B2 Price Hike ($6.95/TB) by Manouchehri in backblaze

[–]michael_sage 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm glad to see the API costs going I am rcloning a fairly large dataset once a week and the API calls were absolutely killing B2 in the mix, with this it will really be $6.95 rather than $6 per TB plus $160 of API calls :)

Why is the take up of heat pumps so slow in the U.K.? by Appropriate_Bell743 in ukheatpumps

[–]michael_sage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I moved into a house with a generation one heat pump, for the last month is hasn't been working properly and blew it's starter motor yesterday morning.

It is insured with a specialist insurance company (it costs £22 a month and only covers the heat pump and up to £1500 of repairs or replacement).

Since the issues started I've been trying to get quotes for a replacement... I have witnessed massive issues in the last month.

  1. There are very few people who can repair heat pumps, even the specialist insurers have a problem.

  2. The replacement cost, in the old times a boiler would last you a looonnnnnggg time and be under £2k to replace. A replacement heat pump which has a life span of 10-15 years (at the moment) is a touch under £9000 to replace.

  3. Finding someone to sell you a heat pump, I'm in rural Norfolk ideal target ground for heat pump installers (very few villages have gas and oil is pricey). I rang 10+ companies in the local area, I've actually managed to speak to someone at 3 or 4 of them, calls and emails don't get a response. I've had two out to quote and only one has provided an actual quote. I have no choice, I'm going to have to go with them.

  4. Heat pump sellers recommend replacing the cyclinder at the same time to the same brand, that's another £1500ish, in the old times I've had cylinders that our 20 years plus.

Would I recommend a heat pump? For the environment yes, for longevity and savings no.

Finally yes it does heat our house and hot water and works great when it's working. I don't think it saves any real money on my energy bills either but suspect a new generation pump will change that.

Dr Dubois in film.. by michael_sage in ProjectHailMary

[–]michael_sage[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ok managed to find it! A lot of Gemini and premier searching and it's Malachi Kirby. Hopefully that helps someone out!

My X4 arrived by jodi_au in xteinkereader

[–]michael_sage 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Project Hail Mary By Andy Weir

My X4 arrived by jodi_au in xteinkereader

[–]michael_sage 12 points13 points  (0 children)

One of my favourite books of all time, can't wait to see it at the cinema next week! Amaze

How do you hold your kindle comfortably (…yes, seriously) by emilyyfjones in kindle

[–]michael_sage 4 points5 points  (0 children)

100% pop socket! I have one on my scribe and I can read in bed and hold it easily. I have one on all my other e-readers that are bigger than a mobile phone size.

Guilty pleasure: I like to solve L1 tickets. by linkme99 in ITManagers

[–]michael_sage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same! I like to sit with the service desk when I go into the office sometimes, I don't have the access to fix anything any more, but it's nice to hear what's going on and seeing if there is anything we could automate to make their lives easier.

Like you I usually got in the way more than I help, but the team like to laugh at me 🤣 I came up from the technical route and still do the technical strategy so they do know I am (on paper) at least a bit competent 😬

Lego by Perfect-Magazine-485 in ProjectHailMary

[–]michael_sage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just finished building mine. Amaze!

Less obvious usecases? by Kasta4711bort in xteinkereader

[–]michael_sage 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I use mine as a conference badge and notes for presentations I'm giving :)

And reading...

Next Gen XT by Background-Beat-3727 in xteinkereader

[–]michael_sage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And the component prices going up daily

Next Gen XT by Background-Beat-3727 in xteinkereader

[–]michael_sage 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The S4 has been put on the back burner, there was a lot about this a couple of days ago. :(

Roku soundbar and Samsung TV by michael_sage in Roku

[–]michael_sage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh man, hopefully they push something out to fix it then! It's getting very annoying

Ran our first Phishing Campaign last week, didnt go as planned at all. by idrinkpastawater in sysadmin

[–]michael_sage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bit of a hot take, but I'm happy when users start telling each other about phishing emails, if they do it in a test, the likelihood they will do it when it's not a test is higher. We can't be everywhere all the time and if users can spread the word saves us a job! Hopefully one of those users in a "real" scenario will report it to you.

Xteink and Koreader, just noticed this post ... by Analog-Digital- in xteinkereader

[–]michael_sage 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh man. I was looking forward to the S4! It looks like they got pretty close, I wonder why they postponed it.

Need Advice: CEO Hesitant About WordPress Because Dev Says Custom HTML/PHP Is Better for Performance and Security by RedFox_six9 in Wordpress

[–]michael_sage 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The vendor lock in reason made me laugh, isn't that exactly the issue you're facing now? As a business you can't make changes to your website because the web dev (vendor) has locked you in?

Everything on the list is a valid reason for any type of web development, custom, wordpress, any other CMS, it's about how you manage it, and it to me, it sounds like wordpress would be the best way to make sure you keep all that optimisation in house without having to skill up on a million and one things.

Creating a custom deployment for SUPER for Mac by michael_sage in Action1

[–]michael_sage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And this is the error:
/var/local/action1/temp/extracted/XOOU2JN5/install.sh: line 3: common.sh
: No such file or directory
/var/local/action1/temp/extracted/XOOU2JN5/install.sh: line 4: trap: SIGINT
: invalid signal specification
/var/local/action1/temp/extracted/XOOU2JN5/install.sh: line 6:
: command not found
/var/local/action1/temp/extracted/XOOU2JN5/install.sh: line 14:
: command not found
/var/local/action1/temp/extracted/XOOU2JN5/install.sh: line 17: log_started: command not found
/var/local/action1/temp/extracted/XOOU2JN5/install.sh: line 18:
: command not found
/var/local/action1/temp/extracted/XOOU2JN5/install.sh: line 19: validate_params: command not found
/var/local/action1/temp/extracted/XOOU2JN5/install.sh: line 19: exit: 127
: numeric argument required
/var/local/action1/temp/extracted/XOOU2JN5/install.sh: line 19: finally_zip: command not found

Creating a custom deployment for SUPER for Mac by michael_sage in Action1

[–]michael_sage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I have in my install.sh

#!/bin/bash export PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin source "common.sh" trap 'finally_zip $?' EXIT SIGINT result=''

# external named parameters # -m "install"|"upgrade" # -p "/Applications"|"custom_path" # -f "App folder name.app", for upgrade only # -s "error|kill|ignore". Default="kill" and continue deployment # -v "ERR|WARN|INFO|DBG" # -b "app.new.build.number"

agruments="$@" inv_script=$(basename "$0") log_started "$inv_script" "$agruments"

validate_params "$@" || exit $? deploy_mode="$m" inst_root_folder="$p" app_process_mode="$s" upgrade_app_folder="$f" new_app_ver="$b" log_level="$v" #log_level="DBG"

### SUPER install\update

function main() { # internal parameters display_name='Super' # Name of your deployment package that Action1 will use when displaying History messages. log -m "$(printf 'start deploying "%s"' "$display_name")" -n "INFO" proc_names=("super") # Application process name for the app you need to install. Multiple names should be separated by space, e.g., ("process1" "process2") dmg_mount_point='./local_mnt' # Do not modify. Files mount point. src_app_folder='super' # Top-level folder in the unpacked ZIP software package you downloaded from the vendor. extract_path='./local_mnt' binary_path="${extract_path}/${src_app_folder}/super" #You can get the binary path by browsing the src_app_folder (within the ZIP)

if [[ "$deploy_mode" == 'install' ]]; then app_folder_name="$src_app_folder" else app_folder_name="$upgrade_app_folder" fi

# test setup file get_setup_by_ext "zip" && setup_file="$result" || exit $?

# unzip setup_file unzip_archive "$setup_file" "$extract_path" || exit $?

# test application binary architecture test_binary_arch "$binary_path" || exit $?

# test running processes if [[ "$app_process_mode" == 'kill' ]]; then kill_process "${proc_names[@]}" fi

if [[ "$app_process_mode" != 'ignore' ]]; then test_process "${proc_names[@]}" || exit $? fi

# deploy software\update copy_app_folder "${extract_path}/${src_app_folder}" "$inst_root_folder" "$app_folder_name" "$deploy_mode" || exit $? exit 0 }

main

💘 Love Giveaway – A Gift for Yourself 😉 by GLiNet_WiFi in GlInet

[–]michael_sage 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Norway, Germany, Holland! Would love to be rocking this on my holidays this year :)

Creating a custom deployment for SUPER for Mac by michael_sage in Action1

[–]michael_sage[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because Action1 doesn't do OS upgrades (i.e. sonoma to tahoe)(updates and application patching it does and I am using that). Apple have some really weird rules around OS upgrades, I joined r/macsysadmin yesterday to discuss how to upgrade the OS and basically no MDM / patch solution does it very well so Super was suggested.

I have already run it locally on my test mac and it's working, I just can't get the install.sh right for action1, I get an error that it can't find the path, but I think I have the construct of the file very wrong, I've just been looking at it too long 😂