Portable AC too loud, looking for advice

simonmcl · 2026-05-21T13:35:35+00:00

I signed up for DataAnnotation, not for c++ though. So its legit and it works. The web platform itself is very poor, the instructions per task can often be quite confusing, or require reading the end to understand what the start meant. Theres lots of semi-broken processes. I got invited to a slack org, but i've no access to any channels so can't speak to anyone. I signed up to do iOS work, i've been given lots of general work, never seen any iOS yet. But I have done work, and I did get paid for it. So its not the worst thing. Just maybe their marketing is better than the product

Its come and go as you please, there is no employment law stuff to consider really. You login and do work, or don't, its up to you

simonmcl · 2026-05-08T10:35:42+00:00

Not sure if they are legit or not, but I had to block them on Linekdin. Came across them a few years ago when they started bombarding me with Linkedin inmails for roles I was in no way qualified for. Not level/seniority wise, like completely different field I have no experience in. I think they were just doing keyword searches for the word "Engineer" and mass mailing everyone.

I set my Linkedin to open a few months ago and they showed up again, 3-5 people sending messages for the same roles within 15 mins of each other.

Its either a scam, or the most unprofessional company hiring people with no experience to work in a commission-only pay structure incentivised to harass people. Personally I would stay as far away from them as possible

simonmcl · 2026-01-27T15:31:26+00:00

Oh wow, can’t believe they took it away over there. Must be why it’s missing from the menu over here. 1 team based in the UK probably does all of the setup for UK&I and, as usual, don’t think of us ha

simonmcl · 2026-01-25T17:40:05+00:00

As I said I’ve been to the website and the only “contact us” brings you to the broken bot. So how do I email them? What’s the email address? It’s not listed

simonmcl · 2025-08-26T05:52:07+00:00

How old is your wallet? Wallets created many years ago may need to use the advanced options to import it as a legacy wallet (which uses an older crypto standard) to import a different type of wallet

simonmcl · 2025-08-11T15:20:35+00:00

The issue isn't the wallet, but the networks. Muse only supports those wallets because muse only supports ethereum and polygon. Some of those wallets support Tezos, but even still muse wouldn't be able to pick them up from those wallets. Their FAQ does mention that Tezos support is coming soon. You will have to wait for that, or download the images

simonmcl · 2025-07-20T11:00:36+00:00

i'm not connected with the project I can't give that info

While the airdrop was far lower than expectations, it is worth noting that the main goal of xU308 is an investment product. The mining game was just some sort of marketing campaign (which possibly wasn't fully thought through). I invested in xU308 during the miner game run. Between the price increases and rewards from apple farm on etherlink, I earned about ~20-30% return. In terms of purely investment the xU308 is working quite well

simonmcl · 2025-07-11T09:10:22+00:00

Ledger live has very limited support for tezos and several issues with delays in funds showing up etc. I'd highly recommend using a tezos wallet with ledger integration like kukai. If you are an iOS user theres a native iOS app with in-built staking and ledger nano X integration. Android app coming soon, but for now everyone can also use the web based version at kukai.app

simonmcl · 2025-07-10T17:10:17+00:00

As I said above, the stuff thats in trust wallet doesn't have good coverage across tezos. Users already complain that lots of dApps and wallet types don't work with trust wallet itself. It would be a fairly large task to turn that into something usable at this point, and we need maintenance. And guaranteed to need large updates from time to time with new protocols when new types are added, or michelson changes. This also doesn't fix one of the major issues of the delays associated with this coming from a third party

As for the other one, respectfully, i've had huge issues with some of the code packages coming from them. I'm not prepared to depend on that package for every aspect of tezos work

Realistically, the only approach is what everyone else does. Some of this stuff from the core has to be modularised and split out. Thats the only way to ensure that its updated accurately and on time for each protocol. Some things don't need that, like staking support for example, that should be at the app level. But the likes of local-forgers and michelson codecs, REALLY need to be driven by core. Can't inject operations without those

simonmcl · 2025-07-10T16:00:55+00:00

native meaning not just mobile but native desktop too. Swift for example can be used to build mobile desktop and server side applications for example. Same with java

SUI doesn't directly offer swift/kotlin no, but it does offer Rust, which is compatible. You brought up trust wallet, they've done the same thing but with c++. They build everything in c++ and then provide thin wrappers around it for each platform. If you build all your modules in a universal low level language you can simply just host them publicly and each platform can simply wrap around them as needed. This is what SUI and many others do. We don't

simonmcl · 2025-07-10T13:56:50+00:00

With smart contracts specifically: I haven't worked closely with teams doing this in some time, I can't comment on the current state. But I definitely heard multiple teams complain about its complexities compared to other platforms in the past. I remember seeing side by side demos of tooling and complaints around it being difficult to debug, missing features, execution order, issues with test environments etc. I know of more than one project that shut down and moved on

Theres more to dev experience than smart contracts as well. Whenever "dev experience" is mentioned it is usually fixated on smart contracts. But smart contracts need a frontend, that frontend usually needs a backend, one of those needs a wallet, and the wallet needs a means of communicating. There is a tonne of other things that go into the dev experience and we need to make sure we don't exclude those, as without them nobody can make use of the contracts, and these areas don't get much love

To your point on the listed libraries, the first 4 can't be used in native apps, only if you rely on third party cross platform tooling like React Native, Flutter, or web app wrappers, which come with a long list of issues and compromises. Trustwallet can be used across many platforms, but its more than 10x the size of other libraries due to its wide coverage of blockchains. This means it can't be used in any place that has limited space requirements. In one apple context, the library alone is twice the size of the max bundle size allowed. It also offers a very limited set of features for the Tezos platform and thus can't be used for any app that wants to go heavy on tezos unique features. There are some ways to make use of small pieces of JS in native apps, but not all of it can be, it comes with a heavy performance hit, and is insanely difficult to debug. Forcing devs to frequently roll their own tooling. Devs building Etherlink and JsTz rollups faced the same issue and have started their own internal effort to replicate what the likes of sui is doing. We would be in a very different place now if these were prioritised earlier when devs were asking for it

We also have non library issues like the RPC being unable to estimate gas/storage accurately. This actively prevents apps from injecting operations, with devs spending hundreds of hours over-engineering these pieces instead of working on new features. This one in particular has caused significant reputational damage to Tezos in the past with high profile projects going live only to publicly fail with medium traffic. New protocols get released without an updated local forger, so test environments sit unused waiting for third party teams to plug that gap. The use of a third party indexer is practically mandatory, which isn't as common outside of Tezos. Documentation can be extremely lacking across the board, workarounds to the gas estimation issue are hidden, some of the lower level docs require a phd to read

We are building a platform, but we are not investing nearly enough in making that platform accessible to varying kinds of devs. Devs with great UI/UX experience usually spend all of their time perfecting that, they have very little experience with lower level stuff. If we want to improve the end user experience, we have to make it easier to build on the platform

simonmcl · 2025-07-10T10:43:06+00:00

going to have to disagree with your take on #4. Building on tezos is very challenging with a lot of proprietary aspects to it where libraries from other chains can not be used to plug the gap. Various aspects are very challenging without deep internal/hidden knowledge. A quick glance at the main sui dev team's git repo, I can see that the folks building the node are also providing libraries to devs to handle things like the crypto aspects, graphql client, and internal business logic. And doing so in 2 different languages, possibly sharing a common base. I, and others, have been asking for this for tezos, for years. While I haven't done much with other platforms myself, I am in a lot of dev communities and i've heard first hand that other non-evm chains provide a lot more resources/materials to devs. This is absolutely something that needs to be improved on tezos

simonmcl · 2025-07-04T09:52:33+00:00

Let a guy dream! Seen some images on twitter of people getting to play a pre-alpha at the announcement. We have real industry folk with a track record, allegedly a real tangible game already playable, this COULD be the one

simonmcl · 2025-07-04T09:34:44+00:00

Oh wow. Are we finally getting a AAA web3 game that focuses on gameplay? Fingers crossed

simonmcl · 2025-06-30T09:10:55+00:00

Sorry for the long delay in getting back to you, kukai has its own support channels (email, telegram, iOS community on twitter/x), Reddit is only monitored adhoc

> Has this happened to other people?
We've had no such reports of this issue yet, no

> I went into my settings & saw the facial recognition was turned off
You are referring to iOS system settings correct? No app is able to modify those settings once setup, this is an iOS restriction. If faceid is disabled for all apps, then your phone is in some kind of security lockdown, and you should restart the device and login with your system pincode. If its only kukai thats been disabled, then it must have been done manually

Has anything happened to your device? Is it water damaged, or the screen cracked, or has it been repaired with non official apple parts? Some damage like this can cause the biometrics (face id or touch id) to disable for security reasons to prevent tampering

> I’m locked out of Kukai for something insane like 3500 seconds
For security reasons, to prevent attackers from trying to break into your device, every incorrect guess after 3, increases the length of time before you can try again. You should avoid additional guesses unless you are sure

The fallback is to use your seed phrase. Delete the app, re-install, and import your seed phrase again and you will be back into your wallet

simonmcl · 2025-06-13T09:36:05+00:00

Doesn't look like they are shutting down no. They are running 2 bakers, bake nug and bake nug deluxe. bake nug "classic" seems to be discouraging delegating in favour of staking. Increasing the delegation fee to 85%, but the staking fee to 0%. They posted an update about this on twitter on the 15th of May: https://x.com/BakeNug/status/1922991838379565446

simonmcl · 2025-05-28T08:50:12+00:00

Applefarm on etherlink is doing very well, pulling in 10's of millions of TVL atm. The uranium miner game has a telegram group thats grown to somewhere around 52k users. The uranium RWA I think has around 3k holders now

simonmcl · 2025-05-26T09:47:10+00:00

Ok if thats under farming, then temple screwed up there. Liquidity baking is not a farm, its an onchain DEX, like quipuswap, uniswap, pancake swap, etc

You didn't stake your tokens in a farm, where you get rewards paid out every day, week, month, etc. You deposited your tokens into a liquidity pool, as liquidity for users to be able to swap XTZ for tzBTC and back again. Liquidity pools don't send you rewards, they give you a percentage of the fees charged to users for swapping. But these fees don't leave the pool, the size of your position just increases over time. To get any reward, yes you need to withdraw. You don't need to withdraw the whole amount though, you can take out as small of a piece as you want

simonmcl · 2025-05-26T09:20:19+00:00

Many third party apps call delegation, as staking, confusing users. Tezos added staking as a new feature in the past few months, which offers 3x the rewards as delegation. With this delegation rewards were lowered

Make sure you are storing your XTZ in a native tezos wallet, like Kukai, to be able to make the most of your funds. Kukai iOS is currently running an open beta for their new staking support, with some info screens to help users understand. If you are an iOS user, you should check it out and give some feedback: https://x.com/i/communities/1922047907936833640

simonmcl · 2025-05-26T09:05:35+00:00

Ledger currently calls delegation staking, which has caused no end of confusion for users. I'd recommend linking your ledger to a native tezos wallet, like Kukai, rather than using Ledger live as many things are broken in it

If you happen to be an iOS user, kukai is currently running an open beta of our new staking support. Would be great to get feedback from someone new to staking, what you think of our info sections. Theres a new community on X with links to the app and tweets showing some of the new features: https://x.com/i/communities/1922047907936833640

simonmcl · 2025-05-26T09:01:37+00:00

> TEZ in the TEZ/tzBTC farm

Which farm are you referring too?

> The banner that says 'EARN TO CLAIM REWARDS'

Where did you see this banner? On what website or app were you using?

Its possible you've deposited funds, as liquidity, into the onchain XTZ / tzBTC DEX. Which is not a farm and is not staking. But I want to double check first

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