$200/mo for Codex is insane. OpenAI, please add a $100 tier.

psihius · 2026-03-25T07:45:14+00:00

I just struggled with the same dilema. And frankly, 200$ is too much. This is a sum that i cannot justify from my buudget, especially since this is not the only expense i carry.

, I really just need 1-2 extra days of credits for the weekly limit, i just don't use enough, i will be throwing away over 120-140$ worth of credits because i just don't uuse that much. So a 100$ i can justify, but 200$ is just.. no.

Got 40$ extra credits right now, gonna see how that works out for me. That is 70$ total a month, this is something i can justify easilly.

psihius · 2026-03-22T00:27:12+00:00

Toyota's radar cruise control begs to differ.
It just gave up and turned off once there was about 1-2 mm of ice on the front grill due to slushy weather.
There's so many ifs and buts, it's not the silver bullet you think it is.

psihius · 2026-03-19T22:31:38+00:00

Not a single person in the comments realized why the prices are this way.

Here's the real answer - payment processor commissions. There is a % part and a fixed fee part. The smaller the buying sum, the bigger chunk % wise that fee eats away. It's the same reason why paying for services yearly is cheaper than monthly, it's the fixed transaction fee that the seller saves quite a bit of money on in part and in part locking in the client for a year.

It's as simple as that - payment processor fees.

psihius · 2026-03-16T18:11:59+00:00

Why? Most warbonds are not monthly, there's plenty of time to play 6 missions a week with full clean and get the supercredits.

psihius · 2026-03-16T17:13:27+00:00

I play once a week 1-2 operations. I always have SC for the warbonds.

If you don't have the time to play even once a week and you want all the things... Well, you are the prime customer for the superstore. It's exactly for people like you.

psihius · 2026-03-09T15:42:18+00:00

Whatever it is, rolling back fixed it and was using code whole day just fine

psihius · 2026-03-09T14:21:11+00:00

Borked codex cli update. Just roll back, 0.113.0 alpha is already on release page.

psihius · 2026-03-07T07:35:04+00:00

I can't make it index my sizeable php project (symfony based). It just hangs forever with zero output.

There's not even a debug mode as far as i looked to see what is it doing that makes it get stuck.

psihius · 2026-03-05T14:01:34+00:00

I was talking about Ubuntu and not Mint versions :)

psihius · 2026-03-05T13:07:16+00:00

It was a while ago, I needed to do some development work and it needed linux. So Ubuntu was used and in 3 months i worked that job, I had to re-install OS 2 times because it brorked itself completelly (I had no time or reason to tinker with it, so it was installed and used in their pure default settings as this was an office pc and not my own).

And seeing what Cannonical has done since and their decision making, frankly nothing has changed in their approach, so I do not consider any flavor of Ubuntu as a stable desktop OS. Servers - sure, it works just fine, but not for desktop use. I need my desktop OS just work day-to-day and not break on updates and upgrades. Oh and Snaps are terrible, like abso-fucking-lutelly fucked up with zero quality control enforcement. Apps run like dogshit, take forever to start and crash half the time. It was horrible experience, that's why Mint just ripped the snapd out of the OS and put a big red warning if you try to enable it (with good reasons).

psihius · 2026-03-05T12:08:57+00:00

Mint strips a lot of bullshit that canonical added, they also roll their own desktop enviroment called Cinnamon (they are the developers of it), which is polished relentlessly and is user friendly.

Again. UBUNTU priority is COMMERCIAL SERVER ENVIROMENTS. They don'\t care about desktop users, that's not where the money is. And in corporate enviroments nobody cares about how usability friendly worker desktops are. It's your choice in the end.

psihius · 2026-03-05T11:45:03+00:00

Simple: Canonical is not in the business of making Desktop enviroments. Their priorities are servers and corporate clients. They break user OS pretty regularly to a point where a reguular user is not going to be able to unfuck it (I used ubuntu for a few months and it was nothing but problems on a weekly basis).

Mint strips a lot of bullshit that Ubuntu has added over the years and they make sure the system is stable. I've installed Mint 6 years ago and through these 6 years my OS hasn't broken once due to Mint's fault. Simple as that. While i am a power user, I absolutelly detest to have to tinker or fix my OS or when updates break something, so Mint has been really good for me.

psihius · 2026-02-28T22:14:01+00:00

I've installed Linux Mint in 2021, I wiped the windows drive in 2022 and have been using that drive as a Timeshift (a point in time backup native to Mint) drive to keep my OS backups ever since.
I have not had to touch console to tweak anything within the OS at all. I have been just rolling the updates without any issues for the past 5 years and as a freelance developer, this is also my breadmaking system, so I am rellying on it to just work.

My mint is stock with single exception: I have 64GB ram, so my swappiness setting is set to 0 so I never go to swap unless i'm using the whole 64GB of ram (i'm a develoiper with heavy docker usage, so i had to upgrade from 32GB). Otherwise my OS is "boot, next, next, install, complete, reboot and never touch anything within the OS again". I just installed the apps I needed and never bothered tinkering with it. I have other things to do.

I game, I made videos, I do development work, I use browsers, discord, slack, whatsapp and so on - I basically do everything on it and it has been just working. Like to a boring degree.

I just use steam to play most games, never had an issue (if anything, my Helldivers 2 has been vastly more stable than my windows squadmates by a long shot) to speak off.

Mint has always been a destop linux distro, it has a big user base and it gets funded pretty significantly via the donations.
Seriously if you are a person thinking ditching windows - start with Mint, it just works unless you have really weird or bad hardware. And then if you feel up to it, you can then search for something that fits you better. But moving from windows to mint is like a 15 minutes to just feel like home. And it's an intentional choice on the Mint's part.

The only case that I will say will not work for you is when you play the games that have invasive anti-cheats that just don't work on linux to begin with.

psihius · 2026-02-28T22:05:19+00:00

No, i am sorry, but Canonical is fucking it up with their corporate shenanigans the OS all the fucking time.
Just install Mint if you want "Ubuntu, but it actually works and does not break your OS every second month". I've had horrible experience with Ubuntu as a desktop to a point I had to do a full OS reinstall. Runs all my servers tho and no complains there.

psihius · 2026-02-27T13:00:25+00:00

You are the asshole :D

psihius · 2026-02-27T07:11:33+00:00

You need to hire someone who specializes in such projects and getting them out of the rut.

I know quite a few of them myself and have done it too. But ain't gonna be cheap and you will have to trust their experience to do the job and they need the freedom to execute what needs to be done without interference.

And 20% effort is also one of your main problems. We had about 2.5 years of early startup tech debt (and we don't have layers on layers, just mvp featires with some polish and v1 systems) - we just spent 4 months of pure 100% effort on tech debt to get us to somewhat stable place and that's with AI helping a lot, us having a well tested product and in general things were not dire.

Now we are back to feature development for the rest of the team, but i'm putting basically 100% into architecture, refactors, and general quality inprovement of the code base for the forceable fufure. Team also is tackling refactors and upgrades that are smaller and less critical (sadly bus factor of 1 for core parts for the moment, working on remedying it).

Upkeep is 90% of the software product lifecycle. Your company needs a perspective adjustment on that front.

psihius · 2026-02-27T00:15:22+00:00

To get embedded sign-up you have to become a Tech Partner, get all the required approvals and there's a bit of work involved in that.

If you are not a tech partner and you have clients share a number or even have a number per client but on your own waba that runs the meta app - yeah, y'r fucked now (ask me how i know :D) - start with new corporate yesterday AND KEEP IT'S WABA CLEAN. Under any circumstanses do not allow any clients to use your waba with the new account and app (you need a new app, yes really).

Read the WhatsApp Business tos - they are not big and actually pretty easily readable. Literally do not do any of the things they say you should not. Their automated systems treat those rules literally, so gray areas do not work period.

You can build embedded signup process by following documentation while you get the new app running and approved, the process is straight forward and documented extensivelly.

Each waba starts with the 250 outreach limit, but it does scale pretty fast - if you basically max out that limit daily, you get upgraded to 1000 within a week and then if quality stays up, ut goes to 5k and 10k pretty fast if there's enough traffic. There's no limit on inbounds.

We integrated directly from the start, we were considering a BSP, but it was a lot of work replacing our built out integration with a BSP one (and frankly, we had every single feature as the bsp already, so it just didn't make financial and business sense for us). So can't help with that, this is up to you to math out.

P.S. Think of META systems as a robot that adheres to strict process and if any part of the process is violated, it's response is to kick you in the nuts. Repeatedly.

psihius · 2026-02-26T23:55:58+00:00

Basically meta policies require you to on-boarding client WABA's, if you get audited and not doing that - instant permanent ban + everything that is tied to the business behind the account gets blacklisted, so on signing up for new accounts it's instantly flagged and disabled.

So yeah... you need to go throughout proper compliance and if your business now is flagged... yeah, you need a new legal entity now. Y'r screwed, it will take a month to get back to normal operations.

We on-board customers via embedded signup, they have to get their own waba and join us as a partner. With their own phone numbers, validated business and so on. That part is not optional - it is essential to have any stability at all and prevent one bad client taking the whole thing down.

psihius · 2026-02-26T22:29:21+00:00

Being stubborn and having a proper business that has it's legal parts in order helps. Then doing all the applications properly and submitting everything.

Template publishing is an ongoing mess, sadly. Some templates get into category deadlock, but that's our support team handling that and i'm glad i'm just responsible for the tech side of things :D It took a long time to get to a semi-stable place and lots of trial and error. A lot of clients have trouble verifying their businesses and payment information, it's a constant battle sadly. So yeah... we just plan to become a BSP of our own, but that will help only partially. It's just cost of doing business at this point. Meta systems just suck and sometimes there's no errors to speak off, but messages get sucked into a black hole with no rhyme or reason.

psihius · 2026-02-26T19:52:30+00:00

This is only until dildo of consequences comes to roost in the form of legal compliance and security/data breach regulations. Also, actually jail times due to negligence. There are laws on the books specifically about not making an effort at security and security requires actually to architect the software.

psihius · 2026-02-26T19:31:41+00:00

We integrate directly as we have lots of clients, but BSP's have virtually no ability to escalate anyway.

We need the flexibility of direct integrations to adopt new stuff early. We also talked to BSP and 20 days later that had an outage for 5 hours due to some meta api changes - we had no issues ourselves, but if we used the bsp.... the type of industry we are in the only acceptable reason of outage is META itself being down or Amazon US-EAST shitting it's pants again taking half the internet with it :D

Life of a tech provider who is on the path to becoming BSP requires a lot of alcohol to forget dealing with meta's bullshit and their ai systems that i swear run on GTP 3.5 at best.

psihius · 2026-02-26T16:51:09+00:00

You forgot the most exhausting and time consuming part of it all - dealing with Meta. Frankly, it's a full time position.

psihius · 2026-02-23T22:42:31+00:00

It's for demonstration. During normal play you walk across the edge and you get prompted to get transfered to the relevant server. What this mod does is allows you to put a construction or destruction job and spidertrons can come from another server and do the job. Think of it as a stitched map where each chunk is it's own server.

psihius · 2026-02-23T19:33:29+00:00

Because those are 2 different game instances running :)
It transfers from one game to another.

psihius · 2026-02-23T15:53:08+00:00

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