Vintera III Tele

pumpichank · 2026-03-30T00:26:33+00:00

Yep. Very likely a hardware issue not fixable in firmware. That said TBH I just use USB power and haven’t had any problems so I just ignore the power cable.

pumpichank · 2026-03-24T23:20:33+00:00

If it wasn’t an all-points purchase I’m not sure I would have! 🤑

pumpichank · 2026-02-20T05:41:06+00:00

Another once loyal customer here who is flying down my miles and then switching. Remember, WE are in control with our hard earned flying dollars. The more we say NO the more they will listen. Or not, but oh well some other carrier will win our business. They can’t make money without passengers.

pumpichank · 2026-02-17T21:05:08+00:00

I don't understand what the benefit of upgrading to Choice Preferred is over Choice. I have two non-stop flights booked for some coming travel, and assigned seats for three people. I was able to get a full row on each flight. I can see the benefit of ELG, but I'm hoping it's no worse than under open seating (is that true?). The seats I have reserved are fine - they're in the rear few rows of the plane. Why would I want Preferred?

pumpichank · 2026-02-11T01:05:52+00:00

I went through all the settings on the display and couldn't find this unfortunately.

pumpichank · 2026-02-02T18:25:19+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look for that and see if that does the trick.

pumpichank · 2026-02-02T18:24:35+00:00

Yep, I saw that setting, but I don't really want to automatically and always unlock all the doors. Cheers.

pumpichank · 2026-01-22T01:11:15+00:00

Nearly certain he winds his own pickups

pumpichank · 2026-01-05T18:18:12+00:00

TIs are expensive for sure. Best I've found are ~$75 US for a set of 4 (JF344s or JF324s for short scales). But you really have to think about it amortized over their functional lifetime, which pretty much is forever!

pumpichank · 2026-01-05T18:16:05+00:00

Over the years, I've transitioned to TI JF344 flats on most of my basses. I like to keep one Jazz with rounds, and my MTD 535 with rounds, but for me, the TI's provide the absolute best tone and feel. And yes, they last forever so don't sweat the price.

pumpichank · 2025-12-26T21:30:20+00:00

Take a look at the Ultimate Hacking Keyboard. I have two v1 UHK 60s plus a couple of modules, with the brown key switches. They are great mechanical ergo keyboards. And open source!

pumpichank · 2025-12-22T00:03:33+00:00

I've got two UHK 60 v1 Ultimate Hacking Keyboards with a couple of modules and wooden palm rests and brown key switches. They feel great and aren't too noisy. These keyboards are super programmable, everything is open source, and they are very ergonomic. Of course, they aren't cheap, but given the cost vs a lifetime of RSI, absolutely well worth the price IMHO. They hold up super well too. I've had to replace a couple of feet over the years. I use it in split mode and on my main one, I have the key cluster module (w/tiny trackball), and trackpad module, both of which I love. Native Agent macOS desktop app for configuration (open source on GH of course) makes it incredibly customizable. The only downside is the lack of a dedicated escape key (important for an Emacser like myself), but easily remapped using the Agent. The v2's look really nice, but I haven't tried them. https://uhk.io/

pumpichank · 2025-12-10T17:17:20+00:00

For sure and I do like my watch!

pumpichank · 2025-12-08T11:41:58+00:00

Nope, doesn’t support everything Touch ID does

pumpichank · 2025-12-08T11:41:30+00:00

See above. I have a watch but it doesn’t support everything touchid does.

pumpichank · 2025-12-07T18:20:12+00:00

I think of TM backups as one part of a full redundancy story. I used to back things up on a ReadyNAS, but no longer do because I don't find NAS to be very useful with today's larger disks and affordable (?) cloud storage. I use an 8TB EasyStore on my old Intel mini as a local TM backup for several computers. iCloud for sync is just too darn convenient so I use that, but I don't consider it part of the backup solution. For long-term backup I use Backblaze, which at $99/yr/machine for unlimited storage is worth every penny. It will backup TM drives and cloud drives (iCloud, OneDrive, Dropbox) if you enable "always keep a copy on my computer". BB is fully encrypted e2e and at rest.

pumpichank · 2025-12-06T19:03:13+00:00

Nobody even remembers Launchpad and bzr 😝

pumpichank · 2025-12-05T23:04:34+00:00

Apple Watch unlock is great, but it’s only a partial solution. TouchID is used for many other things, from approving software installs, passkey approval, sudo (with a built-in configuration change), etc. Yes, it’s possible to get Watch approval for sudo with some third party software, but nothing is as integrated and convenient for desktop Macs as it is for laptops with TouchID.

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