Stand alone complex!
If it's not from the sweeping fields of Russia, it's only sparkling gulag.
The ability to manipulate matter at the subatomic level, with explicit accuracy and knowledge.
From there, I'd be able to pretty much solve any problem.
Enemy? Turn them to goo. Or brain hemorrhage. Or invert their genitals. Explosive toenails. Literally shit for brains. Boobs on the head.
Sick? Convert the virus to vitamins or something.
Hungry? Food.
Solve pollution.
Aging? Reverse oxidants etc...
Ladies, gentlemen, small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri...
It's been a privilege existing for a time.
This one was trying to get in the minors, but hadn't got there yet
"in that mere fraction of a second, regret set in as Rolf realized the zipper had snagged his beans"
The orange wrapper means that cheese is gonna be the oldest and stinkiest variety.
The ol' Camembert '69.
They'll both need new dentures after tonight!
A twist: the birthday was OP, and the present was to himself via girlfriend later that night.
Awesome, so that's good news. Disks probably just fine.
My next thoughts are on the service itself then... Your service providing the share might be getting throttled or not getting direct access to kernel hooks for performance.
Simplest test I would think is set up Samba or NFS in the host itself, not a container. Try a large transfer there. If speed isn't an issue that way, then something at the container level is hindering you.
His foundation, https://web.randi.org/ , is amazing and has done great work in trying to educate and combat disinformation and abuse.
If you can, watch various presentations by him at colleges etc... He's surprisingly great at entertaining while still discussing very serious topics.
His conferences, called TAM (the amazing meeting), we're fantastic. Got to meet Penn+Teller, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and several others that were kind and patient with dumb little me. So many smart people in a tiny place.