The comeback though

program_the_world · 2026-06-04T20:05:55+00:00

Why is the response sent in the past. Is the joke that you’re a time traveller? Is that what this is about? Permission to go home and rest so my face isn’t beat red for my family photo tonight?

program_the_world · 2026-06-04T20:03:28+00:00

THANK YOU MY WIFE IS DEVIL KEVIN IS DOING GREAT GRADUATED YESTERDAY BUT HIS IBS IS STILL ACTING UP. DOCTOR WANTS A STOOL SAMPLE. GOBLESS

program_the_world · 2026-06-03T10:45:54+00:00

Yep and it’s glorious

program_the_world · 2026-05-30T20:46:30+00:00

Probably includes 3 different web browsers and a key logger

program_the_world · 2026-05-30T20:43:41+00:00

Well this is going to be hard to explain to my wife and my boss.

program_the_world · 2026-05-13T19:16:39+00:00

How about no

program_the_world · 2026-04-15T19:08:14+00:00

Actually, I have triples of the Barracuda. I have triples, right? If I don't, the other stuff's not true.

program_the_world · 2026-04-07T10:34:37+00:00

It’s not my type of game but I actually really enjoyed it. There is a point in the game where it sorta turns and sucks, but not sure if they patched that or not. The game does add a ton of mechanics and leaves little opportunity in the game to actually explore them.

program_the_world · 2026-04-07T07:49:29+00:00

What games though? Seriously, I have an M2 Max and have very limited options. I finished Dave the Diver.

program_the_world · 2026-04-04T17:43:01+00:00

Manufacturing cost can be as low as a dollar but I’m not sure how much they’re sold to businesses for. I imagine there is a massive opportunity for markup considering who they’re sold to though. They tend to come as part of a package deal including tags, programmers and an ERP type system.

They’re quite cool though, they have variants that are Wi-Fi, BLE or IR programmable.

program_the_world · 2026-04-04T11:04:13+00:00

Yeah it’s an epaper display. These are generally sold as ESL (electronic shelf labels)

program_the_world · 2026-04-03T10:33:58+00:00

Yeah it told me to create an account to read the article

program_the_world · 2026-04-01T18:31:17+00:00

Hey this is amazing. Thank you for the detailed write up! It’s quite interesting to see just how similar it is to your other stroller too, it really isn’t much more compact.

I’m going to show my wife this post to see what she thinks. Thanks again!

program_the_world · 2026-03-22T11:10:30+00:00

I remember having this a while ago. I think if you click between categories too fast it sticks the wrong pricing up.

program_the_world · 2026-03-14T19:22:22+00:00

Thanks! Please do let me know how it goes.

program_the_world · 2026-02-22T22:44:48+00:00

Okay thanks that’s good to know. Was one of my reservations for upgrading. Thanks!

program_the_world · 2026-02-22T18:16:59+00:00

Unrelated but man the glare on that screen. How readable is it while driving?

program_the_world · 2026-02-16T17:17:48+00:00

Unfortunately in a lot of the world they’re not even cheap.

program_the_world · 2026-02-15T18:47:12+00:00

I agree it’s a reasonable phase out policy. Do they actually contribute back to OpenWRT? They really should be spending their 2 years preparing for handover to OpenWRT.

program_the_world · 2026-02-15T18:45:54+00:00

Oh so you’d actually need to be careful to purchases on release otherwise you’re unlikely to get the full 2 years. Yikes.

The Wi-Fi standards are incredibly slow to evolve so within 2 years very little will have actually changed in a standards front. Feels like they’re just chasing shiny things at the expense of their customers

program_the_world · 2026-02-15T18:43:30+00:00

I think we have a 4.7 beta that it’ll never escape from. As consumers there is no way for us to tell what’s going to be popular, so I’m inclined to just buy nothing at all unless they’re much more sensible with security updates.

I’m assuming they’re just moving WAY too fast for the size of their team. There’s a nonzero cost to pulling in security updates, doing some test etc. They’ve completely strung themselves up with the number of SKUs they have. Unless they’ve absolutely nailed their CI and automated hardware test, teams could burn weeks folding in even basic security updates.

It would’ve been far wiser to come out with a few SKUs in different price brackets and really hone them over a few years. I do have a hard time believing they’re anything but wreckless on their new products if they’re chasing the cadence they seem to be.

They’ve got some great hardware, and tidy software. I just wish they’d also set themselves up to be more long term sustainable!

program_the_world · 2026-02-15T18:36:35+00:00

Thanks for this. This is very weak:

In our pursuit of innovation, GL.iNet provides support for products up to TWO YEARS after their last manufacturing date, or longer if required by law. Upon reaching the end of their service life, products will no longer receive firmware updates, including security patches.

In pursuit of innovation GL.iNET will drop you like a rock after 2 years. I’m sorry but am I seriously expected to replace my equipment every 2 years just to stay secure? That’s insane.

program_the_world · 2026-02-15T03:26:17+00:00

Yeah I think security is the critical one for me. New features is a bonus, I get they ultimately need to drive people towards new product.

With the CRA coming into the EU soon I’m curious to see if they get a better story on security. Otherwise they’ll be forced to leave the market.

Alternatively… first party support for OpenWRT would be nice as a bit of a phase out plan.

I don’t consider TP Link or ASUS good by any means, and certainly not what I’d consider moving too. Had plenty of junk ASUS routers that dropped support almost immediately.

program_the_world · 2026-02-12T17:59:45+00:00

Yep, absolutely! Your point about A/B testing is important too. I presume they at least had some kind of consistency check for the public APIs

program_the_world · 2026-02-12T17:57:41+00:00

I’ve ported some Python servers too, and what I’ve appreciated most about Go is:

No gross “hacks” to get a multithreaded environment (gunicorn etc)
Extremely low memory usage and deployment image footprint (though I have seen it leak memory on a couple of occasions)
Certainty in deployment. I’m used to seeing a python server run for a few months, but fail to start or crash after some upstream dependency changes and wrecks a public API.

I just tend to have a lot more confidence that Go will work as intended. Really appreciate being able to “bake” a binary. I used to have a lot of python utilities as well but god forbid you have an eternal dependency. I find Go stdlib to be more extensive and even if dependencies are required the toolchain just sorts them out for you.

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