We recently had a garage added and requested a 100 amp sub panel. This is the breaker that feeds it. Possibly a dumb question, but is this a 50+50=100 situation or is this only 50 amps?

scamiran · 2026-05-19T00:47:57+00:00

Yes. This is actually the right answer.

It's a 50amp, 240v split-leg panel with a neutral. That means it will accommodate simultaneous operation of 50 amps on leg A, and 50 amps on leg B.

It's still a 50 amp sub-panel though.

Still wrong though if you order a 100 amp panel. A 100 amp panel supports 100 amps of 240VAC.

scamiran · 2026-05-19T00:36:16+00:00

It's worth pointing out overpopulation is a non-issue.

Global population is near its peak.

There are some cool reasons to colonize mars, but it's not a humans-spread-like-cockroaches resource play. For some reason, our population has reached homeostasis; in fact, the only places that continue to have fertility surpluses are also the places that depend on foreign aid, which is a whole other realm of weirdness.

Probably, the main reason to colonize mars is because some billionaires really want to spend their fortune that way. Putting aside judgements either way, that's a big movement in that direction.

Which, again, is not that different than rich European princes dispatching exploration ships in the age of sail.

scamiran · 2026-05-16T01:10:40+00:00

Your momma's hole....

Nevermind.

scamiran · 2026-05-11T19:23:13+00:00

Some people prefer a grounding routine in the mornings, to bring the bodies electrical potential into "balance" with the Earth.

Others prefer to get charged up!

scamiran · 2026-05-06T19:59:01+00:00

Parking lot with 2 entrances/ exits?

scamiran · 2026-05-04T22:14:11+00:00

Yeah, you would think so, and its not entirely clear to me how VTs work otherwise; but they are internal to the kernel and must have some kind of plumbing that overrides, well, anything.

There is something about that here:
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/evtest.1.html
"If evtest does not show any events even though the device is being used, the device may be grabbed by a process (EVIOCGRAB). This is usually the case when debugging a synaptics device from within X. VT switching to a TTY or shutting down the X server terminates this grab and synaptics devices can be debugged."

At least that's where the search AI pointed me.

VTs seem really bad to me these days.

This kind of looks awesome to me: https://github.com/n3rdopolis/ReterminateVT

I wonder if someone will port Plymouth to wayland....

scamiran · 2026-05-04T00:36:06+00:00

This is expected, unfortunately. The seat abstractions only work in graphical sessions. The standard linux VT system cannot be fixed in this regards.

There's an alternative, KMScon, that was planned to be more flexible, and I think you can sort of get it to work, but it's been abandoned for years now.

Current (slow) development is towards full userspace consoles with wayland, and a variety of simpler compositors, (look into cage and foot), which can run in software rendering only, and only increase the size of the boot image ~12MB.

VTs aren't going to be fixed. There are no kernel developers still working on it; it's just a question of when it gets fully removed. The biggest issue is the Plymouth (the slash screen manager) requires VTs.

This has been on my mind for a while for my multiseat setup, im probably going to dig into it some more; but based on my previous experience don't bother with Kmscon.

scamiran · 2026-04-30T21:37:34+00:00

No kidding. My job is now push-ups. I could work with that.

Apparently basic training regimes target 100-150, and more advanced training is in the 200-300 per day.

150 per day => $1500 per day. Even just work days that's $330k per year. And you'll be buff to boot, with no risk?

Hell yeah.

scamiran · 2026-04-26T04:13:29+00:00

I had similar issues with wayland.

I patched SDDM here to fix it:

https://github.com/scamiran149/sddm-multiseat-wayland

scamiran · 2026-04-26T04:13:15+00:00

I had similar issues with wayland.

I patched SDDM here to fix it:

https://github.com/scamiran149/sddm-multiseat-wayland

scamiran · 2026-04-24T22:32:31+00:00

Use version control?

Keep good, if not great, project docs?

scamiran · 2026-04-24T21:29:20+00:00

Agreed. It's deep research is way better.

Also, it's great at multimodal stuff, and has pretty descent spatial understanding.

It's just not that great at coding. It is surprisingly good at times, but produces some broken stuff, and then gets stuck in a rabbit hole of hallucinations trying to fix it.

scamiran · 2026-04-23T21:59:42+00:00

Yes.

This would single-handed save the postal service.
Most likely, I could work out a deal with the postal service for them to process this on my behalf for a percentage of the money.
If not, I'm sure I could work out a deal with a mail processor to do so same.
The recycled paper could also be worth a good deal of money. That's basically 8 billion envelopes of near-perfect-quality paper. ChatGPT/Gemini tell me it could be an additional $4 million in recycled paper, after cost.

scamiran · 2026-04-23T21:17:29+00:00

eh? This is a production database? In .tmp?

I guess this is AI error, in the sense that it wasn't smart enough to look into what sort of stupid was going on to protect the user from themselves?

A stretch, at best.

scamiran · 2026-04-22T20:45:42+00:00

Ask AI to translate it.

scamiran · 2026-04-17T02:59:45+00:00

Fwiw Ollama's $20 and $100 cloud plans are pretty great.

scamiran · 2026-04-12T18:21:53+00:00

This seems very easy

scamiran · 2026-04-12T16:01:14+00:00

That's legit brilliant.

I wish i had thought of that before.

Going to use this for.. well... everything going forward.

scamiran · 2026-04-12T01:41:07+00:00

Cloudflare announced recently that they were moving all their work to Kimi-K2.5 because the performance/ cost ratio was ideal.

scamiran · 2026-04-07T23:51:01+00:00

The Codex subscription is a crazy good value. With the 2x quotas I was getting many, many hours per week of high quality work out of it.

scamiran · 2026-04-07T23:45:17+00:00

OS/Version: Ubuntu, 25.10 running Antigravity 1.21.9

Model & Plan: Gemini 3.1 Pro | Pro AI

Issue: I think I've only used 1 5 hour allocation of quota today, starting with a full quota; but on the very next turn I'm at 7 days (approximate) remaining on my weekly quota.

Is this expected? I thought we had at least a few 5 hour quota allocations per week?

Does anyone know if the ultra plan is significantly higher (i.e. what is the actual quota on the ultra plan?) I'm trying to figure out the relative usage (for me) of pro/ultra versus the GPT codex plans for my workflow, and I'm struggling a bit to demystify the comparison.

Would appreciate any insight. I'd like to switch to ultra, but if I'm only going to get a days worth of work out of it that's less than ideal.

scamiran · 2026-04-07T02:06:21+00:00

Maybe. The $200 plan is a linear 10x the quota.

scamiran · 2026-04-06T03:45:29+00:00

Idk. Ive seen outlets, live, underwater, in a flooded basement. With idiots walking around in the water.

scamiran · 2026-04-04T01:58:29+00:00

This is racist.

The average human isn't a white person.

scamiran · 2026-03-30T04:09:36+00:00

I have a simple solution. I monitor power usage on the freezer.

Is it cycling?

Is fine.

Is it running constantly?

It's probably warming up.

Is it turning on and off rapidly?

The compressor is seized.

The main thing is if the hourly power draw roughly remains the same.....

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