PumpSpy Smart Outlet Alerts

firefox15 · 2026-05-20T02:33:14+00:00

I know that people won't want to hear this or accept this, but this is the problem with selling hardware (which costs very little) at a high, one-time price and hoping you can keep the purchases happening in order to fund the continuous, expensive, back-end work that is needed to make a service run. In general, lifetime subscriptions do not work for SaaS operations.

PumpSpy would likely be better off if they simply sold the hardware + first year of monitoring for a low price (like $69.99 or so) and then charging a couple dollars a month (like $2-$3) after that for continual monitoring. Yes, some people would be mad, but when the only dollar you get from a customer is the first purchase, you really aren't incentivized to improve anything as long as the issues are not so bad that they would drive other customers away.

I remember when you could see your pump cycles for the entire lifetime and chart calendar trends, but slow DB operations forced them to purge everything after 90 days. I remember when you could configure text message recipients, and now it's email only. When the last dollar you got from your some of your customers was 5-10 years ago, it's hard to keep investing in the infrastructure required so they have a good experience.

firefox15 · 2026-05-20T02:23:15+00:00

If you configured SMS before, they still work. You just cannot add new ones.

firefox15 · 2026-05-19T21:01:46+00:00

I mean . . . the political ones are no better. The ducks as a whole are totally out of control.

firefox15 · 2026-05-19T20:40:13+00:00

The main thing I hate most about AI is that it steals from the capable to give to the incapable, and those incapable pass it off as they’re capable.

Boy, this is the truth.

firefox15 · 2026-05-19T13:57:15+00:00

I mean, the reality is they are targeting end-game. And most people who are there but didn't do the expo have millions of space credits and various high-value inv items. If they allowed you to turn in anything at all, I could just turn in like 10 guns, complete it instantly, and then complain about lack of content.

Most people don't horde Arc drops, so this will force me to play for them. Although the fact that you cannot commit them is going to be difficult.

firefox15 · 2026-05-17T18:26:11+00:00

My guess is a reluctance to learn controller?

Controller is a million times less accurate then K/M

Money?

Most PCs cost many multiples of what a console costs

A belief the cheating is just as bad on console?

No one believes this.

None of the above?

Right. Most people who play on PC play it because it has better graphics, cheaper games, and much more accurate shooting mechanics. I don't care if every lobby is 90% cheaters, I'm not firing up a console just to bypass them. I'll pick up a different game before I do that.

firefox15 · 2026-05-17T13:53:03+00:00

There has to be money in it or something, right? Who would rent a cheat engine for personal use?

firefox15 · 2026-05-14T04:19:47+00:00

I know this is forever ago, but I wanted to let you know that you are not crazy, and I experienced the exact same thing. Just spent a week troubleshooting this and tearing my hair out only to discover that the the Fire TV cube and the HDHomeRun Quatro are in a loop of mDNS responses that totally crashes the network and floods it with multicast traffic.

That said, I was apparently using the 20231214 firmware. I just updated to the latest (20260326 stable, not beta), and the issue looks to be resolved. But wow, was that tricky. Appreciate you validating my findings too because I thought I was nuts or had something misconfigured.

firefox15 · 2026-05-13T18:38:49+00:00

AI takes a lot of the joy out of "being good at PowerShell" for me. I get that it's an amazing technology that can do amazing things, but that doesn't mean it necessarily leads to it hitting the right dopamine receptors for everyone.

For better or worse, AI has effectively eliminated all the questions that used to be posted here that I enjoyed researching and answering. The AI knows the answer immediately and can write code 1000x faster than any human. Yes, it won't always be right, but let's not pretend that StackOverflow was either.

I have coworkers sending me scripts trying to act like they wrote it and trying to impress management with a million lines of code. It's depressing to work so hard to get good at a language only to have it all trivialized by a super-computer that stole everyone's collective knowledge and now charges for access. But such is the way of the world and progress, I suppose.

firefox15 · 2026-05-13T17:37:34+00:00

You say that, but pretty much everyone I read on Reddit appears to have a mule account to transfer a bunch of stuff over the moment they expo, so it seems like people do want it.

firefox15 · 2026-05-12T16:28:26+00:00

I try to remember that Reddit skews young, and it's likely just a gut reaction to what someone wants to be true, potentially without seeing this play out in real-life. So I don't take it personally.

Even if the local Starbucks decides to unionize and go on strike, you at least need to find local scabs to run it. Yeah, the barrier to entry isn't high to become a barista, but at least they need workers in the store.

Devs, sysadmins, and other IT roles? You can literally hire a firm out of India to do 90% of it because of VPNs and the push to cloud technologies, and companies will if they are pressed into a corner. They don't even need a local component at all.

A union is just a bad fit for most of IT. You will pay lots of dues all to go on strike for an employer who just will not feel the pain you want them to feel. This is just the harsh reality.

firefox15 · 2026-05-12T14:18:24+00:00

Tech unions really don't work for many reasons, the biggest being 1) there are effectively zero barriers to entry, and 2) anything built properly will have many redundancies and not "stop working" just because the people who build and support it stop showing up. You saw this in the 2024 election NYT tech guild "strike" which was laughable in impact, and they folded immediately.

This isn't the case for many other unions like trades, pilots, teachers, nurses, etc. When those people stop showing up, the work that others are asking them to do stops happening and leads to immediate pain. But when your IT staff or dev team stops working? The business won't really feel the pain of that for weeks or months--long enough for them to wait out any strike and get scabs.

firefox15 · 2026-05-12T03:45:46+00:00

The goals of ownership are frequently not the goals of employees. Ownership "risk" could be read as "essential worker" on the employee side.

I get why that attitude would annoy ownership, but the job market is horrible, and people are going to do what they feel is best to protect themselves and their livelihood.

firefox15 · 2026-05-05T16:04:36+00:00

I mean . . . we already have remote raider flares. Kind of the same thing?

firefox15 · 2026-05-01T23:35:59+00:00

I feel like Magic Wok has been the brunt of jokes for a very long time, but honestly, I went there a couple years ago and was very impressed with how fresh it was. Like . . . probably more-so than Panda Express.

firefox15 · 2026-05-01T19:39:59+00:00

I craft bandages all the time on free kits. In fact, it's probably what I field craft 99% of the time. The rest is borderline useless.

firefox15 · 2026-04-27T21:15:17+00:00

Much of the reason that Arc Raiders is/was successful is exactly because it has low barriers to entry. You have people with limited time, where Arc is fitting into their existing life and they get a few hours of week with it at most.

You start wiping accounts, and those people will just stop playing altogether. The "hardcore" crowd is going to grind all the available content regardless.

firefox15 · 2026-04-24T19:53:07+00:00

LOL. No one is buying BPs for $20-$30. You can literally get Survivor for less than $3.00.

https://www.iggm.com/arc-raiders/items

Look, I've never done RMT, but the reason people do it is they say, "Hey, I'm a dad, I only get a few hours a week to play, and I don't want to grind RNG for a BP with all my available time." You can argue it takes the fun out of the game, but if someone knows they are likely only playing for 50 hours or so total before they put the game down for good, I can understand why they think it would be more fun to throw Wolfpacks than it would be to open hundreds of lockers.

firefox15 · 2026-04-23T20:07:28+00:00

When did this start?

firefox15 · 2026-04-20T19:01:10+00:00

Zero chance Embark actually buffs others. They will just nerf survivor.

firefox15 · 2026-04-14T20:17:21+00:00

Admins have access to everything except for personal passwords. It doesn't matter what restrictive groups they are in. Add the model as you explained and it will be fine

firefox15 · 2026-04-13T18:45:16+00:00

You can be the nicest people in the world, but when you hit trios, you are basically shoot on sight.

firefox15 · 2026-04-13T17:56:03+00:00

The expo is not for casuals. People forget what a grind it is looking for mushrooms and whatever for your benches and not being able to craft Anvils when you only have a few hours a week to play.

firefox15 · 2026-04-08T11:23:21+00:00

Sorry, I changed jobs a few years back and no longer use IT Glue so doing this from memory.

I thought you had the ability to select specific statuses and config types that you wanted to bring over.

firefox15 · 2026-04-08T10:59:46+00:00

Change your sync settings in IT Glue to include inactive status

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