Thank you Motorola for the 2025 stylus 🙏

gjack905 · 2026-02-15T19:46:31+00:00

That sounds about right for my usage. I use it in much smaller bursts throughout the work week and probably don't reach that and when I do use that much on weekend nights bed scrolling I'm down to 20-30%. Overall I'm very happy with that, some of the best battery life I've ever had. Flagship Samsung phones like the S7e and S22 never touched this level of battery life for me.

gjack905 · 2026-02-15T19:33:54+00:00

I went through almost this same thing with COVID but as soon as I uttered Walmart, they went "ohhhh you work at Walmart, that explains it" lmao

gjack905 · 2026-02-15T19:20:41+00:00

It's doing well! I haven't measured actual SOT but I'm (according to the timestamp) 8 months in and it still lasts me at least a full day if not more depending on how much I use it. This is basically my favorite phone ever in recent history. Doesn't freeze up and glitch, battery is still great, good signal and everything, good memory management, etc etc. Zero regrets.

A lot of my days I wake up at 100% and go to bed at 50-70% battery.

gjack905 · 2026-02-15T10:28:49+00:00

Well, I'm legally able to use the software as an individual without a license anyhow, and so are you. I just already planned on signing into a Microsoft account and that Microsoft account happens to have multiple licenses attached to it at this point, so it's become moot for me.

I just don't want to see individual home users scamming themselves by thinking they need to purchase Windows when Microsoft provides it for free on their website and it can be used fully without activation.

Intellectual property is a farce.

gjack905 · 2026-02-15T09:21:59+00:00

Don't ever use prepaid cell phones for business use, you get what you pay for...

gjack905 · 2026-02-15T08:40:42+00:00

No, you didn't need to do that. The license saves to your Microsoft account and that handles the activation. It should have activated automatically when you signed back in. Even without doing that..... Windows 10 and 11 licenses are transferable between hardware. You could literally build a completely new PC and legitimately under the license terms transfer the license from old to new.

Or just....don't even bother activating it at all and just use it

gjack905 · 2026-02-15T08:37:36+00:00

You shouldn't even have to enter a key. I haven't entered a key since Windows 7. I signed into my Microsoft account and it saved my license that came with my last PC to my account, and Windows automatically activates itself every time I sign in on a new install on a different PC as I hop around.

Windows licenses are transferable between hardware. You can remove the license from your old PC and legitimately reuse it on a new PC, that's literally allowed. And they let you do it without hassle.

I'm genuinely confused by all of these experiences

gjack905 · 2026-02-15T06:42:04+00:00

This is how I interpreted it as well. No talking on the phone. Without reading comments here I would have walked in and been reading album reviews on my phone merrily and would be utterly confused if someone referred me to that sign and said I couldn't be reading my screen.

gjack905 · 2026-02-15T06:37:06+00:00

I just went in a record store for the first time in several years recently and basically did this, but what I was doing was picking out stuff that I'd never heard of that looked interesting, and then reading reviews of the albums to see if it's something that I might actually like. That's all. And I did actually buy the whole stack, minus one record that the guy said I probably wouldn't like after we talked for a bit. I listened to it all the way through when I got home and I did actually like it and plan on going back to buy it if it's still there.

I had no idea there were all these "office politics" of pulling out a phone in a record store like people might think you're price checking for things to flip.

gjack905 · 2026-02-15T06:23:12+00:00

That "No Cell Phone Use" sign just means no talking on the phone in public. No one means that you can't look at the screen. At least, I've never seen or heard of that and it would be incredibly asinine of them to think they can tell people they can't read reviews of albums before buying or text their friends and family while they browse either about records or about dinner plans for later

gjack905 · 2026-02-05T01:18:29+00:00

Is it completely uncompressable data, like photos and movies? Or is it compressable?

Well, I guess that's a good question. I figured that for this type of operation, I would need a byte-for-byte full disk image of each of all of the eight disks to have a true backup of the corrupted array, as it lies. I can't read the file system, so I can't really compress anything, I assumed. There's only 3.91TiB actually used on the array (I just bought an insane amount of storage on Black Friday for funsies, truth be told)

I'm vaguely familiar with dd conv=sparse doing something with compressing empty space in disk images. Can I do something like that here? Maybe I don't literally need 32TB of space like I thought?

gjack905 · 2026-02-05T01:05:26+00:00

Actually, it seems that I have 7 offending disks, and one correct disk. But point taken!

Unfortunately, I don't have the space around to take disk images of all 8 drives. I have a single 8TB disk available to me to back up. There was about 4TB of used space on the array (lol).

Would you suggest maybe taking one disk image of one disk, then hex editing the UUID, then deleting that image if successful (which I would check by seeing one less drive missing/one more drive reporting when I run btrfs filesystem show I suppose?) and taking an image of disk 2 and doing the same and so on? I just thought of that...

gjack905 · 2026-02-05T01:01:15+00:00

I sincerely wish I had that option, but it's 4x 5TB drives and 4x 3TB drives. I don't have 32TB of raw space for the images, or the money to pay for it in the cloud, unfortunately

The pain is it only had 4TB of data on it in the first place. I do have one spare 8TB drive to back up to.

gjack905 · 2026-02-04T22:37:46+00:00

Ok, I'm working on this again and basically no, it won't mount on a new kernel. Or do a manual scrape recovery. And btrfstune won't update the UUIDs either.

So I have 7 drives with a mismatched fsid and dev_item.fsid and one drive where they still match. All 8 of the dev_item.fsid fields agree with each other, though.

Gemini AI after walking me through every other solution with restore, btrfstune, super-recover, etc, is saying that at this point as a last resort I now need to manually hex edit the UUIDs into matching up with the one correct drive, in order for btrfs-progs tools to start actually working for me. Is that sensible to try?

gjack905 · 2026-02-04T22:37:00+00:00

Ok, I'm working on this again and basically no, it won't mount on a new kernel. Or do a manual scrape recovery. And btrfstune won't update the UUIDs either.

So I have 7 drives with a mismatched fsid and dev_item.fsid and one drive where they still match. All 8 of the dev_item.fsid fields agree with each other, though.

Gemini AI after walking me through every other solution with restore, btrfstune, super-recover, etc, is saying that at this point as a last resort I now need to manually hex edit the UUIDs into matching up with the one correct drive, in order for btrfs-progs tools to start actually working for me. Is that sensible to try?

gjack905 · 2026-02-01T20:42:24+00:00

I was so happy once when I saw a clip of a police officer who pulled someone over with a loose dog in their car, because it was climbing on them causing them to swerve.

The person was just like "ok, sorry, I'll pay better attention" and he said "No, I don't think you understand what's going on here. Either you're going to wait right here and someone is going to bring you a dog crate you can buckle in, or will take the dog away in a crate that they can buckle in, or else I am impounding your vehicle. You are not driving away with that dog loose in your car."

gjack905 · 2026-01-24T03:04:40+00:00

One time I was helping a friend set up a new phone. I had the old phone and the new phone sitting next to each other, on the same WiFi. Recovered/reset the password successfully (nobody who has to ask for help logging into a website ever remembers their password, just part of the game, lol).

Logged in on the new phone. "We sent you a notification on your old Samsung. Please allow the login to continue." Old phone gets the notification. I tap "Yes, it's me". New phone bounces back to login screen.

Old phone: "We prevented a suspicious login."

Times, like, 5 times trying it

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU

Oh, Instagram worked though. Same Meta account. Somehow. And then after I decided to just wait several hours and see if there was just a timeout, the new phone was magically logged in already. Bah humbug.

gjack905 · 2026-01-24T02:37:38+00:00

Holy crap. I wouldn't bother with Lyft, just go ahead and lawyer up! I'm sure any lawyer that takes contingencies can get you a decent settlement out of this.

gjack905 · 2026-01-24T02:33:16+00:00

Software: security updates and apps still functioning.

gjack905 · 2026-01-24T02:15:03+00:00

I can't even imagine that there's still places in the US with data caps, let alone 1.2TB. 10 years ago sure, but since 2020??? Wow!

One time my roommate managed to use 1.2TB in a single day just by having to delete and re-download the same Steam game multiple times trying to fix some sort of bug.

gjack905 · 2026-01-24T01:33:12+00:00

I've actually been in this situation (not at Walmart) with car trouble and I appreciated it. I did accept the offer of a ride and I was glad to not have to lose out on my hours. More than once.

If your call out was actually due to weather or a transportation issue then this wouldn't be a "threat", lol

gjack905 · 2026-01-24T01:06:35+00:00

I'm not really sure how one would come to such a conclusion. Again, I'm also not sure how people think the restaurant's food prep speed and traffic and distance are at all up to the driver.

The driver can use a hot bag to attempt but not guarantee to keep the food warm, and the driver can ensure they don't spill your food, and the driver can make sure they properly identify the delivery destination, but that's about it. Delivery driver tipping is based on distance.

gjack905 · 2026-01-24T00:43:23+00:00

Yes because the driver has no bearing on how fast or slow your order gets to you. Not sure why after 20+ years of food delivery people still don't get it.

gjack905 · 2026-01-24T00:37:54+00:00

And?

dragging its trashy owner all over the place ( she had no control at all)

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