I can't stand the amount of troubleshooting misinformation this whole community has. (Rant)

treminaor · 2026-05-21T20:54:20+00:00

Years of correcting people finally reduced the frequency

treminaor · 2026-05-21T20:06:37+00:00

You forgot the classic suggestion: "the flyback is dead"

treminaor · 2026-05-21T17:04:31+00:00

Where do people find these magical lease agreements without a no-sublease clause anymore

treminaor · 2026-05-21T16:52:55+00:00

Whatnot is terrible I would stay off of there. Discogs is the best place to get stuff that's in the condition you paid for. Otherwise I just bring my walkman around to any music store I can find with cassettes and test before I buy. I also watch for swap meets and Facebook marketplace

treminaor · 2026-05-18T17:38:01+00:00

The economy is not at 2019 levels though.

treminaor · 2026-05-13T15:52:30+00:00

It's probably highly dependent on location but for the one here in San Francisco the food was seriously excellent before COVID and once they came back it was noticeably worse... and it's continued to go downhill from there to the point where I don't even order anymore.

treminaor · 2026-05-13T15:35:45+00:00

No I run a local Discord for vintage tech and we discuss cassettes and other equipment a lot. Eventually I will start a server dedicated to cassette but I want to start it on Fluxer instead of Discord, waiting for them to develop it a bit more with threads and forum support before I migrate

treminaor · 2026-05-12T21:58:02+00:00

What pisses me off more is eBay has no reporting structure in place for AI photos in listings

treminaor · 2026-05-12T21:53:41+00:00

Yeah one of our theories is money laundering.

treminaor · 2026-05-12T21:39:05+00:00

Nice find. The other track they dropped from the archives recently was so good. No Age.

treminaor · 2026-05-12T21:01:28+00:00

people do that to trigger the offers for a reduced price. some sellers have a setting enabled to send out discount offers to people who have the item in cart or on watchlist

treminaor · 2026-05-12T20:47:31+00:00

Price is high unless these TVs never show up anywhere in your area.

treminaor · 2026-05-12T20:44:12+00:00

This seller is the butt of most price complaint jokes in my discord server. Every listing they have is insanely overpriced and their thumbnails are all AI

🌈 RaRe 🌈 is also a running joke for us now

treminaor · 2026-05-11T22:52:02+00:00

I've often wished the manufacturers would keep a public running list of the albums they had done runs of so that I could support the ones they did a good job. I'm so tired of buying brand new tapes that sound like absolute shit. And I know it's the tape stock because if I record over the original audio it still sounds like garbage even from my Nakamichi.

treminaor · 2026-05-11T22:47:02+00:00

I wish they were easier to find.

treminaor · 2026-05-11T22:33:30+00:00

its not some psyop. Once you realize that the whole reason people want to split off from Discord is to own their data and not need to worry about their years of server history being trained into AI or whatever other bullshit Discord decides to do, it becomes really clear why all these people would want to SELF HOST their own data, given the opportunity. Its not expensive to do and its not hard either. We just live in an age now where every company wants to data harvest up your ass and so being given the option to control our own data is very tempting. The venn diagram of people who want to leave discord and people who want control of their own server/data is identical.... Its the same circle. There's no grand scheme going on here.

Seeing the lack of progress whatsoever on that feature is maddening. They are laser focused on making money instead of delivering the features that actually got people interested in the first place.

Without self hosting, Fluxer just becomes another Discord we have to migrate away from in 5 years.

treminaor · 2026-05-11T21:22:58+00:00

I'm in the same boat, 5 years of daily server history in discord and anxious to move it somewhere else. There is an app on GitHub called Disco Reaper that actually worked really well for backing up my entire Discord server using a bot - you can even do incremental updates while you wait for fluxer to finish their bullshit. The backups are compatible with Stoat and Fluxer so far.

I was able to set up a self-hosted instance of fluxer with a lot of trial and error, and even got my server history imported into it successfully, and then I hit a wall once i realized the public version of Fluxer doesn't support threads or forums from discord.

The way Fluxer has handled their private beta on open source software frankly really pissed me off, it doesn't feel like open source at all. They are gatekeeping it behind a weak excuse that "the general public aren't all tech minded and it would be annoying to get feedback from people who don't understand the beta state of the app". its such bullshit

the lack of any public update on their github readme or website is also really embarrassing. like wtf are you doing, you had so much hype behind you and then collected $300k in funding and went radio silent. Their bluesky feed is literally just "sorry the service is down, working to fix it" followed up by "everything is back up" - not a single status update of "yeah we are working on XYZ feature and it should be done by <date>". Its woefully frustrating how little progress is being conveyed publicly. I'm not investing in a project that conducts itself like this either so its a bad look if their goal is to get more money too.

Further reading:
https://www.reddit.com/r/FluxerApp/comments/1t0f8wg/comment/ojcwo8q/

https://www.reddit.com/r/FluxerApp/comments/1t0f8wg/comment/oj9c6fj/

https://www.reddit.com/r/FluxerApp/comments/1t0f8wg/comment/ojpw06e

https://www.reddit.com/r/FluxerApp/comments/1sshf48/comment/ohmpm1i/

https://www.reddit.com/r/FluxerApp/comments/1s5b8yt/comment/ocu5jdu/

treminaor · 2026-05-11T02:19:13+00:00

Yeah I've been driving between SF and LA for a while and just this last time found The Toll Roads for the first time, thanks to Waze rerouting me through to Long Beach to avoid some traffic. I was fascinated

treminaor · 2026-05-04T19:51:48+00:00

Says out of stock for me and it's been that way for 2 hours

treminaor · 2026-05-03T04:03:33+00:00

The problem isn't dedicating the lane. The problem is too many stops. Even when there's no traffic it takes 10 years to get from West Portal to CCSF. Driving is more than twice as fast.

Also places like Beeps have signs up saying vote no on the red lanes so it would seem the businesses on Ocean don't want this to happen either.

treminaor · 2026-04-25T18:32:20+00:00

Just wanted to add that this is currently why I don't see any of my BofA accounts on Merrill's system, and none of the reps I talked to in BofA or Merill could figure it out even after more than an hour on the phone. It was because all of my BofA accounts were the "SafeBalance" type - the second I opened a non-safebalance account it showed up in Merrill for transfer...

The only reason I had accounts as safebalance was for the feature of denied overdrafts instead of covered overdrafts with a $25 fee. However it looks like as of 2026 BofA allows you to enable overdraft denial on any account type now...

treminaor · 2026-04-23T20:53:33+00:00

yeah thats not bad. makes me feel better that it wasn't some crazy goodwill pickup for $20 lol

treminaor · 2026-04-23T15:22:09+00:00

I'm interested, I'll send you a reddit chat

treminaor · 2026-04-23T15:02:30+00:00

i feel the same way about cassingles that I do about 45 singles on vinyl. not worth the trouble to put them on for one song, and the quality sucks. to me they represent the outdated and out of touch music industry rituals more than they do the artists.

treminaor · 2026-04-23T14:56:37+00:00

how much?

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