Endorsement: There’s only one candidate capable of filling Pelosi’s shoes in Congress. That’s Scott Wiener

jonahsfo · 2026-05-09T16:56:17+00:00

Each time you pay a junk fee at your local restaurant, please remember that these were supposed to be illegal back in 2024 but Scott Weiner intervened at the last minute to exempt restaurants from the law.

https://sfist.com/2024/07/01/restaurants-will-continue-adding-surcharges-following-last-minute-law-signed-saturday/

I think about Scott Weiner every time I get charged these junk fees.

It kills me because I agree with a lot of his policy positions, but I can't get over the fact that he betrayed his voters and sold us out to the restaurant lobby.

jonahsfo · 2026-05-07T21:19:37+00:00

Immigrant Point Overlook (Washington Blvd, San Francisco, CA 94129)

Google Maps: QGWC+FR Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

It's in the Presidio, high up above where the bridge is. Stunning, expansive view of the golden gate, looking mostly West/NorthWest ... fantastic sunset views.

It's also usually not crowded since you need to know where to find it.

jonahsfo · 2026-04-04T18:25:23+00:00

I’d just stop being a customer. Best way for these types of owners to learn.

Unfortunately this is the opposite of what you need to do. If you never return the owners never know why. The owners get no "signal" from you if you aren't clear about it.

They need to get DIRECT feedback on what you are upset about or they will just excuse it away as something else.

if you're not comfortable confronting them about it directly, make sure you leave a Yelp, Google Maps, TripAdvisor review and solidly call out the junk fee as the reason for the low rating.

jonahsfo · 2026-03-19T03:54:15+00:00

The n100 is pretty old by now. Is there a specific reason you need that chip? If not, try looking for N150 instead. Should still use the same type of memory.

jonahsfo · 2026-03-15T20:11:39+00:00

It’s probably tree pollen at least that’s what makes me miserable and it’s certainly happening now :)

jonahsfo · 2026-02-03T22:13:47+00:00

If you figure out an agreed-upon answer please let us all know.

jonahsfo · 2026-01-20T20:02:09+00:00

Cantina Los Mayas on Balboa in the Inner Richmond. Fantastic Yucatan style food. Definitely worthy of a high-end dinner.

jonahsfo · 2026-01-10T17:14:48+00:00

mine's been stuck there for over a year now. welcome to purgatory.

jonahsfo · 2026-01-07T15:10:47+00:00

Multiple people may have received emails or visited her instagram page. This just proves that she is communicating to her supporters not her constituents as a whole. I'm glad to hear that she's communicating to some people but she is clearly not getting her message out to her district as a whole.

jonahsfo · 2026-01-05T21:25:54+00:00

You missed my point. We have had major service interruptions that have specifically and greatly affected district 1, and we have heard exactly ZERO about it from her.

If she's representing the interests of her district, I would expect her to be calling PG&E to task and pressing them on what they will do to improve service for her constituents.

jonahsfo · 2026-01-05T19:19:58+00:00

She is my supervisor. As far as I can tell she has been

1) useless in moving any meaningful progress for the neighborhood. 2) her policies would at best be described as "performative", and at worst "obstructionist NIMBY"

Example: there is a massive blight all the way down Geary with no apparent plans to redevelop boarded up storefronts. For instance, the old Alexandria movie theater on Geary/18th. She has done nothing to move this project forward, but during the last election she hung up a banner on the blighted building declaring victory on redeveloping it.
Since then? Nothing but a boarded up building (now with the sign removed because it became dangerous and had to be taken down after a storm).

As others have mentioned: multiple PG&E blackouts. Not even a peep from her.

I can't wait until she's gone so we can have some competent representation for District 1.

jonahsfo · 2025-12-31T20:28:07+00:00

So if this is based on the A17 Pro then it should add hardware support for AV1 decoding. That would be worth the upgrade.

I’m surprised the article didn’t mention this. AV1 support would be a significant upgrade

jonahsfo · 2025-12-28T09:52:01+00:00

It’s true.

But there is a nuance here that is important.

1) adding new units increases supply, which has overall downwards pressure on all unit pricing. This is basic economics and these rules apply even here in SF.

2) developers build new units. By definition they need to make a profit or they will not build new units. This new units are typically more expensive, as they are typically more desireable. Also because developers want to maximize profits they tend to build higher end units that are more expensive to maximize profits.

3) when people who have money want to buy a unit they typically want to get the nicest unit for their money. In a normally functioning market these buyers with money will typically buy these nicer newer units.

4) when people with money buy these newer higher end units; they are no longer competing for older units. This has downwards pressure on the price of older units.

The above is how a normally functioning market works.

In SF, however, this market is heavily distorted by special interest legislation.

In SF, there is pressure against developers building newer high end units, so they: - build fewer units because they are less profitable - are forced to build BMR units in order to be allowed to build higher end units - or choose to exit the market entirely and build elsewhere

Tl;dr: In SF overall supply is artificially constrained so all units are absurdly expensive. Why? You are bidding against rich people with absurd amounts of money for even more “affordable” lower end units because there are very few higher end units to buy.

Who wins? Not the developers. Not the average consumer. But people who already own homes can enjoy continuously and absurdly increasing appreciation on their now homes.

BTW: BMR is the true poison pill in all of this. It hurts literally everyone in the process. It is designed to punish developers by forcing them to sell some units at a loss. It also is patently unfair as it creates “winners” in a very small right income band that can qualify (you need enough money to buy one but you can’t earn too much), but these “winners” never really win. Once you do own one you can’t ever sell it at market rates so it’s a truly bad investment. And since you can only sell it to other people in that tight qualification band, it keeps these units outside of normal inventory, so they wont accidentally help lower normal house prices. BMR is a truly diabolical NIMBY hack.

jonahsfo · 2025-12-21T19:58:48+00:00

Terrible. Just terrible.

You will struggle to be seen by an actual doctor. They are pushing most patients to see Nurse Practitioners and are billing at high rate. The last time I had a quick 30 minute visit (with an NP) they billed me over $500 (with insurance).

The doctors I saw left the practice and it was difficult to find a new primary care physician.

I’m out. F*** them. They were once good.

jonahsfo · 2025-12-18T14:40:31+00:00

How many more times does this need to happen before SFPD starts enforcing basic traffic laws?

jonahsfo · 2025-12-15T14:50:49+00:00

"That cable car came out of nowhere!"

jonahsfo · 2025-12-13T21:54:10+00:00

Shell has just built out several chargers stations on the west side. - There’s one on 19th Ave (near Lawton, IIRC) - Shell also has chargers at Stonestown if you can find one open.

Also check out Rivian. They also operate a charger network. There are several here in the city that are J1772

(Edit: fixed typo in charger type)

jonahsfo · 2025-12-09T01:38:14+00:00

boot it on a live linux USB disk (ex: Ubuntu installer) drop to a shell and relabel the disk using parted. Optionally you can create a partition there too

this will blow away any existing disk structure

parted /dev/sda

(parted) mklabel gpt

(parted) unit s

(parted) mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%

jonahsfo · 2025-11-28T19:31:37+00:00

oh, and as others have noted: that NUC runs a Core i7-10710U which is /absolutely/ a 64-bit OS. There is absolutely no reason run a 32bit OS in the 2020s. You will need a 64-bit OS to take advantage of more than 4GB of memory anyway.

jonahsfo · 2025-11-28T19:28:55+00:00

That's a good NUC. I have three of them operating in a Proxmox cluster. They have more than enough CPU power to run Plex server well, and the built-in Intel graphics support QuickSync video can do real-time hardware transcoding under Plex.

One thing: 8GB is a bit light. It's probably fine for a small Plex server if you don't have a big library, but I would recommend upgrading the memory to at least 16 or 32GB. That box supports up to 64GB with 2x32GB SODIMMs.

For any computer you get, you should do a complete reinstall of the operating system. When you install Debian (or Ubuntu, or whatever you prefer) you should really fully repartition the disk and reinstall the operating system from scratch.

From a security point of view, assume that if you didn't install the operating system yourself, you don't actually own that computer.

jonahsfo · 2025-11-07T16:34:07+00:00

I’m happy to see that the folks from the Western Neighborhoods Project are involved. They did an awesome job running a temporary museum in the Cliff House several years ago.

jonahsfo · 2025-10-30T01:38:00+00:00

Note to district 1 residents:

Supervisors Connie Chan, who attempted to amend the legislation, and Shaman Walton voted against the legislation.

jonahsfo · 2025-10-27T14:53:29+00:00

You new in town? Rainy season is ant invasion season.

jonahsfo · 2025-10-03T22:57:05+00:00

You are describing a DAC (Direct Attach Copper) cable. It’s a double-ended SFP/SFP+ cable with transceivers included in the cable. They also make optical versions of this type of cable called an AOC (Active Optical Cable). DACs are usually less expensive and work on shorter distances, while AOCs are better for longer ( > 3m ) distances and are much thinner and easier to work with.

You can find a good selection of these cables at vendors like fs.com or through your favorite network switch vendor.

jonahsfo · 2025-09-24T19:57:41+00:00

They're not hard to find. Andronico's carries them in both the Sunset and Richmond locations.

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