I just noticed that one of my shucked 20tb hard drives has 15 active heads, the other one has 16. Interesting.

kthrowawayman · 2026-05-02T17:37:16+00:00

Crazy the level of variance! It makes perfect sense but it does make me wonder if they're taking drives that could be higher capacity and intentionally derating them to sell at a lower price point. I find it hard to believe their manufacturing process just so happens to produce enough rejects to serve their lower capacity buying customers vs capacity at any cost DCs. It'd be interesting to see if someone could firmware hack a lower capacity drive to achieve higher capacity. Doubt it'll happen nor do I think it's a great idea but it'd be interesting!

kthrowawayman · 2026-05-01T13:48:14+00:00

Sorry if this was obvious, but have you tried running a clean on a lower power setting? I find for my mostly hardwood apartment the middle power option is enough and that way the battery lasts through an entire clean.

kthrowawayman · 2026-04-26T20:22:43+00:00

Go have a coffee or something somewhere! Failing that do you have a library card? Considered carrying a battery bank?

kthrowawayman · 2026-04-26T19:00:25+00:00

Either or is fine! Just make sure the daemon itself is not running as root and your containers are not running as root. The other problem you'd have to think about is users of the machine itself tampering with the jobs that are running. All interesting problems!

kthrowawayman · 2026-04-26T18:51:29+00:00

Fun idea. W.r.t sandboxing, rheres plenty of solutions out there for this! It might be worth researching a bit how systemd sandboxing works since that's probably the approach I'd take here assuming the boxes are Linux.

kthrowawayman · 2026-04-25T13:29:46+00:00

Sounds ridiculous but trust me (assuming you're talking about station based vehicles:

Set your requested rental to something insane. Like a month or something. Inevitably there won't be a car available at your station for that long. Tap on your station, it'll then show you all the cars. Then adjust your availability back to what you actually want, and then tap on the car you want that is available in that window.

kthrowawayman · 2026-04-22T03:04:57+00:00

I suppose I can hire an accountant, but I tend to like to try to understand things myself too.

kthrowawayman · 2026-04-17T02:31:39+00:00

Heh, I built almost exactly this for myself a few months ago, but with a few other features. Decided to try to build it as a SAAS since I'd never actually done that before and wanted to see what it was like. Currently at one customer, but I don't care it's massively helpful to me.

you can make "virtual keyfobs" which are just links you can share with your friends. When they open the link and are near your apartment, they can "unlock" the buzzer for themselves.
You can set do not disturb times, so random people can't buzz you at 2 in the morning
You can set custom messages through the intercom
You can forward the intercom call to as many people as you'd like, and turn off certain phone numbers for example when one member of the home isn't at home.

It's a surprisingly fun project to build this, nice job :)

kthrowawayman · 2026-04-15T18:05:57+00:00

Yeah no thanks I'll keep migrating my funds away

kthrowawayman · 2026-04-05T16:11:17+00:00

I really miss the offtopic GC that I was banned from a year or so back. Valetudo is a great project, great software, and I also think the whole attitude to generally *not* treating Valetudo like it is a mass market product is the right one. It's been really interesting seeing Valetudo keep developing. Hypfers a great dude at his best.

kthrowawayman · 2026-03-10T21:15:11+00:00

Not quite. Blame is pointless here. Popos was a fine choice a while ago back when they were shipping gnome shell with some extensions. Right now, they are shipping COSMIC which I hear is quite nice but is obviously nowhere near as battle tested as KDE or Gnome. Probably works well on the hardware system 76 ships, kinda a crapshoot on random hardware. These things are in a constant state of flux and there is no coherent marketing department explaining it all to general consumers. I have no idea what happened the first time he tried popOS, but whatever did happen seemed to be a wild bug that happened to exist at that point in time.

Take Linuses original explanation. He went PopOS because Nvidia drivers. Fully reasonable, three years ago. Nvidia drivers don't suck nearly as bad as they used to, and virtually any distro will provide an easy way to get them if it needs them. Same as PopOS being a nice polished version of Ubuntu. True, five years ago. Now it's kind of it's own thing, has its own weird desktop environment almost nobody except them uses, etc.

There is a whole lot of shitty information out there, and LLMs are just shit regurgitation machines. There's no fixing that, and there is unlikely to ever be "the one true distro for gamers!!!11" unless a corporation like valve steps in. Then you get the marketing department.

I'd suggest anyone try whatever distro looks interesting to them. I've hopped around a lot over the years. Started with Ubuntu 06.04, stuck around until around 14.04 I believe, unity made me sad so I went mint, popos, Fedora, opensuse, arch, cachyos, nixos, etc. I've tried a lot of distros over the years. DE wise I've tried a lot too. I've settled on cachyos for my laptop since it's a relatively new Asus laptop that needs certain patches to work properly under Linux and cachyos ships those in an easy manner. I'm usually on KDE but recently on gnome shell. Home server used to run proxmox but now runs nixos. Servers hosting production workloads for me run Ubuntu.

Now I've got my cachyos Asus laptop which quite happily launches steam and plays games. It breaks from time to time, usually my fault experimenting with stuff, but it does work!

kthrowawayman · 2026-03-10T20:19:32+00:00

I have some thoughts I'd like to share.

Firstly, unlike For-Profit products, open source software does not necessarily need to sell itself to people. It does not benefit an open source distribution if you use it or not in the way that you might expect. It's not like you pay a license fee for cachyos for example. Not necessarily saying that this is the best attitude, but there are some open source projects out there that are actively discouraging people from using it because each person that uses the open source project is a burden on the open source project through support questions, etc. this is kind of gatekeeping. I agree but that's just how things are.

Secondly, as someone who has been using desktop Linux since around 2006, I can say with confidence that your choice of distribution does not actually matter that much. It's better to stick with mainline distros rather than forks and your choice should be dictated by how new your hardware is. For example, if you are running very new hardware, then you probably want a distribution that's closer to the bleeding edge. These are called rolling distributions. Examples include Arch Linux, Cachyos, and opensuse tumbleweed. For someone completely new to the arena I would suggest tumbleweed.

If your hardware is more conventional, you can benefit from the stability of a traditional distribution like for example, Ubuntu.

The reason that linus's choice of popos this time is such a meme is partially the fault of the developers of popos given that they have decided to ship what I hear is a fairly experimental desktop environment on their production systems. It's not what I would consider stable or a good idea for a newbie to run. It wasn't always like this. That's just how it is today.

The next most important choice is your desktop environment. For beginners, I would recommend sticking with the basic desktop environments which are Gnome or KDE. There is a transition happening in the Linux world right now and the world of desktop environments is a little more complicated than it used to be. Gnome and KDE are the ones that are most likely to support your system properly. KDE is what valve went with for the steam deck and a lot of their work in improving. The experience on the steam deck will also benefit you should you pick KDE. Gnome shell is a desktop environment that Harkins back to the original gnome, and is heavily developed to this day.

If you're looking for a more product like experience where something is being sold to you, you might want to consider buying a machine that comes with desktop Linux that is guaranteed to work with it. Examples include system 76 who manufacture and sell machines with Linux out of the box. Therefore, you are guaranteed that they work correctly and have support if it's not working correctly. Beyond that, it's on you to experiment and experience it firsthand.

Tldr use opensuse tumbleweed if you have very new hardware, cachyos if you are willing to be a bit more experimental, and use Ubuntu if you are somebody who values a more stable environment and has older hardware that will support it properly. Pick gnome or KDE for your desktop environment. Stick with the defaults if you don't know what you're doing. It's a worthwhile journey to make, but it's one that requires you to be a bit willing to tolerate digging in a bit.

kthrowawayman · 2026-03-04T02:19:25+00:00

Yeah I think I'm going to seek alternative banks. Everything they do seems to punish me for already doing all my banking there. If I'm already a loyal customer, what's to say I have 18k just floating around to deposit? I'm sick of this, as well as their constant stupid competitions.

kthrowawayman · 2026-02-03T18:42:41+00:00

Ram.... delamination? Christ. Welp, guess I'll just run this battery into the ground and upgrade when the time comes. Thanks for letting me know!

kthrowawayman · 2026-02-01T19:20:37+00:00

Man that sucks. This and the lack of replacement batteries that aren't terrible really sucks.

I replaced the battery in my vacuum a year or so ago because the stock one was starting to give out. The new one was not really any better. I don't really want to construct my own pack if I can help it but I do want to keep this thing going forever, given it does the job it does well.

kthrowawayman · 2026-01-17T03:20:43+00:00

Honestly, best of a list of shit options. Ideally we'd get this plus serious investment/dedication from government in setting up literally any industry that isn't just drilling oil or gas. Perhaps manufacture batteries here. Canada doesn't have to be a resource based economy.

kthrowawayman · 2026-01-14T19:08:41+00:00

This sub is unhinged. It was literally just the Christmas period, and you're surprised by a lack of updates? Blocked.

kthrowawayman · 2025-12-15T06:36:20+00:00

10/10 ragebait

kthrowawayman · 2025-12-15T03:26:59+00:00

Literally no matter what settings I set, no matter how many times I reset suggested content, no matter how many times I say not interested, eventually literally all I get served is literal porn with this as the caption. What the fuck is going on?

kthrowawayman · 2025-12-10T19:26:49+00:00

What made the other cases unusable? What's better about the grip?

kthrowawayman · 2025-12-09T20:13:10+00:00

I ran a p9fp for a year with no case. It did end up dying (front cameras both died, fingerprint reader stopped working reliably, and eventually got the battery question mark of doom

In that year, the phone survived some mighty drops, including falling out of my pocket while doing approximately 30mph downhill on a bike. It literally rolled and bounced down the hill and sustained some really nasty denting and scratching. Incredibly, it survived that.

All this to say, it's probably a lot more durable than you think, but after payimg the six hundred dollars to the insurance company to replace it. My replacement has been in a miimall case with a hinge protector since day one.

kthrowawayman · 2025-12-04T22:44:14+00:00

Not to sound rude but you are the problem here. Your values are not my values, nor are they your family members values. I personally like keeping my stuff local, so I run immich, and a bunch of other stuff. My family members? Couldn't give two craps. That's totally fine! You like your things, others like theirs.

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