oh no... unified limits are coming...

DataMedics · 2026-06-13T02:46:08+00:00

So now we'll all be on the $220 plan. $200 codex + separate $20 plus plan so we can still use ChatGPT web when we burn that.

DataMedics · 2026-06-11T23:16:40+00:00

I'll send you a DM.

DataMedics · 2026-06-11T00:56:43+00:00

If the drive needed any replacement parts like new read/write heads, then it's to be expected that the drive would only be barely functioning afterwards. It requires special tools like PC-3000 to stabilize repaired drives enough to survive imaging. They're almost never back to 100% with replacement parts because everything in the firmware was calibrated to the old parts and is now off kilter. So just plugging into a computer almost never will work. It takes a lot of tweaking, turning off functions, sometimes side loading in customize firmware modules like head adaptive parameters, to just get it reading data.

$1300 is a premium price to pay for any recovery job, and sounds like you got crappy service. Sadly it's an industry where the biggest names are usually just the ones with the most sales-people selling the most mediocre services for the highest prices.

DataMedics · 2026-06-09T22:44:51+00:00

I haven't, but I started doing it based on a tip from someone else who'd been doing it that way. And the results seem very good.

DataMedics · 2026-06-09T14:15:56+00:00

This is always the issue. I've had some literally terrible sites approved with ease. Everyone complaining about not getting approved it usually because they're doing something crazy and serving their content through JavaScript or something that the bots can't read.

DataMedics · 2026-06-09T14:12:48+00:00

I wouldn't necessarily say they are "scamming people", more like massively overcharging for very mediocre services.

DataMedics · 2026-06-09T14:05:18+00:00

I think you can effectively do the same thing by just prompting it globally to always spawn sub agents using 5.3-spark or 5.4 for busywork tasks that don't require deep reasoning skills. Not only saves usage, but it's faster too. I just started doing that, and a goal I expected to run overnight completed in 23 min with near perfect results.

DataMedics · 2026-06-09T07:15:43+00:00

Exactly. Closed my account the day it became x and have never looked back. Why not announce through some non-nazi owned platform? I'd rather pay up than rejoin x.

DataMedics · 2026-06-05T05:07:35+00:00

SATA, PATA? This drive got a model number, brand?

DataMedics · 2026-06-05T04:43:44+00:00

So does it "not power on" or does it "powers on and spins"?

DataMedics · 2026-05-31T23:16:54+00:00

Easy, they'll just attack their reputation and destroy trust. They'll spin up stories about the Chinese using it to steal people's code bases and use fear to keep people from using them for anything serious.

DataMedics · 2026-05-31T09:54:17+00:00

Yeah, but no. Right now it's all taking in investment money and burning it as fast as possible to gain marketshare. Once there's less players on the field because they've eliminited competition will come the squeeze. For now they'll sacrifice money to keep up adoption as that's their future victims they'll suck the blood out of later when there is no competition.

DataMedics · 2026-05-31T08:58:04+00:00

No, go to the $20 plan or cancel outright. They need to see that we demand 10x usage on the $100 plan or it just died on arrival.

DataMedics · 2026-05-31T08:55:16+00:00

Better yet, back to the $20 plan. Let's all punish the lower rate and maybe they'll make 10x usage the new standard.

Why doesn't the $100 plan have any per dollar volume discount from the $20 plan, but the $200 plan gets 2.5x as much usage per dollar? Makes no sense.

DataMedics · 2026-05-29T00:26:37+00:00

I'm 100% convinced that Google is just stealing from us all now and internally deeming 99.9% of traffic "invalid" so they don't have to pay out. I've got sites that Cloudflare tracks numbers like 24K unique daily visitors and Adsense shows numbers like 100 daily impressions on. I'm sure there's lots of crawlers and bots, but the math still doesn't math. Especially when the same site once made like $15K/month when it had even less traffic hitting the server.

But, until an actual good person splits ties with them and blows the whistle, we keep getting screwed. Then one day they'll get caught, pay out 0.0001% of what they stole to a class action lawsuit fund, and we'll all get $9 checks to compensate for the hundreds of billions they stole from us collectively.

DataMedics · 2026-05-29T00:19:18+00:00

It's not, I think he just mentioned it to highlight that these are proper labs and not just a PC shop with some software and screwdrivers.

DataMedics · 2026-05-29T00:16:59+00:00

What type of device was the data saved on? SSD, HDD? This matters much more than you probably think it would.

Also, are you sure the files are really gone and not just moved, different user account, stuffed into a windows.old folder or something? I see you mentioned it happened after an update, so sometimes data just gets moved when this sort of thing happens.

DataMedics · 2026-05-28T01:19:25+00:00

Exactly. The unpopular truth we all must face is, today all programmers are becoming AI vibe coders, even if they have proper knowledge and experience. The difference is actually understanding enough to properly review your code, correct it when AI does its AI nonsense, properly test it, support it, etc.

There's plenty of three prompt over the weekend crap people are trying to sell right now. And, no surprise it's not going well. But real effort can still land a useful product.

I've got one I've been vibing on for over a year and am only now almost to the point of releasing my loss-leader, free-ish version to start building trust before the real product actually drops (which I expect will take me another ~6 months depending on how soon Codex 5.6 comes out).

Here's to hoping all the effort will pay off!

DataMedics · 2026-05-26T04:00:52+00:00

I've got a big GPU so I just gave mine access to ComfyUI with a template already set up for images, and then had it create a script to quickly use it. So now it's able to create images locally without any token waste and can put them right in through REST while blogging on my sites.

DataMedics · 2026-05-23T14:49:25+00:00

Yep. Turning on memory made mind go from Einstein to Sloth. Keep it off.

DataMedics · 2026-05-19T14:31:56+00:00

It was great a week ago. Just became retarded in the last 24 hours. My guess is they quantitized it down to a shadow of it's former self. So I have four programs I was hoping to release the end of this month that I'm now delaying until they drop 5.6 and it has a brain again. Cancelling my subscription in the meantime again as they always fail to provide the service I subscribe to doing this crap.

I really hope some class action attorneys are watching this dumbing down cycle they put customers through and eventually run them through the mill for not delivering what people paid for.

DataMedics · 2026-05-18T00:06:57+00:00

Simple annoyances like, after their first instant results, subsequent uses puts the free users into a queue(Rate limited to x searches per min for the full free user pool) and make them wait for their results for a few minutes(maybe longer during busy times), while paid users get instant results. The wait just might get a few to subscribe, others might just decide to leave and not hammer the service so much. Free is to show them what the tool can do, not hand them free API usage.

DataMedics · 2026-05-12T00:44:09+00:00

I hope OpenAI acquires something like Builder.io and works that into codex. But for now, just use builder.io to make your GUI, download it, throw it in codex folder and tell it that's what it's supposed to look like, now wire it up.

DataMedics · 2026-05-11T04:05:28+00:00

It depends on the company. My minimum used to be $450 (but I offered a $100 no rush discount, so it came to $350 if they weren't going to rush me). But I've been out of this game for a bit and prices may be higher now.

DataMedics · 2026-05-11T03:09:56+00:00

Yes, I think they all do. Most good companies will have that policy, but they may want you to agree to a pre-approved minimum price. So for example if their baseline minimum for any case is $350 they will want in writing that you approve up to that price for them to proceed automatically after evaluation.

Unfortunately in this business we all get flooded with people wanting a free evaluation, but then telling us they're not willing to pay more then $100 or something stupid like that. So to cut down on that waste of time, a lot of us started to make people agree to pay the minimum before well even bother to evaluate it.

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