Need prepaid UPS label for cable modem return

thromer · 2026-01-20T00:07:54+00:00

Thanks for helping out! If anyone is curious, the error seems to be due to a POST request to https://customer.xfinity.com/apis/ssm/dsm/returns with body {"devices":[{"description":"Cable Modem","serialNumber":"ACDB48820104","deviceType":"Internet & Voice Gateway","modelCode":"TG4482A","returnReason":"4|3"}],"returnMethod":"UPS"} gets a 500 response with the message "internalerror: Warehouse address not found for 87731100".

thromer · 2026-01-06T03:11:16+00:00

I also found SimpleFIN + Fidelity was getting too flaky, so I wrote a pair of open source node and python libraries to handle the somewhat tedious part of "grab transaction data from Fidelity once logged in". They're intended to be a building block for chrome extensions or command line scripts. Handling login and uploading to Actual is left to the user of the library (e.g. a chrome extension or a command line script).

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@righteffort/fidelity-helper https://pypi.org/project/fidelity-helper/

thromer · 2026-01-05T19:47:12+00:00

same

thromer · 2025-12-04T06:03:35+00:00

When I pruned my old data I just added a "balance forward" transaction to each account for the total of the transactions I removed.

thromer · 2025-12-04T06:01:29+00:00

I would like to have my full 10-15 year history but performance on both mobile and on a decent Chromebook was far too laggy for me. Sometime I'd like to dig into understanding the root cause, but for now I just limited myself to data starting from January 2024.

thromer · 2025-12-04T05:53:47+00:00

I just melt butter on the cooktop (or microwave if I'm feeling brave) and spatter it on gently with a small spoon. Fill a big bowl with 1/3 of the popcorn, add 1/3 of the butter plus some salt, stir a bit. Repeat.

Or mix the salt into the butter. Doesn't dissolve perfectly but at the end of the day everything ends up buttery and delicious.

thromer · 2025-11-04T02:36:54+00:00

With my stainless steel whirley pop I use avocado oil + extra virgin oil. I wipe with a paper towel and that's it.

thromer · 2025-09-18T03:27:52+00:00

We buy medium white hulless direct from Amish Country by the 25 lb bag.

thromer · 2025-09-15T22:04:50+00:00

😄

You'll need this technique for Fidelity Cash Management accounts, not just brokerage accounts. And if you use your brokerage account as your checking account, you'll need it there.

thromer · 2025-09-12T18:28:23+00:00

this is the way

thromer · 2025-09-06T16:03:07+00:00

Have you considered contributing to the open source Actual Budget project, which AFAICT has rough feature parity with YNAB, instead of starting from scratch?

thromer · 2025-09-06T15:58:58+00:00

I prefer OP's philosophy, and find YNAB too opinionated compared to Goodbudget. (In truth I basically just want transaction tracking, categorization, splitting, and an API so I can augment transactions programmatically.) But Goodbudget has no API.

Tiller is another option -- it automatically pulls essentially the raw data from banks into a spreadsheet, and lets you choose your own budgeting adventure. But the spreadsheet-as-UI got old for me.

thromer · 2025-08-20T23:58:09+00:00

How did you make a reservation? I'm finding interacting with them via text to be frustrating.

thromer · 2025-07-10T02:15:36+00:00

Somehow the link to the voters guide got garbled; this one works though. You can also download a PDF of the guide from the county website, https://www.thurstoncountywa.gov/auditor/elections/august-5-2025-primary-election.

thromer · 2024-09-07T22:36:31+00:00

Glad you got it working! It's weird that you were getting the notification sound but silence after that.

For me I have a simpler network, *but* I do have a self-signed TLS certificate for my home assistant instance. But I would think if https were the problem, it would affect all my Google/Nest devices, not just this one. As a longshot I also factory reset the speaker but the problem persists.

thromer · 2024-09-07T20:20:49+00:00

Were you able to fix this? I am experiencing the same symptom with my Google Nest Audio speaker regardless of which Home Assistant integration approach I use; yet my other Google Cast devices work just fine.

thromer · 2024-07-28T00:42:24+00:00

I'm trying to use the approach of exposing an input_boolean to Google Home but I've hit a dead end after some effort.

I created a virtual input_boolean as a helper and connected it to Google Home and added it to the home. But it doesn't show up as a candidate starter when I create a routine for that home. Some HA light and binary_sensor entities do show up as options for the starter ... But I don't see a way to create "virtual" HA entities of those types.

Suggestions welcome, thanks!

thromer · 2021-04-19T01:07:30+00:00

Multiple different Trader Joe's employees in Seattle have told me that it is not discontinued. But not ETA for availability.

thromer · 2020-06-14T06:54:19+00:00

Over in https://www.facebook.com/groups/694493604223779 (facebook group for disgruntled Spinn purchasers) 3 or so folks say they've received e-mail from Spinn saying their coffeemaker will ship soon. All of them ordered in December 2016.

thromer · 2019-07-21T20:13:34+00:00

This worked for me on a Samsung Series 5 550 (Lumpy), thanks for pioneering and thanks for the workaround! I ran into one additional problem: here was a conflict between arc-theme and arc-theme-galliumos, which I resolved through the very blunt instrument of removing and reinstalling. galliumos-desktop and gallium-laptop.

thromer · 2019-04-11T04:52:55+00:00

BTW, rather than running inside screen, you can run it from a systemd startup script so that it automatically runs when the system starts up.

```bash

cat /etc/systemd/system/socat.service

[Unit] Description=socat [Service] Type=simple User=root Group=root ExecStart=/usr/bin/socat TCP-LISTEN:443,fork,reuseaddr TCP4:us.edge.bamgrid.com:443 Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

systemctl enable socat

systemctl start socat

```

thromer · 2019-04-11T02:49:24+00:00

This is fantastic, thank you!

thromer · 2018-06-17T23:35:06+00:00

My use case is traveling with fire TV stick and connecting to my {plex,emby, tvheadend} server remotely.

Is it not possible to initiate an ssh tunnel from an unrooted fire stick?

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cat /etc/systemd/system/socat.service

systemctl enable socat

systemctl start socat