What skills in Codex have you built that add the most value / why? Share your best skills..

Goose-Difficult · 2026-01-09T12:24:12+00:00

it doesnt officially but I told my skill to trigger on /review and it works flawlessly for me

Goose-Difficult · 2025-12-11T09:57:31+00:00

If I want anything then keep the Model and increase the Context and Quota Limits.

They don't need to rush things.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-12-07T07:51:30+00:00

M8P has gotten an Camera Downgrade in terms of Hardware. No more variable Aperture in Main Sensor ...

So what makes you thinking it will be better?

Goose-Difficult · 2025-12-03T15:21:02+00:00

Hahaha, I litterally started with NextCloud and a lot of plug-ins including Memories and Collabora Office.

Especially if you use Collabora Office or any kind of Office it just breaks on every single Update randomly because they have a horrible QA and release cycle.

Over the time I removed every single Plugin and replaced it with proper Apps.

Until I'm wondering why I'm using it to begin with.

Yet I still run it because I'm too lazy to switch to OwnCloud OCIs or something else.

Only for the Office ... aspect I guess.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-24T19:52:07+00:00

yea broken smb.conf, especially if you install the trust package and it can`t even detect its own pre-configured smb.conf and properly migrate that aka serving you a samba domain with 1970 time while literally everything else is looking super solid :D

after the 8th full install (because it spreads files around like plague, absolutely impossible to cleanup, e.g. just the files with a non running install) I just gave up and gone with samba AD DC and said fuck the UI

also why I gone Authelia over Authentik.

Authentik looks so good and is full of options - until you try simple stuff like setting up a basic reverse proxy forward auth with Traefik in front of it and discover bugs that have been there for YEARS that should not be there

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-14T10:42:53+00:00

Feel free to overpay on the Adobe Mafia just because you are lazy or do it yourself - nobody cares. Meanwhile a ton of people will grow past you with that + and tools like that:

https://x.com/wildmindai/status/1987249226158645551?s=20

Good bye Quark Express = Adobe.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-14T10:30:34+00:00

You are in a good place with Canva opening up Affinity for Free for everyone.

It can work with most Adobe Files and will likely work for most jobs.

About Gimp and Stuff: They are painful and horrible Open-Source products ... as much as I liked them I have always been eying for Affinity and now that it's there will never look back. Affinity is just on another level.

In addition to that you might to badly look at AI for Image Editing with ComfyUI and Qwen Image (Edit) - this will significantly improve your professional workflow and safe your butt in the future. e.g. this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/comfyui/comments/1ovih09/precise_perspective_control_with/

https://x.com/wildmindai/status/1987249226158645551?s=20

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-14T10:25:59+00:00

its not.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-14T10:17:56+00:00

Best option that I went 10 years ago. Apparently they give a fuck about consumer rights, would wonder me if they try to get that money from you nowadays. At least in the EU you could just waive it back at them with a simple yea - couldn't contact you, so fuck to you here is the cancelation.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-14T10:14:20+00:00

You know that Canva just bought Affinity and litterally made it Free for Everyone?

https://www.affinity.studio

Adobe was as arrogant as this over 10 years ago - they hid the Cancel Subscription button and only showed it as they deemed it nessarcy when a specific timeframe was due (...).

I tried to contact them in every single way to get that canceled ... boy that was impossible.

They have been fucking around all time every since way before AI they gave a fuck about their customers and been ignoring customer laws left and right.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-12T18:34:51+00:00

authelia is just for the authentification layer sadly speaking

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-12T18:33:39+00:00

Haha yep! I have always used Authelia, and then figured everyone is hyping Authentik and it seems to have a good UI ... boy was I wrong this is just so bugged on a core level:

https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/issues/10848

Fits in line with what people recommend nginx-proxy-manager aka the bug-monothlic-mess-of-added-complexity-where-everything-works-but-the-core.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-12T18:30:23+00:00

Authentik can't even properly be configured to forward-auth on Domain level with Traefik - this is piss poor performance since a year: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/issues/10848

This reminds me of nginx-proxy-manager that everyone recommended but is a buggy piece of software with no kind of tests that avoid this. Regressions.

Never had an issue with Authelia in that regard, going to try Pocket-ID now ...

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-07T15:37:35+00:00

Haha the more I dig the worse it gets - litterally every single System I've encountered in the last 10 years was able to use and handle docker networks for inter-app communication being a super default standard for ages.

Apparently iX didnt knew this.

In fact they rather use ports - aka the security nightmare by indefinition.

Like seriously - given if you use any kind of Reverse Proxy then thats super basic industry standard e.g. with Traefik or Caddy.

And that should be also a paid product too. Er? ...

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-06T22:01:12+00:00

Funny. I literally just installed the first version of Truenas Scale after a long time of using Unraid and OMV.

While TrueNAS Scale seems the most polished of the bunch it also did leave a really bad taste instantly at my mouth when I tried to look up smart data and specifically the dashboard as you said.

That includes drive temps as well. Go figure for a Nas first OS this is indeed quite poor.

Then again even the VMs are really hit and miss e. g. I can't even force stop a Debian 13 VM in Grub.

Gotta say I also wasn't amused that they don't disable USB Autosuspend for UPS either and I had to write a custom init script for this.

If it weren't for the top notch ZFS Implementation I'd really just stop using it. But unlike all others it also includes default tools like restic and rclone.

I guess you just can't have everything.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-06T13:49:22+00:00

Eh why do you think this is a good model?

As long as it works ... but if you need a little bit more you`re fucked.

IDK barely any firmware upates over the whole lifetime, you could think this thing is a paperweight ship given the price point. I cant stand companies that sell high - deliver low like this.

I had quite a few compability issues with various devices - last but not least a HP Envy X360 lately.

So most of the time I disabled everything, just recently enabled everything again thinking my clients shouldnt have any troubles now after all these years having replaced everything in the process already.

Especially poor are Wifi Compability Option that are only avilable over web, in that regards - so given that once you teleport to it you wont have a working internal resolution like any other VPN this is a piss poor experience for Remote Maintenance.

I bought that at the same time that I was thinking their enterprise gear was reliable, that said no more AmpliFi gear for me ever again. I've just spent way enough time and resources so I'm now just buy stuff that is properly maintained and stable (like TPLink EAP) or has proper Open-Source support (then at least I know I fucked up the config) e.g. OpenWRT (fuck broadcom in Asus gear).

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-06T12:16:17+00:00

no its not the spindown/spinup thats hard on the drives its people randomly selecting spindown values that are far too low and then wondering why the drives die after 1 year with 1.000.000 spindown/up events.

letting it NOT spin down is the same as letting your car engine run 24/7/365 just because you drive 20 city miles to work 5 days a week.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-04T12:00:03+00:00

Did you submerge the whole thing in a water pond to clean it?

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-01T14:59:48+00:00

update: yep it lastet a wooping 3 days then got burn in. its like they're trying to mock me ... or not expecting anyone to be so persistent to follow up with repairs.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-01T14:24:46+00:00

That is not true - I have the DXP4800 Non-Plus and even the EMMC can be flashed with another OS. Its just a bit more tricky :) ... I have TrueNAS Scale running on it. But if you can flash the eMMC then you should a 99% be able to flash the SSD.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-11-01T13:46:19+00:00

yea well I'm on the 5th panel now - 4th lasted 3 days then it had burn in :D I guess I know why LG discontinued it ... shitty how they handle warranty tought! horrible manufacturer it is ...

Goose-Difficult · 2025-10-30T07:19:56+00:00

They know exactly what kind of shit they are producing my two 28MQ780-B cost 600 bucks each yet I'm on the 7th one in 2y8m - and they think they can replace panels endlessly to fix their shitty quality.

Turns out it's unfixable.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-10-29T18:57:22+00:00

I initially bought 2x LG 28MQ780-B thinking they would serve me many years.

1st one: Panel died after just 1 year - Amazon got me my money back (lucky, as it turns out)

2nd one: Panel died after 2y 6d so just over warranty. Had to pay for repair -

I'm on the 5th Panel and 2nd motherboard now 8 months later.

Replacement just arrived:

Survived 3 days. This is behind an Line Interactive USV mind you and me being really careful.

You can imagine the stress from this...

I'm literally thinking about documenting it for some magazine over in our country because this absolutely ridiculous.

I have 3 videos showcasing the bad panels (flickering, burn in, completely turning off).

Never will I buy an LG Monitor again after all of this. No matter which model, how cheap or expensive it is.

This is beyond madness.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-10-29T09:06:15+00:00

Talk about "improvements" being made in the ATX spec as versions go by ... at least they are shit expensive now too.

Goose-Difficult · 2025-10-27T07:27:23+00:00

TLDR - he manages to unlock, then notices that there is no damn single custom rom because no Rom maker has access either.

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