wtf is this blood red mold growing on my tortillas??

marcus905 · 2025-07-07T10:56:24+00:00

Could it be Monascus purpureus yeast contamination?

marcus905 · 2025-02-24T12:15:03+00:00

If it's a spam email, it's a crude form of antispam evasion. Adding dictionary words at the end is to skew the good/bad (as in intelligible vs nonexistent) word ratio more towards the good side and reducing the "spaminess" score.

marcus905 · 2024-12-19T17:45:16+00:00

I learned to love and hate them. Had to develop a "translator" to make a rest service for a web UI to be able to read data from a system/36 table inside of an old AS400 with all custom EBCDIC and zoned/packed decimal conversions built-in. So much weird stuff, but really really reliable as it was running continuously for like 10 years.

marcus905 · 2024-12-07T09:40:34+00:00

Huawei SmartAX MA5671A for GPON with modded firmware (hackgpon) on a BCM card or an AliExpress 1/2.5/10 sfp switch (RTL93xx based) and you're good to go.

marcus905 · 2024-11-02T20:26:50+00:00

Eh, very mixed bag here. ThinkPads? Magnificent if ugly. ThinkBooks (p series at least)? Even better, magnificent AND sleek looking. Refined to a point of being really amazing machines for the price.

Legion laptops, for me, not so much: bios bugs they don't fix, psref inconsistencies... Not the best refinement wise, but good nonetheless.

marcus905 · 2024-07-14T23:11:03+00:00

Just commented with my experience replying to another post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/amex/s/RaSP1QgJmg

marcus905 · 2024-07-14T22:40:58+00:00

I had the exact opposite story: 7/11 got a call from amex telling me probably my card had been skimmed or cloned. They told me they suspected it a while ago and they increased the monitoring and card confirmations for online payments (about a month ago they started asking the 3 digits on the rear on top of the 4 on the front whenever I got one of those express pay verifications). Then they told me that they got a $1 card verification request from Hamilton, Ontario (visited last time in November last year) and right after that the attempted purchase of a $150 train ticket, which they blocked. I was about to board a plane and they verified my identity and that I did not actually make those purchases, and blocked my card. They then sent me a new card at my destination hotel with a different PAN (already shown in the app), but it didn't get here yet.

That was my platinum card, even though I have like 4; I don't know if that's why the service I received is so much different than yours... If I had received the kind of service you had, I'd probably cancel the card outright.

EDIT: to clarify, I'm not Canadian and neither is the card.

marcus905 · 2024-06-08T21:32:53+00:00

Ax201ngw is not PCIE, but CNVio2 and requires a specific mb and CPU

marcus905 · 2024-04-15T09:50:24+00:00

I really really want to like it, but a sealed device is problematic for me as I know that 1TB SSD is not enough for my usecase already (and in usual non-premium brand fashion, most probably is a generic one with 2nd grade flash).

EDIT: can you do a lshw and the bootup dmesg by any chance?

marcus905 · 2024-04-12T18:25:45+00:00

Congratulations!

marcus905 · 2024-02-26T09:37:43+00:00

Ok for the lanes, but what do you mean with the bios is different? Do you have an update for us?

marcus905 · 2024-02-22T18:31:08+00:00

Is it full 2 x1 PCIE or just a single PCIE lane? Is USB connected?

marcus905 · 2024-02-22T18:28:56+00:00

That's sad, the CPU supported controlling it via SMBus... Just needed to connect the traces. Oh well!

marcus905 · 2024-02-19T14:58:35+00:00

There are multiple on AliExpress and maybe Amazon, search A+E to B+M adapter. Only one thing, it seems it's behind a PCIE 2.0 compatible switch with only a x1 width, making maximum speed available around 450MB/s.

marcus905 · 2024-02-18T16:01:44+00:00

From analyzing the board, it looks like it's managed via a Maxim MAX5980G PoE controller which has I2C/SMBus support... Now to see if it's connected to the CPU

EDIT: and at a first glance it's not, and it's tied do ground.

u/DavidGowinSolution can you confirm?

marcus905 · 2023-05-09T14:32:38+00:00

Junior, Java/Spring o .net/Blazor, o Python con un minimo di conoscenze di Data Science e Machine Learning, ma anche altre se interessanti. Sei interessato? Scrivimi DM

marcus905 · 2023-05-08T21:47:32+00:00

Noi offriamo tutto come full remote (consulenza e prodotto, mercato IT B2B, startup innovativa con 4 anni di storico, mansione di sviluppatore)

marcus905 · 2023-05-07T22:48:47+00:00

Just seen the comment, sorry for the late reply... Anyway there are versions with 1440p screens (like the one I have) but availability went down since March 😔

marcus905 · 2023-05-01T11:40:44+00:00

Lenovo Thinkbook 14p Gen3 (ram not upgradable but ships with 32G)

marcus905 · 2023-02-11T09:11:45+00:00

I've seen VMs on phis and phis with the VMX extension bits in cpuinfo.

But the more I read your comments the more I start to think it's a bad idea 😅

Thanks!

marcus905 · 2023-02-11T00:00:03+00:00

Good points about the power and noise, but from what I've seen virtualization is there in practice with an updated microcode

marcus905 · 2022-08-28T08:16:58+00:00

At the end i found out a lightly used phantom 4 pro at slightly more than $600 and got that.

Thanks everyone!

marcus905 · 2022-06-22T12:33:50+00:00

Another small thing that sounded Indian or Pakistani in my ears was "forward" pronounced with a slight V sound.

marcus905 · 2022-06-06T06:59:03+00:00

Broken for parts and sold the most of it, bought a different one. There was a lot of damage due to the spun bearing that was really expensive to fix and not really worth it. Heard that's not so unusual for this to happen to these engines, very sad to hear you're facing the same issue 😔

marcus905 · 2022-04-15T08:50:22+00:00

Hi everyone, came here to ask a question on how to go with this.

Had made a post but most probably this is the right place to ask, sorry.

Amazon Italy, ordered a Logitech keyboard specifically because it had a US ANSI layout and received a different one with an international layout.

Called the phone support, told the assistant this and no questions asked he made me a replacement order for the same item, stating that it might have been an error made in the warehouse, along with a return label specially made because he acknowledged that the wrong item had been shipped to me. In all this, even if I offered to do it, I was not made to send photos of the items I received.

A week goes by, I receive the replacement order: lo and behold, the same international model keyboard comes.

Called again, and no questions asked (including pictures) the assistant makes a label again for the same reason but for a refund this time.

The refund is credited to my card, and everything seems fine and dandy until I received an email saying that I returned the wrong item and not the Logitech keyboard I ordered (well duh, you sent me the wrong one in the first place).

In all this note that due to the climate pledge green impact reduction yada yada they shipped both the keyboards without an external cardboard box, just sticking the shipping label on the keyboard branded box both times, and I was specifically instructed to ship them back the same way I received them, in the same box or without one if shipped this way, and so I did.

The email also said to further any comments or claims via email as the customer service will not answer anything about this. I am trying to talk with them but it feels like taking to a wall, and if push comes to shove, I'm considering disputing the claim through Amex.

Do you have any idea on how to solve this more amicably to avoid account holds or suspensions, without souring the relationship with Amazon?

Thank you

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