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bchot · November 2025

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By the way, we are already at 194 pages. Can we join hands and reach 200 in the next 20 minutes or so. Who's in?

@morgan44 you still here?

i am not up to this challenge. have to feed some cats quite sooon.

Sure, try to be ther though when we hit 200. sara might do a giveaway maybe

Sara needs to be here first, lately she comes up a few hours from now..

noob404 · November 2025

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because of my neck problems lately (are they caused by this thread? i keep having to look left where special dedicated screen is... no, just kidding, it's my sleep somehow causing it, every morning waking with more pain than last night) -- i cannot do proper workout.. so now i am making a post or two, and doing 20 squats.. all i can do is squats and maybe crunches or whatever abs stuff, and i don't want to lay down every few minutes, so it's just squats. i started working out mainly because kept having restless legs syndrome, but with time i realized it was all the sugar i kept consuming....

Bro, are you prone to spondylosis or any other related conditions? It's no joke.

my spine is fine. knock on wood. it's the muscles.. having started excercising and working out late in my life, i constantly get all kinds of muscle stretches and spasms, i do put up a very hard workout when in full potential, i do 2-3hrs of very intense HIIT, which in turn sometimes hits me back with muscle aches.. the worst so far is the intercostal muscle sprain i've had 2-3 times, that hurts like a motherfucker... feels like a freaking heart attack, if i knew what a heart attack felt like.. no joke for sure. goes away after few days though.. this neck problem been going on for like close to a week now.. very unpleasant too, at least i can move around with it.

That's bad. Yes, I have heard of intercostal muscle sprain as well. My friend used to work at a hospital where he said, people would come with this pain thinking they were having a heart attack. Some of them despite assurance from the doctors would still get an ECG/EKG (Ig, it's EKG in US) done to be a 100% sure. Maybe ease up on the exercise? When you say intense, do you mean like intense cardio or like intense intense (calisthenics ans such)?

yep i don't blame them, it hurts a lot.. first time i was worried very much, but next time it happened - just powered thru it and suffered with it, but it was over same 2-3 days as the one before.

i do a lot of HIIT, it mostly has simple stuff, but high intensity intervals of it.. like jumping with all kinds of arm movements, basically not hard, but intense and a lot.. i sweat A LOT, and i drink sometimes 3L of water during that, and then measure my weight - i would still lose 4-5Kg (you know, of water via sweating).. i wear bunch of lose fitting clothes that i change every hour cause they get sweaty all the way thru.. it's a process. the best for fat loss, in general.. i used to go running for half a year, but then my ankle and knee started hurting so i had to stop and switch to HIIT at home.. it sucks starting working out when you old. i mean, not that old, i feel like i'm 30 in heart. but my body says it's en-par with my real age.. LOL but not really L..

Just curious, don't you get medical attention everytime the sprain hits? I am asking cause you said, you just "power through."

Thanks for introducing me to HIIT. I have for the longest time been looking to get into some kinda exercise to bring my body fat down. For a really long time, I prided myself on being an ectomorph. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, my body won't gain weight. It all changed all of a sudden when I hit certain age and when life hit me the hardest. Combined with the mental stres I was under, I quickly gained weight, love handles and even my perfect jawline is gone.

Tried calisthenics for a few days but couldn't continue. I wanto to really get back to calisthenics because a part of me loves it, and someday, I wanna get into parkour. I know it's really hard when you are at a certain age, but, I really wanna try atleast.

parkour.. lol.. one day you'll find yourself smashed on some wall and slowly leaking down it like a slime or something, and you'll know the truth.. LMAO

but really, try with the PLANK first, it's like the beginning of any parkour training.. plank can be done anywhere.

Yah, it's a daredevil's hobby for sure. But, I was madly inspired by the movie Banlieue 13 as a kid. Have you seen it?

no, is it french? i saw lots of french stuff when was younger.. but do not recall this one.. i did see a movie or two based on/or heavily featuring parkour..

like taxi 2 or 3 or maybe even 4 or 5.. when eventually turns out the guy doing all the jumping was actually Syl Stallone.. LOL

Yah, it's French. It was dubbed in English and released as Banlieue 13. Infact, there's a remake with Paul Walker and the original French actor, David Belle - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430612/

But, the original is so much better, because David Belle's co-actor, Cyril Rafaelli is an awesome daredevil - jumps off from 3rd floors landing on his back, doesn't open car doors to enter the care, etc. It's unlike any parkour movie you might have seen.

from the trailer seems that i watched Paul Walker version. i will try locate the french one.. thanks! looks fucking cool..

BTW, if you did love the first one, also watch the second - District 13: Ultimatum. Also, maybe defer the watching to after 22nd Dec

noob404 · November 2025

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By the way, we are already at 194 pages. Can we join hands and reach 200 in the next 20 minutes or so. Who's in?

@morgan44 you still here?

i am not up to this challenge. have to feed some cats quite sooon.

Sure, try to be ther though when we hit 200. sara might do a giveaway maybe

Sara needs to be here first, lately she comes up a few hours from now..

I haven't been able to catch her. Due to the no gravedigging rules, I haven't been able to check if she did reply to my reqeust for a giveaway on page 200. I will check it now.

noob404 · November 2025

Just checked, I guess, she missed my comments Anyways, we gotta keep going, 200 is just 100 odd comments away.

PuDLeZ · November 2025

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@mark said:
@dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

(Ticket ID NP46576)

As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like
tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract
tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).
That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.
Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)
Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?
Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself.
Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.
Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).
That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.
Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse
Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?
Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).
What I mean with OG xbox
Oh this one. I have only seen images of it. Never seen a live one.

Hehe, it was basically an intel p3 with a nvidia gpu, dvd drive, and an ide/pata harddrive. In a sense, it was a standard pc with everything soldered to the board (like how a lot of laptops are now-a-days). Obviously, there was a custom bios for the "xbox only" stuff but yeah, basically off the shelf pc and the custom controller ports were just usb.

Am I showing my age?

bchot · November 2025

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I hate winters. Do you guys in the US change tires to drive in the snow or are these cars equipped with all-weather tyres straight from the factory?

my car has All Wheel Drive, so that is like having winter tires.. but I invested at some point, well, i actually bought new wheels for my car with mounted tires on them, and used old rims to put on winter tires. now i own an impact wrench (bought on BF sale a few years back) and in my garage i myself replace summer wheels with slick almost bald summer tires for winter wheels with the very very rubber-rich tires. saving a shit load of money doing it myself twice a year, and have amazing performance for any season.. thus all the snow fun - i simply haven;t gotten stuck in the snow since i bought my car in 2016 or so..

bchot · November 2025

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By the way, we are already at 194 pages. Can we join hands and reach 200 in the next 20 minutes or so. Who's in?

@morgan44 you still here?

i am not up to this challenge. have to feed some cats quite sooon.

Sure, try to be ther though when we hit 200. sara might do a giveaway maybe

Sara needs to be here first, lately she comes up a few hours from now.. > @noob404 said:

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because of my neck problems lately (are they caused by this thread? i keep having to look left where special dedicated screen is... no, just kidding, it's my sleep somehow causing it, every morning waking with more pain than last night) -- i cannot do proper workout.. so now i am making a post or two, and doing 20 squats.. all i can do is squats and maybe crunches or whatever abs stuff, and i don't want to lay down every few minutes, so it's just squats. i started working out mainly because kept having restless legs syndrome, but with time i realized it was all the sugar i kept consuming....

Bro, are you prone to spondylosis or any other related conditions? It's no joke.

my spine is fine. knock on wood. it's the muscles.. having started excercising and working out late in my life, i constantly get all kinds of muscle stretches and spasms, i do put up a very hard workout when in full potential, i do 2-3hrs of very intense HIIT, which in turn sometimes hits me back with muscle aches.. the worst so far is the intercostal muscle sprain i've had 2-3 times, that hurts like a motherfucker... feels like a freaking heart attack, if i knew what a heart attack felt like.. no joke for sure. goes away after few days though.. this neck problem been going on for like close to a week now.. very unpleasant too, at least i can move around with it.

That's bad. Yes, I have heard of intercostal muscle sprain as well. My friend used to work at a hospital where he said, people would come with this pain thinking they were having a heart attack. Some of them despite assurance from the doctors would still get an ECG/EKG (Ig, it's EKG in US) done to be a 100% sure. Maybe ease up on the exercise? When you say intense, do you mean like intense cardio or like intense intense (calisthenics ans such)?

yep i don't blame them, it hurts a lot.. first time i was worried very much, but next time it happened - just powered thru it and suffered with it, but it was over same 2-3 days as the one before.

i do a lot of HIIT, it mostly has simple stuff, but high intensity intervals of it.. like jumping with all kinds of arm movements, basically not hard, but intense and a lot.. i sweat A LOT, and i drink sometimes 3L of water during that, and then measure my weight - i would still lose 4-5Kg (you know, of water via sweating).. i wear bunch of lose fitting clothes that i change every hour cause they get sweaty all the way thru.. it's a process. the best for fat loss, in general.. i used to go running for half a year, but then my ankle and knee started hurting so i had to stop and switch to HIIT at home.. it sucks starting working out when you old. i mean, not that old, i feel like i'm 30 in heart. but my body says it's en-par with my real age.. LOL but not really L..

Just curious, don't you get medical attention everytime the sprain hits? I am asking cause you said, you just "power through."

Thanks for introducing me to HIIT. I have for the longest time been looking to get into some kinda exercise to bring my body fat down. For a really long time, I prided myself on being an ectomorph. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, my body won't gain weight. It all changed all of a sudden when I hit certain age and when life hit me the hardest. Combined with the mental stres I was under, I quickly gained weight, love handles and even my perfect jawline is gone.

Tried calisthenics for a few days but couldn't continue. I wanto to really get back to calisthenics because a part of me loves it, and someday, I wanna get into parkour. I know it's really hard when you are at a certain age, but, I really wanna try atleast.

parkour.. lol.. one day you'll find yourself smashed on some wall and slowly leaking down it like a slime or something, and you'll know the truth.. LMAO

but really, try with the PLANK first, it's like the beginning of any parkour training.. plank can be done anywhere.

Yah, it's a daredevil's hobby for sure. But, I was madly inspired by the movie Banlieue 13 as a kid. Have you seen it?

no, is it french? i saw lots of french stuff when was younger.. but do not recall this one.. i did see a movie or two based on/or heavily featuring parkour..

like taxi 2 or 3 or maybe even 4 or 5.. when eventually turns out the guy doing all the jumping was actually Syl Stallone.. LOL

Yah, it's French. It was dubbed in English and released as Banlieue 13. Infact, there's a remake with Paul Walker and the original French actor, David Belle - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430612/

But, the original is so much better, because David Belle's co-actor, Cyril Rafaelli is an awesome daredevil - jumps off from 3rd floors landing on his back, doesn't open car doors to enter the care, etc. It's unlike any parkour movie you might have seen.

from the trailer seems that i watched Paul Walker version. i will try locate the french one.. thanks! looks fucking cool..

BTW, if you did love the first one, also watch the second - District 13: Ultimatum. Also, maybe defer the watching to after 22nd Dec

got all 3 queued up.. thansk for good suggestion. lately nothin ggood came out in weeks/months..

bchot · November 2025

dammm 1 post instead of 2.. gotta correct that with this nonsensical post..

noob404 · November 2025

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@mark said:
@dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

(Ticket ID NP46576)

As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like
tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract
tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).
That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.
Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)
Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?
Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself.
Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.
Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).
That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.
Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse
Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?
Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).
What I mean with OG xbox
Oh this one. I have only seen images of it. Never seen a live one.
Hehe, it was basically an intel p3 with a nvidia gpu, dvd drive, and an ide/pata harddrive. In a sense, it was a standard pc with everything soldered to the board (like how a lot of laptops are now-a-days). Obviously, there was a custom bios for the "xbox only" stuff but yeah, basically off the shelf pc and the custom controller ports were just usb.

Am I showing my age?

LOL! Fortunately, to me, you are not. Consoles weren't really popular in India. The first console I saw in the open was the Xbox 360 (now I realised that's the white and green one). My first console was the PS3 back in 2011.

bchot · November 2025

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dammm 1 post instead of 2.. gotta correct that with this nonsensical post..

that was the glitch of quoting, you silly

noob404 · November 2025

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I hate winters. Do you guys in the US change tires to drive in the snow or are these cars equipped with all-weather tyres straight from the factory?

my car has All Wheel Drive, so that is like having winter tires.. but I invested at some point, well, i actually bought new wheels for my car with mounted tires on them, and used old rims to put on winter tires. now i own an impact wrench (bought on BF sale a few years back) and in my garage i myself replace summer wheels with slick almost bald summer tires for winter wheels with the very very rubber-rich tires. saving a shit load of money doing it myself twice a year, and have amazing performance for any season.. thus all the snow fun - i simply haven;t gotten stuck in the snow since i bought my car in 2016 or so..

Oh, that's good. It depends on the region too, like in India, car tyres are more suited to withstand the torrential monsoon rains. That gains priority over anything else.

noob404 · November 2025

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By the way, we are already at 194 pages. Can we join hands and reach 200 in the next 20 minutes or so. Who's in?

@morgan44 you still here?

i am not up to this challenge. have to feed some cats quite sooon.

Sure, try to be ther though when we hit 200. sara might do a giveaway maybe

Sara needs to be here first, lately she comes up a few hours from now.. > @noob404 said:

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because of my neck problems lately (are they caused by this thread? i keep having to look left where special dedicated screen is... no, just kidding, it's my sleep somehow causing it, every morning waking with more pain than last night) -- i cannot do proper workout.. so now i am making a post or two, and doing 20 squats.. all i can do is squats and maybe crunches or whatever abs stuff, and i don't want to lay down every few minutes, so it's just squats. i started working out mainly because kept having restless legs syndrome, but with time i realized it was all the sugar i kept consuming....

Bro, are you prone to spondylosis or any other related conditions? It's no joke.

my spine is fine. knock on wood. it's the muscles.. having started excercising and working out late in my life, i constantly get all kinds of muscle stretches and spasms, i do put up a very hard workout when in full potential, i do 2-3hrs of very intense HIIT, which in turn sometimes hits me back with muscle aches.. the worst so far is the intercostal muscle sprain i've had 2-3 times, that hurts like a motherfucker... feels like a freaking heart attack, if i knew what a heart attack felt like.. no joke for sure. goes away after few days though.. this neck problem been going on for like close to a week now.. very unpleasant too, at least i can move around with it.

That's bad. Yes, I have heard of intercostal muscle sprain as well. My friend used to work at a hospital where he said, people would come with this pain thinking they were having a heart attack. Some of them despite assurance from the doctors would still get an ECG/EKG (Ig, it's EKG in US) done to be a 100% sure. Maybe ease up on the exercise? When you say intense, do you mean like intense cardio or like intense intense (calisthenics ans such)?

yep i don't blame them, it hurts a lot.. first time i was worried very much, but next time it happened - just powered thru it and suffered with it, but it was over same 2-3 days as the one before.

i do a lot of HIIT, it mostly has simple stuff, but high intensity intervals of it.. like jumping with all kinds of arm movements, basically not hard, but intense and a lot.. i sweat A LOT, and i drink sometimes 3L of water during that, and then measure my weight - i would still lose 4-5Kg (you know, of water via sweating).. i wear bunch of lose fitting clothes that i change every hour cause they get sweaty all the way thru.. it's a process. the best for fat loss, in general.. i used to go running for half a year, but then my ankle and knee started hurting so i had to stop and switch to HIIT at home.. it sucks starting working out when you old. i mean, not that old, i feel like i'm 30 in heart. but my body says it's en-par with my real age.. LOL but not really L..

Just curious, don't you get medical attention everytime the sprain hits? I am asking cause you said, you just "power through."

Thanks for introducing me to HIIT. I have for the longest time been looking to get into some kinda exercise to bring my body fat down. For a really long time, I prided myself on being an ectomorph. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted, my body won't gain weight. It all changed all of a sudden when I hit certain age and when life hit me the hardest. Combined with the mental stres I was under, I quickly gained weight, love handles and even my perfect jawline is gone.

Tried calisthenics for a few days but couldn't continue. I wanto to really get back to calisthenics because a part of me loves it, and someday, I wanna get into parkour. I know it's really hard when you are at a certain age, but, I really wanna try atleast.

parkour.. lol.. one day you'll find yourself smashed on some wall and slowly leaking down it like a slime or something, and you'll know the truth.. LMAO

but really, try with the PLANK first, it's like the beginning of any parkour training.. plank can be done anywhere.

Yah, it's a daredevil's hobby for sure. But, I was madly inspired by the movie Banlieue 13 as a kid. Have you seen it?

no, is it french? i saw lots of french stuff when was younger.. but do not recall this one.. i did see a movie or two based on/or heavily featuring parkour..

like taxi 2 or 3 or maybe even 4 or 5.. when eventually turns out the guy doing all the jumping was actually Syl Stallone.. LOL

Yah, it's French. It was dubbed in English and released as Banlieue 13. Infact, there's a remake with Paul Walker and the original French actor, David Belle - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1430612/

But, the original is so much better, because David Belle's co-actor, Cyril Rafaelli is an awesome daredevil - jumps off from 3rd floors landing on his back, doesn't open car doors to enter the care, etc. It's unlike any parkour movie you might have seen.

from the trailer seems that i watched Paul Walker version. i will try locate the french one.. thanks! looks fucking cool..

BTW, if you did love the first one, also watch the second - District 13: Ultimatum. Also, maybe defer the watching to after 22nd Dec

got all 3 queued up.. thansk for good suggestion. lately nothin ggood came out in weeks/months..

Yah, I can relate. I had hopes for the new Tron movie, esp. with Jared Leto in it. But, I was again disappointed with the reviews. Haven't watche dit yet though.

bchot · November 2025

did you guys know in Turkey government instructs all internet providers to throttle Youtube connection speeds during the day time, like right now.. it is very bizarre to me..

noob404 · November 2025

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dammm 1 post instead of 2.. gotta correct that with this nonsensical post..

that was the glitch of quoting, you silly

IS LET slow for you again? An hour or ago, some posts were taking me more than 20 seconds to post.

PuDLeZ · November 2025

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@noob404 said:
I hate winters. Do you guys in the US change tires to drive in the snow or are these cars equipped with all-weather tyres straight from the factory?

my car has All Wheel Drive, so that is like having winter tires.. but I invested at some point, well, i actually bought new wheels for my car with mounted tires on them, and used old rims to put on winter tires. now i own an impact wrench (bought on BF sale a few years back) and in my garage i myself replace summer wheels with slick almost bald summer tires for winter wheels with the very very rubber-rich tires. saving a shit load of money doing it myself twice a year, and have amazing performance for any season.. thus all the snow fun - i simply haven;t gotten stuck in the snow since i bought my car in 2016 or so..

Most just all seasons. You really only really need winter specific tires if you have to climb/decend steep curving roads in the mountains or you live in the middle of nowhere. If you live in a city, plowing is pretty good/fast and they will at least throw down some dirt and/or ice melt.

bchot · November 2025

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:
I hate winters. Do you guys in the US change tires to drive in the snow or are these cars equipped with all-weather tyres straight from the factory?

my car has All Wheel Drive, so that is like having winter tires.. but I invested at some point, well, i actually bought new wheels for my car with mounted tires on them, and used old rims to put on winter tires. now i own an impact wrench (bought on BF sale a few years back) and in my garage i myself replace summer wheels with slick almost bald summer tires for winter wheels with the very very rubber-rich tires. saving a shit load of money doing it myself twice a year, and have amazing performance for any season.. thus all the snow fun - i simply haven;t gotten stuck in the snow since i bought my car in 2016 or so..

Oh, that's good. It depends on the region too, like in India, car tyres are more suited to withstand the torrential monsoon rains. That gains priority over anything else.

what do they do to help withstand those rains? put water skis under front tires?

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:
did you guys know in Turkey government instructs all internet providers to throttle Youtube connection speeds during the day time, like right now.. it is very bizarre to me..

But, why? Do they have a specific reason, or is it just to prevent the "Western media"?

noob404 · November 2025

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:

@bchot said:

@noob404 said:
I hate winters. Do you guys in the US change tires to drive in the snow or are these cars equipped with all-weather tyres straight from the factory?

my car has All Wheel Drive, so that is like having winter tires.. but I invested at some point, well, i actually bought new wheels for my car with mounted tires on them, and used old rims to put on winter tires. now i own an impact wrench (bought on BF sale a few years back) and in my garage i myself replace summer wheels with slick almost bald summer tires for winter wheels with the very very rubber-rich tires. saving a shit load of money doing it myself twice a year, and have amazing performance for any season.. thus all the snow fun - i simply haven;t gotten stuck in the snow since i bought my car in 2016 or so..

Oh, that's good. It depends on the region too, like in India, car tyres are more suited to withstand the torrential monsoon rains. That gains priority over anything else.

what do they do to help withstand those rains? put water skis under front tires?

LOL! No. I don't have the technical knowhow to explain or understand what goes into those tyres. But, aquaplaning is a real issue here with bad reoads where water logs and drivers driving in the dark of the night miss these water patches in the middle of the road, apply brakes and end up meeting with accidents.

PuDLeZ · November 2025

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@mark said:
@dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

(Ticket ID NP46576)

As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like
tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract
tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).
That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.
Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)
Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?
Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself.
Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.
Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).
That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.
Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse
Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?
Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).
What I mean with OG xbox
Oh this one. I have only seen images of it. Never seen a live one.
Hehe, it was basically an intel p3 with a nvidia gpu, dvd drive, and an ide/pata harddrive. In a sense, it was a standard pc with everything soldered to the board (like how a lot of laptops are now-a-days). Obviously, there was a custom bios for the "xbox only" stuff but yeah, basically off the shelf pc and the custom controller ports were just usb.

Am I showing my age?
LOL! Fortunately, to me, you are not. Consoles weren't really popular in India. The first console I saw in the open was the Xbox 360 (now I realised that's the white and green one). My first console was the PS3 back in 2011.

My first console was a snes (was kind of the whole family) and first gaming system I bought myself (saved allowance, did extra chores, even did the rake leaves/mowed/shoveled snow in the neighborhood) was the first gameboy. I was super young at the time though. It's why I absolutely had to have the Analogue Pocket
https://analogue.co/pocket
The DMG/OG gameboy holds a special place in my heart and always will. The fpga is an awesome modern remake of it!

noob404 · November 2025

A few more pages to hit 200. Let's power through, guys. Oh man, I am so sleepy.

PuDLeZ · November 2025

LETS-GET-TO-200!

noob404 · November 2025

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@TrK said:

@mark said:
@dustinc Can we really not clone an existing VPS to a new service? That's very disappointing after being a customer for over 5 years with 7 live services.

(Ticket ID NP46576)

As far as I know that's the limitations of solusvm v1 and since RackNerd's entire VPS nodes are running on solusvm the live migration isn't something done with one click, the support has to manually migrate the data and cross check everything which isn't the part of unmanaged offerings if it was managed sure support will do that for you. And migrating services by yourself isn't that hard if you know what you are doing with servers.

No clue which distro you're using but if it's some *nix one, boot a livecd, mount partitions, and do something like
tar -cJpvf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs --numeric-owner -C /mnt/gentoo .
then on the other system, boot a livecd and extract
tar xvJpf myFullBackup.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
After that, you may need to chroot in and install grub or whatever (all depending on your setup) but then you should be good to go! There are some directories you can exclude in the backup but I left the command easier/generic.

If you have a second disk/drive, you can also just use dd if you want but that will take longer time and more storage (even if you compress it like you should).
That's my favourite way to backup. Infact, PS4 Linux distros are packages that way, since kexec is used, in the absence of a generic bootloader.
Yeah, it's not ideal for cloning a VPS but it works! I actually still had the commands in history since I built a new Gentoo system like a week or so ago. I used a different distro to take the stage3 to setup everything and even redid the stage1 and stage2 stuff. This backup enabled me to boot off USB, partition/etc, extract, and then basically just do grub before rebooting. Was nice only being booted off USB for like 15 minutes (probably less but I didn't time it, just a lot faster is I had to start from the official stage3 after booting off USB)
Yah, that's my preferred way to boot distros on Proxmox as well. DO all the stuff on a Virtualbox and then tar it using the command, then, just extract it to a Proxmox disk. 2-3 lines of tweaks in the boot line on Grub and you are good to go. Your own multi-boot!
BTW, I have never understood, what's so good about Gentoo?
Back in the day or on more limited systems, compiled for you specific hardware/CPU without extra bloat made things run way better. Now-a-days with modern hardware, it's not that noticable (besides maybe not all the bloat). It's also about habit, full choice, and a rolling distro. I've been using Tumbleweed on my laptop for the past 1.5-ish years. It's fine but now the same buddy is trying to get me into arch. I asked gemini to compare them including gentoo with a binhost (they do provide official binaries) and part of the comparision said
If you use Gentoo's binhost, you essentially get a "Do It Yourself Arch Linux"—fast installation, but you still have to assemble the LEGO pieces yourself.
Okay, so gentoo isn't exactly recommended for people trying to get into Linux. I personally haven't used Gentoo a lot. Been an Ubuntu fan since the beginning. I finally moved to Ubuntu completely deleting my Windows 11 installation completely last year, around BF. And, I am loving it. The only thing I miss is the Adobe suite. Getting it to work with Wine has been a pain with too many caveats. I ended up installing Virtualbox and Win 10 on it just to get the Adobe suite. Apart from that, no regrets on moving to Linux completely.
Yeah, Gentoo is not for new users unless they're really motivated to learn all the ins and outs about a linux setup and not affraid to troubleshoot something (rarely breaks now-a-days).
That explains a lot. I have always been intrigued cause there's a lot of work going on on Gentoo for PS4. I think they all love the challenge.
Well, Gentoo supports a lot of different architectures and you have a system with a full toolchain/libraries ready to go with a lot of other libraries/etc. ready to be installed if needed. Compiling for specific hardare makes it run better (again, not really that noticable now-a-days) but it's also easier to support odd/non-standard hardware. Actually funny, my first full Gentoo "computer" was the OG xbox. Totally bought a controller extension cables to splice in a usb a end so I could hookup a keyboard and an actual mouse
Oh, that makes perfect sense then why PS4 Linux heads are looking so much into Gentoo. Didn't know the OG Xbox could run Linux. That's awesome. BTW, by OG Xbox , you eman the white and green ones with red light of death issue, that MS issued a free repair for?
Both the first (the OG) and the 360 ran linux. I never did get into linux on the 360 since it required soldering stuff to chips (my soldering skills aren't that good, even to this day) and various points on the board. For the OG, you could tap solder to bridge two points on the board and flash a different bios. In the last hardware reversion, you had to use a chip but there was plenty of pogo pins with a hard wire to go in a throughhole to easily install them (though it wasn't that hard to just solder).
What I mean with OG xbox
Oh this one. I have only seen images of it. Never seen a live one.
Hehe, it was basically an intel p3 with a nvidia gpu, dvd drive, and an ide/pata harddrive. In a sense, it was a standard pc with everything soldered to the board (like how a lot of laptops are now-a-days). Obviously, there was a custom bios for the "xbox only" stuff but yeah, basically off the shelf pc and the custom controller ports were just usb.

Am I showing my age?
LOL! Fortunately, to me, you are not. Consoles weren't really popular in India. The first console I saw in the open was the Xbox 360 (now I realised that's the white and green one). My first console was the PS3 back in 2011.
My first console was a snes (was kind of the whole family) and first gaming system I bought myself (saved allowance, did extra chores, even did the rake leaves/mowed/shoveled snow in the neighborhood) was the first gameboy. I was super young at the time though. It's why I absolutely had to have the Analogue Pocket
https://analogue.co/pocket
The DMG/OG gameboy holds a special place in my heart and always will. The fpga is an awesome modern remake of it!

I still remember as a kid while travelling on a train, I met a foreigner who had a GBA. I was seeing it for the first time in my life and fell in love with it. I had played Max Payne on my PC by then, but, when the dude told me that the GBA could play Max Payne, I was dumbfounded! GOod old days. Nowadays, nothing surprises me

noob404 · November 2025

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