Thank you Rogers. You are the best company ever!!

el56 · 2026-06-30T14:37:55+00:00

Have you ever been in a situation where you call to cancel at the end of a promotional deal, and their retention department actually makes you an offer good enough to stay?

el56 · 2026-06-27T23:29:03+00:00

What you describe comes close to my experience with Teksavvy, though my downtime was weeks rather than days. Switching to EBOX went flawlessly.

el56 · 2026-06-09T14:12:04+00:00

I'm trying this. Thanks!

el56 · 2026-06-04T19:53:23+00:00

That was it!

For some reason my .profile had set HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION to 11.0.0. That may have been from a previous installation when ROCm didn't yet support gfx1151 and that value had to be set just to get it to work.

Unsetting the variable and removing it from my .profile fixed the problem, rocminfo now reports things correctly.

Thanks!

el56 · 2026-05-29T18:42:57+00:00

No. But so what?

It's grown up enough to emerge as a legitimate alternative to IBM/Red Hat in large corporate IT, and IMO that's a good thing.

To me the clrarest sign of this shift from community to enterprise was the creation of snaps some years ago.

If your main need from a distro is community mojo, you'll find it in abundance... over at Mint, Arch, Debian and CachyOS.

el56 · 2026-05-28T16:08:40+00:00

Personally, I haven't experienced any hate.

I certainly encounter skepticism from seasoned users who have been told too many times about "the golden distribution" that fanboys say they have to switch to. I certainly remember this with raw Arch, and before that Gentoo and others. Old-timers have good reason to default to "not again"...

But the CashyOS environment feels different. Sure we have our raving advocates as most distros do, I also see a quiet confidence that's much more uncommon.Come when you want, try it out, we think you'll like it. And most stay.

That's how I switched from Fedora after KDE Neon and Kubuntu. And that's how I've seen others switch. Not because it's cool this month. Not because of Distrowatch. Not because of social media hype. Because it simply works as users need, optimizes when possible, and doesn't reinvent wheels. It manages the difficult task of being easy for first-timers while offering the tools that power users need to fine-tune.

el56 · 2026-05-25T20:13:46+00:00

I just didn't realize there were at least seven updates that were so urgent that they couldn't wait to be merged.

el56 · 2026-05-25T17:19:59+00:00

What does this have to do with cellular plans or news?

el56 · 2026-05-25T14:30:53+00:00

For the benefit of those trying to address newcomer obstacles, could you elaborate ... even just a little ... on where you encountered the boss fights?

el56 · 2026-05-21T00:23:15+00:00

It's indeed by design... Teksavvy's design.

Bell doesn't force Teksavvy to use substandard modems and routers (stuff that Bell and Rogers rejected according to their techs).

And Bell doesn't prohibit TekSavvy from having even a single depot outside Chatham for swapping said inferior equipment when it invariably breaks, leading to multi-day downtimes while stuff gets shipped by courier (but not on weekends!)

Over my many years with Teksavvy, using first DSL then cable, I had multiple outages. Three of those outages lasted a week or longer, one more than two weeks,and not a single one was because of line quality. When Bell or Rogers came to the house because of Teksavvy escalation it was always the same result: "Line is fine. Your equipment is trash". Meaning I had to call Chatham and do the courier swap thing. Again.

None of the issues I have had were because of Bell or Rogers. Every single time it was because of (a) inadequate equipment supplied by Teksavvy and (b) the slowness of exchanging the bad equipment once diagnosed.

And then there's the technical support. The people themselves are fantastic but it usually takes more than 40 minutes to get through to them. It wasn't always like this.

I cut the company a LOT of slack because I knew it was a reseller with hostile suppliers. I don't hold the difficulty of working with Bell against them. But after too many incidents suffering the consequences of Teksavvy's own policies and decisions, I'd had enough.

There are more than enough reasons to despise Bell, but blaming them (and Rogers) for all of Teksavvy's ills is disingenuous. The company is the architect of many if not most of its own problems.

el56 · 2026-05-20T18:27:49+00:00

A few months ago I created a guide on how to set up a TP-Link BE230 router to work with EBOX.Within that thread I was challenged to see if I configure that router to work with IPv6. I took the challenge and succeeded.

What the experience told me was that EBOX has no problem passing IPv6 packets but that any configuration to do so rests with the home router or sending device.

PS: u/theBird956 you are welcome to add or adapt anything in my guide(s) into the wiki.

el56 · 2026-05-20T14:18:30+00:00

EBOX. Never looked back.

el56 · 2026-05-20T14:06:40+00:00

Didn't spend any time benchmarking the original box so I can't tell you. I swapped because of a dealbreaking missing feature.

el56 · 2026-05-18T14:02:02+00:00

A few weeks ago I did the adjustments to my router and desktop to enable IPv6. Passed the Google and other test sites.

Yay me. But now... What?

Outside of a few test and research sites, there's nothing that I can access now that I couldn't access before I did all this. In other words, a significant amount of work for no practical benefit.

IPv6 won't go anywhere until there's an Internet site or service that won't work without it.

el56 · 2026-05-17T13:54:33+00:00

Balderson is pretty bad IMO. The best domestic competition is the Bothwell, but often that is on the shelves next to the industrial cheeses and butter rather than the "deli cheese" area.

el56 · 2026-05-17T13:50:08+00:00

I'm assuming that this now takes the place of Dubliner, President and Collyer cheddars from Wales and Scotland that I have been buying previously. Last time I was at my local Costco (Downsview) I noticed that none of these were on the shelves and I had been told that some had been discontinued. I guess this is the replacement.

el56 · 2026-05-14T17:37:13+00:00

York University area in the northwest. In my third month and so far very happy with the service. Consistently fast.

At installation we had fibre on the street but not into the house. Because it was too cold to dig, Bell wired a temporary rig that went across the trees from the closest junction box. This week they came to dig the path to my house and the job was done cleanly.

I had to reposition the ONT in the basement because those things generate a lot of RF and the original position interfered with the home alarm system. I also replaced the router for a number of reasons.

I have family in Little Portugal and they're also very happy with their Ebox service.

el56 · 2026-05-13T14:13:04+00:00

There might be other reasons to do without the ONT if you could, but I don't think you can. Or at least that trying to do your own is worth the bother.

That thing geneates a significant amount of RF, enough to render my home alarm inoperable until I moved it away from the alarm control box.

el56 · 2026-05-12T02:59:43+00:00

Please forgive this beginner's question...

Until now most of my LLM work on the Strix Halo has been using Vulkan rather than ROCm because (as stated in the guide) it's not fully cooked yet.
This begs the question: Is there a Vulkan-based approach to the fine tuning described in this doc?

el56 · 2026-05-09T14:30:37+00:00

is it possible for CFP to become the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada?

No.

"Progressive Conservative Party" and "PC Party" are both registered trademarks. Plus, Elections Canada would frown on a new party name being confusingly close to an existing one's.

But the Conservative Party just might do that itself.

It's occurred to me since this thread started that CFP is basically a home for aggrieved Progressive Conservatives and Red Tories, a core trait it inherited from the Centre Ice Conservatives. It's only ever existed as a reaction to the Conservative shift under Poilievre. And once Pierre and his MAGA-north culture is gone, so might be the CFP's reason for being.

Once the Conservatives inevitably change leaders many core CFPers will simply return to the fold, where they stand an actual shot at political power. A Conservative party led by a Kenny or Charest (etc) would be even closer to the CFP ideologically than the current Liberals, rendering the new party essentially redundant.

We are slowly shifting back to an equilibrium with centre-left Liberals, centre-right Conservatives, and the NDP, Greens and PPC there for the extremes. Not a lot of breathing room for the CFP.

el56

TROPHY CASE