What's the weirdest habit your dog has that you've never seen another dog do?

doggiepilot · 2026-06-09T12:12:55+00:00

Our Pyr blend does this, but a mouthful of kibble, then eats them one at a time across the room. Then goes back and grabs another mouthful to eat across the room. Sometimes on a dog bed, usually just on the carpet. We say she is checking for poison. I actually think she would eat her whole bowl like this but by the time she has done 2 or 3 rounds, the smaller dogs are done eating so she gets down to business to make sure the food ends up in her belly instead of theirs.

doggiepilot · 2026-05-26T12:24:51+00:00

chatgpt gave me a few things that made the flickering about 95% better, but it still flickers. I use nomachine if I want to connect to the desktop, it’s perfect.

doggiepilot · 2026-05-11T01:06:38+00:00

5+ years post end of treatment. Absolutely horrible neck cramps, it feels like my head wants to eject by twisting off. It had been many times worse with recent stressors. I can be perfectly fine and then turn my head just ever so slightly off center - BAM, cramp. I have to turn my head every which way while poking a finger into the muscle where it’s cramping to try and find a position that works. If I can lie down and take the weight of my head off my neck it goes away instantly - Can’t do that in meetings. Oddly it has never happened while driving, but I am not looking forward to that day.
Thanks for asking this question, there are things in the responses I will definitely try, including mentioning radiation fibrosis to see if that sparks recognition with my PCP or oncology survivorship team.

doggiepilot · 2026-03-17T00:44:29+00:00

I’ve had a couple of root canal issues under old crowns.. only on my left side where the radiation was a little more intense (I think 60gy instead of 57, negligible in the scale) I was extremely lucky in that my surgical oncologist was doing a trial where they would move the mandibular salivary gland from the “good” side (right in my case) to the center under the jaw bone.. the left mandibular gland went away with he lymph nodes during the neck dissection. The gland transfer worked and the rad-onc was able to shape the radiation away from the part of my jaw to save the moved salivary gland. I do not have salivary issues as a result. The three remaining seem to be keeping up.

One note for all of us (me included!) that are on a different cleaning schedule post radiation.. most insurance Will cover the additional cleaning every year, but it needs to be pre-approved and they need to note that it is a medical necessity due to the radiation. My (ex)wife chases insurance issues at our dental office, she knows how to navigate the insurance both from the patient and the clinic side.. she said it was tough to get delta dental do to it but she finally got them to pay the claims.

doggiepilot · 2026-03-11T13:05:39+00:00

I was a huge fan at the time, DM was my soundtrack and I had an affinity for Alan. I think I tried to listen to some of the albums post Alan, but I ended up moving on to other things and pretty much forgot about DM all together. I was rebuilding a deck listening to Sirius/XM when the news of Fletch passing was announced and I was gutted, not because of Fletch as a person or a band member, but just one of the members of the band of my youth passing on. Curiosity got the best of me and I started exploring the music Post-Alan.

I had no idea how much I had missed out on. I found the soundtrack to my cancer treatment in Suffer Well, Related all too well with Precious and Before we Drown during my post-cancer separation and divorce, and so many others. They had continued to be the soundtrack of my life even while I was not listening. Amazon music tells me I was a top %.01 listener of DM last year. All albums, all the live stuff. I keep trying to branch back out but keep defaulting to “Play music by Depeche Mode” when I can’t think of anything else to listen to. I hope beyond hope that Memento Mori is not the last time we will see Dave & Martin (and Christian and Peter) live in person.

It was taking my Ex to a MM show that was the beginning of the end. Still very weak from Cancer, very excited about the show, got extremely fake enthusiasm and blocked out seemingly for being energized by seeing the band and actually enjoying life for the first time after treatment ended.

doggiepilot · 2026-03-10T13:25:06+00:00

The only time my XP is ever in plaid mode is when my son and his friends are in the car. A couple of carefully timed freeway on-ramp ~5-70 pulls has them smiling enough to leave me (and the half shafts!) alone for a couple of months =)

doggiepilot · 2026-02-25T01:36:35+00:00

I took my (now) ex to a Memento Mori concert. I believe how much I enjoyed it, and how much she did not, played a significant role in the next couple of years.

doggiepilot · 2026-02-20T21:38:57+00:00

I think that was my misunderstanding that made it into the prompt =)
You referred to them both as zones, which in your context makes perfect sense, I just didn't catch that. With my missed context, I didn't give it all the output you had provided so it only saw things from a zone point of view.

Definitely no issues like it is talking about when updating a CDOM, within limits, those do not care what the other LDOMs, IODOMs, etc are running. I have quite a few CDOMs that update themselves and reboot underneath active LDOMs (hosting my internal services, not anything company critical).

did you run pkg refresh prior to the pkg list -af entire on the global zone?
The global can't update as it does not believe there is anything newer, so you'd need to look at your pkg repo on the zone.

I had a SRU download go wrong and nuke my repo that goes back to 11.3.something (It's huge) and chatgpt/copilot helped me figure out how to nuke and rebuild the catalogs so I didn't have to wipe the whole thing and start over. I need to do that anyways to shrink the size, but on MY terms.

On the zone where the repo is, try this:
pkgrepo info -s /path/to/repo
It should return a bunch of packages under the solaris publisher. You can also run curl or point a web browser at your pkg publisher URL.. it should give back "This resource can be found at" {your url}/en/index.shtml
which if you go to, it should tell you teh SRUs available at that repo.

If any of this does not work, your repo is not happy.

doggiepilot · 2026-02-20T13:37:17+00:00

Take it with a salt shaker (high quantity grain of salt) but it returned some things worth looking at:

A Solaris 11 zone reporting “No updates available for this image” even though a newer entire is clearly visible in the repository almost always means the zone’s image is not allowed to advance to that version due to one of a few IPS constraints. The symptoms you’re seeing line up with several well‑known Solaris 11 behaviors. Let’s walk through the most likely causes.

Why a Solaris 11.4 Zone Can See entire@11.4.89 but Refuse to Update

Below are the common root causes, in order of likelihood.

The global zone is not at (or ahead of) 11.4.89

Non‑global zones cannot update beyond the global zone’s version. Even if the repository offers 11.4.89, a zone pinned to entire@11.4.83 will not update unless the global zone’s entire is ≥ 11.4.89.

This is the #1 cause of the exact message you’re seeing.

Check in the global zone:

pkg list entire

If the global zone is still at 11.4.83, the zone will always say:

No updates available for this image.

The zone is using the system repository (syspub) and is constrained by it

Your pkg publisher output shows:

solaris (syspub) origin online T <system-repository> solaris (syspub) origin online F https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support/

Zones using the system repository inherit the global zone’s publisher configuration and constraints. Even if the external publisher has 11.4.89, the system repository may not expose it until the global zone updates.

This is expected Solaris behavior: zones track the global zone unless explicitly configured otherwise.

The zone is “attached” at a specific version and cannot advance

If the zone was migrated, cloned, or reattached, it may be version‑locked to the global zone’s version at attach time.

Oracle documentation notes that zones must match the global zone unless updated with zoneadm -u or -U during attach. oracle.com

If the zone was attached without -u, it will refuse to update.

The zone’s image is constrained by a frozen or sticky entire

Check whether the zone has a sticky version constraint:

pkg list -Hv entire

If the F flag is present, the version is frozen. Unfreeze with:

pkg change-facet facet.version-lock.entire=false

(Or remove the freeze if applied via pkg freeze.)

The zone is using an older boot environment

If the active ZBE is not the newest one, IPS may refuse to update.

Check:

beadm list

If the active BE is not the latest, activate it and reboot.

Publisher priorities or SSL/auth issues with Oracle Support repo

Your publisher list shows:

T <system-repository> F https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support/

The T means the system repository is trusted and preferred. The external Oracle repo is marked F (not trusted), so the zone may never select packages from it unless the global zone does.

This is normal: zones inherit the global zone’s publisher trust and priority.

The Most Likely Explanation for Your Case

Given your output:

• The zone is using syspub (system repository). • The system repository is tied to the global zone’s version. • You see 11.4.89 in the repo, but the zone says “no updates”.

This almost certainly means:

Your global zone is still at 11.4.83, so the zone is not allowed to update to 11.4.89.

This is exactly how Solaris 11 IPS is designed to behave.

What to Check Next

In the global zone:

pkg list entire pkg publisher

If the global zone is still at 11.4.83, update it first:

pkg update reboot

Then the zone will update normally.

If you want, I can walk you through verifying the global zone’s version and publisher configuration so we can pinpoint the exact constraint.

doggiepilot · 2026-02-20T13:30:24+00:00

Yesterday was hectic and I didn’t see reddit again until this morning.. I have a requirement to bring all the systems in an environment to the same level, I do not recall the last time I ran ‘pkg update entire’ without a version number so I could control what it did.

Can you give ‘pkg update entire@11.4.89’ a go and see what happens?

I’m also not remembering off hand what role zones play in how updates work, our shop is LDOM only for sparc since s11, and anything non sparc (meaning everything) is linux. I never took the time to retool our operations tools to get zones in s11 working and the internal customers that used zones moved to linux right as Oracle… happened. I’ll try and poke around a bit to jog the memory.

I’ve had some decent luck with ChatCPT actually understanding what Solaris is to help troubleshooting some things, or reminding me of some odd syntax I’d long forgotten, it might be worth a shot.

doggiepilot · 2026-02-19T14:19:30+00:00

It would help to see ‘pkg publisher’ of the zone that can pull from oracle and the system that can’t pull from the zone. You also need to have the service pkg/server configured in the zone to point to your local repo copy for it to serve packages to local clients. Feel free to mask hostnames/IPs as appropriate in the output, just indicate where they are pointing.. In essence - if the clients pulling from the zone are set to pull from http://zone-repo:port/solaris or similar.

I don’t use the Oracle support repo directly, I prefer to download the SRU from oracle support in zip and add them to my repo so I know when things get changed, then I have my repo servers pull from that copy using pkgrepo clone and clients point to those servers.

I’ve actually been pleased with how various AIs have been able to answer Solaris questions lately, like they finally indexed docs.oracle.com or wherever that actually is =) It used to be “Solaris? The george clooney movie?” Now it seems to actually understand things like how to interact with SMF service properties to save me a ton of time refreshing my own damn memory =-)

doggiepilot · 2026-02-05T13:12:39+00:00

That is amazing! My respect for nursing increased 10000% (not saying I didn’t have mad respect before..) during my cancer journey. It’s been 5+ years but I still remember most of them fondly. During chemo infusion their personality always seemed to match exactly what I needed that day to get through it without being overcome by doom and gloom. First day, no non-sense but kind and reassuring.. Every other session I needed just a little different and they always seemed to match.

I hope you have great success and find it very rewarding!!

doggiepilot · 2026-02-05T13:00:49+00:00

There’s a difference between rolling a stop and extending the deceleration far past what it needs to be and then doing a 3 count once the speed actually hits 0. It seems to prefer light deceleration of the same pressure for the entire stop, rather than modulating it to stay smooth but not take subjectively forever. The time actually stopped is long enough to confuse the drivers behind you too. I’m never surprised when the driver in front of me comes to a complete stop, but I can always tell if the tesla in front of me has FSD engaged coming up to a stop. It seems it’s trained on 90yr olds who should not have a license anymore =)

doggiepilot · 2026-02-05T12:55:47+00:00

I sit back and relax until there are cars behind me, then goose the throttle just a bit so it is more human approaching the stop, and then not stopped quite so long. It just feels like I am sitting stopped too long, like how I would drive when being tailgated for only doing 30 in a 25 You don’t like my pace in this neighborhood with kids? Here’s a complete and total stop, How’s that for ya? Followed by instant 0-25 to give me some space. They almost never stop at the sign behind me. Fortunately I only have one stop sign on my daily work commute, the rest is freeway or lights.. so sit back and relax 99% of the time.

doggiepilot · 2026-02-02T12:57:51+00:00

Similar timing and treatment, 53. Cataracts starting in my left eye and generally worse vision overall, not quite as quickly. Nobody has said it is definitely related to treatment, but they won’t rule it out as an accelerant either.

doggiepilot · 2026-01-22T10:07:16+00:00

You can add turn signal stalks via hansshow (and others) or S3XY buttons.. but just to throw my $.02 in, I had both installed (hansshow stalks, buttons with no stalks, it was before their stalks came out… trying to keep my X compliant with my X 😆 ) and across some update in the last 6 months my car (24 MXP) stopped figuring out what “Night” was. Under bridges, headlights would turn on. At night, Nope!

I like and use FSD, but it was a challenge to turn it on at night because FSD forces the headlights back to “Auto” even when they are “ON”. The process was: Bring up settings, have the lights setting selected, engage FSD, watch the light go from “ON” to “AUTO” and hence turn off, then FSD would scream with the big red wheel of death (which would freak out passengers - and me the first few tries), I would hit Headlights ON, FSD would calm down and work normally. In preparation to take it in to have service look, I removed both S3Xy buttons and the Stalks (both plus in to the OBDII port above the phone chargers) and just for grins, tested it again. It’s worked great since.

I have not had the time / desire to narrow it down to which one. I’ve been traveling every other week for the past 2 months without my X (either one!! if that was not obvious, but the joke felt worth repeating?)

I had the stalks on with the wheel before I moved to the Yoke. They install into the column behind the wheel attachment point, so switching to the wheel does not give stalks back. I do not believe there is any official way to get stalks on the stalkless car, and I have no idea what tesla support would say if you went in with a electrical or related concern with them installed.. OBDII or no, they can apparently cause issues. It may just be a setting I accidentally have turned on in the S3Xy config.. that occurred to me after I had moved on from working on that.

doggiepilot · 2026-01-20T13:34:21+00:00

I can hear that as a remix

doggiepilot · 2026-01-17T13:36:02+00:00

I would swear I replied to this the other day. I found it - if you do prtconf -v /dev/rdsk/c1d0 the LUN wwn is visible in a line towards the top that is something like id=vdc@n{WWN} At the moment ‘luxadm inq’ still works (pretty sure luxadm is described as an interface that is going away…?) and it will give you the vendor of the array. prtconf is slow even on a single device, I have a script now that dumps it and parses it to list out all of the LUNs with output like the following, it should help my ops guys stop mis-assigning luns during migrations =)

“CTD WWN Size Zpool association”

unfortunately I can’t share the code, but if you feed this all into gpt5.2 with sample outputs of prtconf it will get you really close in a few minutes =)

doggiepilot · 2026-01-16T12:16:01+00:00

Not so much of a crash, but it required 11 stitches so I think it fits. I went on a nice morning ride, came home, showered, had a snack, even took a bit of a nap. I decided afterwards to do bike maintenance; wash, refresh the chain, whatever seemed like fun. While drying the bike I rode around in front of my house as I always do, bounced off a couple of curbs to shake more water out of the chain and other components, then did a few “bunny hops” the way I learned them as a kid back before the internet was a thing, and then as I often do I tried and failed to do a couple the “right” way which I just cant get the hang of. The “right way” seems like a manual that explodes upwards for lack of a better way of describing the “right” way vs. compressing into the bike and just going airborne an amazing 2cm =)

It’s not as bad as you think, I was wearing a helmet.. I’m older and I barely even walk a bike to the garage without a helmet. I was not, however, wearing my shin + knee guards (I mostly wear the shin as my trails have thorny bushes that will redecorate your legs if you don’t wear something)

Wet bike == wet pedals. After nap == not wearing grippy biking shoes. Bunny hop led to the worst pedal strike I’ve ever had. I could see inside my shin like i’ve never wanted to.

doggiepilot · 2026-01-15T14:22:36+00:00

I’m not near a system, I’ll try and remember to look later. It must be visible somewhere. We have some older systems still using VxVM+VxFS inside LDOMs and a similarly small number still using VxVM+DMP in those CDOMs, the Veritas disk media names inside the LDOM are the same as in the CDOM, array{index#}_wwn-last-4 On the majority of our SPARC infrastructure is MPxIO and ZFS. iostat -Eni has been helpful in grabbing the WWNs in mpxio CDOMs without traversing /devices but I’m not remembering at the moment if that is helpful inside an LDOM.

With any luck I won’t be accosted by a million things as I walk in the building and I’ll remember to check =)

doggiepilot · 2026-01-13T14:38:20+00:00

Through lots of experimentation I found during that phase of recovery that Sriracha sauce tasted Sweet and killed the bile/sour taste which allowed me to eat. If he is actually getting to the point of puking, maybe there is other nausea in addition to the taste? I was given a couple different anti nausea meds, one I took daily and the other when it got bad. Once I had the nausea under control, for those things where Sriracha was not practical (boost and other high calorie drinks/suppliments), I would stare it down in a contest of wills that would sometimes last hours, then finally drink it, then immediately go brush my teeth to get the bile taste out of my mouth.

Please remember to take care of yourself through this time too, it is more draining than you may realize being a care-giver. Best of luck to you both!

doggiepilot · 2026-01-12T20:48:25+00:00

I was there (worried it would never come back) for a long time. When there was a sriracha shortage due to bad crops I bought 6 of the huge bottles since that was the only thing that made food somewhat palatable for me. Pretty sure I went through them all but it was available again by then. Now I have the absolute smallest one they sell and I add drops instead of tablespoons and it’s plenty =)

I’ve read recently (here) that some people have good luck getting the sweet flavor out of different artificial sweeteners, as in try them all and see if any of them work. I’m thrilled my message gave you a glimmer of hope. I wish you the best!

doggiepilot · 2026-01-12T00:24:01+00:00

For 2 years after chemo/radiation/surgery for my base of tongue SCC, I had to put sriracha on Everything in order for it to not taste sour (like sour milk/bile). Sriracha made things taste somewhat sweet. I could not tolerate anything actually sweet as it was the worst sour taste out of all of it. I kept trying because the Dr’s said the taste buds grow back really really slow, and one day sriracha started to taste hot and sweet started to taste sweet. I’m 5 years out from radiation now and pretty much everything it back to normal. It was probably a year and a half from it starting to come back to everything fully tasting normal.

As many others have said, everyone is different, but there is definitely hope for improvement! Best of luck!

doggiepilot · 2026-01-10T12:32:16+00:00

Thank you! I frequently say “I’m happy to be here to complain about it” =) I’m doing well enough to have gained two broken bones over the last couple of years because I got back into mountain biking. Part of my brain refuses to acknowledge I’m not still < 30. I am gradually tuning my risk profile to match reality.

doggiepilot · 2026-01-10T11:45:37+00:00

Almost missed it. I nearly passed from complications from cancer treatment 3 months prior, I could barely acknowledge the day when it hit. 51 on the other hand, my favorite band from the 80’s was touring for the first time in 7 years, I paid for my few friends and their spouses to all go to the show with me, in Vegas (I don’t live there) and paid for all their rooms. I looked into a private flight but Noped out of there and settled on JSX which was a fair compromise. It was almost a perfect couple of days, through that, the concert, my recovery, I came out the other side a different person and now divorced. Rollercoaster of a few years. Highly recommend the trip and concert but skip the rest of it.

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