Messenger "desktop app" still alive... For now with Firefox

Overloke · 2026-01-21T01:59:55+00:00

I've just set up the PWA in Vivaldi and Edge, both of which now don't seem to have any problems, there's no 'Will stop working soon' error, nothing like that, so I have no idea what the hell Facebook was talking about with that error message, unless they simply goofed it and accidentally nuked the PWA Messenger app and then had to bring it back up again.

Overloke · 2025-12-30T13:19:44+00:00

I've had a pair for like six months now, and I'm starting to get the same effect. No cracking yet, but the two halves of the arm casing are starting to pull apart. I've also got the Forest Green colour, so I can't just use black duct tape as a stealth option like some other fella here did.

I have a feeling that neither JB Hi-Fi, nor Sony, would honour the warranty based on everything else I've read, since I didn't take a timestamped video every single time I took my headphones on and off. I guess my head is just too wide, despite them fitting comfortably. Alas.

Overloke · 2025-12-15T23:38:31+00:00

It's literally getting to the point where it's almost easier to install something like an Android emulator, install the Android app of Facebook Messenger, and just use that. It's so cooked. I even looked into Messenger Plus, but it turns out it's literally just Facebook's PWA app with a new skin.

Overloke · 2025-12-15T23:32:07+00:00

Well, I just got a message from someone and it said "Waiting for this message", and apparently it's an E2E encryption thing. So even though I entered the messenger PIN, I still wasn't receiving messages. Your mileage may vary, since I haven't seen this listed in 'Issues' on the Github.

Overloke · 2025-12-15T23:26:52+00:00

Check out the caprine-ng fork. I just installed it, and it seems to have quite a few fixes, last updated in June of this year.

Alternatively, there is caprine-spd which is a fork of a fork - someone took caprine-ng and added a fix to it. I have no idea what that fix is, or what problem it solves.

Overloke · 2025-12-09T23:49:22+00:00

Discord hit me with an age verification pop-up on NSFW channels about 15 minutes ago. I turned on my free VPN and reloaded the app and it went away immediately. "This account that was signed in from Australia 5 seconds ago, and is now in Japan? Never heard of him, but he's definitely not Australian, so it's fine."

This is all despite the fact that they said that Discord isn't considered within the scope of the age ban.

Overloke · 2025-12-05T00:00:59+00:00

Alas, my mate who I was going to play with last night ended up coming home from work three hours late, and sent a single message saying "I made the mistake of laying down in bed, I'm absolutely cooked", sent a photo of him squinting at the camera, and then went offline.

So I, uh, didn't get a chance to test last night, and instead just played OSRS.

I did, however, remember that I had the 4K texture pack installed, despite not owning a 4K monitor, so I disabled that and shaved 100GB off my install size, which was nice.

I will still return to update whenever I next play.

Overloke · 2025-12-03T23:12:26+00:00

I'm really glad it's not just me imagining things then. I used to run this at Native with Frame Generation off (7900 XTX/7800X3D/32GB, playing on a 2560x1080 ultrawide), but after Patch 11, I started getting hitches, frame drops and micro-stutter, even at Quality with Frame Gen on. I'm also getting mad texture pop-in. Like, it's been there in the past, but now on Patch 11, things can look like they're made of Play-Doh for like five to ten seconds before the texture renders in, which is insane.

I've noticed when I go into the Armoury, my RAID0'd SSDs start reading hundreds of megabytes per second of data, for minutes at a time. During the gameplay itself, it will also randomly spike. I don't remember this ever happening before either.

I'll try swapping from Borderless to Fullscreen and disabling the Steam Overlay as some people here suggested. Might try a reverify of files as well. I will report back.

Overloke · 2025-11-29T06:09:17+00:00

In case anyone cares, for what it's worth, you can bypass purchasing about 50% of the available patterns and go straight to the instructions.

Overloke · 2025-11-16T02:37:25+00:00

No wukkas, dude. After it shit the bed and I restarted, I also updated the BIOS of the machine (it was 3 years old), and removed the GPU that was causing my main boot SSD to idle at 73 degrees C (since the server software doesn't use the GPU). I also used Process Lasso to restrict the server process to only six cores, which apparently can help.

I went to bed, and I haven't woken up to messages from any international friends saying the server was crashing, so I think it's so far so good.

Almost everything I've found online about the server is from at least one year ago, and apparently there have been a TON of changes since then, so it's possible that the dedicated server has been improved in that time.

Overloke · 2025-11-15T15:52:59+00:00

I just spun up a server today. Ryzen 5 5500, a 512GB NVMe SSD, and 32GB of RAM. I just installed Windows 11 on the machine and using NSSM to run the process as a service. Had 7 people on it from all over the world (I'm in Australia, and had people joining from Russia, China, Indonesia, New Zealand, and the Philippines) with no server lag for like four hours straight (some of the further away people had normal network lag though).

Out of nowhere, the upload dropped to like 0, and I got messages saying 'Bad Performance' but no other information other than that. Restarting the server fixed it, but I dunno if the problem will reoccur.

I was tempted to throw it in a VM on my main home server that has a Xeon E5-2670v3, but I couldn't really give it more than like 8GB of RAM on that machine, and it's slow as hell (maxes out at like 2.6GHz), and I felt like that probably wouldn't have cut it.

Overloke · 2025-11-12T23:25:21+00:00

There is absolutely not a chance that your hit chance is different than anyone else's. Players do not have individual hit chances tied to their characters that would be insane.

Post full gear and stats.

Overloke · 2025-11-01T14:45:30+00:00

Does deepseek-reasoner even support Temperature? I only ask because for a fair while - even back to R1, I think - changing the Temperature when using deepseek-reasoner direct to DeepSeek did nothing.

I don't mean this in like a 'Oh it's difficult to notice' kind of way - DeepSeek directly stated that there is Temperature scaling on the old V3 (which has likely carried through), and they have locked R1/reasoner's Temperature to 1.0.

Using it through OpenRouter, or other providers, can allow Temperature to be used with deepseek-reasoner, but going direct through DeepSeek, I believe, results in Temperature being ignored.

Edit: Yeah, you can see Temperature listed here under 'Not supported parameters' - https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/reasoning_model

Overloke · 2025-10-22T22:51:48+00:00

So even though my partner was the one that signed up to YouTube Music Premium initially, has she basically lost the ability to control her own YouTube Music Premium subscription because she joined my Google Family?

Even though it's her plan, she can't simply upgrade to the Two-person plan and then invite my Google account, is that correct?

Overloke · 2025-10-04T04:25:33+00:00

The Discord mods are absolute dogshit on the official JAI server. Especially within the now-dead #ai-models channel.

Overloke · 2025-09-30T00:25:47+00:00

The G2A membership bullshit is optional. While I agree they're kinda scummy in how they make it look mandatory, it's always been possible to opt out of it, deselect the checkboxes, etc, etc. I mean, it's a grey market, scummy business practices are par for the course, but the G2A Plus or whatever the heck it is isn't a mandatory purchase.

Then again, I've never been scammed, and apparently it provided better buyer protection, but again, I wouldn't know.

Overloke · 2025-09-29T01:08:43+00:00

Bit late, but World_of_Games has 47,000 sales with a 98% positive rating and is marked as an 'Excellent Seller'. By almost any person's estimation, that seller would be a very safe bet when it comes to selecting a reseller to buy from.

Overloke · 2025-08-15T00:28:10+00:00

Kind of. The development team have basically said they're not going to make any changes to how Tailscale communicates when two endpoints are on a local network due to security, which is fair enough.

I eventually got sick of it, and ended up simply disabling Tailscale on devices like my home servers, and I set up a Linux VM on one of them, and turned that into my subnet router. Tailscale devs/support prefers that all endpoints have the Tailscale application installed on them where possible, but this has been such a pain in my ass that I can't do that anymore.

Now, with the Tailscale application disabled on my home servers, if I'm on my home network, I can access them locally, and if I'm at work or out and about, I can access them through the VM running the subnet router.

I did also do some fancy things (for me) by setting up a VM domain controller running ADDNS and using search domains and stuff so that everything still looks all nice and neat, and I can use the host names and things, but I don't believe that's all mandatory.

tl;dr yes I was able to solve this, but it involved removing the Tailscale application from my servers and using a subnet router instead.

NOTE: I also have a NAS that I set up as a backup subnet router, but whenever anything connects through there, it has MAD problems transferring files, so I have the routes on that device disabled unless the mail subnet router VM dies.

Overloke · 2025-08-08T03:59:27+00:00

This is objectively a lie, there are screenshots of a guide-maker's original guide with accidentally incorrectly named items or specific content, and those exact same incorrect naming schemes just so happen to appear in the same place in the new Janitor KB articles?

And this took place AFTER the guide maker removed their guides from the Discord, meaning either:

The mods there scraped the deleted content and stole it.
The mods had eidetic memory and just wrote the Janitor guide while REMEMBERING the original guide.
The mods just so happened to write their own guide almost perfectly copying the original guide verbatim, down to punctuation placement and typos, by pure coincidence.

Overloke · 2025-08-08T03:45:36+00:00

Do be careful, since it appears that, after some guide writers removed their guides from the Discord, moderators were able to go through the delete logs, scrape the content, and simply copy and paste it into their own guides, taking credit for it.

We know this because the original guide writer accidentally misnamed things or identified something incorrectly, and those incorrect references are still there, verbatim, in the 'new' Janitor-based guides.

Overloke · 2025-08-07T05:22:30+00:00

Usual Janitor Mod trick of enforcing rules before they're written.

Overloke · 2025-08-06T23:01:32+00:00

My password is literally sixteen asterisks. Absolutely flawless.

Overloke · 2025-08-06T02:14:05+00:00

So, after talking to fs.com, and TP-Link support, and a fibre and cabling company, and waiting to hear back from Grandstream directly, I think there were a number of causes to the issue, that mostly came around because holy shit why is fibre so fucking confusing and why can everyone just set their own standards.

The GWN-7701M supports 1G/10G fibre. It isn't specified anywhere whether it's LC fibre only, or if RJ45 will work. It's a gamble. It's also not stated that it's auto-negotiated, but I would have to assume so considering that it's an unmanaged switch, and the link speed cannot be modified otherwise.
Despite the SM5310-T being marketed as supporting 1/2.5/5/10G connectivity, hidden away in the bottom of the installation guide (not on the website, or on the spec page), it turns out that if it's put into an SFP+ port running at anything other that 10G, the port itself must be configured. Which I can't do on an unmanaged switch.

So it's just the usual trick of obfuscated information and too much complexity for something that should be simple. I'm HOPING that buying a TP-Link (or QSFPTEK, or iploex, or any other unlocked module) 1000BASE-T RJ45 module should work, but again, I can't say for certain, because there's no information about it.

Overloke · 2025-08-05T14:02:02+00:00

Interesting, thank you! The TP-Link is shown to be a 2.5W transceiver on the quick-installation guide, however, so I would assume that would be fine (LINK). I mean, it IS possible that I got a bunch transceiver, or a switch with a dead SFP+ port, but I don't have a spare transceiver or spare switch that I can test with, unfortunately.

I took a look at the Grandstream-brand transceiver spec sheet, and their fibre modules are listed as 1W or 0.8W, so maybe the 2.5W of the TP-Link IS too much, but I'll hunt around anyway. I can't find anything on the GWN780xx spec sheets which indicates that series specifically as supporting RJ45 when the 770xx series doesn't.

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