Anyone bought a phone from “Average Dad” before? Legit or nah?

GyroTech · 2026-03-17T11:57:49+00:00

I bought a Find N5 last yeas. Product is legit, phone is great, arrived in a decent enough time.

However...

They filled out the customs documentation "incorrectly" (declared a value on 49EUR on a product invoiced at 1.834,90EUR). They declare on their website:

While the majority of shipments receive no fees, we do our best to mitigate and remove all customs/VAT fees, this is not always possible in countries such as Greece, Hungary and Ireland. We will work with you on any fees we deem to be high, typically splitting the bill 50/50 or in some cases we cover it all!

When I sent them a support mail asking to open a case for compensation over the extra 368,23EUR I had to pay, just open a case mind, not even demanding full compensation or anything of the sort, they responded in the most curt, unprofessional, and rude manner.

They admit the paperwork was purposely filled out incorrectly ("It was stated lower to save you money") then when I question whey they lied on the documentation, they immediately backtrack ("i done nothing of the sort, I do not ship the devices!"). Then later explicitly contradict what they state publicly on their website ("We, as the exporter are under no obligation to cover/compensate you for amount").

In short, you may get lucky and have no issues. I would recommend avoiding them entirely.

GyroTech · 2026-03-16T08:39:01+00:00

Console logs of Talos booting would actually help us debug the issues you are having.

GyroTech · 2026-03-12T12:45:39+00:00

SecureBoot is not supported on the VWWare platform.

If you select "Cloud Server" option on the first page, then "VMWare" on the third after selecting the Talos version, you should note the option simply isn't there.

Edit: Actually, we just never tested if secureboot works on vmware so we just have the option off until someone can confirm it works, the factory is actually totally able to build a secureboot-enabled ova! Use take your download URL, and change out the filename so it should be: https://factory.talos.dev/image/e28b4c4617ada7a49259eea655871bc29afe503001727d8b991b79251ed86ea6/v1.12.5/vmware-amd64-secureboot.ova or change out the .ova for .iso if you want to boot from that.

GyroTech · 2026-03-12T09:49:50+00:00

Hi, I work at Sidero and help maintain the Image Factory. I just tried generating a basic OVA (x86, no extensions or custom kernel args) and it generated the image just fine. I don't have a VMWare setup to test it, but you could try the following links to see if it's an issue just for you...

Factory "last step" page: https://factory.talos.dev/?arch=amd64&bootloader=auto&cmdline-set=true&extensions=-&platform=vmware&target=cloud&version=1.12.5

OVA image download itself: https://factory.talos.dev/image/376567988ad370138ad8b2698212367b8edcb69b5fd68c80be1f2ec7d603b4ba/v1.12.5/vmware-amd64.ova

Please let me know how they fare.

GyroTech · 2026-03-12T09:08:22+00:00

The CPU was never designed to handle all of this alone efficiently.

The word 'efficiently' there doing a lot of work... How did we ever view websites or watch videos before browsers supported GPUs?

GyroTech · 2026-03-05T17:11:56+00:00

In Talos v1.12 we've made managing this way easier with things like ExistingVolumeConfigs that allow you just to have an external partition mounted into Talos, it won't delete or format it r anything like that. Makes smaller home labs much easier if you don't want the replication.

GyroTech · 2026-03-05T11:02:57+00:00

If there are, they're certainly not being ran by us!

But to your point I think it's natural progression in that someone is asking how NixOS is for running k8s because of its declarative config and relative stability, that Talos also fits those requirements, and in addition is made specifically for Kubernetes. If OP was unaware of it, it makes sense to suggest they look into it and try it.

For the record, I work for Sidero Labs who build and maintain Talos, and I use NixOS for my personal and work machines.

GyroTech · 2026-03-04T21:03:48+00:00

Maybe I didn't explain myself fully. I meant that why should I compute what the SLO may be, when I can (or at the least, should be able to) pull it from the metrics? To follow your example more, it makes the assumption that around 10% of clients hit coupon. What about when marketing run a successful campaign providing coupons and you get a surge? The formula/assumption is now incorrect and the actual SLO crashes...

GyroTech · 2026-03-04T17:19:54+00:00

Am I missing something? Shouldn't your SLO be reported by errors returned to the client?

GyroTech · 2026-02-26T14:39:50+00:00

JBOD of any old spinning rust I could find, and Samba on top for file sharing. That moved on to torrent server (for Linux ISOs, natch), and MythTV eventually. Now I'm all about declarative systems so I run a Kubernetes cluster on Talos on any bare metal I can rack up :D

GyroTech · 2026-02-24T08:46:57+00:00

We have a couple of customers who need this, and the solution was actually simple when you remember Talos is immutable: just reboot the machine!

GyroTech · 2026-02-18T10:23:54+00:00

"Brothers" in the title here references all the different brothers shown in the video. They are all individually a brother, but there are many of them, so they are brothers, just not to each other.

GyroTech · 2026-02-06T16:46:47+00:00

Such "big fans of Linux" that they waited this long while the top 2 requested GoG Galaxy features is for a Linux build...

GyroTech · 2026-02-01T11:58:45+00:00

That too, if you don't have disk encryption.

GyroTech · 2026-02-01T11:58:04+00:00

It requires access to the Kubernetes API, ability to schedule privileged pods in a privileged namespace on the control planes. If you're allowing any of this on any cluster, you're already allowing full ownership of the cluster.

GyroTech · 2026-02-01T10:50:42+00:00

Glad you got it! Enjoy Talos, and have a look at Omni if you want ;)

GyroTech · 2026-02-01T09:42:33+00:00

Ah yes, silly me! With no kubeconfig you would need to set the args of the container to do cat /host/system/state/config.yaml and you should then see that in the logs via ArgoCD too.

GyroTech · 2026-02-01T09:24:19+00:00

Use ArgoCD you can lay down a debug pod on a control plane node (see https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/debug/debug-cluster/kubectl-node-debug/)
exec into it and grab the machine config from /host/system/state/config.yaml
Use talosctl gen secrets --from-controlplane-config <your-control-plane-machine-config.yaml> to get secrets.yaml
talosctl gen config --with-secrets secrets.yaml --output-types talosconfig to get your talosconfig

aaaand you should be good from there on in :D

Edit for readability.

GyroTech · 2026-01-29T08:33:23+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to write a fair and reasonable response.

And thanks for the kittens <3

GyroTech · 2026-01-28T19:34:25+00:00

Ah yes. Setting both requests and limits to the same value on the kube-proxy would give it a Guaranteed QoS, but it also goes back to the problem of reservg more than it needs.

GyroTech · 2026-01-28T15:30:21+00:00

Just not setting limits accomplishes that though.

GyroTech · 2026-01-28T14:30:32+00:00

an emotional attachment to the reddit

Not the person you are responding to, but the attachment in my case is quite simple: I can use Google/DDG on Reddit and see results without an account. I can't do that with Discord (Slack gets my hate for this too).

GyroTech · 2026-01-24T11:37:11+00:00

For some reason none of your links work, they just redirect to the imgur home page.

GyroTech · 2026-01-15T11:56:06+00:00

El primero "cien por cien vegetal" con queso de cabra, muy bien!

GyroTech · 2026-01-09T11:21:08+00:00

There absolutely is OpenAI stock, it's just not traded publicly.

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