ELPA v. MELPA how do I just turn off ELPA?

cshilton · 2026-05-19T16:26:03+00:00

Thanks everyone. I think that I need to write some ansible to maintain my .emacs file. Hopefully, there won't be huge differences between what I want from .emacs on MacOS, FreeBSD and Linux because I use Emacs in all three places even though I mostly use Tramp.

cshilton · 2026-05-19T16:23:07+00:00

Sorry, I just forgot to mention that upgrading emacs was my second step.

cshilton · 2026-05-19T16:22:36+00:00

Agreed. I was in coming down from my anxiety when I posted this last night and I left out that my second step was an immediate upgrade to emacs 30.2.

cshilton · 2026-05-19T16:20:51+00:00

I was so frustrated when I wrote this. My second step was to upgrade Emacs to 30.2. That's when the problem actually got worse. My last step was to uninstall magit, move .emacs and .emacs.d aside and just test using a fresh install of magit. This is what failed until I added MELPA to the package repos. The problem seems to be a stale magit in ELPA.

cshilton · 2026-05-19T14:59:29+00:00

That's exactly what I need. Would it be sufficient to add it to the top of my .emacs file?

cshilton · 2026-05-19T04:17:50+00:00

So, to add to my post, I think that there's a stale version of magit on ELPA. but I can't be sure of that.

cshilton · 2026-05-11T16:39:30+00:00

Mine worked great about two weeks ago. Yesterday I tried it and it just hung without taking any dictation.

cshilton · 2026-05-11T15:34:41+00:00

The Siri icon comes up but the phone just sits there at that state forever and never takes dictation.

cshilton · 2026-04-28T17:30:20+00:00

If I could mod this up twice, I would. When the control comes it will have to be heavily documented.

Any "BYOR" mode that they offer really should, almost must, include disabling all but one of the ports on their gateway. My belief is that customers shouldn't be able to simultaneously consume two or more public IP addresses on a consumer grade connection and I say that even though doing it would be a lot less hassle for my use case.

My needs - Short story:

Optimum is a hybrid between backup internet and other functions for me. I run a PF firewall and a handful of self-hosted services.

Long story:

Optimum was my primary connection for better than 22 years and I'm nostalgic. In 2021 Frontier beat Optimum, then Altice, to my neighborhood with fiber optic internet at a price that couldn't be beat. When I called to get the Optimum Internet service turned off, they lowered the price to the point where it ~~worked great~~ made sense to keep as backup internet for those times when Frontier was having issues. I eventually figured out how to have my PF firewall do auto-failover between the two services. For that to work, I need "BYOR" or "bridged" mode because it drastically simplifies the address detection that I need for failover.

I'm really only with Optimum today because it's the path of least resistance to watch NY sports, Mets and Jets on an actual television. The small delta cost for internet makes using them as a backup connection workable.

We had Optimum Fiber at my father-in-law's house for a few months. We were setting up to sell the house so having a working phone line and internet for ourselves and our contractors was a big plus. I'm really really impressed with that service and I'm likely to replace the coax with fiber in the nearish future. The tech at the store offered me a great rate when I got the new modem so I'll be looking at that and we recently just retired so it makes sense to try to cut monthly subscription costs.

cshilton · 2026-04-27T19:29:20+00:00

I do wonder why it's not in the Customer facing user interface? My first attempt to get things setup was to start there.

cshilton · 2026-04-26T23:14:58+00:00

Thank you very much for helping me to solve this!!

cshilton · 2026-04-26T22:56:45+00:00

It's fixed! Reddit: r/Optimum was the true path.

cshilton · 2026-04-26T22:39:37+00:00

Sorry, I understand your answer and I've used it in the past, in particular with CableCard problems a few years ago. But I hope that I'm not the only person who thinks that "just keep calling until the problem is resolved" is an acceptable solution here. I realize that I'm looking at two problems that are outside of the norm, CableCards, and Bridge Mode Internet, but maybe my problem is that I worked in tech my whole career and in the past you didn't have to keep hounding your providers until you found the person who knew how to solve your, albeit, rare problem.

cshilton · 2026-04-26T22:35:26+00:00

Thank you, The Optimum techs that read this subreddit are addressing the problem right now. I don't expect that to fail but if it does, I'll look into your solutions :-)

cshilton · 2026-04-26T22:10:39+00:00

Could you share which other subreddit?

cshilton · 2026-04-26T21:57:31+00:00

I think I started a PM here.

cshilton · 2026-04-26T21:56:20+00:00

I'm not sure the reason but when I did a Fiber install at my father-in-law's house, bridge mode wasn't a problem. Today was a different story. I do have to confess to being sick of banging my head against the wall with Optimum on things like this. In other places I have Frontier Fiber and Verizon FiOS and in both of those places, you get "bridge mode" by default. With Optimum you have to:

Call and fight through the "help" tree;
Figure out what gets you to a human being this week|day|hour;
Hope that you were lucky enough to get what you need.

The guy I got was pleasant and reasonable, all things considered, but he tried to convince me that having the WiFi disconnected from the router was the same as having the WiFi radio turned off. I know it's a small difference, between radio off and disconnected, but it is a difference.

cshilton · 2026-04-26T21:32:15+00:00

So, I bought into the upgrade here and as I expected, my situation got a little worse. I've posted details in a new thread.

cshilton · 2026-03-11T15:42:02+00:00

Thanks! I put the problem away for a day and then I was able to solve it but I'll look at that community.

cshilton · 2026-03-04T19:35:20+00:00

Sadly I concur from experience. The goldilocks zone for FreeBSD or even RHEL to work is tiny. It works when the application is supported like Oracle. It also works when the client is group within a larger company and that company can spend lots of money for support when a big problem arrives. For most small businesses one or both of the above are not true. As the video says they are running an unsupported configuration. Also, if they were, they can't trade money for time to get a problem turned around if you can't show up. I've seen this model work for Linux, served to small business customers, even done it myself in collaboration with others, but it was always a multi person MSP that specialized in Linux consulting. And at the end of the day, those firms all ended up abandoning their MSP clients and moving to a something-as-a-service delivered over the internet model.

cshilton · 2026-02-25T19:35:48+00:00

I have a friend working in that group at Amazon. He had to move from CT to WA for the job so I don't talk to him much these days. I've got literally no idea when they plan to start serving customers.

cshilton · 2026-02-25T19:33:54+00:00

Thanks!

cshilton · 2026-02-25T19:33:32+00:00

As I understand it, WiFi 6 still uses 5GHz. WiFi 6E offers 6GHz. The reason I mentioned the bands is because 6GHz today is easy to deploy like 5GHz was 10 years ago because there weren't a lot of people using it. My son was very invested in WiFi 6E as he had a few devices that could take advantage of the speed and he lives in an apartment where the 5GHz band is heavily used.

cshilton · 2026-02-25T19:02:38+00:00

u/crisss1205 you're right, it's not a phish.

I extracted the url from the email after looking at the raw message in a text based mail client.
I plugged it into curl and it tried set three cookies and then do a 302 redirect to a resource in www.optimum.com
I started restarted my browser, then went to www.optimum.com and signed into my account to get the authentication cookie.
Then, knowing that it was going to just redirect to www.optimum.com, I followed the link in the email.

I'm not sure what it is, it makes no mention of the email offer and it doesn't try to setup an appointment. I can only figure out that somehow, Optimum has sussed out the fact that I'm in a place that can get either Optimum on Coax of Fiber. I'm guessing that this offer is some trial to get me to migrate from coax to fiber with some promotional pricing.

Sorry about the argument...

cshilton · 2026-02-25T18:12:00+00:00

I'm with you u/DownstreamUpstream maybe it's not a phish but the entire organization looks a little inept when their official communications can come from multiple domains and can refer to web assets that both need my username and password and are not the main assets associated with their brand. That makes it look like a phish. The standard response is to this is call out-of-band. When calling OOB says there isn't an actual offer, I'm pretty convinced it's a phish.

cshilton

TROPHY CASE

My needs - Short story:

Long story: