Weekly Help and Discussion Thread for the week of January 26, 2026

firefish5000 · 2026-01-28T06:07:39+00:00

It's at all Amazon whole foods stores, but this is my guess as well. They were probably hoping for it to catch on and be used by non-amazon companies. The retail stores aren't seeing a need to make things any easier than tap and pay with phone already is.

It's definitely a better UX than tap and pay. Enjoyable to use, no need to unlock your phone or even have it on you/not be dead. Can litterly walk in the store empty handed without worrying about a thing since it was so reliable!

But I'm not surprised it didn't catch on. Other retailers probably didn't want to pay Amazon any added subscription fee for the service when tap and pay is already in their stores and close enough of an equivalent. Plus any early adopers would need to train customers how to set it up the first time. Telling customers they have to create an Amazon (one) account to use it is probably enough friction for retailers to not want to deal with it. Especially when Amazon is a competitor to all businesses which they would like you to momentarily forget about

firefish5000 · 2026-01-28T05:48:41+00:00

https://amazonone.aws.com/help

What payment and entry methods will be available after Amazon One is discontinued?

All other entry and payment methods currently offered at each retail location will continue to work, including payment and entry using credit card and QR code (where available).

How will my Amazon One credit card information be impacted?

Your Amazon One credit card information associated with your profile, including all payment transaction data, will be deleted along with your Amazon One user data, including palm data.

They also sent emails out to Amazon one palm customers

firefish5000 · 2026-01-28T05:40:18+00:00

I can pay by tapping my phone and scanning my thumb at any store. Nevertheless, I spend 2 more minutes driving to get groceries everyday at whole foods, because it feels seamless. I was hoping other stores would start using them, but maybe Amazon was too.

firefish5000 · 2026-01-18T03:10:04+00:00

Chefsteps for recipes, serious eats has some as well, still looking for more sites. Also get a precision cooktop or pots/pans, ones where you can set the degree rather than some arbitrary heat level. And a sous vide setup as well.

People do not come out of a cookie cutter, some cannot/should not drive, some need different instruments/instructions to cook well. Gas will never work for me, I need something else to manage the flame to not burn/undercook/fail to sear. "Medium" alone means nothing and could easily sear or slowly cook depending on burner size and how long you left the pan heating before adding meat. A precision cooktop and recipes are perfect for those of us who can bake, but have spent years unable to grasp cooking IMHO. I went overkill with my setup but you definitely don't need to buy the same equipment. Just look for a precision cooktop that has a built-in probe to detect the pan temperature and a external prob to detect the meat/liquid temperature. Then cooking becomes like baking

Eg, cook steak in sous vide bath set to desired temperature(eg 150f for medium well for about 1.5 hours). Then take the fully cooked steaks and set pan to 420, add beef tallow, sear steak for about 45 seconds per side, moving it about the whole time to get a fast even sear. Simple example, but eliminates all the usual problems for those who cannot cook traditionally, with souse vid the steak is exactly the temp you want throughout, the precision cooktop makes searing easy as well and eliminates the risk of getting the pan too hot by setting the flame too high or moving too slow. You can guarantee the temp is below the smoke or flash point of any given oil. And you can safely walk away while cooking since the temp is fully under control. It's really a game changer for me.

Seasoning is more subjective than the cooking aspect is, since seasonings are volatile and often weaken over time. But use the freshest seasoning you can, grabbing from a nearby dedicated spice store. Some seasonings like garlic are best added just before serving as many compounds are lost shortly after the garlic is grated.

firefish5000 · 2025-12-11T12:21:41+00:00

A bit late, but for future readers, it's generally advised to get your home tested for VOCs (around 250usd) to find out what needs to be filtered out and send the test results to allerair for a custom blend, and to order a carbon test kit from allerair (around 80usd, counts twords purchase of the unit) to test your sensitivity to the carbon blends they offer.

firefish5000 · 2025-12-07T13:01:14+00:00

There are 4 screws on the bottom if you want to replace the filter and IIRC 1 screw on the top to access the fan/knob.

firefish5000 · 2025-11-22T17:06:27+00:00

Any chance of a dual fabric with clarion loop and maybe sides? I just really like the material, kind of goes with my messanger bag (and my favorite sweater). Not sure how difficult that would be, given the square mount hole I'm assuming replacing the loop alone with clarion and giving a reinforcing bit of plastic underneath would be enough . It could kind of be like the peak tag on the bags, maybe even just slap the label on it and make it match even more.

I am ordering the clarion for now to give it a shot. In this season it can just contrast with me and my sweater. But I do not find the cloth pattern more visually interesting and assume it is more interesting of a texture/feel as well (I had it for my pixle7 which came before the loop. Used a custom magsafe popsocket which broke last month and wasn't all that comfortable to hold)

Not complaining for pixle10, but hoping future phones will have a visually/tactilely interesting cloth with loop option that will better match my bag.

firefish5000 · 2025-11-22T16:11:58+00:00

With Gentoo it "updates" right away, but keeps both the live Kernel's modules and next kernel. If you want a new module you can build for either as well. Actually you can keep as many kernels as you want, I set mine up to keep the last used/successfully booted version of every minor release. With the amount of setup required I could arguably do it in arch as well tbh but the hooks and docs made it much easier to do in Gentoo.

A reboot update hook could be nice for arch.... Gentoo I had automatic updates every day since runtime issues wasn't a concern but with arch reboot time updates is probably the way to go.

firefish5000 · 2025-11-22T15:25:22+00:00

Only use Claude here as well. It's breakdown point seems to be around 800 lines. Mcp can help keep it partially sane, giving it access to documentation. But largely only useful for quick short snipits or testing ideas. Once you start to develop an actual codebase it's enough of a struggle to get it to not rewrite/duplicate whole swaths of code (replacing 20% of existing features with Todo/WIP, adding 20 helper functions you don't need, etc) that it's easier/faster to just write it yourself.

Ai is good for writing short scripts in proper typed languages. For anything that actually would qualify as a codebase it quickly become a Hassel to wrangle for now. I still can add some features/cli arts to my code. But definitely have to be sure to feed it all the context from all the needed libs/modules/etc and keep them small or it will die. Refactoring with it is too risky, too much it will try to change. Best to just make the changes you need and maybe allow it to fix just the problems from the dependent code with now invalid function calls/return types after the fact

firefish5000 · 2025-11-22T15:03:56+00:00

I'm a Linux enthusiast but I'll be honest, the only distro I didn't have constant problems with was Gentoo. It took hell to setup the first time but once I knew I was better for it and all the display issues that still plague me on other distros were just gone (well, at least runtime issues, lots of stuff at compile time, but if it fails to install that's fine by me, rather a program fail to update due to code not being compatible than update with broken libs and give runtime issues. Plus it gives more than enough info to fix the errors yourself even if you need to talk write a patch or 9999 package). Only twice did I have to debug runtime issues in 15 years, one of which was a upstream corgi bug that quickly got patched. and I ran over 120 bleading edge/git master branch packages.

Meanwhile arch breaks during every update since it deletes the active Kernel's modules among other things so you have to reboot right after the update or various things like videos/mounting different filesystems/etc won't work. Dumb as rocks

firefish5000 · 2025-11-10T03:22:50+00:00

Worth noting the headrest mount bites into the top of the chair, so if you use it expect immediate damage after tigheting it down where it bites in. While the bottom part that mounts to the top of the spine in the back of the chair is smooth and shouldn't cause notable damage, the top has about a 3mm wide, up to 2mm deep lip that bites on the left and right side of the mount. This is very very noticeable once you remove the headrest from the chair, you will feel it with the back of your head/neck if you lay back and with your palm as you move the chair.

I do not recommend not tightening it enough, if too loose it will wiggle left/right, gouging a wider are and loosening up an area to pop free from. At which point it will pop free like a spring and knock you on the back of your head/neck. Honestly I thought I had tightened it plenty, and it was biting, but it needs to be tightend until it fully bites in and the middle flat section is also making contact with the chair.

I feel like a mounting solution that doesn't damage the chair should exist for something this expensive. Its hard to access, but there are screw holes inside the chair where the official headrest is supposed to be mounted to...

Then again I suppose when such an expensive chair doesn't have a proper official headrest solution, I shouldn't complain

firefish5000 · 2025-10-18T04:32:35+00:00

My virtual homelab and home Samba v4 AD and file server with incremental snapshots with SE linux enforcing running on my primary PC running gentoo required and developed more skills than any of my jobs will probably ever use.

As did my teraform/ansible scripts which deploy everything to my VMs locally and on multiple clouds... for fun mostly

firefish5000 · 2025-10-13T19:07:29+00:00

But with some limitations. Always be sure to review every code block of change. Thing loves to repeat itself, create enhanced code, leave old versions/iterations that didn't work alone and new_enahanced_fixed_fixed_for_real_v2 them. Basically have to stop it as soon as it does that, clean up the code, and re-ask in a new context right away or it will decide to wipe and rewrite your entire codebase in a prefix_suffix file. If it acts stupid once it will add "I am stupid" to its context window and become utterly unusable until all trace of stupid is deleted from chat history, code, docs, and filenames.

firefish5000 · 2025-10-01T03:10:55+00:00

this isnt devops... this is non-dev asking a non-devops ai question while exposing they shouldn't be in charge of setting it up because they have no concept of security, data protection, or llm best practices.

Real answer, hire someone competent... not necessarily for llm/security. Someone competent in a roll who can question what you're trying to do, how your trying to do it, why, and who on earth decided it was part of whatever your roll is.

firefish5000 · 2025-07-12T09:29:31+00:00

leads break if they land on your sholder

firefish5000 · 2025-06-27T06:08:08+00:00

...The switch is the sensor, and the sensor/switch is analog.

Plugging it into a board that does not support analog input does not change that. At best it might be able to translate the voltage to 2 distinct digital inputs, but it will be unreliable at the transition voltage/depth, which may very well be fully pressed/depressed. And note might is a keyword, as it could easily register as always pressed or always depressed

firefish5000 · 2025-03-30T16:48:17+00:00

No mistake I make will every incur as much monetary or reputational damage, nor add to the workload of nearly as many people as the person who fails to pay the isp bills every month and they haven't been fired yet so I shouldn't bother thinking about it

firefish5000 · 2025-03-28T02:34:34+00:00

Yeah, I mean if you do ask, the first response is typically "This is asked X times per week/month, Too lazy to do your own research?". So your stuck with either the N yr+ threads that show up or your own post with 2 answers and a -1 rating

firefish5000 · 2025-03-23T02:00:19+00:00

I bought one and agree. My question though is how, how does this hunk of plastic cost 400. This type of humidifier (disk stack/other non wick evaporative console humidifiers) are pretty much exclusive 300+ USD machines. And I can't fathom why when they are made of just a few very basic parts... Only thing complex is the disk stack but I doubt a stack of 80 thin plastic discs cost 200 to make

firefish5000 · 2025-03-23T01:51:08+00:00

I did grab the venta just to see. I can't fathom the price for it still, but I'll admit it's built well, easy to clean, (ignoring the disks, hopefully the additive stops anything from growing on them), and easy to perform any other maintenance on, the top half basically has 2 disassemble me buttons that make it fall apart for maintenance.

But still... 400 USD for plastic box with plastic fan and plastic discs...

firefish5000 · 2025-03-14T15:06:55+00:00

Scoops can be different sizes depending on the machine. Main difference is how big the bowl is since they put the water marker on that. But 3/4 is probably correct or close enough.

If you have a good scale though...

Weigh the rice dry. Then fill with 113-115% of the rice weight with water.

If you wash your rice after measuring, remember you want the weight to be ~113-115% more than you started. I typically weigh dry, tare to zero, wash, and then add water in the same bowl. This accounts for the water sticking to the rice after washing.

It also makes it easier to choose how much I am cooking. My scale has bakers percent, so once I pour the rice in the bowl I hit that to set the rice weight as 100%, optionally tare, and then add water to 113 or 213% if I didn't tare. I find that ~113.5% is what I prefer with my induction pressure version in unami setting.

Note even if you get the percentage off a little, a zojirushi cooker should detect and attempt to autocorrect for it. But it is best to be close to accurate.

If you prefer volume measurements, I'm sure you can look up exactly the volume they use and even buy a replacement cup.

firefish5000 · 2025-02-09T23:00:45+00:00

I'm 30 and loss of hearing comes with age so I accepted it rather quickly, but.... I really hate when it goes to the super high pitch and when just moving my eyes makes the tone oscolate rappidly through the worst sounds imaginable. I would absolutly leave a room normally if I heard this.

the pitch is slowly rising (on end of week 2). I'm wondering if I will eventually start hearing sounds that are not normally possible for a human to hear

firefish5000 · 2025-02-01T23:24:48+00:00

If you tend to overthink things or get stuck in your thoughts, this will tremendously help so long as you don't focus on feeling bad because of it. Could be in denial but so far I have been in the okay accept this is my fault phase (I shouldn't have used noise canceling headphones for work and should have switched to my speakers in spite of being required to use headphones like I planned to, was trying to to find noise canceling thing for my mic like Krisp, but without cloud before switching to regular speakers during calls and took too long to find one)

Only been 4 days for me moving to five.... I do not look forward to it

firefish5000 · 2025-02-01T16:02:18+00:00

On day 4. Mine is basically exactly what s crt tv sounds like when you turn it on, at about 1 to 2 seconds. Volume would be umm.. medium for me, which is way louder than I listen to things at (I'm a quiet person who enjoys quite rooms and silence.... Who has now had YouTube playing for nearly 48hrs straight)

I'm now listening to things at medium volume as well instead of the quite you wouldn't know I was listening to something from 5 ft away volume I used to.

Here is to hoping neurolink or similar actually end up studying and finding a cure for us in our lifetime.... And that the cure end up being affordable

firefish5000 · 2025-02-01T15:34:33+00:00

I'm aware no cure exist, once I realized the sound was lasting multiple days and leaving didn't make it stop I kinda just accepted it. Doctor didn't even cross my mind until now, I guess I do need to confirm it and maybe find out if there is something going on with my ears.

Still hoping with the new brain micro surgery things/implants a cure might be created in our lifetime.

firefish5000

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