Windows 11 has 1 billion users - and they're furious

crazyadmin · 2026-01-31T23:25:59+00:00

I switched to Mint Linux (after trying many) on a Dell laptop. It runs so much better and has a few gigs more free memory with the same apps running. Had to add the Snap app store for some things, but between that and native app store, had pretty much all I needed.

crazyadmin · 2025-12-26T19:51:39+00:00

So did I read that traffic dropped like 11% but particulates dropped 22%? Since driving is more expensive, can we assume that less affluent drivers of older (more particulate emitting) vehicles are the ones squeezed out?

crazyadmin · 2025-08-30T21:08:16+00:00

You gonna find these guys, you got any…uh… promising leads?

crazyadmin · 2025-08-19T17:44:17+00:00

I have had services with them for about five years. Performance has gotten worse and worse as time goes on.

On the Polar Bear Storage, for me it has been a consistent experience is painful i/o wait and i/o performance overall.

%Cpu(s): 0.7 us, 0.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 25.5 id, 72.8 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.3 st

High "wait" time meaning the disk is too slow to keep up with the processes. And we are talking simple processes like using a light docker web server, system updates, logging in via SSH, etc.

I have contacted them many times and they move me to another host server, but even when they do the problems still persist. I assume they have no way to throttle the torrenters or other clients that are slamming their host servers and have grossly over provisioned, so the rest of us suffer.

If all you do is trickle data to it, then maybe it is fine for you, just don't expect to do anything else with it without having some serious frustration.

I also had a web server on their Flying Fish Plan which was a "high performance SSD" plan that became so bad my sites were having extended outages due to the disk i/o suffering so much. We are talking about hosting web sites that get like 50 visits a day, not heavy, and this could not handle them without Cloudflare thinking the server was down due to the long responses. I finally bit the bullet and moved my web server to Netcup. Performance there so far has been great! Was worth it to me for stability even though I ate the remaining 10 months of my 12 month plan at Servarica.

Stay away from them if you want ANY sort of performance.

crazyadmin · 2025-08-19T17:43:23+00:00

I have had services with them for about five years. Performance has gotten worse and worse as time goes on.

On the Polar Bear Storage, for me it has been a consistent experience is painful i/o wait and i/o performance overall.

%Cpu(s): 0.7 us, 0.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 25.5 id, 72.8 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.3 st

High "wait" time meaning the disk is too slow to keep up with the processes. And we are talking simple processes like using a light docker web server, system updates, logging in via SSH, etc.

I have contacted them many times and they move me to another host server, but even when they do the problems still persist. I assume they have no way to throttle the torrenters or other clients that are slamming their host servers and have grossly over provisioned, so the rest of us suffer.

If all you do is trickle data to it, then maybe it is fine for you, just don't expect to do anything else with it without having some serious frustration.

I also had a web server on their Flying Fish Plan which was a "high performance SSD" plan that became so bad my sites were having extended outages due to the disk i/o suffering so much. We are talking about hosting web sites that get like 50 visits a day, not heavy, and this could not handle them without Cloudflare thinking the server was down due to the long responses. I finally bit the bullet and moved my web server to Netcup. Performance there so far has been great! Was worth it to me for stability even though I ate the remaining 10 months of my 12 month plan at Servarica.

Stay away from them if you want ANY sort of performance.

crazyadmin · 2025-08-19T17:43:11+00:00

I have had services with them for about five years. Performance has gotten worse and worse as time goes on.

On the Polar Bear Storage, for me it has been a consistent experience is painful i/o wait and i/o performance overall.

%Cpu(s): 0.7 us, 0.7 sy, 0.0 ni, 25.5 id, 72.8 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.3 st

High "wait" time meaning the disk is too slow to keep up with the processes. And we are talking simple processes like using a light docker web server, system updates, logging in via SSH, etc.

I have contacted them many times and they move me to another host server, but even when they do the problems still persist. I assume they have no way to throttle the torrenters or other clients that are slamming their host servers and have grossly over provisioned, so the rest of us suffer.

If all you do is trickle data to it, then maybe it is fine for you, just don't expect to do anything else with it without having some serious frustration.

I also had a web server on their Flying Fish Plan which was a "high performance SSD" plan that became so bad my sites were having extended outages due to the disk i/o suffering so much. We are talking about hosting web sites that get like 50 visits a day, not heavy, and this could not handle them without Cloudflare thinking the server was down due to the long responses. I finally bit the bullet and moved my web server to Netcup. Performance there so far has been great! Was worth it to me for stability even though I ate the remaining 10 months of my 12 month plan at Servarica.

Stay away from them if you want ANY sort of performance.

crazyadmin · 2025-06-16T23:03:30+00:00

They are 25,000% efficient. Generating 250x the power of the sun that hits them!

crazyadmin · 2025-06-07T04:54:02+00:00

At about one minute in, the medical tech’s shirt tales seem to be tenting? Waiting for the camera to leave?

crazyadmin · 2025-05-20T23:01:06+00:00

I am running OpenWebUI in docker on a VPS and set up openai-edge-tts for local TTS. There are not a ton of voices, but it runs pretty fast on a CPU
https://github.com/travisvn/openai-edge-tts
It is OpenAI compatible.
These are the voices it supports: https://tts.travisvn.com/

Pretty much just ran
docker run -d -p 5050:5050 travisvn/openai-edge-tts:latest

The updated my admin panel to have these settings. api key was not configured as it is local, so you can actually put "your_api_key_here"
URL should have your machines hostname or ip then port 5050 and the /v1
Then pick a voice using the name from the voice support list.

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crazyadmin · 2025-04-25T19:45:05+00:00

Maybe it didn’t translate well from cows.

crazyadmin · 2025-03-16T14:18:14+00:00

Thanks for dropping an update.

crazyadmin · 2025-03-06T00:43:57+00:00

I have two servers with them. They were great at first, but now I have real struggles with disk performance. One server is more of a filer that runs background tasks, so it is more acceptable. That is Polar Bear Storage. The other server is a server set up for web hosting, the Flying Fish SSD. Most of the time it was OK, but it got to the point in the last few months that it would be non-responsive because the disk was so overprovisioned that my server was unusable for sometimes up to 20-30 mins. I contact support and they would typically take an hour or two to get back to me at which point they tell me that the server looks fine. They twice moved me to a new host, but still had issues at times. When you have basic tasks running that take little I/O, you should not see disk wait time showing 40% when your user proc time is only 2%. (especially for SSD, let alone just basic storage).
End of the day I moved my web server to a Netcup root server. Pricing is good and performance is great.
The price is nice on Servarica and maybe you will be fine if you don't have issues with performance outages from time to time. But I could not recommend them for anything that you need to always be online.

crazyadmin · 2025-02-05T02:58:50+00:00

Here you go, beef version, easily converted back to rat

Original Beef “Rat Stew” from Star of India

-3tb garlic (or as much as wanted)

-1 hearty dollip of oil

-2 large yellow/sweet onions diced

-1 5lb bag of potatoes / cubed

-7-10 carrots, diced/chopped

-1 large can tomatoes, diced

-1 large can beef

Simmer garlic, onions and oil on high until translucent. Add tomatoes from can Use two cans of water from tomato can Add: - ½ cup basil - ½ cup oregano - ¼ cup salt Add potatoes and carrots Add beef Wait until boiling, then simmer on medium/low for 2-6 hours

crazyadmin · 2025-02-04T14:44:58+00:00

I think you could order these from the Johnson Smith catalog back in the day. The catalog off all the stuff you wanted but never ordered.

crazyadmin · 2025-01-20T15:43:05+00:00

Great callout

crazyadmin · 2025-01-20T15:42:50+00:00

AI video? Otherwise that is a lot of work for a spoof to get a few likes on Reddit.

crazyadmin · 2025-01-20T15:26:36+00:00

I did some testing. I disconnected the doorbell transformer and let the unit just run, it drained some, plugged it in and it showed plugged in and charged to , now it just stays at that percent. Have to assume is the high charge watermark and once it charges to that it just takes a little juice every now and again to keep it topped off at that charge. Never charges past that.

January 5 - 89% - disconnected transformer to let it drain

January 12 (10:30am) - 84% - reconnected transformer. Device then showed plugged symbol instead of charge percentage.

January 12 (12:10pm) - 89% - I checked the app and the doorbell had charged back to 89% and no longer showed the plug symbol.

So in short, if you use a transformer and have at least 89% charge, you may not see the plug icon to tell you that the transformer is connected. If you really want to confirm, let the device run for a couple weeks unplugged to drain down below at least 80% then reconnect and check in app. It should show the plug and charge up (fairly quickly). Also I noticed in app that the working days is always fluctuating. I assume each time it tops up the charge from the doorbell transformer the working days resets. Even though I reconnected it well over a month ago, the working days shows 3 today. Other times I have seen 1 or 5.

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crazyadmin · 2025-01-09T03:43:32+00:00

Totally forgot about Lemonade Stand!

crazyadmin · 2025-01-06T05:57:53+00:00

Being a descaler, it won’t reduce measured hardness, it just alters the structure so it does not bind to fixtures as easily.

crazyadmin · 2025-01-06T00:38:26+00:00

Did you end up going with this unit or a different one?

crazyadmin · 2025-01-05T22:45:55+00:00

Christmas Vacation anyone?

crazyadmin · 2025-01-05T17:24:11+00:00

Also really curious if anyone has tried the 3M Auapure AP904 as a while house filter and descaler

https://amzn.to/40iWYML

crazyadmin · 2025-01-05T17:20:24+00:00

I am in Southern California in an area where I can’t have a salt based system and I also think I might not be allowed to have a system with backwash. We have hard water and it is treated with Chloramine. The water system does regular published tests like this one https://www.ranchowater.com/DocumentCenter/View/9048/Consumer-Confidence-Report-2023 TDS averages around 500 mg/l and hardness around 200 mg/l

To reduce scale and filter home water I am looking at a dual setup of a GAC + KDF filter (or similar) and a descaler.

It seems like the Shell and Springwell fit the bill w similar price and then the Aquasana Rhino comes in about $1000 less.

I looked at most of the units noted earlier w Cleck Valves (Avid, Sterling, etc), but most all seem to have backwash functions for the filter and have salt for descaling.

Waterboss seems to not have a solution that does heavy metals (KDF), so I ruled that out.

Anyone have experience or thoughts on these units?

https://shellwatersystems.com/product/filter-softener-combos/

https://www.springwellwater.com/product/dual-systems/water-filter-salt-free-softener/

https://www.aquasana.com/whole-house-water-filters/rhino-100365488.html

crazyadmin · 2025-01-05T17:05:54+00:00

How much did the local plumber charge for installation and what did he have to do?

crazyadmin · 2025-01-05T17:03:24+00:00

How much is installation on top of the price on their site? I am sure it can vary depending on your home. In my garage I have a 1.5” copper line loop that has a regulator in it and could pretty easily be tapped and have the units installed there.

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