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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

Why would someone do something like this? Who hurt them? And yes, that's the exact same shade of blue and underline they use for links.

A screenshot of part of the Glasses Direct dashboard, focusing on blue underlined text saying "Order Details Received". Below it is a screenshot of the element inspector revealing that the blue underlined text is not in fact a link

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/12/2025

Never thought I'd be independently wealthy, it's been a weird year.

Windows 11 Task Manager showing 64gb of RAM

Proxmox system status showing 128gb of RAM

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

Everyone's out of the house at the same time? Unexpected maintenance window. #homelab #selfhosting

A rackmount server extended on its rails with the lid off

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

Said computers are on opposite sides of the Bwlch. Sheep are mental.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2025

By a happy coincidence one of my frankenservers turns out to be a chassis and motherboard pairing that occurred in real life, which was a nice surprise. #homelab

A Netbox device type page for a Supermicro SuperStorage 2028R-E1CR24N

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

@sophieschmieg Not portable enough, an emergency might strike anywhere.

A pocket watch chassis containing a very small D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D10 and D100.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

OK, here we go. "Outage? What outage? Everything looks fine to me" #SelfHosted

My rack. It's a bit scruffy, some of the disk trays are missing and the patch cables are mismatched but it's up.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025

This is getting tedious. I'm trying to install W11 on unsupported hardware (that should be perfectly capable of running it), and I'm trying to do it in place because I'm stubborn. This install has been with me through countless changes of hardware platform and […] [Original post on toot.wales]

Windows 11 install error screen with a throbber and the message "Undoing changes made to your computer..."

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2025

Oops. I probably shouldn't have hotlinked my background image from Imgur. Luckily I have a copy on my local machine, it's a screenshot I took in Elite: Dangerous. #OSA #homelab

My Homepage dashboard. The background image has been replaced with a big message saying "Content not viewable in your region"

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

Haven't had much of a chance to think about dinner while we were being a hedgehog ambulance, but luckily there's plenty of the balti I made last week in the freezer so all I have to do is make pilau. Better get to it. #curry

Everything I need for pilau rice laid out on the counter. Basmati rice, mustard seeds, cardamom pods, cinnamon, clove, turmeric, cashew nuts, ghee and a beer. Not for the rice, for me.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2025

So, it turns out Lil Spineyboi was Lil Spineygrrl all along. Just delivered her to hog hospital too, to sort out her cough. #hedgehogs

Another hedgehog in a box with a bowl of kibble.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

Found this lil fella wandering around in the middle of the afternoon. Got him all bundled up with a hot water bottle and going to take him for a checkup this evening. #hedgehogs

A hedgehog wrapped in a towel in a plastic container

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

In less delicious news: this thing I cobbled together has broken again. Oh joy.

The back of a Raspberry Pi powered smart mirror. It's a bit of a messy cablepocalypse.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

Experiment: making chaat with tomato puree instead of tomatoes. This may go badly wrong but it was worth a try.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

I just found a 5mm socket on the floor next to my desk. I have no idea how it got there. I don't recall owning a 5mm socket, or needing to deal with a 5 mm bolt, or owning anything the right size to drive it.

A baffled hand holds a 5mm socket against a wood grained background.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025

It was indeed time to make a curry. And since it's just for me I threw in a couple of nagas.

A rich orange balti simmering in the pan. A bay leaf is desperately trying to stay afloat.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025

Lil Spineyboi appearance, this time at the top of the garden (I heard him snuffling from the back door). #hedgehogs

A hedgehog eating kibble next to a pile of roof slates

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

I should probably have started earlier, I'm ravenous. #curry

Pans on the hob. Front left is a rich orange balti, front right a chaat. Behind them, pilau rice.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

I'm blending up so you better get this balti started. /cc @purplepadma #curry

Very pink balti sauce in a pyrex bowl. On the surface is a mound of brown, red and yellow ground spices.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2025

@doctator I've fallen into that trap before. I had a domain for years for a Left 4 Dead mod I never got around to making. Finally culled it a while back along with a bunch of others.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

On reflection, maybe having DaVinci Resolve and Figma next to each other on the taskbar wasn't the best idea. The frequency of me absent-mindedly clicking the wrong one is non-zero.

Two icons next to each other. Both comprise multicoloured spots on a black square.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

On a whim I checked the spam folder on the Gmail account I barely use any more, and you couldn't make this up. #spam #google

A marketing email from Google Analytics that has automatically been categorised as spam by Gmail because "this message is similar to messages that we identified as spam in the past"

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

So, I just started editing a video I recorded recently and I spotted a typo in a sentence about me inevitably screwing up.

Heading below video: Outer Wilds
Subheading: Not Worlds. Let''s see how long it takes me to screw that up

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2025

A treat for Lil Spineyboi. Still haven't managed to get accommodation up to @babe's standards yet.

A hedgehog enjoying a snack of dried mealworms

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2025

Got a nice lad from Openreach around to run fibre, and had to pull out the rack so he can get to the corner where the ONT is going. I hadn't realised I'd let it get so bad back there. Bit embarrassing. #homelab

Back of a very messy 18u rack. There are 3 servers, a vertical PDU and a spaghetti incident.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2025

Different sort of #curry tonight. I didn't have any other chillis so I had to fall back on my big bag of dried Nagas. Only the one because I didn't want to kill @lexicaleigh.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

Being less sorcerously talented than @brucelawson, I managed to get through cooking the bolognese with white shirt unscathed but the wine resented being uncorked and spat at me.

A white shirt cuff marred by spots of red wine. In the background, a pan of bolognese and the offending bottle.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

I'm only surprised I haven't seen this sooner. Obviously I don't have a Large Lying Machine subscription to fail. #phishing #AI

Phishing email claiming my ChatGPT plus subscription payment failed

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2025

Just to add insult to injury, I neglected to add basmati to the shopping list, so now I'm trying to make pilau with the random bag of brown rice we did have in the cupboard. Oops. At least the #curry is looking good.

A rich orange chicken balti simmers away in the pan

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2025

Even my PC agrees it's too hot in here.

Screenshot from Aquasuite dashboard showing
44°C coolant
27°C ambient
54°C CPU
48°C GPU
at complete idle.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

Any polyglots around who can help explain this weirdly censored game chat? Obviously it's the Scunthorpe Problem, but "ebal" isn't offensive in English so what (presumably European because Euro server) language are they targeting? #gaming #language

World of Warships chat message with odd censoring: Smaland remembers the 5 Ds of dodg****l

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

I love Saturday. Best day of the week. #curry.

A bag of dried weapons grade peppers. In a bowl next to them ready to be mixed are tomatoes, garlic and ginger.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2025

@0xabad1dea Crashes used to be black, I don't hold with that newfangled blue business.

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

Contrary to popular belief, there's more to pilau rice than boiled white rice and some drops of food dye. #curry

A deep rich red chicken vindaloo on a plate with pilau rice containing cinnamon, cloves, turmeric, mustard seeds, cardamom and cashew nuts

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

Racing spoon says it's a nice punchy one. I used red wine vinegar because we happened to have some handy (I usually just use balsamic), and because I'm just cooking for myself for a change I got to use my Nagas (my nearest and dearest don't appreciate weapons […] [Original post on toot.wales]

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woe2you @woe2you.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2025

This vindaloo has been sitting there since yesterday tempting me every time I opened the fridge. Time to get this party started. #curry

Chicken vindaloo marinating in a Pyrex bowl

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