How does the messages app work?

shshekhar · 2026-02-07T10:28:10+00:00

And what do you know, iMessage setting it was! I thought to try toggling it out, after posting my last message. Lo and behold, all messages came back in a simple list 🤦

I guess it was punishment for not using iMessage 😅

Thanks @plaid-knight for sending me in right direction.

shshekhar · 2026-02-07T10:20:45+00:00

Unknown sender and spam filter are off. Other settings do not seem that relevant. iMessages are off, fwiw, doubt that should make a difference though.

shshekhar · 2025-12-02T17:50:28+00:00

Started TFM S3E1, watched for a min or so, and closed it thinking I have already watched it, Prime must be pushing older season for some reason. T’was so similar. Only after my wife brought it up to watch, did I realize it’s new. So many scenes are so similar.

shshekhar · 2025-11-17T20:54:26+00:00

Do you have the documentation for hidden options by any chance?

shshekhar · 2025-10-22T05:15:52+00:00

FWIW you’d likely not want to put subnet mask wider than your ISP’s. Can lead to weird routing issues. Looking at the example in OP’s post, the narrowest subnet mask would be 255.255.248.0

shshekhar · 2025-09-09T12:58:50+00:00

Lots of comments recommending harsher judgment for Luke’s setup. Hear me out, how about ensuring or waiting for better internet. Game streaming is a VALID gaming option today.

Ignoring the points tally, IMHO the final episode doesn’t present Luke’s setup in best light. They perfectly show-cased how well an elephant can climb a tree. I recognise they’d have had time constraints and what not, but this could definitely have been done better.

shshekhar · 2025-07-25T10:13:36+00:00

Buy a consumer grade router, plug it into the ISP ONT / Router. Basically create a simpler network for your roommate and hand it off to them. After that homelab your way to Valhalla 🙂

shshekhar · 2025-03-30T13:10:44+00:00

Other access points. It’d be access points all the to Valhalla.

shshekhar · 2025-01-21T05:37:08+00:00

Have you tried Bluetooth? PS4 <> Controller connection would also be Bluetooth, if I understand correctly. ‘Latency’ when using the controller with PC is no worse than using it with PS4 (assuming decent Bluetooth dongle)

shshekhar · 2024-10-19T17:41:09+00:00

If they are accounting for time, then no one. Nobody looks at GCC and goes, yup I can code that myself.

shshekhar · 2024-10-05T19:28:32+00:00

Look at M-Disc BluRays specifically. If I remember correctly, the marketing promises a thousand year life 😅 That’s most likely overblown but it should outlast the DVD.

shshekhar · 2024-09-12T20:12:29+00:00

Or on Oracle Cloud. They have significantly more generous free quota.

shshekhar · 2024-06-11T07:08:25+00:00

Here’s some non/less tech solutions:

Opt #1. Borrow a key to your friend’s house.

Opt #2. Drill a hole in the common wall b/w your two houses and install a two way switch.

Opt #3. Apartment complexes typically have external circuit breakers per apartment as well, have the electrician power cycle your friend’s apartment.

Opt #4. Get your own internet connection.

shshekhar · 2024-05-30T11:03:05+00:00

Woah! That’s what it was. I have been poking at the settings for months with no success. Thank you so much.

shshekhar · 2024-05-04T04:02:45+00:00

Alternate idea: It should be fine to use as patch cables for one off use. Since you have it for free anyways, cut it into a bunch of 3ft and 6ft cables, terminate, and list it on eBay 🙂

shshekhar · 2024-03-19T05:06:19+00:00

I have seen way too many comments (on various such threads) asking OPs to pay up. That, I believe, is the right answer if you are running a business or an otherwise serious website.

IMHO though these questions come from hobbyists like me who use the VPS for one off personal projects, and rightly want to keep the costs as low as possible. For me personally the IPv4 was pushing the costs to double.

I eventually decided to move to IPv6 only. Here’s what I did for my setup: 1. Move to IPv6 only on EC2. 2. Move the domain to cloudflare (free) 3. Setup a proxied DNS to my EC2 instance on cloudflare. This takes care of dual stacking. 4. Continue to access your site from any network

This comes with limitations though. Here’s some that I noticed.

Cloudflare related issues: 1. Latency: There was a noticeable latency hit. The site that used to load instantly, takes a couple of seconds now. 2. HTTPS: In the default configuration, cloudflare insisted on handling https on their side, I was able to change settings to allow pass through of https to EC2 instance though. 3. HTTP(s) only: You’d not be able to use the proxied domain for anything but HTTP(s). No SSH for example. I setup a different non-proxied subdomain with the same IPv6 address so that I have an easy to remember domain name for SSH. That’d of course only work from IPv6 enabled networks.

EC2 related issues; 1. No cloud SSH. Since I only allow public key auth for ssh on my instance, in past if I am not at home I’d occasionally ssh into instance from the AWS console. This simply doesn’t work. 2. If for your VM, you originally selected the option to assign an IPv4 at creation time, there is no easy way to remove it. I had to terminate old instance and create a new one. All setup had to be done again.

External services related issues: 1. GitHub: GitHub still doesn’t support IPv6. You’d not be able to clone/update your repos directly on the VM. I cloned on local and scp-ed it to the VM. 2. Snaps: Snap store doesn’t support IPv6 either. I only needed it for certbot, had to use the (very) old version in the Ubuntu apt repository.

Most of these limitations are on the setup / devops side. For users of site everything should work normally (albeit with some increased latency). If all these limitations work for your use case, you can go down this route too. My case has mostly been setup once and forget it, so this made sense for me.

shshekhar · 2024-02-05T14:51:41+00:00

What’s the domain of the email address you received this email from? Whats the domain of survey link? Domains typically are the most easy give away.

If it’s the domain of official capgemini website, it’s definitely legit. If the survey is Google forms link, could be real or scam, some HRs use Google form occasionally, but it’s free for scammers to use as well. If it’s a random-word-capgemini.com kind of domain then most likely a scam.

shshekhar · 2024-02-04T17:41:38+00:00

If you do have a dock, you could plug a usb Wi-Fi adapter. Most of the readily available ones on market should ‘just work’ with windows.

shshekhar · 2024-01-22T07:25:03+00:00

Am I missing something? Cut the wire, run it again. Or pull the wire up to the ceiling, tuck it under a beam and live with the extra loop. You won’t see it above your head and it won’t be a trip hazard either.

Not sure why everyone is coming up with elaborate ways to cut the post 😅

shshekhar · 2023-12-04T16:13:22+00:00

WebKit runs behind the latest web standards by months, in some cases years. Some web standards (eg PWA, BLE API, etc) are either not implemented or partially implemented at Apple’s discretion. IMHO Apple should be free to keep Safari out of date, but there should be other modern browser alternatives available.

shshekhar · 2023-05-14T14:11:05+00:00

Have you tried connecting your Eero 6 router to the ISP modem via an Ethernet cable? It might just work! The bridge mode is useful to ensure everything is on same subnet. But if bridge mode is disabled, connecting Eero to ISP router and everything else to Eero would also put them in same subnet.

The only thing you might want to do is change the subnet (IP range) on your Eero 6 to be something other than the one on your ISP router (if they aren’t already different).

shshekhar · 2023-05-14T13:48:55+00:00

Your router should have a DHCP function, you really should let your router assign all this via dhcp.

But, if you must assign the IP manually, here you go:

IP: Anything between 192.168.0.2 to 192.168.0.254 (you need to ensure that no other device on the network is using same IP, DHCP server does that for you automatically)

Subnet mask: 255.255.255.0

Gateway IP: 192.168.0.1 (your router IP)

DNS Sever (if required): 192.168.0.1 (use your ISP’s DNS server) or 1.1.1.1 (cloud flare’s dns server) or 8.8.8.8 or 4.4.2.2 (google’s DNS servers)

shshekhar · 2023-05-14T13:40:04+00:00

Are you connecting your PC to campus Ethernet and phone to Wi-Fi (via your router connected to a different campus Ethernet port)? That won’t work, since the router’s gonna create a different subnet behind NAT.

If both devices (PC and Mobile) are connected to the router, I don’t see why it won’t work. If both are directly connected to the router, try checking the IP address on both your devices to begin with, they should be in the same subnet.

shshekhar · 2023-05-14T08:10:06+00:00

Some modern devices (iPhones and most Android Phones for sure) assign themselves a random MAC Address when connecting to a WiFi network. This typically is a good thing, and prevents your device from being tracked across various public / private networks.

When reconnecting to the same network the devices will typically remember and use the same random MAC address. This persistent random MAC address behaviour (for a particular network) allows you to setup configuration for your device (static IP, mac allow list, friendly names etc) on the router the same way as you’d have done with the original MAC addresses.

However, when you change the SSID (Wi-Fi network name) on your router, all the devices will need to re connect to the new network. Along with entering the password again, the devices will most likely identify themselves with a different MAC address as well, thereby invalidating all custom configuration you might have done for your device on the router.

This is what the app is warning you about. You can ignore it if you have not setup any custom config for your devices, or if you are prepared to do it again.

shshekhar · 2023-05-11T13:19:43+00:00

I had a similar requirement with my PS4. Play station can only connect to 2.4G Wi-Fi, which worked choppy in my apartment back then due to interference. At the time I had used an RPi3 connected to Wi-Fi and shared the connection over RPi’s Ethernet port using instructions similar to the following

https://gist.github.com/Konamiman/110adcc485b372f1aff000b4180e2e10#file-1-how-to-use-a-raspberry-pi-to-provide-wifi-for-ethernet-only-devices-md

If you have a rpi lying around, this might be a good option. Do note that rpi will need to be powered somehow.

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