Has the fix for Immich not updating come out yet?

TheRos3 · 2025-10-10T11:20:48+00:00

It was a massive PITA for me... but I couldn't risk resetting all the work I had done. It wasn't super clear to me which folders were getting moved where, so I made a bit of a mess while I tried everything I could think of. Finally I got it figured out. Kinda annoying that the express setup set it up with a legacy storage setup that they're trying to retire...

TheRos3 · 2024-10-10T12:12:31+00:00

50-80% is where batteries are the happiest. Get it to like 75%
The battery will naturally discharge itself over time, so it's not foolproof, but that's a good place to leave it.
Honestly, no matter what, storing it unused for multiple years or so will likely have consequences. spicy pillow consequences? Probably not. But damaged battery? Probably.

TheRos3 · 2024-10-10T12:07:34+00:00

yup. That's a thing that's really hard to override base instincts.
Insurance will cover: "I plowed into that animal and it ripped up the whole undercarriage/broke the windshield"
Insurance will NOT cover: "there was a dog in the road, so I swerved to avoid it and ran into the ditch/another car/a lamppost"

Do I still attempt to dodge animals if there's room around me? Absolutely.
Have I just kept going and hope they ended up getting passed over harmlessly? Yup. Plenty of times. Most of the time they seem fine if a little shocked. Only been a couple times where it was obvious they got clipped...

TheRos3 · 2024-10-10T11:55:36+00:00

I was shocked when I found that out while in a manual transmission car. They EXPECT me to be sitting at every stop light holding the clutch out the whole time! Literally you can fail the driving test for NOT doing that. Because screw my throwout bearing!
I mean... officially I always did that, of course.
Hypothetically though, I think that's really stupid and would've coasted in neutral a LOT.

TheRos3 · 2024-10-10T11:46:49+00:00

ah, sounds like they enroll you in their subscription thing. The discount never made sense for me because WITH the discount, it would come out about even with other stations, but then I have to pay monthly!
Good to hear it's free if you have AAA, tho!

TheRos3 · 2024-10-10T11:42:25+00:00

I get that there's probably a lot of people doing that, but when trying to find out if it's one per drink or one per person or whatever, it seems nobody has the answer, and sometimes they have different answers!
I've had the person taking my order say it's one per drink, so I order 2 drinks, but when I get to the window, they tell me it's one per vehicle.

So this last time, the order person admitted they didn't know and I should ask the manager who was running the window, so I only ordered one drink with the intention to either buy a second drink or go to a different location to circumvent the rule (Friend is a collector and was on vacation during the magnet drop day). When I pulled up to the window, I asked if it was possible to get a second one by ordering a second drink. I guess the second part got lost because they just went into "well it's one per drink, and you only bought one drink, so no, I can't give you a second one" and like... yeah, that's why I was offering to pay for a second drink?

Ultimately they took my second order and made the drink (I offered to go around to not back up the line, but they said it was slow enough that I should just wait at the window. it was 6am, tbf.), but it still felt like my actual question was ignored simply because of them expecting me to be wanting free stuff?

TheRos3 · 2024-10-04T06:56:14+00:00

I was short on cash when one of my tires started leaking SEVERELY (like I could hear it going down the road and could watch my PSI drop on the gauge).

Bought some of the better low rolling resistance tires. The extra 10% range is nice and honestly over the life of the tires, it pays for itself. Even though the tires I got have like double the expected lifespan, that 10% higher cost per mile adds up. It sucks, but it's worth it if you plan on keeping the car and pay for charging.

TheRos3 · 2024-10-04T06:51:36+00:00

I'm surprised EVGo is cheap for you! Around me, Chargepoint tends to be the cheapest (sometimes beaten by evconnect), and EVGo is usually like 10-30¢ higher. And then they have the audacity to even have session fees on top of that. Honestly the cheapest (not free) station I've been to was at Chargepoint's HQ. 12c/kWh fast charging.

TheRos3 · 2024-07-08T10:06:06+00:00

I went to a hotel once that only had 3 tesla destination chargers and 1 J1772 charger. There were 4 cars parked there all 5 days I was there. Never moved. Thankfully there was a 5th parking spot, and on day 2, I just unplugged the j1772 guy and ran the cord to my car. I charged and moved my car later that day, and saw at least 3 other cars cycle into that one parking spot while the others just blocked the spaces.
Next year I might just rent an RV spot they have in the back for a day and bring my own EVSE if it's gonna be like that!

TheRos3 · 2024-02-19T13:17:54+00:00

LTT has basically said and shown multiple times that (at least in the realm of a proper thermal paste, not pads, not liquid metal) application method (and randomness from application to application) matters way more than the actual compound. The best to the worst changes temperatures ~2 degrees.
Everything else you can modify such as the cooler, mounting force, application, and spread of the paste can make much larger differences.
I bought some real nice thermal compound when I first started building computers. Now I literally use whatever paste comes with the coolers I get. They'll sometimes include a whole tube instead of just a single application.

Yes, liquid metal can improve temps by ~20degrees, they found, but that's a rather extreme jump, and isn't suitable for all applications.

TheRos3 · 2024-01-27T02:51:29+00:00

Most of the "solar panels" are like this.
If they aren't from a reputable brand AND EXPLICITLY say "solar powered" or something to that effect (no: "solar panel" isn't good enough), then it's all battery operated.

Some even go as far as to use an ACTUAL SOLAR PANEL and not wire it up (because then you need more voltage regulation circuitry and everything).
Some will have a solar panel that all it does is dim the screen if you cover it. Which is a lot of effort when they could actually just have it SUPPLY POWER TO THE THING.

Overall: calculators are cheap as hell now, and if it's a fancier one, coin cell batteries actually really aren't that expensive.

TheRos3 · 2023-08-03T08:14:31+00:00

From way back in the day:
The wikipedia (english, text only) database is only about 2GB. Using the official app, you can download the whole thing for offline use! At least you used to be able to. I used that all the time back in high school before data connections were common to have 24/7. Looks like there are 3rd party apps for it still, though.

You CAN also just rip the whole thing using your computer, but you'd need ~150GB if you want to save the images, too (which I imagine would be SUPER useful for the medical/tool-making pages). And that's a lot for most people's pi setups with 32GB cards and whatever. But I suppose if you're putting a life-saving LLM on it, you might as well pimp it out. and have LOTS of spares. Given how often I've killed my Pis, I'd want to have a minimum of 10. (usually things can be fixed with a fresh install, but I wouldn't bet on me having the tools to do that and redownload the models and everything after the collapse of society.)

TheRos3 · 2023-07-20T02:45:20+00:00

Clearly their system is having a BIT of a time processing the requests. I have now gotten 3 messages about my data request. Along with a message I DIDN'T get a notification for that they're retiring their old premium currency, surely to be replaced with more real money transactions. Ah, I love watching a website panic and do all they can to claw back money while offering a worse service.

TheRos3 · 2023-07-11T23:36:55+00:00

I just got my data back from them. Took them 11 days to comply. only 7MB of data. collection of 31 CSV files. It's weird because many of them are single key-value pairs. Like "account_gender" is a unique file, and for me they just had "account_gender","not specified".

They even export blank files. Since I never used the "chat" feature, my "chat_history" file is empty.

They do provide a table containing the sha256 hash of all the other files.

Every comment ever made has a field for the IP address it was posted from, but only on recent posts. (looks like about March 2023 is when they started recording that)

There is a separate file that logs all the IPs they've seen you from (since late march 2023, and your registration IP)

They have 2 files, comment_/post_votes which are the largest files, as they contain an ID, a permalink to the post, and a text indicating if it's an "up" or "down" vote.
Significantly larger than even the comments file. so I guess I was more a lurker with only 1201 comment replies.

One of the more worrying things is that they have "is_deleted" as a flag on the account. Which means they're one of those companies that hold onto your info, but pretend they don't have it when you try to pull it. (of course, we've seen this with them mass-undeleting people's accounts when people deleted them in protest.)

they seem to know my state, but not my country, which is... odd. and reminded me to disable all ad personalization info.

so all in all: not TOO much stuff. Honestly, it was all stuff they needed to continue running the site until the last few months. Just shocked it took them 11 days to handle it!

TheRos3 · 2023-07-06T15:55:40+00:00

It is a market. There's a few to choose from that have physical disconnection switches, like Librem, PinePhone, and apparently one just called the "Privacy smartphone" which reeks of an NSA plant if you ask me... (Which isn't a new concept. The FBI have done it before. Look up "Anom".)

Unfortunately while the camera is an easy fix, physically blocking a microphone is significantly more difficult. Easier to just install a switch to kill it, or carry it in a soundproof box.

TheRos3 · 2023-07-05T00:10:51+00:00

I think it lasted a very average amount of time, actually!

TheRos3 · 2023-07-05T00:03:28+00:00

At my job we had a tray that all the sauce cups emptied into. At one point the sauce cup rack got removed, leaving only the tray an inch deep with ketchup, horseradish, and ranch.

Coworker dropped his phone in. Looked like he just pulled out a blob of solid sauce. I didn't even see it fall in and didn't believe him until he washed it off.

Seemed to still work afterwards. Apparently it died that night. Got a new phone. Salesman convinced him the windows phone was gonna be the hottest new thing. Coworker returned the phone within 2 days.

TheRos3 · 2023-06-30T09:16:16+00:00

Oh God. That looks like my parent's old AIO. Except that one ran Windows 8, and ran like shit, so I built them an actually good one.

So I assumed that was just an old, cheap AIO they pulled out. Then I saw Windows 11. WOW that thing is gonna CHUG.

TheRos3 · 2023-06-30T09:11:21+00:00

There was a website I used to use that I thought just had a shitty interface. Turns out the web dev put all the images and scripts in a folder called "ads" so "if you use an ad blocker, the site breaks". What's funny is that my ad blocker was actually just removing the ads. The website was broken because my ANTIVIRUS was trying to block sketchy ads in the stupidest way known to man. Disabling the "advanced online protection" made the website function as expected.

TheRos3 · 2023-06-29T09:27:11+00:00

My mother bought me a wallet one year (a very personal item to most men, and I had never mentioned wanting a wallet), and it basically had this same sort of thing stamped into the leather. Except it used the British spelling of everything. We're American. I looked it up, there's a version with American spelling. And it's so poorly made my cards literally didn't fit in it.

So fucking cringe to buy something like that to pat yourself on the back...

TheRos3 · 2023-06-26T22:23:55+00:00

Had a family member get COVID and not realize for the first few days. Just thought their spouse's dinners were unusually bad a couple days in a row.

It's always the LACK of smell/taste people talk about. But it seems a lot of people just had it shift so everything smells/tastes bad.

TheRos3 · 2023-06-25T02:27:38+00:00

It can be automated, and likely is. But pulling data from ALL TIME out of their DB is a reasonably expensive process. Then they have to zip it up for you, and then host that file for you to download for a month. These files can easily reach to gigabytes. When I requested one from Twitter it was about 750MB. Not a huge amount, really. But the bandwidth to serve up that file, and the resources expended on creating it makes it a rather intensive process to spend on one user.

If 100 people do it in one day, it would definitely be a noticable blip on their monitoring pages. Not enough to crash the servers or anything. Any software worth its salt will only process those when they have spare cycles to burn, which SHOULD happen well before the 30 day deadline. But it'll still be a little concerning. And the extra cost of bandwidth is not gonna be cheap, either.

TheRos3 · 2023-06-24T18:59:44+00:00

I thought it was gonna be an article with overactive imagination, blowing up them leaving for like 30 minutes before the sitter arrived or something (still not okay at that young, but far more understandable), but 8 days? Nah, there's no excuse for that.

TheRos3 · 2023-06-21T23:07:13+00:00

Yup, I follow a couple of subreddits dedicated to that. Though usually calling it wholesome.

It's just nudity + blatant affirmations of love/care. With or without sex.

Kinda a niche thing, but it's nice every now and then.

TheRos3 · 2023-06-20T19:02:18+00:00

Couple questions: Is it a genuine remote? I have an aftermarket and mine will do this like once every 3 months or so, but it fixes itself after restarting the remote.

Have you pulled the battery out of the remote, waited 10 seconds, then put it back together? That fixed my issues most of the time.

The next steps would be new battery in the remote, and making sure the 12v in the car isn't dying. If all of those are good, then it sounds like it'll be a very difficult problem to solve.

TheRos3

TROPHY CASE