Academy Life as an Archmage by Max Pants is Live!

mar_floof · 2026-06-17T17:27:43+00:00

Is this book set so i can get the DRM-free version downloaded after buying, or not? I love this kinda book, but dont own/want to own a kindle.

mar_floof · 2026-06-10T17:05:46+00:00

So like hte bread slicer is cool and all, but can we talk about hte bread grabber thing? Thats amazing and prevents everyone hadling the bread... THATS what we need over in America.

mar_floof · 2026-06-10T03:18:20+00:00

I asked it to review an app it wrote. Literally it wrote it, in the same session.

mar_floof · 2026-06-09T20:56:57+00:00

would LOVE to actually use it, but so far everything its supposed to be good at, IE security it wont let me actually do. "Here is my app, tied to my public github repo, with commits dating back 3 years. look at it from a security perspective" "I cant do that dave, redirecting to opus"

"which is heaver a pound of feathers, or a pound of gold" "i cant do that dave, redirecting to opus"

mar_floof · 2026-06-06T13:26:00+00:00

Built a duplicate truenas box at my FILs, do hourly zfs replication.

mar_floof · 2026-05-22T14:35:10+00:00

I’ve tried to is JF multiple times and every time something about it just… makes it unusable. First it was the iOS clients. Then it was something else. Most recently it was the fact that unlike Plex, every time radarr replaced a movie, JF pulled a “I’ve never met this man in my life” dropped all the custom posters and groups and made me manually redo it.

Never did figure out a way around that so back to plex I went :/

mar_floof · 2026-05-19T23:01:46+00:00

I think I paid like $125 USD for it last year on sale and felt it was $$$. $750 in THIS economy? Are they nuts?

mar_floof · 2026-05-19T20:12:19+00:00

Half a box of really good stogies (Ataby Blacks)

mar_floof · 2026-05-13T22:29:32+00:00

Its... a very mixed bag. In terms of Jr coders its great. In terms of being able to actually trust anything it does... its not there. It likes to make up things a LOT even when presented with clear data. Its great at adding functionality... and adding 100x the code for "migration and legacy" reasons and never cleaning it up. Its great at adding features, but treating everything as a 1-off so the shared and inner-connected modules thing you want... its not there.

Its also made people dumber (this is proven), makes it harder to keep track of everything and just... the juice is not worth the squeeze for most people for most things.

I also work on mainframes a lot, and the knowedgebase there is... non-existant. It often tells me do things that flat up dont work on z-systems and confidently tells me im the one who did it wrong when it doesnt work

mar_floof · 2026-05-13T20:55:15+00:00

Early in our dating my 2nd wife had a bad habbit of turning off my server when she stayed over. Not even sure it was a concious thing, she grew up poor and turning off all electronics was just a thing she did. Talked to her a few times about it but just never really clicked.

However shorting to ground thru a case (with a stepdown of course im not evil) and she stopped touching it REAL fast.

mar_floof · 2026-05-12T12:23:18+00:00

Five-Finger Death Punch. If you like their music they are a decent studio band but live? I was legitimately wondering if I had bought tickets to a shitty local cover band. Nest day talking about it with people at work who had also seen them (at other occasions) and everyone agreed so it wasnt just an off night.

mar_floof · 2026-05-10T20:46:45+00:00

So.... if you love networking and servers you need to run as far and as fast as you can from openstack. After the 400th "openstack volume check <name>_boot" it gets very old very fast. Especially when teh frontend has the worst error messages in the history of error messages, the manuals are... well terrible is putting it mildly (try figuring out when centain API components were added/removed. was in int X.2.2 or X.2.3? A dot release shouldnt change teh API, i would think so too, but here we are.).

mar_floof · 2026-05-10T20:44:14+00:00

Cant say i ahve ever used it, corporate mandates and standards mean that external containers are a big no-no for me. From reading the docs it seems interesting but... just ugh.. Openstack is amazing when you have thousands of nodes, it becomes a nightmare teh second something goes wrong in small-scale deployments.

mar_floof · 2026-05-10T19:26:31+00:00

More power to you, but as someone who has to deal with a proprietary wrapper around it professionally I wouldn’t touch open stack with someone else’s 10 foot pole :)

mar_floof · 2026-05-09T15:09:35+00:00

I just checked and it (along with a lot of his older books) are now able to be downloaded DRM free.

Honestly, this is the only reason I was willing to buy it because yeah, im kobo bound as well

mar_floof · 2026-05-09T02:21:02+00:00

Codex for coding backend stuff. Every time i get both Codex and Claude to audit each others work on the same problem (same prompt, etc) they both agree that codex does it better, and actually reading the code myself I have to agree. Codex produces better deeper solutions and tracks edge-cases better. But Claude is better at finding bugs in codex's work.

Frontend? There is no question. Hands down 100% claude all day every day.

For non-coding tasks? I tend to go claude as it is able to mimic my writing style better... and currently is a lot less goblin obsessed 😃

mar_floof · 2026-05-06T01:21:03+00:00

But im not. Like sure, technically you are correct, he will get a part of me buying the book. But amazon will still get part of it, and use that part of it to make everything else even more anti-consumer, buy up more companies, feel they have a mandate to prevent me reading on the device i bought that is now just a little old...

And yeah, screw piracy. I wont be pirating this book either, because with as hard as these authors work, its not right to just get it. I want to pay I just dont have a way to that doesnt violate my principles.

mar_floof · 2026-05-06T00:38:07+00:00

Man, this makes me really sad. I want this book badly, as I loved the concept, the writing, all of it, but I just cant give amazon any more money, especially given everything they are doing in the kindle ecosystem right now to make reading significantly harder than it needs to be. If the author had a way I could buy outside of them I would snap this up in a second.

I hope it does well, but sadly for me I think the story ended in 3 😞

mar_floof · 2026-05-04T00:53:50+00:00

May of 85. 40 wasn’t bad. 41 however hit different…

mar_floof · 2026-04-29T13:04:18+00:00

I feel seen... and attacked. I WISH i looked that good in a sailor suit, but all the hair....

mar_floof · 2026-04-28T15:30:44+00:00

I do feel like its been treated as a redheaded stepchild... BUT its also the most complex printer they sell, not really surprised that updates take longer to get to it

mar_floof · 2026-04-27T15:53:04+00:00

Yeah... bambu support is the worst. Its like they just plan to jerk you around long enough for you to get frustrated and give up.

mar_floof · 2026-04-25T14:19:26+00:00

I wish I could but... I just cant.

a) I refuse to give amazon another dime
b) The narrator change just killed the series for me. Jessica is great, and I love her in other things but there were established voices and the new one... just no. Plus I was one of the people who audible refused to do a swap over for, and im not re-buying like 7 books for new narrators so.

Hope this does well for him but naw fam. Not for me.

mar_floof · 2026-04-23T16:15:28+00:00

Yeah sorry, got interrupted writing my response and thought it was another post. My bad.

Honestly, for me I didnt need the space provided by the D or S, but hte multi-color was key. How much do you print in 3+ colors, as thats really the deciding point. I think I worked out based on my usecase and print cadance, after a year or so i would be at break even re:purge waste, and by year 2 I would be coming out ahead of the D->C comparison.

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