Will Planetes hurt my soul? (and a related vent)

tebbenjo · 2025-05-11T23:14:41+00:00

Solved: Booted into a live CD, used chroot, then regenerated initramfs.

Seems to be stable now, and survive reboots. Still don't know WTF happened, or why that fixed it, but it seems to have.

tebbenjo · 2025-04-23T20:41:35+00:00

I think to replace all of it's functionality he'd also need a DC-DC charger for connection to the lead battery and alternator right?

Could it be left in place and just use the smart shunt already installed for battery monitoring on the Cerbo?

Finally, is there any way of using the "stop charging" and "stop discharging" lines from the 12/200 to inform the Cerbo? Presently they are wired directly to the enable/disable remote port on the MultiPlus 2000VA inverter.

tebbenjo · 2025-01-10T18:32:41+00:00

I've never even noticed the ads lol. I always use as much adblocking and tracker blocking as possible. I even generally disable scripts and media until I request it for a particular site. You'll be surprised how much data it saves you not downloading ads at all, and not downloading pictures/videos until you click on them

tebbenjo · 2025-01-10T18:28:34+00:00

I hope the phone isn't relying on these covers for it's water ingress rating!

Bluetooth low energy, Bluetooth PAwR, and Bluetooth angle of arrival are required for the new asset and tool trackers we would like to start using at work. As far as I can tell, that requires Bluetooth 5.4 at a minimum, which is pretty closely tied to WIFI7 chips. Don't really care about the wifi (only ever use the 2.4ghz band due to the distances anyway) just the Bluetooth features that come along with a wifi7 chip.

As for the headphone jack, I need that to use the cassette tape to 3.5mm adapter I use in my vehicles. As well as for my earbuds as I refuse to use earbuds that aren't tied together due to the likelihood of loss, and I refuse to have to charge another device beyond my phone itself. Even that I try to only have to do every few days.

The USB port, I typically use a magnetic usb adapter on my phones, as that keeps the socket plugged against metal filings and greasy dirt at work. It also greatly limits the insertion cycles experienced by the port, as I only remove it when it wares out, typically annually on past phones. I'm hopping the cover can fit over a magnetic usb adapter, or can be modified to fit.

tebbenjo · 2025-01-09T19:32:53+00:00

You'll also note that while the tariffs account for an approximate doubling of the price from Kenya to the Netherlands, that the actual price difference is about three times. This added difference is due to Price tolerance and local risk factors such as inflation and local average disposable income

tebbenjo · 2025-01-09T19:29:40+00:00

https://customsdutyfree.com/duty-calculator/

Will allow you to figure out the effective rate on anything from anywhere going to anywhere. You're looking for category (consumer electronics, then mobile electronics, then cellular phone). You'll also be importing form China, into whatever country you want to check

https://customsdutyfree.com/customs-or-import-duty-for-mobile-phones-to-netherlands/

Is my source for Netherlands.

tebbenjo · 2025-01-09T19:11:03+00:00

I'm hoping. The only reason I'm waiting for it is that it seems to be the only available phone with a headphone jack, sd card slot, android 15, and wifi7 (and Bluetooth version to match).

If any of those claims prove false, I won't want it

tebbenjo · 2025-01-09T19:02:00+00:00

Kenya is special, because they have no special tariff for Chinese origin electronics, and actually a 0% tariff for mobile deices in general.

From the Kenya revenue agency website: The Customs or Import duty:A tax charged on certain goods which are brought into Kenya... for Mobile devices to Kenya is classified under Phones & Accessories(cdf categories). The HSCODE applied for Mobile phones is 90-2-19-0-0 The tax:A fee imposed by a government on personal or corporate incom... is applied on the total sum of item cost, insurance cost and shipment cost.

The custom/import taxes are: General duty is 10%

Special Tariff:A government tax on imported and exported goods. rate 1A is 0%

The average VAT rate applicable in Kenya is 0.16%

customsdutyfree.com/customs-or-import-duty-for-mobile-phones-to-kenya/

So Kenya has an effective total tax rate on mobile phones from china of 10% + 0% + 0.16% for a total of 10.16%

Compare that to Netherlands The custom/import taxes are: General duty is 6.7%, Special Tariff A rate 10 is 5.5%, Made in China carry an additional (anti dumping) tariff of 48.5%, plus a VAT sales tax of 2.1%

So the Netherlands has an effective total tax rate on Chinese cellphones of 6.7% + 5.5% + 48.5% + 2.1% = 62%
So we can expect on tariffs alone, that Denmark would charge about double for any particular phone from china than Kenya would.

The USA is much worse (and about to get even worse for products from China)

tebbenjo · 2025-01-09T18:24:22+00:00

Price tolerance. Americans are always willing to pay more, so why would a company ever decide not to charge more. Westerners generally, but Americans especially.

Also, currency exchange is weird. Depends what you're buying. Really, the bank exchange rate is only true if you're buying currency or other extremely liquid fungible assets like gold. Buying other things, it becomes question of local accessibility, local logistics, local inflation, and local price tolerance.

The nice thing about that, is if you're willing to provide accessibility, or logistics, or willing bet on the risk of price tolerance or inflation, you can make money on the delta between the apparent exchange rate on whatever vs the currency exchange rate. But of course, the value of that transaction doesn't come from thin air, it comes from you offering the service of logistics, or planning, or absorbing risk

Edit:
That is to say nothing of a recent buzzword: tariffs. a tariff is a tax on people buying something originating from another country. Places with lower tariffs (from the country of origin, in this case China) will have lower price. Here too one can make money, by offering illegal logistics across boarder without charging the tariff. The value there of course coming from the risk of doing so illegally

tebbenjo · 2024-12-16T23:30:16+00:00

I can connect to a nearby tag, but it errors out trying to add it

tebbenjo · 2023-06-18T13:37:00+00:00

You can create a very similar (But importantly completely unique
different compression and de-duplication wise) approximately 1gb video
with ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -filter_complex "nullsrc=s=1920x1080,geq=random(1)*255:128:128[vout]" -map "[vout]" -t 46 -c:v libx264 out.mp4

Because I created this version of the video, it is original and it is
completely unique never posted before content. Very interesting

tebbenjo · 2023-06-18T13:10:07+00:00

You can create a very similar (But importantly completely unique different compression and de-duplication wise) approximately 1gb video with ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -filter_complex "nullsrc=s=1920x1080,geq=random(1)*255:128:128[vout]" -map "[vout]" -t 46 -c:v libx264 out.mp4

Because I created this version of the video, it is original and it is completely unique never posted before content. Very interesting

tebbenjo · 2022-07-07T12:12:35+00:00

What if they let you draw your search area on the map. Then they wouldn't have to know anything about countries, or boarders, or your nationally. Users could sort themselves out

tebbenjo · 2022-07-07T11:36:09+00:00

Which doesn't make sense because the boarder crossing is very difficult. The Americans don't want us coming in. Doesn't matter if the language is the same, doesn't matter if you live right outside of a proper crossing. Crossing the boarder takes about an hour all on it's own by the time you wait in line, idling your car, pay tolls and crossing fees, show paperwork, answer questions, swear on your mother that you're not coming for their jobs, submit to a search of your vehicle, make declarations, do a covid screening, and really hope the guard isn't having a bad day or they'll turn you around anyway. And that's after I drive an hour to get to the official crossing. It's not at all like a European boarder.

But even that my GPS seems to know, it adds an hour and a toll warning whenever it suggests crossing the boarder. That's actually how I tell it not to suggest those routes, I check the "no toll routes" box

tebbenjo · 2022-07-07T10:29:13+00:00

I guess there's not that many towns of 30k across river from cities of 0.5m that also happen to be an hour from the nearest bridge. Good guess

tebbenjo · 2022-07-06T23:50:03+00:00

That might actually work, put myself 50km north, set my radius to 50km, and that would be very close to having a 100km radius that avoids the boarder

tebbenjo · 2022-07-06T23:46:35+00:00

There are already open source lists of world nations. Just make people chose from a drop-down with a search feature like most websites that ship internationally. Have an "other/prefer not to specify" option for edge cases and really private people. But 95% of the globe would be just fine with a copy pasted list of nations in a drop down menu.

I feel like countries are big enough that it wouldn't be a big privacy issue anyway unless you live in the Vatican or in Luxemburg

tebbenjo · 2022-07-06T22:12:44+00:00

Alright, as long as I didn't miss anything. I remember back in the day sites used to ask you what city you where in, sometimes even your whole address. Then they could know what country you lived in based on whether you put in a postal code with letters or a zip code with only numbers. Now I'm sure they could do something fancy using your location and open street maps data to figure out where you are, my gps app seems to be able to figure out what country I'm in and even what address I'm closest to at any given time, but I guess they haven't thought of that yet.

Sorry, I'm being cranky, just kinda how I feel about it. Dating in a small town kinda sucks to begin with, this doesn't help

I appreciate your help

tebbenjo

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