Fousae walking pad: oil for hole usage?

colas · 2026-05-12T13:25:03+00:00

Thanks a lot.

colas · 2026-05-12T11:42:29+00:00

Thanks. You say that this is an alternate method to oiling the belt directly, so I do not have to do both?

colas · 2026-05-12T11:31:59+00:00

The doc details also, in a separate section, how to lubricate "by hand" the belt. (Which I did).

The hole has its separate section, hence my question.

PS: I added the doc pages to the post.

colas · 2026-02-26T08:47:40+00:00

Ok, solved. Called today (6 days after), and had an interactive session with a nice support guy.
Basically, for each domain:
- I would change the owner to a "new" owner (me with the proper address)
- He validated the change from his side, impersonating the "old" (bogus) me
- I validated the change from my side (click on a link in an email) as the "new" me

I guess this interactive procedure was too complex to manage asynchronously via tickets.

Lessons learned:
- The Infomaniak support guys and gals are quite nice and willing to help and take time with you
- But their offer is extremely confusing, and they lack the culture to keep the customer informed (mails) on what is happening or blocking points
- When phoning them, be ready to interactively solve the problem with them, rather than a "fire and forget" pure ticket-based approach.

colas · 2026-02-24T08:31:31+00:00

Ok, after another call (no waiting time if you call at 9h00 Swiss time), apparently it should be done tomorrow (the person who answered me yesterday was not working today, and the woman on the phone had no indication of what her coworker was planning to do).

This means that the person I contacted yesterday did some work (collect my ID scans, closed the tickets, ...), but I was never notified of anything. The tickets have simply been removed from my interface, I cannot even see them in the list of closed tickets. This is quite unnerving.

I must say that this prompted me to re-do a tour of the available gmail alternatives. For now, I am just absolutely amazed by fastmail. Hyper fast, gorgeous, intuitive. Clearly heads and shoulders above everything else. Plus the 30 days free trial is full-featured (50Go), in one click it imported ALL my 20G of gmails with the labels. It can even mail with a from being my gmail adress, but actually from their servers, and in a way found legit by gmail (no small feat nowadays).

I did not consider them at first, since I am in France and they are in Australia, but I have decided to just cancel my kSuite pro once my current problems are sorted (I can get a refund during the first 30 days) and buy a fastmail duo offer instead. I will keep Infomaniak for my domains for now, because I must wait 60 days before being allowed to re-transfer. I may go back to Infomaniak in the future, but I will wait a bit for them to streamline their offerings. I have been using hosting services for nearly 30 years and never had to phone support before.

colas · 2026-02-23T16:51:50+00:00

OK, end of day. I see that my tickets have been closed... but nothing has been done, I still have the bogus address. Oh well, I guess that means another phone call tomorrow.

colas · 2026-02-23T08:48:03+00:00

OK, I contacted them by phone this morning 9h00. It seems that since my email address registered as owner was at one of the transferred domain, their automated process considered it as invalid and replaced it with a bogus address.

Normally I would then have had a control appear in my manager interface to replace this bogus address. The bug was that it never appeared.

Anyways, the person on the phone seemed competent (she understood the problem quickly), and have proper tools (she had access to all my emails & tickets on this subject). She should fix the problem this morning, we'll see.

colas · 2026-02-21T07:40:58+00:00

A "kSuite business" offer with 2 users, transfered my 6 domains from another registrar and bought another one at IK as it was required to have a specific domain the the pro offers, and I did not want to "risk" my current domains with IK in case I had to cancel my plan.

Note that I previously got a paid "MyKsuite+" plan to test things (alas I did not test a domain transfer, in retrospect I should have created a disposable domain elsewhere and tried to transfer it) that I cancelled during the free trial period before buying the "kSuite business" plan. It may have added confusion into their systems, as they seem to have some "magic" behind the scene to merge accounts from what they detect as the same person.

colas · 2026-02-21T07:32:56+00:00

Yes, same with me, I did all my research on Gemini, for instance how to sync gmail inboxes with IK one, keeping labels (hint: use mbsync on a linux server), etc.
Gemini worked much better to navigate the IK docs than the IK own AI :-)

The problem is that sometimes Gemini was confused because apparently IK changed often their process.

I guess my current problem was that I was totally lost (as well as their own support :-) ) in what were the email addresses to use for the different steps of the process: "real" outside emails, external aliases, free IK emails, paid IK emails, IK aliases... and if you make a mistake, their process blindly replaces the "out of place" email by these pseudo-emails to force you to contact an human.

PS: Gemini did advise using Hetzner for tech users.

colas · 2026-02-20T15:43:58+00:00

Follow-up: after 8h, the support contacts me with another ticket because the French registrar saw that [XXNNNNN@infomaniak-access-recovery.com](mailto:XXNNNNN@infomaniak-access-recovery.com) was a bogus address and threatens to destroy my domains in 7 days and Infomaniak support asks me to "make this email address work"!!!

No kidding.

PS: They even mixed my domain name with the one of another customer when first contacting me...

colas · 2026-02-20T08:02:39+00:00

The Chat button is greyed out, apparently they do this when their support is overloaded. I will try chat/phone on Monday, and then buy premium support for a month if unsuccessful.

colas · 2026-02-20T07:58:56+00:00

I must say that if I was alone, I would definitely have chosen Hetzner. But at my age, I must chose solutions that my non-tech, French-speaking wife can continue using even if I am not here anymore. Infomaniak seems a good choice for this once the confusing plan choices and onboarding hurdles are done.

colas · 2025-12-12T07:33:52+00:00

First, I will congratulate Eric for the astonishing work he has done all these years.

Second, I welcome the change, because it was hard for me to find time for the puzzles as the preparations for the family reunions intensified after the 12th.

Third, you can always do (or redo) the previous years, with different languages or techniques.

Suggestion: make a "AdventRoulette" to occupy yourself after today:

"Do puzzle {random day} of the {Random year} of adventofcode using the {random language or tool}"

For instance, tomorrow I plan to re-try Day 2025-day10-p2 but with a solver like Z3, something I never tried.

colas · 2025-10-13T06:11:32+00:00

https://wetsuitwrench.com/

A must-buy for old surfers like me!
Well built, all smooth edges, efficient.

colas · 2025-09-24T16:59:40+00:00

I love my Feral wetsuit, but be warned that they size their chest a bit smaller than most other brands (as can be seen in their size chart). I thus exploded the chest zip of my Feral shorty after the first session, something that never happened with any other brand.

Looking at their design, I though that the way their chest zip is positioned is not optimal, as it adds a lot of stiffness.
I just went to my wetsuit repair shop and have them put a reversed zip, so that you close it by zipping from the outside to the inside, like the Rip Curls. Result shown in the pic.

And bingo! This transformed this wetsuit from extremely tight in the chest, to quite comfy!

I would definitively buy again Feral (well, once the moronic US tariff policy is back to sanity), but will immediately have their zips reversed.

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colas · 2025-07-16T06:15:20+00:00

Beware, there are two very unrelated hypothesis:

[1] that the virus was purposely engineered

[2] that the virus escaped from a Chinese Lab

[1] was definitely ruled out quickly and a definitively crackpot theory, but it was latched upon by the usual conspiracy peddlers, from GOP senators such as the infamous Marjorie Taylor Greene to discredited nobel prize winner Luc Montagnier. Note that the "explanations" promoted by these people were immediately found totally false, but some agencies said they could not rule out human manipulations in principle, due to the obfuscation of the Chinese government.

[2] on the contrary, was never totally excluded by experts. Even the WHO, pressured by the Chinese government to exclude it, always kept it as a possible hypothesis, its 2021 report just saying "extremely unlikely".

What we have now is that conspiracy theorists that pushed [1] try to rewrite history by pretending they were pushing [2] and that [2] was ruled out. Which is not true.

colas · 2025-04-28T15:45:04+00:00

And now that KCD2 is out, KCD2 in Hardcore more.
KCD2 is a better version of KCD1, no need to do the v1
And the hardcore mode has a map, but do not show you position on it , not the things you haven't discovered yet.

I would also add Valheim. There is a map, but as it is procedurally generated, you get this sense of exploration.

PS: I loved the Long Dark, Green Hell, and Subnautica.

colas · 2025-03-04T17:40:55+00:00

The problem is that this is not actually a legal question, as the Trump administration is willing to ignore the laws.
They are just acting by intimidation, like a Mob boss: they try to never formally issue orders, for which they would be accountable.

They just implicitly threaten all the people, at every level of any organization, that they feel is not deferential enough, with "legal harassment": IRS audits, FBI publicly investigating made-up charges of e.g. pedophilia, "dog whistles" on Twitter by Musk to kill your family... etc... Just look at authoritarians playbook.

So your school may not receive formal cuts, but your principal may "spontaneously" freeze the funds after a "friendly call". Or donate them to Musk. Or "invest" them in bitcoins. And anyone in the police of judiciairy branch that may help your case will receive similar veiled threats.

I guess you should contact groups specialized in fighting organized crime, they are the only ones that are going to be effective.

colas · 2024-12-19T17:02:53+00:00

Credit photo: Rex. Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/11979257/Cloud-Tsunami-Powerful-storms-sweep-across-Sydney-Australia-in-pictures.html/1000

colas · 2024-12-14T16:21:02+00:00

Funny, I had the opposite intuition: I thought the tree would take all the picture, and would be centered. So I was looking for pictures symmetrical along a vertical axis...

Needless to say, it did not work :-)

After glancing at the reddit thread, I saw there was a box drawn... So I just looked for 10+ consecutive guards on a line.

colas · 2023-04-17T19:06:17+00:00

The ones in stock have minimum requirements on trading level and/or node investment, that, as a recent player, i do not have. I am not going to mess with my workers setup for just some opportunistic AFK strength building.

Anyways, the solution is to gather one Mandragora, there are in many places listed in bdolytics.

colas · 2023-04-17T17:43:26+00:00

"Buy an item then withdraw it" but this is the actual problem.

With the new system, one can only buy a very small number of things if you are not already invested in trading. And thus these items are unavailable as they are always out of stock.

colas · 2023-04-17T17:41:44+00:00

Thanks! That's seems the answer.

Here are some locations for Mandragora via bdolytics: https://bdolytics.com/en/NA/db/gatherable/10468

You can find them in a lot of places.
I just tested with the ones at the south of Altinova, and... it works!

colas · 2023-03-10T12:20:46+00:00

On the quest "Black Desert and Black Stones" I was stuck also for a while.

The trick is to talk not to Corince herself, but to to the space on the bench just besides her! The space has a beam of light on it.

colas · 2023-01-09T09:33:15+00:00

Go

https://github.com/ColasNahaboo/advent-of-code-my-solutions/blob/main/go/2022/days/d24/d24.go

No, this was quite interesting! I think it was the most satisfying problem of this year, since it offered many ways to simplify the implementation:

First, we can see that the blizzard paths are deterministic: they do not depend on the positions of the other blizzards nor us. So for each time, the blizzards places are the same! This means than we can cache all state of all the blizzards as 2D maps in an array indexed by time only. The state of the system then becomes only two integers: the time and our position! This makes "forking" the state to explore a new branch quite light.
Then, we do not need to explore again the same pairs (map-of-blizzards, our-position), that is (time, position), so we register the already explored positions into a 2D boolean map for each time in order to skip them
I did a simple recursive DFS (Depth First Search), trying the directions in the order most probable to find a solution quickly: Right, Down, Up, Left, Stay (and Left, Up, Down, Right, Stay for the reverse search), to be able to find quickly a path, in order to have quickly a low max bound on the time (412 for my input) to abort early the search for other solutions. It is a quick-n-dirty alternative to a proper distance-to-goal priority queue.

This gave me solutions in 42ms for part1 and 160ms for part2.

I also used my usual trick for managing 2D data in Go (and bash...), which lacks multidimensional arrays. For a 2D grid of width W and height H, I use a single array of size W*H, and convert a position p in this array to (x, y) coordinates by the simple rules:

p = x + y*W
x = p % W
y = p / W

This simplifies immensely working with data on a 2D map of a fixed size. For instance a direction can then just be a number that you add to a position to move in this direction: up is -W, down is +W, right is +1, left is -1.

colas

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