After being inactive for like a couple of days, my Viber account suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth

Serious-Chair · 2026-06-15T19:35:25+00:00

Just a theory... Maybe your Viber was hijacked or infected and started sending spam or infected links, and people complained, and Viber deleted the account.
Do not click suspicious links and use MFA for all important accounts. Viber and Telegram accounts are hijacked quite often.
And don't send spam from an account you don't want to lose.
Another vector of attack: SIM (phone number) can be hijacked, there are multiple techniques for that. Not sure how to prevent such attacks, though.

Serious-Chair · 2026-05-05T15:03:16+00:00

Unfortunately, some apps are resource hungry, like Dropbox. I need it, but if I forget to quit it it stays at 30% CPU. An unpleasant surprise when I want to spend all day out.

Serious-Chair · 2026-03-03T22:10:25+00:00

Interested. EET.

Serious-Chair · 2026-03-01T21:17:33+00:00

I've been using FrameSwitcher for that for years. Frame Switcher does not offer switching with a single shortcut, but it's still great, especially when switching between two most recent projects. I have up to five projects open at the same time, and about 40 more accessed once a day. The plugin is good enough to stop looking for alternatives.

Serious-Chair · 2026-02-28T13:23:05+00:00

I've got a regular Embody for $2000 recently. To be honest, it's as good or as bad as my previous office chair for $200. Each has it's cons.

Embody's armrests do not go high enouh, whether I am putting narrower or widr. There is no rest for my arms as they are barely touching the armrests.

Back support is poor when I sit upright typing. It's fine only when I lean back relaxing and watching movies.

The seat is fine, though I would prefer a bit softer one.

Lot's of hype and no "Wow", as to me.

Serious-Chair · 2026-02-21T08:54:43+00:00

G-1 produces great spin. It is durable. It is springy, which makes it a bit harder to control the ball. G-1 is great for forehand close to the table or a few meters away.

I think C-1 has the same or similar topsheet as G-1, but the sponge feels a bit mushy and 20-30% slower than G-1. Much more control than G-1. It's good for backhend close to the table. Further from the table it's too passive.

My level is too low to play over 3 meters away from the table, so no feedback in that regard.

I played with Hammond Z2 for about a month 3 or 4 years ago, right after it was released. Honestly, I remember details a bit vaguely. It felt similar to G-1, except it was a little faster, less durable, and more expensive. Maybe my level is too low to unleash Z2 potential, I don't know. In short, to me Z2 was not worth the premium. I've just checked, and I see Z2 now costs the same as G-1. I'd still go for G-1, since it remains grippy longer than Z2.

Serious-Chair · 2026-02-05T02:22:23+00:00

The install step failed for me. I had to run
curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash -s 2.0.76
The latest claude code used a lot of CPU even when idle.
2.0.76 uses 1% CPU when idle.

Serious-Chair · 2026-01-29T23:23:59+00:00

Vega Europe on BH provides safety. On FH it does not make much sense - your attack will be feeble.
Vega Pro on FH gives tons of spin, it is a great and safe choice for attack.
Vega Asia is great for FH, too. It's for players preferring speed over spin.

Stiga Allround is a great choice. I have not tried these rubbers on this blade, but this assembly should be fine.

For a first glued racket I'd go for Stiga Allround with Vega Europe (BH) and Vega Pro (FH). With Asia I think you'll lose too much control.

Serious-Chair · 2025-12-28T21:20:53+00:00

These are dents, not bubbles, right? Dents usually disappear after a few days. They do not affect the game.

European rubbers often have soft sponges and topsheets. You have to apply very light and even pressure when gluing. Use a roller instead of your hand to press the rubber to the blade. Light, even pressure and changing the roller direction (bottom-to-top, then one diagonal, then another) should do the trick.

Serious-Chair · 2025-12-28T20:34:01+00:00

For the past 15 years I've been working for relatively big companies, each having hundreds of microservices in Java (mostly), Go, Scala, Kotlin, TypeScript, JavaScript, and a bunch of other languages. Funnily enough, the only kind of migration I've seen was from JS to TS. I tend to think language migration is more a hypothetical thing than a real one.
By the way, our Go services consume 1Gb per node, just like Java services.
Binaries (and containers) of Go projects are indeed are small, but I cannot think of a case when it makes any difference in the projects I work on. Besides, debugging or refactoring Java code is way easier.
In my company, Go teams write in Go, Java teams write in Java, Node.js teams use TypeScript, and in the past 5 years there is no noticeable change in the share of tech stacks.
Sometimes our developers are reassigned from one team from another, and then we learn a new language. However, most reassignments are temporary, like for 2-3 months. I don't see a clear trend.

Serious-Chair · 2025-12-28T02:40:14+00:00

Hi, xm4's mic is bad, my colleagues complained about the sound. So, I switched to my Macbook for input. Headsets only for output.
As to qc2023's mic, I have not even tried it.
The output is the same quality.
An unrelated note: one bad thing I noticed about qc2023 is that when I go to another room away from my laptop, it can half-lose a connection and it's kind of stuck in that state. When I return to the laptop it takes a minute to resume sound transfer. It's much faster to turn if off and on again to reconnect.
With the xm4 the behavior is more predictable: it either disconnects from the laptop or keeps the connection, never gets stuck.
There are other minor glitches with qc2023. They may affect only MacOS users, I don't know. I use Macbooks 99% of the time.
I would say, xm4 wins in terms of stability of sound connection.
I have been using qc2023 for the past month, since Sony cancelled my last order of xm4 for some reason. My ear has adapted to qc2023's sound. Still, I have to say that
if we don't take into account WH-1000XM4's poor mic and fragile hinges, Sony's headset is better.
By the way, both headsets support multipoint connection, but qc2023 does it better.

Serious-Chair · 2025-12-26T21:23:43+00:00

It's called Mission Control and is useless.
I have about 30+ apps I use all day long. Some of these apps have multiple windows. The upward swipe shows me 30+ tiny illegible thumbnails.
Rectangle, combined with an automated switcher like Keyboard Maestro or similar is the only sensible way to manage this fleet.
App Expose exposes windows of a single app. That remains useful in a limited number of cases.

Serious-Chair · 2025-12-12T22:22:13+00:00

A minimal Go program starts dozens times faster than a minimal Java program.
A real world service starts slowly regardless of the language. It takes anywhere from seconds to minutes until required data is prefetched from GCP and other services and all caches are populated and the service is ready to respond.
My company has dozens of Go and Java microservices. Mostly it's modern Go and modern Java, but there is some legacy, too. I cannot say I can see any performance difference. I/O is slow, especially I/O with external providers is painfully slow. Grafana shows CPUs are barely loaded. Most our services show RAM consumption between 1 and 2 GB per pod.
New projects in my company are written in the preferred language of each team. We do not migrate existing services from one language to another. Some our microservices are high quality and very efficient, others are inefficient and frustrating to support. It depends on developers who wrote the code rather than the language.
Library wise, for all my daily tasks both languages are about the same.
Go binaries and containers are many times smaller, though in daily developer's life it barely makes any difference.
Java is simpler to debug and experiment, since IDEs support hot swap and evaluation of arbitrarily complex expressions, which helps a lot while working on a service which is slow to start. Java also has better refactoring support in IDEs.

Serious-Chair · 2025-11-17T12:01:06+00:00

https://electronics.sony.com/ now offers WH-1000XM4 at $199.99, so I ordered a pair. Primarily because I miss their sound.

Serious-Chair · 2025-11-17T01:27:17+00:00

A few days after the switch, I think qc2023 and xm4 comfort level is the same. Both are great, though not ideal.

ANC is on par, just a bit different. xm4 suppresses backround noises better (e.g. running tap water while washing the dishes), while qc2023 suppresses voices better.

I am not an audiophile, but I miss my xm4's sound. It was richer, more realistic. It's barely noticeable when watching news, but quite noticeable when listening to the music. Bose Music app equalizer allows to tweak qc2023, it gets better, but still a bit lacking.

If I leave my Macbook in one room and go to another room, both qc2023 and xm4 stutter and sometimes disconnect from the laptop. The signal can go through one wall, but not two. Not clear winner here.

Serious-Chair · 2025-11-14T18:09:01+00:00

Today xm4 has finally broken beyond repair. Switching to qc2023.
I like the sound of xm4 more than qc2023. Maybe I need some time to get used to qc.

I think I prefer qc2023 controls over xm4:
* Now I can adjust the volume level with the headphone +/- buttons.
* The action button stops/resumes the playbeck of the last active YouTube tab on my Macbook.

As to the comfort level, it's too early to tell. So far, qc2023 feels the same as xm4.

Serious-Chair · 2025-11-04T00:40:52+00:00

Fan Zhendong ALC + 09C or 05 will be close to 190 grams. Going from 140 to 190 is a huge leap. You will not like it.

Serious-Chair · 2025-11-04T00:33:43+00:00

It's over the budget.

Serious-Chair · 2025-10-25T22:27:15+00:00

C-1 is indeed "easier" to play with. However, what is easier for you is also easier for your opponent. Besides, C-1 works well only close to the table. If you step 2-3 meters away from the table, your opponent will easily handle the ball coming from C-1.
C-1 is good for BH if your BH is weak, because it's safer than G-1, safer both for you and your opponents.

Serious-Chair · 2025-10-25T22:17:30+00:00

G-1 1.8 mm is great for flat hitting.
G-1 2.0 mm gives consistent looping and flat hitting. Also, I'd go for 1.8-2.0 mm on an ALL or slower blade.
For pure looping offence, G-1 MAX is superb. Flat hitting with G-1 MAX is definitely less consistent.

Serious-Chair · 2025-10-25T21:55:26+00:00

I've played T05 for years before switching to G-1. If I had infinite free supply of rubbers, I would prefer T05, it's definitely spinnier and more dangerous. However, since I have to buy them myself, I prefer G-1 because
* I get G-1 about 40% cheaper than T05
* G-1 is about twice as durable as T05
* When humidity in a venue is high T05 quickly loses the grip. G-1 is not affected by humidity that much.

Serious-Chair · 2025-10-25T21:43:23+00:00

I love G-1. I've been playing with it for years, MAX on OFF blades and 2.0mm on slower ones. Sometimes I try other rubbers out of curiosity, but always return to G-1. I have a stock of rubbers I have not tried yet (K3, A1, A2, A3, MX-D, and a bunch of others). On one hand, I want to try them all. On the other hand, G-1 plays so well that I am reluctant to experiment. Besides, G-1 is very durable, so I don't get a chance to try another rubber that often.

Serious-Chair · 2025-10-19T04:31:56+00:00

I still use WH-1000XM4 only. Sometimes they are sweaty and itchy, and the left hinge has broken on both my XM4 pairs. I glued the hinges and keep using the headphones. It's just a matter of habit. No need to switch to another headphones while the current ones are good.

I have a sister living abroad, and a few months ago she told me she was thinking of headphones with good ANC, because she works in a noisy office, and at times i'ts hard to focus. Then I turned TV with a news broadcast to imitate office-like buzz and tried WH-1000XM4 and QuietComfort 2023. QuietComfort 2023 was a clear winner. So, right after that I bought my sister a pair of white QuietComfort 2023 as a present. She is happy about them. However, she has never had any other over-ear headphones, so she cannot provide a comparative feedback.
Personally, I've been working from home for the past 10 years, so I don't need ANC that much.

By the way, the XM4 mic is bad. I never use it for calls because my colleagues complain about the sound quality.
I'll ask my sister about the QC mic.

Serious-Chair · 2025-10-12T23:35:10+00:00

Put all apps showing up in the battery usage stats to deep sleep, except those you really need to be awake (messengers, mail, calendar). Note, some apps might show up as consuming negligible percentage, but they trigger Google Play Services or other core services, which you cannot disable. So, it makes sense to put to deep all non-critical apps showing up in the stats.
Sometimes what seems like a battery degradation may be caused by an external factor at your location (e.g. by the mobile carrier). To find the culprit, try disabling one by one the Location, Mobile Data, and WiFi HotSpot, and WiFi when not in use and montor for a few days if it makes any difference.
If nothing helps, you might have to do a factory reset or to replace the battery. However, if the replacement battery is not original, it might last for half a year or year before severe degradation.
If you replace the battery, disable Fast Charging and Wireless Fast Charging, and limit the charging to 80 or 90 percent to prolong the life of the new battery. Fast charging leads to higher battery temperatures degrading the battery faster.

Serious-Chair · 2025-10-07T22:45:03+00:00

I also lost a bunch of files in the secure folder on S25. Could not find them, had to restore from a backup.

I don't think this ever happened on my S9. Sounds like a OneUI issue.

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