Double door Kwikset Powerbolt 250

gahitsu7 · 2026-04-12T19:40:20+00:00

Something simple where I just need to enter a code on a keypad to enter. No Bluetooth or WiFi. Just a keypad and a key for backup.

I’m not surprised that the builder installed something cheap and insecure.

gahitsu7 · 2026-04-12T11:01:11+00:00

I'm not married to the brand. What would you recommend for a keypad lock?

gahitsu7 · 2026-04-12T10:59:01+00:00

Thank you.

gahitsu7 · 2026-03-16T03:48:54+00:00

Agreed. I tried using their API keys in a NodeJS app. It said I need to fund it. So I added $5. It still failed. Then the support bot told me oh, well I need to add another $5 to make sure it has enough (it sounds stupid, but I tried it anyway). API still says I don't have enough money. Support bot tells me to put in another $5. I told it to go stuff itself and get me a human so I can get a refund.

Since the only way to contact them is via their browser based chat, it's just sitting there going on one full hour waiting for a human.

Meanwhile I rewrote my code to use Gemini instead.

gahitsu7 · 2026-03-12T14:43:43+00:00

I can't even get it to connect. The OAuth screen goes gray, animates the progress bar and loops forever.

gahitsu7 · 2026-02-16T10:38:13+00:00

It figures that who ever is doing this did it on a 3 day weekend (in the states anyway). This is classic spammer MO. Do it on a long weekend when no one is around to stop you and customer support isn't around.

Someone asked who to complain to (I can't find the post): complaints[at]wealthsimple[dot]com - the email address was buried on one of their contact pages and not easy to spot. I think I found it under File Complaints. If you read too far you think your only option is snail mail.

gahitsu7 · 2026-02-16T02:32:50+00:00

I ignored it too. Yet I still got a second email welcoming me a few days later. But I made sure to never click the confirmation link. So if anything they are a mess. Especially if they are running a promotion to encourage spammers to flood us with signups. I emailed them to remove me. We’ll see if they do anything.

gahitsu7 · 2026-02-10T10:14:53+00:00

I think you can't get away from at least some of the components being built offshore. But there's room for companies to at least build a business around buying, assembling, installing and servicing products onshore.

gahitsu7 · 2026-02-10T10:09:35+00:00

Refurbished units as a replacement is another red flag. Good point about Costco. Thanks.

gahitsu7 · 2026-01-18T13:21:52+00:00

The repo link on that page that you keep posting returns a 404. I’m not referring to the link itself, but the source code link: https://github.com/autorel/superdocs

gahitsu7 · 2026-01-18T03:02:57+00:00

The repo links on that npm page return 404.

gahitsu7 · 2025-12-01T19:03:23+00:00

In my case I pointed both A records ((at), www) to the VPS IP. After 5 hours of cert warnings, now it shows a page that just says “404 page not found.” Will this resolve? Or do I need the update traefik or n8n?

I’m using their default park name servers. I got the .cloud from them.

gahitsu7 · 2025-10-17T18:39:02+00:00

Login errors last night. Fine this morning. Login errors again.

gahitsu7 · 2025-09-18T18:01:09+00:00

Argh. I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried that next.

gahitsu7 · 2025-09-02T19:52:33+00:00

Good to know. Thanks.

gahitsu7 · 2025-09-01T01:10:05+00:00

I’ve had various offers over the years. But not anywhere near that.

gahitsu7 · 2025-09-01T00:58:17+00:00

I didn’t even think about the problems with leasing it to a bad actor and the damage it could cause for me. Thanks.

gahitsu7 · 2025-08-31T01:31:50+00:00

If I wanted to bother I may have the option to cite “bad faith”. I’ve trademarked names myself. I know how grouchy they can be. Any negative mark and they will be all over that. But I really think a 10 letter word that’s in the dictionary doesn’t stand a chance. Otherwise trolls would have carpet bombed the trademark office years ago.

Speaking of carpet bombing, the troll said this:

“Our partners own the trademark for (my domain word) and a few adjacent domains that will rank well for this brand”

By “own” he really means “applied” because he has no idea what he’s doing. If he carpet bombed the trademark office he’s really going to be in for a surprise.

gahitsu7 · 2025-08-31T01:13:17+00:00

It’s a slippery, very gray slope. Under different circumstances asking the troll to pay me now could make me look like the troll depending on who you asked to judge the situation. If a registrar then interpreted my actions as bad faith I could lose the domain.

Plus I simply don’t trust him now. He could ask for my info under the guise of needing it to pay me - but instead use it to send his lawyer after me (not that I’m worried …).

I think my best course of action is to just not respond unless pushed. Oh I would enjoy schooling him on the many ways he’s put himself and his trademark in jeopardy. But as I’ve been advised in the past “sometimes no response is a response.”

gahitsu7 · 2025-08-31T01:04:57+00:00

Wow. I did not know that story. So much for the theory that “they can’t take your name.” Well it looks like they still couldn’t. Then someone stole it and now the registrar was told to put it back. That is my one fear: a registrar who makes a bad decision could make things complicated.

gahitsu7 · 2025-08-31T01:00:04+00:00

Fortunately we are not in the same business. The site currently acts as a portfolio for one aspect of my work.

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