We finally got around to installing our EV charger at work... last week.

I drew up a protective cover which is getting made up and due to arrive... next week.

Guess what happened in between those two points? 😬

**In short: **

The government has halved the fuel excise, reducing the cost of petrol and diesel by 26.3 cents a litre for three months.

The heavy road user charge will also be reduced to zero for the same period, taking pressure off truck drivers and transport costs.

Looks like that's the end of Sendle? Bit of a shame, they were very convenient for sending small parcels. Couriers on the whole are a pain in the proverbial to deal with normally.

Summary:

Last-mile delivery provider FAST Group, formed through the August 2025 merger of Sendle, FirstMile, and ACI Logistix, is currently facing a severe financial crisis that has led its primary private equity backer, Sydney-based Federation Asset Management, to freeze its $100 million investment fund. Just months after the merger intended to create a logistics powerhouse, the entity is reportedly struggling with significant financial red flags and "due diligence lapses" that have brought it to the brink of a potential U.S. bankruptcy filing. The meltdown has raised serious concerns regarding the firm's risk management and the stability of its underlying assets, leaving the future of the e-commerce logistics venture in doubt as it seeks urgent financing to avoid a total collapse.

Email received today:

A very local musician (literally a few suburbs over from me!) who's got a cracker of a country album I reckon. The production is somewhat amateur and his voice can't quite hit a few of the notes he aims for, but it gives it a charm I love. It's the perfect music for hanging out at a local bar, talking crap with your mates, and nodding along with some beaut tracks from a live band.

If you're Australian you'll recognise lots of slang terms in the song.

Bleep bloop.

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G'day,

tl;dr - have two unraid servers in geographically independant locations, want to use them as duplicate / redundancy storage of some shares.

• Unraid server at home, 120TB of storage but only need to sync ~10TB total which is spread over 3 shares.
• Bare metal Ubuntu server at work, 12TB of storage, but only need to sync ~6TB total over the equivalent of a single share.
• Have a second Unraid server with 26TB of storage I plan on taking to work. I want to backup my ~10TB from home to work, and my ~6TB from work to home.

Currently have Crashplan running on both ends which keeps up fine with the work data size, but will take literally years to upload home volume as it is so dang slow (~3Mbps, constantly stopping to rescan millions of files) so want something else in place ASAP. Will leave Crashplan running too. It'll catch up eventually.

Home has 400Mbps upload, work has 100Mbps upload so speed shouldn't be the issue.

Is Syncthing the answer? Was thinking of doing a read-only share on the sending end.

Our little baby Beagle, 5 weeks old and looking all grown up like a big dog.

G'day,

I'm on a 100/40Mbps HFC plan, and have an ongoing issue where the internet in general (browsing, file access, email, cloud hosted products, etc) will just grind to halt.

For example, I can be accessing our CMMS and suddenly a page load will take 30+ seconds to complete. Never times out, just takes forever. Or I'm using our accounting software which syncs remotely and saving an invoice or opening a purchase order will stall for a minute.

This behaviour goes on for maybe 5 minutes or so and then goes away again. It can occur once or twice in a 10 hour day at the office, or not at all, or sometimes half a dozen times in a one hour period.

• Local network use is unaffected (for e.g. accessing SMB shares to a local server)
• All PCs and laptops connected to the LAN are affected so its not PC-specific.
• Ping is unaffected and hovers around 12ms to geographically close remote servers, with no packet loss or jitter.
• Speedtests of any kind always return around 95/35Mbps at any time be it peak / off peak / when problem is occurring / when problem is not occurring
• VOIP does not seem to be affected despite being on the same network and I can talk on the phone while the internet is otherwise wading its way through treacle.
• Happens with my current ISP (Leaptel), but also happened the previous ISP (Aussie Broadband) who are 100% completely different companies and I believe use completely different peering/routing/backhaul/etc.
• DNS seems irrelevant and occurs using either the ISP DNS, Cloudflare, Google, or Quad9
• Some websites like Facebook and Google work, but other websites like Lemmy (any instance), Reddit, my CMMS, various wholesaler sites hosted both in AU and worldwide, are affected.

Are there any steps I can take to try and identify what causes this random delay? Its just enough to be really frustrating, especially when you're trying to look up something while on the phone and have to be like "so yeah hows the wife? hows the kids? hows the....dog? .... pet bird doing anything interesting?" as you wait for a damn page to load. I need fast internet so I dont need to make small talk dammit.

PCs are all on cat5e or cat6 (depending on when the cabling was run), to a Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE which is connected via cat6 to the NBN HFC modem.