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#3437906 27-Nov-2025 09:02

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My boss has gotten us tickets for day 4 and day 5 of the NZ England cricket test at the Oval next year. Seeing NZ play in England has been a bucket list thing for me so we’re very excited to go, hopefully the tests last at least 4 days.

Days 4 and 5! That's really taking a chance, isn't it? In saying that, realistically there's also a chance that if it were allowed, test cricket tickets for weeks 4 and 5 could be a real thing!

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#3437926 27-Nov-2025 10:35

Yeah day 4 and 5 are a bit dodgy (didn't even think day 5 was sold in advance), but will be awesome experience. As an England fan who grew up in NZ I ticked off a similar bucket list item on a UK/Europe trip earlier this year - managing to get day 1 tickets for the Lord's test against India.

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#3437983 27-Nov-2025 15:41

Handsomedan:

Handle9:

My boss has gotten us tickets for day 4 and day 5 of the NZ England cricket test at the Oval next year. Seeing NZ play in England has been a bucket list thing for me so we’re very excited to go, hopefully the tests last at least 4 days.

Days 4 and 5! That's really taking a chance, isn't it? In saying that, realistically there's also a chance that if it were allowed, test cricket tickets for weeks 4 and 5 could be a real thing!

Thats the risk but it’s also the weekend days. We’ve got a lot of travel planned for next year and Mrs Hadle will be taking unpaid leave. Given it’s England there’s a decent chance of rain.

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#3438353 28-Nov-2025 21:17

I'm meditating right now and doing things that were long overdue for the network cabinet in a state of complete calm. 🙂

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#3439389 2-Dec-2025 09:25

My little fluffy co-worker's 13th birthday today and he's both blissfully unaware that it's his birthday and busy ripping around the house in a post-breakfast frenzy, which will be followed by about 10 hours of sleep!

Happy Birthday, Eddie!

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#3439580 2-Dec-2025 18:40

Now you just need to find someone who can do the 3D printing. 😉

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#3439581 2-Dec-2025 18:45

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Now you just need to find someone who can do the 3D printing. 😉

I’d love that! I’ve often thought about it…

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#3439639 2-Dec-2025 21:01

Been shooting archery seriously since April last year and have been rapidly improving since. Every session results in improvement leaving me on a high.

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#3439649 2-Dec-2025 22:17

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Been shooting archery seriously since April last year and have been rapidly improving since. Every session results in improvement leaving me on a high.

I admire it when all your concentration and energy is focused on the goal. A friend of mine hunts like this in France; in Germany it's not allowed, otherwise ... 😉

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#3440097 4-Dec-2025 10:11

I was running my NAS on HDD only. Really noisy thing, and some jobs were slow, including a consistency check taks on a Proxmox Backup Server VM (PBS).

Decided to install two m.2 NVME drives and enable Read Only cache volume on those. It somewhat helped but not completely.

But then I changed the cache from Read Only to Read/Write mode.

Noise levels plummeted instantly. Everything is faster, but most importantly the PBS consistency check job that would run for 120 minutes and make a lot of HDD noise now completes in under 20 minutes and is almost silent.

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#3440238 4-Dec-2025 16:16

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I was running my NAS on HDD only. Really noisy thing, and some jobs were slow, including a consistency check taks on a Proxmox Backup Server VM (PBS).

Decided to install two m.2 NVME drives and enable Read Only cache volume on those. It somewhat helped but not completely.

But then I changed the cache from Read Only to Read/Write mode.

Noise levels plummeted instantly. Everything is faster, but most importantly the PBS consistency check job that would run for 120 minutes and make a lot of HDD noise now completes in under 20 minutes and is almost silent.

Keep an eye on how the TBW of the NVMes develops. I found that too unreliable, which is why I use TrueNAS on bare metal for critical stuff, where the ECC RAM/ZFS is the cache.

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#3440245 4-Dec-2025 16:39

Yes, something to keep an eye on.

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#3440286 4-Dec-2025 20:03

Tinkerisk:

MadEngineer:

Been shooting archery seriously since April last year and have been rapidly improving since. Every session results in improvement leaving me on a high.

I admire it when all your concentration and energy is focused on the goal. A friend of mine hunts like this in France; in Germany it's not allowed, otherwise ... 😉

Every small detail counts. Some more than others. The sport is great for nerds like myself where I strive for improvement and enjoy ironing out the wrinkles that come my way.

I discovered this exercise: I Tried This Simple Trick and I no Longer Struggle to Focus. Works wonders

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#3440322 5-Dec-2025 09:33

I thought this would be easy, only a minute, I can do this. Blinked at about five seconds and lost focus. Sigh.

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#3440600 6-Dec-2025 11:52

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I thought this would be easy, only a minute, I can do this. Blinked at about five seconds and lost focus. Sigh.

Training to become an English longbow archer took several years at that time, whereas training to become a crossbow archer took only a few weeks, as the energy in crossbows is stored and „only“ requires precise aiming.

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