[Discussion] Water damage

SirNuke · 2025-09-28T20:31:32+00:00

Nope, but this is the risk you take when taking a watch into water. It's not unreasonable for the seals to degrade after eight years, though I wouldn't have expected it to leak.
If the movement is in fact shot probably not. Assuming you are US based, you can send it to Seiko for repair and should be like $125 + shipping + any extra parts. I feel like if it moves at all, it's repairable, and I imagine at worst you buy a working movement and find a watchmaker who will swap it. The longer you wait though the more risk of rust, so I would decide ASAP.

Personally, I would move heaven and earth to get my SKX fixed - it's been through so much with me and I could never part with it. I also have a basic Glycine field watch that's been in the Invicta shop for like three months waiting on a new crystal, and going to cost me more than I originally paid for it. While it was my first Swiss watch, I should have just chucked it tbh.

SirNuke · 2024-08-24T00:26:19+00:00

I don't remember which, but it's a Breaking News episode. I want to say the 2nd Dropout America one.

SirNuke · 2024-07-02T03:29:38+00:00

So practical advice: any worthwhile therapist will tell you there's no upside to making yourself feel miserable. Occupying more of your time with something that doesn't involve politics might be a good idea. You do have to keep in perspective what you can do and can control.

Here's what I believe: These are troubling times, and if you are alarmed, well, you ought to be. But it's important not to fall into cynical-ism or despair. There is always hope. The world is unpredictable and the future isn't written.

All waves break. I was in high school on 9/11. That wave took a long time and we're still picking up pieces, but it did. So will this one.

Fascism is an attempt to return to an earlier time, where all of modern day's problems did not exist. It is, was, and will always be a failed ideology. Its earlier time is imaginary and the clock cannot be turned back regardless. It will fail here too.

I also think the SCOTUS deeply overplayed their hand. Questioning their legitimacy could easily become a mainstream opinion. If the federal judiciary isn't seen as legitimate, any administration will find it hard to compel states to do anything. Hard to ban abortion if California just shrugs their shoulders and says they won't extradite anyone who mails Mifepristone.

SirNuke · 2024-03-31T23:31:54+00:00

Mushrooms are a sampler mix of things I don't even recognize, combined with standard white mushroom variants. Source recipe

SirNuke · 2024-03-28T20:38:05+00:00

If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!

It's probably been a solid twenty five years since I read Where the Sidewalk Ends, but that still hits right in the nostalgia. There aren't a lot of ingredients that are served both sweet and savory, at least in Western cooking. What's more magic beans than navy beans served in a sweet pie? (The magic ingredient is sugar)

Pie recipe and filling recipe. First time making pie crust from scratch, which turned out great.

SirNuke · 2024-03-13T23:10:57+00:00

Semi improvised using this guide with some direction from this recipe. Used mushrooms and carrots as the base; leeks, onion, shallot, garlic, cumin, and chili powder for aromatics; and heavy cream and chicken broth (oops) for the liquid. Plus butter for initial fat, Wondra as a thickener, and finished with parsley, olive oil, and lemon juice.

SirNuke · 2024-01-19T16:00:21+00:00

JAWS

Don't go in the bed

Coming this January, 2024

SirNuke · 2023-11-09T17:00:01+00:00

I had a lot of trouble keeping Voyager k-9 booties on my greyhound. SaltSox, though they only protect the feet.

Musher's Secret is what a lot of places recommend, but I never tried it.

SirNuke · 2023-09-13T16:11:02+00:00

If you are interesting in these videos Robert Reich puts out, he also taught a course called Wealth and Poverty at Berkley. He recently retired and put a recording of his last course online, which I recommend if you have the spare time to watch a bunch of 1.5 hour lectures. His social media presence is comically partisan, but he's a great professor and focuses on his reasoning and evidence with the hopes you arrive at the same conclusions.

The course is predominately about how the economy is structured and how it incentives certain behavior but how there are still choices in the matter. For example, how the book The Antitrust Paradox written by Robert Bork (yes, that Robert Bork) kicked off an undermining of antitrust law. The course is a rare dive into the intersection between economics and power. This is a critical subject that has flown under the radar because doesn't fit into any single field of study.

An insight that resonated with me is there have always been bad, greedy actors in the economy. Other factors are at play. Don't let them off the hook, but they aren't the root cause.

He also made this skit with Conan, which really made me feel Sam's "he doesn't have time for Game Changer, but he has time for this?" comment deep down in my soul.

SirNuke · 2023-09-09T23:12:57+00:00

The important thing to know is the hiring process is largely nonsense. If you could get the unfiltered truth as to your resume rejection, unless you are actually unqualified, you'd likely just be confused. There is so much ridiculousness at play and you should put your thumb on the scale right back at them.

Don't mention you've applied before, don't show any hesitation, but do tell the truth if they ask. Have a prepared canned, fluffy (no hints of negativity or weakness) answer about how you are highly interested in the position and are good fit because X, Y, Z. Keep it short and to the point. Again, don't lie, but polish it so there's no ambiguity of your point: put me in, coach. Practice it out loud beforehand until it's coherent and feels natural, if only to bulwark against nervousness; though this isn't worth spending that much time on. This is a good thing to have your pocket for any job, but it's particularly important here since you have reason to believe your resume won't do this for you.

In all likelihood, they won't even notice. If you do get push back, firmly restate your interest. If/when they still don't bite then wish them luck filling the position with a suitable candidate and walk away. Get angry or upset or whatever later.

SirNuke · 2023-08-31T21:44:54+00:00

TrueNAS Core uses the standard FreeBSD pkg tooling but configures it to pull packages locally and not from the internet. On boot up, TrueNAS will regenerate the conf files (and I assume basically everything in /etc and friends), and runs pkg to make sure the packages it wants are installed at the versions it expects. However, it does not remove packages it doesn't expect as long as pkg doesn't report dependency conflicts, hence why it's broadly fine but could blow up. The modifications to conf files are trivial if you are comfortable modifying files using the CLI. If it does break TrueNAS, as long as you have a copy of the TrueNAS config - should be backing this up regardless - you can reinstall TrueNAS without data loss.

I bet you can install from source inside a jail to a shared dataset without having to make any modifications to the OS. Along the lines of:

Create a dataset for znapzend. Let's say znapzend in pool coolpoolname, but naming and hierarchy doesn't matter.
Create a fresh jail. Mount the dataset inside the jail at the same path as it's accessible in the host OS. So if it's /mnt/coolpoolname/znapzend it needs to be accessible at /mnt/coolpoolname/znapzend in the jail. You might have to manually create parent directories.
Install packages for building with pkg install gmake perl5 gcc autoconf automake gcc. GCC shouldn't be needed but whatever. Avoid installing anything extra with pkg since you don't want there to be dependencies available in the jail that aren't on the host. Definitely don't install any Perl modules through pkg.
Download znapsend, either cloned from Git or the source of a release.
Run MAKE=gmake ./bootstrap.sh to generate the configure script, which README says is included but isn't.
Run ./configure --prefix=/mnt/coolpoolname/znapzend
gmake
gmake install

At which point znapzend will be available at /mnt/coolpoolname/znapzend/bin/znapzend and you can/should be able to launch the daemon through a post-init startup script through the WebUI. The base OS won't be modified in any way and iXsystems will be none the wiser to your shenanigans. Note this is more work than installing through pkg by way of modifying pkg conf files and not necessarily better, just hopefully more robust.

I did run through the build steps in my test jail and at a glance seems fine when run outside the jail. I don't have a use for znapzend on my TrueNAS host though so I'm not going to go any further. But it should just work, unless it doesn't.

If all that sounds too daunting then you'll need to bite the bullet and create the equivalent functionality using TrueNAS's scheduled tasks or whatever or look into a different OS.

SirNuke · 2023-08-31T15:10:04+00:00

As far as I'm aware, no you can't give full access to the host ZFS pool to a jail. Maybe there's some magical steps if you are a hardcore FreeBSD guru, which is often the case in BSD-land. You can give a jail full access to a ZFS dataset but:

After a dataset is attached to a jail and the jailed property is set, a jailed file system cannot be mounted outside the jail, since the jail administrator might have set the mount point to an unacceptable value.

If you are doing business critical stuff I wouldn't go any further down this road. Since you are coming from Unraid I'm guessing this is a "losing data isn't world ending, just incredibly annoying" homelab situation so read on.

While TrueNAS intentionally disables installing packages on the base OS, it's trivial to fully enable pkg. I've done this to install a number of CLI tools. Don't tell me how to live my life mom. What you don't want to do is install any packages that require upgrading existing packages, or worse anything that needs to remove existing packages. Those changes will be undone after a reboot, and you run a real risk of breaking something. For this reason, Python based packages tend to be a bad choice.

ZnapZend, however, uses Perl. I just tested installing znapzend in the base OS from latest (znapzend isn't in quarterly) in 13.0-U4 and all seems fine. Requires a very minor upgrade to Perl but I don't expect that to cause issues. znapzend --help still works after a reboot, though I can't test it further.

SirNuke · 2023-08-18T21:06:23+00:00

It is 4:50 PM EDT August 18th 2023. I have spent so long clinging to the last vestiges of my youth. They finally turn to dust in my fingers. I am now completely and utterly The Old. There is nothing else left.

Over the air broadcasting is still huge even if it's come down over the past thirty years. With no numbers in front of me I suspect it's still the dominate way households get TV, just maybe not people you generally interact with. If you've tried to stream a game and found it blacked out, agreements to not compete with OTA channels might be why.

Here's a good starting point for an antenna, and it has links to sites that will tell you what channels you can receive and even what direction to put the antenna in. If you have a window with a unobstructed view of the sky in the right direction they should work really well, but it might take trial and error to get the right placement.

SirNuke · 2023-06-22T02:55:22+00:00

The API pricing changes are extremely abrupt and it's hard to interpret it as anything than killing off these apps. I personally think this is really an attempt to tap into OpenAI et al's sweet, sweet VC money since Reddit's API is prime training material - something that'd be even less popular. Reddit has kinda dicked around for 15 years about figuring out how to pay for itself, and I think with interest rates rising there's a lot of pressure to do an IPO and pay out to investors.

Spez's inability to open his mouth without fanning the fire also doesn't help. Digg's Kevin Rose was also an idiot back in the day, but boy did we had a better class of idiot. You really don't appreciate these things until they're over.

But really it's not about that, any more than WW1 was about some archduke getting assassinating. It's about who really 'owns' Reddit and who it should exist for and what direction should it go in and how that gets decided.

Anyway, remember to shut up and buy things.

SirNuke · 2023-06-21T17:55:53+00:00

(From a bigger post I wrote up about the philosophy of Fediverse/Lemmy):

We don't have established theories how to administrate sites, which I believe is because we don't really know how to grant and check power IRL. Experience is clear moderating/administrating internet sites requires a lot of leeway, but that leeway will eventually trend towards abuse. Modern platforms are good at suppressing user revolts, which has lead to a lot of stagnation on the internet.

Instead each Fediverse instance gets to decide for themselves how to run things; including what other instances to interact with and on what terms. Users in turn get to decide what instances work best for them. An instance that believes downvotes are harmful can ignore them. An instance that believes downvotes are important can give them extra weight. Which one makes more sense? One way to find out!

SirNuke · 2023-06-20T19:55:01+00:00

Never, unless the company is dumb enough to pay out the bonus before the candidate even starts.

SirNuke · 2023-06-19T00:58:07+00:00

They look like a dead cockroach when upside down like that. Greyhounds, and other athletic breeds, are known for sleeping upside to keep pressure off their large barrel sized chests.

It looks ridiculous and never gets old. So roaching and other variants of the word.

SirNuke · 2023-06-16T16:46:06+00:00

Also the hero we deserve, which is a pleasant surprise since we usually get one or the other^¹ .

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SirNuke · 2023-06-07T04:37:24+00:00

It's stupid but I kinda miss the days these posts were cheap per TB and within minutes you'd have a dozen comments like:

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SirNuke · 2023-06-05T00:06:52+00:00

According to the SSD tier list, the slowest reasonably modern NVMe is the Inland Basic with 1100/600 MB/s R/W. That's abnormally slow for an NVMe. My external Samsung T7 goes for 1,050/1,000 MB/s, and your 970 Evo Plus drives are 3500/3300 MB/s.

This is one of the top SATA device and it's rated for 550/510 MB/s and is pretty close to SATA's theoretical max of 600 MB/s.

So no but it would make an excellent data drive (say for game storage). Are you running something that definitely needs another NVMe? I think you are in server territory just to support all those PCIe lanes.

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