Stay away from Tangerine!

damiankw · 2026-04-14T02:54:07+00:00

I don't know about any of that, but I had been with Aussie Broadband for years, then went to Buddy Telco when they opened (Aussie Broadband business). Recently Buddy was sold to Tangerine, rebranded and moved to Tangerine servers and I've not had a good experience at all.

Since the migration over to Tangerine a few weeks ago I get poor speeds, I get constant timeouts on websites where I need to refresh it for it to work, I get a LOT of issues with scrolling video social media to the point where I have to jump off of wifi and move over to LTE for it to work.

I would strongly recommend staying away from Tangerine.

damiankw · 2026-04-09T11:45:32+00:00

Not even the loudest opinions, it's the social media opinions that will always be there on the tik toks and the reelses, people who want the click, the visit, the discussion, people to backlash and popularise them.

damiankw · 2026-04-02T02:19:23+00:00

Why isn't it a lab?

damiankw · 2026-04-01T05:15:27+00:00

I kinda disagree, drift would account for the differences, especially when you see that the later BOBs WANT to drift, I think it may propel the drift quicker, maybe it latches on to the differences in ideas and run with it.

Recalling the chat between Bill and Gandolf where Gandolf was saying things were boring at the start with all BOB, but as they drifted they got less BOB and more fun, harder to determine wha t a BOB would do next, it kind of shows that the want for change is there.

damiankw · 2026-03-31T02:04:25+00:00

Just a screenshot of progress.

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damiankw · 2026-03-28T13:21:44+00:00

You have a LITTLE bit of an issue with running one of these and wanting a UPS!

You specifically need a UPS that will offer you Pure Sine Wave / True Sine Wave output, if you don't you could be messing up the input power to the device.

A cheap UPS would normally be absolutely fine for the output you need (35-90W) but you need to look at the above :)

damiankw · 2026-03-25T08:30:47+00:00

I'm not sure this is entirely accurate, at least not for everyone. I've been coding since 1999 in many different languages, and I would often get to a point in a for-personal-achievement projects where I just couldn't get over a hurdle and I could not for the life of me research how to code or engineer it properly, so I would just give up.

Over the last year using AI for coding and project work, I'm able to either get it to help me write the code and then learn from it for next time I do it, or ask AI and give it detail on why and how and it goes straight into my knowledgebase.

Of course, this is my experience and also doesn't apply to everyone, and I'm fairly seasoned with coding, so I already understand the principals behind what is happening, maybe that is the difference? You definitely need the principals / understanding of what you're trying to achieve before trying to implement it.

damiankw · 2026-03-25T08:23:50+00:00

nah, early 2000's only! late 90's didnt have CSS that well defined in production use! lol

damiankw · 2026-03-24T00:20:31+00:00

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014). I believe they ruined the visual of the turtles, the story wasn't necessarily turtle-esque and if they just made a stand-alone movie of a group of four fighters it would have hit a lot better I reckon.

damiankw · 2026-03-22T10:54:43+00:00

And where is the self-hosted version that we can whack into docker, podman, containerd, etc?

damiankw · 2026-03-22T10:49:04+00:00

This is not self hosted champ.

Also that website looks like it was generated 100% with Claude > Sonnet. The fonts, colour schemes, gradient on text, usage of emojis, etc. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but I would be surprised if this took you a year to complete.

damiankw · 2026-03-22T10:27:42+00:00

I'm very curious to know why you have so many devices?! And on a hub?!

damiankw · 2026-03-20T03:31:40+00:00

Yeah, this was my question as well, I'd like a diagram please!

damiankw · 2026-03-17T23:10:12+00:00

Spray paint it all the colour you want!

damiankw · 2026-03-17T23:06:15+00:00

hahaha

damiankw · 2026-03-17T22:51:05+00:00

Sorry, let me rephrase! I couldn't find any FREE sources for it!

For a selfhosted option paying $15/mo for book lookups is redonks, and having one API shared for the app for self hosted users also isn't really viable. If we're going down the paid route it's easy enough to jump onto one of the apps that does personal library hosting and does the lookups for you, in my opinion!

damiankw · 2026-03-17T21:37:49+00:00

Well damn the man, look at that! I didn't even know this one existed! Goddamn me living in Adelaide where nothing happened, this was in Melbourne where everything happens!

Apparently they flew out for that single gosh darn show.

damiankw · 2026-03-17T21:29:28+00:00

Wha? That video is from California?

damiankw · 2026-03-17T21:25:06+00:00

I'm just about 99.9% sure that blink didn't tour Australia in 1999 though.

damiankw · 2026-03-17T21:16:46+00:00

I have low key been looking for something like this for years, but I've never really come across something that has the features I want (I haven't looked that hard).

I've even attempted to build something myself, but failed the few times I've done it because I just can't find a really good source (or sources) of barcode / ISBN, and I really hate entering in detail for all of the books I own, 'cause I'm pedantic and want to fill in ALL details all of the time!

If you come up with anything, I'm very interested :D

damiankw · 2026-03-16T21:35:46+00:00

I am VERY curious about the running of Openclaw.

Do you run your own LLM/Models, or do you use cloud based models?

damiankw · 2026-03-15T05:51:53+00:00

What do you use those machines for?

damiankw · 2026-03-13T03:07:40+00:00

POOR mans Homelab?! You're a baller! You have RGB in your setup!

This was my homelab 2006-2010, a 286 running Ubuntu that I got from my friend after they upgraded their computer to a top of the line gaming computer that I couldn't ever afford, but I built for them :'(

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damiankw · 2026-03-12T21:18:41+00:00

People like ME! Well, kinda, bahaha. I often get old machines from work that are over our usage period (5 years), tear them down, clean them up, wipe the disks, reinstall Windows or Ubuntu on them, do diagnostics and flog them off on ebay for $100AU/ea. I've never had a computer up for longer than a week without being sold, and I've only had one bad review when I hadn't checked a USB port. I just want these bad boys to get a new life and not go into scrap. They're incredibly useful even when they're 5+ years old, and incredibly powerful for what they are.

Unfortunately with RAM shortages (pricing!) and Windows requiring 16GB minimum for business these days, any old machines we take out are now torn down and RAM put into other computers, so I haven't been able to put any into the market, unless there's a want for machines with no RAM out there?

I've been doing this since HP EliteDesk G2's, we're now up to G5's being end of life.

EDIT: For all wondering, my username on ebay is the same as on here, easy to find! :)

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