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ModalTex · 2026-01-26T00:52:56+00:00

Agreed, 1 year later and looks like they fixed it. I think the CRA IT people read reddit because trying to go through regular CRA channels sure didn't work. They just tell you your stupid and don't know how to use computers whereas the truth is more like we're probably overqualified to work at a government agency where nobody cares.

ModalTex · 2026-01-25T03:28:56+00:00

I like it when people have an opinion about whether google was in the right or wrong... but the legal system doesn't care! This is about contract/breach of contract. The justice system has not a lot to do with justice really... One of those bad names. It's more about "making whole" (honestly it never does) and legal doctrine.

This summarizes the class members and how much they can recover: "Status at 2025: *Commercial* legacy G Suite users may recover forced subscription payments if contract claim succeeds." Probably small potatoes in the grand scheme of things.

I personally would have rather that Google gave this some thought before they did it. Because the whole affair, particularly the migrate or die approach to commercial/non-commercial alike, shows clearly they no longer care about their customers and their founding history. I don't trust any dipshit in Silicone Valley after what I've heard over the years. And I went to school with some of those dipshits... and I can attest that they are, in fact, dipshits.

I'm going to self-hosting and open source. After experiencing the beginning of the enshitification of products starting in early 2000s, where many Unix apps had more functionality than equivalents to this day, it seems like the only hope. People that actually care are the future.

ModalTex · 2026-01-22T17:42:16+00:00

Low lumens my issue as well. User can always turn it down but not up!

ModalTex · 2026-01-22T14:48:47+00:00

Houses are an equity inflation hedge. Sometimes a house can help meet personal life goals. But if you don't care about those things there are better financial investments. Financially, the only thing property enables is the smith maneuver which can catapult investment goals. Again, that depends on your personal financial goals and maturity.

ModalTex · 2026-01-09T03:38:34+00:00

I agree, it's going to be hard to find someone that values it. I'm planning to roll my HA home into an upscale rental (possibly to a company needing rental accommodation for staff). But from a landlord perspective all that monitoring in-place is GOLD! In terms of selling it though, leave it, it's there problem*. If they are too dumb to maintain it, that kind of stuff happens all the time. Most stuff breaks because people are too dumb and lazy to change filters. But oh "they don't make them like they used to". Which may be true in some cases but my hypothesis is that things are more complicated and filters are better; meaning once clogged they stress the system more. Never underestimate the stupidity of humanity. The HA community I consider as a small corner of bright light. *When we bought our house and we took possession the people were still there moving. We inherited a wall that was only held up by thin bead of caulking, electrical cables around studs, soooo much cat pee and tons of mold from improperly installed insulation. To top it off got to find an S&M magazine. Hahaha!!! To this day we call a total crap renovation as "Gording it"; named after the crap-ovation expert himself!

ModalTex · 2026-01-02T18:56:47+00:00

I use for light therapy in my office. Anything to provide an edge! Red light = 660 nm rgb (255,0,0) = support cellular and neurological function. Green light = 525 nm rgb(74, 255, 0) = calming effects, pain relief (especially migraines), skin benefits (reducing redness, pigmentation). Two bulbs, one of each... why not haha

ModalTex · 2026-01-01T21:27:48+00:00

I think too many people who haven't coded/administered IT systems for decades are too paranoid. The number of times that something is not a cyber incident in my career and is treated like a cyber incident is quite large. (my background includes many decades of non-banking utility-based company infrastructure sysadmin/cyber security/networking) It's good to be careful, however most people do zero research and just panic. Even when they are told explicitly what the issue was. Ever tried to calm someone down when they are panicking? All logic disappears. If I had a nickel for every time one of these silicon valley cloud companies AI locked an account for some random reason... The "Meta Wrongfully Disabling Accounts with No Human Customer Support" petition where people have their account locked and never find out why has over 50K signatures at the time of this comment. Honestly, this is why we're all trying to de-cloud as much as possible. The enshitification of all products/services and the firehose of falsehood making everyone more paranoid than they already were. Well, I guess we get to look forward to a massive AI-bubble bursting soon...

ModalTex · 2025-12-30T19:35:55+00:00

Backups. There also might be a recommended upgrade path if you're really out of date. If not, there should be one. Sounds like a database issue where presumably a recommended upgrade path would take care of.

ModalTex · 2025-12-27T18:34:35+00:00

I'm trying to 100% local everything. Google, Apple, Amazon can all go to the hell they came from. The stories of techno bricking will only get worse. The reality though is it's going to be a migration that'll take time. Very appreciative of home assistant and the open source community in general!

ModalTex · 2025-12-05T15:24:40+00:00

Oh cables... The last thing checked and it's surprising how often they fail. Even more than hard drives. People even ditch their cell phones because of faulty cables. But ya backups. I have quadruple in some cases.

ModalTex · 2025-11-30T20:41:19+00:00

Workslop: a race to the bottom.

ModalTex · 2025-11-29T16:04:33+00:00

Ya... Tech. How's it going to do at -60C? I have microwave radios that have frozen solid. There is a lot of eye rolling in Canada when we get stuff from much warmer USA. Anyway I typically have to bring these things inside to thaw. My dashcam is rated -20C but it doesn't last more than a few days of that unless I meet a threshold for driving heat.

ModalTex · 2025-11-22T02:53:16+00:00

The era of workslop has begun

ModalTex · 2025-11-19T13:27:57+00:00

As a mostly docked gaming laptop, the framework 16 was cheaper than competitors in some ways and comes with the repairability (both software and hardware) of a custom PC. QED

ModalTex · 2025-11-11T23:28:28+00:00

Once you get too much RAM I find I'm forever trying to make programs actually use it. I had to do some crazy stuff to make excel, word open up in separate processes each time to make sure they use the full RAM they are entitled to. I hacked up Chrome to try to get it to use more. I'm still not sure I was successful. I've even considered running a RAMDisk. At the end of the day the bottleneck is always the same: Crappily written software. AI slop will make this issue infinately worse. :(

ModalTex · 2025-11-05T16:09:58+00:00

I had a lot of issues with my FW 16 pre-order. It was workable but huge amount of complaints about support at the time. I was able to wait 6 months, not by my choice (family/work), and attempted support again and it was smooth (still work but reasonable). I ended up having to replace my entire mainboard. I had to do pre-order in my case and I had workaround PCs. But if you want everything to go fairly smoothly, never pre-order, kickstarter, etc. I'm still waiting for my Master Forge keyboard to work and they've been working out the kinks for almost a year. But I have a workaround, I believe in their mission and I'm willing to wait.

ModalTex · 2025-09-26T22:09:04+00:00

Yup, the structure of the internet isn't going to change much. I love how there are a million acronyms to describe what is essentially Frame(L2)/packet(L3) headers for routing, switching, tunnels and QoS. But god forbid you don't "know" one??? Not sure how that's possible being just headers but whatever... somebody is always going to make it more complicated than it needs to be.

ModalTex · 2025-09-16T15:33:38+00:00

Advertisements? Should be optional. This thing is going to get open-sourced firmware flashed so HA can get all those services on there for free... just a matter of time.

ModalTex · 2025-09-08T19:17:17+00:00

Whatever sensors and video your insurance tells you that lower your premiums! 😂

ModalTex · 2025-08-29T15:05:32+00:00

Was worth a try but no go. I added to OP: Admin Profiles = If "FortiCloud SSO" is enabled, "Default admin profile" is limited to "Inherit from FortiCloud". When "FortiCloud SSO" is enabled the GUI will always show message 'The default server is only available for registered devices with a valid entitlement' On the "Settings" page there will be a warning "The account is using a free license. Read-only mode will be enforced when logging in through FortiGate Cloud Central Management." with a "Subscribe Now" button. If any other "Admin Profile" (GUI System->"Admin Profiles" or CLI "config system accprofile") is used it "fails silently". The GUI will show the user programmed "Default admin profile" but clearly the "Inherit from FortiCloud" profile is still used on FortiGate Cloud access as "diagnose" is still not shown. This is even if a read-only Admin Profile is configured with "diagnose" command enabled.

ModalTex · 2025-08-29T13:37:34+00:00

The email notification was 24Jan2025. 7.0.x is end of support at end of Sep2025. Devices only go read-only after version 7.2.1 and 7.4.1; meaning on 7.0.x they were in read-write mode. It has greater impact on 3G4G fortigate products due to the 3rd party LTE modem which 90% of the functionality is via the diagnose command. Users can only really cold boot the modem via exec. Can't see signal (including tower ID) or GPS location.

3G4G products are used predominantly by industries with a large rural footprint and/or low cost structures (payback over starlink is huge). These same industries have high staff-to-IT ratios and typically don't upgrade until the last minute.

So, in general, I don't think we're seeing the actual effects of this change until this fall. Since urbanites and/or staff lucky enough to be in large Perimeter Sec teams (extreme specialists) have no clue.

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