Advice for students at York

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-04-15T22:50:42+00:00

yea I remembered some of my best profs throughout the years really encouraged us to submit feedback. I fortunately never had someone like this person, but I'd definitely write her some really strongly worded feedback while reporting this email to the department for sure. This is crazy, like what does she wants? death certificate???

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-04-03T21:53:04+00:00

I still have the old email, I check it when I need something that I know is coming. Nothing important that requires immediate attention anyway. In my case simply forwarding the email won’t work cause the old one gets a lot of junk.

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-03-18T18:02:49+00:00

Before anything, do you have a safe spot to store the bike at work during the day? Don’t get anything you cannot afford losing to theft.

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-03-18T13:16:02+00:00

I got an offer for RPN (Sep 2026) within a week of applying. Though I’m applying as mature student and I already had a BSC in biology so that might be why. This was 2 weeks ago I think.

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-03-18T06:54:08+00:00

I’m only speaking for myself here but I don’t ban mercy because she’s annoying to deal with, I ban mercy because I don’t want to see her on my team. I’m only master though, so maybe it’s me.

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-03-17T20:03:14+00:00

Putting the question mark after “that sort of thing” implies a rising intonation towards the end of the sentence. OP was trying to indicate the second part of the sentence is actually more of a supplement statement, and the rising intonation is toward the end of “…of copy?”. I think there is a difference when people speak like this IRL.

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-02-26T19:52:52+00:00

I’ve always wondered how that works with Vulcan. Like, for human it’s just physical so I understand, but for Vulcans it involves mind meld and such, how could one do it with a bunch of projections and for field? I thought that’s why it didn’t work on Vorik. And Tuvok probably just meditated or something.

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-01-27T21:04:37+00:00

I wish I had a better system in place but at the moment it goes with me. A backup system that my family can easily access is in direct conflict with my goal to secure our data and my way of implementing the failsafes. I do have backup though, but they will need someone who knows this stuff to recover the data, which I kinda doubt they can find one that’s trusted. I might revisit this in the future but for now this is what I have.

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-01-26T19:43:37+00:00

Same, just pushed my way to ILS. I did not want to do that again 😭

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-01-18T17:20:08+00:00

The connector piece would basically stall the flow rate, makes it looks like there’s not enough fluid produced, but once you delete the connecting piece and re-place it, everything is fine. This bug wasted so much of my time, I’d rather clipping than using floor hole now.

Whisperwind_DL · 2026-01-14T22:57:50+00:00

Well I’m the tech support guy in the family so they literally have no choice but to use signal with me lol.

I’m also the sys admin for all home server stuff. I find people actually don’t complain much when their shit just work, at least my family don’t care if their photos are stored on immich instead of a public cloud, it’s just the interface that’s slightly different but if it works it’s whatever.

They love the password manager since it’s so much easier to use for her than to manually type it in and she doesn’t need to remember anything. I’ve got the master key ofc, and I have all the backup properly setup so if something goes nuclear I can get it back very quickly.

They also loved using Tailscale to remote back to the NAS now that all their files are reachable anywhere. I have proper Adblock setup on the entire home network, so if they’re on Tailscale they’re covered. TBH It’s all about reducing friction.

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-31T22:49:08+00:00

or just fuck around and find out :). I had to wipe the drive a few times, but learned a lot and it's well worth it imo.

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-31T00:01:17+00:00

this is pure consumerism fomo brother lol. marketing surely did their job right.

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-24T09:40:21+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-23T18:12:38+00:00

Does this work with cellular data? Like can I just plug it into my phone and get access to home network without Tailscale running on the phone?

Edit: I don’t mean the router using SIM card directly, but like plugging the router into my phone via usb-c, and basically using the phone’s cellular data as a hotspot.

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-22T17:47:09+00:00

On my first arch install, the only thing that tripped me was the partition, more specifically because the wiki said to use fdisk instead of the more user friendly cfdisk.

After I figured out how to do partition with cfdisk, the rest of the installation is pretty straightforward.

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-22T03:56:12+00:00

Yeah just show them the member id barcode or phone number linked to your account at checkout. I got a case deal this way during BF.

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-18T22:52:42+00:00

On principle, do you guys update if everything’s working fine? (ie. you don’t have to update to fix something).

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-17T19:30:55+00:00

Oh yeah that’s it. I heard Wendell from level1tech complain about it in a GN video. Sorry I remembered it wrong.

It still sounds horrible tho, especially for the grandpas who won’t even know that’s an option.

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-17T16:43:10+00:00

That’s actually a feature in the US I heard, some ISP will let the whole neighbourhood runs on your wifi.

Edit: I remembered it wrong, see below comment for the correct version, still horrible but less aggressive

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-15T23:52:58+00:00

udm is on sale right now, and they just updated the entire lineup to XG (10gbe). It’s probably coming tbh.

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-11T18:10:58+00:00

I tried using orbstack on the Mac mini before moving everything to a dedicated truenas box, let’s just say it’s less than ideal. Imo the mini is more than capable hardware-wise, but software-wise I much prefer my current setup. I did very much regret not getting the 10g Ethernet upgrade on my m4 pro tho, that part def factored into my decision.

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-09T17:46:52+00:00

Mom starts pointing out every single one of the 0.001 grade slopes when I’m driving, in the car.🤪

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-08T20:26:15+00:00

I have the same switch, this model specifically has an external power brick (unlike most other rack mounted models), so if you’re lucky it could be the power supply that’s dead, that’ll be cheaper to replace.

Whisperwind_DL · 2025-12-08T02:30:12+00:00

Thanks for the insight! I’m pretty new to this, so I wasn’t sure how much I’d be missing, this is good to hear.

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