I ended up just adding the user names of people that I know manually. It also seems a bit janky on mobile.
If you deselect “add 5 random users” and select “add 5 random buddies” that shows you only people you know.
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In light of this and @yashima 's question weeks ago, would people find a “How to Geekbuddies” tutorial useful?
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Yes please
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Yes please
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Yes please
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Whoever made those contest questions for Iello’s Khora contest at BGG is a sweet person or maybe I am just emotional today. I answered all 5 correctly. 
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Makes a nice change from “read the rulebook in excruciating detail” or “watch all the promo videos”. 
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Those are the worst.
I mean, from a consumer’s perspective.
They’re probably the best for the “hook’em and get them invested” perspective
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I’m now trying to work out whether any of them has hooked me.
(counts 799 “Contest (Official)” microbadges)
(doesn’t bother to check each game name individually)
First contest I did was New Dawn, and I do own a copy now, but I bought it when it was cheap a few years later. Similarly I’m buying Xia now even though I wasn’t hooked at the time.
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If it’s a game I’m interested in or have lots of hype I just guess
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It’s nice when the monitoring system tells you “on server pyromachy, disc PK2334PEJBEWXT has failed; it’s in the middle slab, slot 0”. Nicer when, because it’s raidz2, there’s no data loss. Even nicer when I have a spare ready to slap in.
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Recently I encountered “CRITICAL: Device: /dev/da4, 49 Currently unreadable(pending) sectors” or something like that.
The good news: I had a replacement drive. The better news: I could determine the serial number of the failed drive using the drive diagnostics tool
The bad news: in my haste when relocating my server when I moved (about a year ago), I didn’t make a note of which drive (by serial number) was in which drive bay.
So last weekend I had to bring down my entire home server environment in order to replace a drive. I took the opportunity to make note of which drive/serial number was in each drive bay
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I may in previous years have done the “show me the location and serial number of every drive that is still working” dance and found the failed disc by elimination.
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Yes.
not spam, honest
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My entire ‘home server environment’ is my laptop - I don’t really know what all this means!
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I nod in agreement with all of the above and stroke my beard thoughtfully.
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Oh, I am lacking the beard…
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Just pretend. No one will say anything.
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Many moons ago, I took over the management of a system that had 1 TB of online database. (This was long enough ago that this the first system with a TB that the db vendor had). It was on mirrored 1 GB disks. With the is filesystems, and some spreading of load, there were 180 SCSI buses, with 14 disks (and two hosts) on each bus. 2520 disks. Needless to say, one was always failed. They were not supposed to be hot swap able, but if you made sure there was no activity on the bus, you could unplug a disk and replace it.
I wrote (in awk!) some tools to take all the disks in a bus with a failed disk out of the mirror, dd from them to/dev/null so the technician could find the right bank of drives (the system was in 30 odd racks) once they acknowledged the location and pulled the drawer with the disks out, the dd switched to just the failed drive. Once they swapped it, we rebuilt the mirrors. This went on for a few months, until I finally convinced the customer to spring for 4.3GB hot swapable disks. They wanted it done with out down time, but I had to get them to agree that I was merely a magician, not a wizard.
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