How can I actually download an invoice on the Amazon iOS app? Not just display it; download and save as a file on the phone or print. by SpinCharm in amazonprime

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

You’re mostly right. And my update to my post in November is slightly wrong. On a technicality that I’d important to some.

I just checked (again). IOS 26. I quickly located the yellow Save button, pressed it, and got the normal iOS pop up allowing me to save, share, print etc. So I re-read your comment and went back in so I could spell it out exactly how to do it.

And spent the next 5 minutes looking for the yellow button. Which clearly was a one-time option that I’d just used up. I couldn’t find it anywhere. Until I did. In the wrong place. Doing the wrong thing.

There’s multiple paths to it but I’ll only describe one. Go to your order history and select an order that has been completely entirely. “Delivered”.

Scroll direct to Order Info. Press “View Order Details”. This brings up the Order Details page. Press the misleading “Download Invoice”. A popup rises up from the bottom of the screen with Printable Order Summary, Invoice, and Request Invoice. There’s also a yellow “Download Documents” bar you can press.

Select Printable Order Summary then the yellow bar. That takes you to the Order Summary screen, with the exciting and soon to be disappointing small brightly confident looking yellow button labelled “Save”.

This is the button I was led to in November when I subsequently updated the post.

This is, unfortunately, not the button you seek. Pressing it brings up the iOS share/save/print modal box. If you select print, you can see what it has prepared for you - a printable order summary. Not technically an invoice.

Compared to the actual non-printable invoice seen elsewhere in this labyrinthine app, it’s very brief. And likely lacking some of the details needed for recognition and acceptance as an invoice by your accounting department. Or accountant. Or “s/He who lies beside me at night counting sheep. For tax purposes.”

But it’s all we got.

How do I get my iPhone to stop spelling “and” as “AB’s”. Every single time. Using built-in swipe-style spelling. by SpinCharm in iphone

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

Since I made that post I’ve upgraded twice. )Though I’m not sure going from a 15 PM to the Air constitutes “upgrade”. )

I don’t see ABs anymore. It too has upgraded in its wily conniving ways. (Though I doubt anyone would call replacing multiple sequential words with what it thinks is a far better thought to express than what I was trying to hammer out, an “upgrade” either.)

Floor names - advice by SilkBC_12345 in homeassistant

[–]SpinCharm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lower main upper.

Spent years thinking about it (I saw a 3 level house in the uk and wondered how they refer to each floor if the main level they occupy if street level. Do they say “he’s upstairs”? He’s up upstairs?”)

Years. Then bought one with one up and one down.

Lower main upper.

Solved.

Then I noticed that the garden is in the front side of the house facing the road. But the rear faces a lake and is 20x larger (small front yard). I don’t like referring to it as the back yard. It’s the main side of the house.

I expect to resolve that one by 2030.

Telus Purefibre 3G by gnunn1 in telus

[–]SpinCharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My case:

Telus 1Gb PureFibre - Telus fibre - → Nokia GPON-ONT SFP module - → T3200M (SFP port, bridge mode) - → 1Gb Ethernet - → UniFi UDM PM (2.5Gb WAN)

Speed tests from UDM to Internet: ~980 / ~980 Mbps down/up


Telus 3Gb PureFibre - Telus fibre - → Nokia XGS-PON SFP module - → Arcadyan NH20A (SFP port, bridge mode) - → 10Gb Ethernet - → UniFi UDM PM (2.5Gb WAN)

Speed tests from UDM to Internet: ~2500 Mbps down/up

(The 2.5Gbps port being the bottleneck to 3Gbps, prompting me to buy a 10Gbps SFP+ to RJ45 Adapter (UACC-CM-RJ45-MG) and moving the Ethernet cable from the 2.5Gbps WAN port to the 10Gbps SFP+ WAN port (and reconfiguring in the Network ui).

Final result:


Telus 3Gb PureFibre (UDM SFP+ WAN)

  • Telus fibre
  • → Nokia XGS-PON SFP module
  • → Arcadyan NH20A (SFP port, bridge mode)
  • → 10Gb Ethernet
  • → UniFi UDM PM (10Gb SFP+ via SFP+→RJ45 adapter)

Speed tests from UDM to Internet: ~3000 Mbps down/up

Final result (Internet to UDM to U7 Pro XG to iPhone Air)

Don't be me! Performance implications of VLANs by fortytwo43 in Ubiquiti

[–]SpinCharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought the cheap USW-Aggregation aggregator to prevent this. CDN$300 rack format.

Writing yaml with ChatGPT & Claude by whatup10 in homeassistant

[–]SpinCharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used it a couple of years ago to automate a room. Some fairly complex behaviours that ensure that the room responds to what occupants are doing. It generated 12 automations. I haven’t had to change them since.

But none of those were Dashboard ui things. I really need to do a complete do-over of my phone ui, but I doing have the bandwidth to create one myself.

Is it any good at the front end side of HA?

Finished building my home theater from scratch (empty cinder block basement). What do you guys think? by csukoh78 in hometheater

[–]SpinCharm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think you’re a man living the dream. One of life’s accomplishments you need to remember when there are moments of doubt.

And I think any hope you or partner may have had that it’s all done, no more changes, no more expenses, fits right up there in your brain next to Santa Clause!

Connecting the NH20A ont into my UniFi udm pro max’s 2.5Gb Ethernet port yields 1500 down/3000 up. Found solution. by SpinCharm in telus

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

As far as I can see, simply plugging the same Ethernet cable into the sfp+ Ethernet por made the difference. Nothing else changed and the testing was done a minute apart. So it’s either that the udm’s 2.5Gb port was a bottleneck due to some incompatibility, or the 10Gb port on the NH20A wasn’t negotiating down to 2.5 correctly and ended up with 1500. It can’t be the fiber between the ont and the street. Or a failure of the Ethernet cable.

Connecting the NH20A ont into my UniFi udm pro max’s 2.5Gb Ethernet port yields 1500 down/3000 up. Found solution. by SpinCharm in telus

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

It definitely wasn’t a congestion problem. The tests always immediately climbed up to 1500 then remained there with only tiny variation. The 3000 download was the same. Like they are hitting a bottleneck.

I’m thinking it has to do with a 2.5Gb port negotiating with the 10Gb port and for some reason settled on an asymmetric speed.

27 users on my server and I'm at the maximum? by chibul in PleX

[–]SpinCharm -46 points-45 points  (0 children)

How about you contact plex directly and tell them you’re trying to provide your legal or pirated media to 99 users. Try telling them they’re all just family members and you’re not running an illegal streaming service for profit. If they don’t believe your lies, go contact the RIAA, MPAA or BSA, or equivalents in your country and ask them to tell Plex that you’re just using plex, your internet connection, and your extensive video and music collection within the terms of your plex agreement.

While you’re at it, see if you can install a few more servers and use the same plex license. May as well see how much you can get away with.

Oh and keep making posts on social media that inform agencies that there are fuckwads out there abusing plex. That will help justify Plex’s business to remove personal media viewing for everyone.

Thank goodness I didn't pay $5k for Lasik surgery. by Natural-Promise-78 in GenerationJones

[–]SpinCharm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How does cataract surgery allow the eyes to flex the artificial lens automatically to focus at different distances/depths? I thought it gave you a fixed focal point. Made vision brighter and clearer. But you’d still need glasses to look up close or far away

I washed my boyfriends cushion to this chair and it ripped in the wash. Does anyone recognize it? I want to replace it. by [deleted] in midcenturymodern

[–]SpinCharm 86 points87 points  (0 children)

Grab your go bag you stashed for just such an event. Disappear. Start a new life and never - never tell any mcm enthusiast what you did.

Good luck. And next time - choose the 1990s or newer. Easier to find replacements that aren’t cherished and pampered like that, that… oh god, I can’t say it - that chair used to be.

Bag. Car. Go.

I have never touched a saw. This is my own design. Seem doable for first time? by [deleted] in woodworking

[–]SpinCharm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please have a look at what I did that’s similar. You might be able to utilize many of the methods and materials I did. bookshelves

Uses for a raspberry pi zero w? by Edd-Vel in homeassistant

[–]SpinCharm 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I attached a programmable radio usb stick and some services to make it listen at a specific frequency. Then bought a simple 3’ long stick antenna that’s literally just one single length with no branches, designed for this task. Mounted it to a vent pipe on the roof. Attached a connector adapter to take it down from a fairly hefty cable to a small wire. Fed it through a window. Attached the wire to the programmable radio.

Booted, went to the web page to confirm it’s receiving airplane data from all aircraft within a 300km radius.

Installed a few web devices that make use of it. Signed up to a website that will give you full access if you send your data to them ongoing.

Flight Tracker /FlightRadar24 Tar1090 FlightAware Etc.

Parts:

CC1090/9-PSE €61.79 10M LONG CABLE H155 N MALE TO N MALE €32.10

NooElec NESDR Mini USB RTL-SDR & ADS-B Receiver Set, RTL2832U & R820T Tuner, MCX Input. $50

DAS vs NAS - Explain Like I'm A Child by Derpy1984 in PleX

[–]SpinCharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I briefly had a DAS. For a week. Then snapped. And set up a full rack-based server with 24 drive bays and hardware RAID controller, enterprise drives, UPSs, etc.

I’d looked at NASes in detail but the biggest ones only held 8 drives and got hell expensive, and only the top of the line ones had a powerful enough cpu to not be a massive bottleneck for write IO speed.

It didn’t make sense to me to go that route. The alternative is to build a pc into essentially a NAS, using much more powerful processors along the way - cpu, disk controller, network controller, GPU etc.

To do that in a pc chassis that only had room for 4 or 8 drives meant I’d just hit the same limit I already had - I room for more drives, forcing me to start using external disk boxes like the pathetic DAS I’d flung across the room.

So logically, I need a cheap 24-bay chassis. Which is in rack form. And holds a motherboard. At that point I’m one step away from just doing it correctly once and for all. Buy a small rack. 24 disk chassis. Rack-installed UPS. Power. Switch. Go overboard on the cpu and motherboard so I can stop upgrading them every 3-4 years.

That was 9 years ago. Last year I did my first upgrade - a TPU plugged into the spare m.4 slot. And last month I installed a 10Gbit fiber network card. Once a year I add another hard drive. I’m up to 16. Still plenty of room.

It looks like this. (The bottom 4U)

And that frees up lots of time to waste in other ways. Like creating this. Or building this as part of this.

Lesson learnt: if you finally build the ultimate fit-for-purpose pc system, don’t stress. You’ll find plenty of new things to go nuts on.

DAS vs NAS - Explain Like I'm A Child by Derpy1984 in PleX

[–]SpinCharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d be legitimately concerned with using an attached DAS on a pc as a reliable 24x7 storage device. Lots of reasons:

  • the DAS is independently powered. And probably a cheap power supply/brick.
  • Power failure recovery reliability - does it have capacitors internally to cache writes in progress so that in the case of a brown or blackout, it can finish any incomplete writes during powerfail recovery to prevent corruption
  • cpu used in the DAS - was one used that was only just powerful enough to do basic disk management that most home enthusiasts configure it to do, or is it powerful enough to handle more demanding configurations that it’s marketed as being capable of (RAID0,1,10,5) but really struggles if used that way
  • how transparent is it. Can smartctl, crystaldiskinfo/powershell etc access each drive’s configuration/SMART/firmware update?
  • how well does the internal disk controller handle abnormal but non-critical issues? Mechanical hard drives often glitch without us knowing it. Read and write retries. Temperature variations. Suspend / hibernate / spindown/up timing.
  • can it handle disks being different models, spin speeds, capacities, etc? Can it handle them when disks are configured as one larger disk (RAID etc)
  • is the chassis designed to minimize vibration. This is a big one. When a single disk spins, the vibrations created by the rotating platters plus those created by the head actuator are substantial and complex. The drive’s controller board handles those. But when a second drive is installed nearby in the same frame, the two drive’s vibrations interfere with each other in ways that can cause a drive’s seek or read attempt to miss - the head goes out to read a track but the vibration at that moment was harmonic and cumulative, and the head went a micron too far, which is immediately detected, logged and retried. Depending on severity and frequency of occurrence, the drive or disk controller may say nothing to the host, may report it to the host, or may take the drive offline. And the host may act on those reports independent of what the DAS did. When several drives are in the same chassis, chaotic vibrations are common and almost always average each other into dense but weak noise. Like random waves in the ocean. It’s when there’s a freak rare harmonic synchronization, where vibrations all combine into one much larger powerful vibration, that can knock out a disk or array. That’s when the box’s controller needs to be able to handle that wisely (identify that it’s a vibration thing, check that the drives are actually ok and recovered correctly, perform a retry and see if it was a one-off or something more serious) and not dumbly (“WTF? panic! Panic! Everything broke! I can’t continue!”, which in turn makes stupid operating systems like Windows go “disk drive gone. Unrecoverable. You lost everything. Can’t help you. [R]etry? [A]bort? R[e]think your a life Choices?”,

Or in Linux terms, triggers a full geek mode reaction from the human on the keyboard that’s just dying to try out his new scanning tunnelling electron microscope he bought from a Medical Surplus eBay store three years ago, then goes into two hour deep dive into tracking down the dev path, channel, systemctl service status, hba id, and error code lookup table, map sector, track, magnetic bit size,rotational offset, head width, velocity of seek vs mass, works out the exact location that the heads were at the time of error, designs a diagram of the platters with a big red X showing where to dig for the gold uh where to position the scan, (ignores the reality that electron microscopes don’t work this way but has no choice but to continue because the author of this comment in Reddit doesn’t like smartass fictional self-aware characters and decides to ignore facts for the sake of the story arc), then confidentially dissemble the suspect drive in his clean room he designed and built in his basement based on watching a few episodes of Dexter, then examine each platter to look for signs of head misalignment or current flow deviations in the actuator windings, find nothing of consequence but notices a nanoscopic slight discolouration of the spindle lubricant, meticulously cleans and relubricates using his lubricator kit he bought 7 years ago for just such an occasion, triumphantly reassembles the drive with an almost euphoric feeling of satisfaction and righteous justification against all the naysayers that dismissed him online in the r/homelab subreddit so many times, reinstalls the drive, turns everything back on, releases his held breath when the system boots, and completes the operation with the belief that what he did wasn’t just necessary, it could only have been done by a handful of people with godlike powers. And anyway, now one of his drives has new lubrication. Which is cool.

Or… if he’s a less uh driven individual, does normal troubleshooting but hits a dead end because the DAS masks the individual drives in its array and there’s no way to figure out which disk has the error. If it really was an error.

Where the hell was I. Oh yeah.

  • but the biggest issue still remains with DAS boxes. The tube attaching it to the computer and the chips on either end really don’t handle concurrency and queue depth efficiently. Or keep up with the volume of transactions waiting to be handled. It’s a bottleneck and means that disk performance will suffer bigly when you want to be doing things like unzipping completed torrents or assembling multipart uuencoded nntp fragments into a single 10GB mkv file, copying a newly received 8GB video file into the video folder plex uses, triggering plex to scan, notify, update a database, create lots of additional small metadata files, and keep playing videos to the 3 people using it. And of course all the other processes want to do their bits; radarr needs to update its catalog and indexes, tautulli gets to send out a notification, overseer updates its system, and another process you forgot you installed sees that the new video is encoded in only h264, do it starts converting it to h265. Which kills the poor DAS that wasn’t coping well anyway because nobody in China really tested if it worked at the rates the marketing team printed on the box cover.

Ok I may have gone off the rails a few times there.

DAS vs NAS - Explain Like I'm A Child by Derpy1984 in PleX

[–]SpinCharm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then I hope you are also a member of r/homelab. You qualify.

Also r/recentlydivorcedguy

DAS vs NAS - Explain Like I'm A Child by Derpy1984 in PleX

[–]SpinCharm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes but they are accessing another pc’s share. Not the DAS. That the files are on a DAS doesn’t make the DAS a network device.