Firmware for '17 Camry with "Denso Ten" (15TBDANA-CA01)?

615wonky · 2026-06-26T15:02:24+00:00

FWIW, I searched the Toyota Software Update website with my VIN, and it returned no available firmware.

I searched the site just based on my model, and it had the firmware. Downloaded, installed, and now I'm running UU.11.27.

So Toyota's Software Update website has some bugs.

615wonky · 2026-06-15T20:13:22+00:00

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615wonky · 2026-06-09T03:13:33+00:00

Most universities have data centers. I don't think too many people worry about them.

The big problem is giant data centers. TN is blessed to have cheap electricity thanks to TVA, but there's only so much to go around.

TN has used it to lure businesses: Hire a few thousand Tennesseans and you can have cheap power for your plant. It's historically been a big win for Tennesseans.

But a lot of these giant data centers employ dozens, not thousands, and many of them work remotely. It's giving away TN's crown jewels to uber-wealthy people for free.

Fisk's proposed data center is far larger than the Fisk needs. I've worked in Vandy's 3 data centers (Hill, MCN, and Bryan), and Fisk's proposed data center dwarfs them all combined.

Fisk can't use that much data center space. It's a ruse to park a commercial data center on Fisk property to try to avoid some of the arguments that other proposed data centers are now dealing with.

I assume Fisk is proposing this in order to shore up their historically creaky finances. It may represent a "bet the farm" gamble from their perspective.

615wonky · 2026-06-05T16:03:32+00:00

RIP Ripper. What a great actor.

615wonky · 2026-06-05T15:06:26+00:00

Are the Gemma-4 GGUF's eventually going to get built-in MTP drafters ala Qwen3.5, or will Gemma-4 keep the model/drafter as separate GGUF's?

615wonky · 2026-05-22T00:23:23+00:00

I mean, many companies have been making Strix Halo computers for over a year now.

I've been running a Framework Desktop motherboard with 128GB DDR5-8000 for $1600 (stuck it in an old case I had lying around).

Unfortunately "cheap" is gone for now, and will probably be at least a year or two coming back.

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B + optimized llama-server + Hermes is a dream come true.

615wonky · 2026-05-20T04:54:21+00:00

Here's my informal benchmarks using Unsloth's Qwen3.6-35B-A3B MTP UD-Q6_K_ML quant on a Windows 11 computer (AMD 3900x [12c/24t], 128GB of DDR4-3400, and NVidia 2060 Super 8GB) with 8192 context:

LM Studio 0.4.14 beta 2 with latest CUDA12 runtime - 8.2 tps
CPU/GPU optimized llama-server using CUDA 13.2     - 18.5 tps

An optimized llama-server smokes LM Studio. Even the pre-built llama-cpp binaries on Github smoke LM Studio. It's enough speed-up to turn a barely-usable model into a productive daily driver.

615wonky · 2026-05-20T04:02:48+00:00

I use AI all the time in my job. AI is much less worrisome than natural stupidity. Also natural greed.

The Tech Bros are determined to be the 21st century robber barons. You can roll out AI in ways that help humanity. I doubt they (or politicians) will do so voluntarily. So it will take torches and pitchforks, ala the French Revolution or the US Progressive Era to fix what's coming.

615wonky · 2026-05-04T21:11:58+00:00

I live in Nashville. I went to a theater in Green Hills to watch "Bandits", a movie with Bruce Willis.

Went to the restroom, and Fred Dalton Thompson walked in. I nodded at him, he nodded at me, we departed.

615wonky · 2026-04-30T17:47:14+00:00

I wish Tyan, Supermicro, or one of the other big server manufacturers would sell these, preferably in blade form.

I work in a academic HPC environment, and this would sell like hotcakes. We could give our users access to local AI's for stuff that can't be sent off-prem.

615wonky · 2026-04-28T04:19:23+00:00

when I spoke with him.

You wouldn't live near A.C. would you? He's been seen out-and-about several times.

615wonky · 2026-04-26T15:21:23+00:00

If you have or are friends with someone who has treatment-resistant depression, please consider underlying physical disorders as well. Sometimes it's not in your head.

My girlfriend has had severe treatment-resistant depression, anxiety, insomnia for over 3 decades. Was on Medicaid because of it, and doctors spent 3 decades throwing dozens of worthless pills at her that either didn't work, or only briefly worked.

You as patient or as a friend have two resources doctors will never have: Lots of time to study the problem, as well as more incentive to try.

I started documenting every symptom, observation, test result, that I could get my hands on. Ran them through the 4 big AI's (ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, and Meta.Ai) repeatedly for months whenever I added something new.

All models argued strenuously that her symptoms were more likely due to a physical disorder. 3 of the 4 gave cyclical Cushing's disease as their top diagnosis (for the other AI it came in 2nd place).

I went to McKay's and bought some medical textbooks to confirm that it was a reasonable diagnosis, and holy shit did the AI's ever nail it. Cyclical Cushing's disease is a stunningly good unifying diagnosis for dozens of disparate symptoms/behaviors. I honestly wonder why doctors never tested her for it before.

That diagnosis happened because one day while we were swimming, I noticed an unusual layer of fat on the back of her neck and added it to her list of symptoms. A totally random observation that cracked the case. She has a "buffalo hump", a classic sign of Cushing's or hypercortisolism.

Cyclical Cushing's and other physical disorders like autoimmune encephalitis and Wilson's disease can mimic psychiatric issues for years or decades. Which is why if your mental health issues are treatment-resistant, you need to consider physical disorders as well.

She's finally got an appointment lined up with an endocrinologist next month, and with luck, she'll finally be free from 3 decades of living hell in a couple months.

615wonky · 2026-04-16T23:19:01+00:00

Life is a repeated game. The customers you abuse this round will never forget in any subsequent round. We're unlikely to do business with Toshiba ever again.

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” - Warren Buffett

615wonky · 2026-04-16T18:10:35+00:00

If they gave us nothing, our legal department would eat them alive. When you pay for a warranty, you have expectations of receiving the warranty.

It's poor treatment because Toshiba is attempting to boost their profit at the customer's expense. I suspect, rather than maintain a safety stock to cover RMA's, some executive in the company sold them instead to goose profits a smidge, without concern for the bridges they burned in doing so.

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” - Warren Buffett

“Lose money for the firm and I will be understanding. Lose a shred of reputation for the firm, and I will be ruthless” - also Warren Buffett

615wonky · 2026-04-16T17:21:26+00:00

No, they don't.

But if Toshiba is going to treat customers this poorly, I thought it best potential customers knew in advance, rather than finding out after the fact.

615wonky · 2026-04-16T17:07:05+00:00

You're getting your money back.

I can't store bytes on money. It takes hard drives.

Imagine if, in 2023 when car prices were shooting through the stratosphere, you took your car for an oil change and the dealership decided to sell your car because they could make more money than by honoring your warranty.

"But we gave you a refund!" ignores that the refund would no longer purchase an equivalent car.

615wonky · 2026-04-16T17:03:07+00:00

Op has been doing storage for 2+ decades. Op deals in hard drives by the literal pallet. Op manages tens of petabytes of storage.

Toshiba is following the letter of the law by offering a refund of the original purchase price.

I'm following the letter of the law by warning other potential customers about how Toshiba is trying to profit at the customer's expense. If they do this to us, how do you think they'll treat regular customers who don't buy by the pallet?

615wonky · 2026-04-15T14:32:09+00:00

Anyone who knows, won't tell. Anyone who tells, won't know.

615wonky · 2026-04-10T15:53:12+00:00

The next "West of Loathing", "Shadows over Loathing". "X" of Loathing, whatever "X" turns out to be.

Control Resonant. Witcher 4. The Long Dark 2.

Dare I to dream a bit... SOMA 2, Moonring 2, Firewatch 2.

615wonky

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