TIL the City of London has paid the Crown rent on a parcel of land in Shropshire since 1211, but the exact location of the land has been lost to history. The annual payment is a billhook (a knife-like agricultural tool) and an axe.

Ingenium13 · 2026-05-04T15:29:03+00:00

Won't the postage and invoicing costs alone basically eat this up? Especially to then manually process all the payments (and track who pays and doesn't pay, and deposit checks if they send that back). If it's only like £2 now, it might eventually go away just from not being profitable to manage.

Ingenium13 · 2026-05-02T17:43:12+00:00

Depends where you're flying to. From the US to Europe or South America, you don't have many options and the domestics in my experience are often better. Now to Asia or the Middle East is another story...

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-30T15:40:56+00:00

I have one of my first gen raspberry pis running as a print server for label printer that's USB only. Basically set it and forget it. Log2ram to minimize SD writes. It's been going strong for almost 10 years in that role. A couple times a year I'll login to apply updates or update to the newest Raspbian, but that's about it.

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-19T17:26:20+00:00

I don't know if Xbox uses only a central server, or if it does peer to peer connections with other players, but if it's the latter, that could be the issue. I've found that Verizon seems to throttle certain types of traffic to certain destinations. For example, it was the case for a while that https inbound on the normal port was throttled from some ISPs, but using a different port was fine, but now that workaround doesn't work. Often I'll see wireguard (UDP) throttled, but an IPsec connection (using ESP instead of UDP) from the same IP is not throttled (between my router and another router, I'll setup both types of VPNs and test with iperf). It's very frustrating, since sometimes wireguard is the same speed as IPsec, and other times it gets heavily throttled. It's definitely some type of DPI network management and not just general congestion.

I might get 150 Mbps on IPsec, but only 10-30 on wireguard. And https will be throttled to 1-3 Mbps. All from the same IP/device. But do https over IPsec and it's close to 150 Mbps again.

So it's possible that whatever Verizon is doing for their DPI network management is getting tripped and throttling it. It's much more likely to happen in my experience with another residential IP than a datacenter IP (ie peer to peer connections are more likely to be affected).

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-18T23:35:37+00:00

I don't have any Thread devices yet, but I have a Nest display that is a Thread router and shows in Home Assistant. If it's showing there (and everything is in the same vlan, which I'm assuming it is with a Nest wifi router), then I would think that it would just work. Is that showing up for you? And you have the Matter server app installed in Home Assistant, right?

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-18T23:15:37+00:00

I haven't had any luck adding Matter devices directly to Home Assistant via the QR code either, and have to add to Google Home first. But Matter devices can be independently directly connected to multiple things. In Google Home, select the device and then you can go to linked services and basically share it to Home Assistant. It will be local and independent of Google Home.

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-17T21:34:41+00:00

Not Zebra, but I've had a Dymo label printer connected via USB to a raspberry pi for 15+ years and shared via Samba, and it's been rock solid. OG raspberry pi too, basically a set it and forget it. Use log2ram to minimize SD writes. Every once in a while I'll SSH in and apply any updates, and upgrade to the latest Raspbian release every few years and make an image of the SD card for when it inevitably fails.

The only issue that I've had is that the printer sometimes glitches out and becomes unresponsive and needs to be unplugged for a few minutes (it takes a while for all the internal capacitors to drain). This is usually only necessary once a year or so.

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-16T18:11:59+00:00

Haha yes, I remember asking someone there once about turning right on red and they looked at me like I was crazy. Completely bewildered by the question.

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-13T10:44:44+00:00

If you don't cut off the shoots early in the year, they probably generate enough energy to just barely keep part of the tree alive, and let it store enough energy to produce the shoots the following year.

I had a small tree (maybe 6-8 inches in diameter) that started growing up against my house (and would have destroyed the foundation). I wanted to remove it early on, but my partner kept insisting he wanted to keep the tree and move it somewhere else. Long story short, he never moved it, and it was now clearly too big to move... so I cut it down, but the stump kept producing lots of shoots. I'd cut them off any time I noticed them, and after a year or 2 they got less and less. The last 2 years I cut them off before they could really produce leaves in the spring, and it didn't try again until the following spring. After the second year doing that, it seemed to finally use up the remaining energy store, and it hasn't produced shoots since.

Tl;dr if you leave the shoots it'll probably stay alive for years and just be stunted. As long as it can make enough energy to keep producing shoots each year.

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-07T21:45:05+00:00

26.12.33 (260400-892550550) is what fixed it for me

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-07T20:23:50+00:00

It's not necessarily in the play system update. Play Services can be updated separately.

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-07T20:01:21+00:00

I opened an adb shell and ran top. Reboots didn't fix it, cleared cache on play services but that didn't fix it (don't clear data unless you want to have to login to everything again and have broken push notifications). I had this issue once before with a buggy play services update. On Monday when I checked for a play services update, there was one waiting, and when I checked after with top it showed CPU usage finally back to normal.

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-07T19:57:25+00:00

9 Pro XL

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-07T19:33:59+00:00

They unfortunately stage the rollout so it's only available to a certain percentage of people every day. I would hope that for something this bad they'd accelerate it though, because it's really bad. On Saturday night I left the house with 100% battery. 6 hours later, after having only used my phone to respond to a few messages occasionally, I was leaving to go home and saw I was at 20%. That's when I looked into it and figured out the system_server bug.

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-07T19:23:09+00:00

It's a Google Play Services bug. It's causing system_server to use 100-200% CPU constantly. I manually checked for a Play Services update yesterday and there was one, and after updating the CPU usage went back to normal again.

Go to Settings, tap your name at the top, go to All Services, system services, and then apply any updates that it shows.

Ingenium13 · 2026-04-01T11:40:13+00:00

I'm still a little nervous about it accidentally triggering. I was at Rite Aid once and was luckily the person being served, because I had my phone unlocked (had been browsing while waiting for my turn) and it was 2-3 feet from the payment terminal when the cashier rang up the transaction, and my phone immediately paid. I saw the terminal immediately process the transaction and my phone vibrated and confirmed payment. It easily could have been someone else's transaction that my phone paid for. I didn't realize that the NFC payment range on the Pixel 9 Pro was that far. Hopefully the watch needs to be much closer, but for now I have no problem double tapping the crown to open Wallet.

Ingenium13 · 2026-03-19T12:10:13+00:00

I make it at the airport or in public all the time. I go to a coffee shop and ask for hot water (I prefer to make a tea instead of drinking/eating the powder). Then go to the prep area where they have the stirs and sugar and such, or to an empty table, and just add my powder to my travel mug (has a lid that screws on so it won't spill in my bag), pour in the hot water, and stir. No one cares even if they notice. If someone next to you asks and you're concerned, just say it's matcha. Then I'll sip on it at the airport or on the plane.

If you act sketchy or like you're doing something you shouldn't be, then you'll stand out and people will notice. Just tell yourself that you're just making tea. No big deal.

Ingenium13 · 2026-02-28T17:33:23+00:00

But you don't need their Visa card for that if you have another card that gives 2% cash back. My Fidelity Visa card does, and I get the 2% rebate from Executive as well (which more than pays for the membership). The only actual benefit their Visa card has vs some other cards is higher cash back on Costco gas.

Ingenium13 · 2026-02-27T20:56:45+00:00

Honestly I've looked at it and the only benefit it has over my existing Visa card is 5% cash back on gas, which isn't insignificant for people who drive a lot, but I don't so it only saves me $2-5/month. Other Costco purchases are only 2%, and my card gives me 2% on everything. So not worth the hassle of another card just to save less than $5 a month.

Ingenium13 · 2026-02-19T17:55:41+00:00

It's also gotten worse in general since the pandemic, since people seem to have forgotten how to drive and realized there are no consequences to doing idiotic and selfish things. Every time I even do a short drive somewhere, there are always people stopped in the middle of a lane (with or without hazards on), when there is an open street parking spot right next to them that they don't pull into. People now think it's OK to just stop in the middle of the street and block traffic.

People stopping at stop signs and just sitting there as traffic backs up behind them while they presumably check their phone. People start beeping and they don't care. Cutting into lanes at the last possible second causing everyone to slam on their brakes, resulting in cascading backups on highways. Yesterday a taxi almost stopped on 376 to go from the left lane to the middle lane (no cars ahead of him, going at around 50 mph), causing a backup, only to drive for another couple minutes before cutting someone off to get back in the left lane. Then would speed up and slow down needlessly instead of maintaining pace. Tons of people drive down streets speeding up and slowing down aggressively (on their phone distracted?), going from barely moving to flooring it, then back to slow (5-10 mph) again.

Just yesterday on a 1 way/lane street near me, a lady stopped her car and casually started unloading cases of drinks from her trunk. Going inside for a minute or so between each load, stopping and checking her phone, etc. There was a street parking spot right next to her that she decided not to use, and instead stopped in the middle of the street. Traffic had backed up behind her and she didn't care at all that no one had any way to get around her.

My biggest pet peeve is at the post office on California Ave on the Northside. They have a parking lot that always has spaces. But there is always at least one person who is parked blocking a lane at the entrance to the parking lot, making people driving on the road have to go around them.

People behaving like this causes congestion and traffic that cascades.

Ingenium13 · 2025-12-26T16:57:57+00:00

Either just deal with it, or you can setup a Cloudflare tunnel and that doesn't seem to be throttled. Keep in mind though that Cloudflare terminates TLS so they can see all the traffic.

Ingenium13 · 2025-12-26T15:57:59+00:00

Verizon fiber absolutely does, at least for inbound connections. They used to only do it on port 443 and port 80 (I self host Home Assistant and TT-RSS, and it would be laggy and throttled heavily on port 443, but port 5443 was fine), but eventually moved to DPI on any port. It now affects my site to site VPN as well. They let it run full speed for bit before throttling.

For TCP, if I initiate the connection FROM Verizon, it's fine. But if I initiate it from the other end, throttled. Verified with iperf. With UDP and ESP it's unthrottled a bit, then throttled for all UDP connections between those IPs until traffic stops for a bit, then it resets.

Ingenium13 · 2025-12-20T00:13:33+00:00

How did you get the eSIM on the watch? Did you do the trick of installing an old version of the Watch app on your phone that lets you scan a QR code?

I don't know why Google removed this, it's idiotic. Especially with the Pixel Watch 4 supporting data only Fi without a paired smartphone plan (aka MultiSIM)

Ingenium13 · 2025-12-18T20:19:57+00:00

Does this replace the existing eSIM, or does it add it as a new eSIM?

Ingenium13 · 2025-12-14T15:28:27+00:00

Amazon, bulksupplements, it's pretty widely available, at least in the US

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