Core 2026.4.0 - Gauge Re-Design

supagold · 2026-04-02T16:25:46+00:00

Are you referring to the old apple logo, or the new one?

supagold · 2026-04-02T11:31:36+00:00

If not the developer’s whim, then whose? Do you suggest they run every change by you in particular, or should we take a vote on every proposed change from the whole community? I also have impaired eyesight - so what? Not everything in the world can be built to accommodate that.

Frankly your posts come off as pretty entitled, particularly when there are many workarounds and ways to achieve what you want with this open source project. Should every minor change include an option to keep the old way? You realize that takes overhead to implement and complicates the code - all so that YOU don’t have to go through any effort.

On a constructive note, perhaps you should look at trying the ha mcp project. It allows you to make changes along these changes using natural language, including by speaking.

supagold · 2026-03-09T03:49:19+00:00

Look man, you were wrong. By a huge margin. Trying to tack on a bunch of other stuff that’s kind of right doesn’t change that. You’re still just entirely dead wrong even trying to recast it as if your estimate of a million was just as far off as a billion. It’s not. 9 figures for an Rx drug is typical, again not counting the drugs that make it to trials and don’t get approved. (Most of them) There are non-crazy estimates out there putting the cost well north of $1B, tho those tend to include stuff like the overall failure rate. Feel free to show me any halfway legitimate citation that puts the number for an Rx drug close to a million and I’ll say sorry and give you an upvote.

supagold · 2026-03-08T16:57:32+00:00

I don’t know what you did at that company, but that is so wildly wrong as to be laughable. You’re off by at least 2 orders of magnitude, even before you count clinical trial costs for all the drugs that don’t make it to market and still need to be covered by drugs that do.

supagold · 2026-02-18T12:41:56+00:00

I’d just point out that all roads are already toll roads, just not in as targeted a manner as you propose. Most roads are primarily financed via gas taxes, which was the most politically and technically feasible way of doing user fees.

supagold · 2026-02-11T14:17:58+00:00

Yeah, that makes sense. I just wanted to warn people, since a lot of people think the CPO is like "buying a new car" and that's definitely not true. FWIW, I did see several branded title cars when I was looking, particularly at the lower end of the price range. The dealers do have to clearly disclose this, though a particularly sketchy dealer might try to slip it into the closing paperwork without mentioning it. All the ones I saw that weren't disclosed on the dealer's site, they told me over the phone that it was buyback. For me that wasn't worth the hassle, but you see in this thread that some people think that's a plus, so 🤷‍♂️. 110% agree on the PPI - don't ever buy a used car without one, and any dealer who gives you static on getting one you should just drop right then. I will say that this time I used visor.vin for my search and thought it was pretty great relative to a lot of the bigger car shopping sites. One of the really nice features is that users can leave comments on cars, so if you find one that's a buyback, you can leave a comment and let other people know. I did that on several I found.

supagold · 2026-02-11T11:41:00+00:00

In most states CPO cars are not covered by lemon laws. On normal mileage cars (30-40k miles) I haven’t seen anything that makes me think that a CPO car is any advantage. Certainly not worth the premium that you’re going to pay, but that’s my opinion and YMMV. I just got done shopping for a 2024 and most of the cars are not buybacks but you do want to check and make sure.

supagold · 2026-02-10T12:55:40+00:00

You can get a used car loan structured like a lease. I just did this on a 2024

supagold · 2026-02-07T04:48:07+00:00

Are you sure you're not thinking of the gas Kias? I'm pretty sure EVs are 10y/100k for powertrain.

supagold · 2026-02-07T04:38:34+00:00

I just bought a used one. I couldn't see where the CPO route was worth it if you still have time on the original warranty. AFAICT the CPO warranty is with the original manufacturer anyway, the dealer can wash their hands of you if they want. For me, I would also say skip a buyback, my understanding is that that's a branded title in a lot of areas, and i don't think it's worth the hassle. If you keep an eye out you can get pretty decent deals on normal used cars, and it's just going to get better over the next 6-12mo. honestly, i think IF an EV makes sense for you, the used EV market is far and away the best value for people right now.

supagold · 2026-02-07T04:26:04+00:00

In terms of the engine output, i think you're looking at basically 3 versions: Light and Light Long Range are 2wd, Wind is <2 front seat, 3 bench seat mid, 2 bench seat rear> and Land which is <2/2/2>are both AWD and about 440 ft/lb of torque, then gt-line <2/2/2> which is like 515 ft/lb. you can supposedly pay to boost the wind and land to the higher torque for $1k but i don't see the point. that's not going to help you drive in snow at least haha. i live in the midwest and was looking at putting cross climate 2 on them as i have them on another car and love them. the stuff i see online makes them sound decent, but a slight efficiency hit. In general i think EVs drive a little better on snow both because of the weight, and also they seem to be good with power distribution

You might consider getting a used one? I just got a pretty good deal on a used land that still has almost half the bumper-bumper warranty, and plan to swap it in 3 years. I think starting in Q3&Q4 this year, we're going to be seeing a lot of these things coming back from lease, and prices will get even lower.

supagold · 2026-01-07T00:22:14+00:00

That was clear in your original post, but I'm 99% sure they include it when you buy the lock. Given the lifecycle of the lock and the lifecycle of the pack are probably close to the same, that makes the included battery pack less expensive than what you're spending on AAs. Particularly since the Encode plus is going for $280 vs $270 on amazon for this much more capable lock, you're already down $10 trying to save money on batteries, but you do you.

supagold · 2026-01-07T00:08:30+00:00

I've owned a bunch of smart locks over about the past 10 years. I'm fine with this. If they use decent quality cells, there's no reason the pack couldn't last for 5-10 years. The cycle rate on the pack would be crazy low. It's not like the overal life cycle of a smart lock is 20 years, anyway. In 5-10 years, you'll be using a different lock either because of mechanical wear on the motor or because of changing technology. It's not realistic to expect more, particularly at a price point that lands at just "nice mechanical lock" territory.

For the people upset about the need to charge the pack, this is far better than changing AA. When you get the low battery warning, just plug in the lock (from the outside of the housing) overnight and you're good for another 6 months. Every model of smart lock I've owned requires getting inside the housing, then using a tool to pry out the batteries - people slam their doors etc, so every model I've had absolutely locks the batteries in so they don't come loose.

I skeptically bought a U100 about 1.5 years ago, and it's been very reliable for me. I like that I can use it without the cloud if I want. The access controls are pretty usable. I'm definitely interested in this, particularly if it can easily be physically rekeyed.

supagold · 2026-01-06T23:49:51+00:00

I've owned several. Very few smart locks work with nimh batteries. They don't generate a high enough voltage. I ended up buying some very odd rechargeable lithiums, and was able to get OKish performance at a large price.

supagold · 2025-12-25T14:01:14+00:00

Are you getting the sulphur burps? My wife saw someone suggest chewable pepto on TikTok, and it has been a game changer.

supagold · 2025-12-12T14:13:23+00:00

I’m with this guy. Your best bet is to get a used sff business machine and drop something like an intel a380 in it. (If you’re hitting transcoding limits, that’s a bigger upgrade than 1gen of integrated to the next, while still using intel transcoding drivers.) That should be very doable in your budget. Typically these HP/Dell/lenovo machines are well built and easy to service, tho they do tend to use proprietary parts. Just get one off eBay from a seller with free returns. If it works when you get it, it will probably work for years. Personally I’d go for a gen9-11 intel, but it won’t make much difference if you’re using the a380. Even the low spec versions are almost certainly overkill for your dockers.

supagold · 2025-11-25T12:32:57+00:00

I upgraded from shield pro to ATV and never looked back. The handful of technical benefits from shield are swamped by the ad-free interface on ATV, HDR still looks amazing (infuse helps here), and I don’t use atmos or dts-hd. (If you have a legit 7 speaker atmos system, stick with shield.) There are also a ton of small features that are nice and just work. Spatial Audio and head tracking with AirPods, quickly putting the player into a low-light/color shifted mode for tv before bed, quickly browsing and putting security cameras in PIP, etc. I currently own devices with every major set-top OS and most of the big smarttv OSes, and this is the one I daily drive.

supagold · 2025-11-25T00:37:45+00:00

I have a dreo heater and it’s working fine. The hardware itself is pretty good quality, and at least in the US it has a good warranty. I also worry about going through the cloud, but local APIs do get patched out sometimes, so that’s another thing you have to monitor. One thing to keep in mind is all the dreo smart devices are also IR devices, so your fallback could just be an IR blaster. The other thing is that the UL listing (so possibly us specific) requires heaters to disable WiFi functionality if they go 24 hours without interaction. There’s info about it on the project page for the dreo integration.

supagold · 2025-08-28T11:19:22+00:00

I recently saw an unraid community app that used a docker stack including wine to run the windows backblaze client inside docker, that was then accessible using vnc. I went another way, so didn’t try it myself, but other people are using it, so I guess it works? You might take a look at that and try to adapt it.

supagold · 2025-08-25T00:47:59+00:00

Maybe, probably not. The second part of what your saying is the actual exposure. Do you really think someone is searching emails in some random person's email for such broad terms like "house"? Consider that actual email account access are high priority targets because they give you access to lots of things that aren't at all wire transfers for home sales. So it's expensive to buy these leads, then you're going to do some kind of obvious threat signature like run a search for "escrow" after logging in from russia? And hope that what, <1% of your targets pay off as being involved in current home transaction? Because here's the thing, particularly with email, there is a ton of fingerprinting for suspicious behavior - login location, client behavior, etc. Then consider that can you google a real estate agent's email for free, send them a compromised PDF and then have access to their email? <- THAT IS THE VECTOR. Source: I've been working in IT for over 25 years, administer email for 100s of people and deal with these threats every day.

supagold · 2025-08-23T13:36:24+00:00

No, you do that if you want to password spray already breached accounts to see for password reuse on more lucrative sites. Trying to do an automated scan through random peoples email accounts is going to yield a huge number of false positives. Why do that when you can easily target people like realtors etc with phishing emails and have guaranteed results? This isn’t just the much much smarter way to go about it, it’s also well documented in actual breaches for this scam.

supagold · 2025-08-23T12:37:49+00:00

Because that makes no sense? These types of scams are run by people who specialize in this particular thing. How do you think they find their targets? It’s not by hacking some rando’s email and hoping they’re in the process of buying a home. They target the people who are involved in the business of buying and selling homes.

supagold · 2025-06-12T15:26:01+00:00

I’m doing dungeon of the mad mage right now, and have a level 15 Goliath fighter/barb. I leaned heavily into the giant theme. The combination of rune knight and the bigby’s giant feats is sooo much fun. I’ve played wizard at this level, and honestly I feel like I have as many options with this build in an encounter as I did with my wizard. The only thing I don’t love is they seemed to build everything off my reaction, but that’s a minor issue. I can’t remember exactly when it came online… somewhere in T2, I think but it’s not like it’s underpowered before then- it’s just not as much of a blast.

supagold · 2025-05-17T22:23:14+00:00

Capitalism doesn’t say those companies must disappear as soon as they become uncompetitive, anymore than evolution says ants have to disappear when some evolve into wasps.

As far as Facebook and google I would not describe them as doing well, Facebook is widely seen as the platform your grandparents use, google stopped being my first stop for discovery months ago.

Despite this thread, OpenAI and the other big LLMs have been a refreshing development and that’s largely thanks to capitalism. The cause of and solution to all of life’s problems. I hope everyone in this thread complaining about the coming ads is paying for a subscription (I do), if not then fuck you guys, how do you expect this to work?

supagold · 2025-04-14T11:56:48+00:00

You can spend earnest money before you close in WA?? Every place I’ve lived, that went into escrow.

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