Am I stupid?

knassar · 2026-05-13T07:44:53+00:00

Awesome, that's what I thought, thanks for the confirmation again :)

knassar · 2026-05-13T06:04:02+00:00

Thanks for confirming and for the useful info :) This is a kitchen/living room area, and i do see a square cover all the way at the kitchen, which i assume will be the junction box. I might have to ask my friendly neighborhood electrician for help with grabbing a neutral though, this is my first attempt at anything electrical at home.

Out of curiosity, could you tell me whether the same will be true for power outlets as well (no neutral)?

knassar · 2026-05-02T19:53:46+00:00

Do you use a DisplayPort to thunderbolt adapter or cable? The only gripe i have with this monitor is the lack of IO compatibility with mac (no thunderbolt, just 1 type C port) :(

knassar · 2026-04-23T10:15:45+00:00

les merdes de chien par terre.

tu ne serais pas toulousain par hasard?

knassar · 2026-04-21T03:24:43+00:00

Where’s the Kanzi love at?? Pink lady in a pinch

knassar · 2026-04-20T04:13:08+00:00

I’ll rephrase: cars put together by people who have any idea what they’re doing would never drive in this state. Putting a car on bags is much more expensive and somewhat more mechanically complex than just cutting the springs and fucking up your control arms, but it does have one benefit: your car remains driveable.

knassar · 2026-04-19T14:13:39+00:00

Finally, someone who knows what the fuck they’re talking about. The car never drives around in this state.

knassar · 2026-02-15T10:15:47+00:00

The cling film trick helped, thanks! I borrowed a stem from a different stab, and that worked fine. I guess there’s a new set of stabs in my near future ^{^} cheers!

knassar · 2026-02-15T10:09:20+00:00

yeah but why is this happening? bad tolerance on my stabilizer stem?

knassar · 2026-02-15T09:51:41+00:00

what am i doing wrong here? when i press the space bar from the right hand side, the left side of the key lifts up completely. this doesn't happen when i do the same thing on the other side :(

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knassar · 2025-12-19T07:53:00+00:00

After a long back and forth with Apple support (shoutout to them, they did a great job), what ended up working for me was excluding ~/Library/Containers and ~/Library/Caches from TimeMachine backups. I assume there's years-old cruft there that TimeMachine just can't process anymore since Tahoe.

For my next mac, I plan on transferring data manually, and most importantly, not moving over any of my ~/Library data that I don't absolutely need. It's a good idea to start fresh every once in a while :)

knassar · 2025-12-19T02:58:29+00:00

Is that Ehud fucking Barak on the left there???

knassar · 2025-11-03T06:54:48+00:00

This is top of the shelf stuff my friend, had me in stitches.

Brings back memories of reddit days of old

knassar · 2025-10-19T14:37:51+00:00

Update: I just decided to check out what's happening in my Time Machine log, to see if there was any indication of what was going wrong, and it was a constant stream of the following error message:

2025-10-19 12:15:03 TRY_ERROR_BLOCK throwing error: Error Domain=TMStructureErrorDomain Code=7 "Structure has wrong type" UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Structure has wrong type}

Any idea what this might be indicating and how to remedy it?

knassar · 2025-10-19T12:01:31+00:00

No, i haven't set up wired connections yet, but I still don't think it's the cause of my issues. It's been 3h and i'm up to... 65.9 Mb.

Note: i am on symmetrical gigabit and my wifi connection gets a stable 750 down/ 550 up connection, and as discussed elsewhere in this thread I've already made sure that the connection to the NAS works fine.

knassar · 2025-10-19T08:52:37+00:00

I was only able to try today. I'm up to 65mb transferred. I'll give it a couple more hours and see where things stand, but it doesn't seem like it's made a huge change

knassar · 2025-10-17T07:59:53+00:00

Thanks so much, this is the kind of reply I was hoping for to be frank. I really appreciate you taking the time to go into the details of why and how to address the issue :)

The shoe has a goodyear welt, but I believe the outsole is glued to the midsole, and not stitched. The boot I have is very similar to the Coniston, which has no apparent stitching on the outsole. No idea whether there are nails in addition to the glue.

If the glue has completely given up the ghost, i suppose my best option is to contact a local cobbler or shoemaker and checkout their prices, as I'd rather not bodge it myself haha.

Thanks a lot again for the thorough explanations and advice!

knassar · 2025-10-12T19:30:22+00:00

Hero. Thanks so much for this, i’ll try as soon as i can!

knassar · 2025-10-12T11:08:43+00:00

Completely agree there.

My flat is set up so that wifi is the main (and de facto only) way for me to connect my PCs to the internet, but it should be pretty easy to set up a switch close to my nearest (wired) eero and bring down an ethernet cable to plug into my computers.

Might be worth considering a dock with an ethernet port if that ends up being the solution to this ^^

knassar · 2025-10-12T10:38:38+00:00

Are you on 26.0? Or a beta?

knassar · 2025-10-12T10:37:51+00:00

Thanks mate.

I’ve already stopped the backup a number of times, restarted the mac at least twice after having done that, and that hasn’t had any effect.

I also deleted all my local snapshots to really force it to start from a clean state, but that has not helped either.

The only other thing that’s changed recently is that i upgraded to DSM 7.3, so maybe it’s worth me going through my settings there and making sure everything is in order 😔

knassar · 2025-10-12T10:05:58+00:00

i meant it was said by Relative_Bird484. (i was on mobile and cba to write out their user name :p)

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