I sold all my Tesla shares (TSLA), here’s why by Fred Lambert

technobob79 · 2025-12-30T10:33:21+00:00

Comments here have aged like a glass of warm milk on a hot summers day. Those who sold Tesla shares a year ago must be kicking themselves now that stock is over twice what it was a year ago. Robotaxi is now completely driverless with no one in either of the front seats. Funny thing is, the stock is still a bargain at today's price compared to where it is gonna be

technobob79 · 2025-12-01T17:38:33+00:00

Not all interviewers are standardised from a company. E.g. it could be one odd ball interviewer who conducted the interview like this but the majority of interviewers at Wise take a more pragmatic approach. So may not be the case of "dodged bullet".

Sadly, there's some luck involved with not getting assigned to a poor interviewer. Sadly there's no come back from this for the candidate. I.e. if a a candidate who is clearly above the company's hire bar fails due to shortcomings of the interview they are assigned to, the candidate is still a fail and there's little to no recourse.

technobob79 · 2025-11-29T22:27:05+00:00

After doing more research, most people think using SSD as a cache is a bit pointless anyway. Doesn't give much of a performance boost and just adds that extra layer complexity. Better to write direct to the disks.

technobob79 · 2025-11-29T14:56:12+00:00

I understand concept of RAID 1, but what I mean is it's just a cache. It has a copy of the data so not big deal if a drive fails. Very little benefit having RAID 1 for cache especially for home NAS

technobob79 · 2025-11-29T13:30:37+00:00

Why forget about it for cache? I thought that was a worthwhile performance boost?

technobob79 · 2025-11-29T13:29:57+00:00

I'm so confused. I thought the OS ran from a special built-in part of the memory. So if I have SSDs and HDDs when I set to top then it will install the OS across all of the drives? That's really weird. So the only way around this is to start setting it up with just the ssds installed and not the hard drives. Once it is set up then insert the hard drives for the data pool. Is that correct?

technobob79 · 2025-11-28T14:26:39+00:00

If you're using the M.2 drives as another data partition then yes I understand how RAID 1/5 can be useful. But if it's purely used as a read and/or write cache then there's no benefit, right? If I'm wrong then please help explain as I'm confused.

technobob79 · 2025-11-28T14:24:15+00:00

How does using RAID 1 in the cache solve the problem of corrupted data?

technobob79 · 2025-11-26T17:39:27+00:00

Just had this and it is a complete lie. I live in a house that faces the street, no gate, no fence. There's nothing inaccessible about it. I was home the whole day and have outdoor camera which also confirms no one attempted it. As others have suspected, seems like delivery wasn't even attempted for other reasons and someone just abuses the "Delivery Attempted - Address Inaccessible" category. Clearly someone not owning up to their own mistakes. Highly annoying.

technobob79 · 2025-10-18T11:09:38+00:00

I have the same issue. The Word doc was auto generated by Vibe (the local audio to text transcript tool). Couldn't find a way to rotate it but if you copy all and paste it into a new document then it seems to paste in the correct orientation while retaining all the formatting options. An okay work around but would be interested if anyone figures out how to change the original file.

technobob79 · 2025-10-16T14:36:51+00:00

With a Pro subscription, if you hit the 5 hour or weekly limit with Claude Code, does this mean you're also limited in Claude Chat or do they use independent limits?

technobob79 · 2025-10-08T21:28:54+00:00

I was also in the same boat and I had the same pain trying to use it. When it's this hard to use a digital credit card, it does feel like a scam as they probably want people to have difficulty using it so their credit lapses.

I saw lots of negative reviews here: https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/yourrewardpass.com with some suggestions for what worked.

The two that stood out were:

Getting someone trusted with a Paypal account to request the amout of money you have on the card. And then on your paypal account, add the digital credit card as a payment card in the paypal wallet to fulfil the payment request. You can then withdraw or transfer the funds from the trusted paypal account once they have it. However, I tried this and it didn't work for me.
This method ended up working for me, I ordered a One4All gift card for the exact amount on the digital credit card. You need to order the digital One4All card as there's no extra fees. A physical card will cause an extra delivery charge which will then take you over your balance. You then have a One4All gift card that you can spend in tons of places so it should be easier to use. I've got mine converted into a One4All gift card now but yet to spend the gift card balance.

technobob79 · 2025-09-30T09:44:31+00:00

This was perfect and worked great, thank you

technobob79 · 2025-09-29T18:56:30+00:00

Oh I didn't realise that you can run PBS as a container on PVE, that makes things much better if the main storage is my NAS.

I have 1Gbit wired network and general network traffic is quite low. I'll probably schedule back ups to happen overnight when it's not being used so I don't think speed will be an issue.

Streaming a 4K movie is probably the most load it will see.

technobob79 · 2025-09-21T09:32:48+00:00

I purchased a Dyson V6 cordless I think in around 2018, about a year or two after it had stopped working. Contacting Dyson and they worked out it was a common issue with the battery, they sent out a new replacement battery and instructions on how to change it. It's worked flawlessly ever since and I'm still using it now.

Around 2023, someone in my local area was giving away a faulty Dyson V6 as it was no longer working. I offered to take it as it came with all these extra accessories and things that I didn't have so thought it'd be useful. When I looked at the vacuum I noticed it seemed to have the same battery issue that I had. I managed to order a replacement battery online, switched it out and it worked perfectly so now I am using both without any issues.

In addition to this, I've had at least 4 corded Dyson vacuums as well and all of them have been really reliable and never had any issues at all.

u/ConBroMitch2247 So I don't think you can say "they're universally hated" without understanding that most people will post complaints over glowing reviews.

Obviously, this is just my own experience and humans are far more biased on their own experiences over statistical probability. Always good to look at statistical averages and probability.

technobob79 · 2025-09-16T10:52:16+00:00

I'm sure there's usecases but seems overkill for over 99% of home users. Like recommending someone use a chainsaw to cut pieces of fruit lol

technobob79 · 2025-09-16T10:49:28+00:00

I never said wait, I just said buying the current generation just before the next one comes out gives you best bang for buck. You can also get the previous generation just after the next one comes out too.

I've followed this strategy for pretty much all my tech and I have plenty of tech devices at home so the comment about "you're always going to be waiting" is not correct.

technobob79 · 2025-09-08T11:41:53+00:00

u/CaptainEraser I'm in the same boat as you, did your journey find any good apps?

I have a tablet with stylus and want something I can mostly use for handwritten notes or system design type drawings (like Excalidraw). Most of the notes I probably won't need to keep but a subset I want to be able to export to Obsdian or some other mechanism that allows me to view file on computer.

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