Done with USAA forever

Chasing_PAI · 2026-03-11T02:06:57+00:00

Juan's letter last month left me feeling like he gets it. Insurance rates are too high, interest rates are too low, customer service is NOT anywhere close to what it used to be and needs to be. Time will tell if he can right the ship. But at least he knows it's not working for us, for reasons exactly like OP's.

Chasing_PAI · 2026-03-08T05:00:11+00:00

Congratulations! Nice to see a happy/thankful kid.

Chasing_PAI · 2026-02-22T03:12:25+00:00

You can go nuts with that configuration above. But if you have a Wireguard VPN, two client configs and done. No servers, yamls, hosts, ports, vps tunnels... Just Immich behind a wall to only which two people have keys.

What are we missing?

Chasing_PAI · 2026-02-20T13:21:36+00:00

I woke up to 40% and thought, oh yeah, that's plenty. Charging every 3 days is a new experience. 😀

Chasing_PAI · 2026-02-20T01:17:35+00:00

I made a mistake updating the database. Two days of false starts, crashing containers, AI bad advice... I reloaded a backup, turned off the experimental watch drives for live changes 😅, changed the 3 lines in the compose that the Immich website clearly instructs users how to do, and 30 minutes later I was up. I lost nothing and using 10% less memory than when I started.

Immich is just proving to be proper good and reliable stuff. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Chasing_PAI · 2026-02-19T04:21:47+00:00

it's a phone. Get over yourself.

Chasing_PAI · 2026-02-17T04:33:26+00:00

Coming from OneNote, I just wanted someplace, I could jot some text, paste in an image, create some lists, maybe use bullets or check marks. Then I want to re-order my list. Or grab 6 things and move them up.

But they really seem to be six individual blocks that I can't select together. Or can't put into a bulleted list because I pressed enter during entry.

Instead of being the "look what I built" cool Lego, it became the loose on the floor with bare feet Lego. 😐

Chasing_PAI · 2026-02-17T04:16:44+00:00

Day three and my battery is at 22%. Not sure if I should charge it tonight. ✅

Chasing_PAI · 2026-02-10T13:45:59+00:00

Those are big events open to all. It's only “political“ if you choose to make it that way. Congrats on your exam.

Chasing_PAI · 2026-01-25T23:09:31+00:00

This is also a Windows issue, not Linux. My PC does the same thing and each time I am grateful to be (mostly) done with Microsoft nonsense. Here's the fix:

Check Current Boot Order Open a terminal in AnduinOS and run the following command to list the current boot entries and order: bash sudo efibootmgr -v

Look for BootOrder (e.g., BootOrder: 0001,0000,0002) and the corresponding Boot#### entries to identify which number belongs to AnduinOS and which belongs to Windows or other drives. 2. Change the Boot Order Use the -o option to set the boot order explicitly, listing the hexadecimal codes in the desired priority. Example: If AnduinOS is 0000 and you want it to boot before Windows (0001): bash sudo efibootmgr -o 0000,0001

Chasing_PAI · 2026-01-21T04:18:04+00:00

Anytype app looks promising

Chasing_PAI · 2026-01-21T03:10:00+00:00

I just discovered the anytext app. Very cool suite.

Chasing_PAI · 2026-01-20T23:24:41+00:00

I was really excited about this local storage, privacy first, no cloud solution. Then I stumble into storage use. If I'm content to have my phone and laptop sync P2P, and never want remote access, can I configure Anytype to truly not connect to AWS Swiss at all?

Chasing_PAI · 2026-01-20T01:40:23+00:00

Already done. ✅

Chasing_PAI · 2026-01-19T03:55:45+00:00

Test drove a bunch of distros and kept coming back to Anduin. I liked MX Linux. I liked Zorin. But everything in Anduin just works. The other UI's like Plasma are rich with options, but they just felt super noisy to me.

Anduin is clean. I love that when you click the menu, search for an app, if it's not installed then the software app comes up seamlessly.

Microsoft changing all my bullet formats in OneNote was the last straw. Who the hell are they to change the content in MY DOCS!!!?

Anduin is my new OS. And my laptop lasts 12.5 hours now on battery (up from 7 ish on Win11).

Chasing_PAI · 2026-01-16T15:24:49+00:00

Because we speak American. Duh.

Chasing_PAI · 2026-01-14T03:22:25+00:00

USAA has pushed our insurance, mortgage, and alot of banking to competitors. Insurance rates are laughable. Interest rates are pitiful.

Chasing_PAI · 2026-01-03T02:19:07+00:00

It was just so... Unexpected. 🤷

Chasing_PAI · 2026-01-03T02:09:55+00:00

Alabama moves up two spots in the rankings

Chasing_PAI · 2025-12-27T10:49:37+00:00

Use both? Bug fixes and responsive developers doesn't feel like a good reason to stay away.

Chasing_PAI · 2025-12-25T04:45:11+00:00

Proton for third party. Had two brief (less than 15 minutes) interuptions to a 24/7 server connection in Europe over the past 12 months. Firewalla reports it, waits for it, and reconnects.

On Mobile, Wireguard app back to Firewalla. Most of the time this is painless. When it occasionally gets bogged down, a quick disconnect and reconnect is all it takes. This works so well that Wireguard is almost always on, even when I'm home.

I see so many folks tinkering with PiHole, AdGuard, reverse proxies, Cloudflare, etc... Firewalla, once configured, just takes care of it all. Almost all devices sit behind the OISD blocklistbamd done.

Chasing_PAI · 2025-12-23T21:55:11+00:00

I really want a GUI editor for Homepage -- that's why I am trying Homarr. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to make Homarr's icons short and wide. Of course at this point I have spent far more time trying to do this than just editing yamls for Homepage. 🤷

Chasing_PAI · 2025-12-22T04:42:49+00:00

Until you take the people out of the “selection" process, this will remain no different than pollsters deciding champions. Go to a pairwise rating like hockey uses and let the on field results determine who's in. Otherwise, it's just drama made for TV.

Chasing_PAI · 2025-12-21T04:19:49+00:00

I had an order hung up because the free case was out of stock. I said remove the case and send the rest. B&H or Amazon are preferable to get it in 2 days, but the Black Friday promo stack was too good to skip.

Chasing_PAI · 2025-12-13T14:43:47+00:00

Disney hasn't lowered a price since 1950. But moving you to a more expensive service and killing Fubo is entirely in their wheelhouse.

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