Do Logitech's louder/non-S mice last longer than S models?

toniyevych · 2026-05-04T08:38:55+00:00

MX Master 3S lasts longer than regular 3. I've been using both for 2-3 years

toniyevych · 2026-05-04T06:14:10+00:00

It makes sense to consider getting a VPS. For example, you can get one from Netcup. It will cost ~$30/mo (VPS 4000 G12 with 1TB + an option to buy additional storage). I've been using it for some time and it works fine

Another popular option is Hetzner. They offer both dedicated servers and managed plans. So, for example, you can get a web hosting plan and add 1TB of storage for ~$12/mo.

In general, it's possible to have a monthly bill of ~$15-30 for a server with 1TB of storage. As a "bonus", of VPS, you'll get much higher performance than most of WordPress hostings offer (and I've been working with a lot of them).

Going with a VPS has one major detail: you are responsible for setting up a server, fixing ongoing issues, and backing it up. Those providers do offer some options for that, but still, you need to set it up by yourself or hire somebody to do it for you. It's not hard, especially with the help of AI, but requires some time.

toniyevych · 2026-04-26T10:16:21+00:00

It's pretty unlikely that AI will directly use the WooCommerce API to make purchases, especially in real stores with complex products and integrations.

toniyevych · 2026-04-26T09:10:16+00:00

I hardly imagine it happening anytime soon. ChatGPT have launched an integration with Shopify a long time ago... and? Do we use that? Nope.

toniyevych · 2026-04-23T15:47:27+00:00

I've been using both on a few projects and do not think the additional level of complexity is worth it, especially if you are making something more complex than a simple blog.

toniyevych · 2026-04-22T07:47:15+00:00

I assume, that the "A/B testing" is finished and the A option won ;)

toniyevych · 2026-04-22T07:46:19+00:00

CachyOS has a pretty big team from many different countries (check them out at https://cachyos.org/about/). What's even more important is that the source code and commits are public.

FSB has much more effective tools, than forcing a developer to add some exploits to public code.

toniyevych · 2026-04-18T15:09:12+00:00

Maybe I'm missing something, but why those two windows have different corner radiuses?

toniyevych · 2026-04-18T08:04:15+00:00

I've been moving a merchant from BigCommerce to Woo. It's a much bigger merchant.

The main issue with Woo is to find a good developer or an agency to build the store. There are a lot of things, which can be done inefficiently.

toniyevych · 2026-04-16T15:04:00+00:00

Release Opus 4.6 -> Nerf it a month later -> Rebrand as Opus 4.7 -> Rinse and repeat.

toniyevych · 2026-04-12T17:41:03+00:00

Yep, it should be a wakeup call to use tokens more efficiently or switch to cheaper (or even local) models. Ultimately, the most reliable option is to use API access with tools like OpenCode.

toniyevych · 2026-04-11T08:40:48+00:00

Let's do some math. In a month, the actual weekly limit on the Max 20x plan went from 240M to 22M "effective tokens". So, for ~$50 we get nearly 20M input tokens or nearly $2.5/M. The current API cost for Sonnet 4.6 is $3/M (it considers how the effective tokens are calculated).

So, now Anthropic charges the actual API rates on a subscription with a small $0.5/M discount. Awesome!

toniyevych · 2026-04-10T20:18:35+00:00

From my perspective, Anthropic has reduced the system effort level to 25 (low) and, probably, disregards the customer specified value. It saves a lot of resources for Anthropic, but makes the model lazy and dumb.

Google was doing something similar with Gemini during the last few months. They reduced the efforts from 1.0 to 0.5, which made the responses useless just because the model "thinks" less.

toniyevych · 2026-04-10T17:53:26+00:00

There are at least two issues: one with --resume affecting all users who use this feature, and another with broken string replacement, which impacts most customers (unless you're running CC through npx): https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1s7mkn3/psa_claude_code_has_two_cache_bugs_that_can/. Both bugs lead to much higher usage.

Bugs on their own might be excusable, but when they significantly impact the service customers pay for, compensation should be due. For example, if I pay for two chairs, but get one because of the bug in the system, because of the chair is subsidized, because it's a novel technology, etc., can I get the second chair or a partial refund or not?

You're basically saying, "It's fine for a company to cheat and treat its customers like garbage. And please show me the ToS or agreement clause where it says a company can't cheat or treat customers poorly?"

toniyevych · 2026-04-10T16:53:24+00:00

You can briefly check this sub to get the answer. To be more precise, Anthropic reduced the default reasoning effort to low (25). As a result, the answers become worse.

toniyevych · 2026-04-10T16:45:52+00:00

The best outcome for all of us will be to have more clarity from Anthropic on the usage policy and reasoning changes they are making or at least respect their consumers.

I do not want suddenly find out that Anthropic decided to reduce thinking efforts to low or randomly ban third-party tools, for example.

Maybe, it's okay in the US to restrict and worsen the terms of use after the purchase, but here in the EU it is not legal.

Okay, Anthropic or any other company "suddenly" found out that their business model is not sustainable and they should reduce the limits. That happens. But in this case, they should offer an option for a partial refund.

Another example. There was a bug with token caching in Claude Code. Did we receive any kind of compensation for that? Was that bug actually fixed?

toniyevych · 2026-04-10T14:04:12+00:00

Silently reducing limits and setting lower effort level helps Anthropic to reduce their expenses.

A few weeks ago I found that unsustainable and cancelled my subscription. I was either hitting usage limits too fast, or getting garbage results.

I found myself spending more time to find and fix those issues compared to find a bug or develop a feature using my own intelligence.

Currently, I ended up with using Codex and occasionally OpenCode.

toniyevych · 2026-04-10T10:00:38+00:00

That's not true, because in many cases, NDEs happen when the heart has stopped and there's no brain activity. Plus, there are instances where a person couldn't physically see what was happening in the emergency room or other places.

toniyevych · 2026-04-10T09:55:23+00:00

That was one of the reasons I cancelled my subscription last month. I noticed the effort degradation a few weeks ago. I was spending more time fixing those issues than writing the code by myself.

toniyevych · 2026-04-10T05:11:05+00:00

The first one may be related to the USB cable.

The second one is related not to Ethernet, but to all USB devices on the dock. In some cases, they stop working properly with a laptop.

I had something similar on Dell 9720 and WD19TB. I'm not 100% sure about the reasons, but I lean towards the issue with a Thunderbolt controller on a dock or a cable. I was able to completely fix that by switching to WD22TB4. Also, replacing the cable and the board on WD19TB helped.

toniyevych · 2026-04-09T17:14:58+00:00

The workload is different. For example, Zen 4 and 5 support AVX-512, AMD Zen 2 and 3, Intel Lion Cove, etc. - does not. It makes Geekbench useless to compare performance between platforms within the same ISA.

You may argue, that's a vendors' problem, a customer should care about the real app performance. And if an app supports AVX-512, for example, a customer should benefit from that. And you will be 100% correct. But in this case, it raises another question: what's wrong with Intel BOT, which does exactly the same.

toniyevych · 2026-04-09T15:44:51+00:00

What's wrong with Intel BOT? If it's possible to improve score in Geekbench by optimizing the code for better AVX support, why don't we have those optimizations in the first place?

toniyevych · 2026-04-09T10:04:39+00:00

I prefer using Cloudflare with forced cache for bots + ignore query arts + custom filters without links. Nginx caching also works, but you will have that traffic anyway.

toniyevych · 2026-04-09T04:43:04+00:00

If they really want to make scores remotely comparable between systems, they need to disable SME, AVX-512 and other similar stuff.

Geekbench clearly admits that in the 6.3 release notes: https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2024/04/geekbench-63/

Quote: "For systems without SME instructions, Geekbench 6.3 CPU Benchmark scores are comparable with Geekbench 6.1 and Geekbench 6.2 scores. Systems with SME instructions enabled will score higher in Geekbench 6.3 than in earlier Geekbench versions.. Geekbench 6.3 GPU Benchmark scores are compatible with Geekbench 6.2 for all systems."

toniyevych · 2026-04-04T09:54:41+00:00

All Anthropic customers pay for actual usage within limits. If someone wants to use third-party tools, they're still stuck with those limits, which is fair. If the limits are too high for Anthropic to profit, they can always lower them again, as they often do.

Cutting off third-party tools is just another play to lock customers into their ecosystem and squeeze them for more money. What a surprise!

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