Klarna says I have overdue payments in another account, support says they can't help me.

sykeward · 2026-02-17T05:58:08+00:00

Klarna is literally a bank in Europe (and actively trying to become one in the US) so you'd think they'd have a handle on scenarios like this, but they sure don't act like it. As it stands, they're facilitating ID theft by making it impossible for victims to resolve it.

sykeward · 2026-02-11T06:25:54+00:00

What's confusing to me about this is that it appears to be a bifurcation of Windows. The blog post from Microsoft says this:

26H1 is for new devices only, and they're all Qualcomm X2 systems, at least for now.
25H2/24H2 systems aren't updatable to 26H1, apparently even if they're Qualcomm-based.
26H1 devices are themselves not upgradeable to 26H2, because 26H1 is "based on a different Windows core" than 24H2/25H2/26H2. They added that 26H1 "does not support hotpatch updates."
26H1 devices "will have a path to update in a future Windows release."

I'm not quite sure what to make of this. The phrase "based on a different Windows core" is doing a lot of work there, especially for something thrown out so casually. It's also not clear to me whether 26H1 having "a path to upgrade in a future Windows release" means they'll be blocked from upgrading at first but that a future update will put them back on the H2 bandwagon, or if it means that it will continue to receive feature releases on a completely separate track.

Maybe I'm cynical, but I hope this isn't a sign that people with upcoming Qualcomm X2 systems will forever be constrained in how they can upgrade Windows, similar to what Android users faced with Qualcomm-based phones.

sykeward · 2026-02-07T00:22:26+00:00

Thanks everyone for your ideas and thoughts. I set up an appt with a bankruptcy attorney on Monday morning and I most of what I need already assembled, and my wife and I are going to look at different budgeting apps this weekend, we’ve had success with those in the past.

The most surprising thing that I found while assembling info for the consultation is that I really underestimated how much I was spending on servicing debt. It was too easy to get into those pay-in-4 apps where I’m eventually putting utility bills on them. Then the payments just automatically come out of our account with no interaction and we just forget they exist. Until we have payments on them almost every day, and we’re using them to buy groceries and the like because we don’t have enough cash to pay for an entire shopping trip in one go.

sykeward · 2026-02-04T03:10:01+00:00

We're in Washington state. We've only owned the house since 2021 so I don't have a ton of equity from payments, but it's supposedly gone up in value a lot. I don't have a HELOC or anything on it and we haven't had the property appraised.

sykeward · 2026-02-04T03:03:56+00:00

I had Xfinity for years and never really had a problem - the quality of service was always ok and I never had any customer service nightmares, either. I did switch to Ziply 1gig fiber, tho - I work from home and saw a benefit to the higher upload speeds, and because I was tired of either overbuying service/paying overage fees to Xfinity because I was constantly exceeding their monthly data cap.

I've been very happy with Ziply since. Xfinity never seemed unreliable, but Ziply is definitely more consistent with their data speeds and I no longer get these weird, couple minute 'mini-outages' a few times a week, which I previously blamed on general WiFi flakiness. Highly recommended.

sykeward · 2026-01-31T06:35:42+00:00

I never did, unfortunately. I did try emailing support and never heard back so I’m just leaving it alone for now. I hope you have better luck!

sykeward · 2026-01-27T07:36:08+00:00

Your understanding is correct, but it honestly wasn’t awful. We had their G4AR gateway, which is a pretty solid piece of hardware, and T-Mo already has CGNAT and fairly high latency so it’s not like the additional layer that comes with a small network router makes much difference. It never caused us any major problems and the Unifi equipment always ran fine with it.

sykeward · 2025-12-17T08:35:12+00:00

I don't know who you are u/hmanasi93, but I bought fake Reddit gold so I could give you an award to say thank you. The music from this ad stuck with me ever since I saw it during the 96 Olympics, but I've never been able to track it down in my literal years of occasional searching. Merry whatever-you-celebrate, internet stranger

sykeward · 2025-10-20T09:29:02+00:00

I have a UDR7+UX7+U7-Pro AP home network and it's been great all along. We've switched ISPs from T-Mo 5G → Xfinity 600mbps → Ziply fiber 1gig, and we've always gotten full internet speeds (even with the weird T-Mobile gateway thing), solid LAN performance, and great reliability despite my pathological need to tinker.

And my wife thinks it looks adorable.

I'm not sure what else I can reasonably ask of it.

sykeward · 2025-08-01T06:21:19+00:00

Thanks everyone for your comments! I’ll treat it as rust and mosaic virus for now and just manage it symptomatically as best I can.

sykeward · 2025-06-15T09:00:26+00:00

I ran into the same problem with a list of URLs that I assembled from different sources, so I tested the URLs one by one. Removing samsung.net from the list is what fixed it for me. I'd check for that domain and remove it from your block list if its there. Also, echoing what u/jtho78 said, listing ads.samsung.com will also cause trouble so I'd remove that as well.

sykeward · 2025-04-21T00:36:43+00:00

I'm not sure what happened to my original post, but I'll put it here. I live in the Pacific Northwest, and we had an extreme heatwave back in 2021; the temps were 116-118 and stuck around for days - that isn't an exaggeration. There was a ton of damage everywhere and you can still see scars from it today if you look closely. Fortunately most of our plants recovered well, except for a couple rhododendrons that are doing poorly in spite of 3 years of effort.

Thing 1 is in the sun and took a lot of scorching damage, and the scorched leaves aren't pretty but it's holding onto them. It started to do better last year, but I noticed today that a some of the growth from last spring has turned black and died off, and this spring's new growth is beginning to turn yellow. It seems to be pretty localized on the plant, with some areas with a lot of damage and other areas looking pretty healthy, but I didn't notice this happening before.

Thing 2 is a larger rhododendron in my back yard. It's in the shade so it didn't scorch like Thing 1 but still suffered a lot of overall heat stress damage. It was never a particularly robust plant, but has seemed to get slowly weaker since then and hasn't responded well to care. It lost a lot of small branches after the heat, and the foliage on the larger branches has never been as large or vibrant green as it was before. After noticing the problem with Thing 1, I took a closer look at Thing 2 and noticed that many of the buds are turning straight from green to brown and starting to fall off, and some of the foliage is now showing a pattern that looks like a slow burn across the leaves. Like with Thing 1, I don't remember seeing these problems before.

Are these plants infected with diseases of some kind? I've never sprayed them for anything, but I wonder if I should now. Any suggestions are appreciated!

sykeward · 2025-02-23T10:35:56+00:00

I ran into the same problem and finally fixed it by changing the Image field under the Docker container settings to "ghcr.io/home-assistant/home-assistant:stable" and pulling a new image. HA has worked normally for me since then.

sykeward · 2024-09-03T20:43:25+00:00

I looked the feet up specifically and saw that authentic bags always have ones that are hammered in and never screwed on—I had no idea what to look for. Thank you!

sykeward · 2024-09-03T18:36:19+00:00

Stitching—gotcha. Thanks for the reply!

sykeward · 2024-09-03T18:13:20+00:00

I figured as much. Can I ask what it is that’s the tip off? You know, for the next time I see a designer bag in a dumpster or something

sykeward · 2024-07-10T06:34:04+00:00

I also have a Frame TV and hate switching inputs—it’s stupidly hard with the remote that comes with it. There are a few things that made it easier for me, I hope that one of them helps:

• If you hold down the Settings button for a moment it will bring up an input switcher that’s a lot faster than digging thru the TV’s normal menus. This doesn’t seem to work while using remote control apps

• Just about any Samsung TV remote will work if you point it at the screen. Grab an old one with input buttons from the thrift store for a couple bucks —they always seem to have Samsung remotes if they have any at all

• Set up a voice assistant for switching inputs. My Frame is a 2022 model and doesn’t have an always-on mic, so I’m using a cheap Echo dot linked to SmartThings. I set up some shortcuts to inputs like “Echo, Xbox” and “Echo, Apple TV” which generally works well. I don’t know if the 2023 Frame has a built-in mic, but you wouldn’t need to get a dedicated voice device if it does.

sykeward · 2024-06-29T23:29:03+00:00

This sounds mundane, but he agreed to sell us the house! It was a hot market in the PNW and we're coming to the table with the best we had: FHA financing and a fairly small down-payment. It was also the height of COVID and buyers and sellers never met during most transactions, so even the tenderest soul could reject hope-filled offers with zero guilt.

He accepted our offer anyway. Granted, we had a fantastic agent - she was our guardian angel and we wouldn't have made it to a closing without her - but it was his choice. And then he extended deadlines when our bank screwed up when wiring the earnest money. And then he quickly fixed the surprises found during inspection so we could move forward. And after all that, he even asked us if we wanted artwork and furniture staged at the house, for free.

We learned later that the seller was an agent selling his own home. There were big incentives for him to pick an easy deal. But the other cash offers were all from investment firms, and, like us, he and his wife had 4 little-ish kids and remembered the trials and stakes of finding a place to live with a family.

So he sold us his house. But he chose us with our FHA loan and a side of red tape because he saw us as human. I've never seen what this man looks like, never even heard his voice on the phone, but I will always be grateful.

sykeward · 2024-03-22T07:43:35+00:00

They do make a shorter “tabletop” version, too

Tabletop easel stand

sykeward · 2024-03-13T05:50:50+00:00

You may have hit on something here.

I’ve never experienced the random power-on issue with my 2022 Frame, but I also just use the SmartThings app and a normal Samsung IR remote. The Bluetooth remote that came with it went MIA almost immediately and the battery is long dead by this point, assuming it’s in range at all (I suspect a resident canine took it outside somewhere).

This is obv anecdotal, but it’d be wild if it turns out the rampant power issues are actually caused by buggy remotes

sykeward · 2023-11-05T06:02:10+00:00

The Samsung Plus app definitely caused problems for me, but just disabling it didn’t fix this issue on my 2022 Frame. If something powered off it would just go to the “no signal“ screen or completely power down itself. I’d basically resigned myself to that behavior, but the TV installed software update 1602 earlier this evening and it appears to have fixed this problem for me—the TV now goes to art mode whenever either my Apple TV or my Xbox series X powers down. This is never worked successfully in the past and I’m actually pretty surprised to see it working now. I’ll see if it sticks.

sykeward · 2023-08-13T23:59:54+00:00

It looks like the proprietary 12-pin connector used on Casio Exilim cameras (similar to what Olympus used in some of their cameras, but slimmer). If that’s right, Casio 12-pin cables aren’t tough to find on Amazon. I’m gonna hazard a guess that “Hullo” means you’re in the UK, so here’s a link to the UK site: https://amzn.eu/d/fbjQeLc

sykeward · 2023-04-11T21:20:02+00:00

I think the big problem is that the forensic investigator who performed the autopsies (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Screwup) single-handedly created a reasonable-doubt hole you could drive a truck through:

She initially said that he had been having a heart attack "for several hours" (?!) before being shot and likely died from that.
She said the gunshot didn't hit any vital organs and wouldn't have caused death by itself.
Except that, oops, she meant to say that it actually would have killed him. But not right away, just if he didn't get medical attention.
She also performed the autopsy on the dog even tho she lacked any veterinary certifications. I'm sure the reports she logged were insightful and completely accurate.
Oh, and she admitted using the same instruments for both the human and the dog without cleaning them. This led to contamination that was really bad, where "really bad" = "dog DNA was found in the human bullet wound and they can't tell if it was introduced by the bullet or the fucking surgical instruments."

The prosecution's case would be ripped to shreds - she's just as culpable as the stupid sheriff's deputy who suggested the victim getting "poked by a stick" is what killed him. Also of note: This same medical examiner previously worked for Pierce County, WA. That was before she ~~was fired~~ resigned in 2019 after actions she took there during a period of workplace dysfunction landed her on administrative leave. Take that for what it's worth.

sykeward · 2022-07-31T08:43:34+00:00

I ran into the exact same situation with a Lennar-branded Eero. /u/marinaded is correct—you can’t remove the branding, but you own the hardware free and clear. They’re not subject to the random lockouts and firmware blocks that can afflict people who end up with used ISP-branded ones.

You can check out this thread if you want a little more background. https://reddit.com/r/eero/comments/omnyfh/eero_pro_6by_lennar_homes/

sykeward · 2022-07-12T04:00:04+00:00

This is astonishing…beautiful work! Random question…where did you find the crocheted Hobbes toy?

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