) udskiftes hvert andet år. Det går nok, jeg iblander det i bilens sammen med nyt benzin men det er lidt træls at skulle stå og bakse med det.

Hvis vi skulle forøge antallet af dage vi er forberedt til så bliver det væsentligt sværere. Efter 10 dage er dem der ikke har forberedt sig ved at blive desperate og så skal man til at tænke på, at ikke alle opfører sig ordentligt når de bliver sultne og tørstige. Men min formodning er at samfundet vedbliver og det derfor kun er en kortere periode, vi skal være klar på.

Samfundsnedbrud er næsten umuligt at forberede sig på IMHO. Så skal man have bug-out shelters, frø, jord, jagtmidler, og meget mere viden end jeg har i forhold til at reparere og lave nyt osv. Vi har et konkret problem at min kone skal bruge noget specifik medicin (thyroxin) resten af hendes liv og det er meget svært at fremstille og dosere (man skal tørre fåre-skjoldbruskkirtler, pulverisere det og så gætte sig frem til dosering). Vi har et roterende nødlager af medicinen men det holder ikke så længe så det er begrænset hvor stort det kan være.

Ugh har samme lort 6-10 gange om året. Det værste er når man også skal være selskabelig om aftenen. Jeg vil bare tilbage på hotelværelset og se Netflix.

I’d just search for the specific CPU and “plex” and “transcoding” and see what comes up. I’ve not heard many success stories of AMD CPU transcoding, despite them having good hardware support. Stand ready to be corrected.

Nej det ville ikke. Jeg bor i England og vi har differentieret moms på alle mulige ting. Det håndterer supermarkederne fint. Herre Jemen, det lyder som om et kæmpe 900 millioners projekt (der løber op til 2.3 milliarder) som et kæmpe konsulent firma tager.

Save more than you need.

Run fiscal history simulations (several programs do this for you). If I had invested this money in 1900, how would this have fared? If I had invested this money in 1901, how would this have fared. Etc.

Accept that you can’t plan for everything except your own resilience. You may have to adjust your spend if things are looking harder than you had planned for. You’ll be fine. At least that’s what I tell myself.

My fiscal plan has me running out in 0% of historical scenarios, which is belt and braces. Still need to save a lot before I can retire according to that fiscal plan.

Yes they do. Not sure if 48 counts as older than you, but I’ve definitely seen economic cycles and peace/war cycles come and go. This too shall pass.

I run EXOS drives in the under-stair cupboard. They’re noisy but they’re not that bad.

There’s definitely a chance my knowledge is no longer current but I would 100% verify that for your operating system of choice (which I presume is Linux), your AMD CPU can deliver hardware transcoding under Plex. I’ve not heard of AMD CPUs handling this under Linux at least. Ready to be corrected.

You’re not using a CPU that most distributions support for hardware transcoding. You either need to use an Intel CPU with QuickSync or stick a discrete nvidia card in the box. The Intel route is often easiest here, and I say this as a die hard AMD fan.

Are you intent on building your own box?

I’m only asking because TerraMaster does the F6-424 (or F4-424) series which has 6 bays (or 4), a decent CPU (1235U) with hardware transcoding support, space for two 4x4 NVME m.2 SSDs, which runs silently and will just work as an appliance, even though it is a full PC. You can then install unraid or truenas on it, or heck bareback Linux and do it yourself. There are decent alternatives to putting something together yourself.

Regarding disks Seagate EXOS are often cheaper than IronWolfs and have higher MTBF than even the Pro. Don’t ask me why they’re lower cost, for more bang.

And what you could do is to enable an LLM to use these tools and reason about their outcome. Complaining that an LLM isn’t good at adding numbers is like complaining that humans aren’t as fast as calculators when multiplying large numbers.

Until we move away from FPTP, new parties are as much a risk as they are a boon.

And then, yes, big parties change when little parties threaten them (UKIP vs Tory, classic example) but wouldn’t it just be so much easier if you knew your vote wouldn’t be wasted and you could express your opinion freely in the voting booth and expect to see results in parliament?

It’s no wonder people feel disconnected from politics in the UK.