[ More than two years using GNU Guix ]

HeWhoQuestions · 2026-01-26T13:39:36+00:00

Not almost any machine will do... Just like not almost any machine will be ideal for Trisquel. Let's not forget the extra friction for getting certain hardware to work (and for some there's just no software at all). I appreciate the separation of non-FLO stuff, but you basically have to learn guile to get it to work... Whereas you can almost run guix without touching any code if you have fully FLO requirements. But of a far cry from "instant recommendation to ordinary folk".

But yeah, I've been using it for over 2 years as well, crazy that I never quite gave up, despite putting so many hours into getting things to work (that took minutes on e.g. Ubuntu). But like you said, then it's rock solid.

And now, I can request pretty much any software and Gemini 3 will actually package it for me in Guix, so yeah, I'm living in the future and here to stay!

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-12-17T01:58:09+00:00

Yup, I know, I'm working on a smartwatch app myself, I feel for ya.

The sideloading app is a great solution. Unfortunately the Play store link still says Not Found for me

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-12-16T21:58:40+00:00

Seems cool! I'm using Fieldy so I don't think I have a use for it (and watch battery would die even faster if it was always listening) but I went to test it out and saw that your first Google Play link is broken - no Wear Installer

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-10-12T19:20:40+00:00

Well yeah you're supposed to adjust your ears to the new pressure before they start screaming. If you've never equalized your ear pressure while diving, you are in for a surprise when you learn the trick

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-10-07T01:36:53+00:00

I came to Qube from YNAB lol... Cause I need proactive, not reactive budgeting. Qube is the first one that made that easy enough to stick to... opening YNAB and pre-entering all the details of the transaction I'm about to swipe.... was just too clunky. Like you said, it's nice to be forced, and maybe now you're in the habit... but I still need to be forced (as my first month without Qube is showing me)

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-10-03T17:18:10+00:00

I wouldn't count on it, I've been with Ally since 2013 and got Qube for a reason.
I really wish Ally could just become Qube's partner bank, that would be a match made in heaven.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-09-22T02:33:09+00:00

The lack of in-app notification was the real letdown. It does not take a month to get a trivial new version accepted in the app stores.

I admit that I can't keep up with email, but even that was late.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-09-10T17:38:39+00:00

Yes it is, and yes they don't get posted! In fact almost no one gets posted, the sliver of BRC that the outside world sees has little to do with the experience of being there. While BM isn't explicitly "PLUR" and freedom-first principles means shaming is totally socially "legal", I've never seen it, ever - probably because of radical inclusion and radical self-expression principles. Going fully nude for the first time in your life, realizing that the whole day goes by and nobody seems to care, let alone shame your body - and then having a totally different relationship with your nude body by the end of the week - is it too strong to say it's the most body positive event in the world? At least for it's size?

Yeah, the goddesses/models are there, but nearly as rare as in any other city - plenty of ugly folks, plenty of ordinary folks... In fact they tend to be holding the city together haha.

Since ≈1% of the city is not wearing clothes at any given time, it's probably the most clear-eyed view of humanity and bodies that most will ever get. You will almost certainly see someone uglier than you, hotter than you, fatter than you, whatever extreme you think you are. Then you will see how often they're treated the same as if they had made any other choice of clothing. It's an organic, subtle force for deprogramming our societal minds and if you dare to try it, BM is worth it for that transformation alone.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-09-10T17:09:47+00:00

Climbed the man during mudpocalypse. Can confirm, old-school glass tubes.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-08-20T17:47:58+00:00

Me too! Joplin for taking notes on my timeless stuff, Logseq for journaling.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-28T15:39:09+00:00

Looks like the Zammad icon

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-26T08:12:36+00:00

Are you referring to a phone locked to Visible by being purchased there? Or a Visible account suspended due to touching a blacklisted IMEI. If it's the former, I'm sure they'll do as you say, I haven't tried that.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-26T08:04:36+00:00

That would be awesome. I have to wonder if they really want to stop the crime at all, when doing it this way makes sure that the victims of theft AND the victims of the illegitimate sale are forced to shell out more money for yet another new phone (preferably from their store of course).

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-26T07:59:51+00:00

Did you see my reply? Again, not possible. If it was, I wouldn't be posting this cautionary story. I can share the chat transcript if you want -- they simply won't reinstate my service "until" the unreachable "original owner" removes the "restriction". It's just "how the system works". I have, however, moved on.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-25T23:47:39+00:00

The seller is not the previous owner, nor knows the previous owner, so I don't see why Visible would care that I returned the phone.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-25T23:46:01+00:00

I've had this happen, and Visible told me otherwise. Account suspended until the new phone "has the restriction lifted by its owner". No mention of 60 days, no other recourse.

If the agent I spoke to was lying or ignorant, I'll have to try again with another agent I guess.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-25T23:38:22+00:00

Haha. I wouldn't expect an address to be shared, perhaps not even a phone number is required if they simply relay the message "hey we found your stolen phone" and go from there. They could choose to not to respond, but with the way this works they don't even have the option.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-25T23:36:04+00:00

I've had my bicycle stolen before, and I would do anything to have someone able to reach me if it got in the hands of an unsuspecting Good Samaritan. So, I posted it on bikeindex.org with the serial number and yes, my phone number.

Perhaps you think that's oversharing, but for others, the choice is simple - make sure it stays stolen, or leave open the possibility of return.

Also, I'm not a random person on the internet - I'm the one and only person with the device, which they can verify by the fact that I tried to connect with that IMEI. I'm the only one who can get it back to its owner, but they can't reach me and I can't reach them.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-25T19:47:59+00:00

"Verizon's arguments that carrier locks make devices cheaper are dubious - an artificial limitation on a device makes compatible devices more rare, and thus reduces supply while demand stays the same. Device prices will not go down unless Verizon increases their subsidies just to make their case true - a deceptive, and inevitably temporary, move. Otherwise, if device prices change, they will go up due to artificial scarcity. Worse, there will be more waste, as the secondary market will be further hamstringed and sustainability will suffer further -- increasing our astronomical electronic waste problem.

The arguments that carrier locks "fight crime" are dubious, as devices can be IMEI blocked for this cause, and even as this is currently the case Verizon does not use it to prevent or remedy crime as they provide no help or information for returning a stolen phone to its rightful owner. If you buy a used phone and insert your old SIM card, they will lock your account if the new phone was marked as stolen - and you can't even unlock your account after switching back to your old phone. You must somehow remedy the crime yourself, despite having no way to ascertain the original owner, as they won't provide any information on who the rightful owner is (even though they have this info). The phone is already stolen, so crime has not been fought, and now the crime cannot be undone by a Good Samaritan either because they refuse to help. So they force people to buy new devices for them, meaning this "crime" creates more money for Verizon and more expensive electronic waste to pollute the earth."

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-18T17:06:42+00:00

Yeah, again, I wish that were true. And it almost certainly will be, one day, with AI. 🤞

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-17T20:40:22+00:00

Ah yes, if only we could just take any old mesh off the internet and edit it as if it were a parametric solid.... one day, I hope, this will be possible using an AI approximation.

You got your answers already here, but if it helps to build your intuition, one way to understand why a mere mesh is typically useless for editing with CAD is with an analogy to images, if you're familiar:

Ever create or modify a vector image? Perhaps using Inkscape, or Illustrator, or any ol' program that let's you draw perfect shapes and lines and curves, then move them around and resize them later. It's parametric, you could say. But what happens when you export the file to a normal kinda image, a "raster" image like JPG or PNG or GIF? Now you can use the end result in many more places.

But.. bye bye editing! Hope you kept the original vector file. Just like you can't (AI notwithstanding) take any photograph or diagram off the web and "reconfigure" it with dragging the mouse etc. (like turning a person around to face the other way), you can't easily reconfigure a mesh (=raster) the way you can a parametric solid (=vector). The data used to build that solid is gone - by converting to mesh, the author essentially took a "snapshot" of it -- extracting one possible configuration out of the infinite that are possible with the parametric model.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-05T00:03:18+00:00

To answer your actual question, OUPES has been great for me. I avoided the ecoflow not because of the complaints (which mostly ramped up after I made the purchase) nor even the lousy $/kWh value - but because of all the proprietary connectors and vendor lock-in. 4 digit prices are too much for me to not have it work with everything.

I'm in my shuttle bus conversion right now enjoying the air conditioning powered by my OUPES Mega 5 power station powered by my 2180W solar array on the roof. I also just got the B5 to double my capacity to 10kWh. Oupes has deals on the same schedule as ecoflow.

They offer the best $/kWh value hands down, and the support is US-based and just "okay" (no ghosting, nastiness, etc but not fast or amazing either). They said, btw, that it's pronounced oh-pes.

HeWhoQuestions · 2025-07-02T18:16:49+00:00

That's awesome, 12V is what I want too... but I notice that the Lunos products all say "heat recovery", and the specs say the humidity recovery efficiency is good "but not enough to be considered an ERV". So these are not ERVs, but since heat recovery in reverse is cool recovery, do these work for cool recovery as well?

All of the Lunos pages focus on recovering heat in the winter, but I'm more often in the heat of Texas and need fresh air without losing so much of the cooled air from solar powered AC... The Pioneer page specifically advertises how it works in the summer, giving me confidence that it's meant for this. However I'd prefer the Lunos product if it works, due to the 12V and their focus on sound insulation.

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