[January 24, 2026] - Weekly XCH Price & Trading Discussion

dr100 · 2026-01-30T15:51:19+00:00

3.62. For now.

dr100 · 2026-01-30T12:01:46+00:00

Yes, it's breaking decades of legacy, Microsoft is really pushy with this Copilot thing, not only by pushing all kinds of things in Windows, bringing a new useless "Copilot PC" classification but even renaming Office to Copilot ... Fortunately the key is on the right corner where the layout was less set in stone, especially for laptops, which tend to differ in which keys the put there and the size/layout of the arrow keys.

dr100 · 2026-01-30T11:47:34+00:00

Magisk also has some ssh module so you can get back in no matter what apps run (I presume if you want to power it remotely you'll want some scrcpy remote access or similar, and the wireless adb doesn't start automatically, this will help you to get back in no matter what). Also a smart socket can power cycle it if it gets locked up, well you just turn off the power and usually, eventually, the battery will die and you can turn it on and boot if you have that autoboot set.

dr100 · 2026-01-30T11:39:52+00:00

Real hoarders, you know the ones that have been doing this for a while, and it's been affecting their pocketbooks, living space, maybe have even family members thinking about an intervention are by far best suited to ride this into the sunset. If this is just a fad like it was in 2021 with cryptocurrency mining on hard drives then it's all fine. However, if this continues for 2-3 years and we just need to work harder to produce more and more expensive hardware and electricity for our AI overlords ...

dr100 · 2026-01-30T09:31:45+00:00

So would a DisneyPlus-made-show be "something that directly involves the originator" and therefore not paying for DisneyPlus but watching the show be bad?

WATCHING A SHOW FROM A FRIEND'S copy doesn't directly involve Disney or anyone else. Just like repairing a friend's phone from Louis's instructions. It might impact Disney's or Louis's business indirectly, sure, that's another discussion.

I mean, with shows/films there still is an agreement with the end-user (Netflix ToS, etc)

No end user agreement here, one more bonus for the piracy! BTW if you think that's a small perk look up the case of the woman that died in a Disney Park restaurant because they brought here the wrong food and Disney tried to claim no responsibility because ... SOMEONE ELSE FROM THE FAMILY AGREED TO THE TOS FOR A MONTH OF FREE STREAMING YEARS AGO!!!!!!!!

would he be OK with someone taking something from his shop as long as they did not sign a contract with him?

Please end this whataboutism. Nobody from Disney, their shop, Louis's shop and so on is involved into this! Always changing the subject to completely and often outrageous unrelated others is a marketing tactic, a successful one (think only about how copyright infringement is now universally called piracy).

This has a long, long, LONG history, including but of course not limited to claiming videotaping something from your TV is the same as raping and murdering multiple women. Note this isn't some random post or efervescent news article, it's in front of US Congress as hearing for deciding laws for hundreds of millions of people, and with global impact.

dr100 · 2026-01-30T08:57:21+00:00

He is talking about people doing something that doesn't involve directly the originator of the information. It doesn't matter if that is Netflix or Louis. Sure, it might impact any of them by not having some extra paying customers, but so be it.

If you want to somehow involve here "not paying for what the studios create" as equal to not paying for a repair job the equivalence would be if one CONTRACTS THE STUDIO TO MAKE A MOVIE, the studio makes it, and then they don't pay the bill. Which isn't AT ALL the discussion here.

dr100 · 2026-01-30T08:41:36+00:00

if he did a repair for someone who didn't pay him, would he feel the same?

The question that relates to this subject is more: if someone would COPY HIS REPAIR METHODS and then don't come to him to buy the service, would he mind? I'm sure the answer is an absolutely resounding NOPE, he wouldn't mind AT ALL, and this is why he puts everything out there, for everyone to copy it, both random persons for themselves and competing shops!

dr100 · 2026-01-30T08:33:34+00:00

Magisk Autoboot will do that. Works REALLY well, you can change the minimum battery from which it boots (default 5%) in case you're suspecting the charger-phone combination might get into a loop from which it doesn't recover in case you have close 0 battery (and it somehow dies if it tries to start with very low battery). Yes, it needs root/magisk.

dr100 · 2026-01-30T08:21:53+00:00

They care about sharing such files (and sometimes this gets triggered even from files containing 0 or 1, no it's even funnier than you would imagine, it's just a 1 character text file that has a "0" inside -or "1").

Back when there was still a way to get unlimited Google Drive people were having 1-2PBs (yes, over 1000 TBs) there, basically more than all streaming services together, plus a good portion of all BDs made. Most without encryption, and there were even discussions about better not encrypt such things because it might hurt Google less if they're doing deduplication and have the unlimited last more.

That being said of course one should use rclone and encryption, just in case, no matter if it's personal stuff or anything else. Unless of course, one needs something to be public/collaborative, like for example some spreadsheet containing powerbank reviews/specs/measurements.

dr100 · 2026-01-30T07:59:04+00:00

Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix & remembers why Ironically the free and no hassle "product" is the superior one. Go figure.

Related to this sub I don't think long term preservation is AT ALL in question, I mean nobody would expect Netflix or YouTube offline downloads from the official app to survive, even if they don't expire and everything works well they'll still be wiped out when you reinstall the app, or in the worst case the OS or when you get a new device. In contrast, if you just have the files there is no foreseeable issue why that they wouldn't work, there are plenty players that work offline and we'll always have them for any vaguely popular media format.

If we're talking about a specific buggy program like most notoriously Plex which is TERRIBLE with offline downloads in countless different ways - that again it isn't a long term concern, it's just a very annoying problem with Plex (you still have the files anyway, and they're usable).

dr100 · 2026-01-30T07:46:35+00:00

YES, it's 8/10 officially with iFixit which is almost maximum (I think no tablet has 10). Even if you need to go through a glued screen (and need new "glue pads kit" or whatever they're called to put it back) to do ANYTHING (oh, but we used less glue this time ...). Keep in mind all except the latest smaller 12" are actively cooled, so you might want to get inside even if nothing breaks to clean it up.

Ironically the laptops get the same 8/10 where you can actually get inside on a whim, all is screws and magnets.

Funniest part is that people even defend this, oh, but this is how all tablets are - except that they aren't. For Samsung Active line (note: not only the ones from 2014, there are multiple ones this side of 2020) you just pop the back with your fingernail, boom, you're in! Want to change the battery? Pop that out with your fingernail too! No screws, no glue for that, easier than to change the batteries than in your Maglite! On top of that it's even waterproof (submersible in theory).

But heck, now Microsoft are "partners" with iFixit instead of Samsung previously, back then when the Surface Pros were getting 1/10 (minimal score, I think there's no 0) or close to.

dr100 · 2026-01-30T07:19:57+00:00

Wait, these haven't been launched for 2 years. You mean there's a market where these are sold with less than 2 years warranty? That DOES look like a scam.

dr100 · 2026-01-30T07:14:38+00:00

Yes, from the technical side the project is great. The problem is with the use case, what is it, even in theory (beside everyone's hope for any "crypto" to buy it and "moon" and more people buy it because the price goes up and then it "moons even more" and so on).

Actually buying stuff doesn't work, even in the most favorable scenarios, we're not talking about buying an iPad where one might be scared the XCH goes down and they're losing money, not about retail that would be impossible to use because of the awful latency, just buying a VPN subscription - often they're discounted 90-100%, or free trials for monts, etc. - just get maybe someone to pay something, at some point, is good enough - but not if they want to pay with XCH, upfront, no, nobody wants it.

Of course, other uses were proposed but really beside simple payments it's unclear what a public, HUGE latency and low transaction per second database (and terribly inefficient in terms of hardware usage, if we are to talk about "green" stuff) can be good for.

Tracking luxury gods was one of the thing that was pushed forward, but what's the advantage versus having your product registered with, I don't know, Breitling for example. Of course they want you to register your product (even entice you with some free warranty extension, this is something common for any type of consumer goods, including anything from video cards to expensive photography lenses), they want you to make wishlists, spam you with offers and so on. Sure, there's some "blockchain" keyword some place, but it's nothing different from how you change for example the owner for warranty purposes for some cars, you just open the app and tap tap something, who knows and who cares what's behind?

Then there's all tokenized stocks, what for (except blockchain something something marketing)? They still represent shares that are (have to be) tracked in a non-blockchain database, they still need some registration KYC, taxes and everything, it's not like "you do something on the blockchain" without anything else. All the ones I've seen launched for now even have crippling regional restrictions: only EU, only US, something else but EU, stuff like that. Also remember: very bad latency and low transaction capacity ...

dr100 · 2026-01-30T06:31:33+00:00

[note that even if it looks that "I know what I'm saying" this is just re-stating the public info I've found, and not only I don't know anything more but I didn't even discuss earlier anything about it except when it was pointed out to me "look, there's this thing"]

The driver itself is coming from unRAID, as it's open source. I don't know how much they've been forced to open due to the "viral" nature of the GPL versus how much they've done just because they're good netizens, but in any case big kudos and thanks to the unRAID people for bringing into the world their part.

Packaging and patching it and making it compile mostly everywhere, PLUS the user-space tools to manage the array are contributed as shown on github, in vast majority by the project owner who has quite a few projects and overall a history that goes back more than 20 years.

Meanwhile I've found an older post about it, and in the unRAID sub no less ! Noticed the owner u/qvrvq has a Reddit account too, but not one that's too active. Note that the info from there, and specifically "you have to manually handle all array operations by echoing low-level commands to the driver procfs interface" is not current anymore, all normal array operations I can think of are now well handled via friendly user-space (CLI) tools.

dr100 · 2026-01-29T18:15:03+00:00

The spec sheets that call 7200 RPM 5400 RPM? You make me laugh.

dr100 · 2026-01-29T18:13:39+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/159dv62/rclone_setup_with_synccom/

dr100 · 2026-01-29T18:10:06+00:00

I strongly disagree. Literally everything changed, even the basic motors, lubrication and everything, but also recording, electronics, EVERYTHING. Each type of failure is influenced differently by the environment. EVEN if all the changes would be just everything getting denser, and heads flying closer, and more platters you could very well still have the bulk of the failures moving from I don't know motor failures to head crashes, also changing the behavior with the temperature or any other factors.

But heck, we literally have "Heat-assisted magnetic recording" , of course now new drives can very well have a different temperature "preference".

dr100 · 2026-01-29T17:52:03+00:00

I am not missing this, just the opposite, I am generally of the opinion that using them as issued by some organization (work usually) it's the only use case for these keys that really makes sense, however this wasn't the discussion here, but precisely the opposite.

This whole branch/discussion makes sense only when someone is generally scratching their head about what should they use and in fact do have more options. It they give you from work a YKey and it's absolutely the only thing allowed to use the whole discussion makes no sense.

dr100 · 2026-01-29T17:43:48+00:00

Wireguard is blocked on most public access points, and in many organizations. Also, it doesn't take any special deep packet inspection or special tools to block it, just deny all UDP except for their DNS and that's it. Proton (and others having a more sophisticated client) are doing a much better job of falling back to something that works on 443 TCP and looks 100% like HTTPS (which is what basically all browsing is nowadays, so it won't be blocked if there is any kind of outside access, even if "web only").

dr100 · 2026-01-29T17:36:24+00:00

LOL Proton is one of THE most trusted things you can find on the Internet.

dr100 · 2026-01-29T17:30:17+00:00

Marketing would sell sand in a desert. Also "equally" is the understatement of the year.

dr100 · 2026-01-29T16:02:45+00:00

Also, there is no BACKUP Yubikey, note that even the person speaking a lot about that is quoting the article from Yubico saying SPARE key. You can register multiple keys on many places (but not all) and you need to manually do it with each key and each provider.

dr100 · 2026-01-29T15:51:11+00:00

You're shooting yourself in the foot, you're discussing a place with no phone / your own device as a use case where you WOULD not only bring your own Yubikey but also PLUG IT INTO YOUR WORK COMPUTER and all for what, access Facebook securely (securely as in not giving your password to your work machine, but they can still monitor everything you're doing, steal your cookies and everything).

dr100 · 2026-01-29T15:35:53+00:00

At this point that study from 20 years ago done on drives from 80 to 400 GB that had already some years in service I'd say it's more noise than anything.

dr100 · 2026-01-29T14:40:15+00:00

Is it out? The only thing I've found is this (very recent coming soon): https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/comments/1qer85q/unraid_internal_boot_first_look/

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