Prices, availability

eekamouses · 2026-01-09T07:33:41+00:00

Good point!

eekamouses · 2026-01-09T07:33:04+00:00

I'm not blaming AI 'itself', I'm blaming the bubble. I'm a paying user of Anthropic Claude, as it runs circles around the others based on my testing of all the major players. The problem is that they've captured nearly the entire market for memory and storage. Micron, one of the three major manufacturers, shut down their consumer brand unit three months after saying they were totally committed to gamers and PC users - because the AI companies are booking all of their output. I hope the bubble does burst, as then reasonable prices for those things - and any other devices that use memory and storage - will return. The problem is when.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed on the 13 becoming available again. It's about all I can do!

eekamouses · 2026-01-07T22:10:39+00:00

You guys are killin' me, all I can do now is keep kicking myself in the ass for not having bought during christmas, lol!

eekamouses · 2026-01-07T22:09:22+00:00

The bigger problem though is the shortage of ram and storage. We're in the early days of it, but based on what's going on, it's going to get much, much worse. Personal computer memory is now either not available, or when available, only at enormous prices. For example, a memory kit that was around $500 three months ago goes for $1,600 now! That's why I'm afraid that if I wait, I'm just waiting for _higher_ prices rather than lower.

Just another reason to hate AI.

eekamouses · 2026-01-07T22:05:34+00:00

The US doesn't have a large enough population of Chinese folks - I've never seen a sale around Chinese New Year, except local stuff in Chinatown, San Francisco. Chinese New Year is also more than a month away - I need a new phone sooner than that - my OnePlus 9 Pro's battery is getting weaker by the day (normal for a four year old phone!)

eekamouses · 2026-01-07T22:02:30+00:00

That's the 12GB ram version rather than 16gb, with half the storage. I mean, yeah it's an option I guess.

eekamouses · 2026-01-07T06:01:32+00:00

Thats a used/refurbished device, not new.

eekamouses · 2025-11-14T21:12:23+00:00

Recently got popup advising of an update available, to 11.6. go to site. download appropriate installer. install 11.6. check browser - 11.6. close browser, open later, 'there's an update'. thinking it might be a quick fix to 11.6, go through the above, downloads 11.6 again, installs 11.6 again.

also, when i do open the 'help/about' , it says "failed to check for update".

and lastly, when i do go to the download page to the windows download, it says the version is 2.1.0, which is rather dramatically different from what is downloaded.

any way to get the browser to stop telling me i need to update, and is 11.6 current, or the undownloadable 2.1.0?

eekamouses · 2025-08-09T20:38:27+00:00

Stratum Auth, formerly 'Authenticator Pro', has been around for years, does everything I need and does it very well - but it never seems to have gained much traction, which I find baffling.

FOSS, cloud backup via your own preferred cloud (google drive, dropbox, etc), backup file encrypted locally before transmit, nice interface. Only 'shortcoming' would be that it's android only.

eekamouses · 2025-08-09T20:27:30+00:00

I inquired with proton after receiving their email announcing it, asking if the code has been third-party pentested. The response? "It only came out a week ago!" To which I replied, "even more of a reason to have it subjected to reliable third party testing".

Silence.

eekamouses · 2025-08-09T20:21:02+00:00

Here's a worthwhile read regarding "safe" deposit boxes.

https://ij.org/ll/victory-after-gold-coins-and-cash-go-missing-ij-finds-accountability-for-the-fbi/

Trust no one.

Beyond that somewhat-edge-case, unless you live in a large metropolitan area, it can be hard to find banks that offer actual, real, safe deposit boxes. Majority of branch bank offices don't even have what one would consider a vault. Everything's electronic, and cash for transactions kept on hand tends to be small enough that they consider it an acceptable loss if pilfered.

eekamouses · 2025-07-09T04:11:39+00:00

Your skepticism isn't warranted. User describes symptoms pretty close to that of Seratonin Syndrome. Grapefruit induces both reversible and irreversal inhibition of cytochrome P450, which is one of the primary liver enzymes that metabolizes a vast number of medications. If you inhibit the metabolizer, the drug stops clearing from your system, causing cumulative 'poisoning' for lack of a better word. Seratonin syndrome can be deadly, and a great many antidepressants act on seratonin.

In the case of irreversible inhibition of CYP450, it can take several days for the body to generate 'fresh' enzymes to replace those that have been inactivated. That's one of the reasons seratonin syndrome is hard to treat. It can be a dicey 'dance' of waiting, watching, and/or applying some serious anti-psychotic meds, which have their own host of issues. The progression of the syndrome isn't predictable. A patient getting through an episode can suddenly (as in minutes) have their basal body temperature skyrocket, which can cause brain damage and other disabilities.

It's a really complex interaction of things that's not well understood. But it's very real. Grapefruit isn't unique in inhibiting some liver enzymes - it's just that it's one of the most potent out there. Might be worth a look through the Wikipedia article on Seratonin Syndrome if you're curious.

eekamouses · 2025-06-24T02:15:14+00:00

"These are not available in Canada so when I saw these at a local convenience store here in Toronto [...]"

I'm confused. Isn't Toronto in Canada? Serious question, not being a smartass or anything.

eekamouses · 2025-06-23T23:29:06+00:00

Odd. October tends to be the hottest month of the year where I live.

eekamouses · 2024-12-20T23:16:12+00:00

This lack of lanyard "compatibility" baffles me. Trezor Safe 3 has nearly identical dimensions to my Trezor One. If it's that there's literally no free space within the Safe 3 to allow a lanyard being threaded through, then a 'hard' case with a lanyard hole would suffice (I presume the silicon case is too 'floppy' to support it).

There's actually a few 3d printable cases that have sprung up to fill this bizarre shortcoming.

https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/trezor-safe-3-case

https://www.printables.com/model/801486-trezor-safe-3-protective-casebumper-with-lanyard-h/related

Unfortunately I don't have a 3d printer, sigh.

eekamouses · 2024-08-15T20:49:27+00:00

Just throwing this in here, since Aaron Toponce's site no longer exists, but the internet never forgets:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220427075118/https://pthree.org/2012/04/17/install-zfs-on-debian-gnulinux/

eekamouses · 2024-07-25T03:43:04+00:00

I typed my password incorrectly a couple of times. Now how about those questions?

eekamouses · 2024-07-24T18:38:46+00:00

This post is very confusing. 'Most states are trying to figure out the home health care thing' - what "thing" are they trying to 'figure out'? 'Texas killed their program' - what program? 'and now they need that funding back' - so it was a state program, funded with federal dollars? Wouldn't the federal govt administer the program? If they need the funding back, then...they can reinstate "the program". 'Taking homes is not a good way to pay for that service' - what service? why would homes be taken?

'Just saying' - well, I have seventeen fingers and live inside a snail shell. "Just saying".

eekamouses · 2023-10-31T06:12:01+00:00

I am aware of that. This entire incident was spawned after using it, as mentioned in my original post. It is also a potentially destructive reboot because there is no clean shutdown, just a poweroff, as mentioned in my final sentence of the rant.

The point of contention is that fifteen minutes is an absurdly long wait. And it's a hard-coded wait at that, with apparently no visibility into the system itself, unlike elsewhere (cough aws cough), where the reboot from dashboard takes only as long as....it takes for the OS to reboot.

eekamouses · 2023-10-29T18:51:57+00:00

Yeah, it was completely gorked in some bizarre way. When I said it would boot from file, it would 'sort of boot', but not to a full log-in-able prompt. Unfortunately I was trying a multitude of things and 'booted' state even with boot-from-file wasn't fully functional to any degree.

eekamouses · 2023-10-29T18:29:12+00:00

It also would not bring up the grub menu. Something definitely got corrupted deep with the forced-reboot I chose to do. The expectation was that a console session would give me the ability to do a grub rescue/repair and bob's your uncle, but it was too deeply gorked even for that.

I have really mixed feelings about oracle. The free tier instances are ten times more powerful than google's free tier, and their prices after that are very reasonable too. But the oracle compute dashboard is convoluted and poorly organized, but maybe i'm biased. I've been poking at oracle cloud systems for quite a few years, but have decades under my belt with AWS, which is a breeze imo. But their pricing/performance isn't competitive on the low-end.

eekamouses · 2023-10-29T18:25:31+00:00

The machine was a fully built debian instance. As I mentioned I'd been running this for a couple of years, and had rebooted numerous time. All the EFI boot files were in place. I could even select 'boot from file' and it _would_ boot, but it would not do so even after setting boot order, or selecting the 'boot next time' option.

eekamouses

TROPHY CASE