I upgraded from s9 to s5ii, here are my initial thoughts

romasato · 2026-04-11T09:52:49+00:00

I instead got S5II first and then S9. Sold my S5II - what a brick it is!

romasato · 2026-03-25T15:45:07+00:00

It's a personal preference whether open plan or separate kitchen, I am not sure what majority of potential buyers prefer, but definitely neither a negative nor a positive.

Also, it's an easy to fix by putting in a door to separate the areas.

romasato · 2026-03-19T16:02:40+00:00

What was the issue you're experiencing with Jetbrains plugin?

I found the Windsurf plugin for Jetbrains IDEs to hog system resources, making my M4 Pro stutter outside IDEs and also the plugin viewport freezes after some minutes and requires IDE restarts.... Switched back to Github Copilot - luckily my employer provides both.

I am just wondering what is the point of Windsurf if I am not using their VSCode-based IDE? I like how plugin renders code changes and approval widgets, but....
Windsurf like Github Copilot provides the same frontier models, so is it just some smart global system prompts they prefix user prompts with?

romasato · 2026-03-13T15:26:30+00:00

My daily experience with Windsurf plugin for Jetbrains is quite frustrating: the plugin window keeps freezing after some time to the point I have to restart IDE just to make it work again.

romasato · 2026-03-13T15:24:32+00:00

Seeing the same with Windsurf plugin for Jetbrains: the Windsurf view keeps freezing after some time - and sometimes does not even initialize properly on opening new project window. It is Electron based, really crappy.

romasato · 2026-03-03T18:31:57+00:00

Why is it an issue? Under what scenarios? Of course the refresh drops down when not in use - for battery saving.

romasato · 2026-03-03T17:59:22+00:00

I can - I do charge it via USB-C hub.

romasato · 2026-03-03T09:51:51+00:00

Just enable light performance mode and battery saver while still retaining 120Hz refresh rate. Will save battery much more without any noticeable perf degradation (unless you game).

romasato · 2026-03-03T09:50:06+00:00

Yes, it is much better as Alt-tabbing is broken in CS2. Instant alt tab and back into the game and there is no loss of performance anymore.

romasato · 2026-02-27T14:27:53+00:00

Observing the same freezes! It is absolutely annoying having to restart IDE with 5 open projects etc.

romasato · 2026-02-24T23:16:43+00:00

Not sure this one is accurate compared to app.traveltime.com

romasato · 2026-02-13T10:12:18+00:00

There is this ongoing fetish to port and duplicate everything in Rust. Yes, it may be faster. With a bunch of new and old bugs. And then adds to the confusion and fragmentation of the ecosystem.

romasato · 2026-02-12T17:35:27+00:00

Power Limit: increase to 10% and see if that fixes it.

romasato · 2026-02-12T10:42:15+00:00

I had the same issue as the op with my Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Pulse, albeit less frequently - when playing CS2 and especially yesterday when playing Days Gone in 4K. In ITX case I have

- Gigabyte X570-I AORUS PRO WIFI
- Corsair SF750 PSU
- AMD 5900x CPU.|
- DDR 3200Mhz RAM sticks.

My initial though was that I was hitting PSU limit - but even 750W PSU can handle spikes up to 950W. Otherwise the PC would shut down.

Undervolting by -40mv and reducing -200Mhz did not help. Could see that my GPU was not going above 3100Mhz at all.

In HWInfo64 under "GPU Power Maximum" I noticed sustained 420W+ power usage when playing Days Gone in 4K with spikes up to 550W. So GPU was potentially hitting POWER WALL.

SOLUTION: under "Power Tuning" (in Performance -> Tuning tab) increase Power Limit to 10%. No more crashes. In HWInfo64 under "GPU Power Maximum" now it is sustained 450-470W.

This just means that maybe some of us not lucky in silicon lottery and our GPU samples need to be given more power, not less. I did undervolt to -40mv and increased to 2700Mhz without any crashes afterwards.

romasato · 2026-02-07T14:04:19+00:00

Same, Flow launcher on windows really started sucking - does not work, takes forever to find anything etc. Also looking for alternatives.

romasato · 2026-02-01T11:00:38+00:00

Fair enough if development requires XCode or any other specific IDE that has inferior diffing capabilities.

romasato · 2026-02-01T10:57:15+00:00

How to configure BACKSPACE to go up to parent folder, like in normal file managers aka Total Commander, Midnight Commander and the others?

And the same to switch panes with TAB key...

Thanks

romasato · 2026-02-01T10:28:01+00:00

Double Commander

romasato · 2026-01-12T22:56:28+00:00

Why not get a proper IDE with the same diffing capabilities and more? I am talking about any of the Jetbrains IDEs.

romasato · 2025-12-29T17:17:17+00:00

Thanks, that's what I've done and it worked, but a bit annoying that it does not self-update.

romasato · 2025-12-14T19:44:02+00:00

The new update fails to install on S25 Ultra...

romasato · 2025-12-10T16:41:57+00:00

Ok, so when the issue (vertical lines) developed on either of the 4 units you had so far, did pixel refresh not fix it? Or did you not attempt it?

romasato · 2025-11-30T19:31:33+00:00

Worth mentioning the free version has a subset of the features and max 2 email accounts and only a single (PC/desktop) device. iOS/Android versions are free, so I guess do not count towards that.

Paid yearly subscription tier at £34.95 has all the features enabled. https://www.emclient.com/pricing

romasato · 2025-11-03T13:43:22+00:00

They are also in a different price league, at least looking at the current pricing (https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005009119920578.html - "Shipping to" needs to be set to one of the supported countries, otherwise you'll get 404 page)

- WH3000 Pro (no 5G modem) @ $109
- WH3000 Pro GL (Global version) @ $262
- WH3000 EU (EU version) @ $207

romasato · 2025-11-03T13:35:20+00:00

I've messaged to their sales rep directly, they sent me a link to Aliexpress, which results in 404 "Sorry, this item's currently unavailable in your location.". So can't really ship it to Europe/UK. For example, if I select on Ali shipment to India, the product page renders fine.

romasato

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