The whole point of that site is to compare sizes of cars. Plug in whatever you want to compare: https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/mazda-mx-5-1989-roadster-vs-ford-f-250-2023-4-door-pickup-crew-cab/

Without proper consequences their behaviour will continue.

It turns out that maybe having a gentlemen’s agreement for how things should work was a bad idea.

This makes me seriously question the level of testing required to get a licence where you are. By that I mean that by the standards I’m used to you were wildly under prepared for driving on the open road and shouldn’t have been put in that situation until you were ready.

It took me three attempts to pass my driving test. I could actually operate a car just fine for all of them but it wasn’t until the third that I was actually ready to be on the roads unsupervised. There is a lot going on and until you’ve built up the experience and habits to do it safely it’s… A lot.

I think I was also 19 when I got my licence but didn’t really drive at all until I was in my mid 30s. I always lived places it simply wasn’t necessary. If if stayed there then I doubt I’d have ever got a car. I find driving incredibly tedious.

Mick-rowave. Based on how Jen pronounces it in Bob’s Burgers

What’s so WTF about it? I’m repurposing old hardware and testing out the concept. I’m not shelling out a pile of cash on something that might not work for me.

I used to take the train from Wales to Scotland. I’d get on at my local station and change once about half way through the trip. On arrival I could walk to my flat. The whole process took about eight hours.

Once I flew. First I had to get a bus to the airport, arrive early for security theatre, eventually fly, land, take a shuttle bus to a train station, then take a train to Cardiff Central, then take another train to my actual destination. The process took about six hours and was utterly exhausting.

These are internal drives connected to a desktop PSU wired to a USB interface to connect to the laptop.

Haha, yeah. It does make me wonder whether I should bin the whole TrueNAS approach entirely. It seems like a tremendous faff when I could just have the files mirrored to another disk as a backup.

The hard disks are on a separate power supply. The TrueNAS software is running on an old laptop so it effectively has UPS protection.

A technical description?

I don’t know the first thing about Bonfire. I literally only know its name, and even then, I’m not sure if it’s even an it.

It might be an organisation, a single tool, a framework, a development environment, a service, I genuinely don’t know.

A “mission-driven project” is a meaningless phrase that can be applied to almost anything.

For you it’s buzzwords, for other people it means a very specific positioning.

Positioning what?

Looking at the about page because the concept sounds like it might be really cool…

Started in 2020, Bonfire is a mission-driven project creating
sustainable open-source tools and building blocks for communities to
engage meaningfully, coordinate as peers, make collective decisions,
and cooperate effectively – all interconnected with countless
federated apps across the web. We’re dedicated to nurturing digital
spaces that encourage vibrant community participation and impactful
collaboration.

We endeavour to foster a transparent, inclusive, and empowering
environment. This ethos drives us to build connected, democratic, and
vibrant digital spaces, supporting communities around the world to
connect, grow, and flourish.

Who writes this stuff? It’s meaningless buzzword drivel.

What’s the point in an about page’s first text block if not to give a high level overview of what the thing is?

It might well be something I could be enthusiastic about but I took one look and thought “You’ve given me no reason to try to decode this and there’s better things I could do with a sunny Saturday”.

About pages are super important and this project is being let down by it.