Well, I’ve found some of the answer.

/volume1 is a single LV on a single VG - no surprise there. There are two PVs comprising it, each of which is a RAID5 group across an extended partition on the disks.

pv0 is /dev/sd[abcd]5 and pv1 is /dev/sd[abcd]6

Now what I find most interesting right now is that SHR supposedly required btrfs to operate - and yet, /volume01 is an ext4 filesystem.

Part of me would like to convert to btrfs, but I’d need a spare 10TB of storage just to back up to, before starting down that odyssey.

More digging, more questions.

Time for a lawsuit.

Since the presence of a TV in your house is a commercial benefit for the companies who make them, AND you do not actually have control over them, it is clear that the ‘sales contract’ was fraudulent and part of a bad-faith act on the manufacturers’ part.

So I say a class-action lawsuit is in order: Each person who bought (say) an LG TV gets back 100% of their purchase price, plus some reimbursement for being spied on - probably a per-month amount. Then LG has to pay a punitive fee on top of their payouts to customers.

I know that everyone is screaming “that will never work!” and “They’ll go bankrupt!” I don’t care - SOMETHING has to change to remind these evil fuckers that they need our business, or the abuse will just ramp up.

Bankrupt them all. Tear down the entire industry. Tear down the entire economy and start again from scratch if that’s what it takes.

If they can’t be reined in legally, then it will happen illegally - and probably violently.

Little boutique place near us has an “Apple Cheddar Pie” ice cream in the fall. It’s never quite as good as you expect. Gotta try it again this year, to see how they’ve changed it.

(On the other hand, their Lemon Curd Blueberry is one of the greatest things ever served in a cone in the history of humankind.)

I guess I shouldn’t be expected to pay for games until my total is over a hundred bucks then?

If it is possible over the course of the game for turn orders to be changed, or for a player to choose to draw a card, or cause another player to draw a card, then it matters in a way.

This is a fascinating wrinkle, and quite correct. (and non-obvious, I would say.)

Everything that people have been posting leans towards laying out the order ahead of time, even if there’s no mathematical difference in drawing the next card.

(Unless you’re not dealing with a deck of cards, but instead 50k decks at once. :-D )

if you’re playing a card game that requires deck manipulation…

Ah! This is something that I hadn’t directly considered. Interesting point, and it could be a serious concern for some games.

Thanks!

Oooh, I can answer some of this!

Frequency response is DEFINITELY non-linear in a traditional pickup. The nonlinearity is one of the prime factors in the tone of a pickup. (And unlike with say home audio amplifiers, there is no argument about the variation in tonality of different pickups.)

Garbage. It doesn’t punish them, hold them accountable, or force them to improve their security practices.

Every breach like this should automatically require a $100 cheque to every affected account holder. Two nillion accounts compromised? $200M is a real consequence.

Mandarin orange slices.

It ABSOLUTELY matters that Trump is put on the same playing field and under the same scrutiny as Harris!!!

That’s all. It doesn’t matter what their respective positions are. It doesn’t matter that Trump will give a rambling, incoherent answer and support Israel even if they declare babies as food.

It matters that Trump is held to the same scrutiny as Harris, simple as that.

Is Trump getting the same questions?

Capitalism, fucking everything up, same as everywhere.

You’re not here to ask a good-faith question, you’re here to state an opinion or theory.

The Democrats won’t win an election while opposing fracking. O&G is far FAR too powerful to let that happen. If Harris stood firmly against fracking, then the opponent would win - be he (and it will be a he) Trump, Musk, or David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz.

No, I’m not exaggerating.

They would, and they do.

But because they’re rich and determined to play both sides of the fight, they also pour some (less) money towards the Democrats to have some leverage.

Frankly, I don’t see much of a problem with this.

They’ll sell the “Apple” charging cable for $40 or something fucking insane, but as long as you can buy and use a normal USB-C cable that does exactly the same thing, go for it.

Of course being Apple, they will probably void the warranty or add an identifier to their cables so that nothing else works. In that case, I hope the EU bankrupts them completely.

You misspelled 2026.

As hilarious as this is, it doesn’t really address the question of whether farts will maintain their potency in a jar, or if they’ll degrade in the presence of air.

If farts never lost their potency, the entire planet should be unbearable by now.

Just saw “The Play That Goes Wrong,” and it is a two hour masterpiece of a play within a play.

I see videos of complete productions on youtube. Go watch one.

Make no mistake - Trump would do that and more.