Nah that one attaches to the twisty rod thing that you get on normal blinds. I need something more like this but I can't find a non-Aliexpress version. Not that it matters cos I'd need 5 of them and that puts the idea out of my price range for the foreseeable future.

Normal to get a 50% discount for paying quickly and without appeal. Last I checked you couldn't pay with Nectar points, though.

Yeah that's normal in Britain for council and government fines (as opposed to often unenforceable private parking charges). The shitty part is that if you try to dispute it they don't put the timer on hold so you essentially play double or nothing on how strong you think your case is. Lose and you have to pay the full thing. Not bitter at all.

TIL they're called plantation blinds! The slats swivel open and closed as opposed to the entire thing raising and lowering but I assume that's what you meant. No external rod or handle, all of the slats are linked inside the frame somehow.

Edit: Actually knowing what they are has helped my search massively. Looks like there's options on Aliexpress, albeit not particularly cheap. Thanks!

Yeah that's exactly what I'd done but it was insisting on trying to redirect me to the site on port 4443 for some reason.

Fixed it in the end by reverting the NPM config to default (no advanced settings) and instead using Pihole's VIRTUAL_HOST=pihole.mydomain.internal environment variable in the Docker compose file.

Cheers for your help anyway!

Just tried this myself and mine does the same thing but I don't have anything set in the custom locations tab. What did you do to resolve it?

This is the exact same argument that I see used against EVs almost daily, while the people making these calls for "better analysis" ignore the dodgy mining practices and literal wars that are the result of oil extraction. But let's go back to fireworks. I spent all of 30 seconds Googling and found this. I'm sure it's far from an exhaustive list of firework ingredients but it's a decent start. Highlights include:

Sulfur - extracted from oil and natural gas.

Aluminum - 28% of US aluminum comes from recycled sources, which is great, but any that goes into fireworks is then lost forever. The rest of it comes from mines in Canada and Jamaica.

Iron and copper - Mined domestically and both are recyclable but gone forever once they're exploded.

Strontium - Mined in Mexico.

Barium - Mined in China.

Sodium - Mined in Chile and Peru.

How come you're not asking for a better analysis of the mining practices for the ores extracted in Jamaica, Mexico, China, Chile, and Peru? How much of anything that makes up your average firework, including cardboard and plastic, is recycled at the end of that firework's life? How many fireworks are reusable even once let alone tens or even hundreds of times? Much like with oil burning cars, these things are ignored because they've been around for a long time and it's normalised. Meanwhile emerging technologies, while demonstrably cleaner/better in pretty much every metric, are held to impossible standards that the old tech gets a free pass on.

No, we don't recycle much lithium yet but it's a new technology and battery recycling plants are springing up all over the place all the time, and these same plants often deal in the various other electronic materials that you cited. How much used petroleum is recycled each year? How many fireworks?

I don't want to argue and I should probably just delete this rather than posting it, having said my piece to myself, but perhaps I'm my own worst enemy...

7,500 reusable/repairable drones in this show vs more than 12,000 single use fireworks in London's last New Year's show alone.

I fully agree that fireworks still have their place, but I think the suggestion that they're in any way comparable to drones from an environmental standpoint is way off base.

If nothing else is triggering it then my advice would be to cherish the feeling while it lasts! Go on dates that don't involve food for a while or stick to lighter food that doesn't involve sitting in a restaurant to eat. Once things start to feel more normal between you then you can try formal meals again.

If she's suggesting restaurants in the meantime then just be honest with her, she'll likely find it sweet and endearing and it'll help to calm the nerves.

Yeah, OP didn't say how long they'd been together but if it's a new relationship after 3 years of being friends, especially if they're young and/or there's been lingering feelings for some time before becoming "official", then anxiety and nervous excitement is likely to be high!

Synology has Container Manager, which is their GUI frontend for Docker, so if it'll run in Docker it'll run on a Syno NAS. I'm running Pihole on mine just fine.

As for the M.2 drives, you can use non-Synology ones as storage. Don't quote me on it but I've a feeling it "just works" in the EU where they're not allowed to force you to use specific brands, but if it doesn't then there's a script that removes the restriction: https://github.com/007revad/Synology_enable_M2_volume

You should check their repo as they have other useful scripts. I'm using the one that enables dedupe on non-SSD volumes myself.

Judging by the amount of random noises my inkjet makes, this dude must go through a lot of printers.

But I missed a trick by not also using ergo.

It's already been said, but shatterproof does not mean it's indestructible. It means that when it does break it won't shatter into a hundred jagged edged pieces that go flying into the air and lodge themselves into some kid's eyeball.

This one broke cleanly in twain and did not shatter. The packaging's claim is accurate.

Jesus Christ! A friend of mine exploded a mountain bike tire when trying to inflate it to 100psi, assuming it would be the same as on his racing bike, he said it went off like a grenade. I can't imagine what a car tire would be like.

Mind officially blown! I've just spun up a Debian KDE instance and it's running beautifully. Exactly what I wanted, thank you!

Yes, big fan of XCP-ng, we use it extensively in work, but I'm not convinced it's my best option in this case.

I'm using plenty of containers, accelerated and otherwise, but I also want a full-blown desktop that I can access from wherever. Even on a wired LAN, streaming that desktop is slow and laggy when it's hosted on my NAS, which I think is due to the lack of hardware acceleration on that system. I want to move the VM to a host that has that feature (currently running Ubuntu Server) but I need a hypervisor that doesn't require its own desktop system to be installed in order to manage it.

Plenty of good replies here to help me though.

Well indeed, that's why I want to move the VM off the NAS and onto something with some hardware acceleration. Are there any remote frontend options for KVM?

I don't remember exactly but it's something to do with new safety and emissions fuel efficiency regulations brought about in the 90s(?) that would fine manufacturers who didn't meet the new standards. "Light trucks" such as the F150 were exempt so manufacturers started pushing those hard as the fashionable choice.

Fast forward 30 years, the regulations haven't changed, and here we are. There's a good video about it somewhere...

Yeah here we go: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo