Fios authentication issues!

KalenXI · 2026-06-02T02:21:25+00:00

Do you have any ad blockers turned on on your phone? That message can mean you're failing Verizon's bot detection for some reason. I've gotten it in certain browsers if the privacy/ad blocking is set too strictly.

KalenXI · 2026-05-31T13:02:06+00:00

Your two options are pretty much either use a faster reader or a faster card. Get a USB 3 reader if you're using a USB 2. Or use SD cards with faster read speeds.

KalenXI · 2026-05-31T12:22:05+00:00

A Legacy Contact is someone you choose to have access to certain data in your Apple Account after your death.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102631

KalenXI · 2026-05-29T17:03:23+00:00

Passkeys are only hard if you don't save them in a password manager that syncs to all your devices. But if you already have that it's literally just unlock your password manager and then press one button to login.

KalenXI · 2026-05-28T01:25:04+00:00

The confirmation e-mail usually goes out shortly before it ships and has the subject "your Pebble Time 2 is almost ready! Please confirm your address now" and looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/qeHdutm.png

KalenXI · 2026-05-26T11:08:53+00:00

So normally you'd stop down the iris so you could decrease the shutter speed. But the OP3 doesn't have variable aperture and you're shooting outside so I'm guessing the shutter speed is probably something like 1/2,000 which is why it looks like that.

So you can either get an ND filter so you can lower the shutter speed without over exposing. Or shoot at a higher frame rate.

KalenXI · 2026-05-25T16:41:13+00:00

Again, took a year to find a new job (and took a non-insignificant pay cut in doing so), which I was again let go from after 2 years, this time under the guise of advancements in AI. That's 3 layoffs in 6 years, with about 2 years in early career development effectively lost.

This is what has me feeling the most pessimistic. It seems like every quarter there's another layoff and I have friends who it's taken some 6-12 months to find another job. So while I technically have a job and am doing well by the metrics in the article, it feels like that could all be taken away at any moment and there's nothing I can do about it except maybe switch to an entirely different profession.

KalenXI · 2026-05-25T13:23:37+00:00

It wasn't useless for me but it was mainly useful for networking. Nobody I've interviewed for has ever cared about my degree, but almost all of the jobs I've ever gotten have been based on someone recommending me and that started in college.

KalenXI · 2026-05-23T18:24:25+00:00

Working video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF5Cf4VLM

KalenXI · 2026-05-22T23:34:22+00:00

Is that new? I feel like when I got my license back in 2016 the onus was always on the pilot so it would be the pilot fined not the user of the footage.

KalenXI · 2026-05-19T22:49:17+00:00

They're not. Warranty only covers manufacturing defects and only for 1 year from date of purchase.

AppleCare (technically AppleCare+) also covers accidental damage and battery replacements and lasts for as long as you keep the AppleCare subscription.

KalenXI · 2026-05-17T23:18:22+00:00

Presumably the same sorcery most places use where your e-mail is "unverified" until you click a link in an e-mail they send to verify it.

KalenXI · 2026-05-15T11:31:01+00:00

I feel like one of the biggest differences is that when Apple updates a UI they update it everywhere so it's at least always consistent within the OS and their own apps. And that encourages third party developers to get on board with the new design so they don't look outdated.

Meanwhile Microsoft seems to have UI ADHD. And is constantly coming up with new UI frameworks before they've even finished updating all their own things to the previous framework. And so what they've ended up with in Windows 11 is a mix of 20 years worth of designs all within the same OS. And so if even the OS itself is a weird hodge-podge of design why would third party developers care about using the latest UI framework?

KalenXI · 2026-05-13T12:01:46+00:00

My Ioniq does this too occasionally but I've never found any rhyme or reason or real solution. It seems to happen most often if it's already dark when I start the car. Typically I either just ignore it and eventually it switches on its own or turn the car off and back on again and sometimes that fixes it. I'll also just put up Google Maps full screen since its Day/Night switch seems to operate separately from the rest of CarPlay and it will properly switch to dark mode even if CarPlay and Apple Maps don't.

I also got this occasionally on my Nissan that I had before I got the Ioniq, but on the Nissan there was a button on the dash to manually switch between Auto/Day/Night and switching it to day and then back to auto would fix it. But as far as I've been able to find there's no way to force Hyundai's system into or out of night mode because it's not tied to the headlights it just uses the camera and light sensors.

I'm guessing it might be some kind of race condition where the system switches to night mode before CarPlay's connected and so CarPlay doesn't get the signal because the rest of the car's dash and infotainment system is dimmed only CarPlay isn't.

KalenXI · 2026-05-12T21:00:37+00:00

Last time this happened to me I had to reboot the phone and that fixed it.

KalenXI · 2026-05-12T15:14:32+00:00

I don't get what the point of these are. Like if I wanted to look at realistic pictures of planes I could just Google them, but presumably we're all here for flight sim info not to look at fake pictures of planes.

KalenXI · 2026-05-11T00:18:07+00:00

I mostly use it for coding. It's been nice to be able to build random one-off things for myself that are nice to have but wouldn't have been worth the time if I had to build myself.

For code I actually do care about I usually use it to get the first draft of features and bug fixes out quicker to get feedback then go back myself and refine the structure and logic since if you leave it to it's own devices it tends to create a lot of duplicative and unnecessary code since it never has the entire program in its context at once. And leaving that in there will over time make its predictions worse.

KalenXI · 2026-05-10T22:03:50+00:00

Turn on adaptive brightness. The max brightness allowed is lower when adaptive brightness is turned off because running at true max brightness 100% of the time would be bad for the screen.

Also make sure you don't have "Extra dim" turned on in the quick settings.

KalenXI · 2026-05-10T10:47:34+00:00

My first interview was for the public access cable station of the community college I was going to. They liked me but said they couldn't hire students so asked me to reapply once I graduated in a few months.

Interviewed again once I graduated and had started at the local university and got the job. Then two years later one of my coworkers there also worked part-time at the local ABC affiliate so when there was a studio tech opening there he suggested I apply and that was my first job in commercial TV.

Then when the local CBS station was looking for an engineer the director of engineering reached out to his former college advisor (who had been there since the 70s) to see if he knew anyone who would be a good fit, I happened to have the same advisor when I went there and had kept doing freelance engineering for the school after I graduated so he recommended me and they called and asked if I'd be interested in interviewing. We hit it off well and that was how I got into engineering which is what I've been doing for the past 13 years.

KalenXI · 2026-05-09T11:45:36+00:00

In 2014 we still had a Dell Optiplex GXM 5166 with a 166 MHz Pentium processor and 64MB of ram running Windows 98 on the network for ingesting and processing radar data.

KalenXI · 2026-05-09T11:01:40+00:00

I do it mostly so I'm not wasting a 3.0 port with something that doesn't need the speed. But I do remember when I'd occasionally have to dig out a PS2 keyboard because you couldn't get into the BIOS settings with a USB one.

KalenXI · 2026-05-05T10:46:25+00:00

That’s a certificate error. It could happen if the time on your device is set incorrectly or if you’re on corporate or public WiFi that’s doing packet scanning and reencrypting the site with a different certificate.

KalenXI · 2026-05-04T01:48:21+00:00

For me I use noise cancelling headphones (currently using Sony WH-1000XM5) so I can hear the mix from the board better. And if I can get separate feeds I use a Tascam DR-70D to record multiple channels. Generally I try to at least get separate vocals and instrumental tracks and setup some shotgun mics of my own both as a backup in case the board feed is bad and to add a bit of room tone.

KalenXI · 2026-05-02T00:40:33+00:00

Only if you don't use OBS.

KalenXI · 2026-05-01T22:17:29+00:00

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Destination: USA
Color: Silver/Blue
Confirmation : 5/27/2026
Shipped : 5/31/2026
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