>>8199
>>8201

Am I the only one who thinks he's a bit naive to think that his HDD is in any way serviceable any more? First off it ends up in a drawer because he spilled a drink on his laptop, then he chucks it out, presumably it goes in the big chompy-crushy bin lorry with all the other waste. Whatever arrived at the landfill site has now been sat there for seven or eight years suffering wind, rain, and other shite being thrown thrown on top of it.

I've had hard drives completely stop working from a 12" drop onto a tiled floor, I have no idea how he thinks his is going to be in any way recoverable after the near decade of torturous abuse it's received.

>>8202

>I've had hard drives completely stop working

I think if you had a BTC wallet with 7.5k coins on it, you'd have tried a couple more data recovery techniques than you did at the time. I'm not saying his HDD is definitely preserved, but it's not inconceivable that a wallet would survive on even a shattered platter.

>>8203
> but it's not inconceivable that a wallet would survive on even a shattered platter.

It's not, but it's within the realms of the very unlikely. Assuming that the superblock/MFT is almost definitely corrupted and given that wallet.dat is just a btree type Berkeley DB file, the only way to search for the data you want (the keys) is if you remember the blockchain address you had the coins in and to brute-force search for that pattern as the key in a KV pair - across the entire disk (or whatever parts are readable). In other you'd better hope that the file was small enough to be stored in sequential sectors or you're going to be SOL and you'd better hope against hope that the disk wasn't protected via Bitlocker or LUKS as if even one byte is corrupted you'll be unable to read all the other logically sequential bytes thanks to the wonders of Cipher Block Chaining.

>>8205

This is why I defragment all of my storage media multiple times per day.

>>8206
Forgot your IYKWIM.

>>67844

>>67845

Thanks Nelson but how will you inject them without needles?

>>67844>>67846
You could put the vaccine into sweets, like haliborange.

>>67846

Up the arse.

>>59299
>IT'S A CLICHE, BUT IT'S TRUE - THE BULGMANIANS DO ALL THE JOBS THAT WE DON'T WANT TO DO, AND WE'RE IN DEEP SHIT IF THEY ALL GET BOOTED OUT.

Turns out we can replace them with a load of Filipinos instead.

https://www.potatonewstoday.com/2021/01/14/jersey-potato-farmers-fly-in-workers-from-the-philippines/

Not particularly atmospheric, but you may enjoy the 'nursery crime' books by Jasper Fforde (>>7169).

>>7189
John P. Marquand has a fair few books that I'd say fit that bill.

Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep is a classic.

I'll take a wild guess at L.A. Confidential, although I've not read it, but the film is excellent.

>>67834
The truth. I'm not picking sides, but when you point out that people should stop exaggerating when criticising the Tories, or anyone else considered the other, and should instead stick to the facts you get accused of defending them.

There's all sorts of valid reasons to criticise them for without having to make shit up.

>>67831

You don't suddenly have to pay retail for bulk orders of bread and apples just because you don't usually order them if you're a catering firm. The economies of scale are, if anything, more favourable on a pallet of bananas than they are mince or lasagne sheets.

>>67835
I heard Michael Gove eats babies

>>67833

You missed the point. I'm saying your post (X) doesn't preclude corruption (Y), not that X = Y. The corruption is an entirely separate point that is being argued on other grounds, and nothing you said as far as I can tell is an argument against corruption, just that the companies might have had a hard time as well.

>>67838
So you're adding 2 and 2 together and getting 5? Gotcha.

>>30178

Sorry to burst your bubble, but sanding your cock down to a nub doesn't warrant sectioning these days because it's not immediately life-threatening. Even before the pandemic, psychiatric inpatient units were working on a one-in, one-out basis and most units were routinely having to discharge actively suicidal patients to make room for even more suicidal patients.

>>30181
Another casualty of covid. RIP OP's knob.

We could always delete it and ban him if he comes back, but then we wouldn't be able to call him an arsehole in longform.

I still can't coom properly. It just sprays or dribbles out instead of getting a full pumping action. Strange. It'll probably never be right again.

Can we ban him yet?

>>30342
Heaven preserve. This isn't your blog. Unless you need help or advice with something, I'm going to lock this.

She needs premium, dude! Premiuuuuuum!

>>4533
I imagined that'd be the case, though the US octane scale is slightly different to ours - their '87' is our 95, meaning that it was still asking for our 98/100. Either way, I put the good shit in anyway since I only ever run it on unleaded if I really want to put my foot down or can't find LPG close. I fill it up at the Costco where it's the same price as normal fuel everywhere else.

It seems to understand fuel delivery somewhat as the MPG figures on the dash seem a bit lower when I'm on LPG, but that might just be confirmation bias as I'm not always staring at it. It does get confused though, since it's usually only running on LPG under heavy drain conditions (startup and heavy acceleration), it thinks half a tank of fuel will only get me about 20 miles.

>>4535
s/running on LPG/running on unleaded/

Fuck's sake. Time to get off here and focus.

>>4526
To me, it doesn't make much sense.

Supermarkets sell the product as cheap as possible to get people into the shop itself.
On the other hand, Shell/BP/Esso etc. have wafer-thin margins in urban areas and so whilst their prices are higher they make the product itself as low-quality as they can get away with because they need every last penny to turn a profit.

The premium fuels definitely have extra additives which might clean your engine, and the higher octane etc. might give better economy depending on your engine, but I don't believe that there is any difference at all between regular fuels.

However it is worth remembering that as fuel pumps measure volume, during a cold snap you can cram just a little bit more fuel by weight into the tank for the same price, but also I have heard that the refiners tweak the blends very slightly through the seasons to counteract this, as well as to control evaporation.

>>4537

Also,
don't bother with redex, nowadays it's just kerosene with some red dye in since people get a bit antsy about some of the spicier chemicals that could be in there.
Get some of the cleaners sold by Forte instead, it's sold as a "trade use only" product, but it's easy enough to find online, and it gets well recommended by a lot of people in the trade who claim it can get cars through an MOT after failing emission checks.

Sounds like they’re just lacking moral fibre.

>>41974
Looks like Guru Larry and Courtney Love got into a transporter accident.

>>41974
No it can't be him. I refuse to believe Timpson would allow it.

I thought it was Matt Lucas dressed up at first.

>>441551
I don't know what xis name is

>>441569
We're going to need more clues.

>>441573
The clues are there.

>>441573
the radio station is in the low 90's on FM

>>441586
Well, given that the range of broadcast FM is about 40 miles, it's unlikely we'll have heard that station in the UK.

>>15631
Is he still around? I always found his ever more subtle attempts at introducing his 'ideas' to be amusing.

>>15632

Pretty sure it was him the other day arguing about when the "magic responsibility switch" or whatever it was goes off in people's heads.

>>15633
No, that was me. I just want kids to be tried as adults, and for capital punishment to be brought back. How does that make me a seppo?

>>15631
>It's not worth walling the whole of the US
I couldn't disagree more.

>>15631
I agree - there are far fewer US posters than you think, it's the yoof who have adopted their speaking/posting habits most of the time.

>>24745

"I have PSVR, so I cant play Alyx and I am very jealous" should have been the end of that sentence.

>>24745
I'm >>24712 and from what little I have played of SkVR I found archery to be near impossible. You can't draw the bow properly without smashing the controller into your face. Annoyingly as well the lefty swap option in Bethesda VR games renders it completely unplayable by swapping movement and menu controls so I have to play righty mode which isn't ideal. Either way I'm a pretty good shot with my right hand, now.

Borderlands 2 VR's lefty swap just changes the aiming hand but leaves movement controls where they should be (left analogue stick to move/strafe and right to turn).

>>24747
Playing on the Playstation as a lefty I found it to be ok. I couldn't really do the archery well until I got the eagle eye perk, and the move controller tracking is a bit gubbed, so you end up with your characters hands down by its knees during key moments of combat.

Blood & Truth was pretty fun too, being that it's like a Guy Ritchie movie with a Paul Verhoeven bodycount.

I really enjoyed the flying and combat of Iron Man VR despite the heinous loading times.

If you told me 5 years ago that there would be consumer VR systems and they'd not be utterly shite, I wouldn't have believed you. I think that the platform has a lot of potential and as more people buy it, more AAA titles may eventually be released.

>>24747
I do wish Fallout 4 VR had come to PSVR.

>>24750
It barely runs on a decent PC (I rarely get 80FPS); it'd probably be a PowerPoint slideshow on PS4.

Oddly enough, Skyrim VR runs perfectly fine, and it's practically the same game, so I have no idea how they fucked Fallout 4 VR. Also, not including the DLC for... reasons? Thankfully they can be fairly easily added in, but many of them run like (even more like) shit even with unofficial patches.

>>41968
No, I just assume someone who runs an imageboard would research these things. And is also a nonce.

>>41967

British law is sufficiently broad that almost any image of a child can be considered indecent if someone is perving over it. On one level it makes sense - there's something obviously unsavoury about having a load of pictures of kids if they're not your kids - but it's also slightly Kafkaesque. The mods have no choice but to be extremely cautious.

>>41970

I should say that I'm not a carpet-bagger, I just work in IT.

That hasn't really helped my case, has it?

>>41967
16 for sex, 18 for porn. You may remember that page 3 girls used to be 16 up until...sometime between the late-90s and mid-00s when they last changed around the sex offences.

My excuse is that I did law degree for moments just like these.

>>41967

The law is 16 for shagging, but 18 for porn, as I'm sure we all know. But the law on 'exploitative sexual images' is broad enough that any image of someone underage can be classed as exploitative in the right context, and posting it on a board designated for porn fits right in that category.

It's a very real thing and people really do report you to the feds for it - it doesn't happen often here (largely because of our currently discussed 'overmoderation'), but whenever it does it's usually for an image that absolutely nobody thought was sexual, but it's a child so the choice is delete it or get booted off our hosting service.

It's definitely an odd law when tested to its extremes (labelled stick figures and so on) but it's not up to us to challenge the letter of the law, not if we want the site to remain alive, anyway.

My excuse is that I moderate a website with occasional peado encroachers, which I understand is probably not a great alibi.

Ok

>>5484
Why would you post that picture? I hope you never get up to twenty.

>>5485

I did 5 this morning, fuck you.

6 now

Down to 3 after stuffing myself over xmas.

>>5588
Still can't get up to 20? It has been months, lad.

>I feel I've alienated myself from an online community

It'll blow over. I've felt like that before and it's the recency of it that stings. Give it a little while and see how you feel upon reflection.

Next time try not to have such a teary about getting banned for posting pictures of Greta on /x/.

Without meaning to sound like I'm marking your homework, there's lots of different threads here, and I think you might be equivocating a bit between ideas that aren't strictly related.

Are you really aiming to replicate the "confidence trickster" behaviour? It sounds like you're aware of the value of honesty in and of itself. You're imagining a wife or partner, but that relationship will be hollow unless you allow them to see your flaws.

It sounds like you're struggling a lot with the problem of "being seen" and your self-image. This isn't an easy thing to figure out for anyone, but I find the more you can turn to your own objective merits and achievements, and be up-front about your limitations, the more people will respect you for who you are.

I'm sure you have qualities as an individual that others value, and your recognition that you might have misbehaved in the past is a good sign that you don't want to harm others. In short, don't give up on yourself as a person and do your very best not to make yourself a better person in your own eyes.

>>30337

Do your very best to make yourself a better person in your own eyes.

I accidentally negated the last bit and can't delete my post. What a silly sausage.

>>441512
I do live on my own as it happens but even when I were a kid and lived with my parents I was expected to cook for myself and do my own washing, and usually the rest of the family's laundry and washing up and tea making. I think living on your own can help, but teaching those sort of skills is possible whilst living at home.


Funny story, the day before I moved out for uni, my dad had this 20 minute top of his lungs screaming session at me about how I was an ungrateful little shit and I was deliberately sabotaging his coffee by making it taste like shit. When I pointed out that a) I don't drink coffee so I have no idea what it's supposed to taste like, b) in the previous six years he'd not once pointed out that it didn't taste good so how the fuck was I supposed to know, and c) if he wanted coffee how he liked it he shouldn't scream at me to make it every 30 minutes whilst I'm trying to do school work and make it himself, he reiterated that I was doing it deliberately and should have been more grateful (for what, I'm not sure). I don't have a bad relationship with my parents, and that incident has never been mentioned again, but it was just such a fucking weird thing to happen.

>>441516

I suspect that was your emotionally-constipated dad's way of saying "I love you son and I'm going to miss you".

>>441509
That's what she tells you. It's all part of their full time findom lifestyle.

>>441516

>but it was just such a fucking weird thing to happen.

How do you bugger up coffee though? Contrary to what hipsters will have you believe, it's not sorcery to be able to make a pleasant tasting cup of coffee.


Agree with your general point though, that your parents can already teach you life skills while you are still living with them. I remember my mum teaching me how to use the washing machine and dryer when I was about 15, when she got tired of me always wanting to wear things that she hadn't had the time to put in the wash. Also, my mum is still of the generation where a wife was expected to have good cooking skills, and I learned a lot from her, like how to fry a steak so that it's still juicy inside, or how to cook vegetables just right.

My dad wasn't around long enough to teach me the "lad" stuff like fixing electrical appliances or repainting a garden fence, but I eventually picked those skills up myself in adulthood.

>>441519

Maybe his dad's a hipster?

I just stuff all of my money into Bitcoin, Ethereum, and gold. I own a little bit of land, and I'm still paying of some property. Perhaps I'll but more land in a decade. Fuck getting rich in the short term, preserving wealth in the long term is the safest way to go considering all of the shit that has happened recently. I don't trust central banks with how much money they've just miraculously printed into the economy. The only thing keeping stocks up right now are pension funds I reckon. It's a zombie economy, and It's going to collapse. Pack rice. And tea.

>>8019
>The only thing keeping stocks up right now are pension funds I reckon. It's a zombie economy, and It's going to collapse.

People have been saying this just about every time investing has been brought up over the past 10 years on here.

>>8020
Every investment forum in the past 100 years has people like him. You can afford that worldview if you already have property and gold.

So what's the deal with TSLA?

Also ETFs (like Global x and ARK) look like they have pretty good yield and spread risk across a portfolio of emerging tech companies.

They tend to be organized around a theme (electric cars, robotics, next gen internet, medicine etc)

He has just posted a video, conceding.

>>91911
The mentalists are claiming it is a deepfake, and that the deep state has won.

>>91911>>91912
His lawyer, not the mad mayor one, a proper one, just told him he could get nicked if he leans in on an attempted coup.

Alright, now it's over can we get a /yank/ meta-board alongside /*/ and /sfw/ so I never have to think about Seppos again.

>>91914

I think it's called /zoo/, if that still exists. I'd vote that all Yank business go in there anyhow.

>>29913
They can't clap if they can't see their own hands, around your end?

>>29914
No. We fear the foxes.

>>29921

As you should. This year is ARE YEAR. Again.

Sometimes I forget everyone here is too intellectual to follow the footy.

>>29923
Not me.

>>29923
ManU will win it on goal difference. Thanks to all their penalties.