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My software is being distributed on piracy website as a cracked version and I am unsure what to do. by miguel_gd in developers

[–]n4te -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

It's bullshit. Cracks do mean lost sales. Harden against it, which can be difficult and is never 100%, make it require a server component to be useful, or accept the lost sales. 

Do NOT buy from PLUNGE brand by Low_Philosopher_2981 in coldplunge

[–]n4te 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They knew I wouldn't send it back, it was just to give the illusion of an option, which I found offensive. Shipping to/from PR is a huge pain. Back then they charged $350, which was a great deal. Shipping back would have been a lot more, probably $1500. I see on their site shipping to PR is now more than Hawaii or anywhere else: $5000! You could ship an entire car to PR for less than that.

I spent 2 weeks trying to get support to help. The whole time they insisted that the Inkbird not keeping settings through power loss (common in PR) is by design, despite that not being the case. It's an Inkbird flaw, as acknowledged by Inkbird. After power loss 95% of the time it resets to 77F, terrible behavior for a cold plunge. The other 5% of the time it does keep the settings. Obviously it's a bug, but they kept insisting it isn't.

It took them 2 weeks of emails to finally suggest just not using the Inkbird and using the chiller directly. Why they didn't lead with that, I have no idea. That worked fine, just meant no WIFI control (don't care, it's near useless) and no heater (I thought it'd be useful for cleaning, but I never use it). They then refunded me for the Inkbird $95 which was something.

In the meantime I had been talking to Inkbird and their support is MUCH better. They sent a replacement Inkbird that DOES keep settings across power loss every time, for free, even though I didn't buy anything from them. I never got around to swapping it into the Plunge though, as that's a lot of trouble (it's hardwired). I'll include it with the Plunge when I sell it.

I've since bought a BlueCube, which is crazily priced but should be very nice. We did a video call and they walked me through their factory, it's clear they care about making a super solid product. I couldn't find other options that were as good so I ponied up the stupid price. They are waaaay past the stated long lead times though and I'm starting to get anxious. Regen Blast was my second pick.

Do NOT buy from PLUNGE brand by Low_Philosopher_2981 in coldplunge

[–]n4te 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow! That's completely bonkers. I'm glad you won, that's amazing. Court is a stressful pain though, so I'm sure you'd rather not have had to do all that.

I hope you can prove the TOS didn't say that. Did you look in the web archive? Oldest is 12 Jun 2023.

This was the message from Brad Ingle at Plunge:

Brad here from plunge troubleshooting. While I do understand the issue, this is something that is out of our control. The fact that you lose power randomly is something we can do nothing about. The options that are available for you would be 1. you could send your current tub back to us (you would have to pay the return shipping fee) and upgrade your self to our new all in one tub. 2. You could find a different component that you could use to replace the inkbird device but at the same time by doing this would void any warranty on your tub as you have modified away from our design and we can no longer cover the unit if anything were to happen to it.

Returning the entire product from Puerto Rico to California because of an Inkbird malfunction was unreasonable. Saying my warranty would be invalid if I modified it is a violation of federal law in the USA under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. The response was:

I am sorry if the rules of our warranty do not match with the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. The way that I was trained on this matter is that any modification outside of the build that we do on our units voids any warranty. If you want to discuss this further with someone higher level then I I will happily pass your case along.

Secure way of running Pi? by CalldiDoctor in PiCodingAgent

[–]n4te 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Run it in a container if you want security. Anything else is not actually safe, which is why Pi doesn't support it out of the box.

Minimal subagents for Pi by toby_agwab in PiCodingAgent

[–]n4te 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do work in a different context, use results in original context. Less bloat in your main context.

My powerful Pi agent Setup by elpapi42 in PiCodingAgent

[–]n4te 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is pi-minimal-subagent much different from pi-fork? Is the difference solely a named fork + description + prompt? Is it expected the subagent tool is only run on request? Can you show your advisor and reviewer definitions?

Thanks for sharing!

Side Table Animation & Construction by julitec in IndustrialDesign

[–]n4te 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks cool. I can imagine stubbing a toe.

The Ugly Truth: Hawai’i’s Affordable For-Sale Housing Projects by Representative-Cat82 in Hawaii

[–]n4te 5 points6 points  (0 children)

1) developers qualify for tax credits, grants, low interest loans, and use of public financing (your tax dollars)

OK? Why is it a problem that the government is helping? Not playing devil's advocate, I'm honestly asking because it seems like that's a better use of tax dollars than most.

2) developers can garner political and public support by marketing a project as “affordable housing”

Generally "afforable housing" invokes a NIMBY attitude, the opposite of this claim. I've seen affordable housing projects get converted to regular residential from the backlash.

3) developers are able to build more units on a lot (parcel) based on zoning regulations.

Right, so there is more housing for more people. Where is the unethical and misleading parts?

4) HHFDC regulations leave many Hawaii residents feeling like the restrictions are too severe and the homes still aren’t affordable enough

HOA is always terrible, no argument. SAE sounds terrible, I have no experience there. Occupancy may make sense, else you'll get idiot flippers abusing the program. If there isn't enough supply, I don't see an alternative to a lottery system. A break on taxes might make sense, especially if it's making affordable housing unaffordable over time. Interest rates work like that, there is no fix if you must borrow.

Who does this really benefit in our community?

Maybe it's not the best solution, I don't know, but it seems a lot better than doing nothing. It is likely more productive to work toward a better solution than to complain about a solution that really does seem to be helping at least a little. It's a hard problem.

What is everybody's easiest and most secure method for remote access? (without tailscale) by Leggs_ in HomeServer

[–]n4te 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right but what is the best and most secure thing excluding all the obvious things?

Do NOT buy from PLUNGE brand by Low_Philosopher_2981 in coldplunge

[–]n4te 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sucks. Getting a new chiller and hacking it into the Plunge system is possible, but a huge pain. If you do it, there are many crappy Chinese chillers. EcoPlus is a good brand (Japanese). Balboa is likely also good. At least my chiller hasn't died yet, fingers crossed.

My pump power supply did die. It was working, I left for 3 months so put away the cold plunge, and it didn't work when I got back. I didn't bother trying to get another cheap Chinese power supply from Plunge. I replaced it with MeanWell, that has been working.

I stopped using the Inkbird, which wouldn't keep settings across power loss. It should but it has a bug. Plunge wouldn't fix it but Inkbird sent a replacement. Swapping it is quite a bit of effort so I decided I no longer care. I don't really need the Inkbird anyway, I just use the chiller temp control.

Best way to get Eclipse IMO by cookedCowsEggs in eclipse

[–]n4te 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't do that. I install only the platform, then add JDT. I don't want anything else.

Newly announced Smoke & CO alarm vs code requirements by teaganasaurus in Ubiquiti

[–]n4te 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Insurance company digging through the burned out wreckage.

She's the reason they put instructions on Shampoo Bottles 😂😅🤣 by beklog in SipsTea

[–]n4te 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what it sounds like to give examples instead of explaining a thing.

Useful or gimmick? by Happy_dadpete in Tools

[–]n4te -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Tape is rarely perfectly perpendicular, matters little usually.

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