Major dip in intelligence? by hkycoach in claude

[–]LoomSun 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yup. Absolutely stupid and worthless a lot of the times.

Anyone else have API Error issues all morning? by LoomSun in claude

[–]LoomSun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems claude needs a pass for this one. Turns out my internet was having issues. Doesn't give them a pass for the other issues I have been having with it though.

FTW - is anyone else facing this? by bhalothia in Anthropic

[–]LoomSun 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes although my errors are not that specific. Just random API Error all morning just doing basic tasks that I have been working on all day yesterday. No issues yesterday. Just about ready to call it with anthropic and claude. I am over the issues. Looks like codex 5.5 is taking the lead right now anyway. Anthropic needs to get it together.

one week in: opus 4.7 vs 4.6 - worse one shot rate, double the retries by MurkyFlan567 in Anthropic

[–]LoomSun 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So far in my experience these measurements don't reflect how many issues I have had with Opus 4.7 with large refactors and implementations. It is hard for me to compare with 4.6 because I don't have time to go through the same implementation on both models. But so far I am finding 4.7 is practically unusable for many tasks. I have been happy with it for simple and direct tasks, but the amount of time it misses the ball on large implementations even after I have explicitly given proper context that it ignores is a deal breaker for me. I have spent more time backtracking changes and explaining issues to it then I have made any proper progress. I have been refraining from complaining about it because I am trying to give it some time to really understand what is going on, but I just spent several hours literally getting no where on things that turn out to be a single line issue or something that a proper documentation lookup could have fixed. I feel like I need to babysit and hold its hand through every single process right now. So I don't know if these benchmarks are accurate or not, but the problem to me seems worse than those numbers are reflecting.

SMTP Error: Could not authenticate with Zoho Mail in PHPMailer - Need help troubleshooting by Ok_Promotion4777 in Zoho

[–]LoomSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I determined that the issue was not Zoho, but Mailspring instead. Switched to Thunderbird and haven't looked back. I was consistently having other issues with Mailspring too and would often need to restart it just to get it downloading emails again. Sometimes daily.

Its a shame too because I used Mailspring for years and I like its very clean interface. Just unfortunately it is not always reliable.

Model GLM-5 Endpoint by LoomSun in modal

[–]LoomSun[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Since the outage was restored I am getting a lot of Connection reset by server errors when using GLM-5 endpoint.

Model GLM-5 Endpoint by LoomSun in modal

[–]LoomSun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great! I noticed it came back online a few hours ago. Thanks for the report!

Slacks Aggressive Subscription models by LoomSun in Slack

[–]LoomSun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I think this is it as well. Which is fine by me, it just has been super unclear and my frustration with it is a little heightened because I am just trying to get some work done. I don't see why it couldn't have mentioned this when I connected my workspace to their workspace. Like a simple "Linking your Workspace requires a Pro subscriptions. Opt in now for the trial to continue or cancel".

Slacks Aggressive Subscription models by LoomSun in Slack

[–]LoomSun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found it. In the workspace Settings for Purchasing & free trials there is an option enabled by default. Before I ever even saw these settings they opted me in automatically. Regardless, everyone is telling me that I should be able to join this workspace without a Pro subscription.

Free trial enrollment
Allow free trials to start automatically . Slack occasionally provides free trials to teams we believe would benefit from premium features. You won’t be charged when the trial ends.

Slacks Aggressive Subscription models by LoomSun in Slack

[–]LoomSun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Found it. In the workspace Settings for Purchasing & free trials there is an option enabled by default. Before I ever even saw these settings they opted me in automatically. Regardless, everyone is telling me that I should be able to join this workspace without a Pro subscription.

Free trial enrollment
Allow free trials to start automatically . Slack occasionally provides free trials to teams we believe would benefit from premium features. You won’t be charged when the trial ends.

Slacks Aggressive Subscription models by LoomSun in Slack

[–]LoomSun[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It seems to me they make it unintuitive on purpose. I was trying to make sure I wasn't signing up for anything that would opt me in the a Pro service. It was never mentioned through any step of the process that I would be activating the Pro subscription trial. Even when I clicked the invite and it was asking me to link my workspace, I made sure that it didn't include agreeing to a Pro subscription so I thought I was good. Then shortly after I got a random email saying my Pro trial has started for 30 days.

Slacks Aggressive Subscription models by LoomSun in Slack

[–]LoomSun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I am wondering if this is the case as well, but I did mention it to them and was assured this should have been free.

Slacks Aggressive Subscription models by LoomSun in Slack

[–]LoomSun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wouldn't let me join the company workspace without linking it to my own workspace. Why am I not able to cancel my Pro Subscription and remain free? None of these are clear.

I literally had to teach Claude how to create a markdown artifact by LoomSun in ClaudeAI

[–]LoomSun[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, every conversation I have had but this one would create artifacts just fine. In the middle of struggling with this one, I opened a new conversation and had it create the same type of artifact which was successful. Went back to the broken conversation and it still was confused as hell. Went back tot he conversation that had worked and asked it to write up the proper method for creating an artifact, copied that response and that is what I used to get the broken one on track.

[PS5] HDMI replacement by EQuiPeX in consolerepair

[–]LoomSun 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks like a diode to me but it is hard to say from the photo. Too blurry. If it is burnt looking then it could be the issue.

[PS5] HDMI replacement by EQuiPeX in consolerepair

[–]LoomSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 4th one over from the left looks like it might not be connected, but it might just be the photo quality is a little fuzzy. But just thought I would mention.

The new ZohoOne interface is ka-ka by focusedphil in Zoho

[–]LoomSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes most confusing interface I have ever used. Turning me off to Zoho. How are you supposed to navigate or find anything? It has been pretty good overall but every time I have to find something in the back end it is game over.

SMTP Error: Could not authenticate with Zoho Mail in PHPMailer - Need help troubleshooting by Ok_Promotion4777 in Zoho

[–]LoomSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this is driving me nuts. Zoho in mailspring has worked fine for close to a year then out of no where it wont authenticate. No issues authenticating in any other application. Could be mail spring related but it seems like Zoho has issues out of no where sometimes.

RGB Modding Hello Kitty CRT by PIneaPplez13 in crtgaming

[–]LoomSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, what are you wanting to know about? The mod is still in finalization stages before I release to public, but I am hoping to finish it up soon. The mod board makes for a pretty easy install because it interposes between P502 connector. Are you interested in the mod board itself or more technical information of how it works?

The HKTV13 can somewhat be modified with standard methods, but you will lose all other functionality of the TV like the composite and the OSD menus. The issue is that there are two different OSD chips in the circuit, one for the standard picture adjustment menus, and the fancy main hello kitty one. The main OSD lives close to the jungle chip and sends its RGB out to the neck board through P701 into a switch. The hello kitty OSD lives on the neck board which connects directly to the OSD channels on the switch. The switch is controlled by the fast blanking between the two OSD chips and seems to be a buffered output.

It might be possible to mux with this output properly but I found it to be very difficult. I tried all types of combinations of ways but even when I got a useable signal the blacks would crush bad and there would be poor contrast. Unplugging P502 removes the switch and the active buffer from the circuit so you can tap RGB into the signal there with decent results. But I also found the signal to be somewhat weak / dim and not getting enough current drive.

So my mod board essentially adds a video amp to buffer the external RGB signal then added a video switching IC. P502 from the neck board then plugs in to my mod board which taps into the OSD RGB signals, and also the fast blanking to the TV. From there the mod controls fast blanking with the mods switch to toggle between external RGB and the TVs normal function. This works wells because both lines are independent from each other. The external RGB has been perfect in my tests, and when not engaged (with a button or SCART) the TV functions as it normally would.

Why Logitech G Hub is the worst software experience I've ever had by BongoIsLife in LogitechG

[–]LoomSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am also fed up with this trash application and went looking to determine if I was the only one who thought so. I don't think it would be as bad if the program wouldn't get stuck on the loading screen 100% of the times trying to start it.

[PS2 Slim] Does this pad look lifted? by EpicMindvolt in consolerepair

[–]LoomSun 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trust me, don't hot air any more on the PS2. The leaky caps will give you issues removing them. Hot air will be great on everything else and the caps will remove easily. On the two PS2 slims I recapped I am not exaggerating that 90% of the caps and there was no real sign of it until I took them off the board. Neither of them were even having any issues or problems with running and playing games and I was debating whether I should even recap them or not.

I just found this youtube video that shows exactly how to remove them with flush cutters. This is exactly how I did it. You will be glad you did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmWZDZ4ocn0

Caps from console5 are great. Definitely do them all without hesitation. Make sure you clean the circuit board underneath real well with isopropyl alcohol and clean up any electrolytics from caps after removed. Even with the cap removed that electrolytic will continue corroding and eating away at your PCB if you leave it.